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[RavageX]

Man, fuck WB.


Honestly, it's one of the best (if not THE best) and coolest mechanics in the past decade IMO. It adds some really cool experiences throughout the game. The sad part is that even where it was used, it could be improved upon to be better and better. When you defeat enemies, they have the power to return with scars from your previous bout with them. They all have unique stats and weaknesses. They'll mention things regarding your last bout with them, build new buffs after being defeated, etc. It's just really cool and I'm sure the possibilities could practically be endless with procedural stuff these days.

I always hoped we'd see it in a Batman/Judge Dredd/Mad Max/Spawn/Robocop game. It would fit so perfectly.

This is pretty much what I had wished for too. It would work with all those that you mentioned.

 

[fart town usa]

So we'll never see it again. Got it.

Digging that new profile pic.

RIP Corey.

 

[mckmas8808]

I don’t get why nemesis would even be patentable.

Just sounds like the enemies get some awareness about your character the more you fight it.

So if I play NHL and the AI adjusts to my game style, EA can patent the AI?

It's sad man.

 

[CLW]

By then ND will be on its 8th remaster of TLOU / TLOU2

 

[Chuck Berry]

Digging that new profile pic.

RIP Corey.

 

[jason10mm]

Never played the Monolith LOTR games. Is the system that interesting?

I think for the first one it was pretty amazing. It was SUPER frustrating at first because those orc fuckers would taunt you and get better every time you failed, but once you grokked it and learned how it worked, it made the game a lot of fun, IMHO.

The second one was just too much. By like the third city of the same basic objectives I was done. Though to be fair I played it while on covid lockdown so it was coming after Division 2 and Witcher 3, so my tolerance for loooooong games was a little short.

 

[fart town usa]

Lol, classic. "THE DAY OF THE ROPE IS COMING"

 

[SimTourist]

Remember when Namco patented having minigames during loading screens?

 

[baphomet]

Nothing is stopping devs from putting something basically identical in their games.

They just don't want to.

 

[jason10mm]

Nothing is stopping devs from putting something basically identical in their games.

They just don't want to.

I bet the patent covers "concepts" like switching allegiance based on a character interaction, the enemy ranking up after defeating the hero, and the hero being able to alter conflicts between NPCs. Stuff that would get thrown out in any court but no one has the $$$ to go up against WB. Can't imagine you can patent specific lines of code in a way that would make sense, so it has to be just the ideas as well as the specific terminology.

Remember that guy who tried to sue every podcaster for having "lists" in their podcast feeds? Just a patent troll but it took a whole community to finally stop it.

EFF Wins Final Victory Over Podcasting Patent

Back in early 2013, the podcasting community was freaking out. A patent troll called Personal Audio LLC had sued comedian Adam Carolla and was threatening a bunch of smaller podcasters. Personal Audio claimed that the podcasters infringed U.S. Patent 8,112,504, which claims a “system for...

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