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@Zechs Merquise, what I mean is that the game will split the teams as evenly as it can. Unless there's a party then ranks will generally be evenly spread across the teams. It won't be one team all high ranked and the other team all low ranked.

I couldn't think of anything worse than a Metroid x F-Zero x Starfox crossover! God no! I just don't think the universes fit together at all. Starfox is too cutesy and F-Zero is too camp. Metroid belongs in it's own universe without any other series tarnishing it.

I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would although I didn't think it was that great, good though.

No it's not. You only find it does this in other games when you can join parties and search for games, as one party may have all high ranked players and the lobby may have people with lower ranks in the opposing team.

I hope they don't spend time in DLC. Sure, announce it but don't dwell on it. E3 is not the place to go on about DLC, it's the place to announce new games!

Zechs rants, classic! Haha If you guys are up for skyping whilst on this regularly I'll pick this up this weekend?! Yes @Ronnie, that's how much talking to mates whilst gaming means to me, I'd happily do a u-turn and buy the game! Sure it'll have it's nighles still with it's low content and poor online options but talking amongst mates while playing makes that bearable... before you go on at me

Fucking. Gold. Thank you Hero, I could not stop laughing!

I've not given it a proper listen just yet but I had it on shuffle in the gym just now and thought it was great.

@Blade you will LOVE Megaman! I've not checked the WiiU eShop for a while now but I think I've got all of the Megaman games on it. Megaman 2...my god I love that game!

Kyle Bosman is the best thing in gaming! Other than games and consoles.

For an online multiplayer game, I'd complain at 40 hours game-time... but I guess that's only because almost all other online multiplayer games keep me gaming for hundreds, and some thousands, of hours... with the exception of Nintendo games for obvious reasons (lack of content/options/voice-chat).

It's such a good point though. I feel people are letting it slide as it's Nintendo, and a new IP from them at that. If any other big game company released it as it was they'd have been slaughtered for it.

@Phube, given that you can't talk to one another on the game does it matter if you're gaming with friends or not? I don't see the difference if you can't chat together, they may as well be randoms.

@Blade, nobody at all has suggested people can't say it does meet their standard. I don't see why you make that comment if it's not directed at anyone. I'm not faulting Nintendo's single-player games, not at all... although I wish there was more of them. Multiplayer however, is where I'm finding them falling miles short! That's where I'm criticising them.

Oh crap!!! No, I forgot about them again. I do game with you guys more than anyone else, much more. I've just not been in a gaming mood as of late. I've still not picked up The Witcher yet, I just can't be bothered gaming for some reason...

To be honest I've not done any gaming for over a month now after playing MH4U online daily for a while. I've not actually gamed on my WiiU or PS4 since January... I've been watching and reading a lot instead. This is easily the longest I've not gamed, I'm not too sure why as I've a backlog too. When I was gaming though, it was online multiplayer almost every day, so I'll tick that. I think I've played locally maybe five times maximum in the last 12 or 13 years. My friends that are gamers all live elsewhere after moving for uni etc, but they don't even game much these days... we're all getting too old and they've all got families now keeping them busy.

Yes, it's just that glaring issues get sorted on the non-Nintendo games. :p I think the thing that annoys me most with Splatoon is that it had so much potential. So much! I'm gutted that they've come to the table with such a missed opportunity to really name a AAA blockbuster title and make it the game it deserves to be. As soon as I saw it I had so many ideas for game modes etc. but it's just so lacking in anything like that it's untrue! Then they only go and bork all the options online for yet another game. It's so saddening.

It's a shame you've not given them enough time to appreciate that then. Just like it's a shame I'll not give Splatoon my time until they sort out it's glaring issues.

It's not just one feature though, it's a whole host of them, far too many and we don't know how many of them will be addressed. That's why I can say I feel it's woeful. They're not much of the same in general. Those 3 games you've listed are vastly different to each other. Not as different as Splatoon, but it's silly to say they're much of the same in general.

I must disagree @tapedeck. To me, your post just reads as "spin". Prior to the WiiU's release Reggie said to Geoff Keighly in an interview that the system's features (online features included) would be on par with Sony's and Microsoft's coming consoles. Yet they're not and so I feel I can validly say they aren't up to the standard. As you have said though, it is all opinion based, but can you honestly say Nintendo wouldn't have preferred the majority of the gaming public to have had the opinion that Nintendo were up to standard and so the WiiU would've sold more?! To palm it off as saying they're on a different path is very much spin.

@yesteryeargames to say Battlefield is like 99% of all shooters out there is nonsense. Not with all the vehicular combat and destruction in the game. Sure they're different types of shooters but it still doesn't mean I don't see it as laughable in comparison. The number of maps/game-modes/options etc is far too different to even try to convince me Splatoon isn't woeful. You may find it fun, but like I find MK8 and Smash, I'm fairly certain I'll just find it utterly soulless thanks the lack of voice-chat and also because of how much of an empty shell of a game it is.

That One Piece chapter...

I think the only thing Nintendo can do at this point to get me hyped is announce that they'll patch in party chat to the WiiU at an OS level. Or a Metroid. Retro Studios could possibly get me hyped though dependant on what they'd show, if anything at all.

@Ronnie, I've said that it's good that people are enjoying Splatoon. I'm glad you are. That doesn't stop it not meeting my standards. It's just that our standards are different.