Quick Look: WWE 2K16

This gun be gut

Also my very first post :) Giant Bomb is awesome

A WWE QL WITH NO DAN?! Oh my!

@knightdehumidifier: The world must be ending!!!

Greatest thumbnail 2015.

The real puzzle of flesh.

DOES THIS OFFEND YOU?

@mmarsu: sehr gut

WELCOME TO THE LANGZONE

This looks bad. Too slow and clunky, zero improvements and has not improved graphically whatsoever. I love the roster but if the game is not fun to play; why bother? Looks like a skip this year.

the more methodical pacing of these games are a huge improvement. alex is crazy

I will say '16 is a definite improvement over '15. I like it quite a bit more. The animations are great, transitions look nice (except when you hit a button and have to wait half a second for the game to react, or the opponent to finish selling). That being said, it still feels wayyy to slow for me.

WWE Langzone 2K16. This can only end well.

Good on Tyler Breeze for leaving this game

This is Pequod, arriving shortly at the LZ.

WHATS THE LANG ZONE DOING IN THE IMPACT ZONE

Nightmares in the Lang Zone

Bret screwed Bret

The hypothetical WWE video production game Vinny talks about roughly 30 minutes in is precisely the kind of game I would want to play using a hypothetical Saitek-built TriCaster controller.

Not Dan and Jeff? Hmph.

Reel-to-Reel Battalion

Dave Lang the wrestler looks like actual Dave Lang doing his best John Drake impression.

Aw, sad that this isn't Dan and Jeff.

"Not everyone has a face as good as Triple H", I mean, that's just true facts about life.

EDIT: "Part man, but all model" is a great lyric. Glad they have so many NXT guys in here, pity about the women though.

Once more, we dive into the endless depths of the Lang Zone.

Maybe they'll play it tonight on UPF.

So, I've never been into wrestling as entertainment. It's just not my thing. However, seeing that Stone Cold / Bret Hart stuff seems interesting. I take it that's the stuff that Dan likes. I know he's talked about the showmanship and technical ability wrestlers have to do, that behind the scenes stuff looks crazy.

The match versus Breeze? COLLUSION!

Haha watch the random signs in the crowd. I saw someone hold up a sign that said "Put Your Sign Down".

Dat Lang face - enough to bring me into watch a wrestling video.

I'm looking forward to a glorious future in which GIant Bomb will be wrestling free.

@mmarsu: Hell yeah first post!

Responding to @alex and the count out thing. It's totally intentional and new this year. When heels are losing they will sometimes try to get DQ'd or counted out. Other crazy things are the ref not seeing rope breaks and heels stopping pins because they are jerks

The Austin/Hart ending looks so weird without blood.

Dan is totally in this QL. Just wait until around the 40 minute mark.

@bradbrains: That's actually really great. Stupid, but great.

Oh shit that thumbnail! This looks like it will be a gloriously stupid QL!

Fuck HHH and his shitty hair cut.

If he was balding why couldn't he do what HBK did: wear a cowboy hat all the time.

Have some dignity.

"What the fuck is that smell" is a perfect description of Austin's (Stone Cold not Walker) resting asshole face. #vinnienailsitagain

Also, that Hart/Austin match (irl) was easily one of the best, arguably the best, match of all time.

The pin and submit meters are dumb. Just go back to something everyone understands immediately, like button mashing.

He got confused, ended up in a WW2 quicklook.

First a drewless F1, and now a danless WWE quicklook. I'm living in a cuckoo clock!!

Is the best version of Batista, '03sta, in this game?

Welp, it was confirmed here. WWE 2K16 is the Dark Souls of wrestling games!

I actually quite like the new meters. The button mashing thing is just dumb and also doesn't work very well online. It takes a bit to get used to how to best use the submission system but once you learn how to do it its fine and way better than previous games.

Christopher Christopher Christopher CHRISTOPHER!

I can't wait to see what they come up with

For those unfamiliar with Monster Factory. It might be the best video series on the internet.