Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Magician
Thank you.

Just searched videos and that has now been rectified.

A bit of a lame and lazy question on my part, but what the heck.

I've not been following Splatoon 3 news as (i) I don't tend to follow individual games closely before release, (ii) I'm not the biggest Splatoon fan to begin with.

My question is: As a casual player of Splatoon 1 and 2, in one sentence, what does Splatoon 3 appear to do differently?

@Buizel
Splatoon 3 fixes all the complaints with previous entries and perfecting the formula to a tee.

Sure, it's got some new modes and stuff. Anarchy battles, new Table Turf card game, tri-color Turf Wars for dual-stage 3-way Splatfests, it adds city invasions from Salmonids, it adds new weapon types and new move mechanics, sure it offers a new single player building off the creativity of the excellent Octo Expansion, and new customization options, lockers, banners and custom win/lose animations...

Yes it does all that. But what it really offers is refinement. The online system is now modernized, where you can see holograms of your friends and instantly join their game and be on the same team, you can send invites, play in the training room during matchmaking with holograms of team mates as they join, you can now have Murch swap the main ability slot on gear, you no longer have to sit through the mandatory news feed every 2 hrs and upon booting the game, and best of all, Salmon Run is available 24/7 now.

@JaxonH haven't played much of it yet, but pocky and rocky reshrined has some good reviews. I bought the physical but haven't fully gotten into it.

@JaxonH a lot more than a sentence, but I appreciate the effort!

Its tempting. I'm torn because I'm not that attached to the series, but do play it frequently enough to justify buying the sequel. Like...half the new features would probably go unnoticed/unappreciated by me, but what you've listed does make it sound like the definitive way to play Splatoon.

Every other game on my plate for the remainder of the year seems to be a lengthy RPG so Splatoon would also be a great palate cleanser between those.

@Buizel
Well, my first sentence was intended to be the summary response.

But I felt compelled to optionally expound on that sentence in the event you wanted to know my reasoning.

@NintendoByNature
Ya I got that one already, though I wouldn't categorize it as a schmup.

I just wish Sin & Punishment 2 would release on Switch. I miss that game so much.

@Mioaionios @Fizza @Grumblevolcano I've never played Urban Champion. But I've seen the irl version.

@Kermit1
Oh no, that sounds rather scary.

@Kermit1 That's....concerning. I hope you weren't in any!

@Mioaionios I've only seen one, but it was not really a "fight" more of a shake the guy by the collar.
Ask me in the Chit Chat thread and I'll tell the story if you want to read it.

@Fizza I was not...One of my Uncles walked across the street and grabbed the guy and pretty much saved his life before he got dragged into a car.

This all happened on the day of a Christmas Parade, while we were waiting.

@Mioaionios told it here lol

@Kermit1
I was once robbed and received a beating on the street late at night... but that's a story for another time.

@Mioaionios I never go out of my house so... Well once during a summer camp (the only real one I've ever done) I got kicked in the knee twice and for the first time in my life I got cussed at, I told someone what happened and he got sent away... That's bringing back some memories that I don't really want to remember, I think I need to talk about them to be okay with them. I can remember another time during another camp (I went to it once a week) there was a kid (I don't know the proper wording for what he had so, I'll just say kid) who saw me and tackled me to the ground and kept putting my shirt over head and pushing me against the wall on the floor and the lady running the camp did nothing to stop this. I kept saying stop (it was in a library so no yelling) and he didn't until one of the other kids (we were all around 9-13) told him to stop and he did.

This is bring back memories I though I pushed back into my brain... I'm cringing lol...

@Kermit1
Sorry to hear you had to endure something like that.
Bullies are the worst.

@Mioaionios yep. I hate a name because of bullies. I was 8 when I first ever got bullied, I got kicked on the floor (kinda seems like a running theme with me).

In Canada not everyone is nice... I don't even go to public school and I got bullied. Life really does even out lol.

four times, I've gotten bullied in my life. I count myself lucky it was not more.

@Kermit1
There isn't a single place in the world where everyone is nice.

Well... maybe Antarctica.

@Mioaionios No one in the world is good, there are just nice people. I came to know that at a very young age.

In Antarctica the polar bears don't have Coca-Cola... They have teeth.

The more I think about it I learned about a lot of dark things at a young age, thanks to TV.

@Kermit1
We're going seriously off-topic here, but ehm... there are no polar bears on Antarctica. There are penguins though.

@Mioaionios I've been listening to Fireflies in the background while we've been chatting and oh boy does it bring back even more memories, because this song came out around the time of all that. I feel old now.

@Mioaionios oof, I forgot I get my North and South Poles messed up all the time.

I put the Pikachu in my last post to keep it Nintendo related lol.