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Who gives a flying fuck what the reviews say...if you like the game, play it. What's the point in disecting reviews? You're not going to make anyone change their mind. Plus it's a waste of time. There's a ton of games I don't agree with reviews on but I'm not wasting my energy telling people how dumb they are outside of saying "I disagree asshole, and this is why".
Hell, I don't even read reviews anymore..there's no need. You generally know what kind of games you like or don't like, and it's easy to get a sense of what you want to play without reading shit, thanks to youtube videos and user impressions. I think the last group of people I used to really enjoy reading reviews from was way back in the Greg Kasavin, Matt Cassamassina and EGM days before that. They felt sincere...nowadays there's literally nobody like that who feels like they're just a passionate fan who does reviews, so I don't bother with them.
But, one thing I really need to know, though. Is Splatoon 2 truly a real sequel?
I still like reading reviews and gauging the overall reaction to a game. Like BOTW reactions are interesting to me and I don't understand them fully.
I can't decide whether or not Breath of the Wild is a master class in open world design or just a big, old empty Zelda playground that exists to place a hundred+ Zelda puzzle shrines...
There are times I love it. There are times I'm just "Meh."
It's an accomplishment for Nintendo for sure, but I don't know if it's enough to justify the Switch in itself. I think I agree with Vader in that I hope this isn't what Zelda will be from here on out...
It could definitely benefit from a few more dungeons but I can't tell you how ecstatic I am to be rid of the hand holding.
I love the diminished hand-holding, but there are times when I'm also like: "Now what do I do?" I get it's supposed to be like the original again and you're supposed to go alone... but the thrill of finding dungeons and discovering new tools and weapons is gone.
I love the art style, the production values, the technologically advanced Hyrule and the fact that Link --LOST-- at one point but it doesn't feel like a Zelda game despite all the fan-service.
Robio. Did you ever get Ever Oasis?
If ever there was a game that blended one part Seiken Densetsu and one part **classic** Zelda, this is it...
Doesn't this art just scream... "The ______ of Mana?"
Oh no...
Chester Bennington killed himself today.
But it does feel very similar. It's like slipping into an old pair of slippers. Only now they're new again. And portable. New, portable slippers.
Vader, you can't compare how you play a new MK to a new splatoon. You play through MK once and then shelve it. Because of the nature of splatoons gameplay, it never stops feeling new and exciting. So even if it is similarily similar, there's a lot more enjoyment to be had. Unless you stopped playing the original because you had had your fill. I kind of drifted away of it despite still enjoying it. This new game is just a reason to dive head first back into the ink.
I played and enjoyed the demo, and definitely want it. Unfortunately, life is financially kickin me in the balls again. I just had to get a new air conditioner for my house and that pretty much broke the bank for me. So, I can't really justify any new game purchases for a while.
I think something like Overwatch would have the same issues as Splatoon if they had already made a sequel to it. It's the price you pay for basically being an online team based shooter with tacked on campaign. Titanfall 2 didn't have this problem because the campaign was designed to be just as big a deal as the online portion. If they had did the same thing as Titanfall 1, though, they would have gotten hammered for it.
Call of Duty is what it is. They're not the best games ever in terms of campaign, but most of them are at least entertaining and each is unique. And Halo has always made the campaign as big a deal as the multi-player so I don't even see a comparison there.
They need to dial back the world size and add in more of the point to point gameplay from the older games. Most open world games have this problem....they make them TOO big, to the point where they can get tedius despite how incredible the world and gameplay are. Just because we have the tech now to duplicate the size of a fucking planet, doesn't mean it's a good idea.
You've just described what Splatoon 2 has done compared to 1. Literally.
New stages, new areas (Salmon run), new skills, new weapons and so on. COD changes from World War 2 to Space? Splatoon literally changes from stage to stage, one is a game developers office stage by the water, another is the deck of a cargo ship, next is a giant roller derby. Then the single player has a world all of its own.
I don't get this. One game could have 4 levels, another game could have 4 levels, the number of levels doesn't mean both games or stages are the same. The number of levels is irrelevant.
There's Salmon Run as a new mode, how is that lazy? Who cares if it's PvP or not? And we have a year of updates, who knows whether they will intro new modes? Splatoon 1 launched with turf modes and the Tower Control and Rainmaker were all added later.
The existing modes have been changed btw in Splatoon 2 and the new stages will make all those modes different to play based on the stage design.
This isn't true, the map rotation time has been halved so you will be playing new stages a lot more regularly. And the matchmaking structure has been changed behind the scenes in the online code. The whole point of locking you into your weapon choice is so the new net code can now pair you less often with ridiculous teams like Splat 1 when you you got put on a team with 3 snipers or rollers, shit like that. Also the data packets have been reduced so you have less lag.
I agree with you to a point. Splatoon 2 is one of my most anticapted games and I want to be able to read some reviews without my eyes rolling into the back of my head. That's why I like the gamespot review, it's an 8/10 but its a completely bullshit free review not coloured, peppered or rammed down your throat with the reviewers pre-conceptions of what a sequel should be or not every 5 seconds.
That VG24/7 review is just.... ridiculous.
Speaking of BOTW, on Master Mode I faced down two small Guardians in a shrine and they were as tough as a moderate test of strength only there were 2 of them. Was tough. Moving full Guardians out on the plains are easier.
I'll have to disagree with you there.
And Halo's campaigns have all felt samey to me. And it seems a lot of people have drifted away from that series.
Splatoon 1 servers were getting hammered yesterday.
I've never seen anything like it - there was slowdown, horrendous lag. I could shoot someone for 3 seconds and they didn't die. I jumped up behind someone shooting them down from the air and somehow, due to lag the guy turned around 2 seconds after he should have died and killed me.
And I hear Splatoon 2 downloads are now crashing the Switch eshop and can't cope with demand. This doesn't bode well for Splatoon 2 server peformance if the game becomes more popular.
Getting Starfox Wii U today, had to qualify for free shipping on a LAN adapter. It was really cheap, game must have bombed?
People have drifted away from Halo because Bungie doesn't make it anymore and 343's work on it has been spotty. I doubt it'll ever be what it used to be.
Is it because XB1 is less popular than 360?
I don't really see how that has anything to do with the quality of the games or the popularity. XBOX sold Gamecube numbers and Halo was gigantic at that time....maybe the biggest franchise other than GTA. They've made one Halo title for Xbox One and it's good but not incredible. Not as good as any of Bungie's games. Neither was Halo 4.