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Nintendo are arguably one of the most, if not the most anti-consumer and anti competitive gaming companies around. Heck even EA and Microsoft are slowly getting better.
So World of Warcraft, owned by Activision-Blizzard, owned by Microsoft is in violation of their patent rights for pet battles? No clue how these patent laws work, are these things applied retroactively?
I doubt it would be much different either way.
The fella in question is a consummate asshole in every thread he shows up in. Just place him on ignore fellas, trust me. He contributes nothing but negativity and never has any information, and he's a huge console warrior, culture warrior, and hates America. Guy's just a piece of shit :/, you lose nothing from not seeing him. I prefer not to ignore people here, but there are a good few users that contribute nothing to this forum and you're better off not seeing them.
Definitely on ignore now, thanks! I don't understand why people have to be like that. I'm all for having strong opinions on here, I've done it plenty and a lot of people have probably ignored me for it, but I would never in a million years blatantly hate anyone or a group of people for their beliefs, even more true on a gaming board where the whole point is to have discussions on differing opinions.The fella in question is a consummate asshole in every thread he shows up in. Just place him on ignore fellas, trust me. He contributes nothing but negativity and never has any information, and he's a huge console warrior, culture warrior, and hates America. Guy's just a piece of shit :/, you lose nothing from not seeing him. I prefer not to ignore people here, but there are a good few users that contribute nothing to this forum and you're better off not seeing them.
Hmm.....and at least two of them are giant lizard avatars.....
Yeah, honestly the negativity of this place needs a purge. This is easily, EASILY, the best gaming forum on the Internet and it's not close. It's the only one left that encourages unbiased discussion and dissent, but it just needs to crunch down a little harder on the culture and console warriors and the absolute rudeness of posters. We do live in a polite society, so it turns out that society does run better when people are polite. A lot of socially inept, somewhat hermit like gamers never really learn how to speak to others properly, and that unfortunately does continue on to how they speak to others on the Internet, and it's a real bummer how it spreads and then more and more people just start behaving like cretins and assholes.
Agreed. I think it's tough for the mods to keep up though. And I think too many people are afraid to report posts. I rarely do it, but if someone says some off the wall just flat out dumb stuff, I definitely will.
Nothing is 'x' exclusive in life, but US has a long and rich history of incredibly dumb patents, their patent system is well documented to be problematic.
Not by choice, but as Jeff Bezos famously said, "good intentions don't work". And it's rather common for these corps to have KPI targets like "file N+ patent in a year".
Bigoted? Is it wrong of me to take issue with Americas legal system which CONSTANTLY facilitates these ridiculous patents and allows dickhead companies like Nintendo to act on them…YOU are making it about bigotry sensitive little Americanwtf are you even saying? FOH with this nonsense…imagine trying to derail this thread to make it about a whole country of people… really a bigoted comment
Or final fantasy...
Naw, I doubt that's why we haven't seen it again.
The "nemesis system" hasn't been seen in games outside of the Mordor games, even in any WB products, because it's a massive pain in the ass to design a system with gameplay dependent upon intricacies of individual NPCs being affected by player interactions across the full play campaign. Action games hardly benefit from that level of miniscule difference (a developer can shift stats around and track event/object variables when a player accomplishes an action, but the idea pitched in SoM that like, 'If you kill his brother with fire, your the Nemesis will be afraid of fire!', that really doesn't do a lot to differentiate how you button-mash and dash/parry/strike foes in a normal game. And in a RPG, detail is more appreciated, but it's still difficult and often fruitless to turn the littlest details (much of which the player won't even remember doing) into stats actionable in combat or items or quest goals or even conversations. If a game is going to customize its story progression based on player choices (and few actually do, and as is notable from grudges still held over perceptions of Fable and the Mass Effects promising this, fewer still actually do it well,) it's usually best when the action is noticeable and purposeful; track some other stats as well to color in the lines.
Nemesis System is more than just persistent minor choices, but when you dig into what its math was, I think you can see why it was a rarity in games. Monolith did it fine enough in one game and one sequel, then tried to do it in a third game (with a character who actually has inherent characteristics and even weapons which encourage meaningful interaction with foes,) yet they crashed and burned trying to make Wonder Woman, and in the meantime WB has never hinted of even attempting an NPC record system concept like this again.
Middle-Earth: Shadow Of War - Nemesis System Complete Guide
The Orcs of Middle-earth: Shadow of War steal the show in this game, but it's thanks to the incredible Nemesis System that it lands so well.
There's plenty of wiggle room even with the patent where a developer could do plenty of things to affect the world or characters and get Nemesis-like persistence yet not get sued. Especially with AI coming on (which could easily go wild on tracking persistent elements and patterns across play sessions, that's what it loves to do, the hard part would be writing it back into the game,) there's a likelihood that we'll see deeper persistence on a previously unuseful level to find a use for all that data. But I've never heard of a developer say, "Oh man, we had this great idea for our game, but then we heard about this "Nemesis System" patent..."
