I was stoked to boot it up and like…what? It’s such a stupid game on all fronts. I get that stealing mechanics works if you’re into that kind of gameplay, but there’s no way that anyone other than pokemon obsessed people enjoy this. Even then, it’s such a poor analog for actual pokemon games. I feel like it’s “success” is all media buzz. Every actual human in my life agrees it’s terrible. Even my partner who is actually pokemon obsessed lol. But the coverage on the internet would have you believe it’s goty contender. I have never felt more convinced that we are living in a simulation lol. I can’t be alone in this, am I? Is there where I learn that I’m that far out of touch? Like, truly, if you enjoy it, good for you. We all have things we love that others don’t get. But like, someone please tell me I’m not the only one lol.
Wasn’t looking for a pokemon game at all. Really had no expectations other than for it to be good. And I just found it lacked in pretty much every front. There are survival games that do the survival thing way better and collector games that are way better at the collecting thing too. And if anything, the buzz shaped my opinion in favor of the game. Which is why I’m so disappointed and confused lol. I only lean so hard on the pokemon comparison because those are the only people I could see enjoying this. The survival is so shallow, I would guess people who truly enjoy survival games would get bored so quickly.
A lot of people like casual survival, which is the same reason Valheim was such a hit.
Plus Palworld has very good tooltips so it is easy to know what is going on. Honestly it is just easily accessible with less punishing survival mechanics and lots of things to so, which explains the mass appeal.
Yeah, your last sentence is a good point. It’s basically a survival game for people who dont really like survival games lol. Thanks for the input!
It’s not for people who don’t like survival games. It’s casual survival for people who don’t want to be ground to dust just trying out a game. Saying they don’t “really” like survival games sounds gatekeep-y.
I sure am glad it lets you set up several world attributes when you play singleplayer, and that it currently lacks PvP. It’s already punishing to have to corpse run as is, imagine it being literally impossible to even get your first pal on any server without being killed by a bunch of griefing tryhards
I was being pithy. Apologies. No intention to offend, just talking video games. Super low stakes here.
Don’t like survival game with tedious and punishing mechanics.