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Looking up those patents, the first alludes to a system where a player aims and fires an “item” toward a character in a field, and in doing so triggers combat, and then dives into extraordinary intricacies about switching between modes within this. The second is very similar, but seems more directly focused on tweaking previous patents to including being able to capture Pokémon in the wild, rather than only during battle. The third, rather wildly, seems to be trying to claim a modification to the invention of riding creatures in an open world and being able to transition between them easily.

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[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 54 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

People who don't like Palworld, maybe give a real reason? The AI stuff was made up by a salty troll who admitted later he made it up. It being "legally distinct from pokémon" isn't a good enough reason. It having the ability to

Spoilerbutcher your Pals for resources

may be a reason to be upset about the gameplay, but then again, many, many, many RPGs have you culling the local wildlife and depopulating a nation for quests too. Neither is the Genshin Impact art style a reason to hate it. That's just JRPG asthetics.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The butchering thing always bugged me. Where tf do you think your chicken nuggies come from? The only difference is that we don't let real animals have friends before we kill em

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Real animals have friends. Beef cows are slaughtered at about 1 yr old, and they don't keep them in isolation for a year

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

I guess I should have said we don't make friends with them. I could have also drawn attention to the awful living conditions, but getting all Dominion-y wouldn't have the pizzazzy oomph that I was going for

[–] icogniito@lemmy.zip 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Its a very lazy mediocre game that only got recognition because it was ”Pokémon with guns”

I don’t like what Nintendo is doing, but I also thing palworld is a crap game

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It definitely only got popular because of the hype re: "Pokemon with guns," but it's legitimately better than the game it actually copied, which is Ark. You know what's cool about Palworld? Me and my coplayer were able to stop playing without losing everything we've built

Anyone who thinks Palworld is actually a Pokemon ripoff either hasn't played Palworld or hasn't played Pokemon

[–] icogniito@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 months ago

Gameplay wise palworld has nothing to do with Pokémon, it was simply a marketing tool for em.

As for the ark comparison I can’t comment, the one time I played it was on the early access launch day during which I refunded it within 45 minutes because it performed horribly, that was almost 10 years ago though so not sure how the current game compares

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Butchering your pals is less of a problem than enslaving other human beings.

More to the point it's just bad. It's incredibly grindy, has an incongruous tech tree, and the A.I. (both enemy and ally) is trash. It's also mostly a copy of their previous game, Craftopia, which was also bad and has been in Early Access for 4 years now with no signs of ever leaving it.

I don't hate Palworld because it's a low effort Pokemon knockoff, I hate Palworld because it's a low effort Ark knockoff following the same business plan of not finishing their previous game before abandoning it for their new game. At least with Ark you got to ride dinosaurs rather than store-brand Rapidash.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

To be fair, Genshin Impact art style could be a reason to hate it if you hate JRPG aesthetics.

[–] ColonelThirtyTwo@pawb.social 0 points 7 months ago

Really buggy at launch (not sure if it still is). "Pokemon with guns" is the least creative direction to take the concept. Devs reportedly don't know how to use any sort of SCM, a basic development tool