new to cotg...what to expect..and other questions

[trent987]

hi peeps,i'm new to cotg and have been waiting a few days for the box to arrive always been a huge fan of wrestling simulation...and i'm just wondering if this game is as good as everyone says it is...i'm looking forward to playing and excited about running my own fed(by myself first of course...lol)i know there are alot of experienced users here and would just like to know what to expect...also can i create my own wrestlers and if so do the cards for that come seperate?thanks in advance....i got the original intro box by the way..i know people say to get the current ones...BUT i'm just starting out and wanted to give it a try

 

[Texas Kid]

First of all run the fed year by year. don't get to many editions at once, it tends to get overwhelming. Don't get to frustrated when the dice tend to derail your wanted angles. Just go with the flow. Becareful not to get to consumed with it as it is habit forming, not that it is a bad thing to get addicted to. The main problem is that at some point you will burn out for awhile and eventually comeback. Becareful with reboots, don't want to get to far behind or bogged down. Storylines are great in the booklets, but be creative once you get the hang of things. Same thing about making wrestlers. Those cards come separate by the way.Don't jump in and throw your wrestlers together. Get to know them, write their life story, their wants and needs and then put their hold sets together. 2087 is a good year to start to define your own history. Remember we are a family and not a group of gamers. No questions are dumb and most are already answered some where in the hallowed halls of the message board. Welcome aboard and I hope that some of my advice is helpful.

[trent987]

thanks so much for the response .Helped alot and i'm looking forward to delving in the hobby...excited also..!just one follow up...i would appreciate if you can tell me about the realism in this game from your perspective as a user and a player etc....the gameplay i mean...not so much the characters(which i know are created to be a larger than life in a sense)

[Texas Kid]

In my case, some of the matches, especially get mmmmmm, intense may not be the right word, but as you roll and you get to level 3, you can feel the wrestler on defense getting desperate. The match play is realistic. You get the squashes, the comebacks, and occational shockers. Most matches take you on a roller coaster ride and even after they hit their finisher their is that anticipation as the dice roll, just like you used to get back in the old days.

[TTX]

It's usually pretty good, although sometimes there are issues (rolling your finished 5 or 6 times or throwing a guy out of the ring the same amount of time) If I had one thing I could really change it would be for charts to come up much less (how many times do guys realistically throw guys into the buckle or throw a guy out of the ring nowadays?)

[trent987]

thanks guys...much appreciated..the order arrived today!and i'm sooo psyched and i haven't even opened it...i'm gonna have a tournament for the belts(not only to get the feel of the game)but so i have some ranking system with the wrestlers and of course looking forward to coming up with my own storylines etc...

[TTX]

Cool. Have fun with it.

[Crossbones]

Gladiators and Wolf rule! That is all

Enjoy!

[Mynnotaur]

So, a year later...how has your fed been?