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Re: Soapbox: Splatoon 3's 'Grand Festival' Was The Perfect Goodbye

Vivianeat

@N00BiSH If Nintendo wants to milk us little by little with every new game with small changes, how can they bring in new fans that don't need to worry about older entries? If "fresh" just means putting it in the washer and dryer over and over, it won't feel fresh over time. BOTW was the reason why I started playing Zelda again. It was the shake up it needed. TOTK was my GOTY. Do I want another Zelda like that again? Honestly no.

If Splatoon doesn't want to change that's fine. I'll probably wait for the shake up when I'm 35 or 45 years old. I just can't hope and agree with the Nintendo overlords all the time. I understand what your saying. I just lost a lot of interest in Splatoon since Splatoon 3's launch. 3 just didn't feel right for me and I felt used because they knew I would buy it. I feared Splatoon 2 was going to be shut down with Splatoon 1. My opinon might not matter but I can't be the only one that feels like this.

Re: Soapbox: Splatoon 3's 'Grand Festival' Was The Perfect Goodbye

Vivianeat

@N00BiSH Totally but I trust the developers to take on that challenge and not be afraid. Plus everyone is getting older, even the devs. One of the main reasons I didn't play 3 very much was how similar it all felt to previous games. Everything felt a little faster and that's about it. I just really want to get interested in the franchise again. Me and my aunt are fans and she doesn't want to play 3 because she hasn't played the last one and I'm telling her its ok not to play the last one but that's just what happens when a number is placed after a title.

Re: Soapbox: Splatoon 3's 'Grand Festival' Was The Perfect Goodbye

Vivianeat

@N00BiSH new plots, new mechanics, new look, nothing cohesive from prior games. Live up to one of it's slogans, "fresh". Kinda like all of Nintendo's games every iteration to keep up and gain new fans, especially the younger upcoming generation. Splatoon sequels are just updated versions of each other.

Re: Does Astro Bot's Super Mario 'Inspiration' Cross A Line? Fans Seem Divided

Vivianeat

@UltimateOtaku91 I love this site but the influential bias on here is wrong. Especially how potent they can b by just reviews. Give a game 6//10 and you'll get comments like "bummer I guess I'll skip this one". I hope their review of Zelda Echoes is very critical, but likely won't.

Popular sites like this can supress the success of any game they want. They can choose who wins. Plucky Squire (looking forward to this game btw, it looks just like a Zelda game I would buy) is an example. This is really the only site that talks about that indie game consistently in comparison to other indies and even use it's art in their article thumbnails often. Their huge fans of James Turner and he's Brit so, boom.

I love Palworld and Foam isn't even that bad. I love Splatoon but the Splat community is just toxic and simpy sometimes. Any criticism of Splat 3 and they'll eat u up. When Foam was announced, they lost their minds.

Re: Does Astro Bot's Super Mario 'Inspiration' Cross A Line? Fans Seem Divided

Vivianeat

@Lightsiyd Agreed. I recently started playing Foamstars on PS5 due to all the toxic gatekeeper attitude from Splatoon fans, saying it's a clone and being unoriginal and u know what? I really liked it! The maps, the characters, and style. A nice break away from the small kiddie look Splatoon characters have. My friends and I have been playing FS almost everyday. There are a few things Splatoon could learn from it.

Seeing games challenge Nintendo's royal throne is nice once in a while.

Re: New AI Model Can Recreate Super Mario Bros. Footage, But It's Full Of Glitches

Vivianeat

@RygelXVIII Ik. Ai it will just make it easier for them. Don't kids today make prompts of pics and videos now? Every upload of anything feeds the ai machines. Every dev u know is likely experimenting with ai to put out products faster. What sucks is that they're not transparent about that. No AAA dev has put out any statements about being against it unfortunately. I hope I'm wrong.

Eventually a very literate kid can just type in a game they want without any coding exp. I don't support ai but that's what kids and teens are growing up on now. What's happening now is no different than the anti-calculator era in the 60s. Trad artists today still despise digital art too.

Re: Soapbox: The Next Pokémon Game Should Rework Old Critters, Not Just Add Dozens More

Vivianeat

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS! I would hug this article if I could!

We have too many forgettable Mons, and to see each one have multiple SUBSPECIES should be the future of the franchise! Tentacool to Toedscool was a great example and currently my fave! There are enough monsters to keep making variants!

Even popular ones like Charizard, would be cool to see have a downgraded variant without wings to match it's environment. I always imagined a water type Charizard as a kid (Hydrozard).

This would be such a fresh take and would make me excited about Pokemon games again!