Oh god

We are getting hit by “What Pikachu is that” from the younger generation now, just like we did back then by our parents ʘ‿ʘ

You’re not realising the implications of refusing to give Palworld it’s own identity, are you?

The fact that you call em pokémon instead of Pals tells a lot.

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

Enshittification marches on

It’s been quite a long time but iirc there was originally a deal going on between them that got last second tossed out for Fortnite instead. Sadly I don’t fully remember

Kind of how Fortnite was a rehash of stolen ideas (originally) of PUBG

The reason people originally hated Fortnite was because not only did they blatantly plagiarise PUBG, Sony also intentionally screwed over PUBG to make Fortnite more popular

Exactly. Cassette Beasts and various other indie games have made bigger rounds before.

The only reason Palworld got popular was because of clickbait youtubers

Cassette Beasts > Palworld and day for me. Try it it’s great

They’re being shady. Remember the lead of Pocketpair also owns a cryptocurrency exchange (Aka, a massive damn scam)

He’s going to run away with the money

Honestly, all Palworld has to do is change a few models and they’d be out of the hot water. I do have to say though the few models that are noteworthy are HIGHLY problematic to a point of “X pokemon but color swapped”

Seriously Palworld reminds me of so many games that are over hyped and then forgotten a month or two later.

It doesn’t help that the company behind it, Pocketpair, has a treck record of not finishing their games

Seriously “#1 sold game on steam in 2024” ah yes, because that’s a good metric when it’s been only one month and the biggest titles have a tendency to drop in December

The graphics argument is so weak anyway as Palworld is basically a more watered down ark survival with worse graphics and a pokemon esque design philosophy.

Check out mystic quest legend. It’s old but it’s intensely stereotypical

I’d like to clear up some myths. Not sure why stuff keeps getting perpetuated

I wanted to upload the actual files but we have to settle for Xitter because Lemmy doesn’t allow mp4

https://twitter.com/covingtown/status/1749462735291859423/video/1

I was going to upload the 3D models but it wouldn’t let me upload MP4 files. Here’s the tweet where you can view the evidence

https://twitter.com/covingtown/status/1749462735291859423/video/1

Oh we wanna use graphics as an argument? Guess I should play Ark survival instead

Considering the studios treck record, I won’t get my hopes up. I’ll believe when I see

Why would they downgrade in terms of success?

So is Palworld if you played it. The island kinda lacks cohesion

Yes

Just give me a fucking normal monitor without spyware

How NOT to help people with colour blindness. I’m partially convinced that this must have been the creators personal artsy filter they wanted an excuse to implement

Outer space excludes it tho. That’s like calling “Playing indoors” outdoors

Hope it comes with story improvements. The best remakes manage to acknowledge future continuity that wasn’t planned yet

Seriously seeing this come from China is

Mildly confusing, very unexpected but very much a cool move.

Exactly what I was going to say. The deep rock galactic association is not only clickbaity, it’s media deaf to the highest degree

There’s also a recent trend of “forever games”, where it’s clear that the goal is to keep you playing it perpetually. It has both upsides and downsides. These games tend to change intensely over the years. Minecraft is such an example.