Please don’t be Bioware, please don’t be Bioware…

Sure, if Splatoon 3 were actually good. It’s a game designed from the ground up to be frustrating, between terrible matchmaking, peer-to-peer multiplayer, and stage design that forces players into very lopsided combat.

Play something good with your family, not Splatoon 3.

That was disproven several times - the guy who claimed it even admitted he’d altered Palworld’s assets to show that supposed ‘similarity’

That’s fair, I apologise for being as defensive as I was.

Honestly that’s 100% the right way to play it - it is such a laugh, the writing is really tongue in cheek, and the gameplay is really, simply fun, so I really think you and your mate will love it!

Quite a lot honestly, but the trailers are really awful in terms of advertising what the game actually is. It’s a survival game with management sim elements, using creature collection as its core gameplay loop. It feels weirdly cohesive in terms of mashing together these styles - kinda like Dave the Diver in that regard.

Far as I’ve been able to tell, it was first announced in 2021, so it’s been in development since then, at latest.

There’s no evidence whatsoever of AI use (lot of accusations, but actual devs have spoken out and challenged them). Really strikes me that there’s a non-zero number of people who feel somewhat threatened by this game’s existence, considering the death threats the dev team has reportedly been receiving.

Honestly it’s a combination of the battlepass system and the stage design causing constant, very fast-paced combat. The stages are too small, so players are funnelled into the middle of the stage. This also causes spawncamping if the matchmaking is even slightly unbalanced (which it is most of the time), as one wipe will allow a team to push all the way into spawn.

Previous Splatoon games were very good about this - most stages were abstract shapes, with a lot of terrain, meaning combat was rare, and the game encouraged painting over fighting as painting would net the most points on a per-match basis. Splatoon 3’s new maps are all thin, straight lines, which forces players into that central killzone.

The battlepass, along with some very poor decision making around the results screen, which shows the winning team celebrating, means that losses feel bad. The matchmaking similarly punishes winstreaks by forcing losestreaks, usually matching you against people above your skill level, but on a team with players below your skill level. Whilst this is very addictive, it makes losing feel genuinely awful, and a losing streak causes tilting due to the FOMO of the battlepass.

Hope this writeup makes sense. I view Splatoon 3 as a genuinely bad game because of these factors, and greatly prefer Splatoon 2.

Categorically disagree. I am a grown arse adult. Splatoon 3 tilts me like no other game, due to some very deliberate FOMO game design decisions and a very poor matchmaking algorithm. Whilst there’s no real money store in the game, it has a lot of other problems that make it just as bad as Roblox imo

Any recommendations for mods? I’m putting together a new build for it ahead of my semi-annual replay of the trilogy

Afraid that article is only true in the US and Canada - in Australia there’s no sign of Classic Doctor Who anywhere

Is it an appeal? That would explain it

Nah that makes sense mate. I’m afraid I no longer have reddit - nuked it went I moved here on principle, so we’ll just have to have a bit of patience. Have a good one in any case, I’ll chat with you when you can :)

Chucked it through mate, hopefully it’s working. My instance is Aussie.zone, so should’ve dodged the problem

Will do mate honestly, thanks so much!

Funny thing mate, I’m hoping to create a master collection precisely because I’m the kind of nerd who enjoys the reconstructions - huge fan of the audios and novels, so I absolutely think I’m goimg to follow your suggestions around starting points and go from there. Largely it’s not strictly for a “complete rewatch”, moreso it’s about wanting to be able to read/watch/listen to pretty much everything on my own terms

Indeed! Been buying Big Finish for years as well, so I’ve got a great collection of audios!

Very true, but I’m in the wrong country and VPNs are inconsistent at best with iplayer

FWIW mate, very familiar with the missing episodes - largely have copies of the remaining soundtracks. What I’m looking for is a way to watch everything else. iPlayer could be doable in any case, although I’m aware they have a habit of blocking VPNs, so I’d appreciate a method a little more foolproof

Definitely great news that they exist, what would you say my best bet for tracking them down is? Megathread is pretty quiet on this matter

Absolutely mate, although I’ve not had much luck with them having Doctor Who - most only have the modern show if they have Doctor Who at all. Do you have any recommendations?

As a fellow Steam user/gamer, I’m in this picture and I do not like it whatsoever