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[Mythoclast]

I do hope Palworld, or a future competitor in the genre, end up eating some of Game Freak´s lunch as a heads up. These guys have been shipping games with terrible performance, and quite honestly, not the quality/graphics/gameplay that I would expect from a multibillion dollar franchise. More than a million people bought Palworld on Early Access on release.

While the game is clearly on beta, it really shows that you can push the genre a lot further. Graphics that actually look from a game in the 2020s, MMO-style online/guilds, REAL TIME fighting/capturing (this was already done in Arceus). The crafting/survival aspect I personally do not care that much, as I don't like those mechanics. However, on the performance/graphics/gameplay side, Game Freak can do MUCH BETTER given the amount of cash they rake in every year. There is no excuse. Hopefully Switch 2 is powerful enough to run a game with Palworld's elements so that's not an excuse.

 

[Arsic]

Or good survival games.

Either/or.

 

[ManaByte]

Palworld isn't really Pokemon though.

It's Valheim/Ark but with characters that look like Pokemon.

 

[Ribi]

The pokemon are really just cute monsters to shoot at

 

[Whitecrow]

Game Freak have been sitting on a gold mine for a long time and they did not give a single fuck.

One thing is making things for passion and not for money. But they dont do either of those. It's tragic.

 

[Same ol G]

 

[March Climber]

Your thread title was so good I was expecting it to be a youtube video or video game website article. Bravo OP.

 

[Ribi]

I think people just like guns and the ability to shoot cute things with your friends with side activities to keep them occupied and not lose interest aka the survival mechanics

 

[Mister Wolf]

Palworld is next gen Digimon.

 

[GHG]

It's more that it's on platforms other than just Nintendo systems.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Nintendo fans would never admit they want those juicy grapchix .

 

[March Climber]

Honestly though, it's not the graphics. Pokemon needs more high-profile creative spin-off titles. I've enjoyed all of the games below way better than the mainline stuff.

The Mystery Dungeon series:

Pokemon Ranger series:

Detective Pikachu:

Special recommended:

Pokemon Snap original and new versions(best non-horror photography game I think I've ever played aside from Afrika on PS3):

Spike Chunsoft and HAL Labs shouldn't be outperforming the main team in terms of creativity, but arguably, to me, they did so on a consistent basis.

 

[Codes 208]

It's more that it's on platforms other than just Nintendo systems.

Its only on two platforms though. Xbox and pc.

Thats hardly an advantage

 

[GHG]

Its only on two platforms though. Xbox and pc.

Thats hardly an advantage

If you've been paying attention to what's been popular on PC in recent years:

Pokemon + survival + co-op = the PC crowd will eat it up.

 

[Danjin44]

OP you are assuming GameFreak is not pushing graphics because of Switch's low power.....

Then you see what Monolith Soft archived with low power system compare to GameFreak.
Even with switch 2 those guys wont be pushing any graphics.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Temtem - Steam Charts

An ongoing analysis of Steam's player numbers, seeing what's been played the most.

steamcharts.com

Temtem was supposed to be an actual pokemon like game and didn’t really set the world on fire.

 

[March Climber]

Temtem - Steam Charts

An ongoing analysis of Steam's player numbers, seeing what's been played the most.

steamcharts.com

Temtem was supposed to be an actual pokemon like game and didn’t really set the world on fire.

It didn't quite sell as fast as Palworld, but to give it credit Temtem sold slightly over a million in about 1.5ish years

Temtem sells over 1 million copies

www.gonintendo.com

 

[Porticus]

The problem with Tem is that is not survival and is not trash, much more cohesive art style.

 

[Zephyranthes]

Temtem was supposed to be an actual pokemon like game and didn’t really set the world on fire.

Temtem had a lot of cool things going for it, and it didn't do terribly considering the size of the team that made it, but the lackluster mon design held it back from greatness.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Palworld isn't really Pokemon though.

It's Valheim/Ark but with characters that look like Pokemon.

Well now I’m interested.

 

[Saber]

OP you are assuming GameFreak is not pushing graphics because of Switch's low power.....

Then you see what Monolith Soft archived with low power system compare to GameFreak.
Even with switch 2 those guys wont be pushing any graphics.

Not because of choice or artistic direction.
I really think Gamefreak are a bunch of incompetent and lazy developers. They sit on a gold mine and theres no reason to move an inch foward whatsoever. Any other game they create that is not pokemon results in massive fail for them.

 

[darrylgorn]

It's more hungry since you can cook them in this game.

 

[diffusionx]

Except the new Pokemon games sold way, way, way better and faster. Palworld is just the latest Steam FOTM survivalslop game, in six months everyone will be like "hey remember Palworld? That was weird".

Your thread title was so good I was expecting it to be a youtube video or video game website article. Bravo OP.

Same, I thought it was a PC Gamer article lmao

 

[LordOcidax]

Nahh.. Palworld just shows that people love Pokemon .

 

[T4keD0wN]

Steam users love open world survival crafting early access games (that may or may not ever release) or whatever is popular on twitch that day for some reason.

 

[LordOcidax]

Not because of choice or artistic direction.
I really think Gamefreak are a bunch of incompetent and lazy developers. They sit on a gold mine and theres no reason to move an inch foward whatsoever. Any other game they create that is not pokemon results in massive fail for them.

Nope. Is just a business decision of gramefreaks, low inversion for development and high revenues in sales… They know pretty well what they are doing and if the games still selling like hotcakes, they are going to continue that practice. It’s not the devs fault at all.

 

[KXVXII9X]

While I did get some fun hours from this game, it is nowhere near complete or polished. It is extremely janky, and a lot of times things don't work like they should. Enemies and my Pals get stuck or glitch. I think some people are in the honeymoon phase. It does offer a lot of interesting mechanics I wouldn't mind seeing in Pokémon though. I just hope the final game is much better presentation wise and has some kind of narrative. It feels like a tech demo.

 

[Davevil]

Palworld's demand shows how shitty tastes many people have