Comment on Palworld isn’t slowing down, hits 19 million players across Steam and Xbox

• thorbot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Game Freak will learn absolutely nothing from this, except “People like Pokemon, lets crank out one every 6 months instead of yearly and make them even shittier!”

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• Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe. Maybe not. Pokémon isn’t successful because it’s good. It’s successful because people want to play Pokémon. If they can have the same experience of capturing and training Pokémon in a different format and name, it may compete with them. Admittedly, PalWorld is missing a lot of the higher level Pokémon things, but I don’t think that matters to the vast majority of players, and hunting for perfect traits may make up for it.

  I don’t think it’s a particularly great game, but I also don’t think Pokémon is.

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• danthehutt@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I heard cassette beasts is providing some direct competition but it wasn’t nearly as successful.

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  • Blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, that one is real competition - at least gameplay wise - and a wonderful example of taking inspiration from Pokemon while still making something their own. It really deserves more attention than it got.

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    • Sheeple@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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

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