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http://e3.nintendo.com/games/wiiu/splatoon/
When i first saw it i wasn't too hot on it because it looks like a Nickelodeon commercial, but the more i see, the better it looks! this will be a lot of fun. that ink hopping looks especially neatQuote:
Originally Posted by Nintendo Press release
It looks like Mario Sunshine Battle.
I'm not one for competitive multiplayer anything, but this looks fresh and interesting at the very least.
This is probably the best thing Nintendo showed.
It probably says a lot about my tastes in games that I'm much more hyped to play this, than those shiny new Battlefield/Call of Duty/Rainbow Six games. This looks like a lot of fun to me.
I would play this before just about any FPS that's been shown at E3.
I was going to make this thread if no one else did. I think it looks great and am looking forward to playing it too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finch
Same here, though FarCry4 is looking pretty exciting.Quote:
Originally Posted by magnifiedplaid
it's still a far cry from anything i'd ever want to waste time with
heh heh heh
Looks neat, but will anyone actually play it on the platform? That's what counts in a MP game after all.
This looks terrible in actual play:
You have to tilt the GamePad to aim, and you can't even tell who is winning until the round ends? Anyone wanting a cute 3PS should be playing Garden Warfare instead of looking at this.
Yes. If you need irrefutable proof of just how far Nintendo can get its head up its own ass, there you have it. They are THE company that knows how to make games feel good and comfortable, and yet someone there is convinced its worth it to make tilt camera controls because they can. They must know better in their hearts.
Anyway, I'm sure there will be better control options as well and they're just trying to showcase the Wii U 'innovations'.
I think the "not knowing who is winning thing" is obviously a design choice to create tension and anticipation for when the score is revealed. Think about how this reveal would go down if you were playing amongst and against friends, it would be pretty awesome.
The guy who was having trouble controlling it looked like a moron.
This game doesn't interest me.
In the video it looked blatantly obvious that you could look down at the coverage map and get a rough idea of whose winning, or if it's close.
Had no interest before, still don't. I'm glad Nintendo is trying new IP, but this is implemented poorly.
Because what competitive shooters have been missing up to this point is the need to look away from the main screen.
Pretty sure I remember E3 impressions that said you were able to switch to dual stick aiming, it just wasn't at all apparent to most players at the time.
No, you don't have to use the gyros to aim. If you watch the video, the two people on the right have that turned off. Also I believe the heavy weapons still aren't in the public versions of the game at this point, so gameplay should be more varied than it looks here.
Not going to criticize the effort because Nintendo needs to make something, but I doubt this will have a real MP community.
But all you need is a dedicated one, I guess.
:P Even if there haven't been several reports of the option to control other than motion control, every single recent Nintendo game having several ways to control should've been the hint. If you want a cute board that crawls up its own ass with cynicism enough to recommend EA play-to-win shit, go to TNL, i guess.
SEE YOU NEXT TIME I'M BORED ENOUGH TO FORGET HOW BORING TNL IS
I need(ed at one point, maybe they fixed this) to start NES Remix with the Gamepad and DKCR Wii required you to shake a god damn remote control to roll, so I'm not big on Nintendo's control options.
I think it looks neat. ;_;Quote:
Originally Posted by Finch
Just to clarify, I think this game looks really cool but gyro camera control is generally a bad idea and clunky, and Nintendo make the farthest things from clunky games so it's weird that they even bother pushing control schemes like this sometimes. But hey, that's nothing new and as I and a bunch of people already said, no one is going to be forced to use it so who really cares? Game looks wonderful and I hope they get the budget to go all-out with it and do even crazier stuff than we've been led to expect. <3 u NintendoQuote:
Originally Posted by Finch
PvZ isn't play-to-win at all. Great game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finch
"Squid versus Octopus. Nature’s epic battle of supremacy, turf, and the survival of each species begins." -Satoru Iwata, 2014
Looks good.
I hate how much I'm starting to want a Wii U. I don't need another console.
I can't believe you don't have a Wii U.
I want this game so hard.
Given that I typically don't like Nintendo-brand games, I think it quite makes sense!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzo
New trailer is awesome!
My interest in this game shot up. Single player doesn't just look like some tacked on shit.
I made the Wii U jump. I love it so far. Great for the family. When I want gaming just for me, its PC.
Splatoon looks great. Glad they are adding single player.
If Eric is enjoying the Wii U then you should step up and join the fun as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by shidoshi
*I just want your friend code.~
Eurogamer is impressed. This needs to steer clear of Battlefront for me to personally care about the multi though.
Battlefrontsmen need not apply.
Yusuke Amano explains why there's no voice chat in this online shooter
From the latest issue of Edge:
Aww, so someone made him cry and now no one gets to chat. LOL Nintendo.Quote:
Not that you’ll be able to hear any cussing yourself: Splatoon has no voice chat now, and it never will. You can blame the infamous toxicity of online players for that. “This is coming from personal experience,” Amano says. “When I played online games, I didn’t like the negativity I got and people telling me, ‘You’re crap. Go away.’ So we wanted to focus on the positive aspects of online gaming.”
Amano admits this approach means missing out on a feature that makes online play stand out for many players. “I don’t want you to misunderstand—I’m not denying having chat in an online game does contribute to fun. But, as we’ve said, we want to grab new people.
It's people like YOU
STUPID
DUMB IDIOT YOU DID IT YOU RUINED IT FOR EVERYONE
i'm mentally preparing myself for when this game sells like 100,000 copies and is never heard from again
and i'm going to hold you all responsible in my heart
Pretty optimistic with your zeroes arent you?
it'll start at 70,000 and go to 100,000
i hate SalesAge what are you doing to me
It'll end at 70k.
Nintendo is only making 70,001 copies.
lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Melf
I'm sure that people will defend this decision though...all the while using something else to circumvent it
There's precedence for this being a good thing, even though it's a team shooter not a 1v1 turn based game:Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
http://www.polygon.com/2014/4/18/562...-chat-Blizzard
When playing CoD, it kind of got old having a 10 year old tell me the ways they would fuck my mum.
Yup, will do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joust Williams
Set mute all as a default option. Set another option for friends only.
FUCK, NINTENDO!
Nintendo is pretty understanding of your grandparents' views on video games.
it's all y'alls fault because you can't stop cussing
Fuck you
Nintendo clearly has delusions of grandeur regarding this game. They can't even get the Amiibos to pre-sell out, but they're releasing a console bundle?
An amiibo sells out: Nintendo is so STUPID. They can't even meet demand. STUPID.
An amiibo does not sell out: Nintendo is so STUPID. They can't even get an amiibo to sell out. STUPID.
Amiibos: STUPID.
That is an awesomely colorful box.
#urmums #lolz #420blazeit
300 dollars for a WiiU in 2015? naw son
I'm not looking to pay $200 for one. Under that might be an automatic pickup, though.
I paid 300 for a Basic I think :(
I lose
The refurbs on Nintendo.com were sounding good last year, I just wasn't in a spot to get one.
This game looks kinda neat, on a Monday Night Combat kind of doofy shooter level.
where are you finding the Splatoon amiibos that aren't sold outQuote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
amazon japan sold out of the 3-pack and girl squid the day they went up and i haven't even seen them available anywhere else. Boy squid is still up, no one wants him. I haven't seen him in the US.
Maybe they finally did pre-sell out, but it took days, as opposed to minutes like seemingly all of the others.
edit: And I doubt it's because they made more of these, which ARBM's nonsense seemed to imply.
I think he doesn't care about amiibos, and was just making fun of you.
Don't forget almost of the others are manboy waifu nostalgia totems. Squid boy hasn't had time to become Rosebud for 35-year-old Lunchables eaters yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Expensive figures for characters nobody has any attachment to that can be used to unlock levels nobody has seen in a game nobody has played pre-sell out internationally in a matter days. This portends failure to you? Sounds like more than enough excitement to give a bundle a shot to me. At least as much as any Infamous grundlebundle.
We'll find out soon enough. It can't do any worse than that ugly ass Codename: STEAM or Fossil Fighters.
Neither of those did well at all. Fossil Fighters wasn't expected to, but STEAM did really poorly and they were trying to push that one.
I kind of expect Splatoon miibos to be easier to find though since it's a game they want to sell and not some obscure character they're grinding their teeth about releasing as they all sell out to people way older than the market they actually want to sell to.
also bundling it doesn't really indicate anything besides it's a game they want people to buy and they hope people will buy. They have millions of these things sitting in warehouses. This'll sit in Best Buy until they sell them all and there probably won't be all that many
but none of that is here or there because Splatoon isn't going to sell because it's a new property and a shooting game that isn't about men cussing and shooting people with bullets and people will find some strange delight as they yell "BOMBA" without reading every other post where everyone else was doing the same
BOMBA
lol
Damn, ARBM's ready for a fight today!
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
I just really want everyone to buy this game and play it forever everything sunny all the time always.
Codename STEAM is good :(
The gameplay of STEAM looks good but the visuals turn me off something fierce.
Yup, that's where I'm at. The game looks ugly as sin.
It looks quite good on screen.
I get that, I'm sure Xenoblade looks good on the screen too.
No it doesn't. The demo played fine but looked terrible. Screen size doesn't save art direction like it does technical issues.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Well I like the Art Deco styling and bold color. Different strokes I guess.
LOL at the "Demo". 1 hour a piece, 11pm, 7AM, and 3PM Eastern on a Friday night into Saturday?
I guess it's a stress test (although it is possible to do this without restricting yourself to a one hour window), but I will file this under the 'if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there, does it make a sound?' category
It could be 24x7, and it wouldn't matter to me, since I don't have any space to download it.
Did Mr. PC forget about storage space?
Nope. I just would rather spend money on just about anything than an external HDD for the Wii U.
Well well well. Sounds like you have to pay money to get better performance, how interesting.
even more reason to pay for a PC
except Splatoon isn't on PC
except no one will play Splatoon
and Cheebs thinks it looks like MIDI Maze anyway
If I could pay extra for better Wii U performance, I already would have. The fact that I can't is one of the reasons I can't get excited about paying for more storage. Another is the horrific VC support. Another is the fact that my digital games are NSMBU and DKC:TF, so I can already play the games I actually want to play, like Pikmin 3 and SM3DW.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
What's that? Games that aren't on the Pee Cee that aren't Konami? Oh my.
Do you believe in miracles? Yes!
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/05/...ng-post-launch
Five maps and a bunch of free DLC later on. This game doesn't sound finished. Has there ever been a case where an online multiplayer game had a poor launch and then rebounded? There's no way I'll pick it up at launch thanks to that paltry amount of content, and if there's a large group that behaves like me, it'll never get a significant multiplayer population - so why would anyone pick it up later on, even if Nintendo fleshes it out with DLC?
And why is Europe getting it quite a bit cheaper?
I hope the controls are customizable when it comes out, vert. Sensitivity was jacked too. The game is fun, but I don't see it at $60
Yeah, I definitely hope the controls get refined. Otherwise, though, I had a ton of fun. As with any TPS with a "gimmick", I'm worried about if it'll stay fun in the long run, but damn... the frustration of not having a Wii U of my own crops up again. I wish I didn't hate the system so much.
I'm glad we kicked you out of Line with your no Wii U having ass
You didn't kick me out, I left! You and your revisionist history.
I wonder if boshi hates wii u as much as i hate boshi
I played for a bit. I found it to be a lot of fun and I especially liked the paint roller.
That was a blast.
I didn't see it at first, but the control options are at the weapon/loadout selection screen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chux
I liked it, seems like it's balanced pretty well. When it's close it seems like your side always wins, I was thinking maybe Nintendo is sneaky and if it's close both sides see as if they win?
I'm gonna have the theme in my head forever.
Meow meow meow meow mow mow meoooooww meow meow meow mow mow meeeeeeeeeeowww etc.
Options, but you can't change anything, just sensitivity or motion.
It wouldn't surprise me. Microsoft has Achievements, Sony has Trophies, and Nintendo has Participation Trophies.Quote:
Originally Posted by AstroBlue
I went from hot for the game to ice cold when I saw that you only can control the game by tilting and using the tablet. I tried the demo this morning and felt a lil bit better about it. My daughter adapted quickly to it and loved it. So I guess I'm still on board for this.
Tilting worked fine. I never tried to change it, just got used to it. A little different but it works.
wait what?
You can't use the thumbsticks?
Yes you can.
Edit: But they're off. Like, Nintendo sabotaged it and said HEY FUCKER USE THE GAMEPAD.
Yeah, you can definitely change to using only the thumbsticks. They do feel off, but I'm hoping trying some of the tweaking helps.They aren't off enough that the game is unplayable, it just takes some time to get used to.