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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Splatoon Review Thread - MetaCritic 81% / GameRankings 81.46%

Lonely_Dolphin on 27 May 2015
pokoko said:
Einsam_Delphin said:


All the more reason why the content complaints are silly.

I'm not sure what you're asking for, exactly.  A +5 points for content to be delivered later?  


I'm asking for them to keep their reviews relevant to the people who read them.



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Hynad on 27 May 2015
Einsam_Delphin said:
Hynad said:

The complaints about the lack of content for a full price game are totally legitimate right now. 


Except they're not, because no one is actually gonna be paying $60 for just the content currently being reviewed.


But that content isn't out yet. They cannot review a game on promises of things to come. They can only review what's in their console at the moment.

And plenty of games offer free DLC over an extended period of time, yet offer a full game on release. Here's a recent example: Witcher 3.



Wrongturn on 27 May 2015

I'm new here, this is my first time posting and it might be a stupid question. Sorry if this is a little off topic. I was all set to purchase Splatoon this Friday, but I read something in a review that has me questioning whether I will purchase it or not.

The review was from forbes.com and the guy reviewing it said,

"It was weird to have friends over and want to show them Splatoon, yet the only way for even one other person to play was Splatoon’s weird 1v1 deathmatch “training” mode, which isn’t even splitscreen and just has someone using the gamepad screen. There is no way to jump into the game’s 4v4 mode with a friend, nor three friends, which is bizarre seeing as that would be an incredibly fun way to play."

So is it true that if you have a friend over you both can't play online at the same time? Or was he talking about playing locally?
Unfortunately I was unable to test it out last Saturday because of Nintendo's server issues. I figure this would be the place to ask.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/05/27/splatoon-is-the-fresh-ip-nintendo-has-needed-for-a-decade/?utm_channel=Technology&linkId=14515547



JNK on 27 May 2015
GameMasterPC said:
JNK said:
so splatoons 81 seem to be very safe.

So followed by metacritic this game is inferior to Olliolli.

Just realised how much of a joke this reviews are^^

You noticed that now? I've been seeing this indie bias for a long time. Most AAA games with much lower scores are much better than indie games with higher scores. Its even true when you compare AAA games with each other, many times a much lower ranked game is far more enjoyable. This is the reason why Metacritic should not be taken seriously.


well i just joiney this forum and started to care about those things some weeks ago. Now i already noticed how stupid it is^^



Hynad on 27 May 2015
JNK said:
Zekkyou said:

Woah, woah, woah, hold on a minute. Splatoon is being held to different standards than a significantly cheaper indie game?

Someone call the prints, i think we've found ourselves a conspiracy. 


yeah. All games should be rated by same criteria. Otherwhise this scores are senseless.


You don't seem to grasp the fact that different games are reviewed by different people... 

And of course, all website can't be asked to have the same criteria.

What's seseless is to hold that much importance to metacritics...



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Goodnightmoon on 27 May 2015
VaultDweller said:
Goodnightmoon said:
I have read that the final Boss of Splatoon is one of the best bosses Nintendo has done in years.

I´m excited about it :D

Link for the final battle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z36Y1RYrmuE

I'm impressed that they did such a boss in a shooting game. Whenever I think of bosses in shooters I remember the """final boss""" for Fallout 3

I don´t want Spoilers!!!!!

But thanks mate :P 

I´m not going to look it though, my game comes tomorrow :D



amp316 on 27 May 2015
alternine said:
amp316 said:
I'm suspecting that the reviews would be better if it was bullets instead of paint.


I hope you're joking because that excuse is getting old. Besides 81 is a decent score.

Fine.  The colors are too bright.  There's not enough cleavage in the game.  

Do either of these reasons work for you?



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Moyu on 27 May 2015

I thought the lowest review was going to come from Polygon tbh



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JNK on 27 May 2015
Hynad said:
JNK said:


yeah. All games should be rated by same criteria. Otherwhise this scores are senseless.


You don't seem to grasp the fact that different games are reviewed by different people... 

And of course, all website can't be asked to have the same criteria.

What's seseless is to hold that much importance to metacritics...

You understand me wrong. 

Indiegames should be reviewd/give same scores as AAA titles. There is no sense in giving a crap game good scores just because its a indie title.

Crap Smartphones doesnt get better results only if they are made by small companies either. (just one of thousands example)



Hynad on 27 May 2015
JNK said:
Hynad said:


You don't seem to grasp the fact that different games are reviewed by different people... 

And of course, all website can't be asked to have the same criteria.

What's seseless is to hold that much importance to metacritics...

You understand me wrong. 

Indiegames should be reviewd/give same scores as AAA titles. There is no sense in giving a crap game good scores just because its a indie title.

Crap Smartphones doesnt get better results only if they are made by small companies either. (just one of thousands example)


What if those indie games are just as good and as fun as those big budget games? What then?