Stone Cold Steve Austin is the Cover Athlete For WWE 2K16

[RayRay34]

Attitude era was over rated......? Ummmmm get WWE network and watch some of it. If the current WWE is going to keeping pushing lame *** stories like they are now and limiting their good technical wrestlers to doing safe moves then what is the PG era in your eyes? Probably the best thing ever right?? Attitude era over rated..... You can join my kiss my *** club.

[MUCHLUV69]

I wanted KO Kevin Owens on the cover!

I really really hope the crowd during the whole Cena matches yell.."LET'S GO CENA.....CENA SUCKS!!"

[King_B_Mack]

Guys kill me with the current roster stuff. The current roster sucks. Nobody is going to use Los Matadores. How many people are really looking at playing with R-Truth or Fandango or Acension?

All this "do what I want and **** everybody else" stuff kills me. I want to see a full current roster for the guys that want that stuff, but I want to see a big legend presence as well. No Mercy was a great game, but I want to play with all those guys from the past on these bad *** machines we have access to now. Only having coin operated arcade machines to have ever played with Owen Hart on or RAW on Sega Genesis? That was great for that time, but now that we have the proper tools to really enjoy those kind of guys bring them on please. I like this biggest roster ever stuff. Get the current guys and NXT guys represented, then get me my legends represented well with the big names of their eras and then give me 100-200 CAW slots so I can fill out a legend roster with the guys that don't make it if that's what I want to do, but **** all this only do one crap or make a separate game.

[Hooe]

Quote: Originally Posted by King_B_Mack

How many people are really looking at playing with R-Truth or Fandango [...]?

/me raises hand sheepishly

I get caught up in having random lower-card guys end up in sprawling and epic storylines in Universe because the CPU said so, and I'd rather this happen with modern guys than, say, King Kong Bundy. Heck, one of the first things I usually do is remove most of the legends from my Universe.

I agree with the overall sentiment of your point of "why not both?", I'm a little apprehensive about their ability to strike a balance however.

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

I'm curious, how many wrestlers would make up the current roster?

Going off the Wikipedia page, I count 67 active main roster Superstars and Divas. NXT has 36 active Superstars and Divas.

That's 103 right there. I doubt we get all of them, because you can probably list at least a dozen wrestlers who need to be in a Stone Cold showcase for it to be effective, then probably at least a dozen more usual suspects, then a handful of deeper cut / only-in-this-game guys.

[BDKiiing]

Quote: Originally Posted by RayRay34

Attitude era was over rated......? Ummmmm get WWE network and watch some of it. If the current WWE is going to keeping pushing lame *** stories like they are now and limiting their good technical wrestlers to doing safe moves then what is the PG era in your eyes? Probably the best thing ever right?? Attitude era over rated..... You can join my kiss my *** club.

You must not come around the wrestling boards much. I'm a day one network guy, I've seen the attitude era. But the ruthless aggression era was better. Today is meh. NXT is great though.

And no mercy had only current wrestlers. They should give us 200 CAW slots for legends.

In regards to the game, this isn't a legends game, this is a current day game. First priority should be full current roster.

[King_B_Mack]

Quote: Originally Posted by bdolski

You must not come around the wrestling boards much. I'm a day one network guy, I've seen the attitude era. But the ruthless aggression era was better. Today is meh. NXT is great though. And no mercy had only current wrestlers. They should give us 200 CAW slots for legends. In regards to the game, this isn't a legends game, this is a current day game. First priority should be full current roster.

That's because when No Mercy came out Vince was on bad terms with just about every notable legend in existence of the old WWF/they worked for WCW at the time. If they were in the kumbaya state that a large chunk of them are currently in with Vince and company, they'd have been all over that game too.

The first priority should be putting together a game that people want to play. Most of the roster is typically always in the game anyway outside of one or two major misses and that's typically because they don't come on WWE tv before the roster cutoff date.

[fredo5020]

Quote: Originally Posted by bdolski

I absolutely hate relying on the past. This is the 2016 edition not the 1996 edition. I would honestly be fine if there wasn't a single legend in the game, with Rock, Taker, and Austin being the exceptions. All the other old wrestlers I just never use. I want as complete of a current roster as possible, all the way down to the jobbers. I want as deep of an NXT roster as possible, as it's the best thing going in the western hemisphere. This year they had the perfect opportunity to utilize how white hot NXT is right now. Finn Balor just won the NXT championship, they could have capitalized on that. If I'm designing the cover, you go with a past, present, future theme. Have your Austin on there, but there's no excuse why Brock Lesnar is not on the cover, and Finn Balor should be as well. They should have had all three on there with Lesnar being front and center. But whatever, it's just a cover, give me a full roster and a fairly deep NXT roster and I'll be buying the game without second guessing. But I'll damn sure not touch those legends.

I'm pretty sure Finn Balor was spit in the ocean when this descion was made

[IowaAJ]

I wonder what the showcases will be, Probably Stone Cold vs the Rock or will they do Stone Cold vs Vince. Also I wonder what new age showcase they are thinking about?