Stone Cold Steve Austin is the Cover Athlete For WWE 2K16

[ironjumpman_23]

They have more than enough talent right now it's just that Vince has completely lost it, and WWE becoming a publicly traded company who has to stay PG isn't helping matters. WWE has become what they used to make fun of WCW for being(an out of touch company that puts it's best talent in the midcard and promotes old timers when it matters most).

100% Agree with that

[StevenSD]

Re: Stone Cold Steve Austin is the Cover Athlete For WWE 2K16

I don't mint Stone Cold being on the cover or having the showcase focus on him. I rarely play the showcases anyway. For those worried about the roster size, 2K has already announced they're going to have 125 unique characters, and no that's not 4 John Cena's, 3 Randy Orton's etc etc. Roster size this time around I'm not concerned about. I more concerned about MyCareer mode. I hope they add so much more to it and actually have storylines that trigger instead of Vicky has nothing for you. I also want tag matches in MyCareer and gimmick matches as well. If that part of the game is focused on and better, than I'm all in on this years version.

[Side Effect]

Re: Stone Cold Steve Austin is the Cover Athlete For WWE 2K16

Don't mind too much that Stone Cold is on the cover and Attitude Era will be featured. But I feel Seth Rollins or Brock Lesnar were very deserving of making the cover this year. Would be cool to have a 2 sided flippable cover like WWE 2K14.

[jpollack34]

I only care about the Legends. As long as there is a good amount of golden era wrestlers then I will be getting it. Or at the least a very deep editor and lots of customization options.

[Blasian]

I'm glad Austin is on the cover. I can't stand today's roster but I love wrestling video games. I need legends in the game.

[countryboy]

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I really don't care who is on the cover, but I am hopeful, with a 120 roster out of the gate that we have quite a few legends. I don't watch wrestling anymore so I really don't know who is who but I love the older guys and always make them have their own show.

[Caveman24]

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Tired of sports games continuing this trend of going to the past. Attitude Era was great and all but what about my era? What about giving back full customization, giving CAW a much needed update, recognition of Efeds, a full current WWE roster( not 10 Triple H's.) The gameplay is great but they literally stripped the game down naked.


Another remake of legends that will be shoved down our throats. Yet, we'll still have incomplete rosters for current guys. Seth Rollins should've got the cover and we should looking toward the future not the past.

[countryboy]

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I'm curious, how many wrestlers would make up the current roster?

[BDKiiing]

Re: Stone Cold Steve Austin is the Cover Athlete For WWE 2K16

I'll be honest. I'd rather have Reigns on the cover of 2K16 than Austin. You have to push the current talent. Golden era guys are boring, the attitude era is overrated. Worry about those after a fully complete current roster is done, just like every other sports game.

[RayRay34]

Attitude era was over rated......? Ummmmm get WWE network and watch some of it. If the current WWE is going to keeping pushing lame *** stories like they are now and limiting their good technical wrestlers to doing safe moves then what is the PG era in your eyes? Probably the best thing ever right?? Attitude era over rated..... You can join my kiss my *** club.

[MUCHLUV69]

I wanted KO Kevin Owens on the cover!

I really really hope the crowd during the whole Cena matches yell.."LET'S GO CENA.....CENA SUCKS!!"

[King_B_Mack]

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Guys kill me with the current roster stuff. The current roster sucks. Nobody is going to use Los Matadores. How many people are really looking at playing with R-Truth or Fandango or Acension?

All this "do what I want and **** everybody else" stuff kills me. I want to see a full current roster for the guys that want that stuff, but I want to see a big legend presence as well. No Mercy was a great game, but I want to play with all those guys from the past on these bad *** machines we have access to now. Only having coin operated arcade machines to have ever played with Owen Hart on or RAW on Sega Genesis? That was great for that time, but now that we have the proper tools to really enjoy those kind of guys bring them on please. I like this biggest roster ever stuff. Get the current guys and NXT guys represented, then get me my legends represented well with the big names of their eras and then give me 100-200 CAW slots so I can fill out a legend roster with the guys that don't make it if that's what I want to do, but **** all this only do one crap or make a separate game.

[Hooe]

Re: Stone Cold Steve Austin is the Cover Athlete For WWE 2K16

How many people are really looking at playing with R-Truth or Fandango [...]?

/me raises hand sheepishly

I get caught up in having random lower-card guys end up in sprawling and epic storylines in Universe because the CPU said so, and I'd rather this happen with modern guys than, say, King Kong Bundy. Heck, one of the first things I usually do is remove most of the legends from my Universe.

I agree with the overall sentiment of your point of "why not both?", I'm a little apprehensive about their ability to strike a balance however.

I'm curious, how many wrestlers would make up the current roster?

Going off the Wikipedia page, I count 67 active main roster Superstars and Divas. NXT has 36 active Superstars and Divas.

That's 103 right there. I doubt we get all of them, because you can probably list at least a dozen wrestlers who need to be in a Stone Cold showcase for it to be effective, then probably at least a dozen more usual suspects, then a handful of deeper cut / only-in-this-game guys.

[BDKiiing]

Stone Cold Steve Austin is the Cover Athlete For WWE 2K16

Attitude era was over rated......? Ummmmm get WWE network and watch some of it. If the current WWE is going to keeping pushing lame *** stories like they are now and limiting their good technical wrestlers to doing safe moves then what is the PG era in your eyes? Probably the best thing ever right?? Attitude era over rated..... You can join my kiss my *** club.

You must not come around the wrestling boards much. I'm a day one network guy, I've seen the attitude era. But the ruthless aggression era was better. Today is meh. NXT is great though.

And no mercy had only current wrestlers. They should give us 200 CAW slots for legends.

In regards to the game, this isn't a legends game, this is a current day game. First priority should be full current roster.

[King_B_Mack]

Re: Stone Cold Steve Austin is the Cover Athlete For WWE 2K16

You must not come around the wrestling boards much. I'm a day one network guy, I've seen the attitude era. But the ruthless aggression era was better. Today is meh. NXT is great though.

And no mercy had only current wrestlers. They should give us 200 CAW slots for legends.

In regards to the game, this isn't a legends game, this is a current day game. First priority should be full current roster.

That's because when No Mercy came out Vince was on bad terms with just about every notable legend in existence of the old WWF/they worked for WCW at the time. If they were in the kumbaya state that a large chunk of them are currently in with Vince and company, they'd have been all over that game too.

The first priority should be putting together a game that people want to play. Most of the roster is typically always in the game anyway outside of one or two major misses and that's typically because they don't come on WWE tv before the roster cutoff date.