Comment on Eternal Darkness' infamous sanity system patent has expired - so can anyone now copy it?
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t understand how they successfully patented this without challenge. Call of Cthulhu has a sanity system, and it came out in the 80’s.
Jomega@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Tbf, I think Nintendo might have forgotten they even had this one, seeing as they’ve neither used the mechanic nor enforced the patent since filing it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Good call. They couldn’t have been enforcing. Amnesia had a sanity meter, and it came out in 2010.