What new game mechanics did Palworld introduce? Everything is kitbashed from Ark and Pokemon.

Not that I hold anything against it, it’s more fun than either Ark or Pokemon, but I don’t pretend that it’s anything new

I didn’t say that no one’s ever ripped off a popular game before…

I’m more than willing to call certain games ripoffs of others if they’re visually indistinguishable. The thing with soulslikes is that every one I’ve tried has been rather unique. I’m sure there are some that are blatant ripoffs of Dark Souls/Bloodborne, but I wouldn’t say that about Steelrising, or Flintlock, or Remnant, or Code Vein. Fortnite and PUBG popularized the Battle Royale genre, but I wouldn’t call Apex Legends or Spellbreak ripoffs of them. This game looks like Horizon the way that Never Grave looks like Hollow Knight.

I’m totally into a new genre of Horizonlikes. I just want them to offer something unique within the genre.

Genuinely, pick up Horizon: Zero Dawn. Your preconceived notions are not accurate to it, it’s a very good game

In a world where human civilization has ceased to exist, traverse grasslands, deserts, forests, and mountains to explore unique Mechanimals and mysterious ruins in different regions, unlocking the secrets of MOTIRAM.

Do you really think the only thing this has in common with Horizon is the mechanical beasts? It can bolt on whatever other mechanics it wants, the base game is a shameless ripoff.

Other people are bringing up other games with robotic animals, but each of these has a distinct visual aesthetic. I can tell a ReCore robot from a Horizon robot from a… wow, those are the only two I can think of. It would have been really easy to enter the market with their own unique aesthetic instead of being indistinguishable from Horizon

This game will come up with about as many new mechanics as Palworld did

Some of those robots look sick, but I’ll be damned if they don’t look like a Horizon fanfic.

This looks about as creatively bankrupt as Palworld, but at least Ark But With Pokemon took two games that I don’t like and mashed up my favorite parts of both. I already like Horizon and Monster Hunter, so Horizon But With Monster Hunter has nothing to offer me

https://www.cbr.com/just-how-many-pokmon-are-there-really/

Between original Pokemon, shinies, regional versions, and weird upgrades like gigantamax or whatever

You never know, they might bring it back permanently if they see their playerbase quintuple overnight

Ah shit, guess I’m getting back into overwatch

Some of them are extremely similar, but there were over 3,000 existing Pokemon designs as of Palworld’s release. It would be a statistical wonder if none of them looked similar, especially when our criteria can be as loose as “fire fox” and “Anubis”

at least make an attempt to understand it lol

That’s what I’m trying to do, and the best you can manage to explain to me is “actually you’re wrong.” You have time to type out three paragraphs, but not enough time to explain that the patents the page links to, despite being apparently (as far as I can discern) filed with the Japanese patent office, are not Japanese patents?

I admit I don’t really know what I’m talking about. The patent system is obtuse and virtually impossible to understand. But as far as I can tell, the patents referred to by the article are patents that were filed with the Japanese office. Can you explain what I’m getting wrong?

You quite literally linked info showing the dates of the US patents that are after the release of palworld.

I’m aware of that. The person you were responding to said “Look at the actual patents, though. They list 2021 as the application date in Japan.” Do you want to explain why the website apparently shows an initial application date of 2021 in Japan? Maybe the google patents page is misleading. Maybe it’s showing a related but not equivalent patent.

I really don’t care about the process or validity of suing, nor do I care about the actual application date. I just want to know why it looks a lot like the patents the site links to are Japanese patents, and you’re insisting that they’re not.

What do the dates in them have to do with you getting that basic piece of information wrong? If you have a point to make, make it.

I didn’t say I’d buy it right now lol

Why are you lying? The article links to a google patents page, under the Japanese patents. There are US versions of these patents available to view, which the article didn’t link to.

JP7545191 is a japanese patent. You can click one of the little blue US buttons to see the American equivalent. The same is true of the other two patents in question

Japan is such a weird place that I wouldn’t be surprised if it works

That “Palworld vs Pokemon comparison” thing has to be a joke, right? “These two creatures look similar, so obviously one of them is a blatant ripoff” and “these two creatures don’t look similar, but obviously one of them is a blatant ripoff” lmao

Gonna buy another copy of Palworld just to spite Wesley Yin-Poole and Nintendo

I don’t care about wokeness, the game looks like plastic garbage and they genericized the combat

“A Personalized Profile analyzes your unique head and ear shape for precision sound,” reads the option on the Call of Duty store.

Sounds customized for your specific ear shape??? I’ve never been less willing to believe something in my life

Yo fucking ho my boys

Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t most Steam games require the steam client in order to run? You can’t necessarily just copy the files into a flash drive and deliver them to another computer.

(unless of course the game has DRM, in which case both suffer from the same problem)

That’s GOG’s whole schtick, none of the games they sell have DRM when purchased from their store. You can always copy the installer to another computer and run it.