WWE 2K14

xviperx wrote:I've been stuck in today doing work and as a reward I let myself play a bit of WWE 13 and all I could focus on at times was it's main fault (for me anyway). The fault I'm on about is the Universe Mode, while it has some cool ideas I just feel like older games did this sort of things much better and it got me thinking what I'd want in the game instead of U.M and this is what I came up with:

Career Mode

Much like the older season/career modes you pick one superstar to take to the top, to facilitate this there would be no voice acting but I've never really cared about that anyway and I imagine if a story/career mode was good enough most people wouldn't either.

At the start of every month you would be given the choice of 3/4 different story lines (depending on how big your star was) for your superstar to do, the choices you make regarding story lines would shape how your star is perceived and what sort of opportunities he is offered. Each storyline you have to choose between would be given a few ratings that would effect your Superstar.

these ratings would be:

1.Popularity: This would effect how the fans react to you, a story with a minus rating would be a heel action and a plus would be a face action...the bigger the rating either way would be more face or heel. When playing as a face star you could take heel story lines but it would begin to change their appeal. Taking too many heel actions for a face star would trigger a heel turn, achievements for heel turns at bigger main events could be given (Mania/Summerslam?)...the same for heel stars doing face actions. When heel you would unlock abilities such as dirty pins, calling for interferences and other dirty tactics, when face you would get abilities such as comebacks and other things.

2.Push: This rating would effect how far up the rankings your superstar will go if successful with the storyline, all story lines would give you a positive push but some would give you more than others. Story lines with a bigger push would normally feature harder/higher risk matches to make you earn the push. They would also have a greater risk...

3.Risk: This rating would tell you how dangerous the storyline is, if a storyline involves basic matches then it will have a lower risk rating but if it has a lot of high risk matches and you get put in the red a few times in a row then you may suffer an injury...depending on how big your star was you can select a comeback storyline that could give you a massive push (ala Cena at Royal Rumble a few years back).

I think this would be cool because most of the games make you play as the good guy but sometimes playing as the bad guy would be so much fun.
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Career mode could also utilise stories made on the Community Creations, taking the top rated story lines, adding a popularity/risk/push rating and then having them as choices added in (knowing today's industry these would come as DLC) this would basically mean a never ending career mode.

For people playing as custom superstars you would have the choice of starting in NXT to build up an initial push or even as the tutorial mode, this could be a way of unlocking a couple of the NXT main roster (even if it is just 5 or 6 of them), the NXT belts and the arena...it's also a way of introducing NXT stars to people who might not watch NXT giving them a reason too.
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Other things I'd add:
*NXT Roster members
*Less Legends...while playing as Stone Cold/Brett Hart is cool, did we really need two Rocks, two Undertakers, two Chris Jericho's, two Christian's, two Edges, two John Cena's, two Triple H's, two Mark Henry's and all three Mick Foleys (when Mankind/Cactus Jack and Dude Love could have easily been added as extra costumes). A lot of the Attitude Era stars are cool when playing Attitude Era but feel pointless when playing normal one on one.
*Seamless falls count anywhere matches like in WWE Shut Your Mouth, letting you go backstage or even outside of the arena.
*An actual create a belt mode again
*Create a submission added to Create A Finisher