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So who's been skyping on this?

To answer the question @RedShell... This. Just this really. Nintendo's multiplayer offerings just don't cut the mustard. Mario Kart doesn't have a decent Battle Mode and without being able to chat to your friends whilst racing and having a laugh together it just feels soulless and empty... same with Smash. I reckon if I see Splatoon at under £10 I'll give it a go. Otherwise it's not worth my money in my eyes. Whereas I loved Pikmin 3 and SM3DW, they should have had online. I thought Nintendoland was the most boring game I've ever played but if it had online and voice-chat I'd have played it for the laughs with friends. The only home console I've not owned (of the big 3 and Sega) is the PS3 so it's not because of having played other consoles. It's because Nintendo haven't progressed.

It makes no sense at all, it's a team-base game, it should be ranked on teams. Yet because there's no option to party up with friends they can't really do this, they shot themselves in the foot.

Even before he was ill he wasn't fit enough to run Nintendo. He's not forward thinking enough, they need someone at the helm that will drive the company forward into this day and age.

So when it was announced it'll never have voice-chat that put me off. Since then we've learnt... 1. You can party up with friends and join games, you're randomly assigned to teams. 2. Once you search for a lobby you can't back out, you have to power down the console. 3. There are only 2 modes at the moment. 4. In one of the modes (ranked) you can't join friend's lobbies. 5. There are only 5 maps at the moment. 6. There is a 2 map rotation and it's every 4 hours. 7. You can't change loadouts during matches. 8. The free DLC announced still doesn't add much at all, still less than the standard content at which most games release. Given that I've pretty much just woken up I may have forgot something but these are off the top of my head. So how have you been so blind not to see this Serebii?

You'll never see it @Serebii, you're completely blind to it.

Not for me it's not. I see it as laughable in comparison with Battlefield!

It's good that you guys are enjoying it, but I'm just gutted it's not even half the game it should've been and what it is doesn't warrant a purchase from me. Just different standards between us that's all.

Jesus, I was considering picking this up on the cheap pre-owned but Nintendo keep taking steps backwards with online and are almost putting me off completely... it all sounds awful! I think I'll see if they address the multitude of problems after the August update.

Jesus, for an online focused game that's not good! Not good at all! Haha

Haha, true... but I don't think he's played them 9 times, taken a penalty and still not managed. He is something special though isn't he, outrageously good!

Still, can't score against Chelsea. :p

I love TP & SS but agree with comments on their overworlds. I'd not say they lacked charm but the worlds did feel a bit sparse. One thing @Ronnie and I agree on completely is that we both think the animations need a huge overhaul. Link looks so rigid in his movement that it detracts from the immersion.

@Ronnie, you remember them saying Zelda would also be released in 2015 right? You can't say that it'll not be shown at all just based on what they say. Hell, they said the WiiU's online features and options would be up to par with the competition... ha. I don't trust anything Nintendo say these days. I've learnt from being burned repeatedly.

It's not silly if he chooses to self censor, it's silly to get annoyed by him doing it.

So not craploads.

So @Serebii when did Nintendo say how many different game modes were coming and how many was that number?

There was so much potential to this game that will just go unrealised.

@Serebii you never cease to amaze me at your blind defending of the indefensible. You'd defend Iwata if he came out and said he was a serial child-murdering paedo!

It was a slight in all honesty. It's just that Nintendo are late with their foray into online and these beta tests they've done are a little too short and close to release to iron everything out. With them adding to the online too, more niggles will pop up along with this. ...and they're adding to the online for free because the game is incomplete as it's release package. If it was finished they'd charge for the DLC. They know it's unfinished so they're giving it free.

This is Nintendo and online you're talking about. Not to mention that it's an unfinished game, of course there will be problems when it's released.

I was round at a friends yesterday with a few others, just chilling having a drink and takeaway after work, we had some music channel on (not sure which) and the Splatoon advert came on. After it said "Nintendo's online 4vs4 shooter" (those words from what I recall), one of my friends asked me about it so I told him the premise. He started talking tactics and strategy etc. (we used to game on CoD/Battlefield on the 360), when I mentioned the game had no voice-chat, this of course bewildered them and they lost any interest, laughing it off. One of my friends (who doesn't game) asked why would they have it so you could not even be able to talk to your friends... I had no answer of course. Idiots Nintendo, idiots. Still, there are adverts out there and this was around 11pm at the time.

Holy crap, I did not realise Private Pyle is also Kingpin from the Daredevil series!

Same here so I'm not too sure. The manga though... wow! I hope the anime does it justice!

Another simply fantastic One Piece chapter! This arc has been all kinds of awesome, I just hope the anime does it justice. What worries me is that the anime has pretty much caught right up to the manga and so I worry it may have padding to slow it from completely catching up which will lessen the arcs awesomeness.