Palworld, an ARK-like game described as Pokemon with guns, has seen concurrent player numbers swell into record-breaking territory this week. But according to execs behind the game the team is not celebrating, choosing rather to spend the time preparing for an attack from their most feared enemy: Hbomberguy.
At press time Pocket Pair says that should Nintendo’s legal team also get involved they have lawyers equal to Nintendo’s but with guns.
Lol
I am so tired of hearing about this game.
Everyone keeps asking me if I want to play or am going to play. Its like dood the game is like Rust. I fucking hate Rust.
Something just puts me off about it, I usually love indie monster collecting games, but I just get off vibes from this one.
I think maybe I played too much Ark to enjoy the survival angle, or the humour reminds me too much of the part of the 90s I’d like to forget
I’m just not into the type of content that game provides I think. I have been vibing and playing something called INFRA. You play a civil engineer who goes around taking pictures of safety violations while fixing things like water treatment plants along the way. Its done in the source engine so feels super comfy to play for me as its mostly urban exploration based.
That sounds nice. I do love me the source engine
*a blur zippps past you at three hundred miles an hour. After a moment you realize it was frank bunnyhopping backwards with sub millisecond precision to exloit an infinite movespeed bug*
the humour reminds me too much of the part of the 90s I’d like to forget
What is this referencing?
The edge
I don’t understand why this is a negative thing, especially considering that hexbear is fundamentally about taking an edgy approach to class issues. And presumably we don’t have a problem with that
Being edgy is making a game about fun little creatures you can actually enslave and make shoot one another. When we say Warren Buffett is a ghoul who should be buried in a pit, that’s not edgy because he probably deserves worse.
edge isn’t funny. we like laughing at things. grimdark grim grim dark dark is just exhausting.
We’re not Marxists because Marx was edgy, we are Marxists because he was correct.
its ancap pokemon.
I feel obligated to plat because my friends gave me a copy. I have other things to do
1 hour into the five hour Palworld video, HBomberguy suddenly appears in a courtroom where he is explaining evidence of various financial crimes to a jury.
Which is weird because his discussion started with him talking about his favorite candy bar.
I feel like a hbomberguy video would be kind of redundant when the Palworld developers are pointing directly at the media conglomerate across the room and announcing at the top of their lungs “WE’RE COPYING THIS. WE ARE DIRECTLY RIPPING OFF POKEMON BUT EDGY. WE ARE MAKING POKEMON WITH GUNS. WISHLIST ON STEAM TODAY”.
Edit: That being said, if Palworld really did rip geometry from pokemon 3D models (and things are looking pretty bad on that front), they have a lot more to worry about than hbomberguy.
On one hand I dont like plagiarism, on the other hand nintendo hasnt done anything good with pokemon in the last 10 years, something like this was spected
Coromon and Cassette Beasts look great.
Everything I hear about this game doesn’t sound real
It’s not as weird or funny as it sounds. The devs had another survival crafting game that had been stalled for a few years, so they took that and slapped some pokemons in it and released it as a new game in early access. It’s just edgy old millenials being edgy.
Everything about the game seems generated by AI. “Design a video game that’s open world survival crafting”
It’s like ark, but with pokemon instead of dinosaurs. Not complicated
this is a satire website
Isn’t Ark that game that never left early access, had permanently terrible performance, and released paid dlc while still in EA? Just don’t buy EA games
Gotta say, paltopialand plays on max settings at 142FPS (capped) and hasn’t dropped once. Defjjtley better than Ark on that front.
Ok maybe I missed the entire joke here but what? This isn’t funny. Are they missing the point of his plagiarism video entirely for a joke article or what? If anything he would more likely make a Coffeezilla style video after Nintendo if they go after this stupid game.
I have heard that Hard-Drive fired all their good writers like last year.
It been downhill since Phil Jamesson stopped doing “gamer president”
I thought they announced they’re shifting to a business model based on patreon, unless that was more satire that i misinterpreted while scrolling instagram, lol.
it’s sad but spoofy headlines and satire articles about gaming and music don’t seem like a great way to make money and keep employees paid in current year, even if they’re usually funnier than they should be
The worst thing about Palworld is that the monster designs are solid but the game itself seems to be just commentary on Pokemon ☠️
the monster designs are solid
I agonized so much over whether or not people were gonna think I was ripping off Pokemon too hard when I made Kor since I used some of the sprites and tiles as reference points; if I’d known the bar was this low then I would’ve relaxed so much during the dev process.
I like them but I am usually very critical of clones. I think your effort wasnt wasted
But the designs are just reskinned pokemon for the most part. The sheep pal is just wooloo, and the elk is xerneas with a paintover.
Yeah also we have gyarados at home
I think where im at is there isnt a pokemon that isnt already made, pokemon itself already mostly has dud pokemon designs but if you can make something that parallels enough its acceptable to me
But it actually is possible to make a monster-collecting game with original designs though. Just look at monster rancher, none of the monsters from that game look like pokemon. It had a very distinct style.
I think pokemon has just monopolized this genre for far too long, which makes it harder for people making this sort of game to imagine something different.
A monster game with designs like the angels in NGE would be really cool. Get weird with the narrative.
Cassette Beasts has this
i missed the plagiarism joke. i thought it was about the devs crypto/NFT bullshit
i’ve played a fair bit of the game. it’s fun and worth pirating to try. no way in hell is it worth 30$.
also the edgy stuff isn’t really a big part of the game. just marketing. so far i’ve only found 2 pals that shoot guns out of the 50 or so i’ve discovered
I think I’ll just continue pirating pokemon
What for?
He already did his plagiarism video.
