sabataged Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Anyone else see this? Russo Plays TEW (Total Extreme Wrestling): WCW 20…: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nickman Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 I'm watching it right now. Wow, the guy talking Russo through the game should've started booking Nitro first and THEN worried about setting up the storylines before the show went to air Because Russo doesn't quite understand the storyline functionality and is just arguing with him before the show has even started being booked!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Nection Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Lol Vince is like one of your grandparents trying to have you reset the clock on the VCR lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrokenCycle Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 This video is so terrible. The EWR one that he did a while ago was actually charming and funny, but this video makes the game out to be a complicated mess that no one would ever want to buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idolized Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 I sent this to them on the forum of Pyro and Ballyhoo: I feel like this project would be a lot more fun if you guys had taken the time to update Vince on the storylines and events that were happening leading into January 2000 and Vince actually picking up the booking as if he’s never left WCW. Vacating all of the titles and starting new storylines from scratch would have really just left fans scratching their heads and wondering what the hell was going on if this show would have taken place. Some Notes: If you want to simulate commercial breaks, use the Nitro girls to dance for three or so minutes and create an angle to be rated on Sex Appeal. The Nitro girls are all included in the database. It’s an easy way to pop a rating in game and will allow you to book shorter match times. “Storylines” for the function of the game are the overall sum of all of the angles and matches between the people in your story. So for the sake of TEW think of angles and matches as the aspects of the game that you book in the shows, which will in turn have an overall effect on the “Storyline.” On screen, the NWO had just reformed on the December 20, 1999 edition of Nitro with Bret Hart joining Hall, Nash and Jarrett. Hart was working with a concussion, and would actually only wrestle three more times before retiring from the injury he’d suffered from getting kicked in the head by Goldberg at Starrcade. Scott Steiner also joined the group on the very last episode of Thunder leading into the Nitro you guys booked. Wrath has a torn ACL at this time, suffering the injury in a match with Jerry Flynn on April 15, 1999 and wouldn’t return to TV until April 2000. Harlem Heat were heading to a big split with Stevie Ray set to form Harlem Heat 2000 in January. He was growing more and more frustrated with Booker’s relationship with Midnight. Hulk Hogan had been off screen since Halloween Havoc 1999 where he lied down for Sting, and hadn’t been seen since on television. Jeff Jarrett and Chris Benoit just had a pretty good ladder match and had been feuding for the US Title which Jarrett won from Benoit on the December 20th edition of Nitro. A Lethal Lottery Tournament for the Tag Team Titles had just gotten underway. Ed Farrara is booking matches in the video, but he was just Oklahoma on screen as recently as Starrcade. Goldberg was really in no shape to do much of anything after nearly losing his arm on December 23rd’s edition of Thunder where he punched out the limo window and nearly had to have his arm amputated. He didn’t return to WCW until the end of May. Those were the big things that stood out to me. I just think it would be a lot more fun if things were true to the time. Here are the results of the last 3 shows heading into 2000: http://ddtdigest.com...es/1999123m.htm http://ddtdigest.com...es/1999123t.htm http://ddtdigest.com...es/1999124m.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packerman120 Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 I actually loved this video. It was good to have Russo explaining how to book TV in a way. Also, I think the game may think that's there's a tad much Russo on the show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AfRoMaN36 Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 I can feel the life being sucked out of me as Russo progressed. It was as if I was actually watching Nitro in 99 only to realize that the head booker is only interested in self promoting and grinding axes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Collin Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Yeah, some of that booking was insane. Good video though and hopefully it will boost sales of the game. Anything that expands this community is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frootloop Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 I'm just watching this now, but they're only doing one show a month for free? That just screams "cash grab" to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Collin Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Everything Vince does is to drive subscriptions for his VIP section. Seems fair enough to me, he needs to pay the bills like everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vtechguy Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Everything Vince does is to drive subscriptions for his VIP section. Seems fair enough to me, he needs to pay the bills like everyone else. ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hulkamaniac85 Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 This is actually pretty cool. Way more addicting to listen to than I thought it would be. Seemed like he really got into it a lot more once it got going too, which was kind of cool. It will be interesting to see where this continues to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hulkamaniac85 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Best quote was "There's no twenty minute matches on Vince Russo's shows" haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayelek Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 It was good enough that I'd watch more, but I'm also looking forward to his 43 rated show that loses them tons of popularity. There's definitely some entertainment value, like Russo getting pissed off that the network wasn't allowing even a Hardcore match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukess1 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I'm just watching this now, but they're only doing one show a month for free? That just screams "cash grab" to me. I'm sure someone will pirate it and put it on a video site for all us TEW fans to enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vtechguy Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Sad but true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iruleall15 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 ......Shouldnt he be loaded with cash? He doesnt need to pay the bills. Hes got plenty of cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nickman Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I don't mean to bag the guy too much, and I have watched a few of his videos on Youtube, but the bloke running TEW2013 for Russo could've booked that whole opening sequence a lot smarter. He should've just done a 20 minute opening angle where Vince calls out the WCW locker room and puts them all on notice. He makes the angle Vince, rated on Entertainment, and then the seven most popular Main Eventers, all rated on Overness. Completely forget the Ted Turner bit, just have Vince come out, say "I'm in charge, and you'll all have to live with it, etc." Then a smaller angle where he fires those two suckers. This would help the ratings of the show much better than what old mate booked for Vince. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCannon Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 The one good thing about this video is that it potentially gets TEW more exposure, and any publicity is good publicity. That said, this reeks of a washed up high school football quarterback modding Madden '14 to relive his glory days and embarrass those he has an ax to grind with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vtechguy Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 You lost me at Madden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iruleall15 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 The one good thing about this video is that it potentially gets TEW more exposure, and any publicity is good publicity. That said, this reeks of a washed up high school football quarterback modding Madden '14 to relive his glory days and embarrass those he has an ax to grind with. Love the madden reference... Perfect for a Russo analogy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CQI13 Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Much like someone starting a dynasty and saying "I hate Cena, Orton, and Triple H, so I fired them...and then I hired the ROH roster." I would have preferred if (as stated before) if they had stayed with real life and then branched from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Nection Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 I honestly believe that is probably what the first Nitro would have looked like in his hands. He does things for shock value and even though he would alienate alot of his audience (what audience there was at this particular time). That first Nitro did probably have good ratings because they had people tuning in just to see if he really got canned. There was an extreme amount of buzz on the net at the time about him getting the axe. One thing that did disturb me was he was appalled he could not use Goldberg even though it was his crazy booking that got him hurt and he would have tried to turn Sting of all people. I can not ever recall Sting being a heel in his career and I don't think he would have carried himself well in that role. Sting would have threw an actually fit by turning that way because it wasn't even a strong turn and it did not make sense for his character to do that. Sting was a buck the establishment kind of face and he would chose an angle that he would be fired for a couple weeks before he would have done that. But I have been rambling for a minute so I will leave it at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuddyGarner Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 It's interesting that he worries so much about things that have no effect on the outcome of the game. But it points out a lot of the flaws of the system. I wish that it wasn't live and it was more streamlined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nickman Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Honestly I believe it's as much the guy who's booking for Russo's fault as is his Vince's himself. He needed a better understanding of how to book in the game what Vince is saying rather than just going "the game can't do that" and making it look like the game has all these limitations that in reality don't exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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