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Post by Swarm on Dec 19, 2023 10:22:15 GMT -5
Been debating posting this because I don’t want to appear negative, but I really think it’s okay to discuss the game even when everything isn’t perfect.
Current state of the most bad ass faction of wrestlers in the game has recently -
A) been outsmarted and manipulated by the Dark Menace, making them look weak and dare I say, stupid? Foolish at best.
B) We find out the whole thing since day 1 is nothing but one big “hive-mind”, which imo really discredits all the great and varying personalities we’ve seen from the Glads over 30 plus years.
C) Female soldiers. Really?
What happened to the Gladiators?
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Post by scottyboy9999 on Dec 19, 2023 10:34:48 GMT -5
I do tend to agree. They have lost so much impetus. The big one is the female soldier for me. I just cannot see it. Females have been painted as lowly status on Aethra and it seems weird them being allowed into their military.
I suppose it doesn't bother me greatly because my game is so far behind this stage. No matter what happens the current Gladiator setup will never hold a candle to the originals Spike, Mayhem, Brute and Massacre.
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Post by ~KB~ on Dec 19, 2023 11:02:55 GMT -5
I too have to agree with everything that was pointed out.
Gladiator female wrestlers, okay - they are the BEST of the BEST of the inferior gender. Gladiator ideals NOT MINE!
That's why there's been so few of them. THRASH - STRAFE - STORM & BULLDOZE
So, a female soldier?... Was the last 40 years for nothing?
HIVE MIND?!? Not in PREDATOR PROMOTIONS.
GLADIATORS have had some of the strongest personalities in the history of my fed.
THUNDER was a ROCK STAR and VENGEANCE was a sinister sociopath. SPIKE was an egomaniac and DISASTER was the most driven Aethran ever. Don't even get me started on MAYHEM!
A hive mind?..?.. C'MON MAN!
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Post by ~KB~ on Dec 19, 2023 11:16:38 GMT -5
Take a look at the, lack of a better term, malice in the eyes - the scowl of the face and the arrogant smirk..
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Post by Justin Case on Dec 19, 2023 11:39:30 GMT -5
Another changing of the guard on Aethra? Deliberate? What's going on in the dark corners of that devious mind?
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Post by hexxstar on Dec 19, 2023 11:40:12 GMT -5
I agree that the Gladiators have taken quite a fall, it started in 2124 when Spike was overthrown. I just really stopped caring about Gladiators, we still haven't heard what happened to Disaster and Rage. I guess I was just never a fan of an "overmaster". As ~KB~ said , Gladiators have had some of the strongest personalities in the history of GWF. Without the Gladiators there isn't a Wolf. The way I'm thinking of play the whole "hive mind" thing is that it's an overwhelming compulsion to wage war. I'm not gonna do the whole "hacked/compromised" angle. I'll just play it where Aethran Overmaster is weaker Aethran that just got lucky he overthrew Spike. I'll sure I'll figure out where to go from there..!..?..!..? Maybe to feed into the whole 2139 angle, I can have it where the Dark Menace, has help Aethran Overmaster gain power and they are now getting overrun.
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Post by drewseph on Dec 19, 2023 12:19:30 GMT -5
The whole hive mind thing just doesn’t make sense. Unless Tom has a plan moving forward to spark some new life into Gladiators I don’t see the point either. Seeing the “promoter prime” cards that had been delayed to just be throw away jobbers, not a fan.
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Post by hexxstar on Dec 19, 2023 12:54:54 GMT -5
The whole hive mind thing just doesn’t make sense. Unless Tom has a plan moving forward to spark some new life into Gladiators I don’t see the point either. Seeing the “promoter prime” cards that had been delayed to just be throw away jobbers, not a fan. I really think the days of promoter prime being anything more than "jobber/not important" cards has only just begun. I don't really think we'll have any tie-ins worth it, like we used to have with Kronos/CWF/FTR. I really hope I'm wrong but that seems to be where we are headed. Especially after the whole "cycle vs quarters" debate and not thought what so ever in my opinion was put into "cycle/quarter/whatever" 3 and 4 this year. Don't get me wrong I'm all about having different cards that add to the mythos of COTG but it didn't have the "hype" of the past few years PP.
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Post by Justin Case on Dec 19, 2023 13:58:43 GMT -5
I agree with that PP is just a place for throw away cards that they don't know what to do with. It's not really worth the value you pay.
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Post by Whiskyfish on Dec 19, 2023 15:15:48 GMT -5
Agree on the PP cards. I won't be buying PP in the beginning of the year as I have in the past .
Hive Mind. Won't be doing it. It makes no sense for my fed or the official story. I like the wage war idea as well as the Dark Menace helping Overmaster's rise to power. I don't know. I'm in a weird place where the main game doesn't really interest me storyline wise as much as the others do. I've tried to will myself to play my GWF fed, I'll get a few shows going, then go back to one of my other that just seems hotter.
As for the topic at hand, I love Fist, Siege and Apex. I love the power struggle and the idea that all three could be singles stars or tag. I don't need Aethran Sleeper Cell. I don't really need female Brute and Massacre. I don't need who's the next active wrestler Minister of War.
Want to make it interesting, make it Turmoil and have them actually be dangerous again.
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