"not once was I bothered by the lack of voice chat"

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/hands-on-preview/40233/one-night-online-with-splatoon

Along with other players reviewing the game (including our own Daan Koopman), I wound up playing Splatoon online for three hours straight. It was sometimes tough to get a game together (since the game isn’t out yet, the only players are reviewers and Nintendo employees), but all that did was give me time to play Squid Jump or quickly duck out to buy more weapons and gear. In all that time, not once was I bothered by the lack of voice chat, outside of wanting to high-five GameXplain’s Andre Segers (that dude is a ringer at this game) when we were on the same team, or complaining when Daan snuck up behind me and splatted my brains out. Playing online was a fluid, wonderful experience that didn’t show signs of wear or boredom even as we just played on two maps the entire time (Walleye Warehouse and Urchin Underpass). There are other maps in the game, but only two are available in each multiplayer mode at a time.

Real talk: all that matters is that for those three hours, Splatoon’s online multiplayer was incredible (ink-credible?) (editor’s note: No, bad Neal). For better or worse, when I looked at the prospect of staying up even later last night to play matches, I decided to say “nah” and back out of the online lobby. But then I then proceeded to plunk an hour into customizing my inkling and playing the surprisingly robust single-player mode. By the time I finally turned off my Wii U after 2 a.m., I went to sleep extremely happy about my first night of Splatoon. If this game can keep up this kind of online electricity, it might truly be something special, regardless of voice chat.

(How come I can create new topics but I can't post in the comments? wtf gamespot!)

You're trying really hard to justify this.

It can't be. Call of Duty has Voice chat. There was no reason why Splatoon has to be a special snowflake in this situation.

Oops. Was referring to the TC.

Splatoon doesn't have voice chat????

6/10 then.

Is it that voice chat hasn't been implemented yet or does it just not have it not now not ever?

Good follow up, all the voice chat in the world wont make a game fun. Also i wouldnt be two worried about the map, LoL has only 1 map and 70 million people love playing it. I wonder if they ever got voice chat yet in that game? I know they got other ways, but LoL use to not have voice chat, you had to type to people. Not sure why LoL did that.

I've found that most people in online games don't even talk when given the option, myself included, but I still don't see why Nintendo couldn't have just given the option to not hear other players instead of alienating the people that do want voice chat.

Basic options are basic.

Nintendo fans are always ok with anything Nintendo does not matter what. Nintendo could fill their games boxes with dog shit and they would take it and even make arguments to justify it like an abused spouse with stockholm syndrome

The other consoles do what Nintedont. :P

Hey if its Nintendo everything becomes ok! even if they make a game that literally has nothing but a Start menu it will still be ok because Nintendo made it.

Anyways ANY multiplayer game that has no voice chat= lolz

Why do people still believe in this horribly out of touch BS?

Going by what iv seen on forums some crazy fans are like this. Though most call nintendo on their crap.

Great for them? Great for you?

Look, there would be nothing wrong if Nintendo were to include voice chat. More content and functionality are good things. This is fairly basic functionality. Some folks like to coordinate with players by voice. Others prefer not to speak or hear others, myself included. The option should be there for those who want it and implemented in a way that it does not interfere with the gameplay experience of those who do not want to use it.

Most people don't talk on ps4 and Xbox one online anyway, though I assume people are in party chat. Nintendo could have at least had something like that.

Nintendon't.

They should have included it because it's a basic function. They didn't do it though. They've been justifiably raked over the coals for it. Accept it and buy the game or don't. Time to get over it and move on.

"http://www.nintendoworldreport.com"

Lol, shocker as fanboy site praises 1st party game, pretends flaws don't exist.

That site gave The Conduit 8.5/10 btw, they seem like an ideal site to reassure fanboys the crap they are swallowing is actually delicious ;)

I get that Nintendo is trying to do this for child safety. They really should implement some sort of party system like on XBL for cases like this. I don't care that much about talking to strangers on the internet on a console game, but many people will be playing with their friends and will probably want to use voice chat with them. Without voice chat, they will have to go through the cumbersome process of setting up another device with skype or something on it in order to talk.

Well, if the game is fun, i mean i'm not a shooter fan and the few ocassions o play DOTA or Heroes of the Storm i never use voice chat, so i guess that is all about how fun the game is in the end.

Is it because Nintendo gamers having the no standards that they do; are allergic to options? Because that seems to be the thing here.

Nintendo has gotten more flack over Splatoon not having voice chat than the Officers who killed Freddie Gray. That's pretty fucked up.

Who uses voice chat in shooters? I mute everyone the second I enter a lobby. If I'm playing with friends I end up having to mute everyone else because they are either:

A - Listening to loud music
B - There is a baby/mother/wife screaming in the background
C - A huge douche that isn't worth listening to.

There have been a handfull of times where I used voice chat and enjoyed it recently. It's helpful in the Raids in Destiny and I played with some Helldivers with some System Warriors. But it is not necessary in Titanfall, COD, Halo MCC or BF. People just like to use it for lulz agains Nintendo.

Nintendo's quest for child safety is one big reason why the console(s) and company are looked at in a less mature light. Does anyone remember when the official site had an actual message board? That was squashed a long time ago because apparently communication is bad. Very bad. We wouldn't want gamers to communicate, would we?

The die-hard, loyalists will defend every step made by this company but thankfully some of us objective fans have zero reservations calling them on their crap. I'm at the end of my rope already and it has become tough to support the policies and decisions of this company while maintaining a straight face. Five months into the year 2015 and Nintendo still has great difficulty implementing logical voice chat and online multi player. Is Mel Brooks running the show because the comedy and laughs are in excess.

This is such an asshole mentality, just because you do not use it, doesn't mean other people don't. As it stands there is no in-game option for speaking with your friends.

Most of us don't care if assholes can't talk to other assholes in the game.

Which is still irrelevant to the basic premise that the game should have this feature, because having an option>not having an option. Not a difficult concept.

It must be difficult if fools like you can't get past it. I'd wager that even if it did have voice chat, you still wouldn't buy it. Therefor you're just another moronic troll on the interwebz.

on the topic of voice chat.... remeber when lems made a big deal last year about cross chat?

on my PS4 ive only used it once...

Now it's just like any online game on a Sony platform. Nintendo is copying Sony now

Who says I can't get past it? Majority of the people I play WiiU games with I talk to on Skype (Legendofnerd, aljosa, other gufu peeps), I like Nintendo to do new IPs so I'll actually support them when they do new ideas (obviously non shitty, albeit yes I did buy codename steam). At most I'm not touching the game till August (barring the single player actually being good) since you can't actually play with your friends with any consistency until August.

I can recognize that a game looks fun and that it does something shitty. In this case Splatoon's gameplay looks fun, the part where it is releasing with one game mode and 5 maps, and you can't play with your friends, there is no custom games, means that yeah I'm waiting till those are patched in, because I tend to draw my line at supporting early access games and glorified early access games.

Good for the article writer, still not buying a barebones game like splatoon

I disagree. Some of the most fun I've had is playing with freinds and either

A) shit talking

B) joking around

C) both A&B

I do mute people if I go into a public lobby, but most the time I dont play MP games with strangers...i like to chat with friends while playing, like we did during HellDivers.

We're apparently wrong Heil for wanting things like options, us old timers amirite?

TC, your quoting someone that is paid to make Nintendo look good. lol

Like us in LFD..I still recall, Yo Franky...XD

Not exactly an impartial source of info.

Well played good sir, well played ;)

This is like saying a Halo review in official Xbox magazine is trustworthy lol

NinTen Years behind

Wow, pretty much exactly what I would have said... but you said it better. :P

It doesn't have any voice chat. Even if it ever gets voice chat it will be friends only most likely.

"not once was i bothered by 720p in Hardline on my Xbox One" says a random lemming trying to DC for its mediocre version of the latest BF. This is the same shit we have with Splatoon. Thing is, voice chat isn't the only thing that's missing lmao.

I don't expect kids to understand the value of communication for team tactics.

I understand not having voice chat for random people and things like that. It is nothing but people screaming and swearing and losers being obnoxious. But anybody trying to justify the fact that you cant even talk WITH FRIENDS is delusional. Mario Kart 8 lets you chat with friends. SUPER SMASH BROS, a fighting game, lets you chat with friends. Yet, a strategic team based SHOOTING game doesn't let you chat with your friends? It doesn't make sense to me. Not one bit. Especially when titles that dont benefit at all from voice chat, like smash and kart, implement the feature.

Heil your A&B are pretty much the same thing :P

Champ I never said there was anything wrong with options. Like I said in my post, I have used chat in games and it can be useful. But a game missing chat will never be a deal breaker for me. There are a half dozen other things, (controls, fun factor, performance, art style, sound design, graphics) I would put ahead of chat features in games. There are too many games that I play withchat that I don't use to really even miss it.

And I am an old timer myself. I remember when games didn't need to be 1080p, have in game chat or even a save feature to be fun. Gamers are too negative these days.......

What the ****? I didn't think anything matches comparing ID theft to a terrorist threat, but that comes close.

The sad thing is that this is all about a game that most of the people here won't buy anyway, but want to look for something to crucify Nintendo over. If you want to buy it, great! If not STFU and move on. All your bitching and moaning didn't stop Nintendo from doing what they want anyway. Did your crying and complaining stop Nintendo from implementing their Youtube policy? Nope and somehow Nintendo is still profitable. Did your rants and tears about not getting an amiibo stop them from selling out? Nope. Still sold out before they freaking launch and Nintendo is counting the cash. Jeez. Its like hearing the worlds dumbest record skipping over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Get over it people its not happening.