I came to a recent realization burning the week's stress away by playing Fight Night Champion, yet again, one weekend.
One of the main reasons I started videoing fight outcomes was to show my Mother the digital version of my Dad I put into the game.
One of the reasons I started running fighters through the "Rocky Gauntlet" was to have a series of varied boxer types to test out and adjust boxers I downloaded, or made... including the peak stats middleweight I created to be Digital Dad.
Dad was the first fighter I was able to win against Ivan Drago with, who until that point was undefeated by huge margins of points and knockouts.
And yet, I had never recorded Dad's progress through the gauntlet, or even filmed his victories against the characters of this franchise.
To get a little variation, and more cinematic videos, this time I did not set up to record the "instant replay" the game makes accessible after the match (which I am terrible at controlling the speed and picking an angle for). Instead, I snatched up my phone after every knock down to ensure I recorded the end of each fight, with the far more impressive, "slow motion close up, including commentary in larger venues" replay that is built into the game play portion.
Naturally, after some normal performances when I reached this realization, on the following night when I was recording, much of the Artificial Rocky Film Cast performed far better than usual.
Either
A) They knew they were being filmed and upped their game
or
B) Because I'm still in a cast from Achilles Tendon surgery, I didn't have my usual video game night beverage with me, and there was some sort of Johnny Fever-esque reflex enhancement due to alcohol in my system the previous evenings I had played this game.
Either way- ON WITH THE FIGHTS
