On one hand, Palworld is on about the same level of creative bankruptcy as Lies of P. In addition to the obvious Pokemon ripoffs, you've got Zelda fonts and sounds, you've got Xenoblade world design, you've even got freakin Limgrave.
And yet on the other hand, despite all these very questionable and almost certainly litigious similarities, it's a better Pokemon game than anything Nintendo has released in at least a decade. It's also a far more tolerable crafting game than most, thanks to the Pals providing some level of automation, and pretty lenient hunger/sleep/whatever mechanics. In light of this, I find it much less egregious than something like Lies of P or Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, which were simply soulless, inferior versions of the things they were shamelessly trying to emulate.
Palworld has issues for sure. Pathing is total shit, Pals don't appear to have swimming animations so they just run in water, and building is bizarre, with objects refusing to connect to others for no discernible reason. The controls are inconsistent, where sometimes Tab will exit a screen, sometimes F will exit, and sometimes you have to hit Esc. There's no "exit game" option on the main menu, so you have to alt+f4 this bitch. It would also be nice if your Pals had a setting to stop them from trying to Last Hit every enemy like they're playing Dota.
Despite all this, I'm having a pretty good time with it. Hopefully the developers don't abandon it, but with its success, they have a pretty good incentive to keep updating it.
Also, fuck Nintendo. All my homies hate Nintendo.
EDIT -- I would like to clarify: Do Not Spend Money On This Game, You Idiots. It's on game pass if you really want to play it. I do not say this because of some moral issue regarding stolen designs or (as of yet unfounded allegations of) generative AI usage. Don't pay for games in early access! You're buying broken shit that will probably never get fixed! Goddamned Mindcraft ruined everything.
And yet on the other hand, despite all these very questionable and almost certainly litigious similarities, it's a better Pokemon game than anything Nintendo has released in at least a decade. It's also a far more tolerable crafting game than most, thanks to the Pals providing some level of automation, and pretty lenient hunger/sleep/whatever mechanics. In light of this, I find it much less egregious than something like Lies of P or Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, which were simply soulless, inferior versions of the things they were shamelessly trying to emulate.
Palworld has issues for sure. Pathing is total shit, Pals don't appear to have swimming animations so they just run in water, and building is bizarre, with objects refusing to connect to others for no discernible reason. The controls are inconsistent, where sometimes Tab will exit a screen, sometimes F will exit, and sometimes you have to hit Esc. There's no "exit game" option on the main menu, so you have to alt+f4 this bitch. It would also be nice if your Pals had a setting to stop them from trying to Last Hit every enemy like they're playing Dota.
Despite all this, I'm having a pretty good time with it. Hopefully the developers don't abandon it, but with its success, they have a pretty good incentive to keep updating it.
Also, fuck Nintendo. All my homies hate Nintendo.
EDIT -- I would like to clarify: Do Not Spend Money On This Game, You Idiots. It's on game pass if you really want to play it. I do not say this because of some moral issue regarding stolen designs or (as of yet unfounded allegations of) generative AI usage. Don't pay for games in early access! You're buying broken shit that will probably never get fixed! Goddamned Mindcraft ruined everything.
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@Weatherby Bill Lamball's Combat Basketball
Ain't no rule says a Lamball can't play basketball.
Hey approaching this genuinely, how is this a better pokemon game than anything GameFreak and Nintendo has released? If someone thinks its better than pokemon whatever but the comparisons don't really make any sense to me beyond the initial appearance. The Pals feel so tacked onto the game, there aren't really battles you just throw out your Pal and then they auto attack while you hit the enemies with a stick.
@Noimjory because recent Pokemon games are awful, derivative trash, so a game that's simply mediocre, derivative trash is still better than them. At least this game runs at a resolution above 480p and a framerate above 15fps. The key is just that Pokemon has created such a low bar that anything somewhat competent looks great in comparison.
Like, yeah, this is a generic survival crafting game with some Pokemon in it. But the Real Games were already trying to chase the BOTW audience with Arceus anyway, so I don't see much difference in the ways the two choose to dilute their focus.
Like, yeah, this is a generic survival crafting game with some Pokemon in it. But the Real Games were already trying to chase the BOTW audience with Arceus anyway, so I don't see much difference in the ways the two choose to dilute their focus.
@Noimjory specifically, if I had to rate this now, I'd probably give it a 4/10... Maybe 5. But I generally don't rate early access games, and I usually don't even play them. But this cost me Zero Dollar so I figured I might as well see if I could get some laffs out of it.
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I'd buy this in light of all of the context provided in the review if it was an actual videogame instead of genAI slop
@deadlydonut I've yet to see any actual evidence of that being the case, so far it seems like people are just pointing to some previous game they made that was making fun of AI art. Everything seems to be regular old-fashioned stealing to me.
Weatherby
4 months ago