midrange said:
The_Yoda said:
Attiq said:
Areym said:
"Opening the market to everyone including younger kids that have always wanted to play FPS but that have strict parents"
Alright, let's calm down. I get it, splatoon is new and exciting and people are enjoying but it isn't really doing much for the shooting genre. Kids have been playing shooters as early as freaking 8 for years, anybody that plays call of duty know that as well as I do. My cousin got call of duty modern warfare 1 when he was 10 or 11 (I was 14 at the time) and I can tell you that parents rarely, RARELY strict their kids from playing the CoD shooters types.
It seems a little overblown that Splatoon, despite higher sales (in Japan) than many nay-sayers expected, is somehow revolutionizing anything in the shooter genre, giving that it was released in a console which A) for all intents and purposes, has the lowest userbase of any current console (including the 3DS and even the freaking PSVita) and B) whose main consumers are already dedicated Nintendo fans, not casual parents and their kids.
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Sorry to blow you out of the water but I am a strict parent and I don't let my kids play FPS's and I got Splatoon because I figured it was a good FPS that doesnt depict over the top violence. My kids have NEVER played CoD or Halo or Battlefield or any other FPS. I actually know quite a few people with kids that won't let them play FPS's and are looking at Splatoon with interest.
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I'll chime in on this part too. I didn't let my son play anything like that until he became a teen-ager. He's 14 and I still won't let him play Bayonetta.
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I hope you guys realize that a game being an fps does not make a game dark and gritty like CoD or Halo. Take Portal 2 (valve), destiny (activision) or the upcoming Overwatch (blizzard) as popular examples. Splatoon really should not be the first fps for a 14 year old interested in the fps genre considering there are other appropriate classics
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It wasn't the first thing he played in the genre ( he really liked Portal 2), I said I didn't let him play any of those games until he became a teenager. We have both COD games for the Wii U and he has little interest in those, Splatoon on the other hand he really likes. Again that was not the first shooter he played. For a younger child I do feel Splatoon is more appropriate or maybe a Team Fortress 2 . I realize I seem to be in the minority that realistic shooters are not appropriate for a young audience. To each their own, as each child is unique. I can't speak for other peoples children but mine gravitates toward the cartoony shooters (although he does like Borderlands 2).
Side question, have you played Splatoon?
