I do agree that patenting any game mechanics is greedy and stifles game development at large!
25.10.2025 04:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@rho-games.bsky.social
A dragon's thoughts on game development and games as an art form!
I do agree that patenting any game mechanics is greedy and stifles game development at large!
25.10.2025 04:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hey, if you have valid corrections or concerns of what I post, reply! But don't be rude about it. I will block and move on (as any reasonable person should!)
25.10.2025 02:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I explained all of these, and you disregarded it. So I don't know if anything would change your mind. But I didn't lie about anything, you just didn't listen. Enjoy life dude
25.10.2025 02:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you can present a single case of any of the consoles being bricked, go for it. Especially since this has been in the terms since 2006 for all console companies. And if that patent means what you say, then a thousand games would be sued for it and that hasn't happened. This is just fear bait, guy.
25.10.2025 02:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Watching a friend play Dispatch and hello Sweetalker~
25.10.2025 02:11 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'm not defending Nintendo or Pokemon or whoever. You can talk about all of their bad business practices and such as long as it's a real thing. Believing every poorly researched AI generated article isn't helping anything. Misinformation is a serious issue and allows real issues to be ignored
25.10.2025 01:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0And a couple stores removing sections is literally nothing new. But unless you can show more than 4 or 5 stores nationwide, then it's not an issue
25.10.2025 01:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0You're also showing literally 1 page of a 70 page patent. The patent isn't for a single mechanic, but of all the systems working together in specific conditions. Patents have to be very very specific. You can't just patent a single mechanic with one page. But if you wanna ignore the other 60 pages
25.10.2025 01:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Nintendo claim said they will remove online services if you break their terms, they legally couldn't remotely brick your console and has never done so. There are zero cases of it happening. And Sony and Microsoft and Steam all have the same legal notices in their terms.
25.10.2025 01:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Claiming Pokemon is $100 because of dlc, then all games are like $100+ because of dlc. And every major company has been guilty of it for 3 console generations.
25.10.2025 01:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hey look, it's all the misinformation I was talking about. Let's break this down:
25.10.2025 01:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0While true the context wasn't exactly right, he did mean it for the most part. I'm not a fan of a subscription based future at all
25.10.2025 01:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yeaaaaaah, I can't speak on other region pricing, but I've known they're absurd for a good long while
25.10.2025 01:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Game freak honestly just need to hire way more people. They've still operating on the small 200 employees they've been using for 20 years
25.10.2025 01:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Real talk, dropping the National Dex was probably a good thing. It's genuinely impossible to expect Game Freak to endlessly include 1000+ Pokemon models and animations every game. They're barely managing the 400 or so in each Switch game. If it was another studio maybe, but not Game Freak lol
25.10.2025 01:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0A lot of this is just from posts on social media by people who get info wrong and then everyone shares it as shock value (even worse when game journalists do it) and by the time it's been refuted, people move on and don't hear how it was all nonsense.
22.10.2025 04:54 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0But it's easier to believe that the patent wasn't 70+ pages long, and the terms was just Nintendo being mean, instead of something that's been included on all game consoles for 20 years
22.10.2025 04:52 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0And the info about rendering a system inoperable is a legal holdover that all game consoles have in their terms since the 360/PS3/Wii era. It's literally stating if you fuck up your system by messing up with modifications, the future console updates may not work properly and you might break the OS
22.10.2025 04:50 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Nope, the Pokemon patent was literally just the various battle systems in Legends ZA, and how the Pokemon align themselves to your trainer in realtime to angle their attacks and so on. You can't just patent something so broad as "summoning creatures", that's legal nonsense.
22.10.2025 04:48 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Internet has been rampant with game misinformation. There are no $90usd Switch 2 games, game companies can't remotely brick your console, Pokemon didn't patent summoning creatures, Walmart and target aren't removing Xbox sections, etc
Someone will just say nonsense and everyone is eager to believe.
It almost looks like the animation isn't loaded on it yet since it's so far away. Plant T-posing
02.10.2025 17:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sorry, I just now saw this, but I enjoyed it enough! Metroid getting a release date this year made me happy haha
02.10.2025 17:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Mario Galaxy 4 running at native 4k on Switch 2
This is the 2nd piranha plant in the distant background from the first picture!
Neat to see so much detail in the Mario Galaxy Switch 2 ports. It's so rare to see actual native 4k60 on game consoles these days. (You can see a close up of the 2nd Piranha Plant on the top of the hill here!)
02.10.2025 17:38 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Been busy the last lil bit but I'll be sure to post more here!
02.10.2025 17:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yop!
12.09.2025 21:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If not, we always have our choice in 3 different versions LOL
12.09.2025 21:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I dont think they will since this looks to be a full on remake. But we will have to wait and see!
12.09.2025 21:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0There's a good reason why Nintendo is making hardware just to play Virtual Boy games on the Switch. And it's really just because a lot of those games are hard to make out without the depth from the 3D. Example here is Red Alarm
12.09.2025 21:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The bottom picture is also super zoomed in at that lol
12.09.2025 20:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I wanna know what's going on with the heavy aliasing in their hair, but other than that I think they look great!
12.09.2025 20:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0