Fewer Games is Never a Good Thing

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MTZehvor said:

bdbdbd said:

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.

Haven't played Splatoon that much to know. I've played maybe four or six different maps. The controls are really killing the game.

Umm... I don't think you have to "fiddle", I expect the app being connected to your Nintendo account and friendslist all the time. Your console is connected to the same database/server as your phone. Keep in mind that the parental controls work on your smartphone via internet. Take your smartphone while driving home from work, set up a game to start in half an hour, send invite to your friends and they accept or decline it on their phones. Once you get home, you're already connected to your friends.

That's naturally just speculation, but it's something you could expect.