Five Games: ‘Splatoon’ And Everything Else You Need To Play This Week

Nintendo's wacky shooter and a pinball take on Portal headline this week's Five Games.

[MrKingofVideoGames]

Looking forward to Splatoon. Nintendo is thankfully continuing their long history of great summer releases!

[OzzY-waZZy]

Honestly, how is this game worth the same price tag as the Witcher? That comparison is mind boggling and shows just how much Nintendo gets a free pass all the time.

[Mykky]

Might be because it is a original new IP. Though I do agree that the price of a game should be equivalent to what you're getting. That is not the case though where I live where every game costs the same.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

Because it's a damned good game with tons of replay value, just like The Witcher.
Honestly, get off that kick that puts looks before everything else: It's worth its price tag, especially with the free content updates that are on the way.

[Dubaman]

i got it for £27.49 with free P&P and its already shipped so hopefully should be here tomorrow :)
Meanwhile The Order:1886 was full price and could be finished before the kettle boiled and then there was DriveClub, which was broken at launch and for months after too - yet still had a full price tag while in its broken state. Though i'm sure the free version that people were promised will be released soon...right? I mean, it is 'for the players' after all. Not like these are companies who just want the most money out of you and as soon as possible while they're propped up on pedestals of fanboys undying love for them.

I'll be playing Splatoon because its a damn fun game and complete departure from the same old shooters which just dominate gaming now. I want to have fun with my games because that's all they're for. They're toys ffs.

[OzzY-waZZy]

@monkeyman

The hop off the graphics bus argument is getting really old. Sure I think it looks like a flash game. The problem for me however is explain to me how a game with one mode and 5 maps is worth the same price tag as Bloodborne, The Witcher? Simple as. You could say that they'll be adding content etc etc. Why not just wait and release a finalized game? If this were any other company, EA, Activision, Capcom, they would be burned at the stake. But alas, it's Nintendo so everything is perfectly fine.

[Dubaman]

but it has more than 5 maps and one game mode....it hasn't been released yet though so we dont know the amount for sure but the current count is 7 game modes with more to come after launch as free updates. Though out of curiosity, how many modes do Bloodbourne and The Witcher 3 have? You know, those games which aren't even in the same genre as Splatoon therefore a comparison is justified :/

[00whistler00]

Must say I wasn't too sure on this back when I heard about it but the trailer does make me want to try the game out>

Also le gasp Nintendo making a new IP, must be a blue moon sooner than I thought.

[superchiller]

It'll be interesting to see how Nintendo's first online-only game sells, when most of its loyal fans don't even care for online games. Plus its a new IP and as pointed out previously, and looks pretty kiddish (I watched several of the ads and they really seem to be aimed at pre-teen kids).

I'm predicting that it will sell around the same as Wonderful 101, which was also a new IP and unfortunately didn't do very well (320k worldwide, according to vgchartz). I can't see it selling anywhere near the level of the Nintendo's established IPs, especially when it deviates so much from the standard formula (not a platformer, not a kart racer, not Zelda).

[ZeroRaven]

It's not "online only"...

[BenRage3]

I think Nintendo fans care about online games as much as the next gamer. It's not like Nintendo fans don't own other systems. As a Nintendo fan I spent hundreds of hours playing Borderlands 2 on the PS3 and I also competed quite a bit in Mario Kart online. I think you are generalizing.

And the Kiddy argument in getting old. Look at the trailers of Nintendo games since the 90's--there have been plenty of adult in the commercials. Just because the game is intended to be aimed at everybody doesn't equate to being "kiddy."

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

C.S. Lewis

[ZeekQuattro]

So much blind hate for Splatoon. Its bizarre.

[firmstandinglaw]

Nintendo targets their ads to kids for a reason. They will see it and tell their parents they want it. If an adult needs an ad to be directed at them in order to have interest in a game, then they're an idiot and a sucker.

[MidnightMay0r]

I have to agree with the guy above. This game isn't worth the same price as the witcher 3. How's a massive 60-80 western rpg equal to a unfinished game with 5 maps and 1 game mode? You guys who keep saying you are getting "free" content make me laugh. If anything Nintendo took the EA route and locked half the content on disc. All hate against this game is well deserved.

[G3n3raL86]

So, we should justify full-price tags only if a game is a RPG?

[Dubaman]

.....but there are more than 5 maps and 1 game mode. Where has that nonsense stemmed from? Plus, it is free content. Some of which you download and some of which you have to unlock by playing the game. I don't know about you but the latter has been around in gaming for quite some time now.
Also, when Xenoblade Chronicles X drops with its 300+ hour length will The Witcher 3 with its 60-80 hour length get 'well deserved hate'?

[nesiguess]

I feel the need the need for...Splatoon!