redwing42

Is the Hangman Page story the best story in wrestling? Certainly the best current story, I think. Golden Lovers was up there. Sami Zayn in NXT was great. I'm not as familiar with anything outside of WWE past a few years ago... What else have you got?

Painmaker seems like it is something that would work in Japan (which makes sense), but just doesn't work here.

I'm still catching up after getting a few weeks behind. I'm very excited about them signing Thunder Rosa, but how have they not signed Kilynn King as well? At least she is still travelling with them, but come on...

@dizzyhippos: You are wrong that you are the only person that watches both YouTube shows (and BTE, I assume), but you are right about it being too many matches. I had assumed they would cut back once they were on the road again.

I think making burner accounts to spam forums is the hardest sport.

I also have some issues with the procedural nature of the game. Because the story is so up front, the variety just isn't there, even if there are a few choices you can change.

I do think the negotiation system is very compelling, much more than the combat (which is still good). I really enjoy the layers of that system.

Klei has become a studio that I will try any game they put out and will likely have a good time with it. Mark of the Ninja was good, I had some fun with Don't Starve, Invisible Inc has some great things going for it, and this one is also well done.

@judaspete: Nice. I had a couple practices in a ska band in high school, except it was only a horn/sax section. We quit because there was no one to sing or drum.

@brian_: I certainly hope someone came and took it from them. I don't want that kind of nonsense on my wrestling shows.

I think that the Miro issue is both being blown out of proportion and being over-simplified. We can all agree that AEW has had an eye towards long term booking, if not in all cases, at least those they feel are important (like the titles). Miro becomes available and management likely said, "This guy is great, we have to get him and make him a major part of our plans.". But they couldn't just get him and instantly make him a huge deal because of plans already in place. But he wants his check and AEW wants the pop, so they can't delay the signing. What do you do?

Well, they decided to have him spin his wheels in the Kip/Best Friends story. Generally lackluster, but they did use it to hit a couple important markers. The blowoff arcade match was decent and had a couple fun spots. They got an in-ring wedding out of it, which is apparently a requirement for any wrestling company. And Miro wasn't hurt by it, as you could see his violent charisma every time he was in the ring.

Could it have been better? Sure. But since they didn't want to hot shot him over their existing major plans, he couldn't be in an undercard program that overshadowed the major lines. So they did what they could to serve as many needs as they could. It wasn't all compelling television, and that is the problem for some people. And that is a totally justified approach. Alternatively, people are already arguing that if everything is a high spot than nothing is a high spot in terms of booking, and for those people, there needs to be headliners, midcard, and undercard stories of appropriate entertainment values. You can't please everyone, and sometimes great booking has to come at the expense of other factors.

Expecting them to bat 1.000 on this is unreasonable, so everyone has something to complain about. The Women's division is almost universally considered poor booking (for me in time, not necessarily in results), but everyone has their talking points. For some people it was Miro. For some, it is Penta and Fenix. For me, I hate the Inner Circle as faces, and the switch was pathetic. But ultimately not everyone can get their ideal booking because there are only so many spots.

My heart breaks for Trent?. I know this is not a rare surgery, but I hope he is able to have a strong recovery to be able to live his life. I don't want to hope that he is able to get back in the ring at this point. Trent? has always been a tremendous wrestler, and it seemed like since AEW started, he was finally getting the recognition that he should have been getting back when he was in WWE. I do wonder if this leads to a Chucky T heel turn and match with Cassidy down the road. I can't see how they would turn Cassidy heel and keep him interesting at all and Chuck can definitely be the bad guy.