Fewer Games is Never a Good Thing

[MTZehvor]

bdbdbd said:

MTZehvor said:

That's true, and you'll notice that in nearly every single review of that online shooter, the majority of the complaints are directed at how the online was handled. No voice chat, no local co op, restricted to two maps at any given time, etc. To this day Nintendo consistently fumbles some of the easiest things to nail with online gameplay, with perhaps the most recent notable example being having to use a phone app to voice chat on Switch.

There aren't that many maps in Splatoon anyway, so the lack of options isn't that big of a deal.

The app on your mobile is absolutely brilliant! You can chat with your friends cross-game if you prefer, but apparently you may not even need to be playing at all to be in touch with your friends or you do not need stop chatting if you need to leave the game or the house. This app might especially be great if you have kids.

Splatoon has 16 maps, only four fewer than Halo 5. Only being able to play on two maps, over and over again, during an extended play session is a pretty big deal.

And no, the app is an awful idea. Not only can you already talk to your friends cross game on both PS4 and XBO, but there are already a myriad of phone apps designed to let you continue talking to your friends if you have to leave the phone or house (Discord being most prominent amongst them). Having a phone app as an optional feature on top of standard console chat might have been a neat idea, but as it stands having to fiddle with both a smart phone and your console just to talk in game is needlessly cumbersome.