Video Game General 2: Definitive/Remastered Edition

Today is the day for me to finally buy Palworld after I get home from work. I hope my new laptop is able to run it. Katress, I’m coming for ya!

@Background Pony #3948
Again? Jesus Christ, how many times have the servers experienced this now?
(seriously, I lost count since last time)

One of the patents that Nintendo is trying to invoke for their lawsuit over Palworld is a patent on “context sensitive mounting”, aka pressing a button to mount an animal, pressing another button to jump/fly, etc.

Someone pointed out that this could end up putting them on a crash course with Activision, because that is exactly how mounts work in World of Warcraft, which had mounts before Nintendo filed a preliminary patent in 2021.

Nintendo ironically could come out pretty bad in this, because they now run the risk of having several of their patents invalidated if the palworld folks can convince a US patent judge that the idea predates their patent.

@Zincy
Lmao. I hope Nintendo gets knocked down for this.

@Zincy
“let them fight.”

@Zincy
As much as I enjoy Nintendo games, they need to learn to not be so aggressive with copyright.

@Meanlucario
true.

@Meanlucario
even for a japanese company they’re strick with shit like this.

Just finally bought Palworld! I’m excited! :D

@Prince Areo
Gonna add mods?

@phoenixacezero
I don’t know yet. I would love to find one that works on my new laptop I just had. It’s LG Gram 16 laptop that’s designed for casual gaming. 32 GB RAM with 2 TB. Intel Evo. I’m just starting out my stuff now and already caught female Lamball as my personal partner.

@Prince Areo
I see. What an Evo Intel.

@phoenixacezero
I forgot what they are.

@Angrybrony
@Meanlucario
I find it a bit weird they’re going after Palworld, considering they, and the Pokemon Company have allowed so many Pokemon rip-offs before, like “Cassette Monsters,” and even allowed some on their systems.

Heck, the Eshop has blatant Link’s Awakening, and StarFox knock-offs, and Nintendo is allowing those to be sold on their platforms. (And they ignore the Mario rip-offs on Google Play, that even misleadingly use actually Mario footage from their games, which you’d think would be infringement.)

One thing I will give Nintendo is, even if their strict copyright C&Ds, or lawsuits are annoying, at least it kinda shows they care about their properties.
Some companies like Konami and Capcom hardly care about their’s and either just ignore them, (aside from compilation rereleases) or let people/licensees do whatever they want with them good or bad.
(Like the controversial directions of the Castlevania Netflix shows. Like what happened to Alucard.)

As for being the “Disney of gaming,” I kinda disagree, as they aren’t quite that bad or controversial yet, and at least still make decent products. (And they occasionally learn their lesson, like when they got backlash for Mario Strikers, and Switch Sports releasing unfinished, and relying on free DLC too much, fans got upset, and then Nintendo listened and started making more complete games after. While other companies just ignore fan feedback.)

I also don’t think Nintendo is near as bad as EA, Activision, ECT.
They did repair my Wii for free, so sometimes they do surprisingly generous things too.

In short, I love Nintendo, even if they piss me off sometimes lol.

Every company has bullshit

@northern haste
True, even Steam/Valve isn’t perfect.

@northern haste
Yep.

Doom glory kills be like:

Do you think when trying to figure out if an old game is good or not it’s better to compare it to how it holds up in the modern day or is it better to see its impact when it came out?

I think it’s something you need to at least address in your reviews.

System Shock 1, the original XCOM etc are good games but dear god are they basically unplayable due to their UI.

@phoenixacezero
I’m thinking of adding at some point soon.

@Prince Areo
Cool.

Veilguard has Hans Zimmer working on the ost.