Empyrean Heaven
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Nice, hopefully someone there is a Japanese wrestling fan so they can give us who is in the game.
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Spike Chunsoft Announces the Return With Fire Pro Wrestling World
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Nice, hopefully someone there is a Japanese wrestling fan so they can give us who is in the game.
Your mouth to the developers ears my brother. Loved that mode in Not-So-Final-Pro
Gettin' worked hard?
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
I'm taking you to Wrestler's Court.
ZombieSupaStar
Member
Sibersk Esto
Banned
I expect it to be business as usual with the 'totally not real life' wrestlers, but I feel like NJPW should consider officially hitching their wagon to this like the KoC games.
KoC was able to get the license, IIRC. It's why the first game had promotions of separate discs, due to disputes.
Apparently the bald man in yellow in the trailer is a recolored Vader, so they've likely done what they did with Fire Pro on the GBA in that every wrestler is not only renamed, but recolored.
mindatlarge
Member
So cool to have this confirmed and actually be a thing. Gonna for sure grab it when its available.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
There's gotta be something, right? They've got to know that save uploading/trading was a huge part of past Fire Pro games.
Schnozberry
Member
I'm in. I'd love this to be on Switch for the portability, but I'll grab it wherever I can get it.
No idea. The question on Edits and if there's even a limit is in the air.
Fire Pro Returns let you create 500 wrestlers, on top of the default roster of 300+ guys.
You can easily meet the 500 wrestler limit in Returns just trying to create current rosters of every current "Major" promotion, so I hope this limit is removed. 
Empyrean Heaven
Member
IIRC only the WWE/WCW guys in the GBA game had that.
It looks to me like most of the guys are generic CAWs, although one guy is wearing Ultimo Dragon's outfit.
dirtywhirlwind
Member
Steam store page is up. Will be released on Early Access.
Schnozberry
Member
Steam store page is up. Will be released on Early Access.
I hope early access in this case doesn't mean a broken mess they want to sell on nostalgia to raise money to finish the game.
digita1alchemy
Member
Make Wrestling Games Great Again
thechristoph
Sir!
Are there any other use cases for early access?
EDIT: I stand pleasantly corrected.
ChosenPredator
Banned
coming to steam so it means mods can happen for this :O??
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
"A few months" in Early Access makes it sound like we're looking at a summer release, which is fine by me.
Well, FPR only recently got broken with "mods" like allowing wrestlers multiple Critical-label moves and more points than the game logic normally allows.
I don't think transformative mods will come to the game, because Fire Pro by its very nature is very "mod heavy" as is with its creation suite and AI logic system.
Can you be specific by what you mean by mods?
Professor Beef
Banned
At long last, we are free from Yukes' grasp
Tonight, my fellow wrestling game fans, we rejoice. REJOICE.
Tonight, my fellow wrestling game fans, we rejoice. REJOICE.
With a dedicated can base and likely fairly modular file system for allow for edits, I get the feeling anything is possible.
Remember, people on PC were so thirsty for wrestling at one point that everyone's favourite wrestling game WCW Nitro was modded with new match types. They even got a.ladder match in there.
Dark Ninja
Member
This is for PC too? Holy Shit I await THE MODS!!
Grim Patron
Member
This looks super low budget
Fire Pro Wrestling games have always been low budget.
There wasn't anything to grab or anything, kt was like having a big turnbuckle in the middle of the ring, but it was still funny. A lot of WWE guys were modded in too.
Seems like it was all just washed from history though. I can't find anything anymore,. Remember it all being on a Geocities somewhere.
The game is apparently launching only with 30 wrestlers, all originally created by the looks of it.
I guess Japanese copyright laws did change since FPR. It will be up to the community to fill in the holes, and while this may seem like a daunting task, this has and is addressed with the community from FPR, so as long as the creation suite is the same, we'll see it here, too.
If you want New Japan and NOAH, you better hope we can easily port over Puroresu Kingdom saves from FPR.
I guess Japanese copyright laws did change since FPR. It will be up to the community to fill in the holes, and while this may seem like a daunting task, this has and is addressed with the community from FPR, so as long as the creation suite is the same, we'll see it here, too.
If you want New Japan and NOAH, you better hope we can easily port over Puroresu Kingdom saves from FPR.
Zen_Arcade
Banned
Today is a good day.
RecRoulette
Member
THE FIRE IS BACK BABY, TAKE THAT YUKES
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Brian_FETO
Banned
Holy shit
I was thinking "wow that outcry/petition from fans was only a few months ago, couldn't have been the cause so quickly" but it was actually April of last year. Goddamn. We did it!
https://twitter.com/SpikeChunsoft_e/status/723047151933132800
I was thinking "wow that outcry/petition from fans was only a few months ago, couldn't have been the cause so quickly" but it was actually April of last year. Goddamn. We did it!
https://twitter.com/SpikeChunsoft_e/status/723047151933132800
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
The game is apparently launching only with 30 wrestlers, all originally created by the looks of it.
I guess Japanese copyright laws did change since FPR. It will be up to the community to fill in the holes, and while this may seem like a daunting task, this has and is addressed with the community from FPR, so as long as the creation suite is the same, we'll see it here, too.
If you want New Japan and NOAH, you better hope we can easily port over Puroresu Kingdom saves from FPR.
I had a feeling something like this would happen. They might have gotten away with "slightly altered but still pretty obvious" versions of existing wrestlers in the past, but I figured they wouldn't be able to get away with it in 2017.
If this doesn't have SOME sort of "Community Creations" functionality, it'll be a bit of a disaster.
Hours Left
Member
Cool.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
The game is apparently launching only with 30 wrestlers, all originally created by the looks of it.
I guess Japanese copyright laws did change since FPR. It will be up to the community to fill in the holes, and while this may seem like a daunting task, this has and is addressed with the community from FPR, so as long as the creation suite is the same, we'll see it here, too.
If you want New Japan and NOAH, you better hope we can easily port over Puroresu Kingdom saves from FPR.
Disappointing, but not surprising. Everyone's wise to the shtick now.
Indeed. I can imagine this can be worked around on PC via transfers of save files if it's left traditional, but this would mean bad fucking news for PS4 users.
No Community Creations means you have to follow templates by hand, because we're beyond memory cards. Imagine doing that just to create current Raw, Smackdown, and NXT rosters. That's a weekend of work, at best.
What made FPR easier to tinker with was because it was so easy to emulate and memory card programs allowed quick access to whatever you wanted. I can load up the game and have two memory cards full of 500 wrestlers after a Google search. You need something nearly as simple for this, if not in "bulk" but for individual wrestlers.
Brian_FETO
Banned
What would be genius is if the Early Access release had fans creating all of the rosters, then when the game launches you can just download them on PS4
It will obviously be the case on PC. Will double dip regardless
It will obviously be the case on PC. Will double dip regardless
ChosenPredator
Banned
like you can download wrestling characters, new costumes, different types of mods? I don't know i just keep thinking of infinite possibilities I already know the game allows for so much but the chances of it adding so much more through mods can be interesting.
Their early access statement talks about getting the customisation right, so I'm going to assume that means sharing too. At least I hope so.
Apparently to screenshots a lot of the assets from FPR are in the same place.
This means if someone had the dedication, they can port over DesertPunk's or DJKM's saves from FPR to FPW.
For reference, that means rosters of WWE, TNA, ROH, NJPW, NOAH, AJPW, DG, CMLL, AAA, UFC, countless independent promotions, and even different fucking eras of wrestling.
You don't need mods for this.
That ability is intrinsic to the series. The series is particularly famous for its creation suite capabilities. It looks ugly as a 2D game, but has a depth to emulate all forms of wrestling.
