Peria

I have a constant habit of, much like NJPW in real life, cycling out my gaijin. No matter how big they may be, I always let WCW or WWE eventually take the guy, usually in their primes. (Stone Cold/Owen Hart/Mankind all just left me at around the same age, 34-37.) I need suggestions, Owen Hart has just departed from the company, leaving Bret Hart without a tag team partner and a little too old to be main eventing. They were going to feud with Owen going over but never happened. Mostly my fault as I was using them to essentially carry my rather lackluster tag team division. I already know what storyline I'm going to be doing. Bret is going to basically be spending the year (2002) finding a new tag team partner, culminating in them winning the tag titles sometime in 2003. The help I need is: who does he partner with? It can be a gaijin, or a true-born dojo graduate. Nobody is really off limits, as I'm so deep into this game that I can practically take anyone.

1992-2002 NJPW. The End of the Year Awards have been released... and man, what a year has it been. Dan Severn won Wrestler of the Year. Rightfully so. Dude had a banging beginning, winning the tag titles, then a stellar performance in the G1, almost making it to the finals. Lastly? Won the Super Grade Tag League. The Hart Family (Bret/Owen) have won the Tag Team of the Year for the 3rd time, and now it has been back to back (1998/2000/2001) though this is bittersweet, as I just lost Owen Hart to WCW. Company of the Year, NJPW, obviously. Show of the Year? WK8. (I started the WK naming early.) Match of the Year? Chris Jericho vs. Ultimo Dragon. Young Wrestler of the Year: Naomichi Marufuji Veteran of the Year is obviously Bret "The Hitman" Hart, 44 and going strong. Female of the Year is Megumi Kudo, 2nd time in a row. Most Improved is Zero-1 Indy Wrestler is Masato Tanaka.

TEW 2016, CV97 mod, 1997-2011. TEW 2020, 1992 RW mod (Fleisch) 1992-2002 (ongoing)

I swear I thought that's why they had the two loyalties in the game now? Like the first level, you COULD buy them. The second? No way. True Born talent would never betray them, like... say Naito for NJPW. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case, they both do the same thing.

I honestly found tours really good but like the other versions of TEW, once you get semi-profitable, it doesn't really stop and you end up money capped within a few + years. I still use tours though, largely for what everyone else is saying. It's just a bunch of YL vs my experienced guys or time decline guys, and for that, it is invaluable.

2001 NJPW (1992-2001) IWGP Heavyweight: Kenta Kobashi (1x) IWGP Intercontinental: Steve Williams (1x) IWGP World Tag: Kawada & Akiyama (3x for Kawada, 1x Akiyama) IWGP Junior Heavyweight: Atlantis (1x) IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team: MAZADA & Hooligan (1x) IWGP U-30: Masato Tanaka (1x) IWGP Joshi: Megumi Kudo (1x) 2001 BOSJ Winner: Atlantis (1x) 2001 G1 Climax Winner: Kensuke Sasaki (2x, back to back winner) 2001 New Japan Cup: Kurt Angle (1x) 2001 Super Grade Tag League: International Shoot Kings (Dan Severn, Kazuo Yamazaki, 1x)

Death Riders? That was what everyone assumed his faction would've been in NJPW.

What about a Mexican promotion? It has been a while since I've played CVerse, but EMLL becomes pretty Lucha Underground-esque iirc. OLLIE is still kicking and could use a shot in the arm. SOTBPW (curse that acronym) is in a precarious position after losing Champagne Lover. All three have their own challenges, all three need to build new stars.

Dan Severn is having a career renaissance. He was a solid midcard guy throughout his 30s, having good success with Kazuo Yamazaki as his tag partner, even winning the IWGP Tag Team titles in '97, the same year they formed their tag team. Severn went from 82 popularity throughout the 90s, to a whopping 90. The three tag teams in Kazuo Yamazaki & Severn, Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (who just suffered a major concussion), and Bret & Owen Hart, have been so great and fun to book.

1992-2001. NJPW. Wrestle Kingdom is in the books, and overall it was actually a great card, I just wanted to share where I'm at and how different my roster looks from 1992 to 2001, hell, even from 1997 to 2001. I'll be going over major matches only too, though everybody (60ish) is on the card. IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Cool Energy (regens) def. Super Crazy and Juvetenud Guerrera © Juve and Super Crazy had a shocking upset as they both came from my developmental to challenge the previous champs Rey Misterio Jr and Tiger Mask. There wasn't much story to this one, hence why it opened. The defeat was just as shocking as the one before it. Holy Demon Army (Ultimo Dragon/Misawa/Kobashi) © def. Team 2000 (Chono/Otani/Kuroki, whose a regen) to retain the NWA 6 Man Tags. Been trying to distance myself from the NWA, as they job out my guys who are way more over at this point, which is stupid tbh. But nobody, in almost 2 years have let HDA lose. So, screw it. Good match as none of these men had a real feud going into WK. Loser Leaves NJPW: Triple H Def. Dave Finlay I have a thing with gaijin that honestly don't do much. Triple H was in my developmental since he debuted, then he left to do GWF, which collapsed, then WWC, which released him after they struggled, so I said screw it, I'll take ya back. Hes gotten much better, is super over, and is actually replacing Finlay as a gaijin since Finlay, at 42, has decided WCW is the better option, which is fair. The goal is always the same, build him up and let WCW/WWE take him off my hands when I've got no real plans left. Career vs. Intercontinental Title: Genchiro Tenyru vs. Masakatsu Funaki© Spoilers: The match was the worst on the card, but it was 79. Funaki isn't an elite worker and Tenryu is very old and very much in steep decline. This was his final match and I love Funaki so great way to get a feather in his cap. If Funaki hadn't screwed around with MMA so much, he'd actually have been IWGP Heavyweight champ instead but now more over and better workers have come to fruition, so this might be his ceiling. Simple story in Tenryu wanting one last ride of glory and Funaki wanting to be sick enough to knock the old man out. IWGP U-30 Openweight: Masato Tanaka vs. Starbuck © I like Starbuck, what can I say. Dude had a record running title reign with this thing, and Tanaka was next in line. This title is legit just filler and no reigns actually have any real story. Be U-30, have a few wins, challenge. Repeat. IWGP World Joshi: Manami Toyota vs. Megumi Kudo © I bought JWP and basically just let the women run wild, make a champion, in this case inaugural champion Kudo, and just let the others wrestle in the developmental. Kudo and Toyota have had quite a rivalry down in JWP so I used that as a springboard to create this large match. Toyota seemingly never beat Kudo 1v1. So... easy choice in Kudo winning to continue that. IWGP World Tag Team: Holy Demon Army: Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Bret Hart & Owen Hart © This has been my favorite tag team combination since I've acquired 3 of the 4 men (I already employed Owen). Out of their now 5 encounters, 3 of them were 100s. This being #3. Though the score now favors Taue & Kawada at 3-2, the rivalry will continue... when Akira Taue comes back from a major concussion... I just pray neither him nor Bret are in time decline when that does come to pass. The story here is: We're both the 2 best tag teams in the company. Let's do it. Simple, and very apt considering their lengthy 2 year feud still rages on. IWGP Junior Heavyweight: Taka Michinoku vs. Chris Jericho © I admit, this one was short notice simply because Dean Malenko suffered a career ending injury, and the entire plans I had for Malenko were scrapped. Malenko originally won the title, and was set to get betrayed by Jericho, who would align with Triple H. Instead, I had Jericho "honor" Malenko (due to the injury) and legit lost about 3 months of plans. Taka was merely being a punk and disrespecting Jericho calling him a fake champion and getting his shot simply because he was close to Malenko. Match itself could've been better but whatever. IWGP Heavyweight: Kensuke Sasaki vs. Keiji Mutoh © G1 Climax winner Kensuke Sasaki stares down a member of the Three Musketeers. The favorites. The already made legends. Who is Sasaki? Not a Musketeer, nor is he a Pillar. But he is a G1 Climax winner. Mutoh, who has been heel, believes he is above Sasaki, he was chosen and Sasaki was left to the wayside to compete in tag action for most of the 90s. Unfortunately, Sasaki's raw power would not be enough, and Mutoh walks away feeling more and more validated. I have plans for Sasaki that expand the next coming years, however. This was the start of that.

Not to sound morbid or gross, as I wish no real harm upon anyone. I actually think when someone major dies it really shakes up the game world. Especially if they're on my roster? It'd be a huge blow. I'd also be able to set up a tournament in their honor, or have a special charity show or something. It'd be cool. Like if Eddie died in my game, maybe Chavo does get that massive push.

This has got to be a troll. Is this real?

In my current long save of NJPW... boy. I've had Masakatsu Funaki for 4 years. He has probably been active for about 2 of them. Always doing MMA fights. Eddie Guerrero, was in rehab basically for the first 2-3 years I had him, it was terrible. But none can compare to Misawa and Kobashi. Misawa instantly left for a movie when I signed him, then did it again when he returned and won the IWGP Heavyweight title. Kobashi? He sort of panned out okay but short-term he won the tag titles then got embroiled in a scandal for 2 years. He is back now though. Both are actually. Never really "lost" anyone though.

I've been playing NJPW for 8 years now (game time.. not 8 years irl...) and am now halfway through the G1. I've been attempting to not poach/take any major names from the US promotions, and usually when I do, I give them back after building them, best example of this is with Stone Cold Steve Austin. Well, Triple H found his way to my company, picked up by WCW, released by WCW, picked up by me again, lost him to GWF. GWF collapsed in 2000. He is now Triple H. No more Paul Levesque or anything. He has joined NJPW as "The Game" and is ready. Going to mega push him as my Stone Cold replacement, until he is inevitably picked up. Here is the thing: Going to take Shawn Michaels when his contract expires (he hasn't done shit in the past 10 years, except win the tag titles once and the RR once), and create DX. Thing is... need to decide who else to use. Don't have access to Road Dogg, but Billy Gunn is floundering around. I was thinking of Edge and Christian, as they can fill the sleezy degenerate role well, and be the heavyweight tag team. Shawn will be the 2nd in command / second. I need a Junior Heavyweight, potentially another one or two to fill a tag team role. Any suggestions? Can be gaijin or Japanese. Doesn't matter. So TL;DR: Fill out D-X's roster for me. With Road Dogg tied up, Sean Waltman is available, but his hard drugs have rendered him REALLY bad. Mr. Ass is available. Leader: Triple H 2nd: Shawn Michaels Heavyweight Tag Team: Edge/Christian (Edge will also be the "future" here) Junior: ??? Junior Heavyweight Tag Team (can include the above jr.): ??? / ??? Any Additional Members You Feel Are Good:

Dope work, always make me want to drop whatever current save I have and start in Cverse.

The only time I really ever edit stats is if it's for an elite GOAT-tier worker, that just didn't get the right destiny roll. Good recent example I've done that for is maybe Jun Akiyama, dude had abysmal top row stats and it bothered me so much. I don't make them super saiyans or anything but you know, as accurate as I think they should be at that stage in their careers. I did this with Kojima too, he capped at like 62 puro. I'm like... uh no.

I promise I knew this and just completely forgot. What a silly person I am.

Sloth is Devastating Don and I refuse to allow any other suggestion. The rest are amazing, and well thought out.

Length of the angle also matters.

Standing Hot Shot sounds kind of like a flatliner to me.

Loved reading "WWF owner Funaki"

I think he was speaking simply about how gaijin (at least North American ones) historically have preferred to inevitably return to their home countries. Not so much my game experience. Austin was just the second longest IWGP Heavyweight Champion of the decade, first being Chono. He should realistically be happy. I'm also far enough into the game where I can offer Austin any ludicrous contract and not impact me in the slightest. My original plan with Austin was to have him put over Jun Akiyama whose finally at a point to join the main event scene, and then feud with Mutoh. Austin would likely never win the title again. Plus he isn't winning the G1 largely because I don't want a gaijin winning it for a while. I don't know if I'll wait for Omega to win it, but I do plan on making it a big deal. If Austin were to pick a Young Lion currently, it would be Shibata I'd imagine. Tanahashi has been teaming up with a declining Fujinami. I'll let Austin go as I have been happy to help WCW and WWF get a stronger roster. Thanks everybody! Going to be a bit bummed but it is the better choice for a healthier game.

<p>I've been playing NJPW since 1992, and am now in 2000. I've been very strict about oversaturating my company with gaijin. I've had some legends come and go, such as William Regal, Vader, Ricky Steamboat, Dave Finlay, Ric Flair, etc. I hired Steve Austin when he was around 28 years old in like 1994. After he clawed his way to being one of the most over guys on my roster, and becoming the Rattlesnake, WWE have finally come calling. </p><p> </p><p> I find myself unsure, I've let other gaijin guy after a while, sort of to simulate the real life and also as an added challenge. I let Vader go to WCW, etc. This one, feels shitty. I think it is time though, he just lost his feud with Chono who betrayed NWO Japan (leaving all the gaijin there) and forming Team 2000. Stone Cold also lost the IWGP Heavyweight title to Chono as well, so realistically... Stone Cold has a perfect arc to go out on. At 35 though, I feel like this is the last time I see the Rattlesnake in my company at his best. </p><p> </p><p> What should I do? Do I let Stone Cold go? My roster would certainly feel it, but I don't know. Re-signing him would feel slightly wrong for some reason. Especially since I can grab Shawn Michaels after (whose done **** all in WWE as of 2000) and I do have a Kurt Angle rising up the card rapidly. I decided if I were to hire anyone from WWE, it could only be Undertaker or Shawn, largely because I have Kane. Who WWE give zero craps about because they have yet to go after him despite him being at like 90 overness. So yes, what do I do? Let Stone Cold go to where he historically became one of the most popular wrestlers ever to do it? Or do I continue this alternative reality despite going against my own challenges?</p>

1992-1999 NJPW. IWGP Heavyweight - "Stone Cold" Steve Austin (1x) IWGP Junior Heavyweight - Jushin "Thunder" Liger (8x) IWGP U-30 - Highashikuni Fuwa (regen) (1x) IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team - Holy Demon Army (Taue & Kawada) 1x IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team - Koji Kanemoto & Jinsei Shinzaki (1x) IWGP BOSJ 1999 - Ryushi Kai (regen) IWGP G1 Climax 1999 - Masahiro Chono (4x) IWGP Super Grade Tag League - TenKoji (1x) Young Lion Cup - Kurt Angle (Nobody wanted him so **** it)

Quick recap of the year 1999 in my NJPW 1992-1999 game. January - April: Shinya Hashimoto lost his IWGP Heavyweight title to Stone Cold Steve Austin (imagine if this really happened?) which drastically affected the health of NWO Japan, with Masahiro Chono growing increasingly jealous, especially with his shortcomings as of late. Being unable to recapture his coveted IWGP Heavyweight title and potentially having another legendary year+ long title reign. May: Best of the Super Juniors IX was a massive success. For the first time ever, a 10 man bracket. Potential stars such as Juventud Guerrera, Kaz Hayashi, MAZADA, Chavo Guerrero Jr., Mephisto, and Sabu all growing increasingly popular in Japan, allowing an excellent overall tournament. Ryushi Kai (regen) a true underdog, managed to defeat Koji Kanemoto for the win. But would be defeated by Jushin Thunder Liger at Dontaku. A man Kai defeated to secure his spot in the finals at BOSJ. June - Perhaps the real breakout star of the BOSJ tourney wasn't an up and comer. Perhaps it was the man who had a 100* rated match vs Liger in March. Dean Malenko. Malenko using Liger's tendency to always want to please the fans, issuing a rematch to which Liger accepted. Shocking everyone, and finally claiming the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title. Meanwhile, Kobashi vs Stone Cold waged a war. A 60 minute draw. Kobashi, who had been embroiled in a scandal, now in the main event. His massive moment. Who else but a returning Misawa to make his triumphant return on the night Kobashi was so close to becoming immortal. That's just the main event scenes of the respective titles. I've felt revitalized during this year, with so much great feuds and all of my divisions being healthy for the first time. The current plan is to have Chono win the G1, and dethrone Stone Cold which will split up NWO Japan into two factions. My main event scene, has also felt great. As long as Misawa doesn't leave, and Kobashi doesn't hit up strip clubs as much, we'll be good. Edit: Malenko just suffered a semi-severed spinal column injury at UWFI show. I'm so disappointed. His career is over.