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Palworld Sells Over 1 Million Copies in Just 8 Hours as Steam Servers Struggle to Cope With Launch - IGN (www.ign.com)

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Palworld has hit a big sales milestone just hours after release in what is already looking like one of the biggest video game launches of 2024.

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[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This isn't pokemon...

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I mean, it isn't but also it is, in the same way Lies of P isn't Bloodborne.

[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The creature designs are similar to Pokémon but that's where it begins and ends. Palworld is a survival sandbox with creature collecting, it doesn't even have turn-based battles. It's far more similar to Ark or Rust than Pokémon.

If anyone wanted a game that "is but isn't Pokémon" they should look into TemTem or Cassette Beasts.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Different degrees of shaking up the formula. This is Pokemon-but-survival, and I've got another game in my backlog already that's Pokemon-but-metroidvania.

[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but I would say that already makes it more markedly different, even compared to, say, Monster Hunter Stories. Sure, there's cutesy creatures which gives it some similar aesthetics but the gameplay experience is not even remotely similar.

Compared to Lies of P which looks and plays like Bloodborne, it's not really that close.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Heh, maybe I'm splitting hairs, but if you want a game "like Pokemon", they've been making exactly that game for 30 years, but there's only a handful of games in the ballpark of Bloodborne. If you want the fantasy of roaming a world, catching creatures, and battling with them, there are lots of ways to skin that cat that GameFreak and Nintendo haven't been doing that aren't at odds with preserving those core pieces. Likewise, I don't enjoy Monster Hunter, but some of its core pieces are present in the likes of Horizon and Mercenary Kings, and I love those games for taking the high level parts of Monster Hunter that do work for me.

[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

I get it, but part of my point is that there are games that are very much like Pokémon for someone who wants 90% of that with a little bit of a different twist. Meanwhile I'm seeing some people looking into Palworld and going "Wait is this Minecraft? I wanted Pokémon with guns."

[–] TommySalami@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I haven't purchased (yet) but that's exactly why it caught my attention and it seems to be the way they wanted to be seen.