Postby karashata » Fri Jun 05, 2015 10:45 pm
While I wouldn't mind the occasional (and ideally somewhat subtle) reference to past Rare titles like the Banjo games (since this is a spiritual successor to the N64 Banjo games being made by ex-Rare devs), I don't think the game really needs references to anything or everything that might be hot right now.
It's one thing to reference their prior work, particularly the titles this one's meant to be a spiritual successor to, it's a totally different thing to reference completely unrelated works just because they happen to be somewhat popular right now (and who knows whether Splatoon will even be quite as popular by the time this game is released).