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kupomogli on 17 June 2014
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padib said:
kupomogli said:
I think Splatoon looks like it could be a great competitive game with all the subtle amounts of depth to it. The reason it's getting as much attention as it is is because it's a new Nintendo IP. Nintendo rarely creates new IPs outside of spinoff games so when a new IP does get created, fans think it's the best thing ever. Like I stated about fans hyping up certain characters like Pit(who was dead) or Rosalina. They have all that praise for new characters or the rare new IP.

It's a Nintendo first party exclusive, and as always, anything Nintendo makes is the best thing ever according to Nintendo fans, regardless of whether they like the genre or not. I'm sure a lot of fans who hate shooters are throwing endless amounts of praise at the game because it's from Nintendo.

It's really strange how easy it is to count the users who will always see attention given to Nintendo as just undeserved.

Like Bananaking and ClassicGamingWizz, you also tend to think that Nintendo gets praise just because. I don't think it is the case for Splatoon, the game looks fresh and has the Nintendo pedigree. It's hard to not be excited about it.

It's blatantly obvious how biased Nintendo fans are.  Nintendo fans didn't give two shits about MonolithSoft before they were purchased by Nintendo and became first party exclusive.  Now they're "the best RPG developer evaaar."  Nintendo fans will state how much they dislike a certain genre, but as soon as that genre is developed by Nintendo, it's such an amazing, deep, and well designed game.  The average Nintendo fans favorite games list is various different Nintendo franchises.  It's like Nintetndo fans care about Nintendo and very little else outside that.  This obviously doesn't mean every Nintendo fan will be like this but the general fanbase bias is strong.  Even several third party publishers have called Nintendo fans out.  Maybe it's because most of the Nintendo fans on the internet are your really die hard Nintendo fans some of the stuff I've explained is all we ever see from them.