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midrange on 12 November 2015
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Bofferbrauer said:
midrange said:


1. There are many fast paced games were voice chat works well. Call of Duty and Battlefield are prime examples.

2. Voice chat can be implemented to be mute off by default, that way when you play with friends, you can turn it on. This way you don't have to worry about different languages/profanity

3. It's up to the people to decide whether voice chat is detrimental or helpful. After they decide, they can toggle the mute button on or off.

4. Once again, it is up to the player to decide whether or not they will find voice chat helpful or not. This is the beauty of options. Likewise, maybe people just want to talk with their friends in a game.

1. Compared to Splatoon and it's small maps greatly accentuating the changing situations, these are slow as sloths

2. If muted by default, why doing the hassle of implementing it at all in the first place?

3. Nice way to glossing over and totally ignoring the reason the voice chat would be detrimental (you can hear ennemies outside of your field of view, which would get rendered impossible with voice chat)

4. If I want to talk with my friends about a game, I boot up my PC and start Teamspeak - which also ensures no one outside is eavedropping things they are not supposed to hear. Which also has the advantage that not everyone needs to be connected to the game

There's also another reason I did not mention, one actually pretty obvious but no one ever tells: No Headset support for Wii U. Which would mean you'd have to bring the gamepad close to your mouth to speak into it's microphone, disrupting gameplay and screwing up motion controls

1. cod and battlefield have larger maps, but they also have a lot more people on each map. Add in the fast vehicles, killstreaks, and parkour in those games, calling the slow is a huge statement.

2. It's muted by default for convenience, but the option to unmute it is there for anyone who wants to use it. And there are definitely people who want to use it.

3. If it really is detrimental, then people would decide to keep voice chat off. However, for those that actually think the pros outweigh the cons, they can toggle voice chat on.

4. So in order to communicate with friends you need to start up a third party pc program and have your friends do the same? Don't you think that's very unfriendly to the user? Given that splatoon costs $60 you would think that Nintendo would make the game user friendly with something like voice chat. Especially since other shooters do this.

I have communicated with friends via the gamepad using the video facetime feature on the wii u. Voice transfer is fine. I did not have to move the gamepad closer one bit. Likewise, there's already voice chat in black ops 2 for wii u, Nintendo could have set up something similar for splatoon