Nerd³'s Hell... WWE 2K Battlegrounds

[@chatcast5833]

That rapid roster was more rapid than roster

[@kazmark_gl8652]

Part of me knew when he said "Patreon, I wonder if I'll ever repeat one of these?" the next video would have the exact same into, but it still surprised me when it happened.

[@W0lfguard1997]

I didn't expect it on the very next one. After 2 weeks I'd have liked it a bit more XD

[@tigamaki1345]

I’m calling a third in a while

[@Kranitoko]

I realised it right away 😂

[@ToonedMinecraft]

I forgot the last one he did, but hearing it here, I immediately expected him to do this on the very next video. I just hadn't realised this WAS this next video. I might be with NerdCubed for a bit too long...

[@Shevlander]

“It would take 1,707 matches.” Music: _IT’S ALL ABOUT PAIN, AND IF YOU CAN TAKE IT!_

[@babel_]

For perspective, the roster of WWE wrestlers who have actually been part of that many matches in real life is EXTREMELY limited: Kane (1769 matches) and Cesaro (1751). Yep. That's pretty much it. Not even The Big Show (1642) or Chris Jericho (1567) have breached the 1700 mark. Oh. By the by, that's just appearances. Winning that many matches? Don't make me laugh.

[@DuckDTD]

At 10:55 is was trying so hard not to laugh. " 680,000 to unlock..." Triple H " TIME TO PLAY THE GAME!!!"

[@atlashugged2591]

Honestly though, and I'm not defending the concept (and I certainly won't be buying this mobile store reject), seeing how much bluebux he earned from leveling up and how much you get from daily challenges and whatever that battle pass thing was...the grind in this game looks far easier than most other games with similar systems. Even 1,707 matches isn't that bad when compared to a lot of other games on the market, ones more popular than this crap.

[@zcritten]

@@atlashugged2591 Yeah, but does this game's grind look remotely fun?

[@cosmicdoodles2992]

@@zcritten for me it is, but i wouldnt say its ideal either

[@Peanut_Bullter]

Anyone else notice in the microtransaction section, the prices are crossed out, and what's the sale price? THE SAME DAMN THING. WELL DONE DEVELOPERS!

[@grahamrich9956]

That is also known as illegal.

[@Arkandos42]

@@grahamrich9956 Only illegal if you are poor. Otherwise its a fine, the cost of doing business.

[@grahamrich9956]

Lord Bones fair.

[@dswabey]

@@CARILYNF yeah... It's illegal to offer one price as a sale price from an original price that has never happened.

[@Arkandos42]

@@CARILYNF You say that like companies care about the law. Breaking the law is in their agenda as long as it stays profitable. If you make 10 million dollars, and you have to pay a 1 million dollar fine, then its still profitable to do.

[@officialtibby]

Yay he did the repeat joke :)

[@jonsmith2832]

I fucking knew he would.

[@jonathanjune4879]

I was going to like your comment, but there are currently 420 likes and I cannot bring myself to ruin that.

[@Thundertron5]

@@jonathanjune4879 welll you can do it now!

[@trevorWilkinson]

Developer: We have characters, costumes, skills, skins, customisations etc etc. Which one shall we put on the micro transaction shop? 2k: ALL OF THEM

[@TheYuvimon]

Was it intended for me, to hear the "ALL OF THEM" in Garry Oldmans "EVERYONE" voice?

[@aldynnic]

and Dan said he doesn't do horror games..

[@KirbyMario12345_939]

I like when he did that one game where he drove a car to escape a couple of shadow creatures, and I forgot what it was called.

[@seantaggart7382]

@@KirbyMario12345_939 Beware And they were grus

[@aldynnic]

Agent Paradox beware

[@EllDudeRocks]

Aldynnic did he really say that? How come? Doesn’t like being scared? Finds them boring?

[@vincentvandijk8181]

If anyone's wondering. 683000 of the blue coins is the equivalent of 17075 of the gold coins since it's divided by 40. 17075 golden coins can be converted to actual money since you can buy the golden coins in the store in the game. You would have to buy 2 packs of 6500 golden coins worth 49.99 dollars each and 1 pack of 4100 golden coins worth 34.99 dollars which would make it about 135 dollars or 105 pounds to just unlock all the superstars and their outfits.

[@PrinceLeviathan]

Hell indeed

[@yaboi2500]

Honestly, considering how bad microtransactions can get, that’s not too bad. Thank god it isn’t lootboxes.

[@Daniel-nn8mr]

It's fuckin ridiculous.

[@gnaskar]

£102.45 to unlock all characters, though because you need buy money in packs, you'll actually have to pay more than that. A hundred quid is just the absolute minimum.

[@CrumpsGaming]

Have you got the game? how much would it be to unlock everything do you know?

[@thegame100ify]

Funny thing is I’ve been playing the game and almost unlocked everything without spending a single extra pound on it. You gotta play King Of The Battleground it gives you a lot more currency

[@TheEclipto21]

This game makes me want to time travel to 2004 and tell THQ how they die so they have a chance to stop it and stop this game and 2K20 from ever existing

[@al112v4]

I miss All Stars.

[@RRaZoreDD]

EA: Our Microtransactions doesn't seem so bad now

[@nope-qi8zx]

Shut up, EA! *kicks EA in the dick*

[@MrDylanm842]

Yeah fifa is pay to win but atleast it's not an awful grind if you don't want to spend money

[@TXFDA]

Hell, 2K's other microtransactions don't even seem as bad compared to THIS game.

[@josephhelgersonjoseph6115]

This is literally just a mobile game but released on consoles.

[@slaughterround643]

people called me paranoid for saying this would happen back when overwatch came out :(

[@seagullsoars]

but not on mobile lol

[@nope-qi8zx]

Have you seen most of the games on the switch nowadays? Literally mobile games EVERYWHERE. It makes me very sad.

[@Foxfire_forty-nine]

@@nope-qi8zx or maybe mobile games have evolved into a low-tier console product. We have come a long way from Flappy Bird and Fruit Ninja.

[@nope-qi8zx]

@@Foxfire_forty-nine yes, evolved into a low tier console product with no other purpose than parting a fool from his money... Mobile games invented and introduced a lot of the predatory practices in play right now. I urge you to remember that.

[@enduringtea7576]

Dan missed where you could buy currency 1:57 for a set price, which was crossed off, so it actually costs the new price underneath, which was the exact same price!

[@brad9721]

Time to play the game playing as Dan tells us how many matches it takes to unlock everything seems really fitting

[@DreamTeamWrestling]

Hey man mind checking us out ? We're a small channel with Wrestling and WWE 2K BATTLEGROUNDS content ! No problem if not, It's all good !-!.

[@ryanhanley3663]

At least its not WWE 2K's PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Actually...

[@MrSkerpentine]

A battle Royale with a good wrestling engine ala the backstage fights in Here Comes the Pain would be great

[@grantzolldan]

20:08

[@baronvonbunghole5999]

Hearing the words "Rapid Roster Rundown" during these troubling times brings tears of joy to my eyes

[@minscandboo9749]

Wait... you paid money for this game and you don’t even get all the characters...

[@SpindlyJohnny]

Welcome to the video game industry, this happens alot.

[@wayla683]

That's kind of the definition of unlockables and I hope explaining to you how good those can be for a game are isn't necessary.

[@tortoiseoflegends4466]

@@wayla683 unlockables can be good. Having to either pay £100+ to unlock all the characters, or grind shallow gameplay for hours isn't.

[@wayla683]

@@tortoiseoflegends4466 Then the issue isn't the unlockables themselves, but rather, the game.

[@slaughterround643]

capitalism owns, dude... /s

[@RileyTheLongboarder]

Filippo the bread man reference is so obscure and I love it.

[@thepastamasta1383]

Y’know what they say.. Spend 2k to play 2k

[@minnie3434]

I'm glad to see this come back, especially with the changes. It's one thing to review games you know are bad, but I love the idea of just deciding if games deserve a spot in hell by playing it.

[@sanchises]

17:00 Is this a post-covid crowd or did they just not bother to add more people?

[@fpcooper95]

🤣🤣🤣 save the sprites!

[@eternalwintress]

14:19 is that pay-to-win mechanics in a paid game

[@bt1234567892010]

yes

[@OriginalPiMan]

Welcome to modern gaming.

[@EmperorPylades]

Welcome to 2K sports games in particular

[@OriginalPiMan]

@@EmperorPylades Most of the big publishers do it. Many even in single player games; it's kinda depressing.

[@MandrakeFernflower]

Spend 2K to play 2K

[@jadnee]

Dang WWE 2k hasn’t been doing very well in NerdCubeds eyes recently Still love the RAPIDDD ROSTERRRR RUNDOWNNNN Edit:nvm apparently half of the roster is locked off this games shite

[@ignorepls]

Hasn't been doin well generally recently, look at wwe 2k20 for instance, this is a glorified goddamn phone game with the horrendous microtransactions to boot, seriously

[@mynameisj9139]

The bit at the end feels like one of those post-credit scenes, teasing Dan's descent into complete and utter insanity. Well, the next descent, anyway

[@matthewcoggon9730]

i genuinely wasn't expecting the miz to look more like filipo than filipo, but its an entirely welcome suprise!

[@roguevashda]

Wait, am I blind, or do those microtransaction prices have the normal price in strikethrough, THEN THE EXACT SAME PRICE UNDER IT?

[@silverschannel8578]

Dan buy some more lego with the Patreon money... instead of doing this to yourself

[@cdvideodump]

But I love watching him suffer...

He should get the Marion Lego and stare into the abyss of Mario's black soulless eyes.

[@silverschannel8578]

@ he said in a Patreon podcast that he's bought the Mario sets (as well as the technic Lamborghini), hopefully they show up in the toys channel soon

[@NirateGoel]

2K, our name is how much you have to pay to enjoy our games.

[@jacksonpavlich8198]

Ooooof well done

[@NyxDiscordia33]

9:18 This moment in particular kinda shows me the lack of any kind of passion or creativity. The hitbox of the special animation just kinda slides you out of the way and the guy falls on the ground. It would be so fucking easy to make something cool like if you trigger certain special moves near the ropes they actually get sent OVER the ropes and out of the ring, but nope. Press button do thing.

[@cptjosip]

my expectations were low but fucks sake

[@deadinside8891]

I used to watch dan years ago and to now come back to both a Hell video and the old intro makes me so happy.

[@F0X_H0UND]

4:48 The damned soul sent to hell in the form of this game momentarily regains control of his body and attempts to kill himself to be free of this eternal tortue. Fails.

[@sXeAndriex]

Ah, the classic Electrified Money Cage Deathmatch as pioneered by Atsushi Onita

[@CD-zf5hf]

Wait all the prices that were slashed to be "cheaper" were the same as the original prices WHAT 😳

[@benl5481]

13:08 That's exactly what I was thinking right before you said it! Glad my Doctor Who rewatch is coming in handy now...

[@maxwell_edison]

You know what I'd like to see NerdCubed do with this type of microtransaction game? Open it. See the microtransactions. Close it. *Refund It.* On video. You know what they say - all publicity is good publicity. It's not worth it, Dan. You're already a force of good. *put your money where your mouth is.*

[@jamesramplin8124]

12:15 Christopher Eccleston

[@MagnitudeUK]

This is like LOTR dwarves set up a wrestling ring & decided to make dwarf versions of all the wrestlers.

[@darfosproducion]

2k can we get a All stars remake?. 2k: we have All stars at home... All stars at home:

[@kfgaming6869]

Their slogan should be: 2k That’s how much you need to spend to play it properly

[@otomotopia1]

1700 matches to unlock the characters.... And we're already paying $40 for this??

[@ANTONBLAKE-COX]

I wonder how much in microtransactions will unlock all the characters?

[@MrBloopBloop69]

ANTON BLAKE-COX $135

[@gferrol118]

1:57 hold on, they have the same price twice, but one is crossed out. Are they trying to make it look like they're on offer, but charge the exact same price?

[@KaiCheetah]

Yay we are back to NerdCubed Hell!

[@mrrandom96]

Something also worth noting. On the gold store the items look reduced with a crossed out price. However both are the same.

[@BriggsVanDault]

That opening gag was one of the longest wind ups to punchline ever

[@Bifocal_Burrito]

Whats really funny about the microtransaction store is how the “original prices” are already marked out and have a “sale price” listed below. Except they are the same price...they can’t even lie well anymore.

[@ArtyI]

Heh, funny repeat. I would have waited a while but still got a giggle

[@billiamafton6528]

Remember your Sonic 2006 playthrough, just finished that again.

[@Longlivethescore]

U have helped me so much in my life nerd thank you for the 6 years

[@Ciwe]

Did anyone notice the store prices are there twice but the top is crossed out like there's a deal going on even though the prices are exactly the same?

[@theswissmiss69]

Nerd³'s Hell, Nerd³'s Hell, Nerd³'s Hell!!!!

[@dontlaxk]

so many memories from nerdcubed playing gangbeasts

[@MrAnd3rsson]

Wow, that's a legendary amount of microtransactions... Holy shit.

[@bloodrunsclear]

The one piece of equipment every wrestler needs...a backpack (?)

[@jeevithrai7994]

They should have just released Immortals on PC and consoles.

[@DreamTeamWrestling]

Hey man mind checking us out ? We're a small channel with Wrestling and WWE 2K BATTLEGROUNDS content ! No problem if not, It's all good !-!.

[@bingbong9463]

I like how the micro transactions have discounts, Which is the same figure before the discount

[@Gooner333333333]

Dan's patreon introductions are the new Simpson's couch gags

[@hunlem]

So I decided to do some more math to find out how long it would take to unlock all characters and costumes. 1707 * 200 = 341400 Credits, per Dan I looked up a guide that says using his method you can get 12000+ / hour so we'll go with 12000 / hour. This also matches exactly with Dan's anecdote of a match taking a minute. 341400 Credits * (1 Hour / 12000 Credits) = 28.45 Hours. So it would take ~30 hours to just unlock all the characters.

[@a_motherbucking_sorcerer5079]

3:36 It is very, very unfortunate that the G in "RAGE" is being covered..

[@psychopurple]

2K will take one thing away from this video: "The best WWE videogame in years". Might even pop that quote on the storefront :)

[@AnomalousZoologist]

Honestly insulted that they used a song by The Stand for the background music XD They have REALLY fucked this, I never thought I'd see a Nerds Hell on a WWE game except maybe that mobile one but HERE WE ARE! Well done Dan, thank you for suffering through this absolute dumpster fire for us.

[@fenwicknolan2129]

I swear, the introduction just keep getting better

[@fenwicknolan2129]

I swear, the introduction just keep getting better

[@fiadhearthpony6177]

This was 2Ks chance to get good will back after WWE 2K20 sucked as bad as it did They have failed Unless 2K22 is a really fuckin good game I don't think they'll bounce back

[@BarbarianGod]

The pacing might work if they removed microtransactions and also reduced all the prices by like 10-100 times, so you could at least unlock one or two new characters each match or something, I wonder if you can mod this, or is it an always online thing?

[@PrinceLeviathan]

Unlock a character per 5 matches maybe

[@thatguy4550]

I love those two patron jokes in the last two videos. Smart 😂

[@gfr9109]

Wait, this costs 35 quid whilst it looks, smells, feels, and tastes like a shitty free mobile game? Jesus Christ.

[@djprojugs6606]

New NERD³ challenge: In WWE 2K Battlegrounds add up every single thing that you have to buy and then figure out how much real money you would have to spend. For your own sake (but mostly ours) you're allowed to make it a 10 second video where you just tell us the answer.

[@Formoka]

Roman Reigns is amazing Dan! He fought CANCER TWICE!!! He fights like an actual fighter, not an exaggerated actor. Roman Reigns is the victim of the damn Mcman’s mismanagement.

[@dragerien2]

One other thing, the premium currency is on a fake sale. It shows that it's on sale, with a scratched out "old price" but the "old price" is the same as the new price.....

[@dannydanggang1675]

Being good at King of the Battleground will get you a lot

[@jazzygeofferz]

Is it just me who thinks Bolo Reynolds is one of the "similar to, but legally distinct from" names they'd think of calling Mojo Rawley if he turned up in TNA?

[@theenigma2861]

Remember the good old days of WWE13?

[@ThatBaritoneGuitarGuy]

"Patreon, I wonder if I'll ever repeat one of these." (is a repeat) Well done on that joke!

[@trollpro30]

That menu music at the start Is part of my Spotify playlist

[@BlueJay14127]

I thought he was going to wait like an unrealistically long time before repeating it, like after a reboot or something

[@joshlegacy1101]

Hell: Sponsored by Patreon

[@dr.bright6272]

That first match played out like a mugging.

[@jackie0_0]

Sooooo happy to see hell come back

[@Guffy1990]

13:08 *BURN. WITH. ME*

[@gferrol118]

Knowing Dan, the next video will also have him say "I wonder if I'll ever repeat one of these"

[@sagecolvard9644]

Well, the last one did, and I don't know if he'd do it 3 in a row. Or maybe that's all he'll ever say with it from now on.

[@Horizon_highlife]

Yessss we finally got a 20 minute video

[@xamazingxethanx]

Microtransactions. It sounds a lot better than children's gambling

[@xXZombieHunter0802Xx]

I was waiting till he would use the repeat patreon intro again, and I was not disappointed.

[@jasondavid3969]

The characters are base on a hasbro range of wwe figures that's why the locked characters are in toy boxes😜

[@justanotherpiccplayer3511]

They fucked up the proportions so bad in an attempt to be chibi that they've hit the "uncanny valley" perfectly

[@ANTONBLAKE-COX]

Dan: these new WWE games suck AEW: don't worry Dan. We are on are way soon. With a decent video game.

[@patrykm9205]

1:57 Slashed prices same as non-slashed ones? 0% discount? Is that even legal? :P

[@robertwoods3871]

No, not even a little bit

[@spawnof200]

the last wwe game i played it was still called wwf

[@jameshutcheson5718]

Disappointed in myself that I didn't see that patreon joke coming from the last video

[@vaterbob]

Thank you Dan for playing these gamds so we dont have to. You should be the king of UK

[@bruceluiz]

Patreons watching their money going into this game must be feeling like Investors when the stocks crash. At least theres a new Dan video!

[@ONRealNO]

man i remember playing the 2006 smack down vs raw game on the psp and man that game puts this one to shame, it even looks better, ON THE PSP only gambling that game had was the texas holdem minigame which was way more fun than this shit

[@digital_oni]

I played that on my pc last night for nostalgia lmfao

[@octopus44445]

1:00 oh dear, they dragged Tim Minchin into this

[@dr.bright6272]

There is no mention of Bolo Reynolds other than in this game.

[@gferrol118]

Roman Reigns is everyone's favourite wrestler? No no, my favourite wrestler is Scipio Africanus!

[@Daniel-nn8mr]

And here's me thinking 2k learned their lesson from WWE 2k20. Sadly not.

[@swirls5000]

And we thought 2K20 was a cash grab...yeesh.

[@KirbyMario12345_939]

Seven scrappy rookies. “Scrap” is right to describe this.

[@Ghostington.VR.]

**HE SAID IT, HE SAID THE THING!!!!**

[@AlexAlex-sp7nb]

Well that's why it's a 2k game. You have to play 2k matches to get all the characters