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I'm glad Goose died, fuck him.

I'm getting a bit better at it now I've had another night of practice. I'm getting better at countering. It's completely different to the series I'm used to and I couldn't figure out for example why I could never get the signature or finishing moves to work. Turns out, even if you have a signature or finishing move stored, unless you have 50% stamina available your wrestler can't perform his moves. I didn't figure this out and i was just getting more and more annoyed about not being able to put people away because you can't win without a finishing move. What drains your stamina bar is performing wrestling moves. So, totally counter intuitively, you have to NOT hit them and NOT wrestle to save up stamina. If they're on the ground just stand and wait for them to get up essentially. Or toss them out of the ring so you can catch your breath. Very slow and methodical. This makes no sense to me. Shouldn't a fighting game encourage you to fight? My style has always been a frenzy of running attacks and quick running grapples, beat the piss out of them on the ground, and be back on them again with anther running attack as soon as they stand up before they have time to compose themselves. This style doesn't work in this game as my stamina runs out after about 20 seconds. Completely bonkers system, and I'm undoing 10+ years of playing the game a certain way. But it isn't as terrible as I first thought. The minigames can eat a dick though. The one for submissions is impossible and it's far too random when you're getting pinned. MyCareer, holy shit. Talk about a steep learning curve. When you start not only are you hobbled by terrible stats but there's a lot of things you can't do. No top rope dives, no rope breaks, ring escapes, resilience, second finishers. Only two reversals available (and they recharge slow). So you're being double handicapped really, and it's the same points that you use to purchase stats and abilities, so you progress really slowly. Of course, all the guys you're wrestling are already at their top stats or whatever so it's infuriatingly hard when you start out. No starting you out gently, which most games do these days. It throws you in at the deep end with fucking concrete boots on. Finally, the create a wrestler is miles better than on 360, and it's cool that you can edit the existing WWE wrestlers so it's easier to do your own storylines, starts factions and tag teams etc. And metallic textures on clothes. Amazing. My create-a-wrestler (Aaron Tokyo, I'll put him on Community Creations for the lols so you can download him and beat the crap out of him) wears metallic green and gold tights. He looks like a Christmas present. Biggest grumble with it is in the XBox one version as opposed to the 360 version they've taken out the ability to upload your own music to use as your entrance theme. So I can't have my guy come out to Bad Religion, which I always do. I normally have a whole bunch of male and female wrestlers I created myself on my Universe, and I like to use the Community Creations to download real wrestlers who aren't in the game (The Club, AJ Styles, Charlotte etc) and I would normally download their theme tunes and put them on my XBox too to keep it as realistic as possible. So it sucks I can't do that any more. There's only about 10 generic tunes and they're all terrible.