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MacedWindow, w So far, Goku and Vegeta alone make up 24 slots of Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero’s roster
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It all depends on the ratio. 24/48 is pretty bad, but 24/150 is a bit more reasonable.

Glitchington, w Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Has the Yakuza Series' Best Steam Launch - IGN
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Great, thanks Yakuza fans, I’m going to love paying for NG+ after it becomes normalized. I looove paying extra for CORE CONTENT. /s

KyoStarr,
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Yeah I'm basically waiting it out until the version with the NG+ DLC is half or more off. Incredibly obscene to lock an entire feature that way.

newthrowaway20,

I’ll never buy NG+. If I wanna play it again, I’ll just start over.

derbolle, w Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Has the Yakuza Series' Best Steam Launch - IGN

No wonder. This game is awesome

willya, w Tekken 8 Review : Why Tekken 8 is the Best Tekken Game Ever
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Some of the worst voiceover work ever in this review. Assuming it’s an AI voice?

ampersandrew,
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8 threads, no comments. Seems like a good block.

peter, w The Pokémon Company Announces It Will ‘Investigate’ Palworld IP And Assets
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Palworld could totally get away with it unless it turns out they’re using ripped models. That would be monumentally stupid

noctisatrae, w Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition Comes To PC This March

No Bloodborne yet 😣😖

ampersandrew,
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And it might never be until/unless Bluepoint remakes it, if rumors are true.

thingsiplay,
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I think Bloodborne will be one of the first, if not the first, games ever to be emulated on a PS4 emulator. There are multiple projects, but they are not ready yet (plus it would require a monster pc).

thingsiplay, (edited ) w The Pokémon Company Announces It Will ‘Investigate’ Palworld IP And Assets
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So does Rockstar, Valve and Microsoft investigate for any unlicensed commercial usage of the Intellectual Property they own and copyright violations by others. Some are less aggressive, that's for true. If it's not, then Pokemon Company or Nintendo simply don't care.

Edit: Did the reply I was replying to disappeared? I am sure I was replying to someone who said Nintendo would go to investigate the game for any IP infringement.

wolfshadowheart, w The Pokémon Company Announces It Will ‘Investigate’ Palworld IP And Assets
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Some of them seem pretty bad. I feel like the example image with the eyes and the teeth is quite a damning stylistic choice, compared to some of their other monsters which look more like a palette swap and animal change with some model variations. Save for the few that straight up have the same attack, like the Deciduueye example, I think it's reasonable enough to use them for inspiration, although not necessarily the best option. It's a shame they felt the need to rely on something that is popular I think it hurt them a bit by not having as uniform a vision.

That said, even if I do think it's pretty obvious I don't want them to lose this if anything comes of it, Pokemon is just as bad and they have nothing to gain from ruining this persons work other than asserting dominance.

I do hope they use this as a learning opportunity for next time and maybe stop being so goddamn blatant in their "homage". I would have been much more inclined to the game if it felt like the monsters had some rationale behind them because the game is pretty solid overall. All I can say is that I hope the game continues to exist but maybe gets a more original in-world bestiary and not Pokemon Gen 15

TwilightVulpine, (edited )

Calling this one image damning feels like corporatized media has become so dominant, people don't really get anymore how similar things need to be for it to be an actual legal issue.

Superhero comics have a lot of characters that are obvious ripoffs of characters from other publishers and yet they are still legally distinct enough that they can get away with it. Comes to mind also how Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse to replace Oswald the Lucky Rabbit which, even though he also created, was owned by Universal. Both were rubber hose-styled. black-bodied, white-faced, big-eared animal characters wearing shorts, and yet that was also legally distinct enough for his ownership of the character to be established.

It would take far more than a similar face for Palworld to be liable of anything. Sure, it's enough for people to tell they have tried to imitate it, but by itself that's not grounds for legal action.

There are some claims of copying or tracing meshes going around on social media that could be an actual issue, but the validity of those is still questionable. The Pokémon Company needs to either point out a near identical design, and I do emphasize, near identical, or to prove that stolen assets were used in the game's creation.

saplyng,
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I'd argue against the example image being damning in the first place because it's fairly obvious they're both derived from the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland, which is well passed the point of being public domain

TwilightVulpine,

Not only that but they have entirely different body shapes and color schemes. I doubt a face by itself could be copyrighted. If that was the case a lot of anime would have issues.

Gordon_Freeman,
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The thing is they literally took pokemon 3D assets, edited them a little and that's all

Because pals look like this

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TOedaV033DY/maxresdefault.jpg

but now IN 3D!!!
Pals
https://imgur.com/PbtJxRr

They took Serperior head+ Milotic body and Primarina hair

https://nintenduo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Palworld-Plagio-Pokemon-03-1024x576.webp

self-explanatory

For the thumbnail image, they took meoth face, purugly body and that's it

These designs are not "inspired" they simply imported the assets from a pokemon game on blender or something, used "copy and paste" for different body parts and that's it, job done that's their completely original creature, totally not copied

TwilightVulpine,

The person in social media who extracted and compared assets admitted they modified them to appear more similar because they didn't like how the game promotes animal cruelty.

One thing that a lot of people don't seem to realize in this whole discussion is that, whatever you may think of it as far as artistic integrity goes, Pokémon only owns the full complete design of their characters and the actual game files, but not every possible independently produced variation or recombination of those traits. They own Wooloo but they don't own every possible roundish sheep-like creature.

To be fair it's obvious that Palworld's company Pocket Pair doesn't care about originality. But whether the are literally infringing on the Pokémon property is unclear, and a lot of people are making serious but baseless accusations out of snowballing social media outrage.

If there's any actual, real issue that warrants a lawsuit, you can be sure that the Pokémon Company's lawyers will find it out. It's not like they need anyone to defend them, we are literally talking about the biggest media brand in the world.

ouRKaoS, w Games only need fast travel when they make travel "boring", says Dragon's Dogma 2 director

The only reason I knew there was fast travel in Spider-Man was because there was an achievement for it.

SharkAttak, w Nvidia RTX Remix beta now out, expect shiny remasters of classic games
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In this instance, we can see ray-tracing versions of Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind and Half-Life 2, complete with higher definition assets.

So if you take old games and put in high def models and textures, and use raytracing, they look better? Who woulda thunk.. at least if modders are involved, the'll probably do a better job than official software houses.

shani66, w Games only need fast travel when they make travel "boring", says Dragon's Dogma 2 director

Man I’m glad dd2 is in his hands

shani66, w Palworld’s success is partially born from Pokémon fans’ discontent

I’d be incredibly happy if that were true, but it isn’t. We’ve had proper Pokemon alternatives since before Pokemon even existed and they haven’t slowed that shitty franchise one bit. Megaten is still niche, Digimon is still niche, cassette beasts (the actual goty) has an even smaller audience than those games, if this was major discontent with Pokemon cassette beasts at least would be in a much better place (since it literally released last year, perfect to take advantage of Pokemon’s unending failures). Gotta nip that unwarranted optimism in the bud, gamefreak sucks and will never improve, their fans suck and will never improve.

ptsdstillinmymind, w Riot lays off over 500 staff, with Legends of Runeterra and Forge indie initiative teams hit hard

Instead of cutting CEO and executive pay let’s fire some of the employees. - sounds about Capitalism

WanderingPoltergeist,
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That's why I honestly respect Nintendo execs because they will take pay cuts over laying off staff when the going is tough! They might occasionally do shitty things or make out of touch decisions but at least they care about the health of their companies. Game companies can't make good games without talent.

TheOakTree, w Games only need fast travel when they make travel "boring", says Dragon's Dogma 2 director

I don’t NEED fast travel, but I would prefer if games still had an in-universe method of traversing from, say, the Easternmost region and the Westernmost region (i.e. a train, boat, horse carriage, etc.). I just don’t like spending significant amounts of time running back and forth through areas I’ve already discovered all the content in.

I appreciate fast travel in games like Kingdom Come Deliverance, where the fast travel still accounts for the time and resources spent.

Ashtear, w Palworld Sells Over 1 Million Copies in Just 8 Hours as Steam Servers Struggle to Cope With Launch - IGN

Peak of 370k concurrent players on Steam already, topping Starfield’s peak.

Did this come out of nowhere or did I just miss the signs?

thingsiplay,
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Doesn't come out of nowhere to my knowledge. It is quite anticipated game by many, as it was shown with trailers before on big shows. Everyone was wondering what kind of game this will be and everyone just knew it as "Pokemon with guns" where you can catch and slave other Pokemon like creatures. I'm actually surprised that so many didn't heard of the game before.

Ferk,
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And that was just the warm up.
850k concurrent players and rising right now...

NOOBMASTER,

It practically came out of nowhere.

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