Don't Worry, Splatoon 3 Will Have All "Basic Weapons" From The Previous Games

The Rainmaker should be a regular weapon too.

Sweet. Time to main the dualies again

Splatoon 2 deluxe is looking good

It'll also carry over the same exact game for the third time as well.

I mean, they don't all have to be the same. That was my problem when Splatoon 2 was initially released. It was pretty much the same game as the first one. I haven't played in a few years, so it probably has much more content, but I would like it to be a little different. If its going to be the same, why should I buy the new one?(caugh Overwatch 2 beta caugh)

I don’t think most of us want Splatoon 3 to be the same as Splatoon 2 Ninty….

This game will be epic. I know many question its existence but I'm all for it.

I mean...this is just overpriced DLC and Splatoon 2 was a port!

Thanks for posting the wiki link, guys! I'm an admin on the site and I can't wait to see what September will bring! Loving the steady drips of new info

Aerospray all day. I’m a bit miffed that S3 got swapped with XC3. The wait hurts

Idk why ppl complaining that 2 and 3 are "the same game." Its still a shooter, a damn good one. Shooters iterate very narrowly compared to other genres/mediums, which isnt necessarily a bad thing?

NoE: Basic weapons return!

Meanwhile ‘brella mains, Exploshers, Squeezers, and Bloblobbers: uh, oh…

So what does "basic weapon" mean? Splatoon weapons are categorized into Main, Sub, and Special.

@ChickenJoe Because they don't like shooters. They're happy to keep paying for the same smash game every generation though

@NikHogan … or the REAL Splatoon 2 since the previous one was referenced as “Splatoon 1.5.”

Lots of super funny people on every Splatoon article here making the same comments. Can you just let people look forward to the game?

@ChickenJoe @Bret Bandwagoning, memeing (hur dur iterative shooters are the same game), but also people who don’t play anything other than Turf War who completely bypass the Campaign, and especially Ranked where all the little gameplay changes, gear abilities, weapon metas can live or die by any new game iteration and even balance patches. I’ve already seen enough from deep dive videos to see how S3 is going to be more aggressive like how S1 was with specials like the Trizooka, Killer Wail 5.1, Triple Inkstrike, and the Zipcaster (which may be a huge reason why they had to move the spawns off the map). And I feel we just scratched the surface of what’s to come.

Check out and see what’s different from a pro Splatoon streamer’s perspective (like ThatSrb2DUDE’s in-depth analysis on the Splatoon 3 trailer on YouTube)

@NinjaWaddleDee I agree

This negativity can't bring down my hype for the game.

In the same timeframe between splatoon 2 and 3, Donkey Kong saw the release of Country 1, 2, 3, and DK64

No (all game modes) gameplay against IA Bots?

Ok. I´ll continue playing Unreal Tournament. Much better.

3 already (yeah, yeah, those saying 1.5b etc etc...very funny - don't let the door hit your ass on the way out lol.). Time flies when you are having fun. Erm...honest question, is this series super quick to get to game 3 or is it normal? Has another series done it faster?

@Moistnado Bugger off.

@GrailUK It's kinda nutty, everyone acts like the series is being milked and released too quickly but seven years is a long time and it's not uncommon in the industry.

If we're talking Nintendo, both Zelda and Mario were even faster.

If we're talking more modern games, the entire Mass Effect trilogy and Tomb Raider reboot trilogy took five years, the Uncharted Trilogy was only four years.

i think splatoon gets the short end of the stick cause people expect online multiplayer games to last forever, and splatoons story progression and world building gives it an excuse for sequels. a majority of complaints would stop if it looked diff with a new engine or something

the sequel approach is fine for splatoon but if a new story, weapons, specials, maps, and balancing dont make a sequel then i dunno what you expect from one. like geez theyre pulling a smash ult/mkd8 by bring back ALL previous weapons and people are still finding ways to be snarky about that

As someone whos not into splatoon at all, i have to say the devs behind it really put efort promoting it, so much that sometimes i even want to play the game

Hope the Octo expansion "Octo Shot Replica" comes back too. Love that one.

@GrailUK Splat 2 is almost 5 years old. Tons of series have made 3 games in less than that time.

@masterLEON Sweet, I'll watch this after work.

The changes and actual new additions to each new splatoon game isn't worth creating a brand new entry over, they should just create one game and give it regular updates for years to come.

@UltimateOtaku91 Like Halo Infinite

@Rykdrew well that games just awful lol
Fortnite, no man's sky, destiny 2, overwatch etc would of been better examples

@Indielink Yeah, I believe it's a bit of a misconception that it's being milked.

Can they also bring back some of the older special weapons from splatoon 1?

Yes! My sploosh is here

@UltimateOtaku91 while that could work I think that's a slippery slope. It's a practice more fitting for competitive, free to play games. and even games like overwatch collapsed on its attempts to pile in balance patches and new features that fans hated

I also think it hurts its world building if character arcs and hubworlds couldn't advance visually, or worse got replaced under one game. Splatville may be the new hubworld, but we can still revisit inkopolis plaza and square with previous games, and even its previous game balances and meta

I could feel that way cause that's what I'm used to with splatoon, but there's also a sense of preservation with what these previous games represented. Fundamentally these games are the same, but mechanically I'd argue youd still play them differently. Mainly cause of the clashing philosophies with things like splatoon 1's more harsh, unbalanced specials and balancing, and 2's toned down, team-focused specials

Idk for the typical player this may not even matter when deciding on the game, but as an avid player from 1 and 2 its the little things that add up for me. No ill will with this text wall btw, it's interesting seeing all the opinions of the game and for me there could be more that meets the eye haha

Good news. I just want to know about any new game types they have in the works. I don't care about competitive or rank, but I enjoy ranked modes.

Civilized weapons from two more civilized games.

I think Splatoon 2's single player campaign was underrated, so I'll be interested to see what they've done in 3.

Regarding the frequency of releases, it's less to do with time and more to do with how different the games are, and how neccessary (in so much as any computer games are 'neccessary') they are.

Nintendo seem to have deemed a Mario Kart 8 sequel on Switch as unneccessary, and I happen to agree with them. I'm a little surprised they didn't make a similar decision for Splatoon 3.

There have been shooters with many similar rapid sequels, but then they have also been criticised/mocked for that. As have series in other genres.

Regarding necessity, in the past even within a single console's lifetime, huge advances were made.
You can see this with the likes of Goldeneye and Perfect Dark.

In recent times, consoles, or at least Nintendo consoles, have somewhat plateaued. Splatoon 2 doesn't seem markedly different to the original for me, nor does 3 look much different to 2.

With that in mind, the comparison with the original Donkey Kong Country trilogy and Donkey Kong 64 starts to look like complete nonsense.
DKC2 looks and plays very differently to the first. DKC3 is more similar to it's predecessor, though it did have a markedly different art style and sharper graphics.
Compare the difference between DKC3 and DK64 and suggest it's analogous to the differences between games in the Splatoon trilogy, and you start to look insane.

Switch happens to be a long lived console, and my hunch is that everyone who could be interested in playing Splatoon, is already playing 2.
I'd be surprised if 3 elevates the series above 12th best selling Nintendo Switch game, but we'll see.

Mario and Zelda games have been fairly frequent on Switch, but also rather different to each other, and these series are blockbuster; Splatoon isn't even as big as Mario Party.

I'm a little bewildered by 3 coming out on Switch, but no-one is forcing me to buy the game.
I'll look at the reviews and see if I fancy it.

Those of you saying that Splatoon 3 could just be updates to 2 obviously haven’t played the game seriously enough to where you can see how certain things have no fix anymore.

The current status of the game overwhelmingly favors bomb and special spam, which also leads to bad habits like sploosh players who paint useless turf and poop missiles. Most of the specials themselves are poorly designed or suck (splashdown, baller) or are boring/have little player agency (missiles, armor).

A lot of maps have serious issues, like being cramped, too narrow, few ways to get out of spawn, and/or modes that are almost unplayable on them.

Splatoon 3 seems to fix a good number of things, such as interesting specials that require more than a button push to push (heh) for free, better maps (though they’ll probably bring back Moray Towers, again…), and more movement options that might not have worked as well with the current maps in 2.

As a person who spent 700+ hours in Splatoon 2 (but eventually got bored of it), this is nice to know since the Tri-Slosher was my favorite. But so far, I'm not really all that excited yet since what we've been shown so far is more of the same. Here's hoping they show off some new modes and gameplay mechanics soon.

People that are still leaving these DLC comments are just ignorant. Should BOTW2 be DLC as well? I mean,they’re both played in hyrule,and both have skies..so just make it DLC..right?

@westman98 Wow, so clever.

This is something I was and wasn't expecting at the same time.

@SpiraI Exactly!

@Franklin splatoon already started off as an HD game so there's not much it could improve outside its aesthetic. Heck rpgs and adventure games can regularly get away with using the same engine and art style cause people want diff stories world's, and character. I dont think people give splatoon enough credit for doing practically the same thing

We get new idols, character arcs, world building, and the games have diff balancing and meta between each other. People already want botw and odessey sequels on switch, people should let splatoon fans get theirs too

I don't think I will be joining in on this Splatoon game this time. I played both of the previous games and I have just kind of lost interest. I am really happy that Nintendo has created another successful franchise with a unique/fun gimmick for people of all ages to enjoy. I am very thankful for that.

@Fizza blasters are my fave! Sure they aren't as powerful as they used to be but I struggle with any other weapon type 😅

@boxyguy
"splatoon already started off as an HD game so there's not much it could improve outside its aesthetic"
I allude to this
"Nintendo consoles, have somewhat plateaued".
Splatoon exists because Wii U didn't sell well.
I can't see the reason this next one, yet.

Regarding using the same engine, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask famously did this, yet they are very different.

I don't really understand what you mean by 'get away with'. The New Mario Bros. series gets criticised as being too samey.

"people want diff stories world's, and character."
This just points to how adventure games can do more with their sequels than multiplayer shooters, and therefore justify them.
It remains to be seen however what they've done with the main campaign in 3.
Going from trailers so far, the game looks very samey.

Regards "diff balancing and meta between each other"
I'd be happy waiting for the next console like with Smash.

A couple of people have referred to Breath of the Wild 2,
which is bizarre because it's a very weak comparison.
The trailers so far depict a game that is very different to how it's predecessor.
looks.

Odyssey 2 is also an odd hypothetical comparison, as within the original most of the worlds are very different to each other, so any sequel would most likely be rather different.

I'll need to see more of the single player and read impressions of multiplayer before I buy (I think specials should have a turn off option, like the smash ball has).

I guess we'll see, it hasn't justified itself to me yet.

It's going to be weird to have to play 10 hours before I can use the pro or Luna again.

My Splatoon 2.5 jokes were supposed to be satire but I guess that was too much ☹️

Anyways, I do look forward to this game and I'm glad that a lot of content from the previous entries will be available for Day 1 rather than being doddled out in free updates or skipped altogether.

@westman98 I understood them to be satire. Idk how that flew over everyone's head.

does anybody have a time machine so i can go to september 9?