Thursday, October 22, 2009

Smackdown vs Raw 2010 is here, tonight!

Yes, that's right, got my hot little hands on this thing. The nice surprise THQ sprung on me at the last minute is that when you download a CAW, they ship with the generic RAW entrance music, and you can't change it. Thanks. I'm beyond even getting mad about this now; You just gotta learn to accept that these guys can't do anything right without slathering on a bunch of ridiculous limitations.

Anyways, it's going to take a fair amount of playing around and creating charecters before I'm ready to debut anything. That being said, I'm going to be relying on you, the fans, for storyline ideas and matchs this year. This is a great system, for a few reasons. First is, as explained below (link), I'm not really comftorable writing a bunch of storylines with the storyline creator. Second, I'm a perfectionist and I'm endlessly second-guessing myself, so putting up polls for the fans to vote settles questions that would otherwise drive me nuts saves time and stress. Third, if it works out great, I get to take all the credit, and if it sucks, I can blame someone else. For right now, you can just leave your ideas as comments here or PM them to me on YouTube; I'm thinking of setting up a Yahoo group like M42, except that I can't think of a name for it (should've saved Ryona Kingdom for that instead of making it the name of this blog - damn it!). If you got an idea for that, drop it here too.

I will reveal that the first thing I'll want to do in 2010 is to set up the world title, specifically who has it, and probably start off with a title scramble. The sticky wicket here is that I'm not sure who's going to have the title from 2009 (haven't recorded the last match yet); Out of four possible people, I'm 100% certain two of them will be returning, but Candy Cane and Miss Nurse will both only be in 2010 if the create-a-wrestler parts for them are still in the game - and this isn't a gaurantee, given how much stuff gets removed each year! So if the champ from 2009 is gone in 2010, what am I gonna do? lol i duno. Maybe I'll say she died off-screen. We'll see.

That's pretty much it - I'll probably be updating with which wrestlers will be returning from 2009 to 2010 after playing with the creator for a while. Remember, if you want me to use a CAW you came up with, just give me the formula or put it up for download on Live; No promises, but if I like her, she'll show up in the storylines. And let's see some storyline ideas! Don't make me have to write them myself!

** Update **

Well, they removed the nurse outfit and hat, so it looks like Miss Nurse had to retire. (Uh, or change jobs). On the upside, there's a ridiculous fetish maid outfit which I think I'm going to use.
They also removed the pattern tool for clothes (WTF, seriously?) so American Heroine is out. Damn!

** Update 2 **

Thanks to M42 with the name assist, I've got my Yahoo group. Not much there yet, but you can join here if you want to get a jump start.

3 comments:

mandatoryusername42 said...

Maybe you could call it something like "Ryona Kingdom Royal Palace" or "Ryona Kingdom Inner Sanctum" ...something that builds on the original name. That's all I did when I came up with the Backlot; I view it as if I'm running my own little homebrew movie studio, and since all movie studios have a back lot where they keep all their sets and whatnot, it was a perfect fit.

Oh, and don't get me going on the patterns being gone; between that, the fact that women aren't allowed to have defined muscles AND that the boxing gloves are gone, I'm not a happy puppy. Oh, well...the MMA gloves they gave us instead are decent, and the amount of boxing-related moves we have this year is awesome...it's almost as if I have a fan over at Yukes.

BTW, I have a halfway decent narrative sense, so let me know if you want to bounce something off me. I might even be persuaded to share a Diva formula or two...I think Barbi could make quite an impression in the title picture.

-M42

Dexie said...

Nurse is gone? ;_____; Horrible.

Oh well. This gives you the chance to try and recreate Sgt. Clemets as a SvR character, right? :P

Ryona King said...

@Dex: Well, they do have her chaps. Honestly, I'm pretty terrible at re-creating anything in CAW, so, um, we'll see. If you see a good formula for her...

@M42: Done and done! You're a lifesaver. The gloves being gone I can live with (my boxer's been in a pro wrestling leauge for 2 years now, probably time for her to graduate to MMA gloves anyway), but the lack of muscles and the patterns gone is really grinding my gears. I can't give anybody the six pack they should have, and I tried to give miss Heroine a white singlet with red and blue stars, but guess what killed that? The FUCKING crotch blur. Goddamn.
Anyways, I'll definitly be abusing the privlige of bouncing ideas off you, once I get a few good ones. And gosh, I have to admit I'd love to have the formulas to some of your wrestlers - there's a whole fed of new jobbers over here for them to abuse...