What if instead of Palworld it was called Galworld and it was just for the ladies.
Wow it's bad enough society is centered around women and you want to make all my game worlds cater to women too?
Women hold up half the sky. The other half is legally distinct-ish collectable monsters.
Monkey paw curls Galworld is developed by an israeli dev team and features Gal Gatot even more heavily than Keanu was in Cyberpunk
that would suck so hard. i want her to deliver 70 hours of spoken dialogue with all the emotion and presence of a cinderblock.
Someone somewhere is most likely already modeling 140 monster girl waifus for a mod with this exact premise
Respect.
I think this is Calico, the cute cat adventure game.
It's not just for the ladies, though. It's just very soft and femme.
I love how we have one of these online marketing blitz games every few months now. Like it just has to be all seeded marketing with how these games blow up instantly and are then forgotten after getting a few mil in sales.
Not even commenting on if it's good or bad. I don't care. Just amazing how these games completely blow up instantly, and even if you don't seek out gaming news you'll still hear about it 100 times this week if you use the internet at all.
Afaik it's mostly on the strength of how much fun it is to watch on Twitch. Lethal Company blew up because people with good comedy skills were having a blast doing silly shit with it. Like it's some combination of genuinely looking fun when the streamers do it, and then the algo grabs it and puts it in front of everyone, and then some weird barely playable indy thing is out-selling CoD.
Lethal Company is genuinely a great game too. Theres a lot of attention to detail in many aspects of the design, insanely impressive for a solo project
Legit, legit. I haven't played it enough to figure it out and I'm afraid my group has already moved past it on to Palworld.
It really feels insanely inauthentic. The devs were like "uwu we never expected palworld to blow up like this" but it had a huge "PALWORLD OUT NOW" banner at the top of the Steam storefront which is usually reserved for AAA titles like the newest CoD or the announcement of the Steam summer sale.
Every streamer and their moms played it, it clearly had a massive marketing budget.
It's good, like Ark with more automation and you can give the Pokemons lots of cute decorations for their houses, it is very slightly like the Sims when it comes to keeping them happy
So far I made a chicken commune with a spa, they all grow their own food and have their own jobs, the animals have their own unique roles and talents, planting seeds (plant types), watering (water type), and harvesting+construction+general (general, helpers, cats)
cool!
Someone call me if it's still fun in 3 years when it's on EA version 5.3.2.5.x.3 with no release date and 2 released early access DLCs
I saw this about it so now I'm palworlds biggest fan
well, that's upsetting
people are saying
Sounds like a bunch of sales and marketing bots to me. I'm not in a rush to jump on this bandwagon, given the current state of gaming.
Nah, it looks boring to me
people say all kinds of things. but i mean come on, i can see the gameplay videos. there is nothing there. i can see that there's nothing there.
idk, i feel like i've been playing games long enough that i've figured out what kind of experiences can be insanely popular despite containing zero appeal to me personally. Genshin Impact, for example, seems so self-evidently dogshit that calling it generic is still giving it too much credit. most uses of crafting elements, every MMO, i know these things do nothing for me.
I haven’t checked it out yet myself, but I honestly feel like it’s half people with an axe to grind about ai gaslighting themselves into liking it just to run Superficial defense for that shit a la the Harry Potter game last year and half disgruntled Pokémon fans who are just happy for anything that isn’t the game freak formula and hope this will spur some more creativity for the next game (it won’t)
From what I’ve seen it looks … fine.. like virtually ever other ark/rust kind of game out there but idk maybe it’s kinda fun? I’ll get around to it eventually maybe
disgruntled Pokémon fans who are just happy for anything that isn’t the game freak formula
I gotta say, some of the most fun I've had with Pokemon has been with the Romhacks that Nintendo is constantly trying to quash and sue out of existence. Everything outside of that has been trash, practically since Red/Blue.
like virtually ever other ark/rust kind of game out there but idk maybe it’s kinda fun?
Its more cutesy, which I guess counts for something in a landscape full of "naked guy runs down a squirrel and guts it with his teeth for +1 food points" terminally gritty survival horror games.
Yeah the only remotely fun experience I’ve had was for a few hours of legends before even that got a little stale, the hacks always seem cool I just haven’t set time aside to check them out
Its more cutesy, which I guess counts for something in a landscape full of "naked guy runs down a squirrel and guts it with his teeth for +1 food points" terminally gritty survival horror games.
Yeah one of the main reasons I never got into rust lol. But even checking out valheim and other stuff, something about that genre doesn’t appeal to me too much personally. Maybe this will tho
It's like Ark with a lot of quality of life features and a bit of factor.io with your group assigning themselves individual roles like watering, seeding and growing food. I think there's a deathless option for the animals
You can also get by without hunting I think because the animals will generate their unique drops on their own at the ranch structure
I'm going to wait a bit to see how the developers handle early access. I got into Valheim early access after their hugely successful launch and absolutely loved the game, but after three years of painfully slow and meagre updates the game still isn't properly optimized and is missing about a third of the content that should clearly be there. Those decisions are wholly on the developers, and, while I think the game is great and I got my money's worth, I get the sense that the devs are being precious about doing the work themselves instead of bringing in the resources to deliver what they promised. As a result, it's an unfinished product that I probably won't revisit.
If Palworld has good bones and the developers show they're committed to delivering then I don't see why I wouldn't give it an honest go, but I'm done buying unfinished products that have no guarantee of being delivered on time or in an acceptable state.
good thing it's cracked already, no way I'm paying full price for it
This is the way
It's not full price. It's current 3 flipping euros off.
I always found rusts and arks very boring, so no.
I might try it out since I have a friend who is playing it, but I don't think I would have otherwise.
The CEO is one of those AI obssessed freaks I'd say no. There's much better games to spend money on tbh.
I don't get this game, can someone explain what the hype is about? The very little I saw of it looked like just another mediocre survival game, but with a twist.
The discussions I saw on twitter were a mixed bag too. On one side fuck them for using AI, on the other I couldn't care less for the plagiarising claims when it's plagiarizing Nintendo, lol.
The devs seem to be a bunch of chuds tho. Their other games in development are literally a BOTW and Hollow Knight copies, which just smells like cheap uninspired crash grabs.
I don't get this game, can someone explain what the hype is about? The very little I saw of it looked like just another mediocre survival game, but with a twist.
For reasons I don't exactly understand among survival players this is basically enough to make it in the survival genre so long as the twist is novel enough, and I guess ark's dinosaur capturing and Palworld's creature capturing is enough to propel them forward.
I personally think the game just feels bad/janky to play and is a worse mashup of other games it's taking inspiration from (notably: pokemon, satisfactory/factorio, botw/totk, Valheim).
Their previous game Craftopia also struck me as a "what if all these other games' mechanics but worse than any of them individually" as well.
The branding of the game (the edginess) is what made it go viral and the pokemon aesthetics is what got people to try an ark-like game who wouldn't have otherwise is my best analysis of why it blew up so quickly.
Yeah you're most likely right. I also don't get why people go crazy over survival games, my brother loves it somehow.
I tried playing a bunch of survival games but I just find it the most boring shit imaginable. The only survival games I like are Minecraft, Terraria and Valheim, and of these three, as much as I love Minecraft it is also boring as hell most of the time.
Still, it's a mistery to me how Palworld is apparently breaking Steam record after Steam record. I could see it getting really popular, but not this much.
Outside of quest-driven modded minecraft I agree with you. When I play MC it either has to be with an explicit creative building goal or a hands-held progress-through-this-tech-modpack (I still fool around with GT:NH regularly).
I've also accepted that maybe my interests are just not the target market for the survival genre and there's something there that I'm never going to "get."
I also think the pokemon aesthetics are enough to take a generally non-mainstream genre (survival-crafting) and blast it to a broader audience. If I had to guess the recent popularity of Lego Fortnite introducing younger gamers to the survival genre was probably also instrumental in prepping them for a game like this mechanically- now it's just got the aesthetics of another franchise that younger players have current interest in (pokemon) and older players have nostalgia for.
When I play MC it either has to be with an explicit creative building goal or a hands-held progress-through-this-tech-modpack (I still fool around with GT:NH regularly).
I've also accepted that maybe my interests are just not the target market for the survival genre and there's something there that I'm never going to "get."
Oh, preach comrade, I completely agree!
I also think the pokemon aesthetics are enough to take a generally non-mainstream genre (survival-crafting) and blast it to a broader audience.
I wouldn't say this genre is not mainstream. These types of survival games always explode in popularity, gets featured incessantly on twitch and afterwards it usually retains quite a chunky commited playerbase. But I completely agree with the rest of what you wrote.
I guess I should have said mainstream appeal in the Minecraft sort of way.
Valheim/Terraria are large, but Palworld is looking at its current trajectory to be fighting with the giants.
i think it's fun, especially when playing with friends!
Combat is super clunky, Pokemon aspect is kinda fun. I liked valheim and V rising significantly more.
I don't think it's worth playing.
it may have had a chance but it has the godsforsaken fortnite-cursed over-the-shoulder camera with no button to switch the side of the player character model the camera is on.
oh, you wanted to shoot around cover to the left or turn right around a corner without making yourself vulnerable? well fuck you then
In my opinion it's a very well marketed game that isn't terrible but also isn't going to last. The explosive hype is based on good market timing and the fact people really really wanted a pokemon game like it. Throw guns in for meme value and you've got added marketing value.
It won't stick around longterm, probably. Literally all of these players will go play the next Nintendo slop instead.
I think it’s just a game cashing in on people who haven’t played Nintendo games. For these people the gameplay loop is something new.
I have seen a few locations that are just straight up dark souls/elden ring locations, made just different enough to get past laws.
A consideration is it will make game devs argue to be able to patent (I’m not a lawyer parasite idk the right word) game mechanics more harshly. You know capitalists would love to be able to sue the pants off any other game that competes with them in the same genre by saying “your health bar/ sword looks too similar to ours, pay up”
Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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