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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

If Palworld devs were as petty as I am they'd probably make a Pal that looks like an obese and hostile Pikachu with a Mario hat.

  • Name: Renjiyu / レンヂユ; after a really shitty Mandarin joke with Nintendo's name (basically calling it hell's company).
  • It would make a noise that sounds a lot like uttaeru / 訴える "to sue, to complain" with an incredibly whiny voice
  • Drop: meat and sulphur (the in-game sulphur looks a lot like fool's gold)
  • "Utility": when it's running around your base, Renjiyu makes your pals drop whatever they are doing to listen to its ramblings. As in, negative utility.

Bonus points if the logo in the hat resembles a pokeball from a distance.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This game is still in early access so I hope this is only temporary and they will retool this to not be similar to Pokemon. There's no way this will be final right...?? No summon animation at all??!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Worried what this means for Nexomon 3

[–] [email protected] 154 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lame. Thanks, Nintendo. Got forbid you actually try to outcompete.

[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Don't innovate, litigate!"

-Nintendo

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"Don't care, just buy"

- Gamers

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 week ago (16 children)

These primarily cover throwing an object in a specific direction to either summon a battle character or to capture a creature in the field - mechanics Palworld shared with Pokémon at launch.

sounds like a mechanic found in a number of video games.

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[–] FreshLight 62 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

What a sad sad outcome. Patenting game mechanics should not be legal.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It isn't in the US but is in Japan where the companies are based.

[–] ryathal 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's still somewhat protected in the US. The big one in table top gaming was tap mechanics from Magic. That expired in 2014 though. In video games the Nemesis system from Shadow of Mordor/war is also patented.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Loading screen mini games are also patented. That’s why loading screens never have mini games. Less of an issue now that game devs have begun avoiding loading screens, but they were extremely common in older generations and they never had mini games to pass the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I remember how impressive that was as a kid, when i played ridge racer on psx the first time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Erm, acktchually! I think Nintendo is pretty cringe here, not based!

(Sorry, I couldn't resist)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Take this vote and leave before I change my mind

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Ok, I'm outta here.

All jokes aside, I would like to weigh in and say that I find the whole patenting of game mechanics to be absolutely appalling. I genuinely don't get how this is legal, even in Japan. They filed this patent way too late for it to even make sense.

You could've made an argument if they patented it back in 1996, but even so... Fuck this. Imagine patenting a screen transition or something?

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Make it so you launch the ball thing from a sling shot, that's not throwing the object and it fits the universe

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is the answer right here. There’s even a few late game items for this. The just need to readjust the costs for those launchers. Make them available early mid game.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (6 children)

It’s a shame the Wii U didn’t bankrupt Nintendo.

[–] Kecessa 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Nintendo could afford to release 10 failed consoles in a row and still keep going, that was the case back when the Wii U released as well

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So fucking stupid. I remember a time when Nintendo was constantly losing legal battles like this one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

They probably just learned to pay judges, not lawyers.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

make it so you shoot them out with a gun

[–] ryathal 5 points 6 days ago

You already do that eventually anyway.

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