Asmongold TV's video on PalWorld's recent complaints (summary inside)
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Yeah pal world looks like a hype-bubble meme game like Choo Choo Charlie, with just slightly more gameplay meat on its bones. They may only be 3 Devs, but it seems pretty likely they're getting backed up by plenty of marketing instead, especially the streamer agencies, plus the close ties with Epic Games.
Also there are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than 2 Pokémon style knock-offs out there and plenty more in development. My personal favourite remains Monster Sanctuary for making it full team Vs team instead of a series of mindless 1v1s.
Sorry, didn't mean to overstate, nothing concrete to link to direct marketing but the hype and exposure and just the formulaic coverage it has been getting by steamers, and how obviously they are glossing over and avoiding complaining about game breaking bugs like boss encounters falling through the map floor, just leaves me judging it more likely than not that this is being streamed as a business transaction than for fun.
You're not watching the right streamers, then.
Seeing all the jank and server issues they run into is half the fun.
It's more because Nintendo and I think it's Game Freak have been slacking at times on the Pokemon IP
If you compare it to when the first games were coming out, you can tell they had EXTREMELY high talent behind them in making the perfect sequels of Silver and Gold.
But since then it's been hit and miss with some stand outs and then some just seeming they released them to maintain control of IP.
Some competition is more than welcome even if it's artificial and you can get away with a lot on 'pokemon adjacent' games, just look up the amount of R34 games based on it lol!
Even Silver and Gold wouldn't have worked without Iwata fixing Game Freak's mountain of spaghetti code, and that's before he managed to fit Kanto into the cart.
Pretty much, the jump from Yellow to Gold and Silver was groundbreaking given that we got from the day and night cycle, breeding, time travel trading, actual colour, list goes on.
Fuck nintendont. It's also not plagiarism to make capture monster games, there are plenty of em. I dont like this game and will not buy it because 1. It looks lame as fuck and 2. I was never interested in Pokemon to begin with. With that in mind, I still have no qualms with this games presence as it is emulating another IP without copying that IPs exact materials (there is no pikachu for example). Nintendont doesn't own duel monsters as an idea. If you fail to fill a niche, someone else will. I've been enjoying watching the nintendo fanboys tryign to claim this is copyright infringement and defend fucking nintendonts "honour."
"Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed."
https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html
I misread that and showed my age by thinking: "did he say Nintendogs?"
I'm certainly not going to argue that base building and creature collecting is going to appeal to everyone, but I agree that the fact that TPC is going to have to address a threat will help the genera improve.
I think we're all fans of one or two ultra-niche generas that get little love, and get dominated by a single corporation that monopolizes whatever it can. I don't think that 2024 is going to be one of the best times to be an indie creator, but it's certainly going to be a good one.
And hell yeah, good on BattleBit.