Looking up those patents, the first alludes to a system where a player aims and fires an “item” toward a character in a field, and in doing so triggers combat, and then dives into extraordinary intricacies about switching between modes within this. The second is very similar, but seems more directly focused on tweaking previous patents to including being able to capture Pokémon in the wild, rather than only during battle. The third, rather wildly, seems to be trying to claim a modification to the invention of riding creatures in an open world and being able to transition between them easily.

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[–] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure 1 and 3 could be applied to many modern actions games. Software patents shouldn't exist! Same with apple's patents for specific menu animations. It's fucking evil!

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Any game with ranged weapons is literally this. If I'm playing Fallout 4 and shoot a raider in the head then combat is initiated. That's literally his combat works. Fuck Nintendo and fuck bullshit patents.