Splatoon Hype Thread. Hype = 7 GS: 8/10 HYPE EXCEEDED

LOL wrong right off the bat.

It's a multiplayer game where you shoot paint on the landscape. Shooting other players even has the added effect of covering the area in your color when they explode. Killing the enemy is not your primary goal in splatoon.

YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS GAME. Move along. Go play whatever it is you play.

Don't get cute with semantics, it isn't like it will be in your best interest to ignore the competition and not go for kills, especially when the bold is a fucking benefit to the player. You have a gun, you shoot things, it's a shooter.

Some of the excuses you people will dig deep to make for Nintendo.

If you only shoot other players you will lose. You have to splatter the arena in your color to win. That is the game. It's a shooter but not in the same way COD is a shooter.

Splatoon is its own thing. That's like asking Smash Bros. to become a one on one fighting game with character who are full sized like mortal kombat.

You are arguing bullshit that I am not arguing. I did not say it is CoD, I did not say it has to appeal to people who play CoD.

But it is a shooter. It is a multiplayer game. It is an online multiplayer game to boot. We now have in the 21st century, in 2015, the ability to communicate with our teammates in video games, and this game is missing them. Likewise games like this when they release light on content and features, tend to get dropped fairly quickly because they is an abundance of multiplayer games for starters, and because the truly best MP games tend to get played for years on end: hence the admiration for games like Street Fighter, Melee, Starcraft, Dota, Counterstrike, etc.

And it is a fact that this game is missing basic, common features and launching with less content than the average shooter. Which this game is, at the end of the day a shooter. A "unique" one sure, you can throw the adjective unique in front of shooter, bottom line it's a shooter, and it's missing shit and launching with less shit than it should. Not a difficult concept, not a matter of opinion, a fact. A cold hard truth.

At first reveal and early features like unlocking/buying character customization, 9/10 D1P

Now, $60 and basically early access, 3/10. It's not a complete bust because it's at least something for Wii U, that system is in major drought.

BTW while LoL lacks voice chat, it has full team and global text chat, as well as map pinging so it doesn't matter.

It will probably fall in my opinion, games like ssb or mario kart will always be high price, but a game like captain toad does not have the same ability to stay at a high price. I've seen toad for $30 already and I predict a similar outcome for splatoon due to the lack of features

It really would help the game to have voice chat, it would turn the game into something much more than it is now. The decision doesnt even make sense, if they are worried about people online couldnt hey just use the parental controls...

Not sure on the score for this one tbh. All I know is that whenever a thread gets into voice chat territory it sort of pisses me off a bit. Yeah it should have it... but stop it already. I guess I'm biased since this looks good to me, but man I've seen the argument from both sides and they all end up in this neverending loop of weirdness.

Now the early access stuff is pretty true, but there is a caveat. I would say that it does start lower on content than I would have liked on first inspection which is practically the definition of early access, but we don't know how often this will update coming towards August. It could end up being full pretty quickly... at least to me.

@lord_magikarp:

Voice chat really wouldn't change the game. Have you played it? If you did then you'd realize that the map fixes all need for voice chat. You see exactly everything that is happening in the map in real time. You know exactly where you need to go, who to back up and where the enemy is. Plus that, the respawning is so fast that even if you call out something that happened to you, you'll be back in the action before anybody can really do anything. All this will do is end some peoples complaints about one subject, and they will move onto the next thing to complain about.

I have played and believe that voice chat would have offered a more in depth experience, if you had a strategy for each map. With the proposed ranked mode, it would make the game better. The voice chat lack is fine for casual play.

I disagree. Faster respawns, tactical overhead map and jump to location pretty much fixes all of the problems with voice chat, and without the need for voice chat.

This HYPE thread is all kinds of f*cked up. The title represents the OPs opinion of HYPE instead of the masses?

I can't tell what's going on other than after playing the beta/demo it seems to be an effort to downplay and packpeddle Splatoons actual HYPE score? An effort to avoid a flop or what? I just wanted to know what people's HYPE was for the new IP and I still don't know...is it even a legit HYPE thread?

Splatoon Hype Thread. Hype = _ (what people voted for).

Everyone getting TW3, a 10/10 game. WiiU is getting this garbage instead. Hope there's no one with WiiU alone in their gaming room...

I guess the silver lining of this "hype" thread is that the game will likely meet if not exceed most peoples' expectations once the review scores start pouring in.

I disagree with your disagreement :P

@SolidTy: The hype in the thread title is the collated hype. The 'I played it and...' Part is OP's opinion, but the hype represented is what the game was hyped at the last time it was collated.

@charizard1605: Collated hype?

I don't have a lot of time but I ran through page one and their didn't seem to be a HYPE counter with names...but I saw a votes with:

8/10,

AA (8),

8,

6,

8,

7,

6

8,

A (7),

8,

6 (then you changed to 7/10 on page two),

7

7

6

7

8

B

8

AAA (9)

AAA (9)

8

6-7 not sure

AAAA (10)

8

6

AA (8)

B (6)

9

6-7 not sure

just on page one...then the beta released on page two and it's a lot of discussion and possible HYPE deflation? It's just confusing especially looking at the majority of posts before the beta much higher than "6" which I speedily posted above.

Who collated the HYPE? Was that an assumption or was there a discussion or committee that ensured it collated properly? Like I said, this thread is all kinds of wack from a typical HYPE thread. I did see a post by pikachudude talking about counting, but he never posted the results from what I can see.

@SolidTy: As I recall, pikachudude said he would do it. I admit to not having actually verified it myself, but yes, that definitely does not align with the topic title.

Hmmm. I might just do it myself tonight, just so that we have something to compare it to when the game reviews go live.

@charizard1605: It's all good, it just seemed peculiar. :P

Plus, I really came in this thread to see how the game was faring in SW and I couldn't easily ascertain the HYPE situation. It's a new IP and I'm always a little giddy when we gamers get a new IP.

This game is going to kick The Witcher 3's bare butt.

I'll be enjoying both games. Calling it garbage seems like a hell of a leap, but then I remember you calling Super Mario Galaxy 2 trash as well. That puts things in a clearer perspective.

if i called smg1 or 2 trash i was high. Splatoon on the other hand just screams The Conduit to me and that was the top three biggest Nintendo fails of previous generation (with Red Steel 1 etc)

@silversix_: Ubisoft and High Voltage made those.

I wouldn't bother responding. The dude is probably high again.

This is a lazy hype thread :/

We need votes counted.

Uh Oh, I'll remember to never take silversix's opinion seriously then. Probably the best game of last gen.

please stop making excuses for nintendo still being in the dark ages. It doesint matter if I have a overhead map communicating is important and also enhances the experience. Im pretty sure if nintendo took out sound and color you would come up with some illogical defense for them.

What? They did make a setting for color blindness. Believe it or not Nintendo wants gaming for all.

The lack of a common function shows the opposite. It just shows they are behind the times when it comes to online and are for some reason afraid of interacting with other people.

Thats where you're wrong. Lack of common function puts everyone on equal footing and helps to ensure fair play. It also keeps the fun for all aesthetic.

The cringe...

Current Hype = 7.

@SolidTy@charizard1605 Sorry guys. Because of...Life, I'm not always available to do stuff online.

Char, if need be, feel free to edit my threads in any way necessary. That goes for other mods too. =)

@silversix_: Red Steel 2 > Conduit

6, its gonna fail.

It's not nearly as cut and dry as that. The information over the last year about the game has changed many peoples view significantly. I was hyped for this after last years e3. We aren't getting the game we thought we were though. Feel free to try and twist this as sheep under hyping something though. Everyone can see the truth.

hahahahaha

@93BlackHawk93:

It hurts...

I always thought this game had the vibe of an indie game.

If this were an e-shop game for $9.99 or $19.99 I think it would measure up nicely, but i had a suspicion it was going to be another game Nintendo went "cheap" with and still brought to retail with a full MSRP anyway - despite it lacking all the features that most full retail games usually have (kind of like their party games have been lately).

wowow calm down now with the best of last gen. Best on wii (not like much came out on that system compared to the others) but saying that its better than all the amazing multiplats and exclusives like TLOU, Demons Souls etc is just riding the Mario train.

Cooking Mama=The Conduit so of course...

True, but Red Steel 2 still wasn't exactly a great game.

@locopatho: i agree, it wasnt great but good enough to have fun on. Better than CoD and Halo anyways.

yes but that isn't saying much

better than cod? i dunno, they're both bad. better than Halo? No and im not even into Halo nowdays. Any halo (even the crappy ODST) offered way more than shitty RS2.

Nah, it was more original but not as good. Defintely more worthy of hype than the Conduit though. That game getting such a "movement" behind it will forever leave me confused.

@silversix_: Sheep didnt care for RS2, Shame really. They hypedddddd "The Conduit"

XD

But I actually DO like Cooking Mama...lol

Had this game been exclusive to the Xbox or the PS4 it would probably get a review score of 3 for all the features that it lacks. But for some reason since this is a Nintendo exclusive it's ok to overlook everything that isn't up to standard. That is some BS, I don't understand how Nintendo can pull this crap and everybody's supposed to be just fine with it. I never want to hear a sheep ever complain about a PS4 or Xbone exclusive again because I have never seen a game launch with so little that Splatoon is offering.