Splatoon

pikscast · **Posted:** Sat May 23, 2015 8:32 pm

OshaliteX2 · **Posted:** Sat May 23, 2015 8:34 pm

Nice.

Curly Tale · **Posted:** Sat May 23, 2015 10:42 pm

My bro got to play a round them it crashed. Never saw if he got to play more because my mom made me go and work in the garden. Kept singing the squid kid song the whole time.

Avion · **Joined:** Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:32 pm **Posts:** 940

Got on halfway through the original timeslot, ended up getting a full hours worth anyway which was pretty great.

Anyone else notice there were WAY more Japanese players this go around?

AquaBat · **Joined:** Tue Jul 15, 2014 9:26 pm **Posts:** 2373

Well, the last Testfire before this one, on May 9 at 12PM PDT, took place at 4AM Japan Time, while this one, at 3PM PDT, took place at around 7AM in Japan. I'd say that would probably make a difference.

Syobon · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:34 am **Posts:** 15027

Will there really only be 5 maps at launch? What the fuck?

Liraxus · **Posted:** Tue May 26, 2015 9:45 am

I feel like its to focus on making those 5 maps the best the can possibly be, Splatoon has wildly different movement controls than some, so all of the maps need to be heavily checked to make sure each one is fun to play on, I also think that there are less maps to focus on Quality over Quantity, as games with tons of maps always tend to have "That" map that on one ever wants to play on.

[Citation Needed] · **Posted:** Tue May 26, 2015 10:01 am

Also don't discount the singleplayer stuff that is also a part of the game. It's not JUST an online multiplayer game released with 5 maps. There is also the full singleplayer.

Syobon · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:34 am **Posts:** 15027

Are there more details on the singleplayer available yet? From what I gather it'll probably be around 6 hours in length, which is fine, but seems to me like the focus is still on multiplayer. Even if it wasn't, games like Half-Life managed to have both a solid single-player campaign and a good amount of maps (in addition to the ability to make custom maps).

Liraxus wrote:

I feel like its to focus on making those 5 maps the best the can possibly be, Splatoon has wildly different movement controls than some, so all of the maps need to be heavily checked to make sure each one is fun to play on, I also think that there are less maps to focus on Quality over Quantity, as games with tons of maps always tend to have "That" map that on one ever wants to play on.

Yeah that's the typical excuse, however even Titanfall managed 15 maps (and people still complained about that). I feel like 10 is about the bare, absolute minimum for a multiplayer-oriented shooter (for comparison, UT2004 had 50 new maps and a total of 121 at launch). It's not even that the 5 maps are vastly unique in theme, they're all urban or industrial themed.

Liraxus · **Posted:** Tue May 26, 2015 5:48 pm

Meanwhile, in Canada.

This is REAL. And dear god I wish i was in Canada now this shit looks tasty.

flame_warp · **Joined:** Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:27 pm **Posts:** 374

brb driving to Candada

Toddv1997 · **Posted:** Tue May 26, 2015 7:58 pm

I'll ride with ya

OshaliteX2 · **Posted:** Tue May 26, 2015 10:48 pm

"Yogurty's"...
Gosh darn why can't the US have great names like that? All we have is "Menchie's". What does a "Mench" have to do with yogurt?
And Freestyle Yogurt but that's TWO words, so the rolly-offy-tongue-ness is lost.

TerraChimaera · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2015 7:51 pm

A truck full of limited edition versions of Splatoon was stolen in the UK, which means GAME won't be able to fulfill all their preorders for the time being

[Citation Needed] · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2015 11:45 pm

AWKWARD ZOMBIE

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