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Jigorath · Jul 20, 2015

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2015...-elephant-out-tomorrow-game-freaks-ps4-debut/

Tembo The Badass Elephant out tomorrow on PS4 is the type of game Ive always wanted to make. As a kid growing up in England in the 90s, I would play a lot of platform games on the SNES and Mega Drive, and then come up with my own characters and game ideas, sketching them out with coloured pencils.

I never really grew out of it, and ended up working in the games industry, in London at first, moving to Japan later, eventually joining Game Freak about five years ago.
Game Freak are most famous as the creators of Pokémon, but they have a history of making great action games too, like Pulseman for the Mega Drive, or Drill Dozer for the Game Boy Advance.
I pitched the company my idea for a new mascot character game, Tembo The Badass Elephant, and they liked it. After we made a demo version, they greenlit the project for production.

One thing I personally like about PS4 is the controller. For this game, the D-pad works well, and I like its placement and the way it feels. The controllers vibration feels particularly good, and works nicely when youre smashing up in-game scenery.
Its a new and exciting experience for Game Freak to be releasing a game for PlayStation 4. I hope youre excited to play!

Some Nobody · Jul 20, 2015

Pretty sure this was known, and why no title of the game in the OP?

De-mon · Jul 20, 2015

The game was announced in march.

FoneBone · Jul 20, 2015

.the game was announced four months ago... Also, it's out tomorrow.

Gintoki · Jul 20, 2015

Also for PC/xbox one

Jigorath · Jul 20, 2015

FoneBone said:
.the game was announced four months ago...

Oooooh.

Whoops.

The Red Wizard · Jul 20, 2015

Click bait title is click bait. Searching the game's name, which you omitted from the title, shows that this has been known on here for months. It's also coming to PC and X!.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1008385
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1062473
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1075049

BTA · Jul 20, 2015

It's also coming out on Steam, so it's not even an exclusive.

tirkaroKujo · Jul 20, 2015

Well damn, here I was thinking GameFreak was gonna make something new besides Tembo.

We've known about this game for quite a while now.

Newtype-001 · Jul 20, 2015

why op

Hibiki Kurosawa · Jul 20, 2015

What a terrible title for a thread.

Veritigo_X · Jul 20, 2015

You forgot to add "and you won't believe what it is!" to the thread title. That's like click bait 101.

Nibel · Jul 20, 2015

The game was announced in March, yes, but this is a new blog post.

The thing you guys should complain about is that OP uses a sensationalist click-bait thread title instead of putting the game's name in the title.

Mandelbo · Jul 20, 2015

Nice title

Kazer · Jul 20, 2015

BTA said:
It's also coming out on Steam, so it's not even an exclusive.

And Xbone.

Leafhopper · Jul 20, 2015

Before someone comes in this thread and says it.

No Gamefreak is not owned by Nintendo. They just make mainline pokemon games for them.

Glass Rebel · Jul 20, 2015

Continuing the trend of misleading thread titles for PlayStation blog news.

kuroneko0509 · Jul 20, 2015

lol clickbait title.... and it's an old news as well

oti · Jul 20, 2015

Ban this guy!

Haha, that was just a joke.

it was not

Triggerhappytel · Jul 20, 2015

tirkaroKujo said:
Well damn, here I was thinking GameFreak was gonna make something new besides Tembo.

.

Damn it, OP!

Three · Jul 20, 2015

It ain't no pokemon but it looms like a really fun game. A bit like donkey kong when you're on a rhino.
https://youtu.be/nBcP_q5j9yY

Hot Coldman · Jul 20, 2015

This is why you'll never be better than Goku.

delSai · Jul 20, 2015

Oh well i got excited for a second.

themagicalkitsune · Jul 20, 2015

Nintendo HATES them!

no, not really.

Volotaire · Jul 20, 2015

I played this at EGX Rezzed. It was fun.

FelipeMGM · Jul 20, 2015

Not news at all plus clickbait title

Not a good way to start the morning

Reszo · Jul 20, 2015

Well I didn't know about it OP lol must of missed the announcement

Escalario · Jul 20, 2015

Hot Coldman said:
This is why you'll never be better than Goku.

BGBW · Jul 20, 2015

Third party developer makes a game for a system.

Greddleok · Jul 20, 2015

It also looks like something I'd play on my phone.

VanWinkle · Jul 20, 2015

I am interested in buying this, but I don't know how much it costs.

Steroyd · Jul 20, 2015

A Game Freak game published by Sega with a multiplatform game.

Tempted to buy for the lulz.

Jigorath · Jul 20, 2015

Hot Coldman said:
This is why you'll never be better than Goku.

kuroneko0509 · Jul 20, 2015

Hot Coldman said:
This is why you'll never be better than Goku.

ahahahahha

SprachBrooks · Jul 20, 2015

Argh click-bait is becoming increasingly rampant on thread titles - really starting to piss me off.

L Thammy · Jul 20, 2015

Hot Coldman said:
This is why you'll never be better than Goku.

GribbleGrunger · Jul 20, 2015

It's getting great reviews.

Crayolan · Jul 20, 2015

Pretty sure this is releasing on everything except Nintendo hardware, not just PS4.

LegendX48 · Jul 20, 2015

had no idea they were making a ps4 game

RyanPierre · Jul 20, 2015

Game Freak making a PS4 game

If it's releasing tomorrow, they're quite done making it actually.

SporeCrawler · Jul 20, 2015

Its shocking that gamefreak is not releasing this on wiiu or 3ds. Aside of the fact that game freak has been nintendo exclusive for ages abd that gamefreak is coowning the modt succesful franchise nintendo has... The game itself also seems to aim at a demographic that fits the wiiu userbase. Well maybe this is the beginning of more nintendo second parties straying away ?

Newtype-001 · Jul 20, 2015

VanWinkle said:
I am interested in buying this, but I don't know how much it costs.

$14.99/£9.99/12.99
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1075049

JayEH · Jul 20, 2015

Well that's a misleading title.

crinale · Jul 20, 2015

Hot Coldman said:
This is why you'll never be better than Goku.

LMAO. Good one.

Toadthemushroom · Jul 20, 2015

Reviews have started to emerge out of nowhere, what we need is an OT for this, I guess?

themagicalkitsune said:
Nintendo HATES them!

no, not really.

Heh. That being said I'd imagine Game Freak shopped this to Nintendo first, like they did Harmoknight, but I guess they got turned down for reasons unknown.

Sega picking it up did mean it wouldn't see a release on Wii U, though, but I'm guessing Nintendo didn't see a gap in their product lineup for a game like this.

Escalario · Jul 20, 2015

SporeCrawler said:
Its shocking that gamefreak is not releasing this on wiiu or 3ds. Aside of the fact that game freak has been nintendo exclusive for ages abd that gamefreak is coowning the modt succesful franchise nintendo has... The game itself also seems to aim at a demographic that fits the wiiu userbase. Well maybe this is the beginning of more nintendo second parties straying away ?

LMAO. That's a good one. And just FYI: Sega's publishing this not GameFreak.

Ghost Slayer · Jul 20, 2015

Hot Coldman said:
This is why you'll never be better than Goku.

I am laughing hard right now

Deft Beck · Jul 20, 2015

Misleading thread title. We've known about this game releasing on this platform for a long time.

Nightbird · Jul 20, 2015

Could have at least add in the Name of the Game OP

nephilimdj · Jul 20, 2015

Im waiting for feel-goods, tembo the woolyass elephant personally.

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