Palworld is not a Pokemon-like. It's a survival & crafting game with creatures. Reasons why Pokemon work have nothing to do with reasons why a Survival game work.
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Palworld has sold over 15 million copies on Steam, 10 million players on Xbox (Biggest 3rd party Game Pass launch in history)
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Lol I completely missed that, they also have a bigger "Pokemon" guard watching over them, what a bizarre, hilarious mashup.
Ye, you kinda need the Pals to have similar (humanoid) build to be able to allow them to all do similar tasks and not have a complete list of "this pal cant do this function because his shape dont work cause it too small/no hands / etc.". Pokemon already has issues with animation due to the difference in skeletons and they have much higher budget than an indie game.
It makes sense for them to have made those concessions.
I was vaguely interested in this but then I read it's heavy on the crafting and survival stuff so I probably won't bother. I really wanted Pokemon that killed and maimed
I'll leave this here 😂
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feels like a mix of Pokemon Arceus, 3rd Person Shooter, and Survival game fused together.
What I seen of it, I don't really have that much interest. Will be interesting how it does longterm in sales.
I'll probably boot it up on Game Pass later, but not feeling like it will have long term appeal for me at least.
What I seen of it, I don't really have that much interest. Will be interesting how it does longterm in sales.
I'll probably boot it up on Game Pass later, but not feeling like it will have long term appeal for me at least.
Cassette Beasts is incredible, easily one of the top mon games in recent memory, imo.
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i mean, it is, and probably a non-insignificant part of its viral factor
From what I've read, DLSS and a lot of online options (dedicated servers etc). Would love to know if there's anything else as well but haven't been able to find anything.
I'm not a PokeGuy at all, but the premise of this is bonkers and I love the weird shit. Im very tempted to get this on Steam.
Yeah, this is my question. Is it just graphic features and dedicated server, or is it actually gameplay and mechanics that are missing? It's hard to find any info that delineates the two.
how many of those 20 million folk do you think are hyper-critical posters on resetera dot com? i don't think anyone disagrees that pokemon games satisfy the vast majority of customers who buy them lol
Decided to check it out for a bit, ended up playing the entire day with friends.
This is legit a fantastic game, a more polished and well thought out ARK filled with charm and with a lot of QoL improvements that make it not as frustrating when you die.
Seeing your pals helping around the bass is the best.
This is legit a fantastic game, a more polished and well thought out ARK filled with charm and with a lot of QoL improvements that make it not as frustrating when you die.
Seeing your pals helping around the bass is the best.
Wonder how they feel about the blatant Pokemon design rip-offs lol (among many other things).
I was wondering about this because their last game Craftopia was a little...janky. If this one has better polish and a better feeling gameplay loop then I'm quite excited to try it (outside of the meme factor lol)
Craftopia was/is a very fun mess. Happy that they learned not to launch in the same state their next game. Now if they only also focused more in Craftopia...
Like there's some movement jank there but performance wise its really smooth and havent noticed too much if any pop in
I'll watch a stream eventually. I hope there's some actual quality here instead of just memes. A competent game that looks like Pokemon while doing a handful of things better than the original would be very welcome.
To temper your expectations, Right now it's not entirely a pokemon replacement though. It's mixed with ARK stuff
When the Mods eventually HIT though? All bets are off!
🤣 will continue to keep an eye on this
Yes. After Gamefreaks recent releases, apologies that go nowhere and awful looking games having competition and the genre expanding is exactly what they need to get their shit together
I think the disconnect between people saying this is not a Pokemon game and others saying that it's the Pokemon game they've wanted is that for many people the appeal of Pokemon is simply the idea of walking around a world with these cool monsters and trying to collect them all. These people often played these games as children and imagined a future dream Pokemon game where you wandered a fully 3D world and saw Pokemon going about their business. Importantly, the standard template of a Pokemon game with gym badges and turn based battles is not important to these players, they are interested in Pokemon as a concept, not a rigid set of gameplay mechanics. These are people who played Pokemon as kids, fell off because the series felt stagnant, and then got into Pokemon Go for as least a couple of weeks as adults.
Then there's Pokemon fans who define Pokemon by the standard template of a Pokemon game we are all used to. They expect a Pokemon game to play in the specific way that they always have, because that's specifically what makes it a mainline Pokemon game (in addition to the Pokemon, of course). This group sees a base building survival game with real time third person combat and can't understand how people compare it to Pokemon, while the first group sees a game where you walk around a big 3D world to collect wandering monsters and have them hang out at your base or roam the world with you and see the game they imagined as kids (maybe without the guns and sweatshops though).
Then there's Pokemon fans who define Pokemon by the standard template of a Pokemon game we are all used to. They expect a Pokemon game to play in the specific way that they always have, because that's specifically what makes it a mainline Pokemon game (in addition to the Pokemon, of course). This group sees a base building survival game with real time third person combat and can't understand how people compare it to Pokemon, while the first group sees a game where you walk around a big 3D world to collect wandering monsters and have them hang out at your base or roam the world with you and see the game they imagined as kids (maybe without the guns and sweatshops though).
Oh, I know. I'm just saying that anything that "looks" like Pokemon and becomes successful while doing it would be good for the sake of increasing the expectations on Gamefreak's releases.
Craftopia was pretty sick when I played it, which was right at the beginning of early access. I'm not surprised that they were able to take that concept and go even further with it. They deserve the success they are getting.
To revisit my earlier post more seriously, there does seem to be a legit and sizeable audience of people who are potentially interested in Pokemon games but not the ones that actually exist. People who like the monster designs and the power fantasy of having a team of monster pets at their beck and call but who don't care for Pokemon's RPG mechanics, simplistic artstyle, worldbuilding, (until recently) lack of open worlds, etc. And then you have the subset of that that wants specifically "adult Pokemon", Pokemon that targets a more adult audience with some combination of more violent gameplay and going deconstructor fleet on everything Pokemon takes for granted.
A lot of what people are immediately gravitating to are those elements - the UE4-ass open world, the real-time TPS gameplay, the emphasis on traversal in mounting the Pals, the sheer audacity of shooting Pals with a gun and giving them guns while using them as meat shields, the further audacity in eating them and making them do slave labor and stealing endangered species and treating humans like Pals and so on and so on, etc. Though what's clearly getting people to actually stick around is it actually being a solid survival game underneath all that window dressing. Not enough to actually do Pokemon numbers - because as noted ITT people that like Pokemon actually wanna, y'know, play Pokemon - but "a million sales in 8 hours" ain't anything to scoff at.
Just because it's taken seriously doesn't mean it isn't a meme game. Especially with some of the naughty parts the marketing itself has emphasized.
If anything it being taken seriously makes it more of a meme game. To many committing to an absurd meme idea unironically and completely earnestly is a meme unto itself.
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The idea that this game is what is specifically going to push Game Freak to "get their shit together" sounds more like wishful thinking than anything else lol
The issue here is that you think that Game Freak feels like something is wrong in the first place. They sold 20+ millions copies of their latest title that had awful performance, bugs etc. The only way for them to "get their shit together" would be if people stopped buying Pokemon games, and we all know it won't happen.
It is not at all like Pokemon outside of the actual monsters inhabiting the world. It's Ark with Pokemon NPC's, so in reality has barely anything to do with Pokemon or "giving Pokemon fans what they want."
This won't do anything to GameFreak, because it has such a slim relation to Pokemon that it's difficult at best to even call it a Pokemon-like game. It's focus is base building, survival and crafting, with the abilities to capture Pal's for use as resources/gatherers/crafters. They are quite literally just human NPC villagers but animal themed.
This is just Ark with Pokemon, and if that's truly what makes a Pokemon game then Ark itself is a Pokemon game but with dinosaurs.
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from my understanding its a pretty good survival game. basically ark survival evolved but with pokemon. ive played so much ark tho, that i dont need to play a reskin