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Been a while since I've posted here due to a lot of real life stuff and what not, but here we go: NJPW 1992-2005. My Main Event: I've been booking HHH's reign of terror but in NJPW, largely because he did fuck all, as WWF never hired him. Most of my gaijin hires were intentionally to get WWF/WCW to take them from me, and it's been successful so far. Triple H has held the IWGP Heavyweight title for over 400 days at this point. 8 defenses. He has defeated every man possible, with Keiji Mutoh being the last of the 3 Musketeers, all he needed to do was win the G1. Done. Mutoh now can do what Chono and Hashimoto have failed to do, but can he do it alone? Or does he tap into the Great Muta persona that has become a power-up like transformation? Wrestle Kingdom arrives, and it IS the Great Muta! Unfortunately, not even that can stop the Game at this point. Leaving all 3 Musketeers vanquished at the hands of the Cerebral Assassin. Important Undercard: Misawa has hit a sharp decline, thanks to him pretty much joining NJPW in 1999 and wrestling about 15 matches due to being this games version of facking Dwayne Johnson. He just won't stop doing shitty major movies! But alas, he still gets a fantastic send off (as he hates losing to anyone, and I can only job him out very little without feeling weird since its Misawa) against the future of the company, Hiroshi Tanahashi. With Tanahashi defeating Misawa, and technically retiring him as this was Misawa's final singles match, Tanahashi has only one last objective, play the Game. Elsewhere: Minoru Suzuki and Masashi Gannosuke have fallen, despite all the dirty tricks to Shinya Hashimoto and Kensuke Sasaki, Sasaki enjoys constant success, now making him a 5x IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team champion, the first four with Hiroshi Hase. More impressive, the duo of Hashimoto and Sasaki won the Super Tag League, Sasaki's 3rd and Hashimoto's 2nd time. Ultimo Dragon & his protégé Dragon Kid have stomped out the nefarious Suzuki-gun in a lower weight division as well. MAZADA and Hooligan were unable to dastardly cheat their way, forcing Suzuki-gun to lose all of the gold in their possession this WK showing. Perhaps the Year of the Gaijin is coming to a close, as more title changes include DDP (who is 48 and not declining? Like wtf.) losing his IWGP United States championship to Masakatsu Funaki, and Bret Hart (47 and NOT declining) was unable to stop the onslaught that is Jun Akiyama. Lastly, the NEVER Openweight title, formerly known as the U-30 title (I ran out of talented sub 30 workers, so... had to speed this up too ok?) was won by a man who would never have been able to qualify otherwise! Akira Taue! Who shocked Yuji Nagata and earned the victory via a Chokeslam! There were other matches that require a lot of storytelling to explain the process behind it that aren't for a title, but these were the major ones that were for a title. Thanks for reading!

Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Rhino have a good thing going right now in my NJPW save. Dan Severn and Kazuo Yamazaki are one of my most decorate tag teams. Lastly, Masakatsu Funaki and Osamu Nishimura have great chemistry and just became a tag team. Pretty fun stuff overall.

Sean McFly looks like they just recognized McFly and made him Back to the Future. Tommy Cornell looks nothing like I'd imagine. Hahaha these are gold. That Christian Faith looks EARLY.

Mannn nobody would care. Do what you want and have fun. It's a sandbox/simulation game. Go nuts. Triple H is my current IWGP Heavyweight champ in 2004.

There is something bittersweet about it. Severn had always been a guy I enjoyed. I never would call him my favorite or anything. I booked him exactly like that, until he was about 42 years old. He was a solid midcard heavyweight tag guy who sometimes got a shot at the big one in a B-PPV. He got extremely over in a match he lost with Kenta Kobashi, and suddenly he went from 80ish popularity to 88. The match was 100 rated, and he won WOTY that same year. Dude then dropped the tag titles instantly just so I can build him up for his big IWGP Heavyweight run. He defended it until Wrestle Kingdom, where he dropped to Kawada. It was an excellent run at the top, where he defeated Chono and Hashimoto in back to back title defenses, and then Kobashi. He would lose the title at WK to Kawada however. It does sadden me, I have a rule where once they hit decline, that is it. He'll still get a few years of value, but from now it'll mostly be putting others over. Strangely enough I brought Orton up and Severn took him under his wing, so... strange to see that. I've done it a few times. The most recent one I just did was Tatsumi Fujinami. He went out losing to his protégé Osamu Nishimura at Wrestle Kingdom. Riki Choshu had one. If they're major stars and cornerstones of my company, they always get a big marquee match to say goodbye. Severn wasn't a cornerstone, but he was definitely a major star and will get the same treatment.

At 45 years old, 2x Wrestler of the Year, former IWGP Heavyweight Champion, Dan Severn has finally hit time decline. I won't just instantly shaft him to losing matches, but for all intents and purposes, his singles career is nearly done and dusted, and he will be putting over the next generation. Though, Severn is special in this save, and worthy of another thank you tag title reign with Kazuo Yamazaki. Thank you Severn for giving my save game so much memories.

I'm trying to slowly begin my modernization of NJPW. What would their product be to you guys? As of say... well, 2016-2022. No-Style Style? East Meets West?

Is there any way to change your UC without losing the points you gained? Inoki in my game is declining in every regard, hes at 60... so fair on him. I want to "change ownership" I imagine there isn't a way to do so but figured I'd ask

Dan Severn can't lose in my game, dude is 45 now, not declining. Won WOTY 2x 2002, 2003. Just had the first 100 rated match of 2003 vs Nobuhiko Takada. Dude just lost the title to Kawada at WK. It's not a real update but I've never had so much fun booking a guy who originally was meant to just fill my tag team and rarely lose in main event matches to being one of my key players. Going to severely miss him when he declines.

In 2002, AJ Styles has died.. I'm absolutely stunned. 24 years old. Part of me wants to restart the week but I guess I'll just deal with it.

My favorite is Dan Severn going from being a tag team game to my IWGP Heavyweight Champion all because of a 100 rated match vs Kobashi skyrocketing his pop from like 82 to 88. I didn't think he'd be much more over than that until the G1 set him up at like 92. I said "Aw screw it, he's 44. Over as hell. An elite worker (98 tech/90 psych/88 basics etc.) so he beat Kensuke Sasaki and has been a great champ getting a nice little reign.

Alright you keep this up I might have to start a new Cverse save, damn you.

Shinya Hashimoto in the G1 just got me 2 100s back to back in the G1. One vs. Chono on Night 6, and one vs. Sasaki in Night 7.

That logo is insane.

NJPW 1992-2002. Dontaku has just finished up, and I was overall happy with the storylines... but it was critically not as successful as it could have been, largely thanks to injuries finally ravaging my roster due to the workrate. Two titles were vacated this year alone. Last year, the same number, two. It's pretty unlucky. Either way, I thought I'd actually write something out instead of "help wit bret pweze" so here it is: IWGP U-30: Chris Canyon vs. Naomichi Marufuji © Result: Marufuji retains This title is largely just filler, I bring up a developmental guy and 9/10 times they lose. This was no different, as Marufuji defeated Canyon soundly. IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team: Ten-Koji vs. Edge & Christian vs. Wild Justice (Manabu Nakanishi & Yuji Nagata) Result: Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi claim the vacant titles Well, this was a free grab, new champions guaranteed thanks to Tarzan Goto getting injured (dudes a monster in my save) at 43 with a torn rotator. If he somehow isn't in decline when he gets back I'll be happily shocked. Either way, Wild Justice won as they were going to win the titles a few months later. So this was okay, I guess. IWGP Jr Heavyweight Tag: Gedo & Jado vs. Tajiri & Taka Michinoku © Result: Gedo & Jado Win, New Champions! I have too many titles, damn it, just like the real NJPW (before the title merge.) Tajiri & Taka won the titles at WK as my "shock" win, and then Taka got a bit over so that was cool. Either way, the plan was never for them to hold them this long, but here we are. Gedo & Jado won the titles for the 3rd time. IWGP Joshi: Hikaru Torisei (regen) vs. Manami Toyota © Result: Manami Toyota retains. Toyota can't carry matches as hard as Megumi Kudo, so I have to be picky with her opponents. Still, an easy win for Manami Toyota, that had a decent build with Toyota losing to Hikaru in developmental like 4 times. I'm thinking her reign ends soon though with Kyoko Inoue taking the title off her. We'll see. IWGP United States Heavyweight: Michael Majalahti (Starbuck) vs. Kurt Angle © Result: Kurt Angle retains Kurt had a great mini-feud with Liger earlier and I did a tour in America, thought it'd be cool to introduce an American title like.. 16 years early. Small regret, but Kurt is uncontested in this new division, Starbuck is shockingly over and I've enjoyed booking him, the feud here is simply Starbuck defeating Kurt in the New Japan Cup a few years back. I'd say this is filler, sadly. IWGP Intercontinental Title: Tetsuhiro Kuroda vs. Shawn Michaels © Result: HBK kicks Kuroda's head off and retains This one makes sense, Michaels legit rotted in WWE/F purgatory so I finally took him in "trade" for Stone Cold & Mankind (read: I let them go to WWE). Tarzan Goto, Kuroda's tag partner faced Michaels for the title earlier this year and got injured, Michaels said if Kuroda wants his revenge since he has no tag title match, he can face off against the best. This was a great match and Kuroda is actually a small pet project that is getting super over now. IWGP Junior Heavyweight: 13th BOSJ Winner Winner Ultimo Dragon vs. Rey Misterio Jr. © Result: Misterio accidentally retains and damn it I'm mad Eddie Guerrero was the original champ and I had just started his lying, cheating, stealing gimmick. It was going great until Eddie tore his rotator cuff (idk why this keeps happening damn it) Eddie handpicked 8 juniors for a mini tourney but specifically wanted Rey to take his spot. Rey was supposed to lose here and desperately try and reclaim the title, but now he accidentally retained so that got put off for another month. This kicks off the Rey vs. Eddie feud though, so its all good as Eddie isn't back for another 6 months. Special Singles Match: Keiji Mutoh vs. Shinya Hashimoto Result: Mutoh Wins the Singles Match vs Hashimoto making the score 4-6 for Hashimoto. This is essentially the big muse see match, Mutoh and Hashimoto have always had a heated rivalry since the save started. Mutoh defeated Hashimoto for his G1 Climax win, Mutoh's title reign was ended by Hashimoto, this has been spanning for a decade and it is always easy to get them back into a heated feud, especially with both men leaders of their respective factions. Mutoh wins here, largely because I have plans for Hashimoto and Mutoh is the next title defense for my new main event champion. IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Dan Severn vs. Kensuke Sasaki © Result: Dan Severn finally becomes champion Two year long story finally culminates for Severn at Dontaku. Easily my favorite story I've done in a while largely because it was so organic. Severn did not make the 2000 G1 Climax cut. This frustrated Severn with him vowing to earn that spot back. He would reclaim the IWGP Tag Team titles in February, 2001, with Kazuo Yamazaki for the second time, but lose them shortly after to Mankind & Kane (the former left me the next month smfh). Severn would still do well enough to earn the attention of then champion Kenta Kobashi. The two would clash at Invasion Attack 2001 in the MOTY (100) and that allow him to enter the G1 in 2001, earning 12 points but failing to make the finals (his popularity went from like 85 to 94 after the Kobashi match and G1 matches), who would beat him in the end? Kensuke Sasaki would, and he would go on to win the G1 for the second time in a row. Finally, Severn at NJPW Ignition would defeat a game Toshiaki Kawada, and call his shot vs Sasaki. Sasaki who was 2-0 against Severn in singles matches accepted, only because he expressed his desire to face Kawada, completely writing off Severn winning. Well, here we go. Sadly the match wasn't the best as Sasaki broke his jaw the day before Dontaku, but Severn has finally become champion, at 43, a late bloomer who was Wrestler of the Year 2001. I absolutely love Severn lmao. Tl;dr: I am becoming a terrible booker and only my last 4 matches had any significant build. Injuries are ravaging my roster, my last 3 PPVs have been lackluster comparatively, but Severn is cool and he is champion now!

Signed to the WWF, he was getting super over in my developmental and just got snatched, alongside Mark Henry, who the AI deemed to be a perfect tag partner. I might give the spot to Robert Roode, what do you think? 25 years old as of 2002, won't overshadow Bret but will also be pretty solid on his own once he develops and could easily be upper midcard at best. Could play off both names, maybe turn Bret heel and call it Rude Hearts (Roode Hart idk, something corny.) I'm legit out of ideas, thankfully BOSJ is keeping Bret busy (because he isn't really competing right now) but Dontaku is coming up, wanted to sort of kick off something with Bret there.

Toru Yano just debuted, I signed him (I'm NJPW) and he has appeared on my NBT list. Oh baby. The True Ace is about to run wild in about 3-4 years. As for Bret Hart, I'm still stumped on it. Though I did use Bret / Danielson for a while, which led to Bryan earning a BOSJ spot, something like "Brets Protégé" kind of story. Adam Pearce wouldn't be bad, but I feel like its just a little off. Without Bret, Pearce is absolutely dead in the water in NJPW.

Love when the re-render thread just catches fire again! Always gets me ready to just start a CV97 game.

I thought "Dungeons & Dragons" was too corny, for someone like Bret. I've been stumped all day. The Dragon and the Hitman is simple and obvious, I might roll with that. Shawn is in a weird spot. He is with DX (HHH/Edge/Christian/Shawn), and sort of a heel/tweener. I've already got plans for Shawn for the foreseeable future. Bret is the only major star (and gaijin) without any plans going beyond the current month I'm in. (April.)

Hes actually made a tag team with Kenny Omega in OVW, all by AI designs. Granted I can still pick him up. I think that's what I'm doing. Wanna throw a suggestion in for a tag team name between Bret and Bryan?

NJPW 1992 - 2002 IWGP Heavyweight: Kensuke Sasaki (2x) IWGP Junior Heavyweight: Eddie Guerrero (2x) IWGP Intercontinental: Shawn Michaels (1x) IWGP Joshi: Manami Toyota (1x) IWGP U-30: Naomichi Marufuji (1x) IWGP Heavyweight Tag: Jun Akiyama & Toshiaki Kawada (1x) IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag: Tajiri & Taka Michinoku (1x) New Japan Cup 2002 Winner: Nobuhiko Takada G1/Tag League winners not decided yet.

I learned the C-Verse by just playing it. Reading the bios. Then doing what Chef said and downloaded the '97 mod (nothing beyond that though.) The '97 mod is fantastic and truthfully MUST play once you've fiddled with the default database. One tip I can recommend is pick a location and just focus on that region and learn and play through it. I'm not saying turn off the other regions but just hyperfocus on a specific area and read/learn/absorb what you can.

Lance Storm, TJ Wilson, and Harry Smith are all excellent shouts and perfect. I'll fiddle around and see which one really clicks with me. One thing to mention about Jericho is that Jericho is already a pretty big star for me, and will likely get signed by WCW/WWE once his contract expires. Since I'm NJPW, I don't really intend on competing heavily for his contract.

Perhaps, if your guy is over enough, and it isn't blocked by creative control, the wrestler who wins the title could just get an auto-ongoing handshake deal with the company. The problem with the supershow idea is that your guys always out-pop theirs. AI doesn't build pop on like 90% of its roster, I have NO idea why.