He's back! One more before Sting's last match.

@timbartschwolfman

3 ай бұрын

Which is Tonight

The true Spirtual successor to No mercy was the Day of reckoning series for GameCube. But in 2024, Ultra Pro Wrestling looks to be the same game engine as No Mercy but with Original Wrestlers

@EasyE3939

3 ай бұрын

Well the true successors to No Mercy are the Def Jam and Ultimate Muscle gsmes. Same development team same engine and same assets. DOR (and by extension the Wrestle Kingdom series) was a spiritual successor purposely molded in AKI's image with former AKI people on lead design by Yuke's Osaka team. FF is also a spiritual successor with Geta and a couple guys from AKI including at least one of the lead designers from DOR on a team of mostly Yuke's main series Yokohama team. UPW has no one from AKI but it has a hell of a brain trust of community members and modders like MelonBread1978 and with research they're sticking to the AKI formula and are trying to reverse engineer AKI's approach to designing modern mechanics. I think they'll kill it.

@fastvalkary725

2 ай бұрын

As usual people don't mention wrestlemania 19, which did it before day of reckoning

@EasyE3939

Ай бұрын

@@fastvalkary725 And Wrestlemania X8 before that :p

@Timeforceletsgo

Ай бұрын

DOR2, and Smackdown Vs Raw 2011 are my go to classic wrestling games, I love No mercy but I feel it’s a bit too dated now, DOR2 felt like a very big improvement.

@fastvalkary725

Ай бұрын

@@EasyE3939 X8 was a bit mediocre gameplay wise. XIX improved on it massively.

HE HAS RETURNED !

It’s wild that no mercy is still twice the game

Oh, and worse thing about the CAWs in this game is having to play through the story with _each wrestler_ in order to raise their stats Really makes it hard to be motivated to make more wrestlers for me. Was a bad choice imo

@tango9601

2 ай бұрын

That's taking things all the way back to SmackDown! 1 lol

Every time i see an upload from this channel i get so pumped. Been watching so long but never get sick of the topics covered or the way it's presented. You do great work man. Just checked. I been watching your channel for 11 years jeez.

@NikateeN

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the continued support! I truly do appreciate it. 🤘

He finally remembered his password 😂😂😂

@NikateeN

3 ай бұрын

Barely!

To say I was dissapointed is an understatement. The game was barley advertised and had a random release date lining up with Street Fighter 6.

@InfectedElite

3 ай бұрын

SF6 was June 2nd, AEW was June 29. doesnt line up at all.

@phabiorules

3 ай бұрын

I mean, coming out in the same month isn’t the best idea.

nice. glad youre making vids again!

My all time favourite KZreadr has returned. Going to go back home and watch this with dinner.

@NikateeN

3 ай бұрын

😃

So glad you are back! I'll be waiting reviews for the WWE games not covered yet. Great vídeo!

@NikateeN

3 ай бұрын

Thanks! 🙏

I’m glad to see you’re back, bro. Your videos always bring a smile to me😌. AEW Fight Forever had SO MUCH potential, but due to the constant delays, and then eventually, its big lack of content at release, the way DLC is handled when in reality it should ALL be free, it definitely is a mess and it sucks. Yes the core gameplay is undeniably the best part of the game, as it definitely plays like No Mercy, and I have to give credit where it is due. I wanted a newer game to have that same gameplay and I’m happy we got it here. Just a shame the rest of the game is lacking the spirit that made No Mercy legendary, from the creation suite and vast amounts of content such as match types, backstage areas, and even a much better executed story mode. To sum it up, the core gameplay is just amazing, but everything else is bad. If the DLC was all free, I bet this game wouldn’t have gotten much frag as it does now. Oh well, it is what it is🤷‍♂️. Very good review homie, and once more, I’m happy you’re back. Hope you have a very good one today.😊❤️

@fastvalkary725

2 ай бұрын

I agree, the gameplay is great but the lack of not just match types but match varariations is horrible. The lack of alt attires and the horrible CAW mode kills it. Plus the fact that there is no community creations is trash too.

I was really hoping to see more legends in the game. Guys like Glacier and Mortis would have been so cool to see included - especially as Glacier was actually on the first AEW PPV!

@milk_bath

2 ай бұрын

Those characters are owned by WWE as WWE owns WCW’s intellectual property. Basic stuff man, come on.

@malikevans2615

2 ай бұрын

Legends and glacier or mortis does not belong in the same sentence

Welcome back, Nik. Good to hear from ya again... and with the PERFECT "come back" video! Good shit, man. Take as long as you want between videos... most of us aren't going anywhere! Edit: "Dixon Sighed"? Nice... VERY nice. You got a laugh out of me. I still cant believe Owen Hart is part of the official roster... I need to buy this game now... so I an take him all the way to the Heavyweight championship!

HOLY SHIT HES BAAAAACK!!!!!

Babe wake up, NikateeN just posted a new video!!!

So good to see you still making content!

Was waiting for you to review this game! Hopefully you make a video on 2K24 when it comes out!

I was so hyped after the first gameplay, because it looked and played heavy, something I miss about the 2k series, where almost every move feels weightless. A good rule of thumb I implemented years ago was to not pre-order anything unless it’s Rockstar Games. The immediate wave of reviews were disappointing.

I hear Donkey Kong Country 2 and F-Zero X ost at background 👌

Can't believe I'm this early for a Nikateen video

Personally, I really enjoyed this game. I like the more arcade style of play. I give it some slack for being the first game and was built from zero. But the next one, having the benefit of the base infrastructure built, I would expect would bring on what it really could be. Like WCW/nWo World tour to Revenge, to mania2000, to no mercy. Each hugely improved on the previous but the leap between world tour and revenge was the real leap

@stuckintheinbetween

3 ай бұрын

I love the gameplay and the groundwork is laid if TK decides to fund a hopefully much more fleshed out successor.

Glad to see u back dude and yeah hopefully if they do a sequel they fix the issues and improve what the first one lack similar to Wrestlemania X8 to the more improved Wrestlemania 19 on GameCube

I can still remember picking up a demo of WWE Smackdown as a kid and I played it for weeks even you could only have 1 on 1 matches with 4 characters.

Something games from that era did was include a bunch of talent from other promotions under pseudonyms - like how WCW vs. The World did. AEW's game not doing that, along with the terrible CAW system, means I'll probably never buy this. It was the first wrestling game in decades I had been excited for, and they fumbled all the things about those games that I actually wanted to see return.

Man I wanted so bad for this game to be good. They had all the resources to make something great

Finally Nikateen has come back to KZread I’ve been waiting for u to review AEW Fight Forever since the game first came out I hope more content will be released for 2024 and will u do a review of WWE 2K23 and 2K24 and I hope u could do a game room tour I’ve been watching your content since 2020

I will say that I like that almost all the wrestlers have unique grunt sounds and even audio when you lock in submissions, something that the WWE 2K games don't really have.

Please keep the videos coming! Missed your opinions. Love this channel.

Great to see you back !! Always enjoy your content.

@NikateeN

3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

I vastly prefer the gameplay in Fight Forever to the 2K games. It needed more match types, DLC to be more affordable, and a better creation suite. Personally, I also prefer the stylized look over the boring realism of 2K. They should've focused on more match types people expect and better creation tools, as well as a better campaign, over mini-games, the cool but unnecessary Stadium Stampede match, etc. Get the essentials in there before adding stuff that didn't need to be added. No cage match is a massive WTF.

@stuckintheinbetween

3 ай бұрын

@@jabrone.destoroyahFFNY isn't a wrestling game, it's a fighting game. Vendetta is a wrestling game. Anyways, I didn't like either of those games as much as other people since I absolutely loathe rap music. I'll stick with WCW/NWO Revenge, WM 2000, No Mercy, SYM, HCTP, SVR 06 and 07, WM XIX, DoR 1 and 2, etc., if I want to play old wrestling games. I have a modded PS2 and Gamecube, as well as an N64 with an Everdrive cart, with all of those games installed.

So glad to see your videos again! I think this game is a good representation of AEW as a whole. There is a lot to like but, still some things they can improve on

Very fun game, but after getting the platinum, there's really no reason to go back, especially not for the overpriced small DLC packs.

I just wish there was crowd fighting and backstage fighting. I also wish the alternative attires were different but it's a fun pick up and play

There's also reminds me of the time when WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2011 came out and RVD was a unlockable Superstar and he had been in TNA for some months up until this point when WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2011 when it was released on October 26th 2010❤

Great to see you back man! Hope you are in good health and enjoying life. Great video bro thank you

Nikateen, You know how to hit it out of the park with another awesome game review. Speaking of games I did buy the new 2k24 for the Xbox Series S which im having fun with. But I still enjoy goin on my Xbox 360 to play some WWE 2k14 because i still enjoy the gameplay of 2k14 to this day and its a game i will never stop playing.

@NikateeN

2 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! I look forward to getting my hands on 2K24 one of these days.

@jameshawkeye8430

2 ай бұрын

@@NikateeN I think you will enjoy it in my opinion. Speaking of which I think you should do 2k14 definitive review kinda like you did with Here Comes the Pain

Omfg my mans has uploaded!! I feel gipped that KZread did not notify me wtf! I cannot wait to watch this when I get home. I want my whole undivided attention for this bad boy!

@NikateeN

3 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot!

If it just had a more customization I'd forgive all sins. Had fun with it but no crossplay and limited CAW really put a timer on my enjoyment. Had a blast the first few weeks after it came out though.,

Nice to see you back on KZread

Mane I was feeling like I lost until I seen this upload i stg I was watching yo wrestling game reviews since high school plus I seen a kings banner one time it’s sactown shit 😂 glad you’re still uploading

@NikateeN

3 ай бұрын

👑 😎

In all honesty, Fight Forever is more a WCW vs. The World successor than anything. The skeleton is there, but it needs much more time and work to be what they want it to be.

@NikateeN

3 ай бұрын

Well put.

@SeanJohn127

2 ай бұрын

Thats the way i look at it. Wcw vs nwo revenge was a huge jump between the 2 games

I'm still debating whether to buy AEW Fight Forever on Nintendo Switch

@moogibeans9822

3 ай бұрын

Get it on sale. The gameplay is amazing but the lack of content makes the full price hard to justify

@bigglou

3 ай бұрын

The price has dropped to $30, but I would still wait since you have to include the season passes. The game runs at 30 while other versions run at 60. 120fps on PC.@@moogibeans9822

@ssean1290

3 ай бұрын

It's $30 at Wal-Mart these days. I got it for $40 and then like a week later they lowered the price LOL. It will probably be $20 soon.

@BUPMY1

4 күн бұрын

​@@ssean1290 It'll be free on PS+ in June.

The original wrestling video game reviews is back! I appreciate the F-Zero X music!!!😊 I was just saying I'll buy Fight Forever when NikateeN does a review

I just wish the CAW mode was better. The black hairstyles were severely lacking (especially for a company that prides itself on their diversity) And the fact that they had the nerve to count the shirts and shorts with different flags and camo patterns as "unique options" to add the illusion of choice was insulating.

Hopefully it doesn’t derail another game, give fans more options and also more variety helps sports titles in the long run

I pre ordered and was so excited for this game only to be disappointed by it. To this day I’ve only put in 17 hrs of it and I’ve given 2 tries since release, the gameplay is really good but there’s so little to do. I won’t be playing this again sticking to WWE 2K (as far as new wrestling games are concerned), great review NikaTeeN.

@NikateeN

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! It’s a shame that the wait wasn’t worth it!

Awesome video and welcome back man 😎!

@NikateeN

3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Good to see you back, homie. You're the authority on wrestling games, so I was looking forward to this one. 🤘🏻

@NikateeN

2 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot!! Much appreciated. 😎

damn ive been straight binging your shit the past week. THE CHAMP IS BACK🔥

Well, welcome the fuck back! I’ve been looking at some of your reviews of classic wrestling games while waiting on WWE 2K24 to come out the past month and lo and behold a brand new video. Keep em coming, dude. Your reviews are always detailed, and very entertaining. 🤘🏼

Woooo new Nikateen Wrestling video game review. Man I’ve been watching you for Years. At least 7(?)

@NikateeN

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@frenchabortion

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I don’t know… I haven’t played a wrestling game since Smackdown Vs Raw 2008 (which had Sabu, Mick Foley, Tommy Dreamer and the Sandman) this was also the first year you could set the table on fire (I believe) but anyways I do believe that WAS the last game I owned. I bought an X-Box 360 when it was $200 because DVD players were still $50… I had a PlayStation with WWF Smackdown 2, WWF Attitude, Twisted Metal 2 and Tekken 2 and 3…. For PS2 I had Smackdown Shut Your Mouth and Here comes the pain, Tekken 5 and Ratchet and Clank…. (I worked at my school specifically ensuring one boy I looked after (he had Down syndrome) so I’d get him off the bus in the morning (which worked out to 15 minutes) and then I watched him during the lunch hour (45 minutes) so I was making about $15 a day (it was WAY above minimum wage- this was in 2001) and for an 11 year old kid to have basically $400 a month I could buy whatever I wanted!

While not quite as good as No Mercy it is good to have an alternative to the 2k games from WWE. I actually really like the career mode in this game.

Yeah let’s fucking go not even guna watch this yet, saving it for later and savour every second

im sticking to 24 once it comes out it will also have cm punk and jade so no point in getting this game but also cool too see wrestlers appear in two different games

I have so been waiting for you to review this game! For me personally, I like the game because i grew up playing the AKI games and yes it's presence is definately felt. I know this game won't appeal to everyone and I think they really should work on a sequel ASAP. After unlocking everything and buying everything i could in the shop I stopped playing as it only took me about a month or so to get everything and all this additional DLC doesn't make me want to touch the game. I want this game to succeed as I do watch AEW weekly and I hope in time they can continue to grow.

Welcome back!! We need more reviews

22:43 it reminds me of the PSP SVR 2006 minigames

I haven't played the game, but i believe they have the actual wrestlers do the grunts and taunts.

The gameplay is fun but it's dated. It's also lacking way too many simple features like a backstage area.

Flawless review tbh, as an aew and huge wrestling game fan from world tour on, gameplay is fun af, they promised alot more and in the year 2023 it shouldn't have been hard to deliver. Thumbtacks in a wrestling game hits differently

I was left with mixed opinions with fight forever. It reminds me of the aki n64 & day of reckoning games. My issue is it just felt lacking when it came to match types & the creation suite. I was expecting more from this game given the hype & delay. I know the N64 games were limited due to the console they were on but there is no excuse for fight forever to be as limited as it is. I would've loved to have seen a blood & guts match especially with the amount of blood that is in the game & the tooth & nail match.

Wish all the work that went into the mini games, should’ve gone into the CAW and arenas…watching this video is making me angry 😂

@NikateeN

3 ай бұрын

Exactly! How can they skimp on one of the most important aspects of a wrestling game?

This was probably the review I was most waiting for and you did not disappoint. Appreciate the honesty.

@NikateeN

3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@davidguerrero4474

3 ай бұрын

@@NikateeN anytime! As a gamer and wrestling fan like a lot of others here I love the retrospectives on the games from my childhood up to current releases.

Great video your hella under-rated man

@NikateeN

3 ай бұрын

I appreciate that! Thanks for watching. 🤘

21:25 dumps orange juice on your wrestler lol

I don't think this game is really that bad. I mean, it's an ok wrestling game, but this not focused in that. The point is it could be a pretty decent family friendly game. Not so hardcore gaming, not so nintendo party like game. The problem is the license in that based on. Aew is far from being a pg wrestling company

I wanna like it, as No Mercy is still my favorite wrestling game ever…but running to the corner usually results in running the ropes. Trying to switch opponents in multiple person matches or stay on target is ridiculously frustrating. Lack of depth to the roster, when you see WWE2K releasing HUNDREDS of wrestlers on theirs…and perhaps the most frustrating, is the utter lack of online anything, literally missing out on half the game, you can’t access Stampede cuz no one’s ever online… I routinely beat the computer on “Elite’’ in under three minutes…there’s little to no challenge. Ugh, the creator mode is ridiculously lacking…yeah, this game was such a let down.

I need a wrestling game to relive the days of WWF no mercy so i guess this will have to do for now. Keep up the good work.

Someone said it best “they tried to copy no mercy so much they forgot it’s 20 years old”

I'm surprised that when you talked about the arenas you didn't mention that the crowd has 3 like 3 rows.

New Nikateen! And yes the game has it's flaws but seems to be fun most of the time, totally worth buying IN A SALE, not the full price

@NikateeN

3 ай бұрын

It should definitely be a $30 game at the very most.

More like AEW Fight alittle and then get bored. I had fun playing it but the lack of modern feature implementation that even the slowest and imo most boring 2k games have. When a twenty two-three year old game duo in SYM and HCTP have most modern games beat out in the fun, features, action, near endless options of play then there is a problem. There is so much I really enjoyed about this game and many that you mentioned like the move animations and general feel of that classic style. The classic style is fun but as Matt Mcmuscles basically said; they we’re so worried about making the N64 games again that they forgot it’s not 2000 anymore. There is so much evolution in even the SVR days that like you I genuinely expected within how long it took them to make this that we we’re getting a modern full experience of No Mercy, HCTP, SVR, 13-14, and even some of the 2k games but bigger and better. Sadly after finishing the road to elite mode I packed it away and sold it off. Nothing here to stay for for me

I spent a good 5-10 minutes beating up my opponent and they knocked me down once, pinned me, and won the match. They put button-mashing there to escape pins but it doesnt work.

I hope you get to make reviews for 2K18 to 2K23 soon!

Pleasant surprise! Whats up Nikateen!?

@NikateeN

3 ай бұрын

😎

I’m a huge aew MARK. The game def has its flaws but every company has their first game. I enjoyed it. Thanks for your awesome in depth video.

Man idk what’s going on but I think my comments are coming up as spam on my other account. I hope they fix that because I have premium on my other account lmao. Anyways man just wanted to leave a comment and another like. Thanks for making this. I waited since the day aew fight forever was announced for your review on it

@NikateeN

2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

The writer of Road to Wrestlemania/Elite had no idea JR was reading the lines he wrote for him when he finished up. If he did he would have directed him to a more spirited reading, I'm sure. Not sure who directed the commentary for post match, but I'm sure the RTE guy would have gotten more out of Ross.

Im laying here in bed anf thinking: "huh, i wonder what nikateen is up to!?" Bam! New video!

This looks good. Can you still get weapons from the crowd? And is there a Bell sound if you low blow someone?

@NikateeN

3 ай бұрын

You can get weapons from the crowd. I don’t remember on the bell though.

@thebipolarbear1

3 ай бұрын

@@NikateeN ok cool. I liked the bell sound in revenge idk lol

@michaelvandoran1377

3 ай бұрын

@@thebipolarbear1yeah the bell sound happens when you low blow lol

@thebipolarbear1

3 ай бұрын

@@michaelvandoran1377 it was awesome. And the giant stop sign was sweet too lol

Welcome Back. Hope all is well.

@NikateeN

3 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot!

Hell yeah a new Nikateen video!

Like Lynch Reborn said. The models look like HCTP with modern shaders.

Good to see you back!

Welcome back King !

Fight Forever is way more similar to the WWE Day of Reckoning games than it is WWF No Mercy.

Just when I thought I was out, Nikateen pulls me back in

Were you at the hall of fame in Philly? Swear I saw you on TV!

@NikateeN

Ай бұрын

I wish!

Thank you for a fair review

When the world needed him the most, he returned :)

@NikateeN

3 ай бұрын

😁

The game they wanted to go for came out in 2000. AEW had powerful machineries at their disposal and this is what they could come up with?

It was overhyped to no end and was given many excuses for its shortcomings. Basically like the wrestling product itself. Hopefully they get the chance to go at it again.

@NikateeN

3 ай бұрын

I’d love to see a sequel, with all of the things this game was missing.

I thought THQ was defunct, the more you know

@NikateeN

3 ай бұрын

The original THQ is. Nordic games purchased the rights to the name and changed their name to THQ Nordic.

Only thing good about this game was the controller layout. Definitely captured the simplicity and muscle memory of the N64 AKI games. My theory is that this game faced a lot of development setbacks and they needed to release it in its barebones state to make some money back. Here’s hoping the sequel is actually a good game.

I wanna hear your thoughts on the 2K22,23 and the upcoming 24

Who’s ready for AEW Revolution!!!!

FF was developed by Yukes in name only, I would bet if you compared the credits from the PS2 Smackdown series to the names on FF, that a lot of those original developers are long gone. Either that or they just forgot how to make legendary wrestling games. Same director or not.

@NikateeN

3 ай бұрын

Definitely a different Yukes than we once knew. Not only that, but it can also be argued that the 2K series wasn’t quite as good as the prime of the SmackDown games. Both made by Yukes.

My man making his return!

NikateeN is Back