I am not a lawyer, but I’d be pretty surprised if so. I doubt it would have fit the letter of that patent. A lot would depend on how they defined “game” for that, I suppose

From my time at Bungie, my understanding is that that was impossible for us to fix

For some value of “impossible”, at least

And this does not come easily out-of-the-box in most game engines, especially in online games with mixed-authority models.

Someone was determined to make that happen

Loading screens, matchmaking — anywhere and any context. You can always look at and interact with your loot.

This is the first time I've seen Aonuma mention One Piece by name. It makes me ever more curious about if and how much One Piece was an influence on The Wind Waker

I've seen a lot of engines reduce animation framerate at further distances, but not sure about bones

Truly one of the worst products to ever get popular

Ah yes, by relinquishing our only real leverage, _surely_ our bad-faith enemies will now start compromising

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There is a bare minimum amount of caring for the vulnerable that a society must meet for me to view it with anything other than contempt and disgust

And the US has never come within a hundred miles of hitting that minimum. We only ever get worse. We're truly a worthless culture here

Basically all I know about them before watching this trailer was that they were sports JRPGs and all of the past games's soundtracks were composed by Yasunori Mitsuda, of Chrono Trigger/Cross fame.

Frankly that should have been enough to get me interested, hahah. I'll definitely check this one out

The biggest Yasunori Mitsuda-scored series! Sorry Chrono Trigger/Cross, you might be kinda niche in comparison

I’ve never actually played one though. Are you a fan of the series?

Hot damn that's quite a line up

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Oh, I also apparently wrote a TWO PAGE letter apologizing for bad grades (gonna be real, I had ADHD bad and was unmedicated) and then had the audacity to quote Linkin Park at the end. 😂 Past me was kind of cringe…

Yeahh

I guess there is a subset of people who specifically use it to describe exploration-sidescrollers that are gates by information rather than abilities. Which at least seems slightly more defensible.

BUT STILL
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Check out Etrian Odyssey if you’re investigating this space, it has the most granular and part-of-the-main-flow mapmaking interface I’ve seen

(On the switch remakes at least)

Seems like a good _game_ so far, but definitely feeling like all my negative expectations around it inartfully filling in blanks best left blank are going to be accurate