OCW Riot April 3rd 2008

[Tyro Kraven]

WHY THE HELL IS VEGA FIGHTING BOLD???? where is Mayhem... or Cooper... or fucking Big joe D.. anybody but a Lhvy??? wow... I'm assuming that the next RP of Vega retiring is because Bold crushes him in less than 6 minutes... ....

 

Pfff all so negative Smythe. Not even commenting on the fact that i only rolled once the entire match...but then again i countered just as much. I got more reasons to retire (atleast for this year) Vega beside this one.

 

1.Vega = High Flyer,just like Chino. It has always been its trademark. And i seem to be able not roll but if its at the cost of reversing even the easyst grapple then im done with him. I did allot with Vega in the past and i know that reputation is still worht something but i just cannot enjoy playing him this year.

 

 

2. The match was even faster then normal with me having 7.5 dur and Bold's 7.5 Str and Bold has a pretty unforgiving playing style and did not really give me a chance -_-

 

3. I have very high requirements when it comes to caws or i cant play with em. Kinda like in Assasin's Creed,the guy has to synch with the charachter.I've been struggling with the Vega caw since 08 especially with RP's unlike Tyro who looked even cooler on 08 . Thats why i brought Tyro back and not Vega. So that's also a reason. 2 new games coming TNA and 09 and since i can enjoy myself in caw mode i want to have an open slot for an alt if i can make another nice caw.

[Josiah Cross]

Agreed with Tyro just change the name of your title to The Hate Report cuz every week thats all it is.

 

I've always liked Vega, I thought I'd give him one last run at it with a shot at the NA Champ. I didn't chose Vega just to beat Bold I did some thinking about it before hand. I thought it was a nice return and retirement for Vega, it was one of those one last shot heartbreakers.

 

Personally I wouldnt want to see a Mayhem vs Bold feud. I don't think the chemistry is there between the two to bring out anything good other then a match. I thought a match between those two would take away from our Lution match which is why I didnt chose the obvious choice. I was told I had to chose a face...and there aint many out there on Riot right now.

[Brad Bauer]

Some stuff, Turmoil PWNS Riot this week. (Double A missing because he's getting laid, unfortunately, I have confirmed this...there is actually some broad out there that has not heard of him yet, and is willing to get bare assed with that sonofabitch in the room)

 

Second, match w/ Smythe was fun, but it was the second of two. We had a much better match, however, due to a button error on my end, that match ended w/out any drama, and therefore had to be redone for quality control purposes. Smythe continues on to be the alpha heel-

 

Cross beats Majin...something I could not do. Great work Cross. I hate the way Fausto plays. nothing personal...but I can see why you win so much.

[Parker]

Cross, I think Smythe was trying to get at the fact that you picked somebody who Bold was guaranteed to win against, thats no dis-respect to Vega,it was great to see him back,but he is inactive for a reason,due to him not liking the game mechanics for lhvies this year. He is rusty and a lhvy,and against Bold, he doesn't really have a chance,where as Majin is champ for a reason,he's a tough s.o.b,who likes 08(i think) and plays quite a lot.Which made your match more credible.

 

It was a nice win for cross,brutal match, vega with no paint makes me :(

Nice win for smythe, he has nice momentum going into the FI match.

Smyhte already mentioned about the amount of tylers in the Leon/Trips match, but i thought Leon would have won that.

Bold still doesnt look right using the Deano elbow :0 he needs a big impact finisher as the man is a hoss.

The ending to the ME was awesome.

[Versus]

Malu can be jumped by one man if he's bigger than him. :)

 

My review of the show when I'm done watching, after lunch today.

[Matt Wilson]

Rev. Inc. owned the show! Nice work on the video editing, especially in the last video.

[Trevor McManus]

In response to Smythe's comments on the ending of the match I look at it like this: I tyler him once but my general way to counter someone's finisher is to beat them to the toe kick. Unfortunately Leon didn't go for a toe kick and I tylered, but at this point if you notice I'm trying to back up and Leon wont let me so I keep trying to strike him and he keeps grappling. We were both looking for the win at the climax of the match, take it for what it was.

 

As for all your comments on the video segment thank you all very much. Hope we can live up to the hype on Sunday, but I'm there so I'm sure we will.

[Nathan Gaines]

Just to comment on the Majin Cross match.....There were so many quick grapples by Cross and I believe he only landed one strong grapple on Majin(could be wrong here but that's all I saw) Since Majin isn't a tech there is no need for that many strong grapples. I thought it was a piss poor showing of a match and Cross you said it gives you momentum going into the PPV, it might but I'm sure to a lot of guys its just as bad as a loss because of the ethics and techniques used

[The Guy Fausto]

Actually I've already taken the runny-ness into equation. Something I ended up subciously developing in 2k8 because of the crappy slow gameplay(especially end match. REMOVING STAMINA RECOVERY WAS FUCKING BRILLIANT THQ, I FUGGIN LOVE LIMPING AROUND SLOWLY, I NEVER HAD A MORE BRILLAINT IN GAME EXPERIENCE IN MY LIFE) and the loss of strikes.

 

Am working on it, I didn't even notice it until someone pointed it out.

[Tyro Kraven]

Just to comment on the Majin Cross match.....There were so many quick grapples by Cross and I believe he only landed one strong grapple on Majin(could be wrong here but that's all I saw) Since Majin isn't a tech there is no need for that many strong grapples. I thought it was a piss poor showing of a match and Cross you said it gives you momentum going into the PPV, it might but I'm sure to a lot of guys its just as bad as a loss because of the ethics and techniques used

 

I wouldnt blame the quick grapples all on Cross here. Majin was doing this running thing i notice BB did when i played him. Run a bit forward then grapple. Nothing wrong with it but he ran into most of those quick grapples himsel.The match wasnt bad it was again an ethics thing.

 

The stun grapples made the difference tough. I dont see why everyone always have to follow up on them. Take them because they suit your charachter not because it gives you so much time to hit a move. Plus Cross has to control the fury punches a bit,3 is a bit to much for the duration for the match.

 

In 2k8 there is now a real difference between playing styles. You have:

People that have there main priority set on winning.

People that have there priority set on displaying a good match.

 

Even tough i played crap against bold with Vega,it wasnt an entertaining match and there was no real glorious beat down either,it was still a match with a weird taste to it. Bold has 2 out of 3 quicks stuns atleast (Body Knee,Fury Punch stun and i missed or didnt see) ,a running clothesline 13,wich is a lhvy looking clothesline doesnt suit him and sets up for another attack,Running knee strikes at ropes,also stun did not follow up,big guess he would if it was a closer match,the dubbel axe handle altough it suits him is a strike with large range and stun effect. Triple power punch,get up animation,Rampage when he already was clearly winning so 2 unblockable moves. I use a rope choke for about 2 sec and let go,i get it done back twice the duration. And ground finisher with no setup up move anything.

 

To make clear im not bitching about the match i expected to lose but just looking at movesets can make it pretty clear who plays for the win and who plays for show. And maybe we should start dividing roster based on this.