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TacticalWizardQuest on 26 November 2015

So that's why loading screens were always so boring? Thanks broken patent system! You can "own" a basic concept like that?!

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I swear I've seen them in non Namco games. Splatoon?

Exactly! I honestly enjoy playing that squid minigame in Splatoon.

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jason1637 on 26 November 2015

LurkerJ said:

jason1637 said:

Thats what i was thinking

"companies that wanted to put mini-games during loading screens either had to pay Namco Bandai, work around the patent or give up on the idea"

It says you can pay for it or come up with a work around (no idea how that would be!)

Well the minigame is in the lobby when peopel are waiting for people to join there games.

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Nautilus on 26 November 2015

AZWification said:

Blob said:
I swear I've seen them in non Namco games. Splatoon?

Exactly! I honestly enjoy playing that squid minigame in Splatoon.

I think Splatoon dosnt fit in this criteria, since the waiting times in Splatoon arent there because the games needs loading, but you are waiting for the players to join.In other words, you are not in a loading screen, but in the game.

My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1

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AZWification on 26 November 2015

Nautilus said:

AZWification said:

Exactly! I honestly enjoy playing that squid minigame in Splatoon.

I think Splatoon dosnt fit in this criteria, since the waiting times in Splatoon arent there because the games needs loading, but you are waiting for the players to join.In other words, you are not in a loading screen, but in the game.

Hmm, you're right actually!

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OdinHades on 26 November 2015

Oh, you gotta be fuckin' kidding me! Back in the days, there was Broken Sword on PC. Instead of just looking at a boring status bar, you could play Breakout while the game was installing! I absolutely loved that, time was just flying by! I always wondered why no other games made use of such things. Especially on PS1 where loading times where EXTREME! And now I hear that the only reason is some stupid patent?! Fuck this! Fuck patents! I'm so mad right now, seriously!

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Exion8 on 26 November 2015

I wonder if Namco will renew their patent...

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AbbathTheGrim on 27 November 2015

OdinHades said:

Oh, you gotta be fuckin' kidding me! Back in the days, there was Broken Sword on PC. Instead of just looking at a boring status bar, you could play Breakout while the game was installing! I absolutely loved that, time was just flying by! I always wondered why no other games made use of such things. Especially on PS1 where loading times where EXTREME! And now I hear that the only reason is some stupid patent?! Fuck this! Fuck patents! I'm so mad right now, seriously!

For me it would be Summoner for PS2 that I feel could have benefited with mini-games during loading times as those went north of 15 minutes from area to area.

Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1