/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5953851
Most western wrestling games were shit on most 5th and 6th generations consoles. Just take a look at those horrible Acclaim or THQ/Yuke's games. Somehow western devs never understood the genre and just made simple fighting games with wrestling characters. The very few better western wrestling games mostly were total conversions of japanese titles (Natsume Championship Wrestling, Power Move Pro Wrestling or No Mercy which was a conversion of Virtual Pro Wrestling). But with Smackdown they even ruined the originally mildly complex gameplay (of Toukon Retsuden of which it was based on) in favour of a graphic updates. This even was the second time the took the Toukon Retsuden Engine and replaced all the japanese licensed content with something else. The first one was Power Move Pro Wrestling that at least left the gameplay intact and only changed the appearance of the NJPW wrestlers to partially hilarious fictionalized characters. But the genuine games by western devs were laughable. After the 6th gen when even the better japanese titles dried out, they ran the genre completely into the ground.

But indeed did the PS1 have some fantastic titles of that genre, IMO even the best wrestling game to date AJPW: King's soul. Fire Pro Wrestling G (as most Fire Pro Titles) was excellent too. Even the now notorious garbage developer Yuke's made some good wrestling games back in the day (especially Toukon Retsuden 3), too bad that they also were responsible for killing the genre.

But the Dreamcast was even worst. Not a single good wrestling game was released for the machine here, while some of the best titles of the genre were japan exclusive (Fire Pro Wrestling D, Giant Gram 2, Giant Gram 2000, Toukon Retsuden 4).

>>5868681
What is a "normal" wrestling game? I hope you don't talk about garbage like the WWE 2K games or that other trash made by Yuke's. Back then there was just more diversity in wrestling games then today with some aiming more towards simulation, others were rather arcade experiences and some were somewhere in-between. But there always were those overly simplified games by Yuke's and now sadly these are pretty much the only games left.

>>5835059