“GTAV has patented”
Videogames now go to patent office and do things!
Software patents should not be a thing.
There’s no way this patent is allowed to stand. I’m pretty sure other games have already done this, or at least something very similar. Even if not though, it’s kinda fucked-up to patent something like that.
Agreed reminds me of the nemesis gameplay mechanic from the Middle Earth games. No no one is able to repeat that feature. And they have not really used it either since.
Or loading screen mini games. However it’s expired
Removed by mod
Sounds like inverse kinematics. That’s been around a while tbh.
This patent is pretty bad, or the article is badly written, but it doesn’t sound like an innovation to me. More like spending more money, on an already existing feature of other games. Most RPGs I’ve played have some sort of exhausted, sweating or wet movement animation.
Failing project ahead, another game with a lot of promises, from a company basically dead who lays on gta-online profits, in a globally economic crises that rises more that ever where gaming is become a luxury because overpriced hardware and softwares. How pretending.
Shenmue 2 had NPCs taking out an umbrella andò keep walking while raining… but I guess there are videogames that do sort of thing since the era of 2D gaming
