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WB hasn’t used the nemesis system since 2017, and likely won’t use it again at this point. By the time the patent expires it might be a lost system.
Maybe Netflix will?
That’s the final piece Netflix needed to FINALLY make a game from their game studio.
/s
I don’t think Netflix care about WB Games at all.
‘We actually didn’t attribute any value’ to Warner’s game studios, Netflix boss says about the acquisition deal (Source)
Something about this is absolutely hilarious to me. Sad though when thinking about it critically.
I don’t know, makes a lot of sense critically to me.
If you think about the last few big games they were behind, Hogwarts Legacy stands out, Mortal Kombat I guess, throw in what ever the last Lego game was.
But you also have Suicide Squad, Gotham Knights, Multiversus these massive games that just have an awful reputation.
Arkham Knight is nearly a decade old, Middle Earth series is around that same time. Back for Blood is newish but that never exactly set the world on fire.
My gut reaction was pretty shocked, cause I have amazing memories and fondness of some WB games, then I remember that was 10+ years ago with MK9, Batman Arkham Asylum and City, Mad Max, Bastion, Scribblenauts…
The “nemesis system” is just hundreds of voice lines and a dice roll to decide when they pop up. I liked the middle earth games but always thought it was funny how they pushed the nemesis system like some kind of groundbreaking thing.
It’s more the hierarchy of having super bad that can get bonuses based on your actions.
Fuck software patents.
Copyright made sense when it was a decade or two. Industrial patents seem basically functional. Trademark’s mostly truth-in-advertising for consumer choice.
But software patents aren’t about how you do something - they’re claiming the entire concept, in the broadest possible terms, and killing it. Straight-up murdering that potential. It is denied the necessary iterative competition that turns dogshit first implementations into must-have features. Nobody’s gonna care in twenty years.
Entire hardware form-factors have come and gone in a single decade. Can you imagine if swipe keyboards were still single-vendor, and still worked like in 2009? Or maybe Apple bought them, and endlessly bragged about how Android can’t do [blank], because fifty thousand dollars changed hands in the 3G era.
How many games would not exist, if Nintendo had decided they own sidescrollers? A whole genre, wiped out, because a piece of paper says those mechanics are theft.
In fact, I’d go so far as to encourage copying others. Not plagiarising outright, as in claiming it as your own, but taking a concept and doing it yourself.
“Oh that game is just a copy of Animal Crossing.”
You think you can make a better Animal Crossing? Go for it. Let me decide who did it better and which one I wanna play.
Stardew Valley was totally, unquestionably copying harvest moon. And its fantastic.
It’s not just that, it deliberately copied Harvest Moon. Eric Barone (Concerned Ape) even said so
Yes someone did exactly this: it’s called “Dinkum” and it’s fantastic, much better than the Animal Crossing game that hit the Switch.
Iteration is innovation.
Even combining existing ideas can explore and refine a genre.
I’d like to see Nemesis used in an IP I actually give a shit about
Somebody modded it into Skyrim if that helps
What? Somebody worked for free?
Poppycock.
It would if I could get modded Skyrim to work. Months working on my mod list only for it CTD on start up.
That’s why you enable mods in small batches. When you get an issue it’s a lot easier to find the offender.
Also, if you’re getting a CTD on startup you’re probably missing a dependency. Mod Organizer 2 is a lot better with warnings about that than Vortex
I get warning messages about two mods in particular
I have said this to every person that has gushed about the game to me, often more than once per person.
So Nemesis System is an enemy that you will find multiple times through the game and he will be different according to your choices? How didn’t Nintendo sue WB saying they copied it from the first Pokemon game?
Warframe in the background…
*screen flickers*
It would open up using Pokémon as an example of prior art in court.
I have advocated for the abolishment of IP many times in my life. Never, in my wildest dreams, would have thought that it would be abolished willingly through AI.
All it took was to show that they could make more money by ignoring it. Like a light switch IP suddenly gets switched off. Now the corrupted federal government considers it a matter of national security and will protect it at all costs.
Truly a bizarre world we live in.
Abolish all patents and copyrights, everywhere, except for a creator’s ability to assert “I made this”.
Video refuses to play on Grayjay right now, at least on my end… ☹️
Could be your VPN or something. I like to use PipePipe as a backup.
Nah, no VPN here. I had tried loading the video earlier like 5 times and it simply wouldn’t play. Oddly enough, now it plays fine on Grayjay… 🤷
