 you doing today good morning good afternoon good night I have no idea what time it is for you guys how you doing we have a split tune three direct today we are about let's see you have the timer here it is 53 minutes and well let's just say 54 minutes away based on Nintendo's countdown timer that we have over here so you can see you're here Nintendo's little countdown timer right here 53 minutes and 47 seconds etc etc so we are getting there and it's gonna be a really interesting morning because Splatoon 3 is in a very very interesting position it is getting the same treatment Splatoon 2 got now you guys might not know the treatment Splatoon 2 got because a lot of people in the place between one let's just be honest so to one ended up performing very very well I think it's all like four and a half five million copies which are we you that's like half the audience so that actually was a really really good performing Wii U game and Nintendo thought so as well which is why they made the sequel but at the time when Splatoon 2 was coming out in 2017 the biggest criticism of Splatoon 2 is it doesn't look any different than Splatoon 1 why are we not just getting a Splatoon 1 port with brand new DLC instead why can't Splatoon 2 just be DLC to Splatoon 1 and port it over just like you do in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and give it DLC like you've now just done with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe I mean let's be honest they are the type of DLC they are doing for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is an entire Mario Kart game I mean let's just be real there was already 48 tracks in Mario Kart and that's after they added DLC already once to the game and then they added an entire games worth of DLC all over again so this isn't without merit to say why couldn't Splatoon 2 just be DLC to Splatoon 1 and that was the a huge criticism of Splatoon 2 back in 2017 people just didn't think it needed to exist because it looks too similar to Splatoon 1 now Splatoon 2 launched with more content than Splatoon 1 had when Splatoon 1 ended so yeah content-wise it was way fuller than Splatoon 1 and I'm not even talking about Splatoon 1 at launch I was talking about Splatoon 1 at the end of its life so after they've added all the content to Splatoon 1 Splatoon 2 at launch had more content than Splatoon 1 at the end so people started to slowly be okay well at least there's a lot of content and at least they added a new mode so we can be cool with this what I find interesting in looking at a franchise like Splatoon 2 because Splatoon 3 is getting the same criticisms why isn't Splatoon 3 just another DLC pack for Splatoon 2 why do we need Splatoon 3 why does this exist it doesn't look any better than the second game they just key you know they added an old map back in and they got the old weapons and they're reminded they've added new weapons new maps and made changes to old modes and have teased a few things for story mode never mind that they've actually teased new things why isn't it just DLC for Splatoon 2 and I find this an interesting concept because today's direct is the direct that proves why Splatoon 3 is not DLC but also I'm not so sure that no matter what they showed today that that criticism is going to go away they showed a ton of content for Splatoon 2 in 2017 before the game came out and guess what the criticism didn't go away Splatoon 2 was supposed to be DLC that's between one Splatoon 2 is a cash grab blah blah blah 15 million sales later maybe you can argue it was a cash grab and if it was it really was a cash grab that was super successful Splatoon 2 worked for better or worse it worked people bought it people loved it people enjoyed it and it's one of Nintendo's most popular IPs today so why does Splatoon 3 exist well first and foremost it exists because Splatoon is popular hey who knew everyone Splatoon is popular come on come on come on we can get a bit more enthusiasm than that come on get those shirt fine fine again why does Splatoon 3 exist this one tune is popular the better come on now so what tune is popular oh oh oh yes who who who who who all right all right it's stop come on now stop so yes we're getting Splatoon 3 because Splatoon is popular just like we're gonna get breath of the wild too because Zelda is popular just like we're going to get a new Mario game because Mario is popular why are we getting Mario I'm sorry Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet because Pokemon is popular we're gonna keep getting games in IPs that are popular because they sell and companies exist to make money so why does Splatoon 3 exist because it's going to make money okay that's why any video game exists Nintendo does not release a video game with the intent of not making money if they know ahead of time a video game is going to lose money they won't release it there's that rumored fabled sequel though every one-two switch called everybody's one-two switch or something like that that supposedly isn't releasing because it bombed that hard with their quality testers they hated it nobody liked it then they brought it to a test group and nobody liked it and still to this day that game isn't even announced because Nintendo's afraid if they release it it's going to lose money now you might go well they already have the sunk cost so why not release it and recoup some money well you also don't want to hurt the reputation of your company by releasing a game that is not of the quality standards that fans have grown accustomed to and it's funny because some people will argue well Nintendo's got some rush games look at their sports game fine but their sports games have the reputation they have the rest of their games really don't Kirby's you know Forgotten Land hey really well reviewed really good game Metroid Dread really well reviewed really good game Pokemon Legends Arceus really well reviewed really good game see a bit Chronicles 3 one of the highest review games of the year really well reviewed really good game so Nintendo has a little bit more to worry about the just the money if they're gonna release something that's going to lose money that they already spent so we have to be more understanding of why Splatoon 3 is coming out it is to make money but also the complaints about Splatoon 3 to date well every criticism anyone has on an individual level is valid any criticism that you have for a video game is always valid to you I want to be clear there's no such thing as invalid criticism on a personal level when people are critical of my channel that criticism applies to you and because of that that criticism isn't untrue oh man I'm tired of Nintendo right clickbaits too much that criticism applies to you yes you're being critical of me but that criticism is a personal feeling okay so when you play a video game and you got criticism of against it and other people might not agree with your criticisms it doesn't make your criticism less valid for you so none of the criticisms lobby towards Splatoon 3 are invalid but I'm just proposing I'm just proposing that the overall community that plays Splatoon doesn't agree and just doesn't care because Splatoon 3 is more Splatoon let that sink in Splatoon 3 is more Splatoon and that's what most people playing Splatoon want they want more there's going to be a brand new story campaign it's taking place in a brand new city in a brand new area called the splatlands there's going to be a bunch of brand new maps they'll probably be a bunch of brand new gameplay modes we haven't seen yet even the old modes it looks like they have added things to it they've added brand new abilities did people forget that we now have a new movement ability where we could basically do the monster hunter rising you know the little bug mode where like you can zoom your bug and then kind of zip around sort of like a hook shot you know a mini hook shot from Zelda well you added that to Splatoon 3 we have the ability to basically spider-man our way to a new area shoot the web and and fly straight to it it's pretty neat it's pretty interesting it's going to fundamentally change the way Splatoon 3 is playing because it's a new way to move around the map the bottom line is they are doing a lot of new and they've shown us a ton of new what people are getting really weirded out about is that visually they're not so sure that Splatoon 3 looks better than Splatoon 2 and I find that to be a funny way to measure video games because if we're going to measure games based off of visuals then I think we're playing games for the wrong reason. Once Splatoon 3 is better visually than Splatoon 2 but it's not like going to be some major next generation leap some people expected to be because they think they feel like Splatoon 2 is made for Wii U obviously was it how would you know Nintendo was developing games for Switch for years so how do you know Splatoon 2 was developed for Wii U first you don't that is a pretty big assumption that you have no actual proof of the bottom line is Splatoon 3 is an online multiplayer game you know what other game I could tell you that has massive online and tons of multiplayer and a bunch of interest that fundamentally doesn't look visually a ton better from the prior one Super Smash Bros Ultimate remember the criticisms around that game heading the launch oh man this is just this is just Super Smash Bros Wii U with more characters same game hello hello now the game came out and data mining showed that no it wasn't the same game they read they redid code they redid a bunch obviously at this point Super Smash Bros Ultimate is one of the best while it is the best selling fighting game of all time and one of the most popular games to release this generation Super Smash Bros Ultimate is fundamentally a significantly different game than Super Smash Bros Wii U in terms of all of the core mechanics and the core you know gameplay elements and everything but the credit systems were the same because it visually looked like Super Smash Bros Wii U that they're being lazy they're being dumb this game shouldn't exist blah blah blah blah blah and Splatoon 3 is getting that treatment right now because it visually looks like a Splatoon game we got a rip on it oh they should have waited for the next generation so it could be even more visually impressive I don't know anybody like can I get a show of hands in the chat how many people play Splatoon because it's visually impressive I can't remember a time that I've ever thought about playing Splatoon because man it's pretty that's a pretty game I literally can't remember a single moment that I turned on any multiplayer game because man it's pretty I played the last Call of Duty game for a little while I don't remember playing it because man the visuals are so amazing sure the visuals can be pretty you know amazing in a Call of Duty game I don't remember turning on the multiplayer thinking man this game looks good this is why I want to play I don't remember turning on Halo Infinite last year and going man you know what this game looks pretty that's why I want to play I don't remember turning on Fall Guys last night and thinking man Fall Guys looks pretty that's why I want to play I can't remember the last time I played a multiplayer game online matches because I thought the game looked pretty now there are times that I will play games just because I want to escape reality and hop into a world and sometimes part of the joy of that world is being able to just sit back for a moment let the music roll over your ears from the overworld and just kind of taking the world taking that beauty shot right that breath of the wild running on the cliff showing the world shot now some people would argue that that shot's not impressive to this day and that's fine but there are times that sometimes you'll play a video game just because you want to take in the beauty for a moment now the beauty is not going to keep me playing a game can be beautiful but if everything else about it sucks not gonna play it but there are times that that you'll do this or at least that I do this so when I sit there and think between how much I enjoy doing that in a single player experience versus multiplayer I don't think I've ever done that in a multiplayer game I don't think I've ever sat back took in a vista in multiplayer and went damn this looks good because what matters in multiplayer is smooth gameplay 60 FPS constant 60 FPS and obviously really really fun core mechanics don't really care what it looks like visually I don't care if it looks like spittoon care if it looks like Call of Duty I don't care if it looks like Fortnite I don't care what it looks like because that's not why I play multiplayer games I play them because the core gameplay is fun and competitive and it's fun to play with friends it's fun to play solo against randoms it's just fun to play so this notion that spittoon 3 should just be DLC I find to be quite hilarious especially when this game is gonna have not only probably more content at launch or at least comparable content to spittoon 2 today like the content spittoon 2 has today compared to spittoon 3 and launch spittoon 3 is gonna have at least as much if not more at launch but not only do I find that to be interesting interesting point to bring up the people complaining are either going to play anyways or we're never going to play I sometimes wonder and this doesn't apply to everyone every Nintendo game that comes out seems to get attacked Xenoblade seems to be well it's not like it's been attacked to actually I've seen people attacking Xenoblade because they don't think it looks very good like man dude that game looks ugly cool have you played it no but it looks ugly okay so you got anything else to say no it looks ugly what about the gameplay no it looks ugly okay oh you know anything with a story doesn't matter the game looks ugly oh well can we get back to the gameplay I watched one video and they said that it drops frames during some of the larger fights so bad game that's cool what do you play oh dude I love Final Fantasy oh well Final Fantasy drops frames during some of its gameplay no it doesn't oh maybe you should go watch the digital foundry analysis of the last Final Fantasy game no no no you're just lying oh okay cool what else do you like to play oh man you know I like playing I like playing warrior games oh like Dynasty Warriors yeah man that played one piece Warriors do those games oh well those drop frames all the time no they don't all right well they do but we'll just pretend they don't because you like those games and that ends up happening a lot and this isn't just with Nintendo games but obviously since I'm a Nintendo youtuber this is the comments I see a lot are about Nintendo games it's always something we'll just wait wait until Breath of the Wild 2 starts ramping up its advertising and we all get really excited but the detractors come out of the woodwork and start talking about how it doesn't look very good it looks last gen looks like it's got framerate dips it looks like it's got problems and it looks exactly the same as Breath of the Wild this should have just been D I'll say it's gonna happen it's gonna happen so I just perturbed that sometimes is someone lobbies criticism at a game and that criticism is completely valid for that individual person that maybe if we don't agree that we try to let it go because their criticism is gonna be valid to them no matter what you say and your disagreement with that criticism is gonna be valid to you no matter what you say in the end Splatoon 3 is likely gonna sell over 10 million copies there's gonna be millions of people playing it millions of people loving it I think we're gonna be good so at top of the hour we got a Splatoon 3 direct 30 minutes of wild gameplay and goodness and doing those super super what what what's the word for super memeal I don't know those really awkward research lab skits right we know there's gonna be some research lab skits they've been doing them this whole time so there's probably gonna be a research lab skit several of them and I find them to be quite hilarious because clearly the people behind Splatoon the development team are the ones that come up with those skits and they think they're hilarious I mean you guys remember the one time when during E3 or whatever employees in Japan I'll put on those little squid hats and they were in a break room and they all started dive it around the break room like their squids you guys remember there's actually a photo of it out there somewhere I think a little video clip too it was hilarious because the staff that makes Splatoon loves Splatoon they love that it's such a silly concept they love how you know 90s theme it goes with a lot of its art direction its music that they just love the franchise it's a silly fun out there IP that's massively popular in the midst of being an unrealistic non-shooter shooter it's really fun and this team has a lot of fun with it and they clearly think that these research lab skits are hilarious and maybe they are to some people I usually find them to be pretty courty pretty okay my grandma is trying to make a funny I won't make fun of it you know it's like a grandparent trying to try to try to make something that they think is hilarious and you just look at and go wow but you know what it's your grandparents are you gonna throw a smile on anyways and be happy about it that's what I kind of feeling about these squids these squid research labs get set we're about to get today so what do you guys think what are your guys's thoughts to have my little spiel here to start the stream hey man I was gonna take about a half hour of the pre-show with that spiel so good job Nate I didn't know actually how long it was gonna be I thought it was gonna be like a five minute thing but it turned out to be a pretty meaty thing I said J bigs a.k.a. big J and why see says with that said both Splatoon games look really good why mess up the aesthetic like Smash Brothers sometimes you just leave what works as I said Splatoon games gonna look like a Splatoon game Zelda's gonna look like Zelda Mario's gonna look like Mario and I don't I don't know it's weird it's weird I mean imagine that we complain about Mario plus Rabbids sparks a hope because Mario plus Rabbids looks like a Mario plus Rabbids game I mean that that's either oh why do we have people aren't saying that about that game yet yet just wait it'll come it'll come my favorite Splatoon meme is the guy listening to Splatoon 2 theme and then all the other guys push him away and start playing this between the reason that's pretty good yeah there's a lot of good Splatoon memes out there those squid research lab stuff is hilarious did they been doing that how when did they first do the first squid read what was it with Splatoon 1 I'm trying to remember because between one was so long ago let's see here you guys have any any specific things you want to ask or talk about any maybe favorites between memories favorites between story moments do we need to recap the story in Splatoon so far because how many you even know the story I've no idea that I can go look up a summary quick of the story so far because a story spans not only the single player but the multiplayer as well those Splatfest leave it or not some of them have significant meaning for the story have I played Splatoon yeah yeah I owned it on Wii U and I owned Splatoon to have a bunch of live streams I think better still up on this channel from 2018 white ink is gross why why is white ink any grosser than any other ink just because there are things in this world that are white there's things that come out that are black there are things that there are ink of all colors in this world I'm confused why why maybe get your mind out of the gutter Logan LeBlanc so my family got out of the Nintendo for a bit because of financials but Nintendo did a road trip tour and I played Splatoon 2 my first switch game and that's the reason I got a switch nice a story recap will be sick okay we can do a story recap it's been a long while since we've gotten a system update even for stability I feel like something's coming hasn't been that long the last one hold on pretty sure there was one like just last month let me go go to the official support page here all right so the last system update was June 13th so I mean not that long ago couple months almost I guess there's something like that no I know hold on sorry July 20 July 25th July 25th they released a system update now this is the update didn't didn't do anything it just updated the list of banned words but July 25th they updated they call this a reboot list update so what that means is you don't need to reboot your switch so it just kind of patched it in so they patched in updates to the list of banned words they also did something similar on June 27th as well so they're running the same update from June 13th but that update has had two patches since then to update the list of banned words so that's why I kept thinking I'm pretty sure they've had updates since June 13th and they did they just weren't updates that required you to reboot your system 27 minutes away nice and see here have your kids plates between yes they have all right is anyone okay so let's let's let's bring up a summary of a summary of the story I think there's a see here here we go that's my let's see how well this summary goes how well the summary does it let's let's take a look at this together me full screen that here all right let's see how well this summary does it all right so to lower me seem like a it like a bundle of cute jokes and silly culture on the surface but there's more to learn when you dive deep was between three on the horizon fans are diving back into the series learn everything they can about the lore the city of encopolis is surprisingly dense with history and knowledge something that can be hard to tell at first glance the world of spittoon and the species that inhabit it have complex relationships that evolve as the story progresses if you're looking for a refresher before the third game comes out here's the lore of the series so far spittoon lore has inklings versus octarians spittoon lore primarily primarily focuses on the ongoing conflict between the inklings and a race of squid human hybrids and the octarians a separate species of octopus-esque people both groups developed after global warming caused humans to go extinct and sea creatures evolved to take their place the plot of the game usually involves octarians attempting to attack an inklings civilization and the player character putting a stop to it though usually portrayed as evil spittoon lore explains that octarians are not inherently bad and used to live peacefully alongside inklings the two species developed animosity during the great turf war a conflict that happened around a century before the events of the first game the war for land ended in the inklings favor and the octarians were forced to live elsewhere the gameplay of spittoon is explained as a sport commemorating the inklings success in the great turf war all right so spittoon games expanded the lore into the future spittoon's main story kicks off with the mysterious theft of a zapfish a species of electrically charged catfish that power the city of incopolis the players character is called in to investigate the matter at the direction of callie emory a pair of music idols turned new news broadcasters the player known as agent three is sent into octo valley to rescue the great zapfish and return it to incopolis at the end of the game the player character restores order and electricity to the inklings city spittoon two's lore picks up right after the first game in the final splatfest in spittoon one players voted between which squid sister they preferred in the final splatfest competition fans chose marie which resulted in callie playing an egg an anti-agnostic role in the second game octarian leader dj octavio kidnapped and brainwashed her into becoming an octarian minion is where i said the multiplayer can influence the story spittoon two player character codename agent four once again embarks on a mission to set things right donning the iconic hero suit the player travels to rescue another stolen great zapfish and save callie from the clutches of the evil octarian leader and a very flashy boss fight do the boss the final boss fight in spittoon two is amazing so two and three appears to have a totally different vibe than the previous title it takes place one and a half years after the splatocalypse in a city called splatsville it's set away from ingopolis which spittoon three has a different look than the previous and yeah so obviously we also know the multiplayer played a role in um something to do with the story of this game we just don't know yet uh because there was a final splatfest that that determined something for the story but again we don't know because we don't know the story spittoon three yet so that's like a very very bare bones breakdown just to kind of catch you up there there there's a lot more depth to it you know as I said the the characters and all that um everyone evolving uh throughout throughout the years that the games have been out the relationships evolving but um like and that's that that's just a really bare bones basic run down you need to understand for the story for this game but there's more like they didn't go over the story from the dlc of spittoon two as an example because that fundamentally could have changed the future that dlc what we'll see with splatoon three man I can't believe we're 23 minutes away 23 minutes away from splatoon three baby who's excited I know I am as I'm sitting here checking my phone I'm actually just um checking out my niece my niece because my parents are there my parents are flying out on vacation today so they're out in Minnesota at my sister's house they spent the night they fly out today the niece she looks cute little baby little baby I'm an uncle I am officially an uncle whole family's hyped here whoo whoo what do you got like three people over there along that's that's something pretty that's that's pretty nice I got nobody in this room so hype trade uncle gang uh let's see here that's why they call you Nathaniel uncle jacks uncle jacks what what this isn't the game of jacks we're not bouncing balls and picking up jacks what's going on anybody remember the game of jacks anymore I'll let my kids know it the original purpose of a super ball I'm going to be an uncle in roughly a week as well first time uncle here yep first time uncle for me too sort of you only have sisters have kids but they gave them all up for adoption I should say they were taken away for adoption so um well technically they I would be an uncle to those kids I'm not because they have new families so um I would love to have a fully realized single player version of Splatoon me personally I'm over with these online only focus games I am so confused J bigs aka big jnyc I'm so confused why are we asking for a multiplayer ip to no longer be multiplayer does Nintendo not provide you enough single player games didn't we just get Xenoblade Chronicles 3 wasn't that a thing we just got didn't we just get Fire Emblem Warriors 3 hopes didn't we also get triangle strategy this year Kirby in the Forgotten Land Pokemon Legends Arceus sure we got some multiplayer games along the way switch sports and mario strikers and in Splatoon 3 coming but doesn't that just mean Nintendo has a nice mix of different games I'm really confused why we would why we would want a primarily multiplayer ip to not be multiplayer anymore just play the single player games there's so many of them Nintendo gives us so many single player games we have Bayonetta 3 coming out completely single player I don't it's so weird it's so weird and and you're wrong with the initial comment anyway I'm over with these online only focus games well Splatoon isn't online only case you were nowhere there's literally an entire story mode that's completely single player and you can play it offline so technically your original statement isn't even correct but even if it was let's just say it was why to be force or want to force ip's that are built for multiplayer to not be multi I that I don't I don't agree with as if we don't already get a ton of single player games heck the game of the year this year is probably going to be an Elton Ring a single player game you know game of the year for Nintendo this year is probably going to be Xenoblade 3 a single player game game of the year next year has a high chance of potentially being Breath of the Wild 2 a single player game there's so many single player games the only reason multiplayer games get more mentions is because single player games uh don't stay relevant over long periods of time because there's not continual updates continual reasons to play whereas multiplayer games get continual updates and continual content patches and people you know don't just stop playing it after a few months they play it for a year two years at a time so that's why they'll stay in the news but single player games are always coming out Hexoni got a war Ragnarok this year could be runner up for game of the year and that's a single player game so many single player games um let's see here um if people want single player go play Mario Zell the Kirby many more um none of those games did anything for me I like the patune world and I want to see more of that when I say it was online focus the focus is only and the single player seems more like an afterthought whoa whoa whoa you find a single player to be an afterthought in spittoon I highly disagree I think Splatoon has an extremely well done single player mode I think this the single player in Splatoon and Splatoon 2 is very well done very well done the boss fights in that game are amazing but you know you're gonna do what you're gonna do can't change how you think you think what you think none of those games did anything for you though I get that you like the spittoon world there was more they added more with the auto expansion by the way you know they added more single player content with the auto expansion like I find it interesting uh that this this conversation that because you like the spittoon world you think they should completely spin off or cater the franchise directly to your desires I find that an interesting take one you're complimenting the world but two you want the game to fundamentally change or have a spin-off change that suits your desires because you personally aren't satisfied with the other single player experiences out there which I think brings up a broader complaint of why do other single player games not appeal to you but a multiplayer game does but you don't actually like the core concept of the game you'd rather it be something different like like why are these other single player experiences not clicking for you that's all I'm just wondering why that why they don't click for you I'm by the way I hope you don't feel like I'm attacking you I'm just curious like why do you think why why do we want something an IP to be something it's not just to satisfy a need you're not being satisfied with anyways because it sounds like you're not really enjoying the single player in this game either so do you maybe not enjoy single player games if all these other single player games don't appeal to you maybe you don't like single player games like oh I'm tired of tired a multiplayer but you're not enjoying the single player either now I also have something to say that this this doesn't just apply to you this this could there might not apply to you at all but this does apply to some people there are some people that are scared to admit that video games just don't appeal to them anymore they'll keep buying tons and tons of games trying to get the feeling they got when they were younger they'll buy a bunch of multiplayer games trying to get the feeling they got playing Halo 2 trying to get the feeling they got playing golden eye trying to get the feeling they got playing time splitters or you know any number of multiplayer games back in the day Mario Kart you know SNES or whatever like they'll keep buying games trying to recapture that feeling to have when they were younger and then when they're playing single player games oh man the single player game isn't as fun or this isn't as good or this isn't this that the and they'll keep buying all these single play oh I gotta go buy Elden Ring because everyone's saying this game of the year and then you play it and you're like oh it's just isn't clicking for me and some people get stuck in this rut where they're buying dozens if not hundreds maybe thousands of games per generation because they say fine people are saying go to indie games I'll go to indie games and this isn't clicking for me either and the reality of the situation is something they don't want to self admit and that's that they simply just don't enjoy video games the way they once did they grew up their tastes have changed and now you need to find something else that you enjoy I'm not saying this applies to you but I see this apply to a lot of people who get really disappointed by pretty much every game they play and it come it basically comes down to in my opinion anyways that you just no longer enjoy video games and I don't think there's anything wrong with that by the way I'll give you a really strange example I love cheese I love burgers but I did not like when cheese was put on top of a burger cheeseburgers when I were when I was younger grossed me out I'd take a bite into it and it just felt like two things that don't go together you don't put beef and cheese together it's also why I didn't like when my parents tried to put hamburger into my mac and cheese didn't like it it was gross tasting to me I also didn't like all of those hamburger helpers that had cheese sauce involved with them with the meat it was gross all of it was gross like makes me want to puke disgusting absolutely utterly disgusting you do not put cheese on beef it grossed me the hell out it was just disgusting the texture the flavor nothing about it worked hated it but I like cheese and I like hamburger it's not together so then I stopped eating attempting to eat cheese and and meat together like that just stopped and it been about five years so the last time I tried something and I'm not talking about today I'm talking about but this is back when I was younger and then I was dating this girl named Lindsay back in high school and she played softball and I traveled with her parents to a softball tournament and on the way back from that softball tournament about like two and a half hours away or something they stopped at McDonald's late night because it was pretty late because you know the tournament is what it is it's two hours away so you know it's like nine o'clock at night and you know I I didn't have any more money on me I ran out of money during the day um so they they offered to give me some food and you know or no they didn't offer they just they just bought me a two cheeseburger meal because their daughter likes a two cheeseburger meal and so they got me the two cheeseburger meal and I even if I don't like something I'm not a rude person okay I'm going to try it I'm going to eat it I'm not going to be rude if someone spent money on me or made me a meal whether I asked for it or not if I am their guest and I was in their car at their daughter's tournament I'm a guest I'm not going to not eat it so I said whatever I'll suffer through it I'll I'll I'll eat the damn cheeseburgers sorry I like the fries so whatever so I might I decided I'll eat the cheeseburgers first I'll eat the fries second because I'll end it with something I enjoy suffer through the something something right I'm I'm at this point I'm 16 right so whatever I could suffer I took one bite of the cheeseburger waiting to be disgusted instead it was the greatest tasting thing I've ever eaten in my life at that in that moment and I plowed those cheeseburgers plowed them they were gone probably before they even had a chance to start the car back up it was the greatest tasting thing I've ever tasted in my life and ever since then I've liked cheeseburgers and now it's hard for me to eat burgers without I mean I can have a hamburger without cheese but I I prefer everything with cheese now and suddenly I started trying cheese on other types of food and found out I like it on chicken I like it on other things too but I didn't when I was younger so I was curious about this and so I next time I wanted to see the doctor for a physical because I played sports I had to get a yearly physical I had a really weird question for the doctor hey doctor why did I hate cheese on burgers and in any sort of meat when I was like you know ages you know five to ten or whatever but then when I tried it again at 16 I loved it and you have a really really simple explanation your taste buds change as you get older things you thought were gross as a kid you might not think are gross when you're a teenager and things you think are gross when you're a teenager you might not think are gross when you're 25 and even things you think are gross when you're 25 because your taste buds kind of damper as you get really old you might not think are gross when you're 50 our taste buds change, it's natural, they evolve, they mature, and they change. And if that's happening without my knowledge, I don't know they're changing, I don't know they're changing, it just happens. We don't control it, it just happens. Then our mental taste for video games and our enjoyment of them can change as well without our knowledge. And that's kind of the way I view it now, when there's people that play video games that just can't seem to enjoy what they used to enjoy, or can't enjoy the new things, or when they try other things or try indie games, they just can't seem to enjoy games the way they used to, your tastes have changed. Without you even knowing it, they've changed. And at that point, you've got to find something to do that maybe you're used to not enjoy, but maybe you enjoy it now. Maybe you hated being out on boats, maybe now you love being out on boats, maybe you hated playing sports, and maybe now there's a sport or two you enjoy that you didn't enjoy when you were younger. Maybe you hated working out, now it turns out you love it. Maybe you hated board games, but now board games are fascinating to you. People change, and we have to be okay with that change. So again, I'm not saying that any of this applies to this particular person, Jay Biggs over there, I'm not saying any of this applies to you, but I'm just saying that this applies to a lot of people where we get overly critical, we get overly this, overly that when reality is all that's changed is us, not the games. Like, oh, I don't enjoy these single player games, but they're what you say you want. But no, no, no, no, no, no, I only like Mario, but okay, well, we okay, we'll go play some Mario games. No, no, no, no, no, they don't release enough of them. Okay, we'll go play Zelda. They don't really sell the game. It doesn't matter, we don't get enough Zelda. Okay, well, did you used to play all those single player games? Oh, yeah, probably, and I enjoyed. Okay, well, at some point, we just have to accept that we've changed. Now, it doesn't mean that you've matured and outgrew video games. That's a common misconception, people say like, oh, yeah, I've just matured and outgrew video games. No, no, no, no, no. You've just changed. It doesn't mean you've matured and outgrown video games. It just means that you've changed and thus your interests change. It happens with us, you know, we don't talk about this very often, sexually as well. You might have once been into women, now you might be into men, then someday you might be into both. Things happen. We change. Our desires change. The things we enjoy change whether we know it or not and then we find new things that we enjoy doing. For me, I've been mostly the same since my teenage years in terms of what I enjoy doing. But some other things have been added to my life that I didn't know that I would enjoy, or I didn't even enjoy at the time. But I enjoy now. So only thing I wish for more single player games for people who may not have great Wi-Fi, but there are tons of single player games. I just went over a huge list of them this year only. There's a bunch of single player games. It begins in three minutes. Doesn't it begin now? We'd already be watching it. Here, don't believe me. It's right here. See? Hasn't begun yet. Soon. Soon. Although I do need to bring my stream up on the phone. Why am I being texted? Sorry, it was about school supplies. I gotta load this up here. I gotta load up my stream so I can watch the chat, turn the volume off. Yeah, because I won't be able to watch the chat properly. All right. Let's get this over here. We got the Dancing Splat up. Is there no music though? Let's get that quality up a little bit. Is there seriously no music? Is there a Dancing Splat with no music? Is that what's happening right now? Do we have no music or the Dancing Splat? What are you dancing to? What are you dancing to? Hold on. That can't be real. Is there really no- Hold on. I gotta find out if that's my stream or not. Is that my stream? Or is there really no- Hold on. No, it's- Wow. There's no music. I just checked it on my phone. There's no music. That's funny. So we have a Dancing Splatoon character with no music. All right, Nintendo. Sure. I like to jam out too without music. It's just something I do all the time. I just randomly break out and dancing. There's no song in my head or anything. Nah. See, that's what this character is doing. This character is dancing to music in their head. That's what it is. That's why we can't hear it. It's music in the head dancing. That's funny. Funny. Well, we're about to begin here. Any moment now. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. They want you to sing. I pay by dues. Time after time. All right. They're jamming out way too much for that song. That's too much. That's too much. Well, seriously, what are they jamming out to? And seriously, is Mike Odyssey reacting to me? Is he actually doing that? Please tell me. He's not actually doing it. Okay, he's not. Okay, he stopped. Or he's not doing it. Thank God. Oh, here we go. Is there seriously no sound, Nintendo? Oh, thank God. We got sound. We're good. We got sound. Let's go. It's seen enormous growth in recent years. It's also the hottest new place for inklings looking for things to do. Oh, hello, everyone. Hope you're all staying fresh. I almost forgot about introductions. We're the researchers from the Squid Research Lab. We're simply fascinated by what these inklings can do. They can splat ink in kit form and smoothly swim through it in swim form. We've been studying their biology day and night. Today, we'd like to share some new findings on these inklings while providing summaries throughout. Of course, what goes for the inklings also applies to the octolings. We're sure of it. First, turf war. Get styling with some fresh fashion, and get inking with even fresher weapons. Naturally, in a place called Splatsville, turf war battles are the locals' favorite pastime. Two teams of four will ink for three minutes. The team that inks the most in their color, in other words, claims the most turf wins. Now, that's not all inking is for. Ink walls to swim up. We're going over the basics. Or get sneaky and hide an ink to splat opponents. The more ink you spread, the bigger the advantage you'll have in battles. Whoops. If you're out of ink, submerge in it to refill. New techniques like the squid surge to swim up walls in a single burst. And the squid roll to jump out of ink while simultaneously turning around have also been spotted. Oh, well, it's glowing like this. The move also slightly repels ink from opponents. What? Sick. So there's a little bit of defense with that. Nice. Stages confirmed for the Splatlands include Scorch Gorge, Ealtale Alley, Mincemeat Metalworks, and Undertow Spillway. Four stages. There seem to be other stages as well. Hagglefish Market, a pier filled to the brim with street vendors. Nice. The stuff here looks fishy, though. Several stages from Greater Inkopolis also return. Museum Del Foncino. Battles here take place in the central courtyard of this modern museum. Take special note of the rotating wall. Hammerhead Bridge. This bridge connects Greater Inkopolis to the Splatlands. After lots of construction work, it's finally open. Nice. Thanks to the bridge, transit to and from Greater Inkopolis is much easier. Mahi Mahi Resort. A luxury resort in Greater Inkopolis. Pay close attention to the platforms that sink as the battle goes on. Nice. There will be more areas to ink afterward, so don't forget to splat up. Including the stages you see here, a total of 12 await. Nice. 12 stages at launch. More stages will be added in free post-launch. Some of those stages look sick. Some of those new stages look great. Weapons! First, it appears that all the basic weapons from previous games will be available. All old weapons available, okay? On top of that, Splatland-specific weapon types, such as the bow-like stringers, will make their destructive debut. Stringer's a new weapon type. We've also verified a new weapon type called Splatana's. Splatana's! Like Katana's with Splatana. Is the Splatana wiper. So we got two new classes of weapons. Centrifugal force generated by swinging. Two new classes of weapons. All old weapons. Two new classes of weapons. Nice. Let's dive into the weapons that help you claim even more turf. Special weapons. As the name implies, these are special kinds of weapons that can be unleashed after filling up the gauge from inking turf. There are some new types we've identified, so let's take a closer look. This is the Tacticooler. When it's activated, a fridge appears. You'll find in-game beverages stored inside. These have a variety of effects, like momentarily increasing speed. They come in packs of four, so take one and share the rest with your teammates. Nice. This is the Wavebreaker. When activated, it'll unleash waves around the area. It'll also mark an opponent's location and cause damage. Damage? Try to avoid them with a well-timed jump. Finally, the Reef Slider. Build up power, then charge into opponents who need a good splat. Once the attack ends, it'll explode and damage the surrounding area. Familiar special weapons, like the Tentamistles, Inkjet, Inkstorm, Ultra Stamp, and Booyabomb will also make their grand return. Cool. Special weapons are paired with main weapons, so find the combo that suits your Splatting style. Yeah, yeah. Crab tech. Let's do it. Looks good. Shop here to get your tentacles on some fresh weapons. This is Ammo Knights, owned by the chatty horseshoe crab, Sheldon. The locals have praised him for his wealth of weapon wisdom and sophisticated selection. Instead of using in-game currency for purchases, you'll need these Sheldon licenses. A pain them by leveling up through battles and by consistently using the same weapons. One Sheldon license can be exchanged for one weapon that corresponds to your level. Okay. Oh, and just between us, if you exchange more Sheldon licenses than normal, it appears he'll give you a weapon you like sooner than expected as a special reward. Yeah. Sweet. Hell yeah. That's cool. By the way, the Inklings and Octolings walking around town are pretty savvy about their fashion, like head gear, clothing, and shoes are just as important as weapons to staying fresh in Splatsville. Gear can be obtained in the shops around here. Each one is managed by an interesting shopkeeper. So let's drop in. Yeah, man. A headgear shop. He's going buddy. We'll find an array of hats, masks, and glasses so you can get ahead of the game. The laid back Nautilus, gnarly eddy, and the energetic nails. The snail sitting here run the shop. Love the glasses, nails. This is the clothes boutique, Manna Wardrobe. It specializes in tops, like t-shirts and jackets. The shopkeeper, Gell LaFleur, might be a Gell LaFleur, but this jellyfish has a keen eye from that instance. And finally, the shoe store crush station. Get a variety of cool kicks here. The muscle character is a shoe salesman. It's even leather footwear. It's owned by Mr. Coco. He might look intimidating, but deep down, he's a nice guy. Probably. You're more than welcome to pick out gear based on its appearance, but they do come with abilities that can help you out in battle. Yeah, abilities. Take run speed up, for example. It can increase your running speed. Or intensify action. This improves the squid roll and squid surge moves. There are even more abilities to discover. Plus, there's a fellow in Splatsville who can swap one ability with another. Nice. Looks like he's like a shady character. And you can add an ability of your choosing to your favorite gear. Nice. And if you save your favorite gear combinations as fresh as fits, you can change in a flash. Oh, nice. Okay. Lever up your fashion with whatever I think you want. Okay, so you can save gear combos now. I like that. I like that. You can save gear combos. Welcome to the lobby, a gathering spot for those seeking fresh battles. Turf war battles aren't the only things that happen here. You can also square off in anarchy battles where you compete for rankings. Hold the active zones in Splat zones. Ride the tower to the goal in tower control. Carry the Rainmaker to its destination in Rainmaker. These are the old modes. Or collect and throw clams to score in clam blitz. Duke it out in these four modes which are on rotation. Want to take on a challenge solo? Select anarchy battle series. But if you want to team up with friends, joining anarchy battle open is the way to go. Okay. You can also play private battles online. Set battle modes and other options to your liking. Why not play with your favorite battle modes alongside friends? Okay. Information about these game modes will be available soon on the game's official website. All right. Let's talk about the features within the lobby. This is the test range. Try out and get comfy with your weapons team. This is in the lobby? Besides being able to practice whenever you want. It's also a great place to get all warm. Yeah, it is. This is in the matchmaking lobby. That's in the matchmaking lobby. That's cool. Online friends will appear as 3D holograms. Drop in on friends in the midst of battle and play alongside them. Nice. You can also join up and start a battle on the same team. That is cool. You could do that right from the lobby. What your friends are up to. That's cool. It appears that you can also call out to friends in the lobby and invite them for battles. Why not see these features for yourself? Okay. That's pretty cool. This is where you can view battle replays. It appears that it can somewhat recreate recent battles. What? Automatic replay capture? Fast forward or skip to a certain part. Or even swap to another player's view. Automatic replays? What? Not only can you rewatch battles as many times as you'd like, but there's even a share feature. We hope you'll use this handy tool to help you rank up. What are you uploaded to? Okay. That's cool. Automatic replays? We'll analyze and discuss this space within the lobby. The locker room. Here, you'll find some fresh lockers. One is yours and the others belong to players with whom you've recently played. What? We're the decorate lockers now? You can place any acquired weapons, gear, and items to your liking. Slap on some snazzy stickers and modify your locker's color. Yeah. It's not a 30 second screen capture. It's like the entire match. So customize it however you'd like to show off your signature slatting style. Nice. Okay. Yes. Items can be obtained at Hot Lantis, a general store on the edge of Splatsville. Apparently the store manager vanishes quite often, so instead it's run by an artist named Harmony. She used to be a regular customer here. It's got an outlandish assortment of items. Why not show the store some love by grabbing some goods? Nice. This is a lot of new stuff. When battles start, these splash tags appear. Yeah. They're totally splash-shaped. You can be customized with a banner, badge, and title. Fresh muscle. Additionally, you can change the emote your character performs when you win a battle. Heck yeah. These can be obtained via the in-game catalog, which will be available at Hot Lantis. Nice. By using points earned from battles, you can unlock various items, like stuff for splash tags and seasonal gear. I don't want to hear that we didn't need this. This could have just been DLC. I never want to hear that about this game again. I never want to hear that this should have been DLC. This is so much new, like fundamentally changing the game. Take a little breather here. In the meantime, please turn your attention towards this. Towards this. What, trailer? Introducing... That a card game? ...for a dazzling deck duo. Ink different shapes with different cards. Charge up power, then unleash it all at once with a special attack. Like this, and even ones like this. So build your deck and send your rivals packing. They added a 1v1 card game. Table turf battle. I'm going to guess, this is Microtransaction City? This free guy to spend money? This feels like something you would have to spend money on. This is hilarious. This is hilarious. Yu-Gi-Oh. Nice. Next wave of Salmon. Salmon salmon. My bad, sorry guys. I've been mispronouncing that word most of my life. Golden eggs. Plenty of golden eggs in order to complete this job. This time around, we've confirmed some new types of boss salmonids. So let's share our findings. First up, the Slammin' Lid. The Slammin' Lid? It creates barriers and protects salmonids on the ground. Get too close to it, and it'll attempt to crush you. So approach with caution. Next, the Big Shot. It fires heavy projectiles from a distance. Be prepared for powerful shockwaves when they land. Yeah, right. As new boss salmonids confirmed, make sure you're ready for an even more dangerous salmon run. One of the new king salmonids. Unbelievable. It looks like they'll occasionally appear just before you complete the job. The tank on your back is a specially provided egg cannon, and it appears that you can fire golden eggs to deal massive damage. However, these battles are under a time limit, so rack up as much damage as possible to drive them back. Nice. Sorry, I was being captivated by that. This is still being researched, Big Run. Big Run? We believe that he in which itglings and octolings live. It appears that this event happens once every few months. So brace yourselves! What? Nice. Nice. Big Run. A new mode. Nice. Observe this manhole in Splatsville Square. It's always a dev manhole. This is actually the entrance to the home of the Octarians, the inklings long time enemies. As Agent 3, the newest recruit of the new- Agent 3, so we're back to Agent 3. We'll do battle with the Octarian army, whose members are covered in hair for some reason. Along with your buddy Small Fry, you'll explore many stages, each one full of twists and turns. Oh, I almost forgot. Story mode is perfect for getting familiar with inking turf and using weapons. Some newer players might want to try it out. Well, we've come this far. What awaits the inklings and octolings in the end? We hope you can witness the epic finale of this splatastic saga. Wait a second, finale? I can Splatsville. From here on out, we can talk about other features that'll help you enjoy your Splat against a pace even more in the Splatoon 3 game. You can post illustrations here via this mailbox. Is this the end of Splatoon? They're displayed all across the city and even in stages. So put on your artist cap and post away. Vertical illustrations will also be supported. Additionally, you can grab food and drinks that'll help you in battles at the concession stand or use local communication to play with nearby folks in your favorite modes at the shoal. By using photo mode, you can snap selfies. Photo mode? Send photos to a smart device or display them in your locker. I love how there's physics in the locker. This is the recon guide. Select your favorite stages at any time and take a stroll around them. What? Why not get familiar with each stage? So you can explore the stages before you play them. Okay. I like that. Is Splatnet 3? You can use this with your smart device. It contains features like checking your latest battle stat. I do like the stat feature. And ordering special in-game gear not sold in shops from the Splatnet Gear Shop. But that's not all. Access features like Krusty Sean's Wonder Crust. Support this fellow's journey using ink points earned depending on the areas you inked during battles. Or view history to take a trip down memory lane with your past ranks. You can also snag special wallpapers and more for your smart device. So be sure to grab them. It appears that Splatnet 3 will be available at launch via the Nintendo Switch online mobile app. Next up, Amiibo figures. Scan Splatoon series Amiibo at this spot in Splatnik 3. It looks identical to Splatoon 2. Respectfully. Wow. My favorite gear combinations as fresh as fits will allow you to easily swap outfits. Additionally, it seems you'll be able to get special gear and even snap photos together with Amiibo. Splatoon 3 Amiibo incoming. Yes, dude. I need that fish Amiibo. Small fry. Dude, I need that small fry Amiibo right now. Right now I need small fry. Let's talk about post launch updates. As we mentioned a while ago, following the game's launch, a new in-game catalog will be released every three months for two years. For two years. So two years of catalog support. New weapons will also be added around the same time as each catalog. Okay, so updates for two years. In addition, X battle available after attaining an extremely high rank in anarchy battle and league battle, where every two hours you can compete in teams based on your anarchy battle results are planned to be added in future updates. Nice. Furthermore, for this game, we're planning to add large-scale paid DLC. More details will come at a later time, so please be on the lookout. And now, I'd like to wrap up this research report from the Squid Research Lab. Thank you for watching. That's it? I thought it said a half hour. No, we still have six minutes. How's it going? There's got to be more. Who are you supposed to be? What the? We're not supposed to be anything. What else are you? Who we are? Say it with sizzle. I'm Fry, Shiver, Fry and Shiver. What the? Big man. Fry, Shiver, and Big Man in the house. We are Deep Cut. Oh, Squid. I completely forgot to tell you about Deep Cut. They're an incredibly popular trio who host the Splatsville news program and our key Splatcats. So there's our new host. Provide information on battle stages, as well as other news bulletins. While we're on the subject, the youngsters of Splatsville own C-Cucumber phones. They can check the news while doing other activities, as shown here. Dance party mode? Yeah, Splatfest, obviously. They do this for Splatfest. I always love people like Big Get in the chat. Literally never has anything positive to say. It's always negative. It's okay to not like a game. These events, you pick a team based on the announced theme, then settle the outcome via battle. And this time around, there will be three teams to choose from. Three. This consists of two halves. In the first half, teams will compete in 4v4 turf war battles. The second half is a tri-color turf war. Special mode where teams fight at the same time. What? All players on the team currently in first place will start in the center of the stage. Two players each from the second and third place teams will attack the first place team from opposite ends of the stage. Can the leading team defend themselves or will the other two teams exact revenge and force them out? What? Use the ultra signal to control the battle and contribute to the battle while working alongside the members of DeepCut. Okay. Wow. So they even made a massive change to Splatfest too. Okay. Hot damn. We're going to put out this presentation with an announcement from DeepCut. Take it away. Now that is a very interesting change to Splatfest. I like that. When did you get here, backup? They have added a ton. To this game. Splatfest world premiere on 8.27. Full 12 hours too. Nice. Nice. We'll have to check that out if I'm around on that day. Obviously, I can't, you know, it's a weekend. But if I'm around on that day, we'll have to check it out. Rock, paper, scissors. Okay. I broke up. The three person banter is going to be interested in this game. I'm still in the home. Don't kick cooks. Stay off the hook line. Still stuck in my head. And now, final 2022 tournament. This event will take place on September 5th at PAX West. Nice. Some of the top finishers from this summer's Splatoon 2 Inkopolis showdown will head to Seattle and compete in North America's first ever Splatoon 3 Invitational. Follow the official Nintendo versus Twitter account for updates. And to see more of our research findings as we uncover them, follow the official Splatoon North American Twitter account. We hope you'll have an ink credible time starting September 9th. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. So let me, let me get the chat up so I can actually read it. Thoughts? What are you guys' thoughts? Yeah, they didn't talk about the Switch OLED. I'm a little bit surprised they didn't give us like a, um, all, you know, because like in North America here, we still, I don't, I don't think we still have official pre-order for it. So my thoughts right now, my initial reaction is they added a shh. They added a lot. I mentioned it early in the stream that I don't want to hear people complain that this should have been DLC anymore. Of course. Then conveniently, someone went on to complain that it should have been DLC. Do you see how much content is in this game? The new stuff they've added, the changes they've made, that's not, this isn't just a DLC type of change. They fundamentally added a ton of crap. The lobbies alone, and how the lobby system works, is such a core change to playing with friends. Like, that lobby system is, is so much better than the way that, I mean, they left their, the traditional way in. You can still do the traditional invite people in. But when you're playing by yourself and you get in the lobby and you see your friends are playing in Splatoon and they have like this whole lobby system where not only can you practice fighting, you can actually go in and, and chit chat with your buddies and like set up matches and join their matches and have them join you. And it's all virtualized in the game. You don't have to leave and back out and get into a different mode and invite people in. You can just do it all organically from the matchmaking system. It's awesome, man. It's awesome. Now, obviously, they added that card game in. It'd be interesting to see, see how fun that card game, that card game is going to be. Obviously it's just a fun little single player. Well, that's a single player. A 1v1 distraction, but it should be fun. You know, all the changes they did to Salmon Run. The fact they added a brand new once every, like, was it to say once in a while, once every month, once every few months where they attack the main town and people have to work together to defend the main town. That to me is cool. So they'll be attacking Splatsville and then you get to defend Splatsville. That's a really, really cool new addition as well. Obviously, the two new weapon classes, the new movement abilities as well. The new dodge abilities. You know, you know, we've already seen the abilities where you can like Spider-Man yourself a little bit across the map. I think that that, I mean, that's three brand new ways to move in the game. Along with two brand new weapon classes, entirely brand new, and fundamentally, they brought in all of the old weapons. Every old weapon from Splatoon 1 and Splatoon 2 are in this game. So this game has all the weapons, plus 12 stages. And man, how many of those stages were brand new? Like nine? Wasn't it like eight or nine brand new stages? That's awesome. Now, the only thing I could say might be a smidge disappointing is at least at the moment they haven't added a new basic multiplayer mode. So it's still Rainmaker, Clamblitz, Turf War, and a Splat Zone. So those four ones they didn't add a fifth. I was hoping they would add a fifth. I was hoping, because you keep thinking, well, what else could they add? What other modes? Well, there's a lot of ideas you could have. One basic one would be like capture the flag. Like a capture the flag kind of mode. Oh, the tower. Yeah, the tower one as well. So that's five. But a capture the flag kind of mode would have been kind of neat. Something like that. But, yeah. Grubb was completely right about Nintendo Summer. First off, thank you, taker6n. Completely right in what way? I haven't been watching a lot of Jeff Grubb stuff this summer. I've just been too busy. But what did Jeff Grubb take or extend? Refresh me on what taker, refresh me a little bit. Yeah, capture the flag mode would have been cool. By the way, this doesn't mean they won't add it. Like if I remember, Clam Blitz wasn't there at launch and that was added later. Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm pretty sure Clam Blitz was added later as a free update. So there could be a new mode that's going to be added later as a free update in terms of that type of gameplay. They massively expanded the way playing with friends works in the lobby system. They added the whole locker system, which I mean the locker thing is just an aesthetic thing. But it's still pretty neat. Let's see here. Gun game would be so good. I see them adding it post launch because new guns will release. What's gun game? Let's see here. He said at the beginning of the summer that he heard Nintendo will be breaking up summer announcements instead of a general summer direct. I mean, that's not surprising taker 610 because it's also a sort of an easy prediction to make a little bit because E3 was canceled early. Right? E3 was canceled early this year. And Nintendo has never has never done a direct without an E3. I mean, that's just facts. You can make up whatever excuses you want. But the fact is no E3 in 2020, no general direct. No E3 in 2022, no general direct. A really crappy E3 in 2021. We got a general direct. So yeah, it's sort of, you know, you could argue it was a little bit predictable. But Jeff Grubb is he's a video game journalist with actual sources and his track record of correct things from his sources is pretty good. Yes, some things don't happen. Some things change. But he's got a pretty good record. So yeah. I mean, it's been obvious for a while. Jeff Grubb has some sort of contact at Nintendo. Probably at someone at Nintendo Treehouse, if I had to guess. Because Treehouse interact with media more than anyone else. So. One of my kids are about to come in here. Hold on for a second. My kids are all excited because we're going swimming. We're going swimming. What even is the temperature outside? I'd be a bit of a chilly swim. Well, it's a heated pool, still. Still might be a bit of a chilly swim. Let me check the weather here. Refresh the weather. It gets warmer throughout the day, but it's almost 70. That's not too bad. I mean, let me check the weather again here. Weather. Isn't there a weather app on here? Is there no weather app on my phone? What the heck? Oh, there is. What's it called? It's not called weather. Now it's going to get up to the 80s. So yeah, it'll be fine. It'll quickly, it'll quickly heat up. So it'll be 80 by noon. Sorry. Yeah, it won't be fine. Anyway, sorry. I'm not making a video this morning, guys. This is my morning video. Remember the Nintendo Prime podcast, by the way? That's going to be happening tonight on the Nintendo Prime podcast channel, and we're going to be talking about Splatoon 3, obviously, with Eric and my Odyssey. So that's going to be a lot of fun. I hope you guys decided to tune in there. Customizable weapons should be cool. Yeah, so customizable weapons. It is interesting that we haven't gotten to the point in Splatoon where we could customize like the colors of the weapons and stuff. That would be a really cool addition. Maybe that's something they'll wait because one thing they noted is that this is the final game. You know, this is the finale. Now, this doesn't mean that there's never going to be a Splatoon game again, but it means whatever, the story trilogy, maybe even the style of gameplay. Like if people are looking for fundamentally different modes, maybe that's why we don't have different modes because they're saving that for the next trilogy of Splatoon games. So like they're going to reboot the series essentially with a new trilogy of games. And in there is where you're going to see some of those mega ideas that some people want that maybe they're holding back on because they know, hey, Splatoon is going to be an ongoing IP. So let's crush it with this stuff and then let's do a massive expansion of concepts and what Splatoon is with the next trilogy of games. So that's one thing to consider as well that maybe we still have those five modes instead of them adding five new modes on top because they want to save that kind of stuff for the new trilogy. They want to kick off that new trilogy with a bang and give us a lot more fundamental changes. But I will say they gave us a lot. I have nothing to complain about here with Splatoon 3 right now. It looks amazing. Do that change the turf war not just to give us three things to vote on but then sure half of it's your team versus team but then you have three teams going at it in the second half of Splatfest. That to me is amazing. They didn't say no story. They specifically mentioned story mode. Story mode was brought up. There's a story mode. There's a campaign. They brought it up. It's there. And for some reason the octalines have hair on them. I wonder if there's a story element behind why the hell they have hair on them now when they didn't have hair before. Gun game is a mode in most shooters that every time you get a kill your weapon changes usually going from strongest weapon to weakest. The winner being whoever gets through all weapons. I find that interesting because I've never viewed Splatoon as having strong and weak weapons. Oh man I haven't seen you in a while Bama. But bam let's do it again. Bama how are you doing bud? I haven't seen you have been in a stream in like what's it been two weeks. Welcome man. Our membership count was going down. We were about to dip below 200. Thank you so much for the gift and memberships. So let me see we got fire soul. The basement man. K dog. K's Kajino. Matthew McDonald. Destiny swap. Brandon White. JP. Christopher Colazo. And hopefully yeah this count up here is not accurate. But yes thank you so much. I appreciate the support man. Yeah you've been super busy. Yeah dude that's all right. Life gets busy sometimes. But yeah I think it's been a couple weeks. But welcome back Bama. At least you swung by before you went to bed. Hopefully you get a chance to watch this Splatoon 3 stuff later. Very interested in what your thoughts would be on that. Um you always know when Bama hits here because he announces his entrance with a bang. He always does. Um yeah they didn't want to give away a lot of the story stuff in the story. Like they they mentioned it's there. That's the thing because it's story mode. Nintendo is very careful with spoiling with spoilers for the story in a lot of their games. Especially ones that you know aren't 100 plus hours like Xenoblade. Xenoblade they'll give you a bunch of story details because no matter how many to give you there's so much more. But with this game you know it exists. Here's a couple things. Hey play it for yourself. So uh there's that. Anyways what I was trying to say about gun mode and trying to add a potential gun mode is I'm not so sure there is such a thing as strong and weak weapons in Splatoon. Just a personal opinion. If you're really damn good at Splatoon all the weapons are pretty good. It's more like a preference right? Like a preference of a gameplay preference. More so than I feel like strong and weak. But uh good night Bama. Yeah go to bed. More work tomorrow later dude. Good night dude. Let's see um I'm glad I think game companies and movie companies always put out way too many trailers and clips like they show too much. Sometimes yeah a lot of times they're doing this because they're trying to stand out from the crowd right? They want to stay at the forefront the forefront thought of people's minds. Like Pokemon is an example. We got a trailer back in in June and then they gave us another trailer this month and then it might be now a month but then we'll get another one in it's like say it's not September but we'll get one in October which would make sense we're getting close to launch we might even get an October uh dedicated event for Pokemon. And at the point is companies share a lot because they're trying to stay at the forefront of people's thoughts. And you can't do that without sharing more and more and more and more. Like this isn't the last we're going to hear about Splatoon before launch. One for those who don't know the official Splatoon Twitter account does updates what is it every Monday, Wednesday, Friday? Monday, Wednesday, Friday I believe? Correct me if I'm wrong on that. I'm pretty sure it's every Monday, Wednesday, Friday. They do updates. So we're going to be getting updates about this game all the way up to launch anyways. But damn was this good. I loved this direct. This is what I wanted. The only thing I can say is oh we only have those five modes it'd be cool if we had the other one. Dude they added so much so many things I didn't expect. That whole once in a while they the octolines attacks Blatsville and that's like a new mode in the game did not expect that. Changing Splatfest to three things you can vote on and then fundamentally making it so there's three teams splatting it out at one point. That's a massive fundamental change. Oh by the way, hey we added lobbies and added intuitive thought provoking. Don't need to leave your matchmaking to play with friends and see what your friends are doing. Oh and by the way your game your gameplays this just there's the replays are just always there. You don't have to tell it to save it. You don't have to hit the capture button and save 30 seconds. No we just have full-on replays and by the way the replays aren't just from your perspective. They're from everyone's perspective. You can switch to any character you want during the match. Let's say you sucked but somebody carried you you can go watch that person carry you. You can learn. Obviously they added lockers. They added the card game thing which I find to be really really interesting. I think that card game is going to end up being a lot more fun. It's either going to be a cute gimmick that gets boring after a day or it's going to be a highly addicting thing that some people place between three just to play the card game. I don't know how many decks there's going to be and how you could build out your decks and you know how you get card packs and never really fully went into how you get new card packs. What will be interesting to see all that how all that works. I'm a little worried it might become micro transaction city. It's kind of a hey it's a card game. Kind of a ripe idea for micro transactions but we'll see. The developers five minutes before this presentation would like you guys ain't even ready. Is that what is that what it said on the Twitter account. Obviously I wasn't looking at Twitter account before it happened. Rain maker is better than standard gun better than curling bomb for example. But then with more tiers select three levels of tiers. OP special items like the rain maker normal primary guns in crush secondary bombs. So I mean yeah I'm not surprised that at a top level play there's obviously a greater difference between weapons. But anyways all right my kids are my kids are starting to fight so I gotta go I gotta go be a dad. Thank you guys so much for tuning in though I had a lot of fun I hope you guys really enjoyed that direct. I had a great time and I can't wait hopefully I'll get a chance to play the Splatfest live for you guys or the Splatfest. The whatever you guys know on the 27th they got their little test fire so I hope I get a chance to play it live with you guys. Otherwise I'll catch you guys later and I'll see you today on the channel.