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Best Buy holds a Google Hangout with the Splatoon team

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Exile20

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Join us to hear from the +Nintendo team behind the highly anticipated Wii U game, #Splatoon. We’ll also be joined by JWittz and other influential gaming personalities along with a Best Buy Blueshirt to give a first-hand account of the game. #SplatoonHangout

May 12, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM EST
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VideoMan said:
Alternate YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkomgB3l-SQ
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https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/ccrc6hgpteeuoddava7jimq5bo8
 
I mean....Best Buy? Why? Not complaining but seems kinda odd coming out of nowhere. Would never think of them as a place to go to for new gaming content (although the GCU is fantastic)
 
luffxan said:
I mean....Best Buy? Why? Not complaining but seems kinda odd coming out of nowhere. Would never think of them as a place to go to for new gaming content (although the GCU is fantastic)
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They seem to have some kind of partnership with Nintendo from what I remember.
 
luffxan said:
I mean....Best Buy? Why? Not complaining but seems kinda odd coming out of nowhere. Would never think of them as a place to go to for new gaming content (although the GCU is fantastic)
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Might have something to do with why the bundle is BB only.
 
luffxan said:
I mean....Best Buy? Why? Not complaining but seems kinda odd coming out of nowhere. Would never think of them as a place to go to for new gaming content (although the GCU is fantastic)
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They had that Smash event and a few other Wii U and 3DS related stuff there first. I really hope Nintendo just drops Gamestop exclusive stuff altogether, although that's probably unlikely.

Compsiox said:
Isn't google hangout the worst?
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Is it the worst or just not used very much? Google has merged all of there chat and voice services and put them under the Hangouts name and now it seems much better than those previous services. Don't know what group chat people are using these days, but Skype most definitely sucks as of right now.
 
Jawmuncher said:
It's a tad confusing at first, but it works. Me and my buddy use it to chat during smash.
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archseraph said:
They had that Smash event and a few other Wii U and 3DS related stuff there first. I really hope Nintendo just drops Gamestop exclusive stuff altogether, although that's probably unlikely.



Is it the worst or just not used very much? Google has merged all of there chat and voice services and put them under the Hangouts name and now it seems much better than those previous services. Don't know what group chat people are using these days, but Skype most definitely sucks as of right now.
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Respawn said:
Nope
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Alright I'll give it another try. Thanks guys.
 
Are they playing the N64 version

If this was your first introduction to the game, you'd never buy it. Goodness gracious
 
This is pretty bad (not the game, but this event). He's just showing us some already existing youtube videos. Also not helping that the video he's showing is running like a damn slideshow...
 
Yeah, they could've done better with putting gameplay in the stream. Otherwise just listening to them talk about the game is nice. And makes me want the game so bad.
 
Compsiox said:
Isn't google hangout the worst?
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It's certainly a terrible replacement for google voice in my browser. The phone calling feature is useless for me because they lock down the keypad during phone calls, making it impossible to navigate automated menus.
 
JohnTinker said:
Are they playing the N64 version

If this was your first introduction to the game, you'd never buy it. Goodness gracious
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Luckily, it most likely isn't people's first introduction and people should be smart enough to realize it's a problem with the stream and they even say so.

Also, have to say this hangouts is pretty boring in addition to the crappy gameplay stream. Not sure why they would do a hangout with multiple people for this. Had some new decent info revealed so far though.

Valnen said:
It's certainly a terrible replacement for google voice in my browser. The phone calling feature is useless for me because they lock down the keypad during phone calls, making it impossible to navigate automated menus.
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Hmm, I don't have this problem, although I use the plugin in gmail but I don't belive the app for chrome had this problem either.
Las7 said:
Why is that in quote marks?
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He's saying that's what they're pretty much saying in the stream.
 
_woLf said:
Splatoon looks like shit? It looked fine during the demo last weekend.. are you trying to be cynical or did they actually say that? o.O
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The game footage on this stream looks terrible because they're streaming a YouTube video. It's all very Xzibit. And then one of the dudes on the stream explained that the game looks much better than this and runs at 60 FPS and it only looks this bad because it's a stream of a stream.

I know that the game looks great. I played the demo all three hours over the weekend.



Las7 said:
Why is that in quote marks?
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Because one of the dudes on the stream basically said that, since he probably realized the footage looked terrible on the stream.
 
Looking at the video again, I don't think that's real ink or a liquid. I think they just said they were really detailed with how they made the ink look like it was sloshing around in the tank. And when the guy was moving the inkling Amiibo around, it didn't really move in the tank.

False alarm I suppose -.-
 
i was just thinking what would the actual point be lol

yes your amiibo is a handy dandy ink refiller

for those pens

that you use all the time
 
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