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midrange on 10 August 2015
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Wyrdness said:
midrange said:

Did they fix the local multiplayer options, or customizable lobbies/games, or voice chat? Honestly splatoon just has too many problems as of now to even be a contender for gotg. It takes one step forward with artwork, but takes 2 steps back by not matching the standards set in other fps games.

Smash, bayonetta, and blood borne are all great contenders in their respective genre, matching and surpassing previous standards set before them.


Voice chat is near useless in Splatoon because the game is driven by more individual action all it'd be used for would be people throwing abuse at their team mates, lobbies were added in the new patch. The game hasn't got much problems to begin with tbh, the are no standards for Splatoon to match because it's created it's own sub section in the shooting genre much like Mario Kart to racers, the's no other shooter currently like it but the will be in future that's more then enough to warrant being a GOTG contender as its approach has opened up the shooting genre to people who normally don't like shooters.

Voice chat is near useless because individual play is preferred over team play? Why wouldn't they make the game free for all if that was the case? Voice chat can be negative, but it can also be positive. Just make the default option of each game muted,that way the people that like it can use it. Simple.

really, what's so special about splatoon. The artwork is decent, but the colorful style has been done before with team fortress 2 and soon to be overwatch. For every new mechanic that is in splatoon, there are more in games like cod and halo.

there are standards of the fps genre that splatoon still needs to adhere to despite creating a sub genre. Things like online performance, balance, content (local and online), customizability, communication, etc. Splatoon can't just evade all of these criteria under the "it's a sub genre game" cop out. Smash bros and mario kart do them for their respective genres (although mario kart's local multiplayer has seen a downgrade).

splatoon is not bad, but the majority of reviewers have stated that it is just a decent and addicting game, not a revolutionary masterpiece. And splatoon still has more things to add and fix before it can prove them wrong.