EZK and Andrew guess which titles we might see on the newly announced PlayStation Classic.
0:08 – What’s that weird new Pokemon in Pokemon Go?
18:12 – Which games will be on the Sony PlayStation Classic?
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Yesterday, Niantic, the developers of Pokemon Go, announced a new product aimed at giving parents better control over how their kids use Pokemon Go, and potentially other Niantic games. Niantic Kids is a login system developed in partnership with SuperAwesome. It is billed as a away for parents to manage what their kids can do.
Parents can register with Niantic Kids to manage their child’s privacy via the parent portal. Niantic Kids helps you review and approve your child’s permissions before they can play and provides options to control the personal information shared in Pokémon GO.
They don’t mention any specifics here, but the consensus among parent of kids who play Pokemon Go is that this could mean that Niantic is finally going to let parents decide if their under 13 kids can use the friend feature.
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I don’t have the time nor inclination to write up a full blown 800 word article on this, but I still wanted to share my thoughts. So introducing the first Random Tower Quick Thought. These are meant to get something that is nagging me off my chest and to spark a conversation. You don’t have to confine the whole conversation to the opening topic either.
On Monday, December 12, Niantic dropped its latest update on Pokemon Go players. Many people, such as myself, were expecting Gen 2 Pokemon to arrive. Well, they kind of did that. Instead of dropping the entire Gen 2 catalog on us, they gave us just the baby pokemon, minus Tyrogue. However, you can’t catch these new pokemon in the wild yet. You can only get them from hatching eggs. Sounds cool at first.
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Get ready to walk your feet off. Pokemon Go really thinks you want to walk 400 kilometers to evolve your Magikarp. Distances for pretty much every other pokemon are also comparable.
Yesterday, Niantic released its Buddy Pokemon update. With this update, you can assign one pokemon to be your “buddy”. As your buddy, the pokemon appears next to you in your profile and next to your headshot. As you walk, your buddy has a distance meter that fills up. When full, you get one solitary candy.
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I have been playing Pokemon Go since the game launched in early July. The game has had numerous ups and downs, as can be easily read about on other sites. I am not here to give a review of the game or tell you about all that. What I want to do is document my experience playing this game.
When I say play, I mean that in the loosest meaning possible. There is little play to this game. You toss pokeballs at the mons, tap furiously at the screen in gym battles, spin pokestops, and select options from menus. Not much else. But that is not what makes the game interesting. It is finding the pokemon in your daily lives in real locations. That doesn’t work out for everyone though.
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Internet rule #34 states that “If it exists, there is porn of it.”
And so it goes with the recently released and super duper popular mobile title, Pokémon GO, an augmented reality game that tasks you with wandering around outside catching the wild Pokémon you find loitering in various parks, restaurants, and Holocaust museums.
In the porn parody, three porn stars cosplaying as Pikachu, Charizard and Vaporeon have gone missing and it’s up to Ash to track them down and capture them with his phone’s Pornstar GO app.
1 CommentNot only is Andrew back to grace you all with his dubious presence but you can also find audio versions of the last four EZK-hosted episodes of Molehill Mountain on iTunes. Yay!
- 0:29 – Andrew talks about his vacation and Batman v Superman
- 19:00 – Andrew tries not to fall asleep during a discussion of Pokemon GO
- 29:13 – We send Samus some anniversary love because Nintendo can’t be bothered (we know it’s a weekend but still…)
- 31:31 – Nintendo still hasn’t figured out this global thing. NES Classic Mini available for pre-order in UK but not US
- 41:31 – Sony’s baffling decision to not market Ghostbusters’ super cool 3D presentation
- 52:10 – Fans often throw fits over reviews of movies that aren’t out yet. This time it’s Suicide Squad
Hey folks, E. Zachary Knight here. Andrew was caught using Twitter this past week and is now on the run from the Podunk Witch Hunters. While he is in hiding, Jeremy Powers of Zens Path joined me for the latest Molehill Mountain podcast. We took part in more Pokemon Go chatter, Nintendo’s return to its roots with the NES Classic, and bit more.
- 1:45 – Jeremy Talks about Monster Hunter: Generations, Song of the Deep and collectors editions
- 7:48 – I talk about Castlevania, my PSP, and other PS1 Classics
- 14:10 – Lots of Pokemon Go chatter.
- 44:14 – We reminisce about classic gaming thanks to Nintendo’s NES Classic
Last week sparked the largest fitness fad to hit the world since Wii Fit by Nintendo. I don’t think it was entirely intentional on the part of the Pokemon Company or Niantic. But I also don’t think that it was entirely unexpected. But that isn’t the only result of the launch of Pokemon Go either. People are also getting fresh air and making new friends.
I have been playing Pokemon go for almost a week now and I must say that my kids and I have not had this much fun walking around the neighborhood and the park in a long time.
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On this week’s show (episode 158) host Andrew Eisen discusses the latest GamePolitics poll (“If Super Mario Maker had been a launch title, how would…
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