New & Improved Move Renaming Guide (WIP)

"Falcon Arrow Crush" is not a a Falcon Arrow, nor does it Crush. Thoughts?

Am I the only one who thinks of it as a Sitout Gourdbuster?

I changed it to exactly that, except I use "Sit-Out".

Anyway, I wanted to run down some of the changes I made. This is by memory and referencing the general move list, so probably missing a lot but I figured it's good to just throw the ideas out there.

PS I went back to Elbow Stamp and you guys made a good argument for that lol.

A lot of these are me "Americanizing" the phrases, but I feel like I have a hybrid approach of conventional wrestling terms and Japanese-specific ones. Using Wikipedia as my source. I'll always use Brainbuster instead of Vertical Suplex, but ones that don't make as much sense to me, like "Swan Dive", are changed. I'm basically going for what Kevin Kelly would call on a NJPW show.

- All instances of Solebutt changed to Sole Butt.
- Removed hyphen from Back-Spin Kick.
- All instances of Kneel Kick changed to Spinning Heel Kick.
- All instances of Flying Kneel Kick changed to Flying Spinning Heel Kick.
- All instances of Screw High Kick changed to Spinning High Kick.
- Big Wheel Kick changed to Big Spinning Heel Kick.
- All instances of Two-Step Kick changed to Pump Kick.
- Flying Bock Attack in running changed to Crossbody Block.
- Flying Bodyscissor Attack changed to Thesz Press.
- Headscissors Whip changed to Headscissors Takedown.
- Flying Rollup Pin changed to Flying Roll-Up.
- Shoulder Throw changed to Back Body Drop.
- Cyclone Whip changed to Arm Drag.
- Spaceman moves changed to "No-Hand Springboard". Might change this to "Step-Up".
- Bodyslam changed to Body Slam.
- Armbreaker changed to Arm Wrench.
- Thumbing to the Eyes changed to Eye Poke (the animation doesn't even use the thumb).
- Arm Whip changed to Over-the-Shoulder Arm Drag.
- Flying Mare changed to Snapmare.
- Short-Range Lariat changed to Short-Arm Lariat.
- Neck Throw Headlock changed to Headlock Takedown.
- Snap Suplex and Kamisori-Style Snap Suplex changed to Snap Brainbuster and Snap Brainbuster B.
- Gorilla Press Slam changed to Gorilla Press Drop.
- Striking Press Slam changed to Gorilla Press Slam.
- Latch Lock changed to Double Overhook Lock.
- Front Suplex changed to Belly-to-Belly Suplex. Front Suplex Whip changed to Release Belly-to-Belly Suplex.
- All suplex "Whips" changed to just be "Release" X Suplex.
- Think I changed Belly to Belly to Belly-to-Belly Suplex B, but I have to check.
- Double Wrist Arm Sault changed to Double Wrist Armsault.
- Latch Suplex changed to Double Overhook Suplex.
- Side Suplex changed to Gutwrench Suplex.
- Side Backdrop changed to Saito Suplex.
- Not sure about the Neckbreakers in Medium. Think I changed neckbreaker drop to Swinging Neckbreaker, Swing Neckbreaker Drop to Swinging Neckbreaker B, and Shoulder Neckbreaker Drop to Shoulder Neckbreaker.
- Pendulum Backbreaker changed to Backbreaker.
- Schmidt-Style Backbreaker changed to Rib Breaker.
- Reverse Tombstone changed to Kneeling Piledriver.
- Stomach Crusher changed to Gutbuster.

Going to start using > instead of "changed to" so I can type less lol.

For all the strong grapple strike moves that had it, changed Combo to Combination.
W High Kick > High Kick Combination B.
Extrusion High Kick > Force High Kick, to match the Force Straight Punch.
Scissors Sleeper > Rear Naked Choke
Arm Octopus Hold >Lifting Hammerlock. Arm Octopus Hold made no sense to me.
Victor Cross Kneebreaker > Victory Roll Cross Kneelock. I changed all cases of Kneebreaker to Kneelock.
Victory Roll Pinfall > Victory Roll.
Small Package Hold > Inside Cradle (this is just preference)
Delayed Long Brainbuster > Long Delayed Brainbuster
Vertical Brainbuster > Vertical Drop Brainbuster
Delayed Vertical Brainbuster > Vertical Drop Brainbuster B
High Jump Face Buster > Sit-Out Facebuster
Legsweep Face Buster > Reverse Russian Legsweep


I did a few more but want to check in game to see what other changes I made.

EDIT - thinking some more and I don't necessarily like using "B" as I do like the idea of keeping that for moves that are either stunned variations or face up/face down variations of the move. But some moves are so identical I have a hard time coming up with an alternative name.

I've decided to change every move to HURTY

Double Wrist Armsault sounds good to me. Just seems a bit boring, but if it is, it is.

Trapping Suplex sounds good. That was the same setup Al Snow used for his "Trapping Headbutts."

That's what confused me. I thought you were saying you changed the Russian Legsweep to Reverse. Reverse for Double J's makes way more sense.

I think I confused you guys. The moves in the game are Russian Legsweep, which is fine and I kept, and then I changed the Legsweep Facebuster to Reverse Russian Legsweep.

I've been having a lot of issues with my game, and spending a lot of time just keeping everything working.  I refuse to give up mods, so I'm staying 1.02.  I'm a lifelong console gamer, so this is pretty much the only pc game I've ever put any time in to.  All that said, I'm not going to be breaking any speed records on this bad boy.  I don't know how much time craziej has to put into it either.

BUT, my wife normally works from home and next week she has to go into the office for 2 days.  I plan on eating ramen noodles and working on this spreadsheet.  

I'm a sad, sad individual.

Just in case anyone is interested, here are the original move names for the ones the NJPW DLC changed (and yes I've added them to the spreadsheet)
Running:
V-Trigger > Two-Step Knee Kick

Diving onto Post:
High Fly Flow > Arched Diving Body Press
High Fly Attack > Arched Diving Body Attack
MX > Dive Double Knee Chin Crusher

Front Grapple:
Time Bomb > Spinning Backflip Driver
Shoten-Kai > Wheel Spine Buster
Destino > Hanging Reverse DDT
Michinoku Driver II > Turning Driver
Michinoku Driver II B > Turning Driver B

Back Grapple:
Rainmaker Style V-Trigger > Turning Two-Step Knee Kick
PK > Running Middle Kick
Skull End > Scissors Dragon Sleeper
Michinoku Driver β > Reverse Turning Driver
Tiger Suplex 2004 > Leg Lift Tiger Driver

Opp. Down - Up Near Head:
Nagata Lock > Appeal Modified Figure 4

Opp. Down - Down, Near Head:
Nagata Lock II > Arm-Hold Face Lock
Nagata Lock III > Arm Lock Cobra Twist


....and no, I have no life.