I had a feeling this would happen eventually but I'm surprised its due being labeled as patent infringement rather than one based around copyright given that the biggest complaint surrounding Palworld was that some of the Pals were too close to Pokémon design-wise. I wonder what PocketPair did to set that alarm off?
My thoughts in the palworld thread is basically "this has been going on for so longit shouldn't even have any legal ground to stand on as a case".
I wish. Hackrom autists are autists and they hate that people would use their "inventions" in other games and not let it be open sources, so lots of functions are absent from other games that could've be. We could've had the best pokemon emerald ever made, but not in this situation.
I fucking hate patents so much, it is literally making people lives worse for money. Instead of sharing it to achieve better results, you just sit on it and doesn't help anyone other than you. Game patents are even worse: check this out:
Season 2 from what I heard tried to fix season 1, but people still hate Lyko and her shitty, gay Pokemon. After nearly 2 years of SV-related content, Paldea is still the least liked region.
I started with Red/Blue, but I prefer Gen 3 and 4.I find this odd, because you're not wrong... but I started with 5, finished Black all the way through, then played through both Y and X fully (and can remember doing so with clarity) before Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby... only to greatly prefer Emerald to all of ORAS, have little-to-no affection for Kalos outside of its shockingly useful Nuzlocke setup, and rank every single Unova game behind the original 3 Hoenn ones.
Most of the people I know who like the series are similar. One friend played through Gold all the way through, his favorite is Ruby. Another started with Sun and his favorite is Pearl.
For casual players, your theory mostly holds true. Whatever generation they started with, whatever region they played through first, is probably their favorite. (Relevant: View attachment 6426550)
But does this still apply to hardcores?
I doubt anybody will defend SV unless ZA and Gen 10 will be worse than SV. Bottle caps were the only good things about SV, and that's not enough to defend the rest of those turds.
lol, lmao even
I think they went after Glazed something like 12 years after its initial release, so this may also be incredibly timely by their standards.
I’m surprised anyone was able to nail down the Fire Red Enhancement Project, or whatever it’s called, that’s been the basis for 11,000,000 FR romhacks since. If only some of the autists that have left romhacking for full-on development jobs could shake a few open sourced tidbits loose…
what were the criticisms of Gen 3? the running shoes and multiple bikes, evil teams, good story, actual parents, challenging endgame content, natures, hidden bases, multiple berries, non annoying way to get special pokeballs, and poke contests were all massive improvement over Gen 1+2 plus with the gamecube games and remakes it was absurdly easy to get the full Dex.
More money for Nintendo to wring out of the Palworld Devs.
People were really upset about the inability to transfer from 2 to 3 back in the day. It was baby's first dexit. Tedious TM usage and type diversity in the Hoenn dext were also common complaints.
I don't get what Nintendo's trying to do here from a business standpoint. Either strike right after release or don't strike at all, and wait for it to fall into irrelevancy like all Pokeclones do. It was already starting to lose steam, when was the last time you heard of Palworld? They're gonna Streisand it all over again.
It's not so much how it ended but how it started. Ruby and Sapphire were the first attempt at a franchise reboot, complete with a Dexit. Game Freak later backed down from this by releasing Kanto remakes to make all Pokemon catchable, but their original intent was to start anew. And then there was also the fact that the latter half of the game is just running away from Wingull and Tentacool.
There’s one thing we can conclude from this: Game Freak is really fucking butthurt that someone made a better monster game than them. That’s the common thread among rom hacks they take down.
People meme up the "Too Much Water" thing, but it's still valid. That is a TON of mapspace with nothing interesting going on and the stuff that is interesting is a pain to reach because the surfing mechanic sucks balls. Tons of wasted potential.
The only thing I can think of that’d make any sense - and it’s Japanese copyright law, so that’s already a losing battle - , AND isn’t just a case of Nintendo/Game Freak being INCREDIBLY petty, is that whatever Nintendo’s Legal Team was looking into when repeatedly asked by dipshits on Twitter back at the height of Palworld’s Hype was just Patent Infringement, and this is just the standard cookie cutter shit they have to send out.
I've never thought that the water was bad, but the barebones ocean with those rocks were. And the wild enconters being mostly winguls and tentacools fucking sucked.
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