I'm playing as Jericho. I've been the #1 contender in the WWF Title division for like 7 months. Still haven't got a title shot yet. Rock is the champion, has been since the start. He was in a never ending feud with Austin for months. Finally I started getting some matches against him. All non-title. Beat him 3 times in October. Did I get a title shot at No Mercy? Nope, instead the Light Heavyweight champ Scotty 2 Hotty got added to our match and we had a pointless non-title triple threat match, which I still won. Got 3 more non-title singles wins against Rock in November. Did I get a title shot at Survivor Series? Nope, this time Austin and Kane get added and it's a non-title Battle Royale match. I'm pretty sure there's been one WWF title match in the whole calendar so far, Rock retained against Undertaker on a random Smackdown. Meanwhile there's a Light Heavyweight title match nearly every other event, it's hot potatoed between Scotty 2 Hotty and Dean Malenko. The other titles are defended semi regularly. When the fuck will I get a title shot? I'm fucking seething.
I'm pretty sure the first year is locked in so you can see the cutscenes.
>>21455052From what I remember you're not supposed to get to the top of the card in one year since the game centers around the unlockables and defeating those stupid Unknowns from A to Z who show up and attack people at random in the backstage. The game unlocks everything after Year 3 Mania because it practically imposible to defeat all the Unknowns during that period of time since they don't show up very often and there's a chance you might fight one you've already beat and you don't get any new unlocks when you defeat them a second time.The game has a contender system for each belt, you can even create a new wrestler and make it a tranny like Chyna so you can also contend for the Women's belt and/or a flyweight shitter so you can also contend for the Light Heavyweight Title.If I'm not mistaken by year 2 or 2 and half you should own every title available to you in the game since you don't lose the titles when you jump from ladder to ladder.There's a menu where you can check were you sit right now and I think you should be stuck right now in the Lightweight/European ladder.
>>21455061shit. 2000 was a great year in WWF but theres only so many times i can relive it.>>21455232no, im in the world title division, i'm the #1 contender, just below the champ (The Rock). oh well, you and the previous anon said basically the same thing, im just gonna have to slog though it until it has no more 'set pieces' to throw up.
>>21455052Jericho was a B+ player. He ain't getting no title shot.
>>21455275he won it tho
>>21455285In 2000?
>>21455242>world title division, i'm the #1 contenderNice man, I played the game an ungodly amount of hours but I don't think I've played it again since the 2000's so everything is fuzzy. But anyway cheer up Anon there's cool unlockables like move sets of RVD, Scott Hall and Kevin R Nash (taunts included) and the alternate attire of Kane even though it kinda sucks since you have to create a new Kane in order to use it.
Just use ai
I beat Rock 3 more times in non-title singles matches in December. That's 9 singles victories in the past 3 months. Do I get a title shot at Armageddon? Lolnope, I'm put in a handicap match vs Rock & Vince for weird reason. I'm playing on hard mode, I lost. This shit is bizarre.
>>21455376NO CHANCE
>>21455052>write all that>fuck up the first wordWell you tried, I guess.
Jan: I didn't cross paths with Rock, we just had rnadom macthes with other people. Royal Rumble: I came it at #30. Came down to me vs Viscera. Viscera won lol. Let's see what February holds.
Feb: again no crossing of paths. Rock seems to have renewed his rivalry with Austin. And somehow niether made it to the PPV. I was put in random multiman matches which I woCactus Jack returned on the gome home epi of Smackdown, lost an Ironman match to Gaytch. Then they had a HIAC match at the PPV, Gaytch won again. At least Gaytchwinslol is realistic.March now. FFS give me a title shot!
>>21455289kindahttps://youtu.be/JFt2FdIWr6o?si=pMnkpetg-lnMZV732000 would have been the perfect time for it. Just listen to that gigapop
>>21455052The season mode in that game makes absolutely no sense at all. But it's also endless so you just have to keep playing and eventually you get what you want.
>>21455889damn look how quick hhh no sold the lionsault after the 3 count kek
>>21455889>those bros at the bottom of the screen hugging and jumping around with each other after the pin.
My Mom didn’t like the Trish loading screen. probably cause i would quit to the menu and restart matches constantly to see it.
>>21455923I used to open the disc tray (this would freeze the game) and fap to it
>>21455937This but in front of my family and friends. It was a bit embarrassing now that I look back on it.
Yeah, the card was pretty much locked in. Triple H and Rock started feuding in March, and they had a big set piece cutscene at the end of the go home Smackdown. Triple H vs Rock is the year 1 WM main event. Still non-title. But then during WM Vince added Mick Foley to the match as a triple threat now. Rock pinned Triple H to win. I beat Kane in a standard singles match.Hopefully Year 2 is more fun.>>21455953I'm sure I got caught. I think mom or sis walked in. I tucked my dick away just in time but there was no time to hide the image of Trish on the TV lol.
>>21456061Yeah Year 1 follows the WWF's storylines in 2000. You can't change what happens, it always goes by the timeline. Then after Year 1 it goes random.
>>21455052>I'm playing as Jericho. I've been the #1 contender in the WWF Title division for like 7 months. Still haven't got a title shot yetArt imitates life
>>21455937Used to do the same with the Divas photoshoot video in Shut Your Mouth. Didn't freeze instantly, and early 2000s editing was all quick pans and cuts, so you had to pre-emptively time it right to get it paused at Stacy on her hands and knees in the sea sticking her arse out.
>>21455052Unironically it doesn'tIt's mostly random and based on who was in the top card in real life
>>21455889wrestling will never be this kino again
>>21456061>Year 1 WM main event is a non title triple threat match
>>21455052When I was a kid I saw a copy of this game in a supermarket where someone had placed it next to a mirror on an aisle so it looked like pic rel.
>>21455052beats me
>>21455655>Viscera won lolSpecial.....
>>21455052Isn't this the game with the literally infinite never ending Season Mode? As in you can't complete it. It' just goes on and on my friend. >>21455376This Season mode booking for this game must have been built on the previous 2 years worth of Vince Russo scripts/booking logic decisions lol.
>>21459536yes it’s the season that doesn’t end, it goes on and on my friend. some people started playing it, not knowing what it was, and they’ll continue playing it forever just because
>>21455052Kek you're wrestling in modern WWE
Update: April and May of year 2 were more of the same. Worse, even. Just stuck in random matches going nowhere. Singles matches against lower contenders in the WWF title division. Most notably Kane, Undertaker, sometimes Triple H. Occasionally Austin. Sometimes multiman matches with them. Sometimes multiman matches featuring one or two of these guys and one or two random dudes from lower divisons. Road Dogg, Matt Hardy, Rikishi. The Rock seems to have completely disappeared from all programming (and with him, the WWF title). June now. This is so awful. I almost can't peel away because it's so stupid.
>>21459719Pay your dues kid
So in June again the Rock is AWOL. I win various random matches, including two in a row against last year's KOTR, Val Venis (I lost to Gaytch in the first round while I was still getting used to the engine, Venis somewhow won the whole thing.) This should put me in good standing for the rounament, right?I'm not even in it. #1 contender for 14 months, not a single title shot, not even good enough to get a KOTR entry. Hahahahaha.>>21459770mmmmmmmmmmm I do wanna do that.
>>21456061>sis walked in I tucked my dick away just in timeA bit sad that I would never get that feeling again in my life
Isn't this the game where the devs unintentionally made Ivory the strongest wrestler in the game?
July: again, just random matches agianst top guys. Main event a regular singles match against Stone Cold (it was actually against Scotty Too Hotty, then that series of cutscenes played out where I went to Vince's office to convince him of something, he changed to match to vs Stone Cold). The Rock is still AWOL. August now. If I get to Summerslam and he's still missing, I'm probably gonna stop. At least for a while.
YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSFINALLYTHA ROCKHAS COME BACKTO SEASON MODEAug, he was still AWOL, I had various singles victories over Austin, Gaytch and Carder. Suddenly he's back. I hope there isn't some fucking swerve like Vince changing the match some non-title fatal 4 way including Road Dogg and The Kat.
>>21460003>The Rock is still AWOL. August nowRoman Reigns played this game as a young child and learned the best way to hold the world title is to stay home as much as possible
No cutscenes the whole PPV until right before our match, where I attack him backstage during his interview.I won...and no swerve! I remember playing this as a kid, using Rock to win the title off (or retain against) Austin at Summerslam, only for a post-match cutscene to show Austin attacking me backstage and walking off with the belt and in the menus the title officially transferred back to him. Extreme WTF moment as a kid. No such shenanigans here thankfully.
>>21460247Finally a good fucking Summerslam
Get a load of this mark. Thinks wins matter. It's about the money and miles, jabroni. How many ring rats and divas did you bang?
Sep: pretty uneventful. Matches vs Road Dogg. I hate wrestling that shitter so I switched him from the IC to the Hardcore division. Still getting matches and run-ins with him unfortunately. Unforgiven main event a non-title singles match vs Triple H. Rock AWOL again. I think only the #1 contender can fight for the title? Anyway, I think I'm gonna leave it here. At least for now. Thanks for joining me for this adevnture, lads. After 16 months waiting for a title shot, we did it, reddit. :)
>>21460710keep us posted Anons
You should do this with a CAW next time.
ok i played more after dinnerSeptember REDO: i didnt save my progress properly, i saved state and it fucked up so i had to do september over again. It played out in the same way on the raws and smackdowns, but at the Unforgiven PPV suddenly Shawn Michaels magically had beef with me out of nowhere. and even though he's not in any division, and on paper (in the stables section) he's not attached to Triple H in any way, he somehow changed my singles match with Gaytch to a handicap match featuring him and Gaytch vs me. While it was slightly forgiving in that the two of them werent on me the whole time, i would say half the time one hugn back and just filled up their finisher meter by posing while the other fought me. but half the time they fought me simultaneously. unfortunately i just couldnt get the win, Shawn pinned me.October: singles wins against Kane, Austin, Kane, and...DLo (wut?). Along the way Mick Foley wanted me to intefere in his match against the Undertaker, I refused, Mick didnt look happy. At the No Mercy PPV, at the beginning I was in a single match (from now on assume all matches non-title unless I explicitly say it's a title match) with with X-Pac. Then I went to Shane McMahon's office with a request, and he granted it, and the main event is now me vs Kane (again). For some random reason Billy Gunn came out to interfere on my behalf (no linkage in stables). Paul Bearer came out to even the score. I won with a third Walls of Jericho. Rock AWOL throughout October too.The randomness is amusing.
>>21460334judging from how much he plays and posts here, NONE
S O V Lhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW3wUOShOsY
Nov Year 2:- The Rock was back, beat Austin and Billy Gunn in singles matches. But then he disappeared again. I wanna defend my fucking belt!- I had a Fatal 4way, then a 3way against the usual top guys. These multiman matches are getting really tedious, might start to skip them desu. They take a lot of effort to win. Triple Threats, Fatal 4ways, 4way battle royales.- Another singles match against Road Dogg. OMG why wont this shitter fuck off, he's supposed to be in the Hardcore division now.- Shawn Michaels asked me to intefere in his match. I didn't even see who it was against, but this time I said yes. Turns out it's against Albert lol. Ok, whatever, Shawn wins. Next cut scene Test and Albert are attacking Shawn backstage. As long as it's not me I don't care :^)- Another Fatal 4way, vs Gaytch, Taker and Billy Gunn. I skip it. Billy Gunn pins Taker.Survivor Series: Great, me letting Billy Gunn win that fatal 4way means I face him in singles at the PPV. With 2 guest refs, Road Dogg (his tag team and stablmate), and Chyna (no affiliation on paper). I tried to get a cheeky countout victory but I didnt get back in time, two guest refs mean they count double fast. Draw, double count out (ringout).Bizarre events for the main event. Btw Paul Bearer is Kane's manager. However for fun I created a new stable, brought the ministry of Darkness band back together. Biker Taker, Paul Bearer, Viscera and Gangrel.Kane and Paul Bearer attacked Taker backstage, but then Viscera came and attacked Kane and Bearer. Then there was a cutscene where Taker and Kane were together in the ring as buddies. Then the Rock appeared and talked smack to both of them. Looked like the build to a match. But then nothing came out of it, the main event was just a singles match between Taker and Kane. This is way more schizo than I remember it being.
>>21455905Why wouldn't he no sell it? The entire point was the fast count ripped him off lol.
It's mostly dependant on your luck. Rock was also away for a while irl when they were working on this game and I believe the devs wanted to imitate that and make Rock's apperance a rare thing. >>21455889They should've given Jericho that title reign even if it was only supposed to last for a few days. Both Jericho and Kane should've gotten world title reigns that year
>>21455889Prime kino. Tells a story in ten minutes with very simple moves.
>>21462478They really fucked up by not having Austin chase Kane for at least a month when he actually had the belt.
December yr2Rock AWOL all month.>1) RAW- I beat Gaytch in a Falls Count Anywhere match. We fought in the kitchen, fun.- Road Dogg main events against Austin :|>2) SD- Fatal 4way vs Kane, Gaytch + Austin. I skip. Gaytch won, didn't see who he beat.>3) RAW- Singles match vs Kane. I lost, WTF!- Road Dogg main events vs Austin again! Wish I could delete this shitter from the game>4) SD- Shane McMahon asks me to interfere against Tazz. I say yes but I skip it, Tazz wins. Shane and Triple H attack Tazz backstage.- I'm in another 4way battle royale. vs Taker, Kane and Triple H. I'm still shocked I lost to Kane before so I play it to redeem myself. Won but close, Kane almost beat me again in the final 2.>5) Armageddon- I'm in the main event...in a triple threat vs Kane and Shane McMahon. Ugh what is this shit. I play, submit Kane.That's it for today. I think I'll play until the next WM. If it's still random unfocused shit by then, I'll abandon it.
With the Jericho phantom title win IRL: Remember, Jericho was originally supposed to be in the WM main event 4way. Vince the psycho really wanted to make Foley retire right on the eve of Mania. But fan feeling changed his mind so he let Foley have one last rodeo. Gaytch and Rock obviously integral to the story. Big Show had a WM main event in his contract, sticking him in a 4way elimination where he gets eliminated first was the easiest way to fulfill the clause and get it out of the way ASAP. So the only one who could be cut was Jericho. I believe this false title win served 3 purposes.1. Some sort of apology/compensation for the WM main event rugpull.2. Vince wanted to test, "is this vanilla midget WCW cruiserweight really as over as people say? Let's test it and see if the crowd pop, heh."3. Remember, Gaytch shockingly retained the title at WM (heel has never walked out with the title before), so he had incredible heel heat already. On top of that, to tease the fans with him losing the title out of the blue only for the decision to be reversed just built the fan animosity towards Triple H to a fever pitch....just in time for the ultimate catharsis at Backlash. It was great writing.Austin surgery rehab absence in 2000 was the perfect opportunity for Vince to be a little experimental. First, the unorthodox WM finish, breaking with his 15-year formula. Then the Jericho false title win. Then 2 Benoit false title wins (Fully Loaded, then Unforgiven). It wasnt just to build heat, he really wanted to see if the crowds bought in to these new smaller guys as main event, world title material. Ultimately though the one he put the belt on for real was Angle the next month, and was the only one of the three he ever truly believed in. Jericho got a plot device win a year later (for Gaytch's sake) then was buried in the lower midcard for almost the rest of his WWE career. Benoit got a gold watch RR+WM m.e. champ run, but that's all it was, back to lower midcard after.
>>21462546I feel like Vince always liked Jericho but respected him more after he fucked off for a few years.
>>21460247>Road Dogg vs Stone Cold>I Quit match
>>21462546RVD was another guy who could have been champ around that time. Too bad HHH seemed to hate him most of all and would never allow it.
Anon you cant win. This Season Mode never ends. It will just trap you in a loop forever of nonsensical, jumbled disjointed booking. For literally ever
>>21462490Yeah it's a shame especially when Kane and Austin had a much better in ring chemistry compared to Austin and Taker or Taker and Kane. Not to shit on Taker but he really couldn't work with these guys. Kane's booking was pretty shit overall even in his prime years, they should've made him more insane and unstable instead of "Taker but fire"
>>21464421Based, sounds like Triple K's booking.
>>21462546That Big Show thing is false though, it's been debunked and nobody has proved it. Vince put him simply because he believed in Beeg to be the next Andre the giant and also to add a Giant to the dynamics of a multi man match. It would make sense storyline wise.While people didn't really give a shit about big show and he was a flop at that time Vince believed otherwise and had reasons to put big show in it. But he wasn't stupid enough to promise a WrestleManiaain event to a new signing nor big show was a mark to ask for such thing. Still should've put Jericho and Foley in that 4way regardless
yr 2 Jan>1) RAWsingles victory vs Unknown>2) SDsingles victory vs Kane>3) RAWsingles victory vs Hardcore Holly (another shitter I put in the Hardcore division)>4) SDsingles victory vs Kane>5) Royal RumbleI enter at #30 again. Final 3 are me, Viscera and Taker. Viscera eliminated. Then Taker eliminated me :(
>>21464640Goddamn phone posting sucks, makes you talk worse than a jeet
yr2 Feb>1) RAWIronman match vs Kane. Somehow the show is built around Kane now. A limo drives into the arena, Kane and Paul Bearer attack it. Later, Kane and Bearer attack Vince backstage. Later, Kane and Bearer are in the ring and Vince comes out to confront them. Then we have our match, I win. After that, Vince comes out who comfronts both of us, who seem to be allies now. This is beyond nonsensical.>2) SDOoooh the Rock is back, we fight backstage. But I have a singles match vs Austin. I made Debra his manager for giggles, her interference was surprisingly effective, I nearly lost.I wonder at this point, if the other anon was right about Rock being deliberately a scarce presence in story mode whether I should manually change the #1 contendor in exhibition mode (it carries over) to someone who's around every show, so I can actually defend this belt. But too much effort, fuck it, let's see where this goes.>3) RAWStone Cold + Debra attack me backstage. Another singles match, another win.>4) SDSingles match vs Kane. Kane and Vince are now in cahoots apparently, Vince interferes in the match. Another win.>5) No Way OutApparently now I have beef with Foley. It was uspposed to be a singles TLC match vs Kane. Now it's a handicap match vs Kane + Foley. I lose.>March>1) RAWTLC match vs UnknownBut also Battle Royale 4way. I skip. Triple H wins.>2) SDSingles match vs Austin. Triple H spec ref. I try to go for a sneaky count out victory, backfires, I lose!Billy Gunn and Kane are feuding.>3) RAWSingles vs Gaytch. I'm bored, I skip. I lose.Billy Gunn Kane feud continues.>4) SD go home showSingles match vs..... DLo. I skip. I win.Billy Gunn Kane feud continues.>5) WMThe signature feud apparently is Billy Gunn vs Kane. They are in the main event...in a triple threat match with Undertaker.I'm in the sub main event vs the returning Rock. Title match! I Quit match. I beat him to death with the steel stairs and win.I'm completely done. Thanks for reading.
>>21464990Congrats Anon
