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Lol, from a 60/100 review "The catch is that equipment must be unlocked through leveling up (more points are given when your team wins a match) and buying items at a shop, which can only be reached by exiting the online lobby and walking your character across a puny hub. Having to gain levels feels like the result of Nintendo just throwing in a deliberate RPG-like element into the game experience in order to extend playtime. More preferable would have been to make all weapons and armor available at the beginning of the game in order to reward strategic thinking and skill immediately and make battles more fascinating in general. This more open approach would also have made the shop unnecessary and thus reduced the amount of time a player has to spend with menus and the game's garrulous merchant. Perhaps Nintendo includes the busywork of a leveling system to distract players from the fact that they're limited to playing on a paltry number of maps for arbitrary periods of time. In any case, the developer could have made a better game if it had increased the variety of environments one might interact in within a given slot of time (a la Overwatch)." Yeah let's just start with everything unlocked and no leveling up, hurrrr. The slow-drip of unlocks and updates is half the fun.
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I usually hate leveling systems and gating content behind walls but for some reason it really works for me in splatoon. Heck I even liked ordering clothes off people and having to wait an irl day for it to arrive, even though I know that'd irritate me in another game. Maybe splatoon is just that fresh. I don't think that reviewer is inherently wrong, but I don't agree with his broader point. Also that reviews reads like it was written by someone being actively shoved into a locker.
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There is a conversation to be had about making everything unlocked off the bat in an online game and Splatoons map rotation system, but that dude needs a wedgie.
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Jul 18, 2017 22:33
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Games with everything unlocked at the start are boring, no thanks game reviewer dude.
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Jul 18, 2017 22:48
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Unlocks are fun, except in local multiplayer games where multiplayer stuff is unlocked in singleplayer mode. The map rotation's ok, I was able to get used to just two maps at a time in the demo instead of having to learn everything at once. Lets you get into a groove. I hope that we don't have the same maps at the same time each day, though, that'd suck These Callie/Marie amiibos are hard to get
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Jul 18, 2017 22:53
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My first car was a stick
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Unlocks are cool and good as long as they don't require too much grinding, don't gate certain OP things behind hard/rare tasks, or don't try to sell me everything for  In Splat 1 you could buy poo poo in whatever order you wanted based on what you thought was fresh. Nothing is especially locked (except the amiibo armor okay fine) so you can spend your coins on just the stuff you personally want. That is a good system.
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Jul 18, 2017 23:11
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bandaid.friend posted:These Callie/Marie amiibos are hard to get yeah, if there's actually content locked behind them Nintendo needs to do another run
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Jul 18, 2017 23:13
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So the Amiibos just directly grant outfits this time with no challenge maps, right?
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Jul 18, 2017 23:13
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If you didn't get those amiibos immediately you don't deserve them
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Jul 18, 2017 23:14
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Lemming posted:If you didn't get those amiibos immediately you don't deserve them I got them just as figures.
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Jul 18, 2017 23:26
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You can jump to the shops straight from the menu if you really don't want to stroll around the plaza looking for fresh posts.
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Jul 18, 2017 23:36
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Guy Goodbody posted:Pearl looks good in some fanart Infinitum posted:Pearl fanart - Interesting and creative art
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Jul 19, 2017 00:12
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Marina's not a squid, you racist.
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Jul 19, 2017 00:23
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This guy's stuff owns https://twitter.com/cyan_beans/status/874121581836070912
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Jul 19, 2017 00:23
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some cephalopods have tiddies, get over it.
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Jul 19, 2017 00:26
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Deltron 3030 posted:Yeah let's just start with everything unlocked and no leveling up, hurrrr. The slow-drip of unlocks and updates is half the fun. I grew sick of it in the CoD games. I don't have time to unlock everything anymore
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Deltron 3030 posted:Yeah let's just start with everything unlocked and no leveling up, hurrrr.
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Jul 19, 2017 00:41
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Deltron 3030 posted:Having to gain levels feels like the result of Nintendo just throwing in a deliberate RPG-like element into the game experience in order to extend playtime. I'm looking forward to this reviewer being dumped on by Call of Duty fans. Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cnUseypM-A This version of Port Mackerel looks so much better it's crazy.
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Oh man the 3rd party amiibo card market is going to go crazy if there are good benefits to Callie and Marie, or if there are hard to craft loadouts.
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Jul 19, 2017 01:01
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Get hosed people who didn't buy splatoon amiibo like, 2-3 months ago when they were all readily available and on mega discount. I can't wait for the inevitable Pearl and Marina amiibo. I got the new girl and boy ones too although I didn't really want another squid so I got them separately instead of the three pack. Also I'm probably going to get a personal amiibo card of my character's preferred look because holy poo poo why would I carry an amiibo around with me when a card makes it way easier.
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Jul 19, 2017 01:54
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Dr Cheeto posted:This guy's stuff owns OMG I love Kirby Squid. Anyway, the most lol review I've seen is someone trying hard to make the case that Splatoon 2 is a port.
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Jul 19, 2017 02:31
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Link that good poo poo
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Zelder posted:Link that good poo poo https://youtu.be/W8XEYwq3YN8
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Jul 19, 2017 02:43
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I'll be dead in the cold cold ground before I watch a YouTube review but thank you
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Zelder posted:I'll be dead in the cold cold ground before I watch a YouTube review but thank you My god, I thought I was the only one.
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Jul 19, 2017 03:12
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Video game reviews are garbage anyway 
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Jul 19, 2017 03:16
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That's kinda what we're getting at. Or do you mean in general, because agreed.
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I kinda forgot hammerhead is really bad for splat zones
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LethalGeek posted:I kinda forgot hammerhead is really bad for splat zones Not for official Splatoon tournaments apparently.
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Jul 19, 2017 03:39
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I never had a Wii U, and I preordered this because it looks pretty darn fun. Thats my story. Whats the range on the uh, sniper rifles? Can they hit people across the entire map or is there a range limit to it?
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Jul 19, 2017 03:52
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Stringbean posted:I never had a Wii U, and I preordered this because it looks pretty darn fun. Thats my story. There's a limit. different ones have different ranges.
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Jonas Albrecht posted:OMG I love Kirby Squid. They're saying that not much has changed and that it's just more Splatoon, which seems to be a fairly valid point to make? 
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man I can't wait for this gosh dang game I hope my old friends the Luna Blaster [ranked] and N-Zap '89 [turf] are still dope
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https://twitter.com/TristanACooper/status/887465127980797952
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Marina is the best I'm going with that now, lil'judd is past-judd.
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Jul 19, 2017 04:03
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Actually all that time in the cryo chamber mutated Jude's genes. He now reproduces via budding and Lil' Judd is the first result of that
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I can't wait for Splatoon 3 when we get to meet Big Judd
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Dr. Fetus posted:They're saying that not much has changed and that it's just more Splatoon, which seems to be a fairly valid point to make? No, calling a game that changes as much as Splatoon 2 does a port is stupid. Kelp Plankton posted:I can't wait for Splatoon 3 when we get to meet Big Judd Inscrutable Judd.
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Kelp Plankton posted:I can't wait for Splatoon 3 when we get to meet Big Judd It turns out they work like Matryoshka dolls
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Jonas Albrecht posted:No, calling a game that changes as much as Splatoon 2 does a port is stupid. Eh, if you're trying to be a faceless YouTube personality, you gotta come up with something else to get the clicks besides "stupid agape face pretending to be in shock at something."
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