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MTZehvor on 30 January 2017
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bdbdbd said:
MTZehvor said:

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. 

All of that is fine for an optional app, but there's no reason why it should be entirely replacing just pulling up the chat on screen. And it will probably cross over into the realm of fiddling when you want to start chatting during a game with strangers. You'd likely have to wait until the game starts (or you get into a lobby), then stop looking at the TV to find the "chat" button on your phone, press that, and then turn your attention back to the TV. And if a particularly annoying person joins the chat and you want to mute them in game? You probably won't be able to do so without using your phone as well, which means looking down from the TV for a few seconds, finding the button on your phone, and hitting mute. This task can be accomplished by pressing a single button on PS4, XBO, and PC, and can easily be done in game without having to look away.

If the app were just an optional, different way to access chats, and could be used to set up games with people ahead of time, I'd likely be all for it. The point is making it the only way to access chat in game, and having to switch between looking at it and the TV during play sessions, is simply making a task more complicated than it needs to be. Of course, if there were ever a phrase that described Nintendo as of late, it would be "making things more complicated than they need to be."