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@razorramen: I've never had a problem on the PS4, can't say anything about the others

Pre-Ordering is dumb, but I'll probably pick this up on day one as long as the gameplay isn't broken. I really enjoyed Ready At Dawn's God of War games on the PSP and I have no problem buying this game out of curiosity alone at what they could do with their own franchise.

This thread:

I'm sure I would probably feel the same if they were talking about Anime all of the time...

Fact is... the off topic wrestling discussion is pretty small unless your going into episodes of the Powerbomb cast expecting video game discussion. There might be an aside every once in a while but I never feel that they are ever getting into a deep discussion about wrestling during random times.

@dudeglove: on the list

@dinosaurcanada: I know the third episode was Tanahashi vs. Suzuki (one of the best matches in the past decade IMO).

From what Wrestling Observer is saying, the focus is for the first "season" of NJPW on AXS is to bring wrestling fans in by featuring NJPW matches and to appeal to the MMA fans that are already watching AXS by presenting this in the way that they have so far. Their goal right now is to build up Okada vs. Tanahashi as the biggest wrestling feud of all time and to build up to their last fight at Wrestle Kingdom 9 as the last fight of the "season".

If the show gets picked up for more episodes, then they will start to cover more people and more recent New Japan events instead of matches that have happened a few years ago.

@alwaysbebombing: Like music/movies/etc. there are a number of different organizations out there right now and it's up to you to try and find stuff to suit your likes. I'd say give a good chunk of these a chance and try to attach to some wrestlers that you like.

• WWE: The biggest promotion in North America today. Only positive thing I can muster up to say about them is that they're about to head into Wrestlemania season so their TV show has to get better over the next few months (it can't get any worse). You can watch Raw on USA Mondays at 8:00 EST, they have monthly PPV's on the WWE Network (Royal Rumble this Sunday would be a solid place to start).
• NXT: Owned by WWE and is considered a developmental promotion. However, over the past few years they've signed some of the best wrestlers in the world and now have the best weekly television show. NXT also has the best women's division in the world. Their TV is on the WWE Network every Wednesday night.
• NJPW: New Japan Pro Wrestling is probably the best in the world. Fortunately it's becoming more and more available to get into, as they have a new show on AXS TV with english commentators taking a look at some of the best New Japan matches in recent years. Also, their biggest show of the year had english commentary as an option, so hopefully we'll see more of that in the future.
• Lucha Underground: The newest wrestling television show also happens to be very good. Every Wednesday on the El Rey network features plenty of great wrestlers from Mexico's AAA promotion.
• TNA: Don't watch TNA.

@dazzhardy: The beat definitely reminded me of charisma.com, and at least one of the singers is definitely the same lady.

Edit: and here's the non-Swag King version of the video. Hooray! We're not racists!

As long as the story is interesting and gameplay is competent, then day one purchase from me. I'm shocked at how many people are claiming that the gameplay looks boring when every boxed game from last year was a mindless sandbox game. Give me a focused linear game over that any day of the week.

@papercut: I think you're right, the final bracket placement makes more sense horizontally.

WWE Network just comes up as a white page for me recently too, I would complain more if it didn't work on PS4 also.

It's interesting that Corbin/Dempsey are in the tourney... Meaning that we'll probably see Corbin vs. Itami/Balor in the finals. They must have a lot of faith in him.