@ragethorn: They're adding more fighters. In fact, take look at the entrance music list, and verbalized names for your custom wrestler. It's clear that they are already laying the groundwork to include the NJPW wrestlers, and other AEW stars. I already created Toni Storm, where the announcers say her name, and she does the "Storm Zero" finisher. but you know what this game lacks that 2K23 has in spades? MICROTRANSACTIONS!!!! No spending REAL money to buy content you technically already paid for.

@YukoAsho: So, you haven't played the game. If you had, you'd know hat FTR is in the game. And yes, you're a WWE fanboy toxic troll, because you're quoting TV show ratings on a VIDEO GAME message board. The game is fun AF, with over the top action and violence (hmmm.. just like its brand license). Maybe you were once a WCW fan, but the WWE monopoly years messed you up good.

AEW Fight Forever is a blast from the past for fans of WWF No Mercy, WCW vs NWO World Tour, or even Def Jam Vendetta - all of which were developed by Yuke's. It is a polished, 2023 version of those games, and is an arcade game through and through. That said, it still has TONS of over the top content, such as 49 weapons, blood and gore galore, a completely interactive and destructible environment around the ring, hidden unlockable wrestlers in the story mode, NO VIRTUAL CURRENCY YOU PURCHASE WITH REAL MONEY (hello 2K?), and extra content that will allow you to create facsimiles of NJPW wrestlers and some missing AEW talent. And the Title Belts change hands if you beat the champions in SP Exhibition, so I already have all the real, current AEW champions with their actual belts (including a Toni Storm that I had to create myself).

The geeks giving this game a ZERO are either comparing it too much to WWE 2K23, which is a simulation of the TV shows, or they're just toxic WWE trolls (they're like the Snyder fans of wrestling). If you're reading reviews, then listen to the ones that rate this game higher, because they're more accurate in this case.

@Sepewrath: Yeah, Bucky, Hawkeye, and John Walker have all been Captain America... but those guys were all similar to Steve Rogers in one important way to "fans" who think the last election was stolen. Nothing pleases these types because they're offended that other people merely exist. There's no debating with that kind of "fan".

@rogerpenna: Thanks for sharing. I was wondering why he spelled it Latinx, instead of Latino or Latin. Don't listed to these triggered White beta males who can't stand that nobody is putting up with their entitled crap anymore.

Khee Hoon Chan spent 33hrs on an RPG and became exhausted? LOL. Now on to the "white man's burden" comment... Sorry, right-wingers it's spot on. This is an old story-telling trope that's as old as... well.. colonial imperialism itself. I disagree with Chan that the villains were a parody, because there are many real world examples of colonial cruelty that makes the game's villains tame by comparison. Google the term "Genocide of indigenous peoples", and you'll see that we live in the shadow of a world order built on the wanton extermination/decimation of a lot people. I sorely wish that was an opinion - but it's a historical reality that this game tries to use as a backdrop for its fantasy tale, and does a good job of it. Yeah, it would have been cool to have the option to play as a native character. But I also like the idea of playing a colonizer that decides to rise above the colonial interests of his own people. In this way, HE redeems the character of his own people by showing that they're all not cruel, fanatical, genocidal imperial a--holes. Maybe in the sequel we'll get the freedom to choose characters from different factions.

@uninspiredcup: Deep Space 9 did what Star Trek has done since its creation, use alien species to display the failed and failing aspects of our modern/contemporary society. You've demonstrated that you know that - so why the smokescreen? Deep Space 9, especially, took swipes at the fan backlash of their day, which was very much focused on Avery Brooks as the lead character, and the idea of him as lead character, with episodes like "Far Beyond The Stars". They also pushed the envelope of LGBTQ portrayals in TV, using aliens in episodes like "Rejoined".

The difference between then and now is that today there is the internet, where we've enshrined so much of the right-wing fan hate that it will be impossible (in 20 years from now) to use our rose colored glasses to remember how "well written and ground breaking" Star Trek Discovery actually was back in the 2010's.

Did you know that there are many people who - today - believe that Star Trek Discovery, while uneven, had a much better Season 1 than TNG, DS9, and any of its predecessors? Ditto on Season 2? Well, I believe you'll agree in about 20 years from now, when you hail Sonequa Green's portrayal of Michael Burnam as a mold-shattering revelation.

Regarding the fan hate on Kate Mulgrew as well, you either weren't there, or developed a sense of amnesia. She was called a Kathryn Hepburn ripoff, a "Mary Sue", and an unnecessary nod to feminism. Sound familiar? I just love how people forget the inconvenient past, so they can give themselves license to relive it in the present - only to do it AGAIN in the future.

Thank goodness for all those YouTube videos bemoaning the SJW agenda and political correctness - though their creators (in 20 years) will likely be embarrassed they ever made them.

@uninspiredcup: With all due respect, it's always easy to call the OTHER guy's era a bunch of nazis or fascists, and claim moral superiority over our grand-parents. But when faced with the truth that we are no better than our grandparents, that is a hard pill to swallow.

Star Trek was always a fantasy about a Utopian future where humankind lives to achieve the pinnacle of our own potential. A future where we've solved the problem of scarcity and buried the fictional construct of money and wealth. In this future, there is no concept of intra-human prejudice, which would seem absurd in a universe where humans are but 1 of a myriad of alien species.

So yes, it's ironic when some contemporary fans moan saying "this isn't my Star Trek" when Discovery dares to make women and people of color main characters in the show. It's the same grief that some 90's fans gave to Avery Brooks and Kate Mulgrew.

Anyhow, Star Trek Picard is off to a gloriously awesome start. This episode was written by a Pulitzer prize winning writer, for God's sake. I highly doubt any of you could have written it better.