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Post by TheDenizen on Aug 27, 2018 0:59:25 GMT
Had heard of the Fire Fro series as far back as 2000, but never got a chance to play it...until I heard about the impending US release of FPR for the PS2 in 2005. Picked that up on release date and also scored FPWW on PC on the early access release date. Fire Pro is love. Fire Pro is life. You need no other wrestling titles.
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Post by Shikou Nanaya on Aug 27, 2018 2:41:44 GMT
I don't have any cool stories like you guys do. I first heard about Fire Pro from some small section of EGM when they did their cover story about the GBA launch. Of course I didn't have a GBA, so I didn't care.
Then FPR came to America. Everyone on GameFaqs (the forum I usually frequent) was going on about how great it was, so I kept tabs on the game on the FPR board. Honestly, I was still so-so about it, but it came out the same time that Smackdown vs. Raw 2008 did, and since that game shit the bed pretty badly, I skipped that year for the first time since 2001. Then I just so happen to buy the game one day when I was at a Funcoland which sat outside a barren wasteland that used to be a very popular mall, and, while it took a few days for me to the hang of things, I ended up becoming a fan.
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Post by skull on May 5, 2024 19:52:56 GMT
HEY All
I have been a fire pro fan for wht seems like forever .
I really got into it in depth when the dreamcast came
out and I joined PW Shaft. I wasThe Skull andloved
being a part of the fed I even customized some figures
based on the wrestlers. Life changed and i got busier andbusier andlost touch. I have recently gotten back into fire pro world and saw someone named Ticktok ( or something) posted alot of the PWS wrestlers and i am in heaven.
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Post by snacks on May 10, 2024 18:24:52 GMT
I’d picked up Fire Pro Wrestling around the time the Game Boy Advance released, since FPA was a title launched at release or close enough to be one; it was my senior year in high school, I’d bought it with my first job money and was dogturd garbage at playing the game but liked messing around with the edit systems.
My family moved cross country a couple months after; and where we landed I wound up having a lot of free time and access to the internet that didn’t block GameFAQs - where I eventually wound up in a handful of e-feds (m-dwf/ccwa/NDP/PW-Wild) and worked along with the games from there: FPA2, FPR on the PlayStation 2 and trading edits via usb drives on the internet, and falling out of pro wrestling in totality after the Benoit stuff - it was already being out of it because WWE’s stuff wasn’t anything I wanted to watch and being busy with work and other stuff, I just chucked everything into the dumpster with that and called it a day.
With the pandemic, I wound up coming back into pro wrestling because of this NEW PROMOTION full of EXCITING NEW WRESTLERS! I excitedly turned on the TV Wednesday night and saw: Matt Hardy v Christian. And turned it off.
But, that was the kind of “hey remember pro wrestling. Remember having fun” spark that brought me around to FPWorld and I’ve been poking at the game off and on the past few years since.
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Post by comicstar100 on Jun 22, 2024 0:31:52 GMT
This would of been around 06/07. Very early youtube, I saw a video someone had put together showing off a bunch of edits for Fire Pro Wrestling Returns. Around this time I was creating several CAWs off guides online people made for Smackdown vs Raw on PS2. You couldn't just download other users creations, you still had to follow the guide and manually do it. Then I see this game people were downloading other people's edits automatically and just loading them off a USB. The idea of being able to have entire rosters of WWE, ECW, WCW at my fingertips within minutes was something I couldn't pass up. So I ordered Fire Pro Wrestling for PS2 off Ebay.
At first I didn't understand the grappling system. But thanks to a guide on gamefaqs I figured it out. I'd hoped the game would catch on with my friends like the AKI games, but sadly they just never got into it.
Time passed and mainline WWE games finally gave me what I wanted. The ability to download other user's wrestlers online. However the gameplay just wasnt there for me. I started to miss the days of my N64 AKI games and my time on the PS2 with Fire Pro Returns.
Then out of nowhere Fire Pro was back with a full PC release. You could now download people's creations online. With the solid gameplay I'd loved before. Once it was ported to the PS4 I bought it again, one of the only times I'd gotten a game on multiple platforms.
What I've always loved about the series is the freedom it gives the players to create whatever they want. Promotions, stables, wrestlers, arenas. It's all there for us to use. I'm not sure what the future holds for the series. But if it continues I'll be there.
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