Splatoon 10 year anniversary.

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From the official Japanese Twitter account, machine translation below

Have you heard of the mysterious squid that can transform into a human form that was released in May 2015?We are the "Squid Research Institute," which conducts independent research into their ecology. Although we have achieved many accomplishments over the past decade, we intend to continue researching squids in the future. I look forward to working with you again. And thank you.
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Looks like they're teasing a new game IMO, one which will settle the age old question of which is better, Motion or Mouse controls.

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Splatoon is my main multiplayer game but I finally had to admit I was a bit soured on part 3. I think each game has probably decreased in quality about 0.5 points. Part 3 has a much worse system for grinding to buy weapons, the campaign didn't really advance past the previous 2, and the stages are all worse. They're not nearly as creative as the ones in part 1 with unique layouts and choke points. Nearly every stage feels open and wide. Also the OST in part 3 is by far the worst of the 3.

I'm looking to see if they truly do advance the formula at least a little bit this time. Probably put in over 1500 hours with all 3 games combined over the last 10 years.
 
Punished Miku said:
Splatoon is my main multiplayer game but I finally had to admit I was a bit soured on part 3. I think each game has probably decreased in quality about 0.5 points. Part 3 has a much worse system for grinding to buy weapons, the campaign didn't really advance past the previous 2, and the stages are all worse. They're not nearly as creative as the ones in part 1 with unique layouts and choke points. Nearly every stage feels open and wide. Also the OST in part 3 is by far the worst of the 3.

I'm looking to see if they truly do advance the formula at least a little bit this time. Probably put in over 1500 hours with all 3 games combined over the last 10 years.
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The Octo Expansion DLC campaign in Splatoon 2 was a hard act to follow, but I think they did very well with Side Order. This may come across as hate speech, but I prefer Side Order over Returnal. Fun gameplay loop and a cute lighthearted story.
 
Where is my Splatoon 1 HD for Switch 1 or Switch 2 Nintendo? & both Zelda games so I can finally toss my WiiU!!
 
Splatoon 4 is my most anticipated game for Switch 2. With the extra power I'm expecting good things from the Splatoon Dev team.
 
Splatoon I feel needs to reinvent itself or just become a F2P GAAS thing, that they continually update and add content to, etc. I know it's not the Nintendo style but it's their franchise that would really benefit from it the most, I'm not sure I'd be at all interested in a Splatoon 4 that's just basically the same game again, with a new campaign and maps and a couple new guns.
 
Punished Miku said:
Splatoon is my main multiplayer game but I finally had to admit I was a bit soured on part 3. I think each game has probably decreased in quality about 0.5 points. Part 3 has a much worse system for grinding to buy weapons, the campaign didn't really advance past the previous 2, and the stages are all worse. They're not nearly as creative as the ones in part 1 with unique layouts and choke points. Nearly every stage feels open and wide. Also the OST in part 3 is by far the worst of the 3.
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I have to agree with all of your points here but especially the one about the stages. The maps in 3 are horrible compared to 1 or 2. They made them all narrow and basically turned them into the same two or three lane designs to ensure there was always a sweatfest. Every time they'd bring back maps from the first two games, they were truncated versions that weren't anywhere near as good.

Map design in 3 really took away a lot of the strategy in the gameplay, especially in ranked modes. I burned out on the multiplayer side a lot faster with 3 than I did with 2, but the persistent availability of Salmon Run kept me playing.

Making Salmon Run a permanently available mode was probably the single best feature of Splatoon 3. The lockers were a novel idea but after a week I never even looked at them. Felt like a big waste of development resources making a bunch of ornaments and stickers for them.

Edit: The Splatoon 1 disk is the only thing I have left from the Wii U days. I guess you could count the original inkling boy amiibo too.
 
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Nydius said:
I have to agree with all of your points here but especially the one about the stages. The maps in 3 are horrible compared to 1 or 2. They made them all narrow and basically turned them into the same two or three lane designs to ensure there was always a sweatfest. Every time they'd bring back maps from the first two games, they were truncated versions that weren't anywhere near as good.

Map design in 3 really took away a lot of the strategy in the gameplay, especially in ranked modes. I burned out on the multiplayer side a lot faster with 3 than I did with 2, but the persistent availability of Salmon Run kept me playing.

Making Salmon Run a permanently available mode was probably the single best feature of Splatoon 3. The lockers were a novel idea but after a week I never even looked at them. Felt like a big waste of development resources making a bunch of ornaments and stickers for them.

Edit: The Splatoon 1 disk is the only thing I have left from the Wii U days. I guess you could count the original inkling boy amiibo too.
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Yeah, Salmon Run is amazing and also my favorite mode at this point. But I do play them all. Totally agree.
 
I hung up my online MP gloves shortly after Halo 2 released. Since 2004, only two games have managed to coax me out of retirement:

Destiny 1

Splatoon

I bought Splatoon 3 at launch and to this day it's still sitting unopened in my backlog stack. I want to promise myself I'll finally open it this weekend, but I've heard that one before.
 
I'm not a big multiplayer fan. But I played the shit out of Splatoon 1 on Wii U, palyed a ton of hours. It was a lot of fun, but never played 2 or 3. Splatoon 1 is still the goat!
 
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I'm not sure I'd be at all interested in a Splatoon 4 that's just basically the same game again, with a new campaign and maps and a couple new guns.
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I'm in the same boat with you. Splatoon 3 is probably the last one I'll bother with unless they massively tweak the formula. The worst of it is they don't really even add "new" guns at the launch of each new game, they just take the most popular ones of each class and put them in new loadouts. If they follow the same formula for 4 as they did with 3, it will launch with the same old weapons they've had since 1/2, one of the newer brushes, and one of the Super Scopes.

After grinding to unlock all these same weapons three times over, I'm not really interested in doing it a fourth time.

Edit: Obligatory art post.
Can't remember the artist, I found this on deviantart ages ago:

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I remember poking fun at the original only to think it was brilliant

Got 2&3 at launch but haven't yet gone through the campaigns
 
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This is a decent game for a decent handheld. But I'm no longer going to pay Nintendo the online service fee. Switch 2 will be single player or local co op.
 
I was there for that first online test. Came in expecting disappointment. I left with a big smile on my face, and that music burned into my soul.
I never played it much between 1 and 2; online multiplayer isn't my jam and I really have to force myself to play every day to keep up. And I never played long enough to really get good.
Still, I had a lot of fun with it. And I maintain that it's among the most innovative games in the last decade. It's pure Nintendo, from the totally unique designs, to the music you wouldn't expect but can't forget, to the addictive gameplay that's easy to pick up but has an incredibly high skill ceiling.
 
Thinking about that Splatoon 1 for WiiU I still have unboxed because I got bored of it only watching it on youtube...
 
Super fun game(s), both multiplayer and singleplayer. Can't wait for the Switch 2 entry, I hope they change things up a bit more compared to 3 though.

Mouse mode is going to be interesting as an option for sure.
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Only played base 2. Its a fun game but they need to put a lot more production value. City hub should be bigger, have more stuff happening. Campaing should happen in actual place and have cinematics, story and set pieces instead of abstract-ish floating videogame levels, They should also launch with more maps.

Multiplayer is really good fun but they need to work on gamemodes and having different objectives. That seems to be a very common MP game issue, though.

I'm surpised Nintendo hasn't done a spin of this series, characters are really popular and they could really go places with that crazy lore.
 
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