Palworld

Is that actually the number sold or just that have played the game? Surely Gamepass has skewed the figures a bit.

I'll be checking it out anyway, looks like it could either be fantastic or utterly shit and I'm curious to find out which.

It cribs so transparently from Pokémon (especially now with Legends Arceus) that I'm surprised there hasn't been legal drama tbh... Nintendo is (in)famously protective of their stuff, what happened here?

Anyway, the premise doesn't hold much interest for me, so nope. Good for them on the big launch though I guess, although I can't help but think that a decently large part of it is because of a combination of Pokémon being Nintendo-exclusive and Gamefreak fumbling the recent games...

Whatever floats your boat...

Many issues with getting into the game?

Y’know someone should bring back in Poke-clone genre?

Jade Cocoon

Mash those beasties to monstrous hybrids and get them battling.

Its surprising that there haven’t been more Pokemon style games for the non-Nintendo systems really considering its been a money printing machine for the last 25 years and has remained exclusive the whole time.

They've got the stick inversions the wrong way round on xbox, so you have to turn on invert the x-axis in order to invert the y-axis. Just in case any fellow legacy sinistrists are confused

Nice game though.

So that's where I've been going wrong in real life..

Well this is all very interesting...





www.videogameschronicle.com/news/palworld-embroiled-in-ai-and-pokemon-plagiarism-controversy/

Hardly the only comparisons drawn of course, and stuff like the developers showing zero concept art (mentioned in a tweet reply IIRC, it's pretty far down), or things mentioned in the article like the company's existing history with AI or many if not all of the creatures supposedly being drawn by only one person that was "rejected by 100 companies" (on its own a feel-good story, but combined with everything else...) are at least troubling... (tweet is a whole thread btw, it's not showing here)

Here's my question: if it's all so blatant (and it does look pretty blatant, and they should be blasted to oblivion if true, AI and plagiarism are a slippery slope), why hasn't there already been legal drama (like I said above)? And will there be, now that it's such a roaring success? Whoever's suing, if any, have only made it harder on themselves letting it become established, just look at some of the replies on those tweets and article...

Law suits incoming. This won't last five minutes....probably just enough though for everyone to have made a quick buck from it.

Worst that will happen is that they will change the likeness on anything that draws a lawsuit.

So about 60% of the character models (I haven't looked at all that much, maybe I'm being generous for all I know) and a good bit of the world too, with the physics, collision etc work that would imply, then make sure the changes don't also draw lawsuits... Not as simple as it may seem, especially the second part if they actually did mostly AI prompt the current models...

I wonder what an AI would make of the situation

My daughter is a massive Pokémon fan and her reaction to the trailer was ‘this is basically the Reddit wishlist every time they announce a new game’.

Regardless of ethics, you can’t help but feel nintendo have brought this on themselves by releasing the same game for 30 years.

It's actually pretty entertaining on PC so far. Although performance on Xbox feels awful in comparison.
It obviously cribs from several games (aside from the obvious Pokémon) without doing anything new, but it's clicking with my lizard brain.

The Xbox graphics setting screen recommending that I play in windowed mode at a lower resolution made me chuckle.

Both of my kids were very young when Pokémon first reached the UK. Our eldest was watching the cartoon and the wife and I picked up Red and Blue for our Gameboy Colours out of curiosity, got hooked, and have played pretty much every mainline title since. The kids both started playing once they were old enough, and we'd help them get their Gym Badges and trade them all the good stuff that they wouldn't have the patience to make the effort to get. I did fall out of love with the series somewhere around X/Y & Sun/Moon - just started to feel tired of the same old gameplay loop - but still played them through as each release had become a family event by then.

I have to say, despite its faults, I've absolutely loved Scarlet/Violet and consider it the best game in the series, hands-down. My kids are in their twenties now (25 & 28) and are still playing. We do raids together online and they ask me to come up with strats for 7 star raids (ie look up good builds on Google lol). Pokémon has been a constant that still brings the whole family together after all these years and I absolutely adore it for that. I hope to be coaching my grandkids some day, hehe.

Anyway, this has absolutely nothing to do with Palworld and I haven't played it yet, I just wanted to tell my wholesome Pokémon story