In a recent article, IGN writer, Fran Mirabella, calls Nintendo out on the lack of a voice chat feature in Splatoon. He says after the Global Testfire Demos, he was left “indulged and annoyed” as he wished he could organise amongst his fellow team mates. The co-director, Yusuke Amano, says his reason for not including voice chat is that “he didn’t like the negativity I got and people telling me ‘you’re crap. Go away.'” Which makes sense, especially given Nintendo very much focuses on family-friendly gaming, but then why not offer at least an opt-in approach? You don’t have to voice chat if you don’t want to, but those that do are able to.
But perhaps Splatoon just isn’t that type of shooter where voice chat is necessary, and it would have changed the type of style Amano was striving for. Fran worries that: “it might only hold my attention for weeks instead of months without the community chat aspects that are so crucially important in today’s games.” But if it’s that important to you, you could use Skype or Google Hangouts– but his point is, why should you have to? So after playing the Global Testfire Demo, tell us your verdict. Have Nintendo really messed up by not including voice chat, or is it not that big a deal?
Are you kidding me? It’s 2015. A voice chat option is standard in most online team-based games, and it doesn’t have to be active with the entire map of tea-bagging grade-schoolers, but rather can just be limited to your team at will. We can have our cake and eat it too if Splatoon supports opt-in team voice chat. Nintendo has never been shy about prioritizing its family values, but the DNA of Wii and Wii U’s online experiences have mostly suffered from the lack of online features.
7.8 Out Of 10-No Voicechat???
There’s no water in Spla-
Oh wait, water based paint.
Yeah, 7.8/
Now that I think about it, 7.8 Out Of 10-Too much Ink. Is more fitting…
Fran Mirabella es puto
You know they could put a shoutout or something
But the hell Nintendo is stupid and the fanfags and the butthurt about voice chat
Tu eres puto también
In the demo, you could shout two different things, one of which was “Come Here”, and I already forgot the other, because I didn’t need to use them, but someone may or may not spam “Come Here” when in need of assistance. Works well, honestly. They were mapped to the D-Pad, meaning their may be two other commands to call out as well. Reminded me of the M key in TF2… Lol
Ridiculous. Read and watched the review on youtube. Focusing on all negative aspects and lack of voicechat..0 comments about looks, idea, music…Based on the comments of people shocked by the lack of chat…well, I have to say I’m glad I don’t have to hear them talk while I’m having fun playing.
Then that’s a very bad sign for Nintendo & they should actually rethink some of their decisions. If most comments are about the lack of something, Nintendo is obviously doing something very wrong.
Voice chat is for faggot Internet tough guys who can only talk shit while hiding in their room or else they would get beat the fuck up. Bye
K. See ya!!!
…Ironically you sound like one of those guys…
Me or this ‘todbl’ person???
You guys make it sound so unrealistic its insane.
If the game included voice chat and had the option to turn it off completely, none of this bullshit would be happening. Easy fix for a very easy “problem”.
Lord knows its hard to deal with strangers you’ve never known or seen.
I know right, people trip me up big time. Who cares if some random person says something to you that you’ll never see in your life.
I think the problem is people are too weak minded these days, instead they need to be pampered like children cause their little feelings will get hurt over something so stupid. Did their mom ever teach them, sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can never hurt you.
Really easy concept, they are just words.
I don’t think you get it. I was asking that because I wasn’t sure about who he was responding to, so I didn’t want to say something that I might regret, if he talkin’t replying to me.
Simply put, the words aren’t hurting me and I don’t intend for either…
Who cares if there is our isn’t voice chat. Hardly any of there first part titles do and it has never bothered me.
This game is a team based game. You need to coordinate. Voice chat is not needed, whatsoever, for any of their other titles. The online experience is gimped without being able to fully communicate with your team.
During the globa test fire, there was not a single instant where voice chat would have helped teams to coordinate better, because the game pad and merely paying attention to hot zones was all that was needed to make team mates naturally convege on problem areas.
There was absolutely no need, none whatsoever, for anyone playing the role of a commander.
Splatoon does not need chat for team coordination, and it was still an incredibly fun game without it.
So wrong. Every match I played, I wished there was voice chat, because my teams were so uncoordinated. You’re right in that game is still very fun, but for me and many others it would have been much more fun with voice chat.
What I don’t get, what is hard to grasp that not everyone is going to feel the same way? Just like there are people who don’t care for voice chat or think it is unnecessary in this game, there are just as many who would like to have it and think it is needed.
What I don’t get, what is hard to grasp that not everyone is going to feel the same way? Just like there are people who would like to have it and think it is needed,there are just as many who don’t care for voice chat or think it is unnecessary in this game.
:P
It’s not a deal breaker but having it as an option would be great. There were times when I wanted to tell my teammates where a sniper was, or flank an enemy and couldn’t.
Reminds me of what Tyler The Creator said cyber bullying.
‘Just turn off your computer’
Lol, I don’t understand how people get so sensitive about this stuff. Muting is there for a reason, you can always leave the lobby as well. -_-
It really is that easy.
Sadly, considering there are people hurting themselves because of cyber bullying, Apparently turning off their computer isn’t crossing these victims’ minds. Of course, it doesn’t help that most cyber bullying is actually done by people that actually LIVE where the victim lives. But yeah. Just turn it off if it’s by anons that don’t even live where you do.
Yes that is one thing that changes everything. That kind of bullying isn’t solely cyber bullying though, and honestly, its sort of unavoidable. I remember being in school and having to follow those unwritten rules with the biggest one being not to snitch. Its stupid to look back at it though.
I really only meant actual cyber bullying. Online with people you don’t know. I’ve been in lobby’s were people are left crying, and I don’t understand why they just don’t leave the lobbies, turn off the console, or even easier, mute and block the assholes.
If only you could mute and block people in real life… I’d have like 2000 people on my block list.
Lol damn hollow, what are you doing to these people? On my PSN I only have 2 people blocked, and on XBL I have one. They were being annoying lol
By the way, how are you enjoying the Witcher?
Lol wut? I meant actual real life. Not on games. I don’t have anyone blocked but I do occasionally mute morons on GTA V. Lol. And The Witcher 3? I’m so looking forward to playing it. I didn’t get it on my PS4 though. I’m in the process of saving up for a gaming PC and Witcher 3 was offered as a free game with the graphics card I got. I just need to save up for the rest of my parts though then I can play it. XD
You do that in COD I bet so join the club.
100% Agree
Or for people with friends. And calling people faggot isn’t very tough. And assuming everyone who uses voice chat is the same type of person is about as dumb and ignorant as you can get. When you assume you just make an ass out of u and me.
No its a normal feature us humans like to do to talk to our friends
Friends? What are those?
you sir are a fag
Says the same fag who’s typing the same way. :/ Never knew how stupid hypocrites can get but damn.
u are one idiot
I agree with you….i mean i would love for chat….but alot of people are usually a douche online…..some are cool people but majority are not…..cmon people you know its true!!!
IGN opinion :; http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7470/860/1600/Merda.jpg
You know what’s “cheap and lazy”? Writing a game review based on a one hour severely limited demo.
It wasn’t a review. It was his reaction on the demo and this article makes him look far more negative and rash than article was… it’s kind of unfair, although he didn’t write his article very well.
It’s not a review dummy
Lol that’s perfect I mean come on voice chat its a big deal
Honestly their is no real excuse it could of had a perfect 10. 😞
It’s funny really. No one whines and moans about popular games like Dota2 and LoL having voice chat. Nintendo does and suddenly it’s the worst thing to happen in gaming since Superman 64.
not having voice chat* is what that should say.
LoL and Dota do have voice chat.
I guess they wear headsets just for the look then, amirite?
-_-
Both are free to play games and Splatoon’s cost isn’t pocket change.
TOO MUCH INK!!!!!!! 0.0
7.8/10 to much fun
7.8/10 to much fun
Fuck IGN. IGN should die along with all the people who believe everything they say
I’m not pro ign but they are correct about the voice chat. I guess it’s round 8 for this argument on this site, get the popcorn ready, I smell a comment war coming.
Yes fuck them and their opinion because you don’t agree with it.
/s
It seems as if IGN wants to be threatened from 5 year olds.
Actually, I rather want Patcher to STFU first before GameSpot and then IGN.
Also, they could always add it later with an update…
It shouldn’t be a fucking update, it should be in from launch
Calm down. I’m only saying that it’s an OPTION.
oooh sorry ard
In the mean time, why don’t you ask Nintendo to restore online sharing for Swapnote/Flipnote? Oh wait, ain’t gonna happen. They’re still in their pussy/panties mode.
plz shut up they have Miiverse anyways for community we don’t need swapnote
No postcards, 3D viewing, multi-color or layer options. Miiverse is just a barebone Twitter with hindered freedom of speech.
Miiverse is pretty much useless now. Nintendo is extremely overprotective that I basically avoided posting much at all. And there’s nothing but attention seekers that do nothing but post drawings and morons that spam the communities with comments completely irrelevant to the games. If you post a question to a community asking for help or anything, people will either completely ignore it or it’ll just disappear under a flood of comments in a few seconds.
Not to mention that if I even mention a word “Facebook” in a post, Nintendo will remove that post and ban me in under 3 seconds. Fuck that shit.
Or you’ll get the occasional loser that is bored of playing games & just trolls instead.
Heyy! That’s usually me XD
Well in Miiverse, trolls apparently get to roam free, so at this point, trolling is probably the only way to have any fun there without having to worry about getting mauled by the admins.
And I bet they love the voice chat in Call of Duty titles. I for one would rather not be yelled at by kids after killing them repeatedly.
Hahah so truw
Did you even read the article? They were suggesting team-only voice chat, and considering you won’t be able to kill anyone from your team, the situation you’ve described would not be possible to happen.
And even if, you’d still have the option to mute them, if kids yelling nonsense at you truly breaks your feels. It’s not that hard, really.
Thank you. The moment that Nintendo decided to not include voice chat of any kind was the moment that they prevented Splatoon from becoming the mainstream success that they desperately need it to be. All of the options that IGN discussed were legitimate and very feasible, and Nintendo NEEDS to pay attention to ideas like them.
Exactly. Nintendo is still in pussy mode after Swapnote.
And you’re still in whining mode since the day you were born. Up until now, I have tried to be patient with you , but no more. Someone needs to put you in your place.
What is your damage? You always seem to complain and whine and moan and bitch about every miniscule thing. Seriously, you need to calm down, lighten up and take some bloody anger management classes, because your crap is getting really old right about now. And no, I’m not defending Nintendo, I’m speaking out against the attrocity that is your comments.
Ladies and Gentlemen, meeting the Cry Baby of the Year-thestrangablog.
Also, you and some here complain about this Sasori guy, but what exactly makes you any better than him. (I showed upon this site a few days before he left, so I don’t really know how bad it was, but chances are, based on what I have heard about that guy, you two seem like an equal waste of space.) Look in a mirror kid, maybe you might start reconsidering your life choices…
You wanna know what I finally noticed? The same fucking fans within Nintendo refuses to accept and buy third party games that gimps just the same way on the same features. Now when Nintendo does it for their own games, it’s suddenly okay? Fuck this. I’m done playing around in this circus act of hypocrisy, the worst kind in gaming.
I’ve have never made such claims I refuse to buy Third Party games through the fact that they miss features. I don’t buy Third Party games for the same reason I many First Party games-The money. Why would I buy many games, if I need to improve my financial standing. I’m not saying that it’s bad, I’m saying improving it would be my best interest in the long run. So before making random, baseless assumptions, try getting your facts straight and remove your head from your ass…
Ass, you most likely complain about gimped Wii U ports missing features and now defend a first party Nintendo game for the se clause. Stop your bullshit games.
You better listen to me kid. You better stop your bullshitting. The fact of the matter is, I have NEVER complained about Third Parties ‘gimping’ their games Wii U. Never in the comments section and never in real life. You think that me stating that I don’t even buy many games period because of me thinking about my financial situation is me talking bullshit. Seriously, you need grow up and let your ego go. I’d love for you to think about financials for one moment and tell me whether you will still buy games when you put money into consideration. Think about that, before you reply back…
Um. A kid got kidnapped through Swapnote. ^^; So I don’t blame ’em.
Now that’s funny. If he’s so stupid he gets kidnapped because he left personal info in a Nintendo app he deserves it. I’m just kidding. The parents should be ashamed, raising a dumb kid like that.
Your lucky you live is in such a safe country, to think such a thing.
Kidnappings? Were did you hear that? As far as I know some kid got a dick pick from some degenerate.
No. It’s about some penis/porn drawing and shit. Then some parent made a fuss and Nintendo just snapped into panic mode, ripping out swapnote/flipnote online sharing and gimped Miiverse on 3DS.
No its (Swapnote) actually about a child prostitution ring with Swapnote that was happening in Japan. It was the kind of thing if they didn’t take swift and it continued the 3DS could have ended up banned in places like Europe and US. Countries (and the UN which Japan is a large contributor to) take this type of stuff really serious.
This is one of the we articles left that haven’t been scrubbed, it covers a part of what going on. http://www.japantoday.com/smartphone/view/crime/2-men-arrested-for-assaulting-12-year-old-girl-they-met-by-using-nintendo-3ds
So it’s not penis drawing or kidnapping AND if it’s happening in Japan, then other nations that didn’t repeat the same shouldn’t be punished.
I think they discussed if they could just pull it by region, since it is region locked. But there are probably bigger holes, it doesn’t seem like there is anyway to monitor activity, like most modern internet software.
This is speculation but there was probably pressure from the Japanese government to pull it, because this would have been a huge embarrassment. It sucks and it might have been a bit of an overreaction, but then again we don’t know how big this got entirely cause it was swept away pretty quick. It also could have been that if they didn’t take this kind of reaction 3DS might have been banned in other regions, its happen to websites and products.
Really? *snickers* Better ban cell & smart phones since those are being used for wrong reasons by millions of criminals. Oh & computers! lol As stranga said, Nintendo snapped into panic mode & didn’t think about the fact the 3DS wasn’t the first device to ever be used for the wrong reasons & it CERTAINLY will not be the last!
Gets it ^.
It’s still possible for team members to insult one another if they see that they’re not playing the game properly.
You get people like that everywhere and on both sides.
Yes, I do realize that. The mute button works on both sides as well, though. :)
Three minutes is not a lot of time.
Every second counts.
Meaning every second spent muting foul-mouthed brats is a detrimental waste to your team, if vc in public games was included.
Friend matches would be fine, but leave voice chat out of my public games mid match.
Judging by some videos I’ve seen, you have a couple of seconds after you die. Nintendo could just add a small voice chat icon in one of the corners on the gamepad screen, and by tapping it, it could quickly show you everyone in the match and by tapping on one’s name, you could mute the person you don’t want to hear. So it literally could be a matter of two taps to mute someone, which would take only 3 or 4 seconds at most. Seems fine to me, honestly. Or just give people the option to decide if they want to hear people who aren’t on their friend list (and respectively, if they want people not on their friend list to hear them as well), so people who feel the same way as you will be pleased too.
While that’s true, and those are good options, its also true that during the time before muting someone, their chatter can be a distraction that can cost you a death, meaning precious seconds wasted either way.
I’m all for voice chat in friend matches, but it’s best to leave it out of public matches.
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Hahahah.
But they have a point…
Turn it off jesus christ sorry but I’m so tired of saying this. Turn it off, act like you never even had the feature. Magic really. Power of imagination. Why should people who want it not have it cause you people don’t care for it? It’s really not hard to grasp. How does other people having their voice chat ruin the game in ANYWAY for people who won’t use it anyway? Come one of you anti voice chatters give me any GOOD reason? Taking into consideration you can turn it off before you respond with the most selfish of answers, “I don’t like it so who cares.”
The fans have shown their stupidity and I’m so fucking ashamed of being a part of this fucking joke of a fanbase from the beginning.
For tactical teamwork and practically convenient reasons. Not to trash talk only fool and FYI, earliest shooters like BF2 had this so why say it’s not necessary now? Because you believe Nintendo’s “excuses” are okay and acceptable but not when third parties do it when they port gimped games to Wii U as well? STFU people.
Add Voice Chat with friends at least, I have no problem chatting with them.
I don’t think Nintendo’s developers have experience on that.
Why doesn’t Nintendo change Wii U chat to a chat room for every game so you can strategies with your friend? Splatoon really doesn’t need in match voice chat with only 3 mins on the clock! Maybe with 10 min matches but not with 3!
If all matches in the final game only lasts for 3 minutes, I’m so fucking skipping the game and officially say Nintendo fucked it up.
Yea 3 minutes is trash just like 2 minutes in online smash. You just start having fun and it’s over? Give us options to make our own rules and time.
Exactly.
Because Wii U chat is video chat not voice chat.
Fran’s a guy Lmao XD
So he is! Oops, sorry, my mistake. I will edit the post, thank you for pointing that out! :3
The industry is on the verge of a crash and they continue to give games like cod and evolve 9’s because they know it. It’s just IGN trying to stay relevant. Jobs will be lost in the near future and to be honest some of them don’t deserve one. Bunch of frauds.
IGN are cheap and lazy
Ping commandsssssss!
Yeah it’s 2015 and you peasants pay to play online, exposed.
I would have NO problem paying $50 online (always thought it was pricier but that is dirt cheap, sorry) after experiencing two SHITTY online nintendo systems. Brawl was ruined because of it online. Smash wii u is pretty trash online. Mario kart 8 has hit lag (you get hit but it doesn’t register for a few moments) and such. The best multiplayer games nintendo has to offer and they still haven’t gotten their online down pat after two systems. I would have no problem paying if it meant smoother online. Honestly, it’s like $5 a month. High school kids can afford that off allowance, or just finding money on the floor randomly. And I don’t get why people think internet gaming should always be free. It costs money. You pay to use whatever internet provider, why would you expect to not pay a little for better service?
PC online gaming is free. Stop making excuses.
Really? Wow is like $15 a month off the top of my head which is far three times what sony or microsoft charge and that’s just for one game as opposed to all games. Try again fanboy.
I’m a fanboy when I’ve bashed Nintendo for game droughts? Never defended this game not having voice chat. Keep trying dude.
Well… It sounds like you also might be having bad internet…
Maybe, but explain why other games on older systems have no problem online then…
YOu clearly haven’t had the problems I had on PS3… constant drops, voice drops games, in fact most of Sony’s services barely work on the bloody thing. Even the store is dreadfully slow, as well as Sony caps their online speeds…. so tell me who is worse?
Sony undoubtably has an incredibly slow online system with the PS3 at least. Trying to get into the store is a nightmare, and games are constantly dropped and laggy. I have no idea if this is fixed on PS4 or not. However, previous consoles such as the Xbox and Xbox 360 have provided an incredible online experience With far less drops and a store and such that load in a timely fasion. Hell, even the DSI was a more stable online experience than the PS3. I haven’t had this problem on the Vita luckily.
Its not really the service but there piece of shit app of a store. It wasn’t slow when the store was implemented in the system, it only became shit after the new store came in. I mean there service on the PS3 isn’t perfect but you can tell how much smoother things are on the Vita and PS4 because those feature were made in mind with the system, unlike the PS3 and PSP.
I didn’t have lag problems on Mario kart 8 online, just saying..
And my internet is not that great.
Because you were playing offline. Online, it’s actually racing against real people, not cpu.
Er no, I played online, please understand.
So you’ve never had a green shell hit someone and not register or register late or anything like that? Or just haven’t noticed?
No. Or maybe I haven’t notice that
Yea it’s something you have to catch, and it’s easy to miss.
If anything peasants are the ones who are somehow unable to afford $5 a month.
Damage control.
Lol losers say that, and you’re the selfish one who is calling others peasants in the first place cause they didn’t get a feature they want that doesn’t change the game for YOU in anyway. Selfish man. And clearly you have no friends, only people who have no friends are against voice chat and say stupid internet things like damage control or “exposed”. Hey you 14??
The game should have voice chat and I’ve never once defended it. You aren’t on my level dude so stop pretending you are.
haha please kid you’re certainly no where near my level :p
hahaha coming from someone who defends pay to play online. Ran out of lube? XD
hahaha what a tool. everything in life costs money. you want quality? pay for it. as a nintendo fan, I figured you would be conditioned to quality. but apparently not. if you expect everything free, see where that gets you.
Kind of related but kinda not:
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I already pay for online. It’s called the internet bill. lol these stupid sheep.
that doesn’t pay blizzard lol that’s a separate company
Some PC games have sub fees. What’s your point? Majority of them are free online. Blizzard doesn’t focus on consoles regardless.
“hahaha what a tool.”
Was using ‘tool’ & quoting Bill Hicks intentional? Because Maynard from TooL is a huge fan of Bill Hicks (R.I.P.). TooL’s song “Third Eye” starts w/ a few BH soundbites & some of its lyrics are directed toward BH. & the lyrics to Ænima were inspired by BH’s standup.
Yeah…I’m prolly looking to deeply into that connection. Still, I can’t unsee it.
Haha I know of their connection and how they dedicated Aenima to him, I love them about them, but no that was not intended but it definitely works. And damn it Maynard and them need to make a new one already. Lateralus is prolly my favorite with aenima and 10,000 days fighting for second.
Ok I’ll give you that one, you didn’t mention voice chat so I do apologize on that, I have just been in so many arguments over this that I probably got you mixed up with someone else.
Doesn’t need one. Just look at the map on the Gamepad. See the part that isn’t our colour? Make it our colour. Anything else is wasting your breath!
Exactly. That Gamepad does the Strategy talk for you. All you need to do, is get drown outthe world around you and get emersed in the experience.
Did she not see the Taunts? Combined with the ability to launch after respawn to your team mates and not be bossed around and told where to go by some IGN slut?!
And among the most fans on Wii U, who the fuck bothers with the gamepad anymore? Even I’m done trying to excuse it’s use. Now I realize I have no use for it and that there’s Pro controller and Wii Remote that best fits for this game.
Yea I used the gamepad for a while up till about wonderful 101 and was always saying it felt good…then I tried a pro controller and realized how bad the pad is. And now I have the hori fight pad which is the closest to a gamecube you can get and that’s what I use for all my games except smash where I use a real gamecube. Honestly the gamepad is trash for gaming, great for browsing internet and netflix and such. Even nintendo never bothered to do half the stuff with it they showed off for it at the e3 back a few years ago. Cause they realized there’s just not much to do with it, and gyro controls are maybe fun if you aren’t playing seriously, but I really just don’t like moving the pad all around to aim. It was good in wind waker to aim arrows and such, but that’s such a small part of the game. I seriously hope they get back to the nintendo us OLD SCHOOL fans know from way back. The ones who have watched the decline. NX will make or break them. I feel it’s their last chance to really get an audience back.
It’s like Netflix. I wanna use other controllers for it in case one fails and I hate being forced to use Gamepad only.
Funny you say that, I am using the Gamepad right now to type out this comment, so clearly your pea sized brain, hasn’t graped the proper meaning and usefulness of the Gamepad.
You kind of just proved his point by using the Gamepad to type this message. I myself hardly use that shit, horrible battery life, useless in game features, and clunky design. I much rather the superior Classic Pro controller. But hey, that’s just me.
Only an idiot thinks the game pads features are all useless.
It made Deus Ex into a far better game than on any other system.
In your opinion, of course.
They’ve proven their use constantly. They’ve offered new ways to play and interact with games on a bigger scale than traditional controllers can offer.
Another example: Mass Effect 3.
The game pad allows for the equipment and use of many more powers, for both you and your team mates, and faster access to them, than the normal radial menu does.
They are useless. Even Nintendo stopped caring for all these features. Its not just Nintendo’s features that are useless, so are the Vita’s which are essentially the same.
Oh you have a map on it? Great, so does the TV when you pause the game. TV off play? Great, take a beautiful game with amazing detail and take a dump on it, then put it on an shitt LCD that’s not even HD. Its great that you like these features but they aren’t game changing and all of these games can do without it. Take your motion, gyroscope, off-tv, bs and enjoy them now because these useless features aren’t going to make it to next console. Pro Controller is superior.
Pro controller doesn’t offer extra slots for quick use of powers in ME3.
It doesn’t offer a secondary data screen to keep the main screen uncluttered and to offer a better minimap in games like AC Black Flag.
There are plenty of useful offerings on the game pad that the pro controller cannot offer.
To deny that is to be willfully ignorant.
Those games worked well even without those shortcuts (yes because that’s all they are, shorcuts.) By the way, great job using old games to help your argument. These features are pretty much gone, and will be dead like motion controls by the next generation.
They worked better with than without.
The age doesn’t invalidate the point.
We’re done here. I’m agreeing to disagree.
Very well, now be gone heathen. XD
The Gamepad is useless. I don’t know why you’re trying so hard to convince yourself that it isn’t. Very few games take full advantage of it. Not only is it pretty much useless in games, but it can also make simple tasks a pain. Like, why the heck is it required to watch Netflix? And don’t forget the fact that it has horrible battery life so you aren’t gonna be watching crap unless you have it on the charger. And speaking of on, it also automatically turns on when you boot up the system regardless of which controller you used to turn it on. Wasting its battery life. And I remember when you were required to have the Gamepad to browse the eshop. You can’t just set the thing aside and turn on your Wii U and only play with the Pro Controller because they will FORCE you to use it at one point. They did that BS to me when it needed a system update. The Gamepad could’ve been much better but Nintendo failed to make it work. It can be good to use at certain times, but for the most part it’s just annoying.
Nowhere near useless.
The off tv play alone has allowed me to conveniently continue playing and watching things regardless of circumstances around me, and in most games I’ve played where the pad is given any sort of focus, it does its job well enough that it’s hard to imagine myself enjoying said games nearly as much if I were playing with a regular controller.
There isn’t any ” convincing myself” going on here: I’ve loved and appreciated the expanded potential it brings to my games since day 1.
A gamepad only thing is used for a stupid mad that’s on the TV screen! Wow! So amazing! Third party developers didn’t know how to use it(except Ubisoft with Zombiu) or even Nintendo. A gamepad is like the kinect useful for personal things,but for gaming it’s useless!
Yeah, no.
On both ME3 and Deus Ex they had tons of great usage.
Nintendo Land and Mario Party also made excellent use of it, as did Wind Waker, Bayonetta 2, and others.
You not appreciating, knowing, or understanding its uses, does not make it useless.
Off TV play alone has solved the TV sharing issue in a way no other console can do right out of the box.
Get back under your bridge.
@Smashbrolink Instead of focusing on the Gamepad, they could’ve been improving the actual system. I don’t know how many times we need to explain this to you. There are tons of people that have said countless times the Gamepad is useless. Developers even think so! The Gamepad is basically like an oversized handheld but with far worse battery life. And like I said, it ain’t “useless” because Nintendo forces you to use it! Guarantee that if Nintendo said right now that you no longer needed the Gamepad to play any Wii future Wii U games, NO ONE (except for you) would use it anymore. :P
Sorry, but you’re wrong there.
Not that you’ll ever admit it.
And the only devs I’ve seen calling it useless were the ones that either never did a game for the system in the first place, or made a game so horrible that it wouldn’t have mattered in any case.
Ok. Clearly, this is going nowhere. Let’s just say that it’s useless to me and useful to you.
Fair enough.
You named two old games for some reason. And then you named a launch title and then you named a crappy game like Mario Party. Only thing thing you said right was Bayonetta 2 and you didn’t even say Zombiu, Darksiders 2 used the gamepad well. It just shows you have no idea what you’re talking about. And the off tv play is useless when you live alone not everyone who has a Wiiu is a stupid kid living with a big family. Go back and take out your fanboy goggles friendo. Naming old games and shit it just shows you can’t name recent ones using the gamepad in unique ways. Not talking about Mario Party cause the new is awful
Being older games doesn’t make them any less valid, and you’re downplaying them precisely BECAUSE they disprove your reasoning.
And what I listed was just a short list.
I’m not going to go out of my way to spoon feed info on every game that used it well to some idiot that can’t even fathom its uses.
Oh, and I’m 31 and living with only a single roomie who isn’t always home( which adds up to me basically living alone most of the time), I have an HD TV, and despite that the game pad still sees use since I can get up and walk around the house, doing other things as I continue playing.
The only one here with no clue what they’re talking about is you.
Hell, I doubt you even own a Wii U.
We’re done here. I’m tired of wasting time on the likes of you.
One i didn’t ask for your age,cause really i don’t give a shit. And i’m not even going to reply to the rest of the comment cause it’s utter nonsense fucking dumbass telling me your age. Fuck no one cares! And i do own a Wiiu waiting for a reason to throw it.
Yeah, nothing but bullshitting and
“And i do own a Wiiu waiting for a reason to throw it.” but do that and u might miss a reason or two for keeping it
if you do throw it, then hit a turd farty prez in the head
if the hot air don’t melt the U, he might finally have a brain for games
Nope. It’s not just you. I definitely agree.
Except I have no need for it and now I realize this fanbase is as fucked as the others. Xbox, PS, Nintendo and PC have all gotten so fucking ridiculous in their own reasons that I’ve had enough with gaming and I can’t enjoy shit anymore.
Go play with your fucking iPad knockoff until it breaks and at that point, you’ll have to buy another console to use it so good luck with that asshole.
Done with gaming? Great!!! Now get your monkey ass and show yourself the door.
How are you fooling? You’ll come crawling back when the NX comes out.
Nope. I’m finished and just had enough with Nintendo and fan’s silly BS games.
Does the map tell you where your enemies are? Can the map give you a heads-up about enemies approaching certain areas? Can the map tell you to be extra careful when you are approaching a certain area, because enemies are waiting to ambush you? Can the map tell you which area to focus on because enemies will be attacking that one? Can the map tell you anything besides which area is which colour? No? Then there might be a point to using voice chat.
I seriously don’t understand how people can get so defensive about the lack of a feature that’s basically a standard in this day and age. Whether or not you want to use it is completely up to you, but it’s about giving people options. There are enough people who do want to use voice chat, so why not just please everyone and add the feature, so people who do want it can use it, and people who don’t want it can mute it. That’s right, you can actually MUTE it. That means you won’t hear the people you don’t want to hear, or you can just mute everyone alltogether! Amazing, right?! /s
It really isn’t all that difficult.
I seriously feel like people here don’t comprehend the concept of *options*.
As much as I wanted voicechat, when I tried out the global testfire, I really didn’t feel like anything was missing.
Exactly, you didn’t feel like it was missing. I’ve heard from a couple of people that they, however, felt like it was missing and that the game would have been more fun if voice chat was there.
Of course it’s understandable that not everyone playing the game will feel the need to use it, so it’s absolutely okay if you were one of them, but as I’ve said, it’s all about options. There are enough people who would enjoy the game more if voice chat was offered.
So much ^this^
Sing it Namie. You’re saying what Im to baked to type.
All Nintendo has to do is implement it for friends only IN-GAME and have a mute/report option in place for troublemakers. That’s it and it’s so fucking simple.
Because it’s a demo dummy. Of course it won’t have those essentials yet if it did had voice chat.
-Calls him a dummy.
-Says ‘if it did had voice chat.’
Newsflash, saying something that doesn’t make sense and is not typo, doesn’t exactly win you any points in the brains department…
Fucker, think back to many beta tests of FPS/TPS games and tell me if they had working voice chats or was it just a demo multiplayer file?
Come back when your brain has recovered from the block of stupidity that was dropped on your skull.
I don’t want to be told what to do or where to go. I hated voice chat in monster hunter 3 b/c there were so many young people and drunk Americans I could not relate to anyways. The maps will be easier for you once you play through them a few more times. This game is better without the predictable language coming from Splatoon (already being joked about as hentai and tentacle porn on forums). Nintendo got this rated E for everyone so they could sell to the broadest group of buyers. They need the money. Voice chat would limit the audience.
Except for the fact that voice chat wouldn’t affect the rating since ESRB doesn’t rate online interactions.
There is a difference between “telling people what to do”, and giving people advice, tips and/or warnings to help you and the whole team out.
And just because you’ve had bad experiences with voice chat in one game, doesn’t mean it’s going to be the same in every other game. I personally had some really nice experiences with it in a couple of games, but I don’t expect it to be like that in with every other game as well.
And I really don’t agree with you with your last statement. I personally believe that voice chat would broaden the audience. Many people are getting turned off by the game because of its limitations concerning online multiplayer, and even though it’s true that the lack voice chat alone should not be a reason for anyone to skip the game, I believe that it could very well get some of those people to buy it because online multiplayer wouldn’t be as limited as it is without voice chat.
If you are concerned about children being exposed to bad language, well, why not just have voice chat turned off from the get-go, so anyone who does want to use it would have to turn it on in the settings or something? I don’t think that the chances for children actually bothering to go to the setting is all that high, and even though it doesn’t completely eliminate the possibility of children hearing others talk, it would still help. All apart from me believing that it shouldn’t be Nintendo’s job to parent children, but much rather their own parents. But that’s another story, I suppose.
“…why not just have voice chat turned off from the get-go, so anyone who does want to use it would have to turn it on in the settings or something?”
Exactly what I’ve been thinking. If it were OFF by default (as opposed to the other way around), it would put more of the responsibility onto the player, rather than Nintendo (which is sorta silly anyway). Plus, if a disclaimer were included for the ON option in the menu (similar to the ESRB online disclaimer on the case), then Nintendo would’ve protected themselves & done all that they could have to help ensure the player has some level of protection AND had the choice. Seems everyone (players & Nintendo), could’ve had their cake & ate it, too.
I do, however, disagree w/ the article’s “cheap & lazy” accusation. Voice chat would’ve changed the experience, especially w/ the time limit. & Splatoon is already a different game. Personally, I found the teamwork aspect, the visual cues to be intuitive; & yet there was enough of an imperfection so as to allow a touch of chaos, making the experience more frantic.
But I did wish I could’ve @ least suggested that my teammates stop micromanaging their territorial marking. Or had the opportunity to change the way Splatoon is played, whether that’s adding more time, banning the use of certain weapons, or using voice chat.
Oh, & I think OFF by default & a disclaimer for ON should be a standard for all voice-chat games. Simple, & as safe as can be while still providing choice.
Exactly what I was getting at. If people would need to actually make an effort, as little as it is, to turn on voice chat, it would instantly make the whole thing a bit safer, simply because it wouldn’t be as “accessible” as it is when it’s turned on by default. Speaking from own experience, I never bothered to go into settings and all that when I was younger, but instead just jumped right into the game. I’m pretty sure that was the case with many other young kids as well, and still is today.
You could just set your voice command to say “Warning!” or something, but I see your point.
Do you realise that you just listed the exact same limitation over and over and over again in an attempt to make it seem like a compelling point?
No, the gamepad doesn’t tell you where enemies are, but there’s an item for that. Add in voice chat and that item becomes much less valuable.
The fact remains – there’s nothing that voice chat can add that isn’t in the game already in some form.
I agree though, we should be given the option, but honestly I don’t think we’re missing out on much.
I didn’t know that someone telling you that there is an enemy in a certain area is the same thing as someone who was killed telling you to approach an area from a different direction because enemies are waiting for you to come from the same direction as that same person who is advising you to do it differently did. But okay.
And I don’t see how voice chat would make the item you’ve mentioned less valuable. It’s not like voice chat magically grants you the ability to see all of your enemies on your map. When I said “Does the map tell you where your enemies are?”, I obviously didn’t mean that voice chat will help you know the location of every single enemy throughout the whole match. Voice chat will give you the chance to tell your team mates where you have been killed so they can go after that person who got you before killing more of you or re-colouring your areas. None of that lowers the value of the item.
just to let you know when your teamate is killed it shows you where the person who just killed your teamate for 5 seconds, also on the map it shows what area is getting covered right now(which means the enemies are there, common sense bro)
also there is a taunt button telling your teamates to come to you or to avoid you because you died(up and down on the dpad)
Unfortunately, I didn’t have the time to take part in the demo, as it was opened during kinda inconvenient times for a saturday in my timezone, so I didn’t have the info on those details, so thanks for that.
But those features still aren’t nearly as effective as voice chat, imo. Voice chat allows a team to strategize on the spot, without needing to look away from the game screen or any kind of other interruption.
I just don’t see how any of that justifies the lack of voice chat.
It’s official, Nintendo fans have gone retarded as well and it’s why Nintendo continues doing dumb shit stunts like this, limiting online fun all because of those retard fans and that Swapnote incident. I’ve had enough of this shit.
are you stupid? If your company was based around being child friendly would you not set up implications to stop children being targeted by illicit things on the internet?
never mind probably have no knowledge on running a business and you answered your own complaint by using the swapnote incident
Then explain why 3DS Pokemon games STILL ALLOW CHAT FOR STRANGERS? Or explain why the fuck are Nintendo fans being hypocrite on accepting Nintendo gimping their own games of vital features but not when third party ports does it?
You’re done with ‘this shit.’ Well I’m done with your shit.
Here’s an idea, do yourself and everybody else a favour, and sod off from here and preferably fall and die in a hole. And that’s me holding my real feelings about you back…
Like if that little “death threat” is gonna make my cringe the slightest. You’re a riot.
Death Threat? Where did I say that I was going to kill you? Oh wait, I didn’t. I stated that I wish that you go die in hole. As in, fall and die as a result of your own stupidity.
Again, I am tired of you throwing your weight around, like you’re right and everybody else is wrong by default. Listen kid, consider this a spot of ‘friendly’ advice. Don’t even dare try to throw your weight around in the real world, because there WILL BE somebody around at the time, that WILL beat the attitude right out of your body. Believe that…
You tell me to go away and die. That’s more than likely a “death threat” dumbass.
XD I’m sorry. But I’m just cracking up right now. This argument is hilarious.
Idiots, idiots everywhere. lol
I’m sorry, I don’t know what game you’re supposed to be playing on that rant, but it absolutely isn’t Splatoon.
Enemies about to ambush? Enemies taking an area next? You really didn’t play the Tesfire, did you?
You know how to be careful? When there’s enemy ink on the floor. Other than that, interactions are so fast that by the time you tell somebody to head somewhere, the enemy is already on the other side of the very compact map. And since is not a game about killing, but splashing, the only guide you need to know where to splash, is on the gamepad. Call it whatever you like, it doesn’t need voice chat. If you had played it, you’d understand
You’re describing whatever mindless shooter you like to insult women and children in. This is not that.
I indeed did not play the testfire, as Nintendo chose to make it take place on rather inconvenient times for a saturday. But I’ve seen videos, and those were the impressions I’ve gotten. I’ve also seen others who indeed played it, or claimed to have played it, talk about similar things on other websites than this one, so I honestly don’t believe I can be all that wrong about what I’ve said, ya know?
Besides, the fact that you’re calling other shooters “mindless” and accusing me of “insulting women and children” is priceless, considering it shows how narrow-minded you are, all apart from the fact that I am a woman myself which doesn’t give me much reason to do any of that. You tried, though. :)
Just in case I responded to you before, it may have been a mistake. this sites comment section is designed poorly
Most of these people against are are selfish as all hell and they all assume that because they experienced someone cursing online or HEARD of it happening, that everyone who plays online is like that. Very narrow minded these people are. And that is the ONLY reason they can come up with is they don’t like “little kids acting tough behind a screen who would get beat up in real life.” My god I know you too are tired of this almost daily argument on this site lol.
Selfish and narrow-minded, probably the best words to describe people defending the lack of voice chat. :)
And I could say the same right back to you, I’m sure you must be tired of repeating the same things over and over again as well, haha. We’re on the same boat. :p
Yup lol I’m glad I have you and some others here to remind me I’m not the one being selfish or in the wrong.
Selfish? Really? You’re the one who is selfish if you can’t grasp that a game that isn’t about killing the enemy first needs voice chat. But it’s pretty clear you haven’t played Splatoon, or Dark Souls (a game with multiplayer and no voice chat) and Smite, and well any game that doesn’t have voice chat but has multiplayer… so your point is moot.
You’re fucking dumb and I won”t even bother to respond since you don’t know what selfish means dipshit.
Respond to your statement in general that is, I did respond but I am not going to explain myself is a better way of stating that.
The game isn’t about shooting other people, that’s a secondary objective. You sound like you haven’t played or read anything about this game. The main objective is to cover the level in your color, if you can’t handle that without someone babying you around then you clearly have a problem and shouldn’t be gaming.
You do realize you can’t paint the area if you are, I don’t know, dead? And that people can kill you on your way to unpainted areas? The things I’ve mentioned were obviously just quickly made up examples.
But the fact that you can’t tell the difference between people “babying” you and getting advice and heads-ups from team mates in a strategy game is kind of unfortunate. But don’t worry, I won’t tell you to stop gaming, that would be ignorant, after all. :)
Actually, yeah, the map basically DID tell me all the info I needed about enemy positioning.
Anything it did not tell me, I figured out through observing the movements of my team and the state of the environment.
Not once did anyone get the drop me from the from the front through an ambush in their own ink.
Likewise, I never once had any need for someone to tell me where I needed to go.
The enemy revealed their own locations from a distance merely by painting as they moved.
And the enemy always, without fail, tended to congregate around the largest areas my team had painted, and if we kept pushing them back, and they were smart, they would tend to focus on painting areas we neglected instead of directly confronting us for control of that area over and over again.
Team coordination in this game does need voice chat.
Period.
If you’re going to argue for voice chat, do it for the reason that actually matters: improving the fun factor in friend matches.
Who’s to say some people don’t enjoy talking to their teammates though? Now if I went online and had a match with some people, and I enjoyed talking and cooperating with my teammates, I could then add them to friends list. Then we could play the next time. The people (including you) that keep trying to defend lack of voice chat keep focusing only on the negative side of things. It doesn’t really matter who you’re talking to. They could’ve easily added an option for voice chat and an option to disable it/mute people. It was a simple feature that people were asking for and they failed to put it in.
I’m defending the lack of mid match voice chat in public matches.
Not the lack of voice chat period.
Voice chat before and after matches in public would be a much better alternative than ignoring the counter-productive negatives that come with enabling public chat.
Also, most people in public matches, in other shooters, do not use vc for coordination or plesant conversation.
They use it for trash talk and generally annoying chatter that has nothing to do with the game, let alone half the people there.
Again, if we’re gonna ask for voice chat, it should not be done in the interest of public games or team coordination.
We should lobby for it in the interest of friend matches, because fun is the kind of logic Nintendo would understand and accept most readily.
No. If you’re gonna give people voice chat, give them the whole thing. Not half of it. There is no excuse for this. You are not the one that decides what’s better for everyone. Some people like voice chat and some don’t. Meaning there should’ve been an option for it. On and off. And mute. You don’t like hearing people talk? Turn it off and you’ll never have to hear anyone again. Simple as that.
No.
See, there are people that use vouce chat right, and those that abuse it for the sake of abusing others and making games less fun to play in public matches.
What’s been heard cannot be unheard, and muting wastes time that should be spent playing.
Mid match voice chat should be a privilege reserved for people who behave themselves enough in before-and-after-match public chat.
Not a tool included just for the sake of conforming to standards when it would see more abuse than proper use, and would cause much time to be wasted scrolling through menus mid-match just to mute people you’ve already had to suffer listening to prior to muting them
Mind your mouth in the before and after match chat on public servers, and people will be more likely to invite you and KEEP you in their friends list, so you can enjoy games with mid match chat without dealing with annoying man-children.
Ok, I kind of agree with that one. Would be nice if everyone behaved well. But I really don’t see that working out. Someone is eventually still going to act out and there’s really nothing you can do about that. That’s why I don’t really think Nintendo should concern themselves too much about what people say. They can’t control what comes out of people’s mouths and it’s useless to try to fight against it. They allowed voice chat in lobbies on MK8 and I heard swear words the first time I entered the room. So yeah, it’s just not gonna work. XD
That’s how you experienced the game. Just because that’s how the game went down for you, doesn’t mean it was the same everyone else too. I’ve seen people say the opposite of what you are saying, and considering there are so many people wanting voice chat, it means there’s a point in giving people the option to use it.
And honestly, I’ve personally used voice chat in both PvE and PvP in games, and it actually has been crucial for winning in some instances. It’s basically a commonly known fact that people use it for coordination in games all the time. So saying that team coordination doesn’t matter when it comes to arguments speaking pro voice chat is not correct.
This game is not like most other shooters, though, and that makes all the difference in how correct I am.
“Team coordination in this game *doesn’t need voice chat.
Period.”
Fixed.Cue applause
I’ll never understand the appeal of Voice chat, I for one am glad Nintendo didn’t include it.
Selfish /\
We’re complaining now. But I think if Nintendo would give us the grace of voice chat for one day, we would all realize that the Miiverse or Wii U community is not an exception for how shitty players can really be.
You can play monster Hunter 3
While we are on the topic of online games, no one is dissappointed about LoL not having voice chat (and do I have to mention it is one of the most successful MMO team based games), and I am happy about that: I’d rather read at a chat about how someone fucked my mother and I am a bitch than directly hear as someone tells that to me. I’m sorry for such bad language, but it was used as example. Will Splatoon need voice chat? Time will show.
You said it yourself. LoL still offers chat via typing, allowing you to strategize with your team mates even without voice chat. That kind of communication is not really an option in Splatoon, which is why voice chat would have been great.
CLICK BAITING IGN AND TRYING TO DOWN ON THE GAME FOR NO REASON TO LOOK COOL TO PS4 XBONE FANBOYS
THEY DIDNT MENTION THE REALTIME TOUCH SCREEN MAP MORON IGN
Your Caps Lock seems to be broken. You might want to get that sorted out…
How bout this? Optional voice chat should be in Splatoon. End of discussion.
That’s exactly what the IGN article was talking about if people actually took a minute to read it.
You’re dealing with selfish kids and prude adults who assume everyone online curses at everyone and these people just can’t grasp the “turn off” option. It’s pretty sickening actually this mentality and the fact they talk so high and mighty is worse. How can you possibly be so selfish to be saying you are happy nintendo didn’t include it when so many people want it? They are pretty much only happy if others aren’t I guess. They have to have their way without thinking for two seconds that EVERYONE can have their way, and lack of voice chat is INDEED lazy, I said it before IGN.
Its such a shame that Nintendo gamer’s think most Nintendo gamers are viles of shit. Do they really think so little of their fellow Nintendo gamers that they would defend such stupid decion like this? Or are really willing to go to these lengths just to damage control?
The fuck is wrong with this community. Smh.
It’s a kid friendly game. Adding voice chat would only allow for swearing and bigoted insults to be present in an otherwise safe place for kids to play.
And that’s the problem. It’s not technically kid friendly and Nintendo is going out of their way to play overprotective parents and banning everything that should be standard in this game. Now they’re fucking it up and the fun/playtime appeal won’t last long because of this.
Yup it’s time nintendo grew up and it’s time parents did their job. Nintendo has been held back SO much catering to these people. Honestly, I truly don’t give a damn if your kid gets exposed to cursing. It’s 2015, they have heard it all on tv and in school and straight from their parents mouth lets be serious and not act like these kids are the perfect little angels we want to think they are. Kids these days talk WAY more trash then in my day. And it’s funny, one argument is “I hate voice chat, it’s just little kids cursing” only to be followed by “we can’t have voice chat, we have to think of the children!” Please people at least be consistent.
And it’s also time for the fanbase to grow a fucking brain and a pair for once. Stop excusing Nintendo gimping features in their games when you bitch about the third parties doing the same.
Yup it’s just being a hypocrite at that point
Lol I’m glad that you can see through delusion. We need more sensible people like you on this site. You don’t need to kiss Nintendo’s feet to be a fan. If you see BS, you call em out for it! And that goes for any company!
Indeed good sir being a fan means knowing when to let them know they are not making the right decisions. Nothing wrong with critiquing a company and saying how they could improve.
Exactly big Nintendo fan and agree 100 percent
I don’t know why people are making such a big deal for voice chat. Every time I play on Xbox one everyone is in a party chat most of the time and the ones that aren’t don’t even use a mic. So what’s the difference? I end up playing without being able to communicate anyway.
People want options. Just because you don’t like nor want it, doesn’t mean everyone else feels the same.
Does that mean that’s everyone? No. Why does everyone assume everyone is the same online? Not trying to be offensive, just pointing out that just cause of your own experiences of people not using it doesn’t mean nobody does, and people complaining about cursing online doesn’t mean everyone online is cursing each other out.
Not to act like some sort of damage controller but wouldn’t voice chat be shit anyway? Voice Chat on Mario Kart 8 for example was really bad and I could barely understand what people were saying due to the Wii U’s mic not being top tier quality. So wouldn’t Splatoon having crappy quality voice chat mid-match be more distracting mid-match than helpful?
welp, you obviously didn’t play Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate…
I really think that voice chat doesn’t really matter in Splatoon, plus it’s pretty easy to figure out what to do: just flick your eyes in the direction of gamepad and check the map.
Hater gonna hate.. Just mad u bind by nintendo to play there ip how ever or when ever the hell they want and if ya cry baby still whining over the feature think about it like this if we can learn to not speak but comunicate through are action instead use voice chat for a distraction we get shit done.. Old school gamers can coprehend this why can’t ya spoilled ass lame ass fanboys who just follow theads
Compelling and wonderfully worded. Only im not sure I understand any of it.
Old school gamers are the ones who want the voice chat lol. We want the evolution everyone else already got years ago lol.
I don’t know what the problem is.
I had tons of fun. And if they include some more commands to de D-Pad it’ll be fine.
There wasn’t alot of balancing so far but i think that’ll be fixed in the full game.
I love the game mechanic. I loved how sometimes the teams totatly forgot about turf and just started splatting eachother.
Sometimes yoy go good and sometimes all goes wrong but it wasn’t even that frustrating to lose.
I think nintendo did really good!
Haven’t had so much fun with a shooter since team fortress 2 first came out and i think this game also has that fun and quirky style.
The exclusion of voice chat is in my eyes a great choice. Only adults would really use that to their advantage and how had is it to plug your ear and use hangouts on your phone?
I do however understand the frustration over this but remember,
It’s nintendo. They don’t do it for the fans.
They do it for the kids
Because you’ll have everyone you’ll ever play with, including people joining your team through random matchmaking, added in Hangouts, am I right?
To be fair, I’ve seen people playing Splatoon on a lan network, standing next to each other and hardly anyone ever speaks to each other, you can tell by the weapon types what kind of strategy people are going to adopt anyway.
Also everyone has a smartphone and a Skype/BBM/WhatsApp account these days, if you want voice chat that badly then it’s easy to set up.
Oh yeah? How many of the people you are randomly getting teamed up with have you added on Skype, Whatsapp, etc.? Do you have every single person on your buddy list added on those platforms too?
The main gripe is not being able to talk to friends, you usually keep your friends contact details on your phone.
Still doesn’t answer my question. I have plenty of people added on my buddy list that I enjoy playing games with, but I don’t have their contact details on my phone, just like they don’t have mine. Applies to both my buddy list on the WiiU and on other platforms as well. Good thing said other platforms don’t require me to use multiple devices at once so I can have an experience similar to having voice chat directly featured in the game, or even in the console.
Is is really that difficult to get someone’s contact details in this day and age? No it isn’t. Like I said, if you want voice chat that badly then there’s easy alternatives.
Or even stay on those “superior platforms”, if voice chat is so important to you?
Sorry that I don’t feel comfortable about sharing my contact details with just anyone? lmao
Or rather, sorry that I don’t want to go out of my way to share my details with others, waste minutes on adding them and setting up a chat with three people instead of just having it in game so I wouldn’t have to worry about any of that.
And that last argument sure was a mature answer to give. I don’t think you realize how childish it sounds.
Lol give me your name and number dude. While you’re at it, can I see what your credit card looks like? We’re bros, right???
Yea! I should also give you my adress and send you some pictures, just to help you to get to know me a bit better!
Dude! Send some nudies! hahaha
Oh, of course! It will tell you so much about me! I mean, nudes usually are very informative after all, right?!
Oh man, we’ll be such good friends after I share these things with you!
Hahaha man I just can’t get over these arguments. I really need to just get away from the computer but I’m at work and my job is essentially ALL downtime just waiting on calls so all I can really do is chill on the computer.
Aw, that kinda sucks. At least you can just browse the web instead of being forced to stare at the screen until a call comes up. But then again, MNN probably isn’t the most relaxing website to be on when looking to have a relaxing time, haha.
If you enjoy playing games with these people and play regularly then I dont think giving them your skype id is a big deal.
Also adding someone to skype and then calling them takes seconds not minutes, yet somehow it’s Nintendo who are the lazy ones.
It’s a perfectly legitimate alternative, if online gaming on Nintendo systems is causing you this much grief then maybe stick to the superior platforms that you mentioned, I don’t think that anyone would argue that the other platforms are not superior in that department. ie voice chat.
On the WiiU, they are people I met in SSB and had some really nice matches with, but I don’t know their names or how old they are, so honestly, no, I’m not comfortable with sharing my Skype or phone number with each one of the people I occassionally go back to play with. I’m a 20 years old, and I honestly wouldn’t feel too comfortable about adding a 12 year old on a platform I’m regularly using and sharing personal information on.
And it very well can take several minutes, if you take into account that I’ll have to add 3 people to have a full team I can communicate with. All of them, including myself, would have to get their device ready, I would have to tell them my Skype name (or they would have to tell me theirs, depending on the situation), I would have to wait for them to send me a request (or, again, the other way around), and we would have to add everyone in one chat, and some people take longer than others with things like that. All apart from the fact that when you use Skype on your phone, you’ll have to use a headset that will prevent you from enjoying the game audio if you want to hear your team mates. If you want to do it through Skype on your PC, it’s the same thing, but you can of course go out of your way and buy an audio switch so you can simultanously hear the game audio and your team mates’ voices through the same pair of headphones.
Definitely sounds like an effort worth going through, instead of just having the feature implemented into the game! /s
And about your last argument, I do own both Nintendo and other platforms, so I have free choice over whichever of them I want to play on. Nintendo has exclusives and franchises I’ve been a long-term fan of, and because I don’t want to miss out on new entries, I need Nintendo’s consoles. The fact that Nintendo is lacking in some aspects might decrease the fun I will have with their consoles and games in the end, but there still will be games I’ll enjoy. So I don’t see any reason why I would entirely leave Nintendo platforms.
Oh yeah. It’s really helpful and practical to opt out voice chat feature in a game that it’s needed just so it can force people to whip out their phones and waste a few minutes to set up everything when an in-game voice chat can do the same in an instant and speaking of smartphones and computers, what would you do if your battery is out or your tech is out of commission or not present by your side?
What then? Are you people gonna try to develop psychic powers to communicate through your minds? Like I said, this all “phone/PC chat alternative” is a very stupid and impractical way to do the same thing that an online shooting game should have and do from the start at least for friends match making.
Now I’m starting to see Nintendo fans going stupid over this especially after complaining MK8’s pathetic voice chat and Smash Bros. If Pokemon online can allow voice chat with random strangers, then why not the rest of Nintendo’s games? Think about that ya narrow minded fucks. Now I’m ashamed of being a Nintendo fan around you fuck yards holding the company back from evolving with the rest of the competition.
This childish outburst of yours, really doesn’t help the “We need voice chat” argument.
Haha this splatoon voice chat has really separated the fans from the fanboys and shown everyones true colors I love it.
And so you’re saying I’m a “traitor” of the fanbase and not continuing to be some blind fuckerhead accepting Nintendo avoiding online growth but complain about third parties when they do it?
I honestly didn’t feel like Splatoon needed voice chat, the matches are too fast-paced for anything other than basic common sense strategy, if there’s a place that doesn’t have your color, make it your color while rekting everyone…that’s the game.
Totally agree with him. The lack of voice chat in an FPS is totally bewildering. If it were a twitch shooter like CoD then it would be more possible, but still asinine. However, this game is more akin to an arena shooter which requires strategy and coordination with your teammates. I post on another Nintendo only site and, for the most part, we all agree that voice chat has been a big missed oppurtunity with recent games like this, MK, and Smash. Sure MK and Smash have voice chat, but it sounds awful. I remember hearing one of my friends voice chatting while we were playing Smash and I immediately told him to shut up. It sounded like muddled crap coming out of my surround sound speakers. It gets a little better if you plug headphones in, but you can still barely make out what’s being said. Nintendo really need to get with the times here. I’m starting to think that either they don’t know how to do voice chat, the system can’t handle it with newer games, or japs are just antisocial.
The fact that some people are suggesting that you use Skype or Google hangout is just too funny. I mean, how archaic is that. We’re reaching like 15 years back to Dreamcast online.
I absolutely agree with both of your comments.
I just don’t see any plausible reason to leave voice chat out in a game like this, but the amount of people defending that backwards decision is truly unreal.
This game is going to be a success with the core of Nintendo’s fans.
It will not be a success with the mainstream gaming audience without voice chat.
Sure most of us can play this game without voice chat and be perfectly okay with, because we’ve become accustomed to Nintendo’s below par online features. But Nintendo and the Wii U NEED this game to be a success for people other than the core Nintendo fans that already have Wii U’s, and the number of other people that buy into this game will be severely diminished when people start noticing the archaic lack of voice chat that they see as a necessity in the games that they play.
If Nintendo wants to appeal to gamers outside their core audience, perhaps they should include features that they are familiar with.
Nintendo’s below-par online features? MK8 and Splatoon run like a charm and they’re fun.
Nintendo is behind the competition in nearly every aspect in relation to online infrastructure and features, honestly.
But ahead of the competition as far as FUN! I, myself, will choose fun.
I don’t know about you, but the lack of important features does influence the fun I personally will have in the end. And it also comes down to what kind of games one does enjoy, and not everyone is into the type of games Nintendo makes. So your statement is quite subjective, actually. Whereas Nintendo lacking when it comes down to online features is a fact, unfortunately.
MK8 is decent but could be much better, like having more options for instance, and also having lag in races. Not game slowing lag, but lag from people getting hit. If you nail someone and they don’t get hit til like 5 seconds later it throws off your plans a lot. IF it registers at all. It’s easy to not notice the lag on kart if you aren’t really good. But if you are good enough to be in the top 4 spots, you’ll see what I mean. And I’m not trying to make fun of anyones skills, I really mean some things you just don’t notice if you don’t know everything about the game, or if you aren’t good enough to hit people or keep up to begin with.
agre 1000 thank u
Nintendos TRUE fanbase knows they fucked up this entire gen and a lot of last and are just waiting and hoping they get it right. Nintendo is behind, end of story and only fanboys keep defending everything and keeping them in the stone age.
Not everyone wants voice chat, for those that do, it’s not a big problem to solve.
You obviously never owned a Dreamcast.
Seriously man I can’t stand the weak excuses these people make. It’s just ridiculous. Honestly I don’t know why I am sitting here even arguing I have wasted too much time on this topic on this site lol. I could be playing a game or taking a nap to make up for staying out til 4am lol.
^This^
I’ve played some fast paced online games that are 3 to 5 minutes short and we don’t do voice chat on casual games. We only used them for tournaments and such. I played the demo and since this is a console game, I’d want the option for voice chat for lobby chat with friends (since its an online game with a lobby) and voice chat for ranked battles. But the casual turf wars should be fine since you can use the map on the gamepad to ping locations and see the current progress of the game.
We won’t be able to play with friends until the August update. Maybe they will include it then.
Wait what? Are you serious? You can’t play till august with friends???? Or are you joking lol. If that is true, then I’m DEFINITELY not getting it. I’ll preorder for the smash costumes and return the game.
Actually, they said a lot in the Direct. A lot! There are some things they said like what you just heard that I think some people here have no clue about like you didn’t. I’ve just been reading comments. I have bits and pieces I want to say but I haven’t. One big thing is that players are randomly chosen. Like the other guy said we won’t be able to play with our friends until August and there’s something else about reaching level 10 and then being allowed to play in other types of matches.
Wow thanks for pointing that out I missed the direct gonna have to watch it now lol.
No problem. I’m glad that I could help. Most of the great little goodies are towards the end.
yeah, i’d love to hear 12 year olds screaming at me about what they did to my mother.
glad there’s no voice chat, ign is full of idiots anyway
Myself being 24 I don’t want a 12 year old telling me anything. They don’t have the right to speak to me, at all. And I don’t wanna speak to them. I rather not know kids even exist because they are annoying and stupid.
So just don’t use the option man. Why is that so hard to grasp?
There’s not gonna be an option. Because there will NOT be voice chat. Also don’t call ladies “man”.
It’s an expression even girls use to other girls first off, very commonly used actually, second off I meant if they included the option like they should have.
I see why they would think voice chat is important, since this is a more strategical game, but this game doesn’t really NEED voice chat. Should it be an option? Maybe.
I agree. I had a lot of fun buy not being able to give your teammates a heads up destroys the sense that you’re all really in it together.
When my wife noticed me playing it, she gave it a whirl as well. Her first comment? “Wow, this needs voice chat!”
Yes, all these people in here saying the game is fun with out it, which it is, how many of them actually felt like they were playing with other people other then the ones they were killing, not to mention how many times did they lose a match not because they were doing terrible, but because the rest of the team didn’t know what they were doing, would be nice to say, hey blue team, we’re not cover the entire left side of the area, stop your focus on the right, even if we could just type that in it would had made the game better
The teams I kept being put on had many member drop outs. One game was just me against four Inklings. Still had fun and was proud of my score even though I obviously lost. Really don’t care if they are AI or human team mates as long as the fun is there.
Is it fun without it? Maybe..does that mean it wouldn’t be even MORE fun with it? Absolutely not. It only enhances the action. And if you don’t like the voice chat, I’ve said this about a million times the past month but….drum roll please……”TURN IT OFF!!!!”
IGN, you should buen un hell.
7.8/10 too much retardness.
IGN, you should burn in hell.
7.8/10 too much retardness.
If you pay Sony or Microsoft to play online you’re a peasant.
Damage control. :)
Your mother ;)
There should be voice chat. Damage controlling what? Oh that’s right, nothing.
Why did you bring up PS and Xbox for then?
You are a disgrace to gamers calling yourself Gamingfan.
You are a fucking fanboy and need to stfu!
Fanboy because I don’t take it up the @ss? lol you peasants are what’s wrong with the industry.
I agree. Besides all the whining, I’m hearing that this was just a server test and NOT the game that is releasing at the end of May, just a taste of it. Update in August will allow us to play with friends.
Peasants can’t afford stuff so that literally makes no sense. And they have better online. You literally are completely 100% wrong by definition in that statement. Peasants can’t afford stuff. People can afford to pay the MEASLY $50 a year to have BETTER internet so how are THEY the peasants? Come up with a different term cause that term is literally wrong as I said by definition.
ok, sheep then. Better online? Not better than PC. Stop defending bs, fuck me. You guys are the cancer of the industry. We don’t want you in it.
You are the cancer that holds it back and the sheep that expects good internet out of a free service. You want quality, you pay for it. End of story. And I doubt you’re old enough to even matter to the industry. Sorry kid.
PC online is just as good as Xbox Live and it’s FREE. I’m the kid? Continue getting fucked up the @ss while I game online for and don’t pay a cent.
while I game online and don’t pay a cent. *
Some pc games maybe but like I said WOW and other games cost 3 times MORE than sony and microsoft so your argument is invalid. And yes you’re the kid. How old are you? 15?
Those games aren’t on consoles except for FF: ARR. I’ll just continue exposing you. There’s nothing else you can say. You’ve lost the argument.
Really? We are seriously done cause your arguments literally make no sense. I win. Good day. I’m gonna go smoke a bowl and forget I wasted an hour talking to you.
I can play CoD online for free on PC or pay on PS4 or Xbox One. You’ve been roasted.
If you play wow you’ve already paid almost a third of what you pay for those systems in one month compared to a year. You’ve been toasted.
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/mkwikia/images/e/ed/Toasty_mk3.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20110310085358
Lol you dumb hypocrite. You complain about having to pay to play online and yet you said you bought a PS4 to cover the Wii U game droughts. If you have a gaming PC and don’t like paying to play online, why did you even buy a PS4? Are you really that stupid? I’m starting to think you have neither and have just been talking nonsense this whole time. XD
If you already didn’t know ign is payed to bash good games by competors. A former employee even admitted whoever gives the most dough gets the best score.
Whether or not its true, it’s sad that a major online thing like IGN can rate a game based on an online demo. The game isn’t even out yet.
No rating was involved, this is concerning the lack of voice chat only. Don’t toss bullshit in the mix.
And I call it, who gives a damn!
Haha, that made me laugh more than it should!
And, just to clarify, I don’t think individuals should be able to trash-talk across party lines. I just want to be able to enable team chat with friends when you are all playing in a party.
A party chat feature – that is a part of the system and not tied to each game (ala Xbox 360) – would eliminate this issue entirely, without having to include a chat feature specifically in family titles.
exactly with full perental control and warnings and disclaimers THEN NINTENDO CANNOT BE BLAMED WHEN SOME STUCK UP MOM COMPLAINS HER SON IS UPSET
nintendo needs to protect its image and has always sided with privacy over idiotic culture
they could get round this with keping chat seperate in a app with perental controls this protects nintendo from backlash from media or perants
we all know that nintendo is treated different
example kid is contacted by peado in COD-BF-DRIVECLUB ETC ETC ETC
ITS REPORTED KID GETS KILED,FUCKED,ABUSED,THREATENED WHATEVER IN VIDEO GAME
IF THIS HAPPENED IN SPLATOON IT WOULD BE REPORTED NINTENDO AT FAULT FOR CHILD ABUSE
IF IT WAS A TABLET A PHONE A VITA A PS4 IT WOULDNT BE BLAMED ON THE HARDWARE OR THE COMPANY WHO MADE IT
IT ALWAYS WILL BE IF T HAPPENED ON A NINTENDO SYSTEM
EVERY TIME
Honestly if they people need to stop expecting nintendo to raise their kids. There are more adults playing on wii u then kids anyway. And you know who those adults are? Long time fans there from the early days of nintendo as a console company, who don’t need to be held back and babied.
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I guess IGN would know what cheap and lazy is
Splatoon seems to play just fine without voice chat. See a place no-one is painting? Go and paint it! And even if there was voice chat, it would still be difficult to discuss strategies as everyone else has their own, and it’s never really fun to take orders from someone else.
I can see why people want it, but it’s no reason to ditch the game.
I play a ton of bf4 and cod and no one ever strategies on voice chat EVER! No one hardly even talks. So I don’t see it as a big deal.
also true
That’s just your experience you can’t assume that’s everyone. I played the latest twisted metal which has far less of a community and that had lots of people voice chatting and planning stuff and I KNOW there are people who come up with some crazy strategies in battlefield with voice chat.
I have argued with people who claim voice chat is a standard for online gaming. Why do we need voice chat in Spatoon when we have a map showing where our teammates are? If IGN seriously can’t look up and down when playing a game then that makes them “cheap and lazy”
What about the people not using the stupid gamepad? Or better yet the people who actually like voice chat? Nah screw them right? Is an option if you don’t like using it mute everyone and if you do then don’t mute people. Is that simple.
Wish it was an option rather than not having one at all. Or at least allow it in friend battles. Hopefully they’ll decide to put it in sometime.
i played the gobal testfire with no problems using the come here and booyah commands! the game is a blast regardless of voice! IGN is a fucking joke they are fucking poser nerds who think they know what they are saying! fuck them SPLATOON FTW!
You tried it without it, but not with it, with your actual friends, so you don’t know if it would be a lot more fun since you have nothing to compare. Is it fun? Ok. Could it be more fun? You won’t know if you don’t try. If you don’t like it, turn it off and never use it again and forget this argument ever took place on this site.
And the retards don’t realize the game has online WORLDWIDE and not everybody speaks the same language so it wouldn’t work anyway.
I’ve actually never thought about that…how do other shooters do it?
They don’t, there’s actually a lot of French, Spanish and Germans on BLOPs II when I play. In fact it’s pretty pointless grouping Europe together when voice chat is active.
Miiverse in Europe is raped by different languages. Because even if people can speak English they DON’T WANT TO. Only the Nordic countries use English because they want to, and we’re pretty good at it compared to the rest of Europe. Most kids don’t really speak English at all until they are in middle school. Voice chat just isn’t realistic in a game like this, unless they make a server for each country, or at least the most spoken languages. Still it doesn’t seem very likely to happen. Because it’s a game for all ages, not just adults. People can’t be nice and also, pedos and pervs. So it’s better to just forget voice chat altogether.
Wow you’re so right. That’s also why nobody ever travels to foreign countries, because how would they comminicate with local people, right? I mean, it’s a commonly known fact that every individual on the face of planet earth is only capable of speaking one single language.
Good thing everyone visiting this website is from an English-speaking country, or the comments section would be an absolute chaos!
I wish there was a language spoken globally… That would solve so many problems, such as voice chat for games that offer online worldwide… :(
There you go, Namie. Voice chat is not only unnecessary due to the short matches, small maps, and simple objectives, but pointless to implement in a worldwide online environment because of the language barrier.
….pretty sure he was being sarcastic.
I read it with a sarcastic tone. It seemed more directed at being labelled a retard than making a decent counterpoint. I think the language barrier argument still holds up as far as voice chat in general.
That is definitely true about the language barrier i voice chat, but you can just turn it off if you’re playing worldwide instead of regional.
There are enough people who can speak English well enough to communicate with others. Just because there (obviously) are some people who don’t speak English perfectly good or at all doesn’t mean a game should be missing an entire feature, just so some people won’t feel uncomfortable about hearing some broken English.
If you don’t want to hear people’s bad English or languages you don’t understand, just mute them. The language barrier argument is about as convincing as the “I don’t want to hear kids swearing at me” thing – absolutely not convincing at all.
Some people speak English, adults almost always do in Europe. BUT KIDS DON’T!
Oh? So you’re saying a feature should be cut off from a game because there might be children playing who don’t speak English? That is a very convincing argument!
No, I’m not saying that.
That reply wasn’t directed towards you. :)
Well, unless you’re the same Anon who brought up the argument with children not speaking English.
Nintendo will lose sales because of this that’s for sure. No voice chat is a huge mistake, personally I don’t care much for voice chat I never use it but its always good to let the consumer choose. That’s a big problem with nintendo they don’t really think about consumer choice they want it done one way and that’s the only way. Kind of like an overprotective parent. It will probly be fixed in an update and if its not then that’s just classic nintendo ignorance. Still definitely buying the game
^This was my immediate thought after I heard it wouldn’t have voice chat
Cheap? Maybe. Lazy? Not really.
Most certainly is lazy. Did you miss the wii u’s e3 a few years back with Non Specific Action Figure when they bragged about the voice chat capabilities that have BARELY been used? You know how many times nintendo has shown products to us to impress it with for their systems that never make the light of day? It’s gotten real stale after all these years.
I’m going to make a wild guess, that they did not talk about voice chat in their own games, nor the capability beyond the chat app that the console has.
Laziness is far from any reason that they would have had to not include it.
You’re taking a wild guess on what happend at e3 a few years back?
I did watch it, but I can not remember them talking about the feature, that’s why it is only a guess.
Gotcha lol. Was a few years ago :p
I don’t need some thirty year asshole living in their mom’s basement barking orders at me on how to play a game. Fuck Off. I play games to have fun, not to listen to some assholes think how important they are to their strategy. Then get yelled at because I didn’t obey their commands. Fuck off. Typical IGN bashing anothet Nintendo game, no news there.
Dude, I’m 31, live in a different state from my parents and have for 10 years, and don’t bark commands at people. Don’t assume everyone online is the same or you will miss out on a lot. Don’t assume everyone OFFLINE is the same or you will miss out on a lot of things in life. Gotta give people a chance man. Yea there are douche bags out there but not everyone is like that.
Timmy: $#@*&♪★!
Mom: Gasp! Timmy! Where did you learn that word?
Timmy: From my WiiU, Mom.
*WiiU flies out window*
Mom: No more Nintendo for you, Timmy. It’s back to Carmen Sandiego and Neopets for you.
Timmy: NO!!!
But I wanted Oregon Trail and Math Munchers for christmas!
Sorry ign that splatoon isn’t another boring mind numbing shooter
How does being able to communicate with your friends boring and mind numbing? The voice chat isn’t why people call most shooters boring and mind numbing. Do you play with friends at your house? Do you enjoy talking while playing with them? If so then you would like online voice chat with them when you are unable to meet up. And turn it off when you aren’t playing with your actual friends if you don’t like strangers.
Didn’t feel the need for voice chat on the test fire. If this dick and the rest of the tits wants voice chat, then Make you own fucking game and then the proper players will slag your game off. Now do one and go back to playing a kids game like cod.
Pretty funny considering a lot of “kids” are going to be playing Splatoon.
YEAH NINTENDO ARE LAZY
interactive tsctical touch map and 9axis mouse like aiming innovative gameplay
vs brodude shooter on a dualshock yeah its nintendo whos lazy
But they gave asssassins creed unity an 8…fuck you ign you’re so ass backwards
Those are ideal adjectives to describe IGN itself.
Looks like people just read the title and shoot fire without reading the whole article. Fanboys at its finest. There is also a poll at the end of the article where “Yes” for game chat is far in front of “No” and the 3rd option.
This voice chat thing has revealed so many fanboys it’s not even funny. Literally over this for the last few months I have lost so much respect for nintendo fans. As a long time fan I hate these “fans.”
Hey idiot, this site is called My Nintendo NEWS. NOT OPINION. Keep your biased crap to yourself.
To be fair, its just like any other FPS shooter out there.
EXACTLY! This is the one time I actually agree with IGN. WTF Nintendo didn’t include IN-GAME voice chat for friends instead?
Says the people who gave a game crap for having water, but says that the same game from last year is perfect.
Also “cheap and lazy” coming from IGN is a bit rich…
I guess someone has a fetish for being called a faggot by 12 year olds. He probably gets off on it.
How many times do I have to explain that not everyone is like that my god you people are not thinking outside the box at all. You can’t assume everyone is the same.
You’re wasting your own time, so am I. Many of these people are not intelligent enough to think outside of themselves. Even when people present ideas so voice chat could work well for everyone, also making it so any of the negativity you’d see in more open voice chat games wouldn’t be problem, they still refuse to accept it.
Lost cause, it really is. People can really bum me out with how ridiculously stupid they choose to be.
Yea lol I feel you it is a waste of time that’s why I’m just now looking at my inbox and getting back to people cause I had to take a few days away from the site after dealing with that. I know I’ve seen you on the voice chat articles trying to reason with people too so you know the deal :p
Cheep and lazy just like every one of igns reviews, btw voice chat is the worse thing about cod WHY THE FUCK DO PEOPLE LIKE IT!!
Because if you want to play a TEAM based shooter, the best thing to do would be to get in contact with your TEAM. The decision not to include it was lazy and stupid, plain and simple.
Not if they sound like nails on a fucking chalk board their should be a text option instead
They’re right. The exclusion of voice chat was stupid and lazy. There is no way to justify it. The funny thing is nintendo wants this to be the next mario Kart. But it’s not going to be that if you take a way essential features.
To be clear they want it to do for shooters what mario cart did for racing.
Yup lol.
Should we add voice-chat to Mario Kart?
I understand why nintendo did what they did. Nintendo has always know to do things differently than the rest of the gaming companies. If they had voice chat it be a corporate nightmare and I assume no one wants to go threw checking yes to an agreement just to play online in splatoon. It doesn’t matter if you use it or not companies with online interactions and voice chat have an agreement that if you do something they said not to you get banned from using the software. The game is great the way it is ign hasn’t had a decent review of a nintendo game that doesn’t seem objective.
It’s a shame they are going to give the game a low score over a feature that is completely unnecessary. I hope they know that if voice chat were enabled, most people would have it muted and there wouldn’t be an strategizing whatsoever, unless you are teamed up with your friends.
If you want to talk with your friends, however, JUST USE SKYPE! The work-around regarding voice-chat is so simple, it’s like the problem doesn’t even exist. The only thing that no voice chat prevents people from doing is talking with random people.
Who wants to talk with random people? Honestly, what is with some people’s obsession with “communicating?”
Listen. After playing the demo I can tell you that Splatoon is a very team based game. If even one guy isn’t pulling his own then the whole team could lose. Organization and teamwork are key in this game and not being able to talk to people is a bad thing.
Thank you lol
Thank hayzeus, too bad not everyone can use common sense like some of you. Sad that there has to be such a small group of us.
There are two sides to every story, but just because people don’t like something the same way you do doesn’t mean that they didn’t use logic too. I personally like the chaos that ensues with the lack of voice-chat. The feud of voice-chat vs no-chat is like arguments over which pet is better: cats or dogs. There are benefits to each, but most people know what they like and are set in stone about their opinion. Some people like both. Find what you like and be respectful to others for their logic and loves.
>Implying that talking to random strangers will make them follow orders and become organized
>Gathered data from a free demo everyone was hyped as fuck to play and just wanted to play the hell out of it however they wanted(especially with that absurd play time limit of one hour).My advice, wait till the full game to draw slightly more reliable data
There is,however,no excuse for not having voice chat with friends.
1/10 IGN don’t know shit
Who cares if there is no voice chat, its a family friendly game, not some hardcore CoD Bull$hit!
something about people telling me what to do erks….
Not everyone does that. Just play with your friends or turn off the feature and never use it and act like it doesn’t exist.
This argument is staler than shit. And sorry but it’s blatantly obvious who is in the right, and who are just selfish or ignorant. You can not just assume EVERYONE online is a cursing little git. You can’t tell me you don’t enjoy communicating with your own friends. If you don’t like it, turn off the feature and act like it never existed. Why are you all so selfish and smug that other people don’t get the feature they want when it doesn’t change the game for you at all? Or maybe you secretly all have no friends and that’s why you don’t want it, cause you are afraid of the people with friends coming up with strategies and wrecking you? Seriously though people, if you don’t want it, don’t use it. But don’t be happy that others aren’t getting their way. I wouldn’t want you guys to be forced to use it so why are you all so happy that we can’t use it? And it’s not nor has it EVER been nintendos job to baby your kids. Do it yourself. Stop with weak arguments. Even if you literally think there is nothing to gain from voice chat, others do so why not let them have it? Are you guys really that selfish? You sound FAR worse than the cursing little kids and I would MUCH rather deal with them and their rationalizations than yours.
And for the love of god I hope nobody responds to me anymore cause my god I am so tired of having this argument with like hundreds of different strangers and wasting my time.
Hey handsome,want some voice chat? ;D
:)
Voice chat in a nutshell would be this:
“You *****, come help me!”
“We don’t need to help you, that’s your own *****!”
And so on and so on. It’d just be a bunch of cursers and bossy people.
I have played this demo, and honestly. It doesn’t need voice chat. Everybody assumes their positions when they get out there. If anything, it’s only going to add some prick trying to boss the team around and nobody listens to him, because they muted them. Really, this game doesn’t need voice chat, it is a team bases shooter, but it’s too simple for strategy, that it wouldn’t add anything. And seriously, use skype if you want to talk with friends, thats what the application is made for. You’d be better off not using the low, quality Wii U mic, or even buying a Wii U specific mic.
Does IGN still exist? I thought that shitty website would have been shut down by now.
I don’t see how voice chat will be useful when you have players from all over the world, for example, in the demo session I participated, some players were from Japan, I don’t speak Japanese, and most of the Japanese people barely speak English.
What I imagine is one player shouting in Japanese, I shout in English, some other player shout in Spanish and the 4th player shout in Spanish. Or you can do region lock just to play with people from your own region, but anyway, I dislike voice chat, I played mass effect multiplayer and never turned voice chat on, even if someone give me orders I usually ignore it (why should I listen to you while I know what I’m doing?)
“..even if someone give me orders I usually ignore it (why should I listen to you while I know what I’m doing?)”
^THIS.So.Much.This
This is the reason why the “coordination” argument these people use use is completely idiotic(at least when playing against random strangers) They actually think people will actually obey directions.
Turf war’s objective is too simple to not get right:Cover the most area with your ink.
Which area needs a good inking?Check the map
You see an enemy ahead?Take em down
Can’t find any enemies?Use that ‘spy plane’-like ability/item
I think the problem here is that everyone is trying to play this game as if they were playing CoD/Halo/BF,hence the belief of needing voice chat.Everyone has forgotten that Splatoon is simply NOT THOSE GAMES
Well they have a valid point, no voice chat is so ridiculous.
I’m not a fan of voice chat or shooters in general, but Splatoon is an AMAZING game and voice chat would have made the game so much better. Voice chat would have added a sense of community to the game, and offered a more competitive environment. Nintendo could have even made separate rooms for people who want to use voice chat or not. Splatoon is a pretty awesome game, but voice chat would have really made Splatoon the hottest game in 2015 or the hottest shooter in general.
And as far as different languages go, there could be specific rooms by country.
Do you KNOW how many languages are spoken on this planet? Not gonna happen.
I’m well aware. But if you ever looked on Nintendo’s global site map, you’ll see the countries Nintendo is heavily in. Most people in the smaller countries with less commonly known languages know a more common second language. If there wasn’t an English speaking room, my Spanish is decent enough that I could play in that room. There doesn’t have to be rooms by country, but simply by language. There’s a lot off ways this problem can be dealt with.
>>>Again, I don’t care one way or the other but seriously, I will rewrite the dictionary and put:
Whiners = 90% of the Americans
Zero Patience: 95% of the Americans
Tourettess and bad temper : 98% of the Americans
Selfish: 85% of the Americans
It’s pathetic, so much whining over video games as if it’s the worst thing you’ve ever experienced, you humans are so useless>>>
This is the best comment I’ve ever read. No sarcasm intended.
Agreed.
Which worries me
Why you act like a a stupid bot? Do you know what reality and fantasy is?
Nintendo is still learning.
I still strongly feel this game could have benefited from voice chat, even in turf wars.
In an ideal world, where players are respectful of each other, voice chat (off by default, to be activated separately and with the ability to be deactivated at any given time) would be good.
Since we are NOT in a perfect world, Nintendo’s decision not to provide it is probably the best.
I try NOT to play online, mostly due to obnoxious people channelling high-volume music or profanity into multiplayer games. One idiot just kept singing (and he was completely tone-deaf) to discourage even the most dedicated player.
Also, bear in mind that teams are made of players from all over the world, and an universal truth is that with the exception of people from Scandinavia, nobody is proficient in a language other than theirs.
I couldn’t agree more.
291 comments? Wow. I never thought i’d see this many. I’m not a voice chat kinda guy if you ask me.
After playing the Testfire, I think that chat would ruin this game. Let me explain
This game is not kill based, and isn’t designed to be. Matches don’t last a long time, with a Turf War only 3 minutes long. THE GAME IS DESIGNED TO FEEL CHAOTIC AND QUICK MOVING. It gives a tone to shooters that no other game gives, mixed with platforming.
Voice chat would make it less chaotic, and change the feeling of the game, which I came to love during the demo.
The map itself is shown, which allows you to see what is going over the entire arena. Having this continually reminding of you of the chaos helps, but also let’s you strategize how you will affect the chaos.
For those who want voice-chat, we will agree to disagree, but I really think voice-chat would just turn this game into all the other generic shooters we have, and not the chaotic Nintendo version.
You think this and think that, without any historical evidence. I think you’re an idiot too.
I gave logical reasoning… I liked how chaotic it feels and think voice-chat would distract from the chaos.
There is no “historical evidence” needed as this game isn’t very comparable to other games in the shooter genre.
This game is a mixture of platforming and shooters, all while racing to cover the most Literal territory with paint.
You can call me an idiot all you want, but I have honestly looked at it from multiple viewpoints and have logically thought about it and that’s what I like. You can like what you like, I don’t care, as long as you have logic to why you like it.
Lots of people just want voice-chat just because other games have it. They don’t want to logically think about all the pros and cons of having/not having it.
There are some cons to either side. But with the overall atmosphere of the demo, I say there are more pros than cons, as previously posted.
Think why I called you an idiot, please. Your ‘logical reasoning’ is based on yourself alone, not others think as you are. Shame on you, you’re misleading the word logic without any evidence, drop your damn ego.
It’s not ego and there is plenty of evidence already stated in these comments that I find it redundant to repeat them. You, sir, have yet to give any reason to your claim, however.
If you read the other comments, you will find plenty of people who think like me.
If you like voice-chat, that is fine. I don’t think you any less of a person for it. If you want it in Splatoon, good for you. I don’t think it needs it.
The egotistical one here is you, who calls me an idiot for having my own opinion, and reasons for that opinion. That is what I have a problem with here. Show some respect, please
League of Legends is the most played team game and doesnt have voice chat either. GG WP
Are you stupid? It’s on COMPUTER! Wii U doesn’t have numerous features that typical PC have!
Who cares about voice chat, we need to ask the most important question to the splatoon devs! Can we 360 no scope in this game??????
Sigh…people just get over it. Even if the game had it let’s be honest, you wouldn’t turn it off if someone said they fucked your mom or called you a fag. I personally am glad that Splatoon will be it’s own thing instead of yet another call of duty clone.
So having a feature that many team oriented games have had since the 90’s somehow makes it a CoD clone?
Oh my… The logic here… Call of Duty didn’t even come out until 2003, voice chat in team games existed before then.
Although his wording was a bit weird,I’m sure he meant how Splatoon itself is different than CoD.
You know,with the ink,squid transformations,covering the most area as the objective instead of the usual run and gun for points
Calm your tits
The guys at IGN need to read gaming news more. It’s not “cheap and lazy” It was the developers own personal opinion that the game was better without voice chat. I agree with him, actually. The last time I played Call of Duty (which was like 6 years ago) I had to mute half the room because everyone was talking about where to get the best weed in California. I’m glad I won’t have to put up with that in Splatoon. Also, I really can’t stand the sound of 7 8 year olds yelling idiotic things into the mic the entire time I’m playing. It just doesn’t come off as fun. And let’s face it, Splatoon isn’t so deep that you need to go over some crazy advanced plan with your team to win. Just cover the area in ink. It’s that simple. I get the feeling that the guy at IGN just sucked at the game and blamed the lack of voice chat rather than admit he wasn’t any good. It was probably the same guy that wrote an article about how Bloodborne wasn’t fun because it was too hard.
Can you people stop using voice chat and Call of Duty in the same sentences. How the hell does having voice chat in a game make it like Call of Duty? Let me remind you again, that voice chat has been in games before Call of Duty was even made.
What’s stupid, is people offer legitimate ways to combat any negativity you’d hear in voice chat, and you morons still make up these retarded excuses against it, just because you don’t like it personally. So fuck the rest of the world, cause everyone should think exactly the same way you do.
We can’t even have it for friends only, and you fools still bitch about it like it’s a bad thing… How would having voice chat for friends only be bad? Explain!
I hate this world sometimes… Freaking idiots have to ruin everything for the rest of us capable of using some amount of common sense.
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Because it will change the feel of the game. It is supposed to be chaotic
Do not post again, till you able to question yourself.
Perhaps, they never play those type of games before. I believe producer of this game, is not only one who have that mental disorder.
Yes IGN does have a point but, it doesn’t mean the game is cheap or lazy!
Seriously! and i thought Pokemon Alpha Saphire Review was enough.
this is a game for losers.
Here is something to really consider you stupid babies. Anyone who uses voice chat to purposely play with teams does so how? THEY USE MUMBLE. TEAM SPEAK OR SKYPE OR RAID CALL. They never EVER use in game voice provided by the game itself because the fidelity and latancy sucks. its full of pubbies who just shout nonsense and would never be effective. It might be a blessing that you don’t have voice in the game but i do remember one of splatoons features will be making teams and so on so if any coordination will be had. it will be naturally coordinating with the team you normally play with. Im not defending Nintendo but at the same time the dev team can decide to do what they want as far as voice goes. Not ever online team based game needs voice. Especially when better Voice over IP services are available.
Perhaps have that MiiVerse Party Chat on a phone/mobile app. A way of looking at it most people that invest into a gaming console that are serious about it, as in a active hobby, most likely have a mobile communication device. That is how I think they could solve this issue temporarily. But the future potential is there. Your online profile could be connected to your phone -through “MiiVerse App”. Again using the phone to be your Mii ID card= signing in when tapped to gamepad. It could act as memory cards for save data. All while giving you a way to chat, and still be connected to your friends list. And at the same time giving the WiiU Hardware more power to focus on the other task,running game instead of supplying the voice chat at the same time. Just seems like something they could do.
I still say everyone is making this a much bigger deal than it really is.ONE feature not being in a game that still works fine without it and everyone cries “mah opchinz! It’s 20157482!It’s dah norm!Coordination!” .Don’t fool yourselves.Everyone wants it just because you don’t have it.
That’s like complaining that your brand new model car doesn’t have a GPS.Sure,it would have been nice to have it,but it’s in no way a deal breaker.You want the car,not the GPS.Besides, you could use your phone or whatever for GPS if you want it that badly. In the game’s case,you could use Skype to chat with friends(Don’t pretend that’s not a viable option,especially how everyone was complaining how the Wii U’s voice chat was a pain anyway)
Even if the feature were added,how many people would actually use it,use it for “coordination” or go unmuted?Has everyone forgotten about Nintendo’s stubbornness and “family friendly” bs?They’ll probably implement some kind of report system as fucked up as Miiverse where anyone could get banned by an oversensitive idiot.
Don’t get me wrong(which you’ll all most likely do anyway :P),I’m all for having more options and even I facepalmed at the dev’s reason for not including VC,but everyone is acting as if the game will flop because of one feature. Maybe you should complain about the game not having a 6vs6 option while your at it.Simply ridiculous
Thank you. Finally, someone who gets it!
One word: Skype.
Okay wise guy, what about strangers? In default game setting, thus your one word, what if my friend is in other side and telling me all enemies’ spot or other way around.
Worse, Skype, is from Microsoft!
When was the last time voice chat helped you effectively “coordinate” with a bunch of strangers in a shooter style game?(on consoles)
This is my opinion!!: But I honestly don’t care for voice chat mainly because I never used it, but I don’t think it’s a big deal either way, AND Nintendo SHOULD have put it in cause it’s obviously important to people. Maybe they could update it to support voice chat but who knows. It’s Nintendo here (and yes I’m a Nintendo fan)
Fuck ign !!!
Like IGN knows anything about games !
Ign has a point.Splatoon should have had voice chat.No point defending it. You can always turn the Voice chat on or off so the reason Nintendo gave was kinda lame. But that won’t stop me from buying the game and enjoying it. But anyone saying that the game would not have benefitted from a voice chat are lying and defending Nintendo.Period.
Game was going too fast to really feel like I needed voice chat when I was playing. I don’t think I could actually coordinate an actual plan when partner with strangers even if I could hear their random comments.
If there is some sort of signal system set up in place, like how Rogue Squadron did on the Gamecube. I could go for that, but who knows if there are extra stuff for the complete product.
The one thing I think they can work on is matching. I kept ending up with teams that had a bunch of rollers. Teams always seem to work best when there was like maybe 2 rollers and some kind of guns.
I’m not sure how they can provide good matchmaking depending on weapon.
Every weapon has its role. From what I can tell, rollers are built for covering large areas in ink quickly, but aren’t good for offense- a backpedaling Splattershot user can wipe one out 2 seconds. Splattershots don’t cover areas as fast, but they can reliably cover walls and allow you to engage enemies at medium to short range.
Even WITH voice chat no one will listen to you trying to organize them
That bastardized can wear any headset and talk all he wants, same as earring one plugged in and everyone muting your ass
Only ppl disappointed in no voice chat are pedophiles and punks who only talk shit in games they can hide behind that wouldn’t do it otherwise . Yeah no big deal unless of course your one of the above. Other than having only your friends hear you I don’t see the point in voice chat anyway.
Whiner 1:B-but,mah opchinz!
Whiner 2:Just cuz you hate Voiz Chet and are a Nintendo fanboy dusnt meen evry1else(like me) doesn’t needs It you shellfish prick!
Whiner 3:I play shuters and mooltiplayer gaems and voice chat is nesesary 4 cordinahun!How else will strangers know how I want them to plei?Hold on,gotta mi-oot this kid telling me what 2 doo and how I suck.Oh,I got a message for bad conduct.Fuck yo-
..Okay,maybe I dragged the joke too far,but you get the point
And also,
Pedophiles? What the actual fuck?
I played the testfire demo, kinda liked it, but still cancelled my preorder afterwards. I kinda understand the critics and by catching up with modern online games, Nintendo shouldn’t start at where online gaming was 10 years ago.
I wrote a bunch of thoughts together on my blog: http://dashandmash.tumblr.com/post/118607599505/splatoon-testfire-impressions-participated-the
Voice-chat in Splatoon is a WANT, not a NEED. It’d be nice to have, but it’s not needed.
Because voice chat would have helped me oh so much coordinate with my all Japanese team mates ^_^
Played the demo and I feel I was right. Keep your eye on the map, watch for visual ques and have fun painting. I can’t really feel like voice chat would have help very much with this game if at all considering the 3 minute window and the genuinely thrilling feeling you get when you co-ordinate through sheer want to win.
So excited for this game!
The Splatoon Dev team leader was right in his decision. I played the global launch & vc was not necessary what so ever. I was having way too much fun to even care with all the paint ball madness going on.
I read the IGN article speaking about the lack of vc in Splatoon. The comments were ridiculous in support of the writer while there was a large mass gathering against. Many people in the “pro vc” were very insulting, explicit, & downright disrespectful. My comments to them: “Lol! This is why “N” is leaving vc completely out! We can’t even have a civil conversation on IGN without you typing obscenities. If your aim is “Winning is everything because losing is not an option!” Then stick with COD, Destiny, Halo, Battlefield, & any other competitive online shooter.
Afterall. It’s not like you have a gamer tag & can get achievement points on Wii U. Lol. That’s something else “N” decided not to do & I’m happy they never did!!!
Only thing cheap in lazy here is the IGN analysis. You don’t have to go any further than this website to see the crude imaturity on display from your average gamer. Nintendo is making a decision to protect their brand by not letting the game experience be overrun by domineering and abusive mockery.
Sounds like they couldn’t strike a good balance with voice chat honestly.
As an example: You include voice chat but give the ability to turn it off. One team has a sh***-head on it and the other doesn’t. Everybody on the jerk’s team turn their chat off. Because of this they are at an extreme disadvantage and lose all because of one person. Four people’s game ruined, one person to blame.
Honestly, even though I’m a little bummed about it I can understand Nintendo’s position here. I’ve been playing shooters since Doom II and I’ve seen how quickly and thoroughly one jacknard can ruin a match. One person on your team does badly and the jerk lays in on them and, well, it makes everybody feel -and play- like cr**.
I wish there was an easier way to deal with these people. Maybe someday there will be but for now I can accept that Nintendo isn’t inclined to deal with the immaturity of the shooter community.
There is a way:
A kick player option.
I played 2 out of the 3 test fire sessions, and here’s what I noticed: Splatoon doesn’t NEED voice chat, but the option to have it would be nice.
Most of my games, when we all shot out of the spawn point at the start, whoever got the the first fork went one way, and everyone else went a different route. Basically, whoever got ahead first had first crack at what needed covering. It was just accepted, no voice chat needed to decide it.
That said, VC WOULD be nice if you want it- I lost track of how many times I wanted to thank a teammate for taking out an opponent who was firing at me.
Imma say this…….I like voice chat….I see why they don’t wanna have it included in the game….but as a company who makes video games for a specific demographics.. you have to cater to some things..so…just have a mute/block function and call it a day.
I would like to add I like how the PS4 has the party function. If nintendo could have a function like that with miiverse and have organized partys amongst friends and such that would rectify the situation :D
wii u does have a party feature
I GOT TO POOP!
wii u is op
it doesnt need voice chat
“Are you kidding me? It’s 2015/Insert X Year Here”
God I fucking hate hearing everyone using that excuse for anything.
The fanboy damage control on this comment section amazes me.
Why is this on MyNintendoNews, since when do we take IGN’s opinion into consideration?