So i just played Splatoon for a large amount of time

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spemanig said:
Splatoon is such a frustrating game to me. It has such a great foundation, but there are just too many issues with it right now for me to jump in for the asking price. Nintendo could have killed it by pulling a Team Fortress 2 and making it free to play. Or they could have kept it at $60 and made it a full package.

I'd jump in if:

- It didn't artificially restrict the maps you could play every four hours. Maps should be selected like in Mario Kart 8 where you vote from a pool of selected maps.

- It had Pro Controller support online. There absolutely no excuse for leaving that out.

- It had more modes. I always say this: Mario Kart is fun for the tracks. Smash is fun for the characters. A game like Splatoon should be thriving on it's modes primarily. That's what keeps people playing. A four player free-for-all multiplayer mode should have been a no brainer. A 2v2 local mode too. Maybe a local mode against a giant boss monster like what was in Metroid Blast, the Nintendo Land game. I don't even work there, and I already thought of three excellent multiplayer modes for the local multiplayer alone. The lack of modes is embarrassing. It needs at LEAST one decent local mode and 4-5 online mode. And that's the bare minimum.

- Way more maps. There should have been at LEAST a dozen maps at launch. In a perfect world, there would have been 24 minimum. It's hard to see people making blatant comparisons to Smash and Mario Kart without noticing the vast difference in arenas.

- Voice chat. There's no excuse. People should be able to play with their friends. Even if you had to pay like $.30 DLC to unlock the right to use it, there's no reason someone should have to go through a third party application like Skype to talk to their friends while playing Splatoon.

Splatoon is such a let down to me. So much dropped potential.

Generally, I'm a hardcore Nintendo white knighter and go a little too far with it sometimes, but anyone arguing against any of these points has got to step back a little bit.

The way they do map selection is simply not good. Period. Your solution works, but I wouldn't even mind just a straight up random map every game. Also, they need to allow you to switch equipment between games. All they have to do is put it on the gamepad. They tell you the map and if you want to switch equipment and you can do it before the game starts, great! Otherwise, guess you were too slow, lol.

No way should there not be pro controller support online. No way.

The more modes the better, obviously. A better local multiplayer mode would be nice and obviously a few more online modes as well.

There should be more maps. Maybe not 24 maps, but definitely more.

I don't want to even really get into the voice chat one. We've talked about it way too much. But while I've defended their decision in the past, it really just doesn't make sense to offer it.