Lol, do you even know what the game's about? This is not a typical shooter
Yeah, that kind of snark is going to make people take your points seriously.
Seriously, let's go over this.
Splatoon is:
- a 3rd person shooter where you win by painting the majority of the stage in your team's color ink
- The only multiplayer mode announced thus far requires at least some sort of coordination in order to actually win
- There is no in game chat announced yet (which, if MK8 was any indication, means there won't be any)
- You do not score by landing kills, even though there are weapons specifically designed for landing kills (there's a bloody sniper rifle for christ's sake)
- The loot loop for the game centers around gaining points and money which you can use for cosmetics and weapons for your character, but it focuses on playing the same game type again and again which, again, success of which really has little to do with the player vs player demographic.
- So what Splatoon boils down to, essentially, is everyone running around randomly in the stage painting wherever they may see the opponents color as it sounds like it will be impossible to actually tell people "go left up the wall, there's a purple hallway; I'll go straight up and use paint grenades to open up a jump point so we can spawn closer to their base."
So what are we doing here?
Gentleman, I have been on the Splatoon Hype Train from day one, and this new info has me WORRIED.
I mean, seriously, are people in this thread ACTUALLY making the argument that because the world is multilingual, we shouldn't have voice chat because it would be confusing? Do you realize how insane that sounds?
It sounds like anyone who has the slightest bit of coordination is simply going to dominate. And that's not even worrying about dropped players, connection issues, people using motion controls vs sticks...
This is troubling news indeed.