Victory in Splatoon will demand people work together, and the game won’t feature a key tool for that.

I’m fine with this. I stopped playing online with voice chat a long time ago, with the exception of playing co-op games with friends. The main reason I play online is because playing against real people is a different experience to playing against AI. Voice chat doesn't really add anything for me.

Taking this way too far Kotaku. Who really cares if splatoon has voice chat or not? I seriously don’t want to hear some 8 year old yell at me, but guess what?
I will have voice chat in splatoon. That’s right. And you can too.
It’s called skype, this gives you all the benefits of cordinating with your buddies like you…

It isn’t because “Nintendo” it is because the producer loves FPS games and his experience with them is that people use voice chat to promote toxic gaming.

I have never, ever, ever, ever, ever, in my entire life, wanted voice chat in any multiplayer online game. I mute people immediately, never turn on my own mic, and if a game doesn’t allow me to do that, I don’t play that game. People are just too damn toxic, and I don’t want my multiplayer experience hampered by…

I’m 100% on the side of the devs with this one.

You’re wrong. Nintendo absolutely made the right decision not to include integrated voice communication. If a premade team wants to use VoIP to collaborate, they can use any third party app on their WiFi connected phone.

I see nothing wrong with this. The game feels like a beginner shooter. The goal isn’t to kill your opponent but to cover the playing field with ink. That way, newer players can contribute even if they aren’t able to fight as well. There ARE ranked modes where being more skilled matters, but if you get into that you…

Fine by me. I mute the microphone on PS4 games I play, a carry over from playing the 360 online last gen. Every time I do unmute the mic I’m reminded of that toxic behaviour. It’s horrible. So yeah this is okay by me.

The voice acting overall in Xenoblade is quite good. Most of the cast has an English accent and are actually quite good. There aren't any monotone readings and a few of the actors actually have a pretty good range when it comes to emotions without going too far overboard. They really did a great job of doing the…

Xenoblade's voice acting is actually some of the best in any JRPG (and the dialogue itself is far less cringe-worthy).

Seriously? It takes tiny move of a finger to do a quicksave in most games, and any experienced gamer has long since trained themselves to do that motion every five minutes.

YES! That was honestly one of the things I liked MOST about this game. Not like that Resident Evil game where I had to constantly rescue my partner. I honestly wished she could die and I could have continued the game without here but then how would I reach high places? How???

Photochopping is a very common term of changing and editing a photo and is widely used in the industry. Which he'd know, after "all those years"

Unless you are going put that screenshot side by side with an actual screenshot from Smash Bros to show some kind of difference, your reply is completely hollow.

All the more reason why I've become so disheartened by this industry. I find myself caring less and less about each new generation and, at times, would rather just stick to what I know. Nothing quite like doing another Xenogears run.

That player character must have the Iron Bottom perk or something, 'cause that bull guy is huge.

Regardless of clamor about rehashing IPs or whatever, this whole issue is one of the biggest reasons why I love both Blizzard and Nintendo oh so very much. They will take as much time as they damn well please to make the best possible games they can (only slight exaggeration/hyperbole).

There is only one advanced technique many smash bros. players need to learn to be better players:

This is the reason the only games I buy new are from Nintendo.

Over time, a game actually gets fixed as its price drops.