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Was Palworld the Most Consequential Video Game of 2024?
It only took 40 years to make this video.
What's in the tin: Debriefing Palworld. All things Palworld, Pokemon, video game industry shenanigans, and adult disappointment with kids' franchises. More importantly, where do we go from here? How does the games industry continue on in spite of, y'know...it all? And most importantly, is Palworld even a good game?!
00:00 - You're here
02:29 - History of Pokemon
25:41 - ENTER, PALWORLD
30:30 - Palworld: A Polite Discussion
56:40 - PALWORLD, BEGIN AGAIN
01:28:12 - Conclusion
Art & Animations credited on screen where possible
Music other than recorded gameplay
"Vibing Over Venus" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensecreativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Definitely NOT ~8 seconds of a guitar solo from "Calm Like a Bomb", because apparently that's too much, even though it's being used in a funny way. When you get to the part where I turn into Ben Shapiro, just pretend a real cool riff is playing in the background c:
Sources for any claims involving data, trends, etc (what few there are):
docs.google.com/document/d/1lobxjOu_pG9_dCil4cM1PoktZ_ZUZmABGLU1wPPqWnA/edit?usp=sharing
And a disclaimer; this video is a script I started writing in Feb 2024. These are my opinions, based on both personal experience and research, and intended to convey both a fine point about Palworld and Pokemon as products and pieces of art, specifically, as well as the video games industry and art more broadly. Most importantly this video is intended to highlight and discuss how we talk about things online. With that said, please keep the comments clean, and reach out to my personally (email in sources doc) if you have questions, concerns, or to argue any of the points I made in the video.
Thanks,
-C
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Celebrity athletes, unlike women, are people too! This definitely wasn't an excuse to dust off the cobwebs in Resolve and see if I remembered how to edit a video. But whatever! I stand by every word, as occasionally cringe as a first outing manages to be. It won't come down, but go watch my other, cooler shit pls n thnx Thanks to finalfantasy.memes on instragram for permission to use their deli...

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  • @sonnytreloar
    @sonnytreloar 13 годин тому

    Great video lots of nuanced takes. One thing i will say is a lot of the issues you raise arent problems for the games playerbase, most people that are still playing (myself included) are playing because it is dumb and fun and guns make no sense and after a year and 400 hours i wouldnt have any other way. If you didn't get on with Ark then you arent going to wnjoy grindy, survival games thats fine but that doesnt make the game bad. Also the lore, is there its very difficult to piece it together collecting the journals and speaking to the npcs. There is 0 story but the lore is better than 95% of survival games

  • @mrshutin2088
    @mrshutin2088 2 дні тому

    Funny thing is palworld is still in early access and the base building is alright but does need improvement like an upside down triangle wall piece

  • @patriciahunter3286
    @patriciahunter3286 2 дні тому

    And Digimon is not Pokemon and how ever says that Pokemon is I'm going to scream so loud you can't stop me or the world

  • @chomperplant2843
    @chomperplant2843 2 дні тому

    WE all wanted Pokemon to become greater, but since Pokemon keep dishing out the same old crap. Palworld came in and made our dreams come true.

  • @shardinhand1243
    @shardinhand1243 3 дні тому

    0:20 post pal world ending up meaning post newest content update, and look at those player numbers on steam db... ^^ its a thing of beauty, you make a good game, you listen to then fans... and the money comes naturaly no need to gaslight the player base or mentaly munipulate them with adictive gambling and micro transactons... its almost like the old days again... sad that in anotehr few decades saying "the old days" is just going to mean the start of all this bullsh it... the horse armor scandle... if only gamers had had the metal to hold theyre dignaty and ground against it... maybe things across the industry now would be better... instead we chose to laugh it off... aaa game studios get the last laugh now....

    • @ceeaymoore
      @ceeaymoore 2 дні тому

      I hope to never take this long to make a video again because I started this script in February, and each update had me sweating like "shit, what if they fix X and Y that I'm saying sucks" They didn't, but I was pleasantly surprised by the content in the updates anyway. Palworld is a perfectly fun game. That it exists at its price point, no one should really be complaining about it, which was one of the main points I was trying to make ("It is embarrassing how overwrought the discussion is over THIS, of all games!", copied from the script, I dunno the timecode)

  • @D3adCl0wn
    @D3adCl0wn 5 днів тому

    What we wanted in Pokemon for so long was given trivially in Palworld. If Pocketpair keeps up with that in mind, they'll see long term dominance in the monster genre. I don't have to "what if" in Pokemon anymore as there is now a better game that has more potential. I don't care if a new Pokemon game lets me ride Charizard and fly around, as I have already been spoiled flying with Jetragon shooting missiles on bootleg PETA soldiers. The latest update alone could've been sold separately if it were Pokemon. In 5-10 years we might not even have to buy another copy as the updates will be free for the base game.

    • @ceeaymoore
      @ceeaymoore 4 дні тому

      Bingo. For all its many flaws, Palworld nails the premise of Pokemon better than any recent Pokemon game, and does it in a way that is at least updated for modern gamer sensibilities. Most importantly, they did it as a AA studio, with lots of asset-flipping and half-assing, and somehow rode a hype train that was out of their control to still land with a sizeable chunk of both Pokemon fans and Pokemon-ambivalent players. Pocketpair can only go up from here (potentially), and I genuinely want them to succeed. Mizobe comes across as a dude who just fkin loves playing video games.

  • @teateline9659
    @teateline9659 5 днів тому

    I love your video and made a bunch of great points but it does sound like you fully went into the game expecting pokemon and didn't enjoy it because it wasn't pokemon and you're not a huge fan of grinding survival games. Sorry if im wrong though

    • @ceeaymoore
      @ceeaymoore 5 днів тому

      Hey, thanks for commenting! You're right about the grinding, but I tried to make it clear that was a "me" thing. I even had someone watching me stream who played Palworld for 600 hours because they LOVE grinding, so I get how other people can dig it. I didn't know what to expect getting into Palworld, hence the deep dive. No one did. I enjoyed parts of it, and gave it lots of credit for the things it does well, and how it improves the Pokemon formula. Things like the partner skills and work suitability are awesome, and greatly expand on the Pokemon premise in ways Pokemon completely fails at. But ultimately the game is flawed in profound ways that have nothing to do with grinding, and I can only hope PocketPair works out all the kinks by the time they get it up to 1.0

  • @lunastar89
    @lunastar89 6 днів тому

    "It's an entry-level job requiring 3 years of experience." I felt that one in my soul.

  • @lunastar89
    @lunastar89 6 днів тому

    57:16 i like this person

    • @ceeaymoore
      @ceeaymoore 6 днів тому

      They're one of this planet's most delightful humans

  • @ashwingfantasy030
    @ashwingfantasy030 7 днів тому

    Can't wait for pokemon games to have voice texting they wouldn't be so generic if they did

  • @ashwingfantasy030
    @ashwingfantasy030 7 днів тому

    If they truly need help when it comes to animating the same pokemon over and over again and better styles and make them accurate to the moves they use this is when you need AI 😂 When a task is too big and too great AI comes in a handy now they don't need to use it for everything but just for the things they need quickly done everything else by hand

    • @ceeaymoore
      @ceeaymoore 5 днів тому

      Artists utilizing AI tools/plugins to improve their workflow in animating? Yeah, I wouldn't knock that.

  • @ashwingfantasy030
    @ashwingfantasy030 7 днів тому

    I don't agree on that they have a lot effort and time and people to make an open world game if they can give us all these other games

  • @ashwingfantasy030
    @ashwingfantasy030 7 днів тому

    Now hopefully since they had a lot of time on Pokémon's legend ZA we finally get the pokemon/legend of Zelda like experience Even though we'll be stuck in the city throughout the whole thing but it's supposed to be massive so will see😅

  • @Conquerorking-tj8lr
    @Conquerorking-tj8lr 8 днів тому

    Nice vid keep working on video you will blow up

  • @nekomaru856
    @nekomaru856 8 днів тому

    I was following you a while but you lost me when you said all the Pal designs were bad, I don't know what the general consensus is but I personally though that most of them were rather appealing, and the ones that were referential too Pokemon usually had some twist on their design that made them stand out more (with a few notable exceptions). Edit: Also I think you may have missed the point of the work mechanics narrative speaking, I could be looking into it too much but I figured the message of Palworld was about striking a healthy balance with nature, hence why all the main factions represent different major play styles (of Palworld and more general multiplayer players) and why the most efficient way to base is by respecting your Pals and paying attention to your base environment.

    • @ceeaymoore
      @ceeaymoore 8 днів тому

      In cutting for length, I realize that I removed some nuance. There was a section where I delved into my preference for a few of the Pal designs, even if none of them are original. Vanwyrm springs to mind. Pokemon has plenty of terrible/uninspired designs, as well. If I could re-edit this essay, I would absolutely draw that distinction better. I love your take on the work mechanics! I was focused directly on Mizobe's comparison to Rimworld. But these kinds of conversations are exactly what a very consequential release should be triggering. Comps are important in the creative industry, but they only go so far.

    • @nekomaru856
      @nekomaru856 8 днів тому

      @@ceeaymoore Honestly I didn't even know the devs compared the baseing too Rimworld, it's more like a combo of Ark and a little bit of Startdew tbh

  • @SaltyCrabOfficial
    @SaltyCrabOfficial 9 днів тому

    okay I was following you until you just blatantly started saying that basically everything is AI and that slime rancher has an actual good storytelling

    • @ceeaymoore
      @ceeaymoore 9 днів тому

      It does! I actually wrote an essay on it that I'm planning to expand upon and turn into a video, as there's lots to talk about regarding the way it plays into the strength of video games to tell a story.

    • @SaltyCrabOfficial
      @SaltyCrabOfficial 9 днів тому

      @@ceeaymoore mmmh i will keep an eye then ;D

  • @SaltyCrabOfficial
    @SaltyCrabOfficial 9 днів тому

    not even into half of the video but this is a great analysis

  • @0uttaS1TE
    @0uttaS1TE 10 днів тому

    Damn, an actually good summation of the Palworld...situation? Controversy? Idk. Either way, this is good. Still, I have to give Palworld some kind of props for trying to clone Pokemon by way of Ark, even if the end result is every "Pokemon is so dark, innit?" joke streamed through ChatGPT. Also, I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed how discordant the game's style was. Now, granted, that seems to be a running theme in a post Fortnite world, but Palworld felt particularly egregious, like I was looking at an Unreal asset flip.

  • @KyleMcGinnity-p8k
    @KyleMcGinnity-p8k 13 днів тому

    i think the reason why they did Pokémon with guns was because the plan was: lets do Pokémon with guns.

  • @nopayoff3552
    @nopayoff3552 15 днів тому

    "Track the monster"? Sir, the monster tracked you

    • @ceeaymoore
      @ceeaymoore 14 днів тому

      It's the final twist of MH; finding out YOU were the monster all along

  • @denslowjefferyw
    @denslowjefferyw 15 днів тому

    Thanks to my kid finding the show I am only just now in my 40s getting into the pokemon universe. Even got a copy of yellow

  • @Ilovebrokenmoon
    @Ilovebrokenmoon 15 днів тому

    I hate when it does that it would allways do that when going to fight furious rajang

    • @ceeaymoore
      @ceeaymoore 15 днів тому

      If I got dropped right in front of a furious rajang, I think I would just poop

  • @ceeaymoore
    @ceeaymoore 6 місяців тому

    Stream starts at 0:41, be prepared for a jump scare! Found this stream after the fact? I hope you enjoy! More than that, know that I stream every Monday at 8pm CST, and occasionally whenever else I please!

  • @ceeaymoore
    @ceeaymoore 6 місяців тому

    Skip to 10:15 to bypass not one but TWO embarrassing camera mess-ups! Yes, we're learning as we go here. For instance this was the fifth time I've streamed Palworld, and the third time I actually hit "Go Live" in OBS to actually show you! Either way, I promise the stream got real good after that. We had some excellent commentary on things Palworld does right, and honestly, I was a lot nicer to the game this go around. Lemme know what you like and hate about Palworld, and those who've never played, gimme your questions!

  • @tmwitbrod
    @tmwitbrod 7 місяців тому

    Making me wait over 3 minutes for that laugh is my only issue.

  • @ceeaymoore
    @ceeaymoore 7 місяців тому

    First ever video! Tell me what sucks about it!