I was recently discussing Farcry 2 with some friends and how cool the fire spread system was - And how it essentially was never used again after that title.

Is there a cool feature or mechanic you’ve seen in a game and hope to see more of?

      • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 day ago

        Cool, but the difference doesn’t matter for this context, the result is the same

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          The difference does matter. Two copyrighted games can have similar mechanics. Just look at literally any pair of games in the same genre. First person shooting isn’t patented, so anybody can make an FPS game. They patented the nemesis system. Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War are copyrighted.

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              It’s a common misconception. It’s not a big deal. Why are you being so defensive about me correcting it?

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                    5 hours ago

                    The term has the meaning now of “pointlessly explaining something in a way that’s intentionally trying to be detracting of the other party, like a stereotype of a man would do”, rather than being locked into gender