• PyroVK@lemmy.zip
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    7 hours ago

    No, it’s just a monster capture and battling game. Their issue most definitely losing Pokemon sales to this game but the lawsuit they went with is in relation to a patient on throwing a ball and a creature being summoned to do battle. So Palworld removed the ball throwing aspect and the creature now just appears which is why they are now focusing on older versions of the game that still contain that.

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      6 hours ago

      I wasn’t aware that they had a ball throwing mechanic in the game. Considering the context they put a Pikachu with a machine gun on the cover, yeah they were just copying someone else’s shit.

      No, it’s just a monster capture and battling game.

      Do you really believe the similarities are coincidental? Like if Pokeman didn’t exist, they would’ve had the character on the cover look like that and would’ve had players collecting creatures with balls?

      They’re obviously just ripping off someone else’s ideas.

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        4 hours ago

        There’s very few “original” Pokemon. Most of them come from Japanese folklore

        There’s a reason Nintendo didn’t use the trademark angle, they would have lost very quickly

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        6 hours ago

        humans have been trapping and taming and riding animals long before electricity, let alone video games. Flying on animals isn’t a thing in real life but its been in fables and myth. Cockfighting and other animal abuse is also a tale as old as time. You can’t legitimise patents for any of that and nintendo can get fucked.

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        6 hours ago

        Actually play it and give it a shot. You’ll see how unlike pokemon it actually is. And you may just have some fun.