• @[email protected]
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    635 months ago

    Awesome. Game Freak needed some competition, they’ve been coasting for at least a decade.

    • @Blueberrydreamer
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      445 months ago

      I mean, it’s more competition for ARK than Pokemon. I doubt Game Freak learns anything from all this unfortunately.

      • @[email protected]
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        45 months ago

        Game Freak will learn absolutely nothing from this, except “People like Pokemon, lets crank out one every 6 months instead of yearly and make them even shittier!”

      • @[email protected]
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        25 months ago

        I heard cassette beasts is providing some direct competition but it wasn’t nearly as successful.

        • @Blueberrydreamer
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          25 months ago

          Yeah, that one is real competition - at least gameplay wise - and a wonderful example of taking inspiration from Pokemon while still making something their own. It really deserves more attention than it got.

          • Instead we get plagiarism simulator 9000 because it made for great YouTube clickbait.

            Cassette Beasts has so much soul put into it, it’s a fucking crime that it ain’t more popular

      • Cethin
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        25 months ago

        Maybe. Maybe not. Pokémon isn’t successful because it’s good. It’s successful because people want to play Pokémon. If they can have the same experience of capturing and training Pokémon in a different format and name, it may compete with them. Admittedly, PalWorld is missing a lot of the higher level Pokémon things, but I don’t think that matters to the vast majority of players, and hunting for perfect traits may make up for it.

        I don’t think it’s a particularly great game, but I also don’t think Pokémon is.

    • @[email protected]
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      135 months ago

      I like Pokemon games for the adventure, turn based combat, and polished stable of monsters. Does palworld have those things?

      • @[email protected]
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        275 months ago

        adventure

        uuuuh since G5 the Pokémon plots are rehashed and banalised as heck, and there’s almost never any sensation of valuable risk or conflict to the plot. G6 literally makes the first arc of the plot “join this bunch of loser schoolers and do nothing”.

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          Yeah I would like a better Pokemon game, not an fps survival with monsters. The idea is that people looking for a Pokemon game probably aren’t simply looking for a collectible monster game, they want the things that are associated with Pokemon games.

          • @[email protected]
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            75 months ago

            Yeah I would like a better Pokemon game,

            Don’t we all.

            For long I’ve dreamed of the heights Pokémon could reach if the mainline videogame production was handed over from a small indie company to a respectable developer with a better track record such as Camelot or CDPR.

            • @[email protected]
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              45 months ago

              Camelot can’t write themselves out of a paper bag. The Golden Sun games were good for their time, and had me hyped as a pre-teen, but let’s not delude ourselves into thinking the dialogue or story was actually good. Seriously, if you took off the portraits while characters were speaking, could you tell just by the way they talk who is who (besides Kraden, cuz that mofo likes to TALK)? Could you describe their personalities based on their dialogue, and not the character art? It’s part of why the third Golden Sun failed: it was just too generic, and they tried to stretch the little personality they could muster across 8 characters, just because the 2nd game had 8 characters, but it left them all feeling like hollow husks for the most part.

              I’m not saying the games are bad, but there are definitely much better JRPG devs out there.

      • @[email protected]
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        145 months ago

        I like Pokemon for making me feel connected to my Pokemon, and for exploring the world with them.

        Imo Palworld had those and does them even better.

        • @[email protected]
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          85 months ago

          Interesting, I thought they were more… disposable? But now that I think about it, in ark, you had your near and dear creatures and then you had the faceless workers.

          • @[email protected]
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            115 months ago

            They are as disposable as you want them to be. I personally try to take good care of my pals

            • @[email protected]
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              35 months ago

              I have the ability to learn the butcher’s knife, but I will never learn or use it. Just awful. But I like that it’s there…

              • @[email protected]
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                15 months ago

                I hope the devs add a way to release the pals withou the butcher knife. My box is starting to fill up and I need space

          • @[email protected]
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            45 months ago

            Honestly? I think they should be more disposable. You can do stuff like sell, butcher, overwork or fuse away your Pals (all of which are rather deliberate on the player’s part), but I genuinely think if there was some threat of permadeath or having them stolen by the Syndicate baddies if you get sloppy, it would give the adventure a greater sense of threat/risk. People seek out Nuzlocke rules for a reason, and currently I find the options for dropping your items and Pals on death don’t really make compelling gameplay sense (you just walk back and get them).

            Setting/story-wise, Palworld supports that kind of thing so I figure it’s most likely coming as an option eventually. The game is on track for some interesting things, and as half-baked as parts might seem now, it’s already fairly fun. Definitely an addictive formula.

            It’s worth waiting to see where they take it if the journey and developing those bonds with the creatures are a big part of the draw for you. I doubt you’ll get compelling turn based combat at any point, though.

      • @[email protected]
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        no pal world is not at all a pokémon-like game. the adventure aspect is idk what to call it, the only adventure really is finding new pals for the first time. it’s kind of like ark with some inspirations from BOTW mechanics but you throw some pokemon in there

        it does have a good variety of pals but honestly the only thing that feels unique is the appearances/sizes and sometimes the modifiers they have. the actual movesets don’t feel very emphasized

        in my opinion the actual pal vs pal combat is pretty lackluster, it’s definitely not the focus of the game (although using slave labour is a focus of the game)

    • @[email protected]
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      125 months ago

      Nah, this has nothing to do with Pokemon. The whole survival & building aspect isn’t Pokemon at all, and was never what was missing from Pokemon.

      Palworld is more like Ark, or even Minecraft, than it is Pokemon. The only thing that’s Pokemon about it is the blatant ripoff monsters.