@IceClimbers Well not to take stock in the internet rabble but I think that ARMS and Splatoon have different audiences, sure there is some overlap but I doubt the entire group flamingo migrated from one to the other. I know after a few hours of splatoon2 I'm back on arms and SF. I like splatoon2 well enough and I'll play the single player over time but I'm a FG fan.
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@IceClimbers Which is pretty much what I thought would happen, ARMS would've only really flourished if Nintendo brought back the infamous summer game droughts the Wii U saw. So like if it went:
June - ARMS
July - Nothing
August - Nothing
September - Splatoon 2
@Ryu_Niiyama Yeah. I tend to agree with that as well. I don't know the actual statistics yet, but from my experience when people tend to say stuff like that it's usually not true.
@GrumbleVolcano Thank goodness that isn't the case. Iirc, Splatoon did something like that as well. Actually, let me look that up.
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It seems Arms will focus on a more niche audience than Splatoon. Not bad, but I do agree that the updates have been slow - they've updated the game, what, twice or thrice since launch? If they have updated it more, it definitively hasn't had the same diffusion as the original Splatoon's updates got.
ARM's updates may be less frequent than Splatoon's, but so far they've been more substantial, at least the Max Brass one, which added not only the character, his stage and arms of choice, but also a new mode and a whole lot of balance changes. And that was just mostly unlocking stuff that was technically already in the game! So now the possibilities are vast in how they can continue to expand the game. Whereas Splatoon at the moment is mostly just rereleasing weapons present in the first game, sometimes with a twist (Dualie Squelchers).
You also have to consider making new characters for fighting games is generally a lot more complex than something like a weapon in a shooter where everyone has the same base capabilities. It's why the Smash DLC, infamous for being rather pricey compared to other Nintendo games, costs what it does.
Basically, ARMs updates will likely come with more fanfare.
Obviously Splatoon 2 just came out, it's a super hot game, and people are enjoying it ATM. But while Splatoon 2 shines in multiplayer, there's only so much you can get out of the single player. Whereas Arms is perfect for single player. I could play that Grand Prix over and over, use different characters, try higher difficulties, do some 1 vs 100, etc and never get tired of it. So ya, Splatoon 2 is getting the attention right now (and deservedly so), but Arms is still the go to game for a quick round or two when you're not at home.
And that's the best thing about the Switch- Games for at home and games for on the go and obviously all games can work in either situation but some are more suited to one then the other, or at least more evenly split (like Arms). I can play Splatoon 2 at work because I have Verizon whose hotspot works for gaming, and I do actually do that sometimes, but not everyone will have Verizon and I won't always want to play Splatoon 2 when I'm at work.
On another note, got an email saying my Real Arcade Pro V: Hayabusa fight stick has been delayed..... ya.
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ARMS will be the first game I show off to my friends when I'm back in Scotland at the end of the month.Just like so many on NL and around the web,they're dismissing it as a shallow waggle your controller fighting game even though I've tried to convince them otherwise.I think it's a game you really need to see for yourself but when you do,how could you not want to play it.There is really nothing else quite like it.
I'm tired of hearing that ARMS is dead. I'm tired of hearing that anything is dead. The 3DS is not dead. Miiverse is not dead. Smash 4 is not anywhere remotely close to dead. Everyone seriously needs to tighten their definition of "dead".
Speaking of Stardew Valley - I've been doing a bit of digging & it seems that it's original scheduled release window on Switch (Summer 2017) has been pushed back and is now listed as a vague '2017' on the official Nintendo website...even if it does come this year, it seems unlikely that the big selling point - the (console) timed exclusive co-op mode - will be present at launch, unfortunately
According to this Game Informer article, the devs found that adding multiplayer to the game was more challenging than they had originally anticipated (having to rewrite over 15000 lines of code!) - and they're now hoping to run a beta test of the update on Steam by the end of the year - with the feature set to be rolled out out in full in 'early 2018' (first on PC/Mac/Linux, then on Switch, then other consoles in turn) ..so, looks like we'll be farming solo until it's ready!
Still, I'd rather they take their time to get it right - but I might delay picking the game up until the update goes live..
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