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#301: Jul 9th 2014 at 5:57:40 AM

@Elbruno, Brawl in the Family is blocked at work. What does it show?

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#302: Jul 9th 2014 at 6:20:31 AM

Besides Bloopers, Octoroks and the Tentacool/Tentacruel species, how many Nintendo squids/cephalopods are there?
Jellyfish are cephalopods? I thought they were polyps and medusa...Octoman, Ogura, Ulyaoth... Hunter Ing don't look like animals but have tentacles.

Anyway, I think the game looks good, but am a bit confused by the idea it is Nintendo's first third person shooter. Wasn't that Custom Robo, Chibi-Robo! or Battalion Wars? Granted, those were nothing like this but that's probably because Nintendo has splashed in these waters before, so to speak.

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#303: Jul 9th 2014 at 6:31:56 AM

Chibi Robo was an adventure game, wasn't it?

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#304: Jul 9th 2014 at 6:46:52 AM

[up][up][up]The blue Inklings are members of the Happy Happyist cult from EarthBound.

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#305: Jul 9th 2014 at 6:47:39 AM

Custom Robo is classified Action RPG.

Chibi-Robo! is classified as a Platformer/Adventure title.

Battalion Wars could be classified as a third person shooter because it had elements of it but it is also a Real-Time Tactics game.

edited 9th Jul '14 6:48:37 AM by Halberdier17

Batman Ninja more like Batman's Bizarre Adventure
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#306: Jul 9th 2014 at 7:14:44 AM

Fine, I suppose I could mention other games, but I won't. I will just say it is weird they are going with the "pro controller" over Wii-mote+nunchuck. That combo does away with the two stick aiming issue people have with consoles. I'm surprised we did not see more shooters on the Wii and DS.

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Meophist from Toronto, Canada Since: May, 2010
#307: Jul 9th 2014 at 7:24:04 AM

As for a Nintendo-made game that's pretty much a standard third-person shooter, there's Metroid Blast.

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#308: Jul 10th 2014 at 5:19:17 PM

How much does a Wii U cost now?

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Sterok Since: Apr, 2012 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#309: Jul 10th 2014 at 5:28:13 PM

Depends on where you get it. In store bundles I think cost $300, but you can get refurbished ones from Nintendo directly for $200.

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#310: Jul 10th 2014 at 5:44:53 PM

[up]Perfect. I'm halfway to the Nintendo one, too bad they won't take real cash online.

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Kurgy Since: Feb, 2013
#311: Jul 11th 2014 at 1:06:13 AM

I've seen Wii U-s sold at 240€ at some department stores. Suppose that is pretty reasonable for a home console that isn't last gen.

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#312: Jul 11th 2014 at 7:42:14 AM

I'm not European.

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Kurgy Since: Feb, 2013
#313: Jul 11th 2014 at 8:28:48 AM

Eh, change it to $ and you get pretty much the same number, though not value when speaking of internatinoal currencies.

It's odd, the $ has less value than the €, yet something thats sold for 500$ is just bumped into 500€ half the fucking time it's sold over here.

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#314: Jul 11th 2014 at 9:26:42 AM

[up]Western Europeans generally have more money than Americans. The price is higher because we can afford it.

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#315: Jul 11th 2014 at 9:36:54 AM

Jellyfish are cephalopods?

Well I'm not a marine biologist, but I see sea creatures with tentacles, and so I group them.

Based on those responses, this game seems to have a lot of potential to follow the TF 2 formula with Squid-themed hats. Seems like a great opportunity for DLC.

Kurgy Since: Feb, 2013
#316: Jul 12th 2014 at 11:26:57 AM

Western Europeans generally have more money than Americans. The price is higher because we can afford it.
Which is why I don't understand why some publishers treat us like we don't exist!

Look, you already made the game in english, which 90% of us have a grasp on, so instead of dicking around for 9 months, give us the damn thing.

What do you mean europe isn't getting -insert anticipated "very japanese game" that sold well in all regions here, including europe-'s sequel?! We bought the original a lot too!

And before the PS One, we didn't even know what Final Fantasy is, due to Square hating us.

We have money, publishers! It's yours if you would give us stuff to buy!

Fricken region locking on everything nowdays....

DragonGeyser The Chew Toy of Gaming from a computer, DUH. Since: Dec, 2010
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#317: Jul 12th 2014 at 11:44:11 AM

Maybe we should have a separate thread on region locking so as to not disrupt the squidding.

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Kurgy Since: Feb, 2013
#318: Jul 12th 2014 at 11:54:06 AM

Sorry, it's just something of an annoyance, and I'm sort of iffy about importing anyway...

SO! SQUIDS!

... So, how many different characters have we seen so far? Do you think they'll start have gameplay differences, in a class-system-sort-of-way, down the line?

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#319: Jul 12th 2014 at 12:04:25 PM

Everyone was the same in the E3 build gameplay-wise. I imagine the differences will mainly be in the weapons rather than being class-based like TF 2 or something.

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Kurgy Since: Feb, 2013
#320: Jul 12th 2014 at 12:17:21 PM

Well yes, I noticed they all played the same at E3. Though I wonder, are players randomly assigned an appearance, or do they get to pick?

If we get to pick, the possibility of appearance customization lingers in the air. Probably in the form of small accesorries if anything.

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#321: Jul 12th 2014 at 1:04:53 PM

I think they mentioned in one of the Treehouse interviews that yes, Inkling customization is planned; and I think the final product will also have some sort of loadout or class options.

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#322: Jul 12th 2014 at 3:43:53 PM

So, Like TF 2, only with squids.

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TargetmasterJoe Since: May, 2013
#323: Jul 13th 2014 at 3:19:32 PM

You know what'd be awesome?

If Nintendo did its own version of Namco Bandai's Shifty Look and have webcomics based on Nintendo properties, one of the properties would be Splatoon and Nintendo could reach out to Masahiro Anbe to do the art for that webcomic.

The man has already proven that he's capable of such a task.

I don't know if we've finished making comparisons with Splatoon and Squid Girlnote , but yeah, I thought it'd be a great idea if that were to happen in the future. grin

edited 13th Jul '14 3:54:52 PM by TargetmasterJoe

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#324: Jul 13th 2014 at 4:54:03 PM

Nintendo is still pretty behind the times, especially No J, they'd probably think it would be stealing from them somehow.

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#325: Jul 13th 2014 at 7:01:23 PM

That artist did draw the characters in a nice anime style, but if you look at the characters as they look in the game, they're anime-esque, but still look more original. Nintendo's characters, mostly, aren't just typical anime. They look different. And that's one thing I like a lot about them.

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