Welcome back to Give It Thought.
As always, I'm Jake and let's get right into this Friday gaming news roundup where
I get to all the stories I missed this week.
This first story, and we're starting out in a low place today, but it's something
that I think needs covering.
An Oculus Rift executive was arrested for soliciting sex from a minor.
Spoiler alert, she was fifteen.
Except, she wasn't.
In reality, it was an undercover police officer, thankfully.
You know what, let's just take this from the top.
Oculus' head of computer vision, whatever that means, Dov Katz… wait the dude's
name is Dov Katz?
What a weird world we live in, anyway, Katz was sitting at his computer and thought, "Hmm,
I would sure like to sexually abuse a minor today," So, Katz logs into a chatroom and
finds one.
The girl, or undercover police officer that was posing as the girl, eventually tells Katz
she is fifteen and you know what this piece of human garbage says?
"Just please don't say anything, okay?"
Ahh, so sick.
So, Katz makes the trip to wherever the girl said she was and when he gets there he claims
that he was there to rescue the girl.
To rescue her.
That's his excuse.
The police also got some text messages that (sigh) showed a conversation where Katz asked
the girl if she would consent to unprotected sex.
If you want to read the full conversation and all that, I'll link to it in the description,
but just know, it's really graphic.
Katz joined Oculus in 2013, and according to his LinkedIn page, he leads the VR company's
machine learning program.
He even has a patent for their specific headset, where he helped increase the calibration of
the device.
Now, I know it is such a YouTuber-y thing to do for me to act all high and mighty when
it comes to people like this, but come on.
This guy… this guy is the equivalent of a flaming bag of dog shit.
Sure, we gotta stomp it out because if not, it will burn the house down.
We might get some crap on our shoe, but it's worth it to get rid of this infectious, gross,
uncivilized flame that could spread to other houses.
Really, stomp this guy out of existence.
Ugh.
The lesson here, stay away from guys with names like Dov Katz.
Ridiculous.
Alright… palate cleanser, palate cleanser…
Okay, I got the perfect thing.
This is an update to a story I covered last Friday, and that is the shutdown of Pokemon
Prism.
In case you didn't know, the maker of the fan-made ROM hack was ordered to cease-and-desist
by Nintendo and to stop all production of his Pokemon games.
Pokemon Prism was based on the code that made up Pokemon Crystal version and allows you
to play as Pokemon as well as having some all-new Pocket Monsters to boot.
But, and this is why the story made a comeback this week, the game was leaked online AFTER
Nintendo ordered the original developer to stop production.
A hacker(?) group, not really sure if that's what you'd call them, but whoever they are,
they somehow got their hands on the files for Pokemon Prism and are now distributing
them.
In a short FAQ, they described themselves as "A group of people interested in seeing
ROM hacks succeed.
This project grew in popularity enough to make us interested in it, and the letter from
Nintendo got us in action."
So, this group took matters into their own hands in order to see this project through
to release.
Since this group made the game readily available, YouTubers have been uploading playthroughs
and guides have started popping up all over the internet.
Now, the game was not finished, so there are some bugs in there that might stump some players,
so just know that if you decide to jump in.
You can easily find where to download it at the moment and I say that because I'm afraid
to link to it.
Nintendo can be… well, you know.
But, I say, if you're interested: go for it.
The whole takedown thing is kind of ridiculous in my eyes anyway.
Seems harmless.
Moving on, I don't get to talk about this game much and I get so many requests for it.
Elite Dangerous is adding a Carrie Fisher memorial.
Carrie Fisher sadly passed away after she suffered a heart attack on a plane on December
23.
She was reportedly stable afterwards, according to her brother who was there with her at the
time.
Again, sadly the legendary actress left this mortal plane on December the 27th.
The memorial will be called Fisher's Rest and is set to release alongside patch 2.3
for the game.
This isn't the first time Elite: Dangerous has immortalized someone in the game.
Leonard Nimoy was also memorialized with a Vulcan planet called Leonard Nimoy Station
after he passed away last year.
Another game, the MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic, is asking for a memorial for Fisher
as well, this time in the form of a statue.
As you can see here, someone posted on a message board asking for it.
Quote, "It would be a memorial if we could get a Statue of Carrie Fisher ingame or the
statue of a member of the Organa house that looks like her…
Her role was 3600 years later but it would be nice if she could get honored by BioWare
with a statue ingame.
So, it wouldn't make sense lore-wise for a statue of Fisher's character to exist,
but I think the players want it anyway.
It has been such a sad year and hopefully 2017 gets better in that regard.
Okay, do we need another palate cleanser?
That was kind of a sad story.
In great gaming news, especially for longtime PlayStation fans, well this is a rumor, so
don't put much stock in it, but the Crash Bandicoot N-Sane Trilogy's release has reportedly
been leaked.
And it might be sooner than any of us thought, honestly I thought this would be a holidays
2017 release if we were lucky, but according to Brazilian gaming retailer, Zillion games,
the game is set for a February 28th 2017 release date.
That is a Tuesday, so that lends a bit to this leak's credibility.
Normally games come out on Tuesdays and Fridays.
The thing about this is, this would be such a short amount of time for the game to finished.
Sure we got some gameplay at PSX, but they barely showed anything.
Unless Activision started development a long time ago and are just playing coy, I just
don't see how it could be finished in time for a February release.
I hope I'm wrong, though.
Also, for Crash fans out there, let's really hope that this sells well because this remaster
is probably an effort by Sony and Activision to see if they can put out a completely new
game.
Likely, this thing is just testing the waters, and I hope so much that it is good.
You just never know with Activision.
And for the last story of today, which is always one that I just personally want to
talk about and I'm not sure how many other people are interested, but we got some MORE
footage of Dragon Quest 11.
And this time… are you ready for this, we got see that the player character can ride
a dragon!
Oh, I'm just fanboying out right now.
It is unknown at this time how this will play into the larger game, but you can see the
player using the dragon to descend a large mountain.
It makes me wonder if it will function something like the ride-able Pokemon in Sun and Moon
where you use them to traverse specific areas.
Whatever the case, it is really cool.
We also get to see a shot of the player entering a building, kind of looks like a church or
something, but he enters without a loading screen and that could hint at the console
version being more open compared to past games.
We got to see a few shots of the 3DS version, but nothing new was really revealed there.
This comes on top of that intro reveal from last week, where we got a better look at the
characters that would be in the game.
We got to see the player character riding another animal, the less-exciting horse, but
that could hint at different mounts throughout the game.
As of right now, the game is set to release in Japan sometime in 2017, rumors have it
set for March, but we don't have much to go on.
As to whether or not the game will come Westward…
I don't know.
I'm worried that we'll only get the 3DS version, but the console version might take
the trip since we saw Dragon Quest Builders come this year.
We get the Dragon Quest VIII remaster on 3DS in January, the 20th to be precise, so us
Dragon Quest fans will have something to look forward to next month.
So, as always, I'd love to hear what you think about any of these stories.
Do you think you'll be boycotting Oculus after this… scandal, if you want to call
it that.
I mean, you would have a case for it.
And what about that Crash Bandicoot remaster release date?
Do you think that's legit?
And of course, be sure to talk to me about Dragon Quest, if you're a fan.
I love that series and I'll talk about it until I fall over.
So be sure to tell me any and all of your thoughts on any of today's stories down
below.
And I think that's where I'm going to wrap things up for today.
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