Comment on Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc.

• Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The comparison is valid, but doesn’t mean it infringes on any patent.

  Otherwise, FromSoftware would sue the shit out of every soulslike out there.

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• chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lots of games are also called Roguelike. Based off a game called Rogue. The makers of Rogue do not get to sue the makers of Hades.

  Pets that fight for you, including being able to store them for portable carry has been done by many other games, including Ark. In fact, playing Palworld made me compare it more to Ark than Pokemon: base building, automation, catching dinos/animals/monsters of different varieties for different uses. Some can fly, some run, some can be used as parachutes. Some help automate actions at base. There is a tech tree unlocked by leveling, starting with primitive weapons and moving on to guns and higher caliber guns. Blueprints are common in ark for higher quality crafts to build at, you guessed it, crafting benches.

  Collecting wood, stone, metals, etc. Also the animal assistants can help there too, but only certain ones. Also, Ark has cryopods for storing your animals/dinosaurs. You even throw em to release.

  If they had exactly Pikachu or something it’s one thing, but similar games are just part of the business.

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• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just because it has a resemblance to pokemon doesn’t make it pokemon. The gameplay is completely different.

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  • grayhaze@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So you don’t catch “pals” by weakening them and throwing a ball at them?

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    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Palworld is an open world survival crafting factory/base building game, that happens to borrow the catching mechanic from Pokemon (who borrowed it from Shin Megami Tensei).

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      • grayhaze@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Where is the line drawn between borrowing and copying?

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• PunchingWood@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think it’s understandable why they sue them, it’s just horrible business practice because Nintendo is too lazy to actually innovate and do something creative for a change, instead of sitting on franchises like that and do fuck all with it, only releasing repetitive piss-poor games based on the exact same concept they invented like 30+ years ago.

  The problem is people will still buy Pokemon, even if they’re absolute garbage games. So Nintendo won’t change it either.

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  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think it’s an issue with Japanese game companies in general. I’ve been complaining about Capcom forever. Megaman 11 was a side scroller. I’m a massive mega man fan and I like the side scroll. But it’s 2024. Can we try something new? I would love a ratchet and Clank style, open world 3d mega man where you go to the different areas of the city and take down the bosses. Also games like monster hunter, are so janky and look 10 years out of date, and most Capcom games look outdated

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