Anime Palworld - basically pro slavery Pokemon game - now available on Early Access

[cpmartins]

The complete lack of coherent art-direction kills it for me. It looks like 4 or 5 games collated together at random, completely jarring.
As for slavery being good or bad, just observe the US today and you'll have your answer.

 

[Halfling Rodeo]

AI will be used for everything

The AI has been trained by the people it is replacing so you are getting the same thing but cheaper for the publisher.

With how bad modern writing is, there's some hope in AI ripping off scripts from the 80s and 90s and giving us watchable movies if they don't include too many nogs

 

[Reinhardt]

Also, I said write scripts for books and movies

would be serious incline over what we getting now.

 

[Viata]

Also, I said write scripts for books and movies

would be serious incline over what we getting now.

Perhaps. Nothing will change for me, too many good old books and movies to watch, anyway. By the time I finish them, either AI took control of everything or society collapsed kek

 

[Cologno]

AI will be used for everything

The AI has been trained by the people it is replacing so you are getting the same thing but cheaper for the publisher.

With how bad modern writing is, there's some hope in AI ripping off scripts from the 80s and 90s and giving us watchable movies if they don't include too many nogs

Man, I honestly hope it doesn't go that direction, but given the creative stagnation and rot, sure why not. Aside from text, AI is getting scary good with images. It's not there yet with the "real" but flat 2d stuff and anime I think is working on borrowed time.

 

[ind33d]

Game is obviously being astroturfed like BG3 and the anti-Starfield shills

 

[Elttharion]

This game is the perfect shitstorm actually. The CEO of the company likes AI and NFTs, its early acces and open world survival craft, uses a ton of generic assets, copies Pokemon and other games and its XBOX+PC exclusive. Its also insanely popular right now. It managed to piss off the Snoys, the Nintendrones, Pokemon cultists, people who hate EA, artists/artfags and game devs, anti AI people, etc.

The ammount of seething is pretty hilarious.

 

[Viata]

Despite all the shit, the game seems to work better than the last Pokemon games kek

 

[Baron Dupek]

Palworld is in early access and it's somehow more polished and complete than all the previous 3D Pokemon games.

 

[Halfling Rodeo]

I'm inclined to disagree. Pokemon is extremely polished in some areas like the camping shit no one uses. While Pal world is still very rough around the edges. Like no player reaction to taking damage is a major issue that needs fixing with the first patch. It's rough as fuck but it's fun and that compensates for it while pokemon doesn't.

I hope they improve the dungeons. They're just empty dead ends with 1 path leading to a giant and 2 chests. Giants seem pretty bad for base usage too. I've had them repeatedly get stuck when other pals can get around fine. Path finding in general has issues (bosses can get stuck on things trying to run at you) and I've had to rescue them from lakes in the past. You really need a lot of space once you get to the metal stage.

 

[Late Bloomer]

The highest concurrent player count for a paid game in Steam's history now belongs to Palworld...

https://twitter.com/Palworld_EN/status/1749047519265632440

 

[Halfling Rodeo]

The highest concurrent player count for a paid game in Steam's history now belongs to Palworld...

https://twitter.com/Palworld_EN/status/1749047519265632440

I am 99% sure its because they tapped into the Chinese market really hard.

 

[The Decline]

The eye vomiting art design is enough to keep me from ever trying it.

 

[Artyoan]

I'm inclined to disagree. Pokemon is extremely polished in some areas like the camping shit no one uses. While Pal world is still very rough around the edges. Like no player reaction to taking damage is a major issue that needs fixing with the first patch. It's rough as fuck but it's fun and that compensates for it while pokemon doesn't.

I hope they improve the dungeons. They're just empty dead ends with 1 path leading to a giant and 2 chests. Giants seem pretty bad for base usage too. I've had them repeatedly get stuck when other pals can get around fine. Path finding in general has issues (bosses can get stuck on things trying to run at you) and I've had to rescue them from lakes in the past. You really need a lot of space once you get to the metal stage.

Yeah, I'm now choosing to make a second base as the pathing issues are adding up in the small area I chose to make my first base. The massive Pals are getting stuck on just about everything. There are other issues where setting a torch on a wall might cause a Pal to not be able to reach it to light, so it just looks as if it is working in the menu but isn't doing anything. The building pieces aren't snapping into place for shit.

Still having a lot of fun but I've got a few dozen gripes. I hear they plan on tackling the poor building mechanics first.

 

[Caim]

The highest concurrent player count for a paid game in Steam's history now belongs to Palworld...

https://twitter.com/Palworld_EN/status/1749047519265632440

I am 99% sure its because they tapped into the Chinese market really hard.

Player count peaked around the time it's evening in places like China, Korea and Japan, so it's a fair guess.

 

[Halfling Rodeo]

I'm inclined to disagree. Pokemon is extremely polished in some areas like the camping shit no one uses. While Pal world is still very rough around the edges. Like no player reaction to taking damage is a major issue that needs fixing with the first patch. It's rough as fuck but it's fun and that compensates for it while pokemon doesn't.

I hope they improve the dungeons. They're just empty dead ends with 1 path leading to a giant and 2 chests. Giants seem pretty bad for base usage too. I've had them repeatedly get stuck when other pals can get around fine. Path finding in general has issues (bosses can get stuck on things trying to run at you) and I've had to rescue them from lakes in the past. You really need a lot of space once you get to the metal stage.

Yeah, I'm now choosing to make a second base as the pathing issues are adding up in the small area I chose to make my first base. The massive Pals are getting stuck on just about everything. There are other issues where setting a torch on a wall might cause a Pal to not be able to reach it to light, so it just looks as if it is working in the menu but isn't doing anything. The building pieces aren't snapping into place for shit.

Still having a lot of fun but I've got a few dozen gripes. I hear they plan on tackling the poor building mechanics first.

Hopefully early access means something and they fix it.

I've given up on using my big fuckers. I had a big sheep and he couldn't get to the ranch when the small one could. Anything large or "king" size is for the party only.

Mounts are so weird. The purple deer is insanely good while the boar was almost as slow as the player. Feels pretty good to ride around and attack with those. I keep getting a glitch in town where my Vulpix will jump into my arms and force me to shoot all it's ammo to get rid of it. But it will never not be funny when my grass dude jumps on my head and unloads an entire uzi into something. I've been trying to keep my damage high but Pals are just so much more effective at damage dealing.

 

[orcinator]

AI will be used for everything

The AI has been trained by the people it is replacing so you are getting the same thing but cheaper for the publisher.

I put (20 vague synonyms of) big boob into ai art machine and I get big boob,
Sometimes I don't ask for big boob or even ask not to have big boob and I get big boob
I look at modern game art and get no big boob

 

[ind33d]

The highest concurrent player count for a paid game in Steam's history now belongs to Palworld...

https://twitter.com/Palworld_EN/status/1749047519265632440

I am 99% sure its because they tapped into the Chinese market really hard.

Player count peaked around the time it's evening in places like China, Korea and Japan, so it's a fair guess.

Can't wait for next week when "Eating Bugs and Owning Nothing Simulator 2024" organically hits #1 on the Steam Charts

 

[Maxie]

another game catering to the ssethfag crowd

 

[Trithne]

This game looks like the equivalent of jingling keys in front of your baby.

As far as I can tell its pure busywork, punch rocks and trees, craft things, defend yourself from random attacks, but with the added advantage of you can delegate all of that to a motley assortment of animals you accumulate, so basically the end goal of the game is to not play the game.

I'm not surprised in the slightest that it took off so much, because that's exactly what the majority of gamers want - A game that plays itself. Bonus points for basically being "A mashup of all the games you like" so you can easily convince yourself it's the best thing since tits. Pure consume product and get ready for next product material.

Also, the sheer laziness in making this - It's practically a Fortnite mod - All the anims and models are stock Unreal Engine shit, other than the "Pals".

 

[Baron Dupek]

Suiiccde Squad make "HUD bloat" 4chan meme real, now it's time for Palwould to make this meme real

 

[Jaedar]

The highest concurrent player count for a paid game in Steam's history now belongs to Palworld...

https://twitter.com/Palworld_EN/status/1749047519265632440

Readers added context they thought people might want to know

The post claims that Palworld has hit the all-time highest concurrent player count for a paid game on Steam.This is untrue - PUBG set this record as a paid game in January 2018 with 3.2M concurrent players, prior to becoming free to play in January 2022.

steamdb.info/charts/?sort=p…https://t.co/6EoB1cFeDo

steamdb.info/app/578080/cha…https://t.co/lkAKhO1dIV

pubg.com/en-eu/news/2555

(Since I figure many people are too lazy/wise to click twitter links).

 

[Trithne]

Just stumbled across this amusement somewhere: https://nitter.net/Repiteo/status/1749081646685364625

They swapped from Unity to UE4 mid-dev because they hired a senior dev who only knew UE4, so the rest of the team had to upskill to match.

This whole thing is a clown fiesta.

Edit: Fuck It, We Ball energy:

 

[Viata]

Well, no one really cares what happened during the development of a game. Given that they made a fuckton of money already, it was worth all that hell.

 

[Halfling Rodeo]

Well, no one really cares what happened during the development of a game. Given that they made a fuckton of money already, it was worth all that hell.

They made a fun game and for some reason it's making people really angry. How fucking petty do you have to be to be upset Palworld exists?