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[Draugoth]

This thread is to summarize eveything revealed in the event

• Splatoon 3 has an in-game card game called Table Turf Battle, a 1v1 competitive mode with over 150 cards to collect.
• Salmon Run Wave 3 is back (already announced).
• You can fully customize your characters with emotes, incluiding a dab one.
• Splatanas are a new weapon type in Splatoon 3. It Send blades of ink flying with the Splatana Wiper or perform a charged slash to devastate your enemies!
• A total of 12 new and returning stages await you in Splatoon 3 at launch, with more to follow via free updates.
• Story mode is back with the Return of The Mammalians
• You can read Amiibos and swap at will with a special feature in-game. New amiibos are coming this holiday.
• The game will receive Free Updates in some months of each other.
• A big DLC is coming down the line for Splatoon 3.
• New characters, Frye & Shiver (..and Big Man) were revealed. They're an incredibly popular trio who host the Splatsville news program Anarchy Splatcast. They'll provide the latest news and info on the current battle stages.
• Splatfest will come back with three themes to choose.
• Splatfests now have 2 halves. In the 1st half, teams compete in 4v4 Turf War battles. The 2nd half includes Tricolor Turf War, where 3 teams fight at the same time! The top team will face a pincer attack from 2 players on the 2nd place team & 2 players on the 3rd place team!

A SplatLands Invintational Fest was announced for 2022:

 

[jorgejjvr]

Let's hope they make it easy to play in ranked with your fiends this time around

 

[kondorBonk]

That's August 10th just to be clear.

 

[STARSBarry]

I ended up preordering the Splatoon OLED switch (which doesn't come with the game).

Going back to the office part time soon meaning I want a better switch for travel, always liked the splatoon colour schemes.

Hopefully salmon run isent just between certain set times in this one.

 

[Banjo64]

 

[Ceadeus]

Here we go! Get ready to hear about this game for the upcoming years, now that Smash Dlc is over.

 

[Golgo 13]

That's August 10th just to be clear.

Proper formate for dates, god damnit
MONTH/DAY/YEAR

 

[Kabelly]

Finally!!!!!

 

[HYDE]

I’d love a Splatoon 1 physical edition on Switch to match my eventual Bayonetta set. Please Nintendo!

 

[Soapbox Killer]

That's August 10th just to be clear.

Thank you, I was like October? What?

 

[Punished Miku]

 

[RuneFactoryFanboy]

That's August 10th just to be clear.

Thank you, I thought it was odd at first that they were announcing a direct 2 months ahead of time.

I loved 1, 2, and adored the Octo expansion, but this game is going to be a harder sell to me. This is going to sound shallow but keeping the same visual style on the same console really takes a lot of my excitement out of this. When it looks the same as the previous game, it then causes me to focus on what's changed, and with what little we know I'm not impressed yet

A few new weapons and new specials aren't enough to justify another $60. New single player campaign is cool, but Octo expansion gave us that for far cheaper.

Optimistically looking forward to this direct as I'd love to come away impressed.

 

[jaysius]

What they need is an Open Beta to try and tighten netcode, but if they're using P2P again, then it doesn't matter it'll always be shit. Now that people have been paying for Nintendo Online for nothing for quite a long time Nintendo can afford to create some dedicated server farms for the payers.

This is an expansion pack of 2.

 

[Kabelly]

What they need is an Open Beta to try and tighten netcode, but if they're using P2P again, then it doesn't matter it'll always be shit. Now that people have been paying for Nintendo Online for nothing for quite a long time Nintendo can afford to create some dedicated server farms for the payers.

This is an expansion pack of 2.

I swear Splatoon is the only shooter ever to get criticized for being "just an expansion." It's the exact same arguments people were saying for Splatoon 2.

We have so far:
Completely New Hub
New Weapons
New Specials
New Clothes
New Graphics
New UI
New Single Player Mode
New Maps
New movement mechanics


but it's just an expansion somehow.

Plus whatever we're going to see in a couple of days.

 

[jaysius]

I swear Splatoon is the only shooter ever to get criticized for being "just an expansion." It's the exact same arguments people were saying for Splatoon 2.

We have so far:
Completely New Hub
New Weapons
New Specials
New Clothes
New Graphics
New UI
New Single Player Mode
New Maps
New movement mechanics


but it's just an expansion somehow.

Plus whatever we're going to see in a couple of days.

After watching the videos thus far about the game, it's really hard to distinguish this from Splatoon 2.



I played a ton of Splatoon 2, and even for me it's hard to see major changes.

New graphics?! It's slightly shinier?

OH OF COURSE!

The cats at the end are DIFFERENT!

 

[Kabelly]

After watching the videos thus far about the game, it's really hard to distinguish this from Splatoon 2.

The core mechanics are going to be the same. I don't know what you expect. It's not going to be a turned based game now. Sounds like you didn't play the game at all because from my point of view I see a completely different game with a completely different meta.

Graphically, well it's still on Switch so it's not going to be some 4K showcase, but there's so many new animations. Even just the way you spawn in maps is completely different and changes how you approach the game.

People just see "inklings shooting ink" so it's the same game.

 

[jaysius]

The core mechanics are going to be the same. I don't know what you expect. It's not going to be a turned based game now. Sounds like you didn't play the game at all because from my point of view I see a completely different game with a completely different meta.

Graphically, well it's still on Switch so it's not going to be some 4K showcase, but there's so many new animations. Even just the way you spawn in maps is completely different and changes how you approach the game.

People just see "inklings shooting ink" so it's the same game.

This game should be included in Nintendo Online Expansion, it'd sell subs and it'd be a fair deal for subscribers, also it'd create a HUGE community.

 

[Mister Wolf]

They won't let off the gas. Got a stranglehold on 2022.

 

[Ezquimacore]

Let me see that campaign.

 

[Kabelly]

After watching the videos thus far about the game, it's really hard to distinguish this from Splatoon 2.



I played a ton of Splatoon 2, and even for me it's hard to see major changes.

New graphics?! It's slightly shinier?

OH OF COURSE!

The cats at the end are DIFFERENT!

so in this video i see a bunch of new specials
i see the new movement options being used
the victory screen is different
there's new gamertags
a new map
new respawn


keep lying to yourself

 

[CuteFaceJay]

The core mechanics are going to be the same. I don't know what you expect. It's not going to be a turned based game now. Sounds like you didn't play the game at all because from my point of view I see a completely different game with a completely different meta.

Graphically, well it's still on Switch so it's not going to be some 4K showcase, but there's so many new animations. Even just the way you spawn in maps is completely different and changes how you approach the game.

People just see "inklings shooting ink" so it's the same game.

They could change things up by adding more impact to stages in terms of vertical. From what I've seen it looks like the same game just with more brown.

Vehicle gameplay that maybe incorporates co-op play?

I sure hope they show something new off.

 

[Robb]

About time, I’ll definitely tune in for this!

Didn’t really expect we’d get a third on Switch but I’ll take it if it’s as great as the last two installments.

 

[Banjo64]

After watching the videos thus far about the game, it's really hard to distinguish this from Splatoon 2.



I played a ton of Splatoon 2, and even for me it's hard to see major changes.

New graphics?! It's slightly shinier?

OH OF COURSE!

The cats at the end are DIFFERENT!

I mean, did Modern Warfare 2 really improve on the graphics from Modern Warfare? Not really. However MW2 was one of the all time great FPS games.

If you don’t like it, don’t buy it, but this looks great in my opinion. It’s just a traditional sequel.

 

[Kabelly]

They could change things up by adding more impact to stages in terms of vertical. From what I've seen it looks like the same game just with more brown.

Vehicle gameplay that maybe incorporates co-op play?

I sure hope they show something new off.

More vertical ? You mean like moray towers. We've had that already and will probably will have more of that from maps we haven't seen yet. The desolate look of the game is a story reason.

I guess the issues for people is all they see is "inklings shooting ink" so it looks the same to them. Plus nintendo is showing the most basic and most boring mode. People are just going to continue to ignore all the new things I listed because reasons.

I don't know what you mean by vehicle gameplay but that sounds like an interesting idea.

 

[STARSBarry]

I actually buy Splatoon for the single player puzzle shooting campaign and play the multiplayer on and off (it has the best none assisted aiming in console, I'm not joking)

I'm not going to claim people here with criticisms towards content haven't played the game becaue having played both Splatoon one and two on the Wii U and Switch respectively I would not say two was not radically diffrent enough until it got its octo expansion outside of being made available on a diffrent system to warrant its own purchase. However the Octo expansion pushed the content into the safe zone for me.

But since three is on the same system, I am looking forward to seeing how its refined and the content available, might be enough, might not but the game will have to launch before we know for sure. However games like Mario Strikers has shown Nintendo can miss the mark with content.

 

[Moses85]

 

[Chittagong]

Proper formate for dates, god damnit
MONTH/DAY/YEAR

 

[Punished Miku]

WE'RE ALMOST AT 1 HOUR TO GO

 

[Robb]

Hoping for some kind of new multiplayer mode and a great looking singleplayer campaign.

 

[Punished Miku]

a great looking singleplayer campaign.

I fought on the side of Order in the last Splatfest. I wanted a futuristic robot city. Now we're stuck in the Mad Max desert hellhole of Chaos.

The highlight for me is going to be Salmon Run.

 

[Robb]

I fought on the side of Order in the last Splatfest.

Chaos all the way for me, I just love the whole ‘ancient humans who used to populate earth’ thing they’ve got going and I’m hoping they’ll lean more into that.

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[Punished Miku]

Chaos all the way for me, I just love the whole ‘ancient humans who used to populate earth’ thing they’ve got going and I’m hoping they’ll lean more into that.

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I want Mr. Grizz to reveal himself and show that some mammals have survived, starting a new war to take back territory.

 

[Davevil]

 

[Punished Miku]

Get your pre-order buttcheeks ready if you want an OLED in North America.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

After watching the videos thus far about the game, it's really hard to distinguish this from Splatoon 2.



I played a ton of Splatoon 2, and even for me it's hard to see major changes.

New graphics?! It's slightly shinier?

OH OF COURSE!

The cats at the end are DIFFERENT!

I get where you’re coming from but a bunch of sequels look the same as the last game. Assassins Creed looks and basically plays the same, Call of Duty (obviously) and there are others.

At least with this, there are actual changes like a whole SP campaign.

 

[Kabelly]

Game of the year, baybee

 

[jorgejjvr]

Let's hope they make it easy to play in ranked with your fiends this time around

hoping for this still

 

[Punished Miku]

GOTY, not kidding. Best shooter of the year.

Team Shiver

 

[Nautilus]

Presentation weak as hell.

 

[lostinblue]

Splatoon is cool, but why doing Splatoon 3 on Switch, if they could just evergreen Splatoon 2 with a new season? They did precisely that with Mario Kart 8 this year and Splatoon is arguably something out a Saturday cartoon so new content being added (in a game as a service line of thought) is just obvious, specially seeing they charge for online-play now.

This is a double shot in the feet of the IP.

We have so far:
Completely New Hub
New Weapons
New Specials
New Clothes
New Graphics
New UI
New Single Player Mode
New Maps
New movement mechanics

but it's just an expansion somehow.

Taking the new hub, revised UI, single player campaign (some two of changes certainly done to distinguish Splatoon 2 from Splatoon 3, a hub is a hub, and the UI wasn't broken), you described what an expansion usually does.

That just leaves the single player campaign, which they couldn't get away with not doing and is probably 6 hours of content. And the new Exhibition mode (offline multiplayer against bots with no local multiplayer without real players being possible). Thank you Nintendo.

 

[Tg89]

Looks fantastic.

 

[Tams]

Shiver looks decent. The yellow one is rather ugly though. Not a fan.

But really, Team Big Man here.

I'll enjoy this as despite getting 2 on launch, I only played about 10 matches and only recently bothered completing the campaign. I missed all the Splatfests. Perhaps I got that 'it's an expansion' feeling some are getting now, but from the original (I played a lot of that).

 

[Tg89]

Splatoon is cool, but why doing Splatoon 3 on Switch, if they could just evergreen Splatoon 2 with a new season?

Taking the new hub and single player campaign, you described an expansion.

Money for starters, I'd imagine.

But the game clearly has a ton of changes from 2 that wouldn't just be accomplished with a new season.

 

[Kabelly]

Splatoon is cool, but why doing Splatoon 3 on Switch, if they could just evergreen Splatoon 2 with a new season?

Taking the new hub, single player campaign and revised UI, you described what an expansion usually does.

all shooters are expansions then

 

[jaysius]

Jesus this thing looks FUGLY. The Switch is really holding back it's possible fidelity.

The new weapons look interesting. It's a shame Nintendo doesn't believe in real sales on their products.

It's a shame that the same boring painful grind of obtaining random modifiers for your time and performance is the meta they've chosen yet again.

This will probably have just as many glitchers and shitty idlers that ruin the game.

This should have been a perk for Nintendo Online Expansion.

It's really just an expansion on Splatoon 2.

 

[InterMusketeer]

Pretty good! I mostly see improvements for joining friends, replays and that sort of thing, but the card game sounds pretty neat. I didn't really see the point in the locker customization. Splatfests with 3 sides is the natural progression and makes those matches different from the usual, much more exciting. The Salmon Run event also sounds promising.

Not sure how I feel about the new idols yet. The Octoling looks freaky to me. Must be the giant forehead, weird eyebrows and her vampire teeth that stick out. What a combo. The stingray makes up for it though.

Overall it seems like there's a decent amount of new content though, and 2 years of additional stuff.

 

[Punished Miku]

You can walk around without listening to the intro broadcast. That's huge lol. The lockers and additional customization stuff is cool. The new traversal moves look cool. New Salmon Run stuff looks sick. Can't wait for the huge once every few months Salmon Run war lol. Everything looks sick.

 

[mcjmetroid]

The only thing I want is a split screen mode really. It's strange it's the only Nintendo multiplayer game without one. I've no real interest on online.

edit: looks like my wish has come through

 

[lostinblue]

Money for starters, I'd imagine.

Sure, but it doesn't seem like they're managing the IP right.

But the game clearly has a ton of changes from 2 that wouldn't just be accomplished with a new season.

If it was a game as a service, they could make those changes in the base game as well.

all shooters are expansions then

Some of them are.

Remember that in Splatoon the single player campaign is an extra. In a lot of shooters new campaign=new game, but I wouldn't agree in this case. That's not where the meat is.

 

[Tg89]

Splatoon definitely has some of the best style in gaming. I really appreciate how they take things that most games would just do through generic focus tested menus and integrate it into the world. It's definitely not perfect and comes with it's own limitations but certainly appreciated. Brings you back to the N64/PS1 era where pa games style came out in all areas. In general I'm glad we moved away from that, most games don't pull it off or have a good/unique enough look to warrant it in the first place, but Splatoon is certainly one of the outliers.