Thank you for another season of Mass Alex! I enjoy it very much.
I hope season 3, whenever it begins (I haven't watched this video yet), isn't plagued by issues which seems to have affected the vast majority of Mass Alex videos appearing on the site.
That was a good summary of where pro wrestling is at. I wish someone had been watching New Japan enough to talk about it but I too can't bring myself to watch it on a regular basis without storylines. Jan seems to have at least started watching G1 and with Alex back in the GBEast office he will have too.
Looking forward to the next episode, hopefully in 3-5 weeks?
It's kind of a misconception that New Japan doesn't have storylines. They present the product much more heavily as a sport, but all that means is storylines evolve out of matches rather than "you spilled coffee on me backstage so I beat you up, now we're fighting on Sunday." The storylines are more subtle and you don't get 20 minute promos in the ring to advance them, but they're still there.
Yeah but in the G1 specifically?
Honestly? Yes! The G1 pretty much sets up the rest of the year until Wrestle Kingdom. Champions who get pinned during tournaments defend their titles over the fall and early winter, so for example if Tetsuya Naito (IC Champ) loses to Juice Robinson, Naito will defend his title against Robinson in either the semi-main or main event of one of the fall tours, like Destruction, King of Pro Wrestling, or Power Struggle. Hell just in tonight's show there was a ton of story happening:
KENTA beat Hiroshi Tanahashi in their singles match on night 3 and on night 4 they tagged together with some Young Lions in the undercard, and the whole time during this one they refused to tag each other and pushed each other out of the way when one of their other two partners would come over for a tag.
Jay White's first 3 opponents are from Chaos, the faction he betrayed last year, and is on track to go 0-3 against them after losing to Goto and Ishii. He made it extremely personal with Goto in particular, who got the feelgood win after being repeatedly humiliated by White earlier in the year.
Takashi Iizuka, a veteran who'd years ago turned into an uncontrollable madman, retired back in February after a fun storyline with Tenzan, another veteran, but left his signature weapon, an iron glove, in the ring as he wandered off into the darkness of the arena. Fellow Suzuki-gun teammate Taichi picked up the glove and has been carrying it in a bag to the ring ever since, the implication being that there's a spirit of madness inhabiting it that corrupted Iizuka a decade ago. Taichi hasn't used it once since picking it up until about an hour ago in his G1 match with Tetsuya Naito, and it got him the win.
So yeah sorry for the tl;dr but New Japan is literally what saved my interest in wrestling so I'm kind of passionate about it. It's a bit disheartening when you hear people dismiss it because of reasons that aren't actually true like "it has no characters or storylines" in favor of continuing to watch and complain about the terrible product WWE puts into the world.
No it's cool that was a good read, I will check it out.
That was a good summary of where pro wrestling is at. I wish someone had been watching New Japan enough to talk about it but I too can't bring myself to watch it on a regular basis without storylines. Jan seems to have at least started watching G1 and with Alex back in the GBEast office he will have too.
Looking forward to the next episode, hopefully in 3-5 weeks?
It's kind of a misconception that New Japan doesn't have storylines. They present the product much more heavily as a sport, but all that means is storylines evolve out of matches rather than "you spilled coffee on me backstage so I beat you up, now we're fighting on Sunday." The storylines are more subtle and you don't get 20 minute promos in the ring to advance them, but they're still there.
That was a good summary of where pro wrestling is at. I wish someone had been watching New Japan enough to talk about it but I too can't bring myself to watch it on a regular basis without storylines. Jan seems to have at least started watching G1 and with Alex back in the GBEast office he will have too.
Looking forward to the next episode, hopefully in 3-5 weeks?
Congrats on completing the main story Alex, that was a shame about Tali, she was my love interest for my male Shep in my original playthrough.
I assumed someone was going to die as soon as you picked Samara to be the first squad leader, she's a lone wolf after all, turns out it's automatically the tech specialist.
To be fair Alex, you would've got Legion on your team a lot sooner had you mainlined and done side quests after. I know I got Legion a lot earlier and could've used him in 70% of the game, say if you leave all the loyalty missions until after for example.
I however exclusively used Garrus and Tali in all missions in my first playthrough, so there's still opportunities for me to experience other characters.
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