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Help Im Alive posted:It also works as a way to keep the online community going for more than a week by constantly trickling in new content A bunch of people ITT who don't understand how to keep an online game alive wouldn't understand this. If you put in all maps at once people would only pick the three more popular, ignore all the rest, and the game would die faster for it. The developers are doing the smart approach.
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Regy Rusty posted:I'm buying Splatoon for single player
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MinibarMatchman posted:game looks great but if there is seriously no loving invite feature for friends and only 5 maps then I'm waiting a few months. I expect that poo poo from other companies and their half-assed releases but not nintendo. You don't expect Nintendo to half rear end multiplayer features? Really?
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I think I don't really like online multiplayer.
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there's 60 missions for me and my amiibo to explore and that sounds good 2 me
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Golden Goat posted:There is some single player stuff but really not enough to warrant buying it only for that. There is actually
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I also noticed they're giving a discount on the eShop Splatoon if you downloaded the demo. Guess I'll buy the download version then. Also, Splatoon skin for your gamepad. Guess they listened the "just a boring black wii u" whining.
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Team cat. Is that fat motherfucking judge cat's name "Jud" or "Chud"? I like Chud more. Also, way to host the demo almost exclusively over Mother's Day weekend, you dinguses. Some of us have mothers!
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I think they dropped the ball by not having a bit of active demo time now. They've got everyone paying attention from the Direct and have been told a demo's available immediately but it's no good for a while.Bland posted:You don't expect Nintendo to half rear end multiplayer features? Really? Why should we? Their online multiplayer has been really great with the WiiU.
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What sounds good to me, is defeating foes online with a big paint roller, and ink bombs.
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I'm going to roll with the roller.
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It kinda also feels like Nintendo is slowly unlocking stuff because they think their fans have never played a shooter game before.
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SeANMcBAY posted:It kinda also feels like Nintendo is slowly unlocking stuff because they think their fans have never played a shooter game before. I'm not ashamed to admit that Metroid Prime was the first FPS I ever owned.
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SeANMcBAY posted:It kinda also feels like Nintendo is slowly unlocking stuff because they think their fans have never played a shooter game before. I think you'll find it's more that they've never made a shooter before.
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You guys are really stressing over the "five maps" thing. It's not that big a deal. This is typical of team deathmatch-style games. Eventually only one or two maps become the favorites for competitive play, like 2fort on TF2 or de_dust on Counter Strike. If the gameplay is deep and multi-faceted you don't really need a lot of maps.
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mabels big day posted:I'm not ashamed to admit that Metroid Prime was the first FPS I ever owned. Timesplitters 2
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Liking the hats. Just wish they didn't try to make the Mii's look like the squids
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Cabbagepots posted:You guys are really stressing over the "five maps" thing. It's not that big a deal. >2fort >competititve
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elf help book posted:It seems purposeful, like they are trying to make sure it stays alive and interesting for more than a week. There is a procession of events to keep people in, even if they have to stretch their features thin over time to do it. I think they are purposefully framing their content updates as "post-launch support" because they couldn't afford to delay the game and couldn't finish it in time. I expected they might pull that with voice chat but not, like, playing with friends. Even some of those post-launch weapons like the brush are things they showed off months ago that people assumed were finished long ago. I kinda wonder if they weren't pressured to add more single-player content at some point and it cut into their schedule for the multiplayer stuff, too. In that case, they probably made the right call.
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Cabbagepots posted:You guys are really stressing over the "five maps" thing. It's not that big a deal. Final destination.
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What's their interest in keeping people coming back to the game over a longer period of time? If they're playing the long game, there's gotta be some way of monetizing it, either through DLC or some sort of other eshop tie-in. The optimist in me says that they're going to be using it as a way to carefully analyze player data so as to balance the game as new elements are introduced. The pessimist says that they just couldn't get it all together in time for release. The super-pessimist says that there will be some pay-to-unlock features in the future.
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ChaosArgate posted:Not anymore! You can now navigate the eShop with any controller as of an update from a few months ago! Huh, the guy on the phone said I wouldn't be able to use the eShop, maybe he just meant text entry for payment which wouldn't be an issue downloading a free demo.
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Golden Goat posted:Final destination. Hey, they also play on Battlefield and Smashville as well 
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This is the saddest news to come out of the whole direct. Inkling had so much moveset potential 
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I think nintendo's biggest challenge with this game will be dealing with the 8-year old / 30-year-old player divide. Once you play a few games I'm sure the ranking system will do its job, but those first few matches are going to really damage the self-esteem of the actual children playing.
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Waterfall of Salt posted:This is the saddest news to come out of the whole direct. Inkling had so much moveset potential Don't worry, all that potential can be found in Mii Gunner. For example, there is the iconic, "shoot a gun" move.
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Waterfall of Salt posted:This is the saddest news to come out of the whole direct. Inkling had so much moveset potential So did like hundreds of other characters people wanted for smash. Join the club
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K.Rool has priority.
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Nintendo has updated their software sales data from last year http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/software/wiiu.html These are the changes for those curious. Surprised to see some older Wii games still selling Wii U Mario Kart 8 - 5.11 M New Super Mario Bros. U - 4.81 M (up 650,000) NIntendo Land - 4.68 M (Up 1,590,000) Super Mario 3D World - 4.1 M (Up 1,930,000) Super Smash Bros for Wii U - 3.65 M New Super Luigi U - 2.25 M (Up 490,000) Wii Party U - 1.55 M (Up 200,000) Wind Waker - 1.52 M (Up 300,000) 3DS Pokemon X/Pokemon Y - 13.85 M (Up 1,590,000) Mario Kart 7 - 11.70 M (Up 2,800,000) Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire - 9.94 M New Super Mario Bros 2 - 9.16M (Up 1,340,000) Animal Crossing New Leaf - 8.94 M (Up 1.280,000) Super Smash Bros 3DS - 6.75 M Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon - 4.48 M (Up 500,000) Tomodachi Life -4.15 M (Up 2,300,000) Note: Japan release in FY2013, US in FY2014) Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D - 3.70 M (Up 350,000) Wii: Wii Spots - 82.69 M (Up 150,000) Mario Kart Wii - 36.38 M (Up 850,000) Wii Sports Resort - 32.80 M (Up 220,000) New Super Mario Bros Wii - 29.32 M (Up 670,000) Wii Play - 28.02 (No Change) Wii Fit - 22.67 M (No Change) Wii Fit Plus - 21.11 M (Up 80,000) Super Smash Bros Brawl - 12.77 M (Up 550,000) Super Mario Galaxy - 12.5 M (Up 280,000) DS New Super Mario Bros - 30.79 M - (40,000) Mario Kart DS - 23.59 M (Up 30,000) Everything else had no change
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Kurtofan posted:K.Rool has priority. Yeah, he's the first in line to go in the trash. Cabbagepots fucked around with this message at 16:06 on May 7, 2015 |
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I really wish I could put the costumes the miis get on the regular characters. I don't like the miis. But I would like a squid hat on Kirby
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Not a Children posted:The optimist in me says that they're going to be using it as a way to carefully analyze player data so as to balance the game as new elements are introduced. The pessimist says that they just couldn't get it all together in time for release. The super-pessimist says that there will be some pay-to-unlock features in the future. This is exactly what I'm thinking.
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Polo-Rican posted:I think nintendo's biggest challenge with this game will be dealing with the 8-year old / 30-year-old player divide. Once you play a few games I'm sure the ranking system will do its job, but those first few matches are going to really damage the self-esteem of the actual children playing. I read that article Edge did on Splatoon and basically Nintendo saw that a bumbling 8-year old could contribute to the team, since you win games painting the arena rather than fragging your opponents. So that's something to keep in mind.
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Astro7x posted:Surprised to see some older Wii games still selling Those titles are all still sitting on store shelves everywhere, in Australia at least. At full retail price, no less  .
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Post-launch support isn't just about keeping people on the hook so they can monetise them, it's about maintaining a playerbase and/or keeping people from dumping/flipping their games the moment they think they've seen all the "content".
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Post-launch support isn't just about keeping people on the hook so they can monetise them, it's about maintaining a playerbase and/or keeping people from dumping/flipping their games the moment they think they've seen all the "content". Plus it's a full-price retail game and not a free-2-play relying on freemium content to stay alive. They've front-loaded enough income (if it does well) to float on free updates for ages.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:My big takeaway from that video: they're launching with five maps, the gently caress. I might be remembering wrong but TF2 launched with something like that.
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:I might be remembering wrong but TF2 launched with something like that. I actually checked out of curiosity and it was six maps; 2Fort, Granary, Well, Dustbowl, Gravel Pit and Hydro.
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