I'm pretty sure Nintendo's gonna keep up stock of the Splatoon Amiibos. It took a good long while compared to the rest for the Splatoon Amiibos to sell out. Not to mention that they're not even on Amazon, yet.
Splatoon Global Testfire Demo Schedule and Info Thread (https://youtu.be/l4UFQWKjy_I)
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Bomber Bob
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Omega Kirby
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4pm est? Great just when my local league football match starts -_-
mediapulp_wes
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Had a blast with it earlier, connection was mostly good. Did get a few laggy moments where my paint wasn't appearing until fractionally after I painted, but really enjoyed it. I'd played and enjoyed it a while back at a Nintendo event in London, but had much more fun with it today. The paint roller is so much fun. My son (8yo) really dug it too.
The basic gameplay in Splatoon is not unlike to other shooters. There are people with over a decade of experience in that.
The game resumes were you left last everytime you went to wait for another match.
Waving around? lol. what the hell are you doing?
The only thing that really throws me off is that with gyro on, the left analog ONLY controls X-Axis. I really wish there was a way to have full right-stick X-axis and Y-axis aiming on WITH gyro on as well. That's how it was setup in OOT3D and MM3D. That way I could use analog for my primary aiming and gyro for fine-tuning.
Actually this is the biggest disappointment for me so far. I wonder what the thinking behind it was.
Hibiki Kurosawa
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I haven't been so excitedly addicted to a competitive multiplayer game since I got into Gears in March of 2009.
What is wrong with the easy way out? Easy is easy. There is no lies there, if they just don´t feel like dealing with it, then why deal with it? It works for me, if its a deal breaker for someone that is fine too, but a feature is something decided by the developer. I am not saying that its a "right" choice, I am just saying its their choice to make.
Jaded Alyx
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I,uh, only got to level 2.
In my defence, I did find matches quite quickly, and more than once I got killed immediately on returning from a match. And I didn't realise, at first, that you could squish mid-jump.
No, it is 3 - 4 pm est
Because it goes against hundreds or thousands of hours of muscle memory associated with traditional controls. Besides, the range of motion is Splatoon is a lot more limited than an FPS. I don't see the motion controls offering any sort of significant advantage or disadvantage.
This is not true. I'm proof. I don't play any multiplier shooters at all on consoles anymore because the chats are disgusting. Muting people is very, very immersion breaking and needs to happen every other match. Turing the sound off ruins the game. Further more I like to play non M rated games before my kids go to bed. And that doesn't even include the plus that they can play this game too. Not that my wife could handle hearing the COD chat either.
Also, people that play games very competitive hate the other people that mute them. Maybe the only real answer is to divide the entire user base into two groups even at the competitive level. (the problem is people will cheat with phones, Skype etc.)
So, the only answer is private servers or servers with vote-kick, but even then it takes several disturbing outbursts before people finally get rid of the filth. This is why I now stick to PC shooters 95% of the time.
Honestly, I agree that people on a friend's list should be able to voice chat though. I don't buy the bandwidth argument either btw.
Also, you made the argument about the competition not having issues with this... Really? Even non-gamers at work joke about the sick, twisted realities of COD chat.
I am hoping Splatoon ends up being a breath of fresh air in the arena shooter genre.
Christberg
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The no voice chat thing is because they expect a bunch of little kids to play, who likely won't understand that you can just turn it off or have parents that are older and don't bother with/don't understand parental controls. Not much to explain, really. I'm not defending the position but I understand it.
I played last night. Sadly I didn't enjoy the game as much as I thought I would. I was drunk though, that surely didn't help. Learning new games drunk doesn't work for me. I'm gonna give it another go today and get a real sense of how much I like it. As of now I would probably pass, which sucks since there isn't anything else coming to the console for a long ass time. Hopefully another go changes my opinion.
spindashing
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Although I could live without being called a nigger by a seven year old white kid that I will never meet face to face, I would love to have voice chat available with friends only at least.
Wondering if the custom friend matches in the August update might allow chat between people? Kind of makes sense if people want to discuss what rules/map to play.
I'm actually surprised in MK8 tournaments (like the neogaf one) they don't allow people to chat. We need a code to play it...and it's not as if whoever setup the room couldn't turn it off/on.
Remember the feeling of the first time you held the hand of a person you really liked?
That good.
Nintendo had voice chat for Pokémon Diamond and Pearl but not this?
Yeah, this seems lazy on Nintendo's part. I don't understand not having chat for friends. Maybe all Reggie and Iawata's friends are crazy and scream the whole time they are playing?
prag16
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Yeah, there's definitely a bit of a learning curve, but the movements necessary are very subtle, especially if you crank up the sensitivity just a bit. Definitely don't need to take it off your lap. I was playing with a pillow on my lap to make it slightly easier. I almost always do that anyway to put the gamepad screen a little closer to my eyes.
Yeah, it was weird at first but then I realized it's based around keeping it in the lap position.
Still more than Splatoon apparently
I read half this thread. By my count there were like 8 people who will pass on this game. Just as many were ambivalent. The majority is enthusiastic about it.
Premature but I still think they will eat crow.
spindashing
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Yeah, they've had voice chat for the Pokémon games for quite some time... There's even voice chat for MK8 in friend lobbies as well as Smash with friends.
I'm not sure why that isn't implemented here in the same manner at least. I mean, there is nothing stopping us from using Skype, but still...
I honestly think this is the kind of game who will sell in word-of-mouth a lot. Once you can make your own friend squads its going to explode, I think.
Refreshment.01
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So you did finally come about? It is not that bad now XD
i don't know if you remember how many times we discussed this in the past.
Actually any neutral position you want since you can play Y to adjust it on the fly.
donkey show
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Ended up preordering the squid amiibo version with the squid boy + girl amiibo combo. >.<
Exactly. The 'warrior' (not even console warrior) mentality has been getting worse in game specific threads cause people feel the need to defend any form of criticism and opinions.
And then some people just come in to say hyperbolic crap. Really hurts the discussion in threads.
EndlessSky
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So I ended up sleeping through the last playtime. Did anyone confirm that we could close and reopen the demo before time is up, and then stay in the tutorial mode forever past the playtime? I know someone mentioned that someone else was doing that before, but a more solid confirmation would be nice.
But most of the "high skill" stuff involves stuffs like the super jump,squid form or aiming the sniper up and stuffs that are almost the oposite of what most shooters are
I don't think anyone has left you in their dust before launch. The true experimentations start once we have the full game.
The official word is that this will be the last one. Let's hope they'll sneak in a few sessions before the launch though.
I think it should be an option with everyone muted as the default
Thank you. Everyone please think about this every time you post. I've made some very critical posts lately about Splatoon but it's only because it's my most anticipated game of the year. If I see something I think is poorly conceived I'll call it out. Maybe it will cause change for the better.
spindashing
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That would have been a good way to go about it too.
That's true and good to hear! Game is awesome so far.
Yeah hope it mantains their online population like MK8 and Smash does. Especially MK8 that even after one year it was released has plenty of people there. I play it almost everyday and there's always people there
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