Re: Official UFC 2 Career Discussion
I just finished my first career mode playthrough. I still have barely any idea how to actually play the game, so I put it on easy mode. Thanks to my overpowered spinning kicks and ground/pound attacks and perks, I never lost a fight.
Having gone 34-0, including a 48 second fluke knockout of McGregor when I changed weight classes (in the rematch, it nearly went the distance), and being forced into retirement, I have a few minor thoughts:
The "events" that mess with your training come up way too often, and so many times it is for something stupid that I refuse a real UFC fighter has to deal with (I missed a training day because I have an appointment with the cable guy? You mean to tell me that I don't have a single friend, manager, or acquaintance who can watch over the event while I'm training for a huge fight in the main event of a UFC fight card?)
Training was almost impossible at times, because I simply kept having stupid stuff come up like that that prevented me from reaching my 100% potential. I can understand a few roadblocks, but it felt like nothing but roadblocks.
Spin-kicks are over-powered, at least against the computer on my difficulty. A few to the back of the head seems to put anyone down, except for this one fight I had against some no name CAF. I seriously hit him in the head 87 times (I counted!) over the course of four rounds, with my level 5 spin kick+Level 5 Head KO perk, and he kept on trucking on like it was nothing. I ended up winning thanks to decision, but there are some cases where it feels like the game actively wants you to lose, in spite of your best efforts.
I had a laugh. In the beginning when you get put on a TUF team, Anderson Silva basically thought I was total garbage.
Ended up winning the Lightweight and Featherweight belts, going undefeated, and having a fastest KO of 20 seconds.
I would have liked the experience to be a little deeper, but I do appreciate that it is possible to actually FINISH a career mode in this game, in a fulfilling way.
My biggest complaint was that the simulated results were not what I expected.
Ronda Rousey basically gave up on life or something, because she disappeared without fighting in another match, apparently. Alistair Overeem managed to win back his title despite being about 6,000 years old. Joanna lost her title to some scrub CAF, and lost basically every match for the rest of her career.
But all of this pales in comparison to Connor McGregor. As much as I loathe him, I know he's a talented fighter. After losing to me (twice), he started an embarassing string of losses, and not just to CAFs. He ended up retiring a year or two after I beat him the second time.
I'm theorizing the reason so many of these big names lose and we're stuck fighting CAFs is because the CPU overpowers the CAFs. Torward the end of my career, I was in four straight fights with guys with either maxed out stats (100 in every stat) or nearly maxed out ones (97+ overall). All of them were CAFs, and one of them was 38 years old.
There should be a decline period, but there should be limits on just how good CAFs can get, with the exception of a once in a generation talent appearing.
I don't know. I loved the career mode, I thought it was a plus in a game full of plusses, but I do feel like there's a lot to be improved for the next game.
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