Evening All. This is DigiBytes here, bringing you Let's Play Pokemon number two. This Episode brings annoying technical difficulties with the screen capture, a challenging first gym battle with the one and only Brock, and a Pokemon move that should not have gone, 1, 2, ..... Poof!
In an out of nowhere announcement from Game Freak, the Pokémon Legends: Z-A studio is closing down Pandoland less than a year after release.
For anyone who somehow missed the news over the weekend, Pokémon developer Game Freak suffered a data leak in August which has just come to light, with various internal docs, source code to games, and other material finding its way onto the internet.
I imagine if the source code for legend ZA gets dumped online, even in an unfinished state, modders will finish it, clean it up and it would punch a hole right though the games sales numbers
I wouldn't think they'd have enough to make much more than a tech demo, obviously the game would be pretty under baked at the moment (plus that would be a lot of work for a small group of modders).
Some of the stuff from these leaks is pretty wild, particularly the human/Pokémon relations, I imagine Game Freak spends a lot of time reigning in the lore guy (supposedly it's a girl) who's totalling into that mythos. Makes me wonder if some of the stuff we see in game is toned done versions of that stuff that has been sanitised for the audience (some of that is really interesting though).
Pokemon developer Game Freak hit with big hack, leaking source code news about MMO-like game Synapse with ILCA, and more.
This is the first time a hack has me feeling happy. These pompous fools deserve to get hit with something to drop them down off their high horse pedestal. They had a hit formula decades ago, and they've just been riding off that for all of their careers. Bringing nothing but minimal effort enhancements for every full-priced game.
Up until just after Diamond/Pearl, I adored this franchise. After those, I realized we were just repeating the same thing over and over again. They can't even put in the effort to make a 3D game run at PS2 quality these days for their main franchise. That's honestly sad to see for a once great developer.
Hacked or nah they'll keep lazily crapping out mediocre Pokemon games, and people will continue to defend them. "it's a game for kids" I guess kids deserve crap then. Like an idiot I bought the last game, couldn't even finish it cause of how dreadfully unimaginative it was. Meanwhile the anime has only gotten better and their cards have been selling like crazy.
I’ve never been into this series.. I was already not into it when it first came out on gameboy..
I think Arceus was cool but just showed how lazy this developer is.
Instead of making a full open world game technically on point they release not even game in its pre alpha phase.
People's personal data got leaked and is online for millions of people to access, that's nothing to feel happy about and anyone that does is a pig
This isn't just about games so get your head outta your ass before you choke on it
They've leaked tons of employees personal data and contact information none of those people deserved to have that happen and will result in a holes going after them and their families over some dumb game
It took you about 10 years to realize that? lol. They were COD before COD, but for jrpgs.
Feels like so many people have aged out of the franchise but don't want to admit it. It's a franchise aimed at kids not saying adults can't enjoy it but there's a reason why they can recycle content ideas and concepts at will because they generally rotate the fanbase every five years or so.
It's why games like Pikachu's adventure on Wii exist they make nursery rhyme videos on YouTube kids and get them in young and keep them interested until they age out.
I was there for gen one and aged out of the franchise by gen 2 now the kids in my family are there for gen 9 it's like Mickey mouse in a way there's a cycle
It blows my mind that such an awful, technically embarrassing company still has access to one of Nintendo's biggest IP while they drop yearly garbage 15fps slop - and while every other first party Nintendo release has been knocking it out of the park with banger after banger. I'm not much of a Switch gamer but it's hard not to notice how impressive their output's been this gen, minus the Pokemon games.
That being said, the number of hacks this year is becoming a bit concerning.
Not even just in the gaming world, but government, infrastructure, news sites, the entire internet archive, etc. We probably shouldn't be cheering this on, unless it somehow results in [pretty much any] other devs getting the Pokemon license.
Game Freak is a co-owner of The Pokemon Company along with Creatures and Nintendo. They have access because they have ownership.
You'd think though with all the money Nintendo has they'd have tried to go for full control or at least chip away at it slowly by gaining more shares of it or something.
I feel like if Nintendo did it in house the quality would have been a lot better over the years.
Some people only see the company getting impacted by this and forget that all their employees personal data was tied up in this leak and trolls are going to go after them because they didn't get the game they wanted or something equally as dumb like it's their personal fault.
These hacks and leaks are often purely a distraction for a established company they might be fined by a governing body at worst but the reality is no other publisher would buy their data and use it as that's highly illegal.
So hackers who aim at these companies and try to sell game source code are more often than not incapable of doing so like the Rockstar hack or EA hack.
So I'm not sure what's to gain here outside of blackmail that won't get paid.
