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Pre-Release Splatoon 3 — Pre-release Discussion Thread

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LonkFromPA said:
I just... didn't get excited. I fear that this game will not do well in comparison to 2.
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I don't think there's reason to fear the sales performance of this game. It's got the biggest hype cycle ever for the franchise (1 year and 7 months, against only 6 months of 2 and 11 months of 1), is releasing on a huge install base and receiving a lot of marketing. Also it's releasing close to the holidays and will receive 2 years of free DLC.

If anything it'll be a lot more front-loaded than 2 was and still have legs. I think it has a shot of outselling 2.
 
DenkeyKong said:
The artstyle on them is dope. Also, it is playable against others online right? Or just against Inkopolis NPC's like Sheldon?
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Tbh from what the direct showed , it only seems like NPC's (maybe after launch they will also make it online), which is a bit sad. My local Nintendo twitter account also mentioned that the mode is ideal for ''On the road'' (my inkling about this, is that you don't need internet for it)
 
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The game will sell very well, the popularity in Japan + the massive install base guarantee that. Whether it outsells or significantly passes Splatoon 2 is a bit more of a question mark though, I'd say.

Has a floor of around 10M, ceiling of around 15M.
 
DenkeyKong said:
The artstyle on them is dope. Also, it is playable against others online right? Or just against Inkopolis NPC's like Sheldon?
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Someone might know for sure, but I'm fairly sure it was online against other people too. I'd like to know if I'm wrong though.
 
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Comic Obsessed said:
Splatoon 2 was a launch window game and was also a sequel of a game that released on a dying console. People were mostly expecting just a way to play Splatoon on Switch and that's what they got.

Splatoon 3 doesn't have that benefit.
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Of course it does. It’s a great game, and if they keep improving a great game, it has all the benefit. Plus as usual, they keep giving us a single player story mode.

It kay not sell as much as the first game in the U.S. simply because it is five years later and 1. That’s what we have left on Switch at most and 2. Splatoon 2 being a first year title means it got players that never played the first one and they either loved it and are now fans of the series or they found the game wasn’t for them as we see on these boards where some people aren’t into the multiplayer at all or the story modes.
 
LonkFromPA said:
I just... didn't get excited. I fear that this game will not do well in comparison to 2.
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Don’t worry about that. Whether it does as well as the 2nd in the west or not is irrelevant. The series is here to stay, especially with how big it is in their native land.
 
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About the lack of story mode spotlight: I was expecting it and don't think we should doom and gloom about it a lot. I mean, the very first trailer of the game had somewhat of a story theme, the second trailer was a story mode trailer, while we didn't see much of the stages, we know it'll have a "grand finale" so maybe they just didn't want to give away many spoilers?? Or, you know, maybe the game will receive a final trailer or a Direct trailer on story mode.

The game is not releasing bare bones nor "just this and the rest will be updates" like 1 and 2 were criticized for, so it seems like a very big and complete game for day one. After they made Splatoon, 2 and Octo-Expansion, I'll only think that the story mode will be substantial and fun as the team knows what fans want. I mean, let's remember the "Breath of the Wild has no towns" and "Odyssey is an auto-runner" nonsense we've been through in the past lol.
 
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Is it just me or anyone else is thinking the game itself, city, battles, etc look amazing graphics wise but Salmon Run looks... Rough to bad??? As in, the whole game looks like a generational leap over 2 but Salmon Run looks the same as 2? Maybe it demands more of the console or something.
 
I think it’s silly to worry about Splatoon 3’s sales, especially at this juncture. It’s gonna do fine, there’s no need to be concerned about the franchise’s health.

I don’t think I’ll be buying Splatoon 3 at launch, though. They didn’t give me bots, which would have been the clincher for my purchase. I have a lot of backlog to wade through. Including Splatoon 2 whose singleplayer and Octo Expansion I have barely touched.

But man, I actually do like a lot of the stuff they’re adding. The new movement options, the Splatana, the freaking card game that’s going to be cocaine, the Salmon Run IN THE CITY? All cool stuff.
 
Clam Blitz ires aside(I really hope they clean up this mode somehow. Seeing the changes to rainmaker at least has me hope that there is more than one basket to score in, at the very least).

Overall, a lot of the changes are quite nice. The changes to lobbies, and being able to play on the same team as friends for both ranked and turf wars is great.

The large amount of specials in this game will really help differentiate weapons. The Splatoon 3 exclusive specials look way better than 2's though. Not necessarily a bad thing, but will really depend on balancing.

I like the main idols. I am utterly disappointed in the shopkeepers. If they are going to create new designs for the characters, I really wish they wouldn't keep the same archetype.

Lockers are fun, I wish it were apartments, but it's at least something.

I am keen for more details on map and mode rotations though. They need to find a way better balance.

Overall, I am still getting this game. It seems very fun.
 
Marce-chan said:
Is it just me or anyone else is thinking the game itself, city, battles, etc look amazing graphics wise but Salmon Run looks... Rough to bad??? As in, the whole game looks like a generational leap over 2 but Salmon Run looks the same as 2? Maybe it demands more of the console or something.
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I wouldnt say generational leap, but it surely does look nice. Salmon run looks worse because of the grey esque colours and more same colour textured floors i guess.

The parts that looked worse tho were the lockers(lack of shadows) and the card game area of Splatsville, but that can be fixed before launch.
 
I am very curious about how these multiple checkpoints work. Rainmaker is my JAM and I'm pretty excited to learn those changes.
 
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I'm sure this has been covered already but fuck yes

Nicknames​

You'll need to pick a nickname when registering your Splashtag. This is different from your user nickname on the Nintendo Switch system and will only be used in Splatoon 3. Your nickname can be updated, but you'll have to wait a bit before changing it again.

You'll also get an ID number that will help identify you to other players. Even if you have the same nickname as someone else, your ID number will be unique.

Changing a nickname will also change the ID number.
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While I do like the 2v4v2 mode, I kinda want to see a true 2v2v2v2 mode added in the future. Would be kinda chaos but I think it'd be a blast.
 
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Marce-chan said:
About the lack of story mode spotlight: I was expecting it and don't think we should doom and gloom about it a lot. I mean, the very first trailer of the game had somewhat of a story theme, the second trailer was a story mode trailer, while we didn't see much of the stages, we know it'll have a "grand finale" so maybe they just didn't want to give away many spoilers?? Or, you know, maybe the game will receive a final trailer or a Direct trailer on story mode.

The game is not releasing bare bones nor "just this and the rest will be updates" like 1 and 2 were criticized for, so it seems like a very big and complete game for day one. After they made Splatoon, 2 and Octo-Expansion, I'll only think that the story mode will be substantial and fun as the team knows what fans want. I mean, let's remember the "Breath of the Wild has no towns" and "Odyssey is an auto-runner" nonsense we've been through in the past lol.
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I agree with this. It's hard for me to be disappointed in what they showed for the story, only in the sense that the first and second games focus has always been the online play. The story modes seemed like just some side content. The problem is that the potential for a big story mode and a grand adventure is clearly there, so it's disappointing that it hasn't happened yet. But, when I think about it, should they do something like that in Splatoon 3, or should something like that be it's own game? I honestly don't think there is a right or wrong answer here, but it would be cool to get a "BOTW" moment for Splatoon with the same multiplayer on the same cartridge, but I also wouldn't be upset if it was it's own game, and they kept the two seperate. I don't know if that makes sense business wise though, but that's why I'm not a business professional man person.

I guess that's a good problem to have. Not all multiplayer focused games would make very good story focused games. I wouldn't play a Fortnite story mode anyway. Splatoon would be great though.
 
I too think no new mode barring the cards game is disappointing, but maybe we can have one as DLC. Maybe they go in the route of ACNH, like, the same update with the paid DLC expansion also happens to be a meaty free update like adding an all new mode.
 
Honestly, I think Splat 3’s reception would be better if it had simply been more inventive with its aesthetic.

Like, Salmon Run had no reason to look the exact same as the version in 2 yet it looks almost identical. The hub is just a more busy, less ‘modern’ version of what we’ve had twice before. The shopkeepers share almost identical character archetypes. The enemies in SP are just the same as 1 and 2’s but with some hair, and the levels are still just random floating platforms in a void. The idols have the same ‘one is more mature with a darker colour scheme, and one is childlike with a lighter colour scheme” dynamic going on. Outside of a single map, the multiplayer levels just look like the ‘inner-city’ stuff we’ve had before (and that’s if they’re not direct aesthetic copies from the predecessors). The UI looks the same, the clothes share similar styles, and so on.

Say what you want about CoD, but the aesthetic changes significantly from year to year to always keep things fresh. It’s always gonna be ‘realistic military’ stuff, but it does a lot with that framework. You know that if you go from a Modern War to WW2, everything is at the very least going to ‘look’ different. Splatoon 3 doesn’t do that, with its whole ‘chaos’ theme amounting to a single map, a main character with a slightly-tattered t-shirt, and a small chunk of the single player.

If it had overhauled the UI, changed the looks of every weapon, changed the art-style of new and returning maps, and focused on differentiating it’s character designs, the game would have felt inherently different even if the fundamentals were all familiar.
 
Game is doomed to sell. Remember, only 'Merica sales count! Does not matter if half of the population of Japan buys it. Be USA or GTFO!
 
Raccoon said:
zelda fans complaining about an iterative sequel is pretty rich right now
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As far as the single player is concerned, I think it's been obvious for the last two games that despite whatever acclaim you can attribute to it, the designers have always viewed it as a side mode. There's really not much to "talk" about the single player honestly. Even Octo Expansion needed the allure of unlockable Octolings to really feel like it's worth the investment. It's quality content but it's also more or less going to be the same setup with new stage set pieces/permutations/etc. So far this one already looks miles ahead of the weak launch campaign of Splatoon 2 if only out of the several trailers we've seen that include more cinematic set pieces. Only thing I wished was that we didn't just have Octarians as our main antagonists again, but future single player campaigns will likely address that.
 
The vibe in this thread is very weird. I'm not a Splatoon fan but arguing it won't sell well or whatever is weird. The game will sell very well. There's no reason to not expect it to sell better than Splatoon 2. I'm getting very echo-chamber vibes from this thread/place about this game. I'll concede there is a lack of big new things(modes) but I actually don't think that'll matter in the end.

Comic Obsessed said:
This is why I said that Scarlet&Violet looked more interesting than Splatoon 3.

(Although that game is also not including the gameplay improvements from Arceus. The Pokemon way again).
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A lot of which just don't make sense for a mainline Pokemon game where the goal isn't to catch as man of each Pokemon as possible. Different kind of games deserve different types mechanics.
 
What all these complaints really sound like is "I absolutely suck at multiplayer but I love the Splatoon aesthetic, so I need a 30 hour single player campaign to justify buying Splatoon 3."


Or maybe that's just me.


I'm still buying it. Looks great!
 
First thoughts after that Direct were disappointing, I was expecting more new modes for the main multiplayer game. Was hoping for a local game mode as well, also Salmon Rub still only being playable at certain times is such a backwards decision I just don’t understand.

A lot of these tweaks and updates could have been implemented into S2 and saved releasing 3 until they more ideas. Don’t get me wrong, I am looking forward to playing it but my first impressions are it just looks like a slightly updated 2.
 
ITSMILNER said:
First thoughts after that Direct were disappointing, I was expecting more new modes for the main multiplayer game. Was hoping for a local game mode as well, also Salmon Rub still only being playable at certain times is such a backwards decision I just don’t understand.

A lot of these tweaks and updates could have been implemented into S2 and saved releasing 3 until they more ideas. Don’t get me wrong, I am looking forward to playing it but my first impressions are it just looks like a slightly updated 2.
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This. Could totally have been a big update to 2 lol.
 
Raccoon said:
a little surprised at the number of people who seemingly don't understand the idea of a multiplayer game
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As I said the other day:
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NGL, I do get a little annoyed when people complain about MULTIPLAYER FOCUSED games not having good single player options. Splatoon, the Mario Sports games, Mario Kart, Switch Sports. Like that's not the focus of the games lol. It's like complaining that BOTW doesnt have multiplayer or that Mario Odysseys multiplayer sucks.
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