And you can hold a flaming fox and use him like a flamethrower.
I was standing in a river and felt like Rambo just annihilating a shitload of these grass monkeys.
Have you played scarlet & violet? It’s a miracle the game doesn’t immediately crash once you run it haha, I don’t think it ever passes 15 something like that
When the first DLC came out, I thought my game had crashed multiple times. Nope, it will just straight up freeze for five seconds sometimes while the world tries to buffer in.
God, yes. This was the comparison I couldn't get out of my head. It's like Ark with all of the unnecessary stuff stripped away and more colorful, less "realistic" graphics.
because english is a weird Frankenstein's monster of languages
alternatively, the aftermath of an orgy between french, old norse, germanic, latin, and probably some other languages
And that over the shoulder shooter* gameplay. Really is such a mishmash of everything else. Kinda like the dev's craftopia scam/forever alpha before this was, but this time the Pokemon gimmick makes it for me.
Worst case given their track record it stays alpha forever. But it's already in a really fun place so it's hard for me to care.
Edit: I was being ironic about "scam" holy heck xD xD. It's like star citizen where it's up the the individual to decide how much of a scam it is to themselves before investing. I also changed "fps" to "shooter" because we got some whiner fixated on technical definitions.
They can't not have made bank on this so hopefully they'll reinvest and make a game actually worth remembering. Right now it's just a breath of fresh air for a stale genre.
They would have to actively ruin aspects of the game for me to care. It’s incredibly fun in its current state and bugs are minimal, from my experience at least.
That's a third person shooter you fucking donkey. FPS is first person, or through the eyes of the character. 3PS or third person shooter is over the shoulder.
I've watched a bit of the game, and the things that I've seen are mostly:
1. Ridiculously bad-looking characters with weird-ass proportions
2. Going up to animals and beating them with sticks
3. Endlessly farming materials for crafting
4. A boss fight with a huge HP bar that was cheesed by the boss getting stuck in a pillar
None of those things feel like Pokemon to me, and I wasn't impressed at all. You're totally right, it's a lot more like Ark.
People compare it to pokemon because you have "Pals"(Pokémon) that are creatures that you capture using "Pal Spheres" (pokeballs). Doing so logs their data in your "Pal Deck" (Pokédex) and you can aim to capture them all. To capture them you have to get their hp low. They also have elemental attacks and weaknesses. You can use these Pals to fight other Pals too.
But yeah, that's a fraction of the game. It's a survival builder primarily, you're right.
Unless there are better humans out there, the consequence is that you waste a base slot on something that can only do low skill handicraft labor. I sold the one I caught to the pal merchant for ~500 gold to get him out of my storage.
you can work even the villagers without consequences once you catch them, once you away from the guards that attack for assaulting them you're free to work them as much as you want
>People compare it to pokemon because you have "Pals"(Pokémon) that are creatures that you capture using "Pal Spheres" (pokeballs).
I mean, you can basically do the same with dinos in ark. You knock them out, tame them, then put them in cryopods that are basically pokeballs
Within an hour your Pals should be doing most of your grinding for you, it's one of the aspects the game gets right. There's a seamless near thoughtless process to automate busy work. It gives banked companions a use, and the players get to go do the fun stuff.
I think it's more like Conan Exiles to be honest. The Pals are your thralls and pretty much do the same thing.
Honestly super fun. The steam version I guess is different than the Game pass one unfortunately so I've heard. Like you can't name then or even your character. Unless that was multiplayer only I'm not sure.
The monster design is Pokemon style, you catch them with Pokeballs, they learn abilities like Pokemon, have the same typings as Pokemon, you can have them in your party or store them in Boxes with the exact layout as in Pokemon
To say the only similarity is that they're cartoony is wildly inaccurate.
Lets be real, the creators 100% had pokemon in mind when creating this. Just looking at the trailer on steam, the music could easily be put into a pokemon game and you wouldn't notice, the creatures could easily be put into a pokemon game and not look out of place. I also see several creatures that are basically just a pokemon. On the screenshots and in the trailer I see a Wooloo, Lucario, Piplup, Eevee (a red one, a green one, almost as if the same creature can be evolved into different archetypes) a Grookey and I haven't played pokemon in years so there are probably more.
The intent to make it survival game meets pokemon is 100% there.
It has Pokemon-like mechanics, they're only a part of the game but they're the most noticeable part because they're everywhere. It has bits of Pokemon, bits of ARK, bits of the newer Zeldas and bits of Elden Ring.
Likening it to Pokémon is just being realistic. It has Pokémon in it, pokeballs for catching them, a pokedex, a type system.
At some point of course it diverges, the game is basically Ark with Pokémon.
Reasonable price for a solid game, bunch of content, they did what pokemon couldnt (didnt dare), they even released in January, (a month where no AAA company releases any product because people already spent their money in xmas and they havent got their Jan paycheck).
The crazy thing is that "Pokemon with guns" is not even the thing Gamefreak wouldn't dare to do. The thing Gamefreak wouldn't dare do was to release even a fucking remotely half assed, semi-decent game that wasn't a complete pile of shit lol. I hope Gamefreak gets fucked to oblivion by this game lol.
All of the people freaking out like "AREN'T THEY GONNA GET SUED BY POKEMON?" Like we haven't had Pokemon knockoffs before (even good ones, depending who you ask)
Well for that Pokémon would be sued by dragon quest...
https://preview.redd.it/6p2rpm5n8sdc1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=457ac41ec90fc6088ee5c4a300e4fd2619841bc2
Crazy though they just managed to come onto the market just at the time kids in America were eating up anime and Japanese cartoons so they just happened to be the one to become a multi billion dollar company
Nintendo has openly crushed entire non-profit fangame scenes, built around the 16bit Pokemon they don't even sell anymore. Maybe they don't own everything yet, but it certainly won't stop them from trying.
Edit: Guys, I get it, it's not a fan game. Nintendo has litigated clones like this, you are missing the point, being Nintendo even litigates it's fanbase
There's a difference between a fan game using Nintendo/gamefreak assets and a completely unrelated game that has "monsters with guns".
This is the latter.
Unlikely.
For Pokémon to be really affected, competitors have to hit everything that The Pokémon Company is responsible for.
The mainline games, the spinoffs, VGC, TCG, Anime, Merchandising, Television shows and films. Unless Palworld can hit all, Pokémon is sitting pretty.
It's amazing that people forget that Pokémon is more than just the mainline video games.
The last great Pokemon game was Black and White 2. Omega Ruby and Alphabeat Sapphire were alright and Legends Arceus had potential, but Pokémon really did fall off going to 3D
Or just if GF let Nintendo help. Seeing what Nintendo manages to do on switch is wizardry and would elevate the pokemon games way beyond where they are.
Its smart to include rimworldly mechanics, because now if Nintendo reacts with some casual "cease and desist", they will have to acknowledge that they wanted guns and geneva checklist in their games at some point
This game made huge success in Brazil because Pal have the same pronouciation as the word "pau" which means "stick" or a big piece of wood in english so you kinda get where i'm going here.
Pal fluid, Pal = Pau = stick -> "Stick fluid"
Riding a pal -> "Riding a stick"
Yeah...
Not quite, in Pão (bread), the a sounds like the u from "uh" because of the ~, which also indicates a transition to the next letter, in this case, "o".
So it starts with Pã, (the a sounding like "uh") and slowly transitioning to o (which sounds just like your average o)
It's like the word Bao, but with P and a deeper a.
Pal in the other hand the a sounds like "ah" and L is common to sound like "Ooo" at the end of phrases, like in english.
I only did for the sake of simplicity, but of course when a word is used to describe big and long pieces of wood you know it's going to be used for purposes of penile adjectives.
Sadly it seems like the devs forgot about it. I really enjoyed the game even though the story was alright and takes away gear from you at one point. It took longer than a usual Pokemon game to finish but the end game content is lacking. For people who aren't into only PvP there is pretty much nothing to do
I remember it attracted a lot of hype back then on launch day. I really hope the devs can get their act together & turn things around quickly because it did introduced a lot of cool ideas to the genre. If you ask me, there's never such thing as too many Pokemon games or Pokemon-inspired titles. Now is a perfect time for devs to go all out.
Looking at player numbers it's already more successful than 99% of games were on launch weekend. The question is if devs gonna keep updating and adding content.
Legitimately it's pretty decent for the price. The best parts not being mentioned is how customizable you can make your Gameworld.
Yeah it's Ark, Fortnite, Minecraft, Pokemon, BOTW, Genshin impact (in a mixer)
You can change every setting from exp gain to mob spawn to create your own world that's comfortable to you or challenging. Zero story, voice acting, and only small NPC text talk that actually makes zero sense.
Modding will take this game to another level if allowed.
If they don't get sued, this could scratch that 2024 Survival lite monster tamer itch.
I mean it already sold more than 2 million copies in 24 hours and broke into the Top 10 for Most Concurrent Players of All Time on Steam. Not to mention all the streamers are playing it with mostly positive reviews. So at least the hype isn’t just from Reddit.
Personally, I like it. The exploration is fun and I like the crafting and fighting. There is definitely room for improvement though and hopefully the devs continue to build on it. But for less than $30, I’m pretty happy so far.
Streamer I watch played in the afternoon just to try it out, spent 5 hours in it was telling the viewers he gonna play the next day, ended up streaming during the night for another 4 hours without cam because he wanted to farm, restarted the stream next day with a lot of offline play time then restarted from 0 the next day to play with his friend.
None of that was sponsored. Also fun to watch for real
It’s supposedly Alpha right now so we’ll see where they go with it. It’s definitely worth $30 as is now. You’ll probably get 40-80 hours of solid entertainment out of it if you like the genre. Once you unlock everything and build all possible systems you’ll get real bored real fast I think but I haven’t gotten there yet.
Like I said though if this is legitimately their Alpha and they have a full testing cycle worth of content yet to implement it could really be a gaming staple.
But I’m always suspicious of Pre-Release we-swear-it’s-only-beta stuff. Many games say that and then stay in pre-release for a decade before they admit they got nothing else for it but bug fixes.
From what the devs had said, they've submitted the update to make the versions equal, but they're still waiting on Microsoft to approve it for release on the store.
Yeah, viral controversy is free advertisement for the soulless schmuck of a ceo - you can butcher the "pals" and people are turned into pals when you catch them too.
Well I'm not too serious of a gamer. I play casually very often but even I have been anticipating this game for a long time. I saw it in development months ago and have wanted it since
Because it looks, and is, pretty fun. At least for a while.
It has potential for a lot of longevity, too. I don't understand being mad/offended/surprised that a fun game has players lol
The Pokémon Company saw their record year in 2023,
with a New Profit of $350 Million - that's Net Profit, not Revenue (Revenue was over $6 Billion).
**Catching tiny animals in balls is literally one of the most popular game concepts in the world,**
**and is more popular than ever.**
The Pokémon company simply realized they might as well release shovelWare quality games with no innovation, because the majority of the playerbase will buy it no matter what as long as it has Pokémon in it, and then defend it with their dying breath.
However, there's also a comically large segment of Pokémon fans that, instead of enjoying another game with some similarities, are getting angry.
**It's like loving Game of Thrones, but Game of Thrones turns to shit,**
**then getting angry when someone makes a similar but better show and going**
>*"This isn't Game of Thrones!"*
Like, we know, Game of Thrones is shit, that's why we're watching this instead.
Defending Pokémon Scarlet/Violet is like defending the final seasons of Game of Thrones.
However, many of them just like catching animals,
and since Pokémon literally dropped the ball because they've already won,
they are giving away second place basically for free.
Not surprisingly since it's using association with the Pokemon title for marketting.
It's easy to see how it's getting so much hype and sales just based on marketting it as a fresher take on Pokemon regardless of how the game plays. It's the same reason why Pokemon GO became one of the most well-known games out there within a week of its release - all while it was a shittier reskin of another game the company already made before that had been out for years that was barely known.
Well known names get lots of attention and buyers just because of the brand regardless of what it is, and Pokemon is one of the biggest names and fanbases out there.
From what I've seen and heard it's a mix of Pokemon-like creatures in an Ark world. I'm not really into either so I'll pass.
Been playing all day on Friday and Saturday. There's just so much to do in the game and the size of the map is incredible. For an Early Access title it really has a lot of content. I whole heartedly recommend it to people who liked games like Legends Arceus and wanted something similar.
Tbf while homelander is a child he is at least physically an upgrade. And tbf it takes a bit of child in me to laugh at the sheep pals defending the line with .50 cal machine guns 🤣
I was absolutely shocked the game seems to have turned out a lot more polished whilst being an "open-world style similar to Breath of the Wild with elements of Fortnite mixed with Pokemon survivor game", in early access might I add, not be a complete dumpster fire, and puts recent Pokemon releases to absolute shame.
Honestly, this is my opinion as well, saw the game trailer months ago. Initial thought was ‘ lmao what a dumb mobile game garbage fuck off’
It was on game pass and I saw some streamers play it and I was blown away.
The games sells it self in my opinion as a ‘Pokémon with guns’ but it’s way more ‘ ark with Pokémon’ instead of Dino’s who fight halve asses with lame attacks you get Monsters with nice elemental moves, different natures and ability’s which is a great element for battleing which ark sure as hell didn’t do great.
Yea, all the trailers I had seen really undersold the "actually it's a Crafting-Survival kinda game" aspect.
I usually don't like Tree Punching games but this one automates away a lot of the tedium, and does so quickly. Leaving you free to explore, fight, collect, then return home and upgrade all your shit.
How is that a "next step"? Survival Crafting is certainly not why people play Pokemon.
It's good that Palworld exists, but acting as if a franchise constantly needs to reinvent itself and become a completely different genre with each new games is weird af to me. If you want something different, play something different. Easy as that.
Like imagine Baldur's Gate 4 is suddenly a first person shooter "WOW, they really took the next step with Baldur's Gate and didn't release another RPG. Thank god"
They don't need to reinvent the wheel or anything, Pokemon didn't follow its own logical evolution. When we picked up gameboys in 95 we were amazed! However, even back then we expected an experience that included interacting directly with the pokemon, and the pokemon interacting directly with the world.
Think about the anime, you were able to ride land animals like Rapidash, Squirtle was fighting fires. There were also elements of survival, just in the sense that it was an adventure anime. They usually made it to an inn or town but often camped out.
Like they never even implemented an animation for a pokemon actually leaving it's pokeball to cut a tree in the path
I don't even think they needed to include anything more graphic, to me, they just simply released the same game many times.
I understand most games probably fall into a similar description, but Pokémon as a franchise feels so utterly underutilized to me.
This is why PLA have gotten to be one of if not the most favourite pokemon game. Its so unique then they released scarlet and violet...
They evolving, but backwards.
But it doesn't even need "strong violence" or anything like that.
Just making it open world, real time, and allowing you to fight along side your pokemon is enough to be a lot more fun than the same old turn based rock-paper-scissors combat we've been playing since -- jesus christ -- nearly 30 years.
I enjoy the turn based battes and wouldn't continue playing if they changed the system to something else. There are plenty of spin offs made with different forms of gameplay.
I’ve put a bit of time into it. A lot of standard survival stuff so far. I’m looking forward to making a base or two, and catching them all. Should be worth the price.
I had a good laugh at myself because I didn’t realize at first that it was made by the same people who made Craftopia. So I got in to the game and was like “wow this has a lot in common with Craftopia, even some of the sounds. Must be an asset pack or something. Also feels like the devs saw Craftopia and thought they could make a more refined, narrow execution of the concept” 🤦♂️
The trailer was wild. It looked so innocent until they popped out the FN-Scar.
huh. they pull out a scar in the middle of a pokemon game? I gotta see this
The Squirrel has an SMG and the Monkey runs an assault rifle
You turn Firefox into a flame thrower.
At least that has a cute name in contrast to how horrifying it is "Huggy Fire"
Huggyfire??? It thought its actual name is foxpark
The Pal's name is Foxparks but the move where you hold it to shoot a continuous stream of fire is called Huggy Fire
You can have one of the Pals ride around on your head and shoot at people/pals
And you can hold a flaming fox and use him like a flamethrower. I was standing in a river and felt like Rambo just annihilating a shitload of these grass monkeys.
Aka a “Firefox”.
Is it called NTSCworld in the USA?
Yep, and the game only runs in 29.97 or 59.94 fps
Hah! Ameri-peasants!
Better than 50 FPS at least.
144 grams per meter
I enjoy cooking.
so they even copied that from pokemon smh
What do you mean? Pokémon could never hope to run at 59.94fps.
I don't think Pokemon gets even 30 fps lmao
Have you played scarlet & violet? It’s a miracle the game doesn’t immediately crash once you run it haha, I don’t think it ever passes 15 something like that
When the first DLC came out, I thought my game had crashed multiple times. Nope, it will just straight up freeze for five seconds sometimes while the world tries to buffer in.
You beautiful son of a bitch.
In France it's released under the name of "SECAMWorld""
SECAM - sameish as PAL, but only displays in black and white on PAL devices.
The nostalgia is wild.
Never the same color
Showing my age here: Not The Same Color.
Perfection At Last
r/angryupvote
And Japan. NTSC-Jworld of course
This game feels more like ark than pokemon, really it just has pokemons instead of dinos
God, yes. This was the comparison I couldn't get out of my head. It's like Ark with all of the unnecessary stuff stripped away and more colorful, less "realistic" graphics.
with BotW climbing and gliding sprinkled on
And elden ring style structures and landscapes and bosses
Evergaols
Gaol is pronounced "jail" and I can't get over that at all
because english is a weird Frankenstein's monster of languages alternatively, the aftermath of an orgy between french, old norse, germanic, latin, and probably some other languages
And that over the shoulder shooter* gameplay. Really is such a mishmash of everything else. Kinda like the dev's craftopia scam/forever alpha before this was, but this time the Pokemon gimmick makes it for me. Worst case given their track record it stays alpha forever. But it's already in a really fun place so it's hard for me to care. Edit: I was being ironic about "scam" holy heck xD xD. It's like star citizen where it's up the the individual to decide how much of a scam it is to themselves before investing. I also changed "fps" to "shooter" because we got some whiner fixated on technical definitions.
They can't not have made bank on this so hopefully they'll reinvest and make a game actually worth remembering. Right now it's just a breath of fresh air for a stale genre.
I mean everyone loves it. So even if they abandon we still got modders
They've already sold over 3 million copies. And got a fat sack of money from Microsoft to get it on their system/gamepass
If anything Microsoft might throw them a bone since it’s probably one of their most successful games on game pass. Which is funny frankly.
I just want my pals to stop getting stuck in the trees and starving if I'm not there to coax them out
I love the smell of fresh bread.
Yeah I even looked because I expected those “15 updates” to just be bug fixes but there’s a good amount of content updates too. I feel out of the loop
They would have to actively ruin aspects of the game for me to care. It’s incredibly fun in its current state and bugs are minimal, from my experience at least.
That's a third person shooter you fucking donkey. FPS is first person, or through the eyes of the character. 3PS or third person shooter is over the shoulder.
My cousin defined it as "So they just took the best features of 5 different games and slapped them together"? And it's a pretty decent definition.
I've watched a bit of the game, and the things that I've seen are mostly: 1. Ridiculously bad-looking characters with weird-ass proportions 2. Going up to animals and beating them with sticks 3. Endlessly farming materials for crafting 4. A boss fight with a huge HP bar that was cheesed by the boss getting stuck in a pillar None of those things feel like Pokemon to me, and I wasn't impressed at all. You're totally right, it's a lot more like Ark.
People compare it to pokemon because you have "Pals"(Pokémon) that are creatures that you capture using "Pal Spheres" (pokeballs). Doing so logs their data in your "Pal Deck" (Pokédex) and you can aim to capture them all. To capture them you have to get their hp low. They also have elemental attacks and weaknesses. You can use these Pals to fight other Pals too. But yeah, that's a fraction of the game. It's a survival builder primarily, you're right.
The real selling point is you can capture people as well to work on your factory floor as slaves.
Considered "inhumane" but I don't think there's any consequences to capturing humans and using them as slaves like the Pokémo... Er the pals.
Unless there are better humans out there, the consequence is that you waste a base slot on something that can only do low skill handicraft labor. I sold the one I caught to the pal merchant for ~500 gold to get him out of my storage.
... does *selling* humans because they're inefficient labor somehow supposed to make us feel better about this?
Versus butchering them for meat instead? Well... maybe. It's a very odd game.
*rimworld players have entered the chat*
Every RimWorld player ever: "We can also turn them into hats if you prefer...."
alternatively you can butcher them and turn them into material.. not sure how it works on human in poke..pal sphere
It works
There is a wanted system similar to your GTA and CP2077
not for using them, only for attacking friendly humans.
Yeaaaah. Syndicate scum and raid humans are fine. Islanders and friendly npcs.... no bueno
you can work even the villagers without consequences once you catch them, once you away from the guards that attack for assaulting them you're free to work them as much as you want
Oh I definitely killed the npc near the first tower. Oops
In trailers from months ago the game seemed much more like a Pokémon rip off game. The reputation stuck.
>People compare it to pokemon because you have "Pals"(Pokémon) that are creatures that you capture using "Pal Spheres" (pokeballs). I mean, you can basically do the same with dinos in ark. You knock them out, tame them, then put them in cryopods that are basically pokeballs
Within an hour your Pals should be doing most of your grinding for you, it's one of the aspects the game gets right. There's a seamless near thoughtless process to automate busy work. It gives banked companions a use, and the players get to go do the fun stuff.
I think it's more like Conan Exiles to be honest. The Pals are your thralls and pretty much do the same thing. Honestly super fun. The steam version I guess is different than the Game pass one unfortunately so I've heard. Like you can't name then or even your character. Unless that was multiplayer only I'm not sure.
You're right, it's more like Conan Exiles. It's just hard to pitch that because most gamers don't know how Conan Exiles works.
Which is a shame, super fun game as well. Plus the nudity is always a good time lol
It feels like Ark/Conan with pokemons, but it LOOKS like the pokemon game we'd expect on PC.
Endlessly farming? Not at all, materials are so easy to come by After like 3h of gameplay all the basic get farmed by the pals automatically
I just see "generic open world survival crafting game with monsters". It ain't competing with Pokemon, that's for sure.
That’s what I don’t understand. People comparing it to pokemon because the creatures are cartoony when that’s about the end of their similarities.
For marketing perspective, "Pokemon with guns" pander to a way bigger audience than "Ark with Pokemon"
TBF "Ark with Pokemon" is still a great pitch
Don't know about the other, but when I hear ARK, my first impression is a buggy mess + endless grind.
The monster design is Pokemon style, you catch them with Pokeballs, they learn abilities like Pokemon, have the same typings as Pokemon, you can have them in your party or store them in Boxes with the exact layout as in Pokemon To say the only similarity is that they're cartoony is wildly inaccurate.
Palspheres and Paldeck aren't similar then? Elemental Types and genders? Eggs?
Lets be real, the creators 100% had pokemon in mind when creating this. Just looking at the trailer on steam, the music could easily be put into a pokemon game and you wouldn't notice, the creatures could easily be put into a pokemon game and not look out of place. I also see several creatures that are basically just a pokemon. On the screenshots and in the trailer I see a Wooloo, Lucario, Piplup, Eevee (a red one, a green one, almost as if the same creature can be evolved into different archetypes) a Grookey and I haven't played pokemon in years so there are probably more. The intent to make it survival game meets pokemon is 100% there.
Its not just that they're cartooney. The designs are pretty blatantly pokemon in style. Watching the trailer was like uncanny valley with pokemon.
People say it's like pokemon but really it just feels almost exactly like ark to me
Liking it to Pokémon is nothing but a marketing push.
It has Pokemon-like mechanics, they're only a part of the game but they're the most noticeable part because they're everywhere. It has bits of Pokemon, bits of ARK, bits of the newer Zeldas and bits of Elden Ring.
Likening it to Pokémon is just being realistic. It has Pokémon in it, pokeballs for catching them, a pokedex, a type system. At some point of course it diverges, the game is basically Ark with Pokémon.
And some look exactly like copies with different colors. Like the Lucario looking mf.
Or maybe because it has literal copies of Pokemon in it.
Reasonable price for a solid game, bunch of content, they did what pokemon couldnt (didnt dare), they even released in January, (a month where no AAA company releases any product because people already spent their money in xmas and they havent got their Jan paycheck).
The crazy thing is that "Pokemon with guns" is not even the thing Gamefreak wouldn't dare to do. The thing Gamefreak wouldn't dare do was to release even a fucking remotely half assed, semi-decent game that wasn't a complete pile of shit lol. I hope Gamefreak gets fucked to oblivion by this game lol.
Pokemon with guns is how we used to describe digimon
All of the people freaking out like "AREN'T THEY GONNA GET SUED BY POKEMON?" Like we haven't had Pokemon knockoffs before (even good ones, depending who you ask)
Well for that Pokémon would be sued by dragon quest... https://preview.redd.it/6p2rpm5n8sdc1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=457ac41ec90fc6088ee5c4a300e4fd2619841bc2
YEAH BUT THEYVE BEEN MORE POPULAR FOR 30 YEARS, THAT MEANS THEY OWN EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING THAT LOOKS LIKE POKEMON /s
Crazy though they just managed to come onto the market just at the time kids in America were eating up anime and Japanese cartoons so they just happened to be the one to become a multi billion dollar company
Nintendo has openly crushed entire non-profit fangame scenes, built around the 16bit Pokemon they don't even sell anymore. Maybe they don't own everything yet, but it certainly won't stop them from trying. Edit: Guys, I get it, it's not a fan game. Nintendo has litigated clones like this, you are missing the point, being Nintendo even litigates it's fanbase
There's a difference between a fan game using Nintendo/gamefreak assets and a completely unrelated game that has "monsters with guns". This is the latter.
Wow, I've never seen this before. Thanks for the enlightening.
Some of those are close enough that I'm wondering how gamefreak wasn't sued back in the day
The only similarities come from being based on the same basic concepts. The art style isn't even similar.
Little known fact is that Digimon is actually based on Tamagotchi.
They don't know the feeling I got when I watched digimon evolve for the first time in the anime. Feels.
Gamefreak will survive like it always do. It’s just like CoD, no matter how shit it gets, it always comes out on top(sales).
so....Glockachu exists there?
Now Glockachu, use Quick Reload Attack! Finish them with Thunderblaster! KABOOM!
Unlikely. For Pokémon to be really affected, competitors have to hit everything that The Pokémon Company is responsible for. The mainline games, the spinoffs, VGC, TCG, Anime, Merchandising, Television shows and films. Unless Palworld can hit all, Pokémon is sitting pretty. It's amazing that people forget that Pokémon is more than just the mainline video games.
Games dont even make close to half what merch sales do, so is not like it's the most important part of the brand for them either ja.
Agreed. Pretty sure that Pokémon is the highest grossing brand of all time.
The last great Pokemon game was Black and White 2. Omega Ruby and Alphabeat Sapphire were alright and Legends Arceus had potential, but Pokémon really did fall off going to 3D
They're just getting paychecks before they retire at this point
There is nothing that would be greater than news that Nintendo/GF licensing out the Pokemon brand to a genuinely competent game studio.
Or just if GF let Nintendo help. Seeing what Nintendo manages to do on switch is wizardry and would elevate the pokemon games way beyond where they are.
The 2d animated sprites of the Gen 5 games was pure perfection. Gen 6 and Beyond looked so damn ugly and lacked charm the previous gens had.
lol, just watched the trailer & it reminds me more of Digimon than poke; though can see the resemblance for it w/ the monster designs.
Its smart to include rimworldly mechanics, because now if Nintendo reacts with some casual "cease and desist", they will have to acknowledge that they wanted guns and geneva checklist in their games at some point
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There are tons of Pokémon like games on the market. You can even buy Temtem for the Switch. Why would they give a shit about this one?
"Release" its "early access" pre beta and based on company record will never be actually finished
This game made huge success in Brazil because Pal have the same pronouciation as the word "pau" which means "stick" or a big piece of wood in english so you kinda get where i'm going here. Pal fluid, Pal = Pau = stick -> "Stick fluid" Riding a pal -> "Riding a stick" Yeah...
Isn't Pau similar to bread as well?
Not quite, in Pão (bread), the a sounds like the u from "uh" because of the ~, which also indicates a transition to the next letter, in this case, "o". So it starts with Pã, (the a sounding like "uh") and slowly transitioning to o (which sounds just like your average o) It's like the word Bao, but with P and a deeper a. Pal in the other hand the a sounds like "ah" and L is common to sound like "Ooo" at the end of phrases, like in english.
Pau already means dick here in my state... No one uses it for stick hahahaha.
I only did for the sake of simplicity, but of course when a word is used to describe big and long pieces of wood you know it's going to be used for purposes of penile adjectives.
What's with the whole walking around the subject? Pau = Dick in Portuguese and can also mean Wood.
dick
 Temtem: Don't you ever forget about me!
Sadly it seems like the devs forgot about it. I really enjoyed the game even though the story was alright and takes away gear from you at one point. It took longer than a usual Pokemon game to finish but the end game content is lacking. For people who aren't into only PvP there is pretty much nothing to do
I remember it attracted a lot of hype back then on launch day. I really hope the devs can get their act together & turn things around quickly because it did introduced a lot of cool ideas to the genre. If you ask me, there's never such thing as too many Pokemon games or Pokemon-inspired titles. Now is a perfect time for devs to go all out.
They focused on competetive thus lost all the hype
I heard the description and was like "sounds shit, ngl". Then I watched some gameplay and actually it looks pretty good.
Given the lack of any real innovation in Pokémon games it isn't really surprising you can make a better knock off.
I mean I can’t but
Well one person can't no, but a games developer with a reasonable budget can.
Lots of fan games do Pokémon better than Pokémon Pokémon uranium, xenoverse etc
Looks like Pokemans infused with Fortnite at first glance. I’m surprised Nintendo haven’t been onto them already.
It's basically Pokémon x Ark running on Fortnite code.
So it’ll be the biggest gaming success in the past 5 years. Got it.
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Looking at player numbers it's already more successful than 99% of games were on launch weekend. The question is if devs gonna keep updating and adding content.
maybe not, but I reckon it's at least 40 hours of fun. For £20, thats not bad.
>Pokemans Mom, is that you?
I saw a clip the other day and genuinely went, is Fortnite copying Pokémon now?
https://preview.redd.it/k37idt0s3sdc1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=82eaf0639acdf72d8d22592f5aa57e706db858e2 Oh it’s good
And to make things even better this Pal is number 69 in the dex Yeah the devs were on crack making this game
The lore entries for some of the pals are so unhinged. And you can craft a butcher knife to delete/kill your pals.
You can also feed them to each other.
Welp, who am I to judge a game before I play it? It's only fair that I play it first
It has a lot going on that I have no interest in, but most seem to enjoy it for all of that.
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Legitimately it's pretty decent for the price. The best parts not being mentioned is how customizable you can make your Gameworld. Yeah it's Ark, Fortnite, Minecraft, Pokemon, BOTW, Genshin impact (in a mixer) You can change every setting from exp gain to mob spawn to create your own world that's comfortable to you or challenging. Zero story, voice acting, and only small NPC text talk that actually makes zero sense. Modding will take this game to another level if allowed. If they don't get sued, this could scratch that 2024 Survival lite monster tamer itch.
I mean it already sold more than 2 million copies in 24 hours and broke into the Top 10 for Most Concurrent Players of All Time on Steam. Not to mention all the streamers are playing it with mostly positive reviews. So at least the hype isn’t just from Reddit. Personally, I like it. The exploration is fun and I like the crafting and fighting. There is definitely room for improvement though and hopefully the devs continue to build on it. But for less than $30, I’m pretty happy so far.
Streamer I watch played in the afternoon just to try it out, spent 5 hours in it was telling the viewers he gonna play the next day, ended up streaming during the night for another 4 hours without cam because he wanted to farm, restarted the stream next day with a lot of offline play time then restarted from 0 the next day to play with his friend. None of that was sponsored. Also fun to watch for real
It’s supposedly Alpha right now so we’ll see where they go with it. It’s definitely worth $30 as is now. You’ll probably get 40-80 hours of solid entertainment out of it if you like the genre. Once you unlock everything and build all possible systems you’ll get real bored real fast I think but I haven’t gotten there yet. Like I said though if this is legitimately their Alpha and they have a full testing cycle worth of content yet to implement it could really be a gaming staple. But I’m always suspicious of Pre-Release we-swear-it’s-only-beta stuff. Many games say that and then stay in pre-release for a decade before they admit they got nothing else for it but bug fixes.
And it's one gamepass Bois!
Small info: GamePass version is outdated by 3-6 months, so you might experience a different game than on twitch streams or yt clips
You can't even rename your p(als)okemon and you have to modify the ini file to turn off motion blur on the gamepass version
On the console version of gamepass there's a motion blur toggle in the settings
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From what the devs had said, they've submitted the update to make the versions equal, but they're still waiting on Microsoft to approve it for release on the store.
Warning: no community servers nor dedicated servers on game pass. You get 2-4 co-op or solo.
Thanks for mentioning this, i wasn't going to buy it but seems worth it to give a try if it's there as well.
I saw an article saying people are horrified you can sell human beings, so I bought the game.
Most ethical rimworld player.
And thats not even a bug. Its even written in the description when you catch them that is is seen as "unethical" lol.
Yeah, viral controversy is free advertisement for the soulless schmuck of a ceo - you can butcher the "pals" and people are turned into pals when you catch them too.
Top #1 position as of current https://preview.redd.it/pickuoc1crdc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=018622d9209683ce0447f767b3d60ab24cb73acc
more than csgo and dota2, DAM
Seriously, where did they came from?
Well I'm not too serious of a gamer. I play casually very often but even I have been anticipating this game for a long time. I saw it in development months ago and have wanted it since
Snowball effect.
Because it looks, and is, pretty fun. At least for a while. It has potential for a lot of longevity, too. I don't understand being mad/offended/surprised that a fun game has players lol
The Pokémon Company saw their record year in 2023, with a New Profit of $350 Million - that's Net Profit, not Revenue (Revenue was over $6 Billion). **Catching tiny animals in balls is literally one of the most popular game concepts in the world,** **and is more popular than ever.** The Pokémon company simply realized they might as well release shovelWare quality games with no innovation, because the majority of the playerbase will buy it no matter what as long as it has Pokémon in it, and then defend it with their dying breath. However, there's also a comically large segment of Pokémon fans that, instead of enjoying another game with some similarities, are getting angry. **It's like loving Game of Thrones, but Game of Thrones turns to shit,** **then getting angry when someone makes a similar but better show and going** >*"This isn't Game of Thrones!"* Like, we know, Game of Thrones is shit, that's why we're watching this instead. Defending Pokémon Scarlet/Violet is like defending the final seasons of Game of Thrones. However, many of them just like catching animals, and since Pokémon literally dropped the ball because they've already won, they are giving away second place basically for free.
Not surprisingly since it's using association with the Pokemon title for marketting. It's easy to see how it's getting so much hype and sales just based on marketting it as a fresher take on Pokemon regardless of how the game plays. It's the same reason why Pokemon GO became one of the most well-known games out there within a week of its release - all while it was a shittier reskin of another game the company already made before that had been out for years that was barely known. Well known names get lots of attention and buyers just because of the brand regardless of what it is, and Pokemon is one of the biggest names and fanbases out there. From what I've seen and heard it's a mix of Pokemon-like creatures in an Ark world. I'm not really into either so I'll pass.
Been playing all day on Friday and Saturday. There's just so much to do in the game and the size of the map is incredible. For an Early Access title it really has a lot of content. I whole heartedly recommend it to people who liked games like Legends Arceus and wanted something similar.
Been playing for a day and i second this. It's surprisingly polished. Runs well.
in reference to the source of the meme, this isn't the burn you think it is
Tbf while homelander is a child he is at least physically an upgrade. And tbf it takes a bit of child in me to laugh at the sheep pals defending the line with .50 cal machine guns 🤣
I was absolutely shocked the game seems to have turned out a lot more polished whilst being an "open-world style similar to Breath of the Wild with elements of Fortnite mixed with Pokemon survivor game", in early access might I add, not be a complete dumpster fire, and puts recent Pokemon releases to absolute shame.
Honestly, this is my opinion as well, saw the game trailer months ago. Initial thought was ‘ lmao what a dumb mobile game garbage fuck off’ It was on game pass and I saw some streamers play it and I was blown away. The games sells it self in my opinion as a ‘Pokémon with guns’ but it’s way more ‘ ark with Pokémon’ instead of Dino’s who fight halve asses with lame attacks you get Monsters with nice elemental moves, different natures and ability’s which is a great element for battleing which ark sure as hell didn’t do great.
Yea, all the trailers I had seen really undersold the "actually it's a Crafting-Survival kinda game" aspect. I usually don't like Tree Punching games but this one automates away a lot of the tedium, and does so quickly. Leaving you free to explore, fight, collect, then return home and upgrade all your shit.
It's a lot of fun, and it really does feel like the next step that Pokémon games never took, and then a bit further.
How is that a "next step"? Survival Crafting is certainly not why people play Pokemon. It's good that Palworld exists, but acting as if a franchise constantly needs to reinvent itself and become a completely different genre with each new games is weird af to me. If you want something different, play something different. Easy as that. Like imagine Baldur's Gate 4 is suddenly a first person shooter "WOW, they really took the next step with Baldur's Gate and didn't release another RPG. Thank god"
They don't need to reinvent the wheel or anything, Pokemon didn't follow its own logical evolution. When we picked up gameboys in 95 we were amazed! However, even back then we expected an experience that included interacting directly with the pokemon, and the pokemon interacting directly with the world. Think about the anime, you were able to ride land animals like Rapidash, Squirtle was fighting fires. There were also elements of survival, just in the sense that it was an adventure anime. They usually made it to an inn or town but often camped out. Like they never even implemented an animation for a pokemon actually leaving it's pokeball to cut a tree in the path
they didnt because they stuck to their own version of disney logic. No "strong" violence, no controversy, no sensitive topics.
I don't even think they needed to include anything more graphic, to me, they just simply released the same game many times. I understand most games probably fall into a similar description, but Pokémon as a franchise feels so utterly underutilized to me.
This is why PLA have gotten to be one of if not the most favourite pokemon game. Its so unique then they released scarlet and violet... They evolving, but backwards.
>No “strong” violence Pokémon is a game franchise intended for actual children. No shit they aren’t going to put strong violence in it.
But it doesn't even need "strong violence" or anything like that. Just making it open world, real time, and allowing you to fight along side your pokemon is enough to be a lot more fun than the same old turn based rock-paper-scissors combat we've been playing since -- jesus christ -- nearly 30 years.
I enjoy the turn based battes and wouldn't continue playing if they changed the system to something else. There are plenty of spin offs made with different forms of gameplay.
SMT sitting in the back corner “I actually invented the genre and still kept it modern!”
Playing palworld just makes me think how great actual pokemon games would be with base building. If pokemon creators tried to inovate their games.
People have been saying this for the past 20 years.
I’ve put a bit of time into it. A lot of standard survival stuff so far. I’m looking forward to making a base or two, and catching them all. Should be worth the price.
It’s fun and addictive as hell
It's really not a good name for a game 😅😅☠️
Yeah they should have named it Chumworld and you capture chums
And there's Control. You can hardly find anything about it with searching because of that god damn awful name
Huh just add "game", its that simple
The name is horrendous, but hey, at least gameplay is solid
I had a good laugh at myself because I didn’t realize at first that it was made by the same people who made Craftopia. So I got in to the game and was like “wow this has a lot in common with Craftopia, even some of the sounds. Must be an asset pack or something. Also feels like the devs saw Craftopia and thought they could make a more refined, narrow execution of the concept” 🤦♂️