anyone else cried/crying a bit a lot lol

[AKArien]

I can’t be the only one am i ?

 

[Catloafman]

I hate to admit it but yes tears are being shed

 

[Mp3]

Crying about what

 

[electronvolt]

no actual crying but am big sad
(@Mp3 i assume end of final fest)

 

[sevenleaf]

just watched all three post-fest performances back to back and that's what's getting to me. time to lay down in my festival tent and cry

 

[Hokuto]

The end of Grand Fest feels much bigger than me, in ways I don't have more accurate words to describe them with. I've barely been playing this game for one year; I can't imagine how those of you who played for three or six or all nine years must feel right now. I've made peace with something like this before. While I do not intend to cry in the campgrounds, I've got an open shoulder for anyone who needs it.

 

[Neko :D]

having big feelings, but not crying

it's so sad to see it end, i can't even cry about it 🥲

looking through my photos in splatoon and in my switch's album.
I went all the way back to when i first joined
I saw my first splatfest photos








okay, maybe I cried a little...

 

[Vidknight]

Ok I got to be honest I feel like some sort of grinch saying this but I didn’t feel anything. Day breaker anthem kind of tugged a bit at the heart string but throughout the whole fest I watched the performances and I didn’t really feel anything I just thought ok. This is not to say that everybody else should of felt nothing but for me yea just mostly blank faces.

 

[TOD13]

i wasn't crying but i'm still very sad about the fact that this was THE final fest. it feels like the end of an era, even if we are getting rematches of the seasonal fests

 

[OnePotWonder]

I'm not sad. Just... disappointed.
I had one single criterium for this splatfest. One thing that I needed not to happen. One thing that should not have happened.
I will never forgive team past for taking this victory away from either of the other teams.

Salt aside, this doesn't remotely feel like the end for me, as a team future member who cares more about the mid-season patch notes than the actual seasonal updates. We're still getting Splatfests, Big Runs, Eggstra Work, Challenges, and balance patches. The only thing that's changed is the end of new content, which already happened at the start of the season.
Now I simply await the next Splatoon game, and hope team past didn't completely **** it up by winning Grand Fest.

 

[sevenleaf]

hi i'm back to be sappy on a random squidboards thread again

splatoon 3 came out 2 years ago and that was the first fall season i wasn't going back to school (unless you count, idk, when i was a baby). i graduated college 3 months before the game came out and between being right back in the neighborhood i grew up in and getting ghosted by almost every job i applied to and not knowing how to be a person who isn't a student i was feeling kinda lost. but right at that time a friend of mine convinced me to play the testfire fest. i'd never played a splatoon game before then, and i like, instantly got hooked on it, which led to me getting more and more interested in the competitive side of things and wanting to get in touch with the community

without dumping everything on yall in a public forum, the personal situation hasn't improved much since when s3 came out. if anything it's worse now, for reasons some folks here know. and all that has actually been weighing on me particularly heavily this weekend

but man it's hard to be all doom and gloom when grandfest was THIS sick. i didn't even get to play all that much (i reached +1 which is a little further than i usually get, but not by much, and that's with a whole extra day) but just walking around the festival grounds and taking pictures and wearing my little bracelet irl was enough for me. that, plus this being the finale of the two years i've spent totally obsessed with both the lore and gameplay of this game, the memories of playing both with friends i already had and friends i made through this community, knowing that this isn't really the end because the community isn't going anywhere and my competitive run is just getting started... it really did feel special

this is all to say that i technically didn't cry during the festival but i did finally break when i decided to rewatch the three wishes lyric video while waiting for the fest results

 

[Neko :D]

@sevenleaf now i'm really crying
darn it

 

[sevenleaf]

@sevenleaf now i'm really crying
darn it

remember what deep cut said, crying releases dolphins

 

[Neko :D]

AGH!!! MORE TEARS!!!
WHY MUST SPLATOON ENDLESSLY TORTURE ME!!?!?!?!

 

[Mp3]

Past. I knew the squid sisters would win. They don’t lose.
I was on present though.

 

[neonscreenlight]

daybreaker anthem does that to you ig

idk i typically don't cry from video games. doesn't mean i don't care about it

 

[Aiko.Octo]

Yeah. I got emotional for sure and I am feeling it hit in a different way this morning but it's like... it's a lot. It was so good. I'm glad I got to play so much with friends and I'm glad I got to ruler +5 (surpassing my previous record of +4 on gear/grub/fun which feels fitting).

I went through a little arc during the fest where I replayed all of the weapons that I had ever loved throughout the course of the game so far (and ended up spending way more time with vdapples than I expected because for some reason I kept WINNING games with them despite not doing very well with them) and it just felt very... like finding... not closure exactly but... maybe just honoring them for helping me get to where I am, I suppose. Like it felt like I owed them this, at least, and it felt very right to fulfill it.

I started out playing Splatoon 3 with only a vague memory of the time that in 2015 I spent rerunning the first level of splatoon 1's story mode over a dozen times before despondently surrendering to the belief that I was just not good at these games and I never would be good at these games. And this time... I overcame that and so much more. First I had to learn that I could have fun with something without needing to be good at it. Then I had to learn that there was no weird curse preventing me personally from learning how to improve and that it was more than within my capacity to do so. The journey from there is still ongoing, but it is moving forward at any rate.

Past winning was just icing on the cake but it reinforced to me a bit just how important the past is, at least to me personally, for gauging how far we've come, and therefore how capable we are, and therefore, to an extent, how far we can go. Even the cringing experiences we might be having right now of knowingly falling short of where we want to be will only serve as markers for future us to measure our growth by.

I keep looping Three Wishes in my head (it even followed me into my dreams). The unity of the whole thing was especially precious and I guess fests are inherently competitive but this really didn't feel like anything more than a celebration of each of the different perspectives on the same thing. I am just really happy we all got to experience it together.

 

[Yeenom]

Daybreaker Anthem definitely kinda hit during the winning team announcement but then it immediately switched to the news music again and that killed the mood. I really wish the end of Final Fest had a unique announcement, sort of like after beating a story mode. At least have them present the stages before announcing the winner so there isn't any whiplash. I think I missed out starting with 3, I bet everything hit significantly harder if you started from 1 or 2. The event was fun when I could play through it. Honestly I'm just looking forward to 4 at this point, I've seen a lot of people say they're quitting now but this series has me in a chokehold, I'll probably buy a Switch 2 just for 4.

I'm fine with Past's victory, while I obviously wanted my team (Future) to win, I can see the appeal and Future's whole thing is not know what'll happen whether it's good or bad. I really hope 4 will get a historical Japanese aesthetic, similar to Monster Hunter Rise. Maybe the battle tower is inside a massive Sakura tree hollowed out? I know the big thing people are predicting is the story mode being about the Great Turf War but that's so boring. We know everything that happened: Inklings and Octolings got mad over available space, they fought, Octolings got the advantage until their power went out, Inklings forced them underground, Inklings try their best to completely forget about the Octolings and most Octolings are still seeking revenge over it. I think Octavio and Cuddlefish being in the Grand Festival plaza kind of signifies that Nintendo is done with the whole racism plot, Octavio is cool with Inklings therefore the Octarians under his command are also cool, Sanatized Octolings are being resoted because of Marina and while Fuzzy Octolings are still out there, I think Nintendo collectively forgot they existed (Literally no reason to their existence outside of "Mr Grizz", no mention of them in the scrolls, never mentioned anywhere else). I think they'll either extend the lore out to other sea creatures or focus on humanity, maybe Ark Polaris. If we're assuming Past will be used as a factor into story mode, maybe the villain is a human? I doubt they'll go with a time travel plot, we'll probably be playing as Agent 5 in a story that takes place after 3 (Splatoon runs concurrent to our time, if it's 2024 for us it's 2024 for them, history for them begins with the dawn of their species similar to us).

 

[AKArien]

Wow okay, did i start a forest fire ?
so so so i’ll just say, those tears were at least half tears of joy, probably my first ever, because i love this game so much and (probably some of) the community as well. also, well, i’m just emotional ig :P
also i’ve read every story of yours here
and good luck and courage to you, or shared enthousiasm, where applicable

I was team present, with a pendant for team future, but really i couldn’t care more who won and i’m just happy i got to be part of the silly people to be obsessed with this videogame
and this game probably ins’t going anywhere without me, because i’ll be damned if a big event douses my love and 1300h for it, though it may (and did lol) get tears falling

also also, i didn’t even need daybreaker anthem for that, tho it did not help when it came in :"")

 

[SAMICOM]

I can’t be the only one am i ?

only a ton of tears