Palworld - Everything you have ever wanted from a Pokemon game

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Incel Death Note said:
Trannies are absolutely seething and dilating.
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This is just a shakedown. You have to give them their cut, signal their politics, and give them a cushy job on the team or else they'll try to ruin you. You can't just make something that is innocent fun. They want you to always have to go through them first and get their ok. Disgusting people.
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Can't even placate them with the Type 1 and Type 2 shit anymore, can you?
 
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Fag Albert said:
Was this something a lot of people were genuinely waiting for or did this just come out of nowhere? I don't follow vidya stuff that close but I feel like i've gone from not hearing a thing about it to seeing a bunch of my pals either talking about it or playing it.
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A little bit of both for me. I remember seeing early proof of concept footage and artwork a few years ago, but I always figured it was just an elaborate shitpost or "NINTENDO HIRE THIS MAN" project. I had no idea the concept actually came to fruition until I saw articles and videos popping up that made me go "wait, they actually made it a thing?". The game honestly came out of nowhere. The game didn't have the multimillion dollar astroturfing campaigns that modern AAA slop have. It's generating a lot of buzz now thanks to exposure, but it didn't have every game "journalism" source sucking it's dick for half a year or better.

I decided to pick it up on Steam after trying it on Gamepass (Microsoft client is dogshit) and have been enjoying it with friends. It's very much Ark with some Pokemon/Breath of the Wild flavor, but in a good way. Things like having access to chest resources anywhere in bases and the Pokemon-like creature capture system instead of the tedious ass taming process are excellent quality of life improvements.

The biggest negatives for me are the fairly basic sound effect library, some memory leak issues, and some slightly jank building behavior once you get past more than 2 stories. Most of the other issues will hopefully get fixed in patching process, like weird pathfinding and camera clipping when you're angled a certain way against a wall. I have yet to experience a crash and overall it's been a smooth experience on the technical side of things. For only being a couple days into an early access, it's held up pretty well, and with MASSIVELY surpassed sales estimates, I'm sure the experience will be polished and smoothed out sooner rather than later. 3 millions copies in 3 days is absolutely huge by any metric. Some AAA developers won't sell 3 millions copies over the course of a game's life cycle, much less in one week.

An added bonus, watching the manchild portion of the Pokemon fanbase absolutely seethe has been a treat. To be fair, it feels like a cope, and I get it. If you put Violet/Scarlet footage next to Palworld, you'd be fair for not knowing which was an indie title and which is part of a multi billion dollar franchise. I've seen far less texture pop-in and half-assed assets in Palworld.
 
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I like how everyone who's incredibly angry that an indy parody game is taking sales away from a mega corp has Palestinian/LGBTQAP+/communist flags in their Twitter bios.

I'll bet they tweet out shit like "be gay do crime" and call other people bootlickers without a hint of self awareness.
 
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derpherp2 said:
I guess im buying this game then. Pretty sure my nephew is making a dedicated server. Guess I'll help him, maybe figure out how to mod this shit too.
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The enjoyment I've gotten out of dicking around and building bases with friends is worth the $30 price tag. I'd imagine it isn't quite an interesting for people who intend to play it as a solo experience, although the customization of world settings helps offset it a bit.

The reee'ing from people is honestly baffling. If Game Freak said they were going to release an open world Pokemon game that had building and a focus on multiplayer, these same people would be absolutely creaming their jeans. They claim Palworld copies Pokemon designs, and I'd be inclined to agree if not for the fact there hasn't been a well-designed Pokemon batch since gen 5. Imagine thinking Game Freak owns IP rights for mythological creatures, sheep, and crabs.
 
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Croaking Spider said:
The enjoyment I've gotten out of dicking around and building bases with friends is worth the $30 price tag. I'd imagine it isn't quite an interesting for people who intend to play it as a solo experience, although the customization of world settings helps offset it a bit.

The reee'ing from people is honestly baffling. If GameFreak said they were going to release an open world Pokemon game that had building and a focus on multiplayer, these same people would be absolutely creaming their jeans.
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Oh I'm already playing. I'm just buying it as a formality. Also online capacity because apparently I'm going to play it when it's my turn to babysit the kids
 
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It makes me sad knowing that a cease and desist will eventually be the end of this project.

There are so many wonderfully creative and talented people who never get to shine because of corporate gatekeeping and the mandate that all entertainment must be bland, safe, grey, propagandistic, sludge for idiots.

Also Null is 100% correct that without aggression copyright/ip laws we would get better quality products because companies would actually be forced to compete instead of just forming monopolies and stagnanting.
 
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Night Crawler said:
Looking at the pictures on Steam they are lucky they don't get hit with a lawsuit from Nintendo. A lot of those "pals" are nearly blatant rip offs.
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The word is LEGALLY DISTINCT

Sniperwoof said:
It makes me sad knowing that a cease and desist will eventually be the end of this project.

There are so many wonderfully creative and talented people who never get to shine because of corporate gatekeeping and the mandate that all entertainment must be bland, safe, grey, propagandistic, sludge for idiots.

Also Null is 100% correct that without aggression copyright/ip laws we would get better quality products because companies would actually be forced to compete instead of just forming monopolies and stagnanting.
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Why is everyone in this thread retarded?

Nintendo has NO legal basis to sue Palworld for any reason whatsoever. You shouldn't listen to Nintendfags of all people for legal advice.

To my understanding there's 5 ways to prove a product infringes on another:
Likelihood of Confusion: Palworld doesn't bank on being confused as a Pokemon game.
Distinctiveness: I'd say Palworld is pretty legally distinct. A lot to cover, basically 3D action game instead of turn based RPG, fantasy setting instead of contemporary setting, etcetc.
Market Segment: Pokemon is strictly on Nintendo, Palworld is not.
Degree of Similarity: Palworld is safe here. There's games like Temtem or Disc Creatures that could get sued on this basis.
Purpose of Use: Non-applicable, Palworld doesn't use any Nintendo characters, names, etc

The way zoomers crave for a legally powerful entity to crush them into submission is... a fetish?
 
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Sniperwoof said:
It makes me sad knowing that a cease and desist will eventually be the end of this project.

There are so many wonderfully creative and talented people who never get to shine because of corporate gatekeeping and the mandate that all entertainment must be bland, safe, grey, propagandistic, sludge for idiots.

Also Null is 100% correct that without aggression copyright/ip laws we would get better quality products because companies would actually be forced to compete instead of just forming monopolies and stagnanting.
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That's the sad part. Personally I want to put it on my new rig, but it might be pulled by then. Still Pokemon with guns is something I'm gonna try to get, because it makes trannies seethe, and mocks copyright
 
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Gender: Xenomorph said:
To my understanding there's 5 ways to prove a product infringes on another:
Likelihood of Confusion: Palworld doesn't bank on being confused as a Pokemon game.
Distinctiveness: I'd say Palworld is pretty legally distinct. A lot to cover, basically 3D action game instead of turn based RPG, fantasy setting instead of contemporary setting, etcetc.
Market Segment: Pokemon is strictly on Nintendo, Palworld is not.
Degree of Similarity: Palworld is safe here. There's games like Temtem or Disc Creatures that could get sued on this basis.
Purpose of Use: Non-applicable, Palworld doesn't use any Nintendo characters, names, etc
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Those are US standards. Both Nintendo and PocketPair are Japanese companies and will likely have to deal with Japanese courts which have draconian IP laws and why I'm eternally grateful for Trump pulling out of that trade deal which would have made our companies susceptible to them. However, I'm not enough of a Japanophile to understand the full intricacies of their legal system so PocketPair might get out of this, I've seen knockoffs of mangas and none of the publishers are suing anybody there to my knowledge.
 
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I'm Really Feeling It said:
Pardon me, I'm trying to gauge how online this game is before I buy so I have a question. I'd like to play this game online with one other friend, but really don't want nobodies who no-lifed the game destroying everything that we built in raids. Is there any such "pussy" mode that restricts online play this way? Looking to play on Steam by the way.
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Yea singleplayer exists and works even without internet. A level of based unheard of in the modern day.

Moreover, the default settings is actually tuned for 4 player coop, but you can just manually tune down most of the settings and you're all set for single player mode.
 
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