Would you like to try rephrasing that again?
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Splatoon | Review Thread
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Would you like to try rephrasing that again?
Baron von Loathsome
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The game will be "finished" in a few months' time. Then you can pay 100% for a game that's "100%" done.
Or you can wait for a deal anyway, whatever floats your boat.
you don't talk to enough 10 year olds
Empyrean Heaven
Member
Well, lower comparitively, going 7-9 instead of perfect 10.
Indeed, that made me happy! Just makes me sad to see that the kind of dismissive attitude my quote alluded to seems to be, in a lot of places, the norm rather than the exception.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
I think he was referring to "the non-gaming websites gave it high scores, but the non-gaming sites are going low."
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
Depressing stuff.
Cute article otherwise, though.
Really says something about some people that you hear 10 year-olds bring up the same "Nintendo is for kids" arguments they do.
no blood and cursing = not mature
funny how a 10-year-old's perception is strangely similar to many adult gamers as well
I'm wondering this too - looks like the last Wii U review on the site was for Kirby back in February. Not that there have been many (any?) Wii U games to review since then. Hopefully she renders judgement on Splatloon today so we can all definitively know whether or not this should be a day 1 purchase!
There's nothing odd about. Most people don't grow out of this mentality developed in Middle School/Junior High.
This behavior was observed with books and later on movies. Now it's videogames turn to experience the human condition.
I suspect it's been edited to make it a bit more readable and include some clarification (I don't think a 10 year old would naturally rattle off the phrase "Wii U motion controls", for instance!), but I'm happy to believe that the girl's intent is being represented accurately.
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
I have 5 daughters, from age 1 to 14 and it didn't sound off to me. Of course, it's possible that minor errors were fixed for publication (which isn't odd even for adult interviews).
You should quote the whole thing.
"Hmm. Interesting point. Theres no voice chat, and if there were Id have disabled it because I dont want you chatting with strangers online. But do you think being able to talk to other players using a headset would help you do better? Especially if they were your friends?
Yes. Because then I could make plans with my teammates, and that would help. But I can see why its not for everyone. When you go around the game plaza you can look at what people say in their Miiverse drawings. I saw one person say, Im happy theres no voice chat because if there were people would just tell me how much I suck. I can kind of understand that."
It looks like they both understand voice chat should be an option and not completely omitted, while understanding why someone wouldn't want it on.
But it's the same for every major Nintendo release. That line is nothing out of the ordinary.
That's not to say that the game won't be special or that most major Nintendo released aren't worthy of thirst. Nintendo world just always had those lines and it's nothing to read into.
I get tired of both sides of this silly argument. Playing mature games doesn't make you mature nor does liking games with no blood or cursing make you mature. The ratings only mean some content may not be suitable for certain age groups. I like to think of games like Eddie Murphy some people prefer R rated Eddie to family friendly Eddie or vice versa. I can appreciate stellar family friendly things like Shrek but lean towards the mature stuff.
I don't think splatoon would work as a mature game but I don't think it would hurt to include the standard options expected in today's online shooters.
Corronchilejano
Member
It is legitimate criticism. There were many ways to go around the issue, and Nintendo decided to go for the one where some adult players would have issues with.
Empyrean Heaven
Member
FUCK. This is me posting at 8 in the morning on 4 hours sleep.
I meant the non-gaming sites are giving it perfect scores, and the gaming sites are going low.
Should I have let a cut-off quote misrepresenting her statement slide, or are you only referring to jiggles?
I'm saying the people who posted the lower scores were having problems no one else was experiencing, like problems with the controls and or how the gameplay operated and they took off the game's score because of their own problem.
Corronchilejano
Member
8 isn't low.
MarkMclovin
Member
Low? Like 2's and 3's?
you see what you want to see I guess haha
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Uh huh. Sure.
I think he meant low in regards to the scores it has received. Since reviewers have generally given it between 10-7, 7 would be relatively "low".
It's good to know most of the reviews 'cons' are being fixed over the summer. Seems really weird it's being docked points so many places when we already know we will be getting new maps bi-weekly for free over the summer.
They're reviewing the game the way it's being released. I guess games like KI shouldn't have been criticized for it's small roster of fighters since the game ended up getting more fighters later on. Or that Driveclub was a buggy mess, since it's been fixed.
What the fuck.
Cbajd5
Member
It's also the line for new Amiibo day. (Nintendo World store is the only place you can get all the new ones, including the various retailer exclusives.)
timetokill
Banned
My favorite part is when she said the other kids won't want to play it because Nintendo is for kids.
Cbajd5
Member
No, probably mostly Nintendo fans. Scalpers probably got what they wanted online or pre-orders. It's a lot easier to get them those ways, plus you're able to get a lot more in some cases since some places don't have limits per customer like Nintendo World does.
This kid is playing her first online shooter without voice chat, and she already fucking gets it:
What a squid.
He's joking.
That kid and her dad seem pretty friggin awesome
How did you even get anything about a smaller online community from that post?
Well, I think "10 year old kids don't want to play this" could be a selling point to adults...
Smaller online community or no..especially if the kids are the ones missing from the community.
I mean, for this game, sure it won't be a selling point, I welcome all the players.
But say if there was a CoD game that was on-par, feature wise, with the best of the CoD games, but 10 year olds didn't want to play it...that could be a selling point. lol
Woah, there. I wasn't trying to misrepresent anything or push an agenda. I just thought it was cool that a 10-year-old "gets" that you'll run in to people online that will give you abuse for being bad at a game, and is empathetic enough to understand why some people don't want it there (regardless of whether she agrees or not).
Less people playing a game means that'll it'll have a smaller community. So explain to me how that could be a selling point?
You should have used the other comparison chart instead.
Kids are so eager to grow up, whereas grownups embrace their childish side and all the Nintendo games that come with it.
I'm guilty of this as well haha
I stopped playing pokemon at a certain point and never got back into it until the DS ones
I also went from the SNES to the PS1 to the Xbox and then I came home to the Wii
Lights and Waves
Member
I'm so freaking excited for this
Kids are so eager to grow up, whereas grownups embrace their childish side and all the Nintendo games that come with it.
I never grew out of Nintendo games, but this is so very true for a lot of people.