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@Vivianeat people who play video games have backlogs on other consoles and on steam. You could say the same of any Nintendo game coming out this year. Q4 is a tough window BECAUSE splatoon and Pokémon. If anything bayonetta and Mario rabbids are the ones that will have a harder time

@Vivianeat did people not have backlogs in 2017? a brand new Nintendo game of this caliber is not competing w backlogs lol

@CodyMKW splatoon is absolutely a competitive game what are u talking about

I still think the whole ‘does it earn the title of 3’ thing is so ridiculous. It’s the third game. There’s all kinds of new stuff. Core gameplay is similar. What is the issue

Ew get it off of me

Cosmetically it looks good. I somehow still have no idea what the core gameplay is

Yessssss. I really wanna see ranked mode, but I’m sure it will focus on the new three way turf thing. Kinda wanna miss the single player. It’s so close, at this point I want to leave surprises

Looking like a solid 6

That’s actually kinda wild. The gap between Alttp and oot always felt like vast millenia passed in between. Same between wind waker and tp

@strollin_stu lol I’m not 100% sure it would be done competently, but I’m sure there’s something they could do that would be addicting and fun enough to actually play. I guess there’s some Pokémon and Kirby games that currently free, but they just don’t seem that compelling imo

For real tho, Nintendo has IP for every current trend and genre. I think F2P would really have to be a new franchise of some kind. I feel like splatoon would drastically lose quality. Pokémon makes more sense to me.

BY FAR legacy content. Nintendo consoles should come with the basic round of nes, snes, n64, and game boy software preloaded ready to go. I know this isn’t exactly the same the free to play software we’re talking about here, but still

Wait I thought kotaku made it up. Oh wait

@Debo626 I definitely dismiss your point

@Debo626 lmao stop. Of course a woman sexually harassing a man is wrong, but it literally has no bearing on power structures of society. That dynamic is so rare compared to the every day sexual harassment of women by men for thousands of years. If you can’t see that, u are in another world

@Chocobo_Shepherd This is like saying “hey there’s racism against white people too!”. You’re ignoring years and years and years of an unbalanced power dynamic that is still ingrained in our foundation and institutions

Extremely disturbing. The fact that this likely was happening while Reggie was there as well is so whack. But also, this is the typical American workplace! It’s really depressing

Haven’t been this hyped for a switch game in a good while. My body is ready.

The slopping ink sounds are so infectious

YEAAHHHHHHH Nintendo are u ok? I think U might have some extremely based developers making some of ur popular titles

Metroid 2 on game boy for sure. Actually didn’t even play super Metroid until way later after prime. I was disappointed there was no spiderball

These ads are so cool

So sick that rank carries over from 2

I still thought there would be more, but it looks very very good. Definitely getting it day 1

Looks so good. Kind of expected some more ambitious additions, but overall this is going to be great. Kinda bummed it’s launching with the same ranked modes

Yesssss I love these idols

@Franklin I don’t get it

Obviously new modes, but more so I’m wondering if the apartments thing is real. Who’s the idol/s? Any other new weapon types? What is going on with the single player? I feel like it’s more than just basic obstacle courses this time

1000% expected, great! Can we stop w the splatoon 3 doomer meme now? Even without whatever is revealed here, it’s all new anyway so I don’t even get the hate

Is it the presentation, or is it the software?

@iLikeUrAttitude smt v is like everything I want Pokémon to be

O I am just further out at this point

@durrdevil 1.that is not a mainline Pokémon game and the fact that it took 25 years to crap that out is so whack. Pokémon snap is also a departure from the Pokémon mainline games
2. u don’t even know the extent of 3’s content yet. We haven’t even seen recycled content like there was in 2, how is it 2.5?

Inferior to the almighty wooloo

Lol does this really count as a mechanic

@durrdevil the irony of saying this with a Pokémon avatar is too much

Of course there’s more. It’s extremely obvious they haven’t revealed everything yet. They didn’t make a new splatoon for the same console to be the exact same thing, give Nintendo a little credit

Oooo I forgot about this! V excited for this one

TPC is definitely its own thing, but a Pokémon direct is in turn a Nintendo product as well. TPC doesn’t just blast one out without heavy Nintendo involvement. That said, it still doesn’t matter. There will 1000% be a splatoon 3 info dump this month

Doesn’t really resemble Mario land at all, but still good art nonetheless

@Li_Bae people fear the unknown

@HammerKirby why does it need to wait? I do t understand. If it’s really good and ready to go on a console that presumably has another 3 or so year lifespan, what is the issue?

ALSO there’s been a huge emphasis on the new setting. A seemingly isolated city in the middle of a vast wasteland. The bow is the big showcased new weapon and the cinematic from the original trailer evoked a feeling of adventure. I think there’s more to this than we know

@Snatcher worth noting that acnh looked basically exactly like new leaf until the direct a month before launch dumped loads and loads of info. I highly doubt they would make a splatoon 3 on the same console that was just exactly the same

@dojmin the first one actually is still very active. You’ll get more than enough time to enjoy the new and even go back to it some years later

@HammerKirby tbf splatoon is still a very new series, and the formula is nowhere near stale or losing any kind of steam at this point. Not sure a reinvention is needed quite yet

People, as in arlo made a video. I’m not worried at all. I still think there’s some kind of mode or catch we don’t know about yet. However, Nintendo tends to encapsulate big core gameplay elements on the box art. I thjnk we all know what we’re getting here for the most part. Totally fine with it. I want it now.

@PessitheMystic yeah kinda sounds like you’re not just asking questions and wanting to understand. You def have firm opinions on the matter and clearly looking to provoke. Good luck out there

@PessitheMystic I’ve basically already answered it, but there also used to be no warnings on anything. Whether that is mental or physical health. No warnings on cigarettes or lead toys or extreme gore in movies etc etc. They also used to harm animals on film for movies and have children work adult hours in factories. These are extreme examples, but the existence of a trigger warning on a piece of media that has particularly heavy themes is not that big of a deal, and is really helpful for people who would rather not access certain emotions for the sake of consuming that media. And fwiw the mpaa existed for this genre of movie you are referencing, it’s really not that different

@PessitheMystic with mental health matters being destigmatized over the last handful of years, there is more of an awareness and acknowledgment of stimuli that could trigger extremely stressful and negative reactions, recalling trauma in any given person. Being broadly desensitized to violence, sexuality or any number of themes in modern media doesn’t mean certain traumas are just fixed and everything is fine. Trigger warnings are much appreciated if appropriate