One of my facorite features of Palworld that i wish other survival games would adopt, is that if you place resources in a container within the border of your base you can access those resources from any crafting table in the base.
That's because palworld did what Pokemon wouldn't, and changed the formula. Pokemon has been the same game for 3 decades now just with different pokemon per game. They have done nothing to be different
This is a waaaaay better experience than most of the shovelware survival crafting games on Steam. As long as it isn't permanently in early access, and doesn't get abandoned, I'll be happy with it
Considering PocketPair just made $80 Million in profit over the weekend and made their 20-30 employees multi-millionaires, I don't think it's likely they're going to abandon the game.
Apperently they had a 10k dollar budget for this game so who knows, maybe its just a quick cashgrab with little or slow updates in the future. Probably still worth 26E just to enjoy it for the time being tho@@Joreel
@@nedbear1970definitely not a 10k budget. Game was announced three years ago and has 40 Japanese employees working on it. It cost them millions. Probably 5-10 million. Instead of 100-200 like bigger games
@@GravitasZeroI found a glitch where I was running on the ocean floor, NGL it was pretty surreal, there's grass down there, felt like I was in the Elysian feilds
The devs are hiring. Immediately after Palworld's release, I saw in their news that they're looking to bring on new members into their company. That speaks loads on them wanting to make sure this game gets the development it deserves!
Started with a $10k Budget, Now they have over $70m+ to go all in on this IP and expand into a world wide success like Pokemon managed to do over the years. @@SALT_KING
The guy who did the assets/effects is just a highschool kid that had a part-time job on the convenience store the devs liked to go, so it makes sense they wanted to hire some more people now.
@@rockstepguy3524 Yeah and the devs themselfs didn't really know how to make games either haha just the senior dev who pointed them in the direction of Unreal Engine. That interview was hilarious
Hopefully they don’t pull a Valheim and but this game on the back burner , delivering mediocre/okay-ish update after mediocre/okay-ish update that took way too long for what they were
I got it yesterday, hooked after 30 minutes. It's the Pokemon game I always wanted but Nintendo was too dumb/lazy/comfortable to make and instead rehashed the same formula for 20 years with Arceus being the only slight exception
If Pokemon addressed the void in the gaming market then Palworld wouldn't exist because wants and needs from within the market would have ALREADY been properly met. But Pokemon did not address the void in the market, so Palworld addressed it for them. I hope Palworld continues to be an example of what happens when you neglect the market and ALLOW competitors to do a better job than you. Palworld deserves every bit of success that it's getting.
@@haydenhamilton3109 to be fair like there last game made 25m sale which is very very high and was at the top so many still buying them no matter how lazy they are
Imagine palworld makes an anime, an interesting world with some story. And keep building on it. Do it like Pokémon did but indeed grow with the market and innovate and listen to their fans. Pokémon has become too arrogant.
I declare that Palworld is the most excellent game. It surpasses CS2, DOTA2, PUBG, Baldur's Gate 3, elden ring, GTA5, APEX, Fortnite, COD, monster hunter, 2077, p5r. No other games can compare with Palworld. Palworld has created a new way of making games. The game industry will definitely thank Palworld in the future. My god, it's amazing that I can play such an interesting game in my life.
30hrs in so far. I like the small details they added like before a fire pal goes to sleep, it will go around my base and light all the torches for the night. Some of it is comical like seeing a tiny fluffy pal defend a base with an assault rifle. All around crazy and fun game.
Amother really small detail is that the higher you go the colder it get , some dude in my server decide to build a 130 floors tower and he confirm this 😂
Indeed! I hope they take notice and actually make something like this. I remember that old pc game this guy made for Pokémon that was like this but he got sued to oblivion to stop.
It really proves how lazy and poor Game Freak really are. Just riding that same wave... lame. Hopefully now it gives them the actual kick up the arse to realise, they need to try and that will bring fans back but who knows now.. The last few games were a little.. meh. This game is really enjoyable and I am hoping they bring a bunch of things that prolong the life of the game.
@@CymbalMonkey Not trying to suck GameFreak dicks but I recall them stating on a interview that usually what they want is a 4 year cycle to make a pokemon game but since its being rushed to every fucking year the quality and everything else pretty much goes out the window, which is fucking sad. Loving Palworld though playing with my kids and I know it has a lot of problems too but if they could work on those, add more pals, fix bugs etc it might be a contender for GOTY ngl.
@@CymbalMonkey I think this game will finally knock some sense into them, they have been untouchable in their Pokemon Catch and Battle games for so long, now this game has finally did it.
Built a base near the giant elephant boss … he stumbled in at level 18, killed most of my pals, but I ended up catching him 17 levels early 😭 it’s pretty solid for an early access.
One thing I really appreciate in this compared to pokemon is that every single pal actually has full and mostly unique animations for all of their attacks which for me adds so much to the game
Or they can just make a main line game in the same vain as Legends was. Sure ive heard that S/V was pretty much that, but i also heard that some of better parts of Legends are missing.
@@RoomofMimathey absolutely have no stake in a lawsuit. First off, it’s on Gamepass and you’ll never out money Xbox. Second, it has very little of anything to do with the IP of pokemon. Third, Gamefreak doesn’t own the concept of “catching cute monsters in spheres”. They can sue all they want but it won’t go anywhere.
I'm not usually a fan of survial-esque games, but this game is addictive. It hits all the right things in my brain, progression, open world, heavy on crafting, but perhaps the biggest thing for me is the Pals!! So adorable, and the fact that they can help you in your base instead of just being there is top-tier.
I've never been into a survival game, but this one has somehow gotten my attention. It's fun to have little creatures around who can help me survive instead of having to rely on surviving long enough to craft a gun
When Jake said he isn't info Survival games normally but this one got him hooked, I felt that something about it doesn't feel as boring as other survival ark types especially with friends
This game feels like every early access game on steam combined into one and somehow it’s a more finished game than anything Pokémon has produced since black/white 2. Seriously. It’s actually a lot of fun
That’s what I keep saying, bro this is Alpha build! Like they admitted they’re giving this next year to continue strong development. Let’s just hope this insane payday doesn’t make them cash out early.
@@DaDude2011 Although, with it being an alpha, I am VERY tempted to stop playing and return at a later date. I don't want to re-encounter every Pal. It might be better to leave some for later.
A game that is five other games stitched together and character design that's just bad tumblr fan art is "a breath of fresh air"? I don't see it. They couldn't even have any creativity for the name of the creatures or world. He even said it's lifeless and devoid of character.
Palworld scratches the itch that OG Pokemon gamers have been wanting for so long. There's so much potential here, and the fact that it's not limited to dated hardware like the Switch is huge too.
@@Shumaverse3080 its common sense tbh, devs are not perfect i'd prefer this game to be lowkey bec. if its still blowing up Hackers will infest the game and ruin it.
@@LanzkiTgaming Im just tired of hearing about it, the entire thing of Poke fans vs Palworld fans has put me off this game. I will be a lot happier when it fades ingo obscurity
@@Shumaverse3080your obviously a pokemon fan. Your videos tell us that . But just enjoy the game. So what it rip off pokemon didn't all games a knockoffs other Gamez lol. Just nobody dared to try a pokemon crown.
I don't get it. I played it for like 7-8 hours last night. The game feels very clumsy and half assed. It's sluggish to control. The melee combat is god awful. The shooting is OK at best. The bow feels pretty good, automating your base by enslaving little cutesy creatures is kinda fun. But mostly it's just a bog standard survival crafting game. Go punch some trees for some wood. Go punch some rocks for some stone. It's not offensively bad, but i genuinely do not get the appeal.
@@johnwrath3612 at like 20ish hours almost all of that is automated and most of the gameplay includes hunting new pals which in my opinion is the best part
The problem with Pokemon is it hasn't updated in 30 years. I don't like the overuse of "survival" mechanics, but at least Palworld is trying to add something to creature capture games for once.
@@johnwrath3612it feels clumsy and halfassed bc its not done lol its in EA but honestly i dont find a problem with the combat and it improves the more you play aswell
If everything is automated at 20 hours, you're play on easy or extra easy mode. I'm playing on a customized normal mode and things change dynamically as I progress and explore the map I'm well over 20 hours in and have only explored maybe a quarter of the entire map. The map is huge
Ya this could actually be more profitable. less Mons more memorable you have to live with Pokemon and the ycan faint you and people can get captured. Pokemon got rich and lazy. This was low budget and I heard the Xbox version sucks because its early early access but man ive never seen this much hype for a video game in a long time
You are insane if you think this is a threat to pokemon at all. They're not even remotely similar gameplay wise and once you beat the 5 bosses there is literally nothing else to do in the game, specially on console where its limited to 4 players and no pvp
@DJGaming-XSX no it doesn't. Seriously do you guys not realise how big pokemon is? Also don't forget it's not on the switch so how is it ever going to be a threat
So here’s my take and perspective. I came across Palworld through a friend after it’s release as he described it as Pokemon with guns(more like Pokemon with survival) which is intriguing and surprising that Nintendo hasn’t jumped on this themselves cause the people clearly want it. Going into it I thought the game looked familiar and came to realize the developers also developed Craftopia (breath of the wild clone) not a bad game but when comparing it to Palworld it’s just not as put together. It would seem that Palworld has received more love and has more intricate features even in early access. It also gives a very comforting feeling reminiscent of playing games as a kid. This mindless excitement. What’s there is good but definitely needs to be fleshed out in the long run. My main concern is that both Palworld and craftopia are both in early access. I wish they’d finish what was on one plate to solidify the core gameplay, identity, and world a bit more. But I’m no game developer. Palworld is definitely the most exciting survival game in my library currently. It definitely has some faults and buggy moments but is definitely worth supporting. Looking forward to its growth and full release🤘🏽
@@Amins88 yup ive bought too many recent releases to jump on some thing esp early access.. but this one shows promise ill buy it a month or two later after some qol changes/ bug fixes for an even better experience.
It's great because it takes all the extra boring stuff out. If your materials are in any chest in your base, you can use them to craft at any station. If you want to fast travel, there's no animation, just touch a statue you already touched, and you can instantly travel. There's NO PICK UP ANIMATION. Just gameplay. Such a satisfying game.
Something I love about the game is the combat and party building. In pokemon only the active pokemon really fights and they all generally do the same thing. In palworld they can all have beneficial abilities to help on the adventure. Pokemon sorta tried this with hm moves, and then later just gave up on that.
Pokémon also do different things in battle. That is what abilities are. But I do get what you mean. Outside of battles, picnics, and super training, there’s not much to do in Pokemon but the story. Do you feel like both the games have positives and negatives? (Genuine question. Not trying to be rude or nothing)
@@zemellion26 what he is saying is in palworld other pals in your party can be involved in the combat depending on their partner skills without them being on the field
@@zemellion26that's what the other person means. You can unlock pals passives to aid you by just being in your party. Some follow you even if they are not the party leader, others add elemental dmg to your attacks, some make your leader pal stronger, etc.
We also need cool starting Pals to choose, maybe a teleportation or similar travel system... And if they want this game to succeed long term they need a really good end game to tie everything together
Well, you can make very good working Produktion lines. For example, use Level 2 Mining pala and the Squids for transporting (Plus God of course) by the big ore field near the Church in the Red biome, and you got unlimited Iron and Spheres if you place your base with a Rock inside.
I love how well animated the pals are and how diverse their actions are. The sanity mechanic also adds more depth. Tons of stuff to do, collect, and craft. It's varied and well paced enough that it rarely gets dull. I hope some good story content gets added later down the line and of course there's been some bugs, but I can't really complain so far.
The thing I love the most about this is they nailed the Pokemon type open world game I was wanting. The survival aspect makes it even better, you can fight alongside your mons, there are bosses and dungeons. And also you’re incentivised to ‘Catch them all’ because you can use the additional pals to upgrade existing ones. Every pal has a use in your bases as well. It’s the perfect formula.
Palworld is what I was hoping the direction that Pokémon would take after Legends Arceus. It's also saving me from breaking and buying the Ark "upgrade". Palworld hits all the same notes with better automation in my bases. Just an all-round fun weird pokemon knock-off.
Not only that but it is half the price of one of those shitty Pokemon games too... haha Pokemon sucks really. They had ample time to get to this stage, or at least, something similar and actually do something but they didn't. We already had Pokemon clones anyway... Nexomon and others are already out there and they still changed some of the formula... like having the choice of any type, as your first type. Pokemon have done the same shit and it's just tedious really. I hope Game Freak pull their fingers out and actually get something done
to give all due credit, Arceus took 6 years to develop. it was one of the best received pokemon games of all time, but it would take a few years before they would be able to make another legends style game. though we can assume, since it was given a series title and a personal title. we will likely see another legends game in the next few years, like we did with the mystery dungeon and rumble series.
This game came out of no where for me, my first impression going in was a meme , expected to play not more than an hour and now 20+ hours, I’m hooked. I love Pokémon and now I love pals as well. Game has great potential and I am looking forward to it!
When you're enjoying a game but has many harsh things to say about it, it means you're hooked and you want the company to do better and succeed! You described how I feel about this game well. Palworld has a bright future as long as they keep working on it
@@Brotheroppi Is it hype when the game is already released and so far there isn't any promises out in the field? I'm one of those people who would actually be 100% okay with the game staying as it is right now. Its phenomenal and a really good experience in my book.
I was skeptical of Palworld at first, but after starting my playthrough of it, I've come to love it! There are so many features I wish Pokemon had, that I can explore and play with in Palworld :) That being said, I still also love Pokemon too
Has a ton of potential and is well worth the price for the early access. Yes it has some rough edges as it should be with early access but for what is and what it will hopefully grow into it’s off to a great start. Really enjoying it so far.
I think if you want to see Palworld as what it is, you should see the Dev's previous game, Craftopia. Because that game pretty much follows the same idea, it might even be the seed that makes Palword possible. Palword and Craftopia feels like a game that a kid dreamed of (imagine combining Breath of Wild, Fortnite and DayZ) then someone actually put it the effort to actually make it. It's like turkey curry on Boxing Day, it was made with leftovers. It shouldn't work, but somehow it works, and it was delicious. I really wanted to see how the devs take it from here
oh wow, I didn't realize it was the same devs that made craftopia. That actually explains a lot. Craftopia was a mostly fantastic game that suffered from excessive grind, but I can see a LOT of the same elements and heart and HUMOR of that game carried over into Palworld. When held in that light it feels less like a mashup of a bunch of popular games and more a sequel to craftopia.(which in itself was a mashup of a few other game styles, but didn't cause nearly as much of an internet fanboy shiitstorm.)
@@ryan_nstuff Huh, I guess Craftopia made them know what to do and don'ts, I didn't play Craftopia but in Palworld, the progression feels really REALLY good for a survival game
@@raka1996craftopia is already abandon and shit. That alone shows and proves this game will get the same treatment. Plus it's 4yrs old and STILL IN EARLY ACCESS LMFAO.
@@PigBenis-f5u Yee that's what I'm afraid of, even one of the game I bought is still in early access like 8 years later or probably more, it does get better though, can't really find anything close to Project Zomboid now
I'm thinking it's popular because it targets the younger demographic which is often overlooked within the Game Industry. That would explain why such a mundane game is so popular, I'm sure there are some older people who like games like this as well and I would probably find it mildly entertaining. Sometimes a Chill game like that can be pretty welcome too.
I think this game will improve drastically over the year, considering it’s only been out for a week and I doubt the developers were expecting such a massive reception I’m sure they’ll have the money to make a full story inside and much more
Pocket Pair has a huge history of abandoning their IP to work on the next project. Or selling it off to be updated to even smaller companies. They already have things on their plate for the next game. Which is literally stolen HollowKnight assets.
Yeah I'd keep my expectations low. Takes a lot of time to properly develop a game like this. We thought the same when Valheim came out few years ago, and although the devs are hard at work it's still far from finished
I think it’s plenty interesting. If you stop thinking about what it copies and just immerse yourself in it, it becomes its own thing. I’m greatly enjoying exploring the world, slowly building up my base, meeting all the Pals one at a time. It’s funny cause if you stop caring about which Pokemon they imitate the Pals begin to shine.
Most games if you think about it are mixes of other games I mean look how many FPS games are on the market ,how many ways can you run round playing tdm etc?
I definitely hope they flesh out the story and NPCs in a future content update. A main story quest and side quests with named NPCs to interact with would go a long way towards making the game feel complete. The gameplay loop is solid, just needs bugfixes and polishing. With all the money they've made, I hope they expand the team a little bit and go nuts with steady updates. If so, this game will become huge.
@@donorTrumpet >Your suggestion will make the game bored Having an actual story fleshed out/more NPCs that are actual NPCs? >and like every failed game Every failed game failed regardless of whether it had a story or not. How would a "story" ruin Palworld, when it already has one? The problem is that it's story is incredibly barebones and takes a massive backseat/doesnt incentivise you to do the towers too much. Let alone answer "ok so who actually are these people and why do they matter" The first thing you see is a vague "The Towers are the key..." and "...the tree holds the truth" "Why are the towers the key?" and "What's with the tree/why does it matter?"
@@donorTrumpet "who cares ?" apparently you bud, you replied to an opinion with an assumption you present at the fact, and then when someone confronts you with actual arguments, you point out how it's only an opinion. My god, internet commenter in a nutshell.
I think the game taps into what people actually want from games: fun. It's not about the lore, worldbuilding, voice acting, story, graphical fidelity, etc. In a way, I think it's the simplicity that makes games like these succeed. It presents you with a very simple gameplay loop that you do again and again. In return, it rewards you with incremental feelings of accomplishment every step of the way. If I had to pick a single element of why most people don't complete most games, it's because their progression systems don't offer that. If you truly felt your own growth in a step by step way in a lot of these other failed games, I think they would be very successful. It's a simple psychological thing that I don't think many developers understand.
I haven't heard of any game that makes you pay more when the 1.0 releases. I believe it's the same for this. If you buy it now you have it also when the full release comes around.@@jubronni599
My overall opinion, I think this has the potential to be a game that we needed. Whether it's from the source of inspiration or from this developer that had the balls to gather the most successful elements of popular games, this is already a great start. My first impression was "Ark with Pokemon", and it already has the advantage of local servers that don't tether everyone to the host (biggest roadblock to playing casual with friends in Ark).
The thing with this game is it caters to those who aren't big survival game fans. I love survival games, but compared to Ark, rust ect the grinding in Palworld is fairly light, that comes down to the pals helping. This game could be huge, it's just where they go from here. Either way, I'll be here for the ride.
True,its more chiller game, play on your own pace without racing other player. But once people play it once I don't think it had replayability,not that it need one. Most story game, people also play it once
A lot of things certainly feel like they have just being "frankenstein'd" in, but the game does feels and plays decently and certain systems are well fleshed out. Hopefully they try to elaborate more on storying telling/building within the game so there is more cohesion. I'm having fun regardless, it's different.
I'd argue that story telling, really isn't required. We are playing as some washed up player, trying to survive the world. He doesn't know anything about it and unless the random NPCs tell us stuff, who cares?! There are random people around campfires, who give a little information about certain places but I think they are also survivors in the same situation?! Either way, I would rather they focus on fixing bugs/glitches, adding more places, more Pals and other stuff, than story telling because again, they have done small bits and it's most likely going to be open ended.
I played Conan Exiles, the closest game I've played to this, and frankly? I think Palworld already has the same amount of story/worldbuilding that Conan Exiles had. The item descriptions, the npcs, the little logbooks, I think they amount to the same amount that Conan Exiles did imo.
Streamers are all about hyping up this game to build up the audience, what with it being a meme game. It’s not bad but it certainly isn’t that good either. Played it a while and all that was said in this video is true. This game feels more early EA than many other early EA games I bought the past year.
one thing to note, in multiplayer if you join others, it seems that it is separate from your single player (even if you select multiplayer) character. its a totally separate character. idk if it was mentioned.
Every world is its own instance. So if you make a world and progress in it then decide you want to join a buddy and join their world you start fresh in that world and progress your data saves per world. I currently have 3 different worlds I play in and 3 different progressions (one solo, one with my fiance, and one that is my friends world). The nice thing about that is you can have a world that you and a friend or 2 can all progress together in and no one gets left behind.
I used to get annoyed when new games are compared to older, more popular games. But I've since realized that it makes it easier to understand what a game is like for someone that hasn't played it yet.
I’ve fell under the map so many times but other than that and a saving glitch every now and then I’ve loved this game so much and I normally play shooter fast paced games
I’ve fallen through the map once and I knew it was coming. I tried to jump a see through crack and I made a huge tiny mistake. As for the save glitch, I wish I understood what was causing that. Now every time I see the save icon, I wonder if I will need to get out of the game or if it will for me. That and crashes. Like, no rhyme or reason, just crashes and then none.
I was very suspicious of it, but I've been really enjoying it. To me it doesn't feel cheap. The "pals" are well thought out and really carry the game. There are interesting combos and they seem to have personality and there are a lot of them. Palworld seems to combine what I like in multiple games in to one.
I’ve wanted this kinda game ever since I knew what Pokémon was. I shedded tears when I opened up the game and saw the graphics knowing that this was as close as my dream would be made reality. And this is STILL just the beginning. I can’t wait to see what happens next. :)
My favorite part of this game is when you gathering wood/stone. We went from catching colorful wild animals and forcing them to fight, to catching them and forcing them to do manual labors, work on plantations and THEN forcing them to fight. It's only a matter of time before they add a way for pok- I mean Pals to go on a strike.😂
Looks like it could have a lot of potential. A game you don’t take too seriously and just chill and play. They seriously need to improve that melee combat though! That single move of prodding enemies with a stick looks like it will get tedious very quickly lol
I’ve played ark, I’ve played Pokémon (red and blue only thou). 7 days to die and many others. Being able to make your pals work and see them relax in a hot tub, or sleep underwater… yes it’s broken in places but endearing. My partner who has played every Pokémon game is just happy as can be to play a poke-like game and we are for sure going to catch all we can. Make sure you get to breeding them, and breeding different types together for new results. It does feel hollow without a story but the opening cinematic makes me feel like they know, and plan to do more later on. We will play it to “ pal ‘‘em all” then put it down for a year and come back to hopefully something more amazing. But sales figures don’t lie, this is what many fans of various genres have been looking for. Happy gaming..
This game caught me really off guard. My expectations going into it were low, but man is it addicting. It checks off so many boxes for me and is straight up just fun, with friends or grinding solo. I haven't played a game you just want to grind all day and when you get off, you think about it since Jedi Fallen Order. I know it’s early to call this my game of the year, but this has been a pleasant surprise
Around level 15 or so progress started to slack off. But there are world options, and you can give a slight multiplier in xp to keep progress increasing steadily. World settings are very much derivative of Ark, however there are a few options I think the game could add, such as a slider that lets you increase the frequency of raids which currently seems pretty rare.
I had like 3, 2 that were full of dire wolves and the purple lizards (forgot its name) and the 2 suicide bomber birds(luckily I was able to take ‘em out before they got to my base)
I've been seeing a ton of mention online. Just finished the free preview, and I'm impressed. It has plenty of similarities yet differences from all the games it has been compared to to set it apart. I'm not a huge survival game fan and definitely not a Pokémon fan but this game itched a scratch that no game has since I first played Minecraft. I appreciate your review. It gave me additional insight on what to expect if (when) I decide to buy it. I would also add that the price is very reasonable. Some games that have had a typical (~$60) price on release have been a buggy mess and dont quite deliver on expectations. Your mention of the less finished aspects don't bother me much considering it is pre-release . Overall, it seems this game has had so many comparisons in part because it is somewhat unique. So far it seems to deserve the recognition it is receiving. Fingers crossed the development team is able to keep their vision in mind as they move towards release and deliver the awesome experience they have shown off thus far.
I spent hours farming crops, chopping trees, and mining stones. All it accomplished is make me want to play farming sims. So i ended up trying Story of Seasons and Coral Island instead. Much more my speed.
I think, although unfinished, the concept of this game works. It takes so many good ideas and makes them work and fit into a pretty nice gameplay loop. It definitely feels like there's supposed to be more behind this game and I really hope to see it fleshed out and finished
I have to imagine that 90% of the player base are in their 30s (like me) and have finally been given the "Pokemon" game we've all been waiting for our whole lives! I've had to do my whole work day on 0 hours sleep because I couldn't get off Palworld. I absolutely love it
@@DaDude2011well fear not I for a change will be joining you guys as the younger generation. Pokemon was after my childhood so no nostalgia but this thing looks like a good time. Guns and critters
People comparing this to Pokemon really need to learn about a little game franchise called Dragon Quest Monsters. The concept for battling and capturing monsters to work alongside you came in 1992 before Pokemon and then became what Palworld basically is in 1998. This game is more closely related to that than Pokemon.
I agree it needs a lore. A story some quests and side quests more towns and NPCs to interact with. I don't have much of a need to venture out other than to get that higher lvl pal.
Lol, you just described what the whole game is about. A: You are slow at crafting/collecting stuff as just a player alone, so -- B: you go out into the world to collect pals to quicken this process -- C: you enter 30 sec - 3 min repetitive combat to capture said Pal. This is the game. There's nothing more. This is it. And people seem to like it. You'll have to get trained psychologists to study this phenomenon.
Never been into the survival genre but this has me hooked at the moment. My only gripes have been the game crashing, falling through some of the map and some of the pals in bases get stuck sometimes. Apart from that it's fun, massive and you can literally spend hours just messing about exploring.
I find myself just flying around, looking for chests and eggs, and still enjoying myself. A game where you can enjoy yourself while doing basically nothing is pretty rare (outside of those bullet heaven survivor type games where all you do is move around).
Looks pretty sick! Still a little too "early accessy" for my taste but I'm excited to see how the game evolves over time and will probably pick it up once it has a few more updates under its belt
Personally i havent had many issues it crashes after 3 hrs but really not a problem and when you join its a bit laggy for about a minute not super bad but dont try gliding over water it will drop you lol oh and if you throw your pal too close to an enemy it wont attack it. They put a patch out yesterday fixing some of the bugs. One weird in was if you were on multiplayer (at least with 2 people) itll switch your voices for wahatever reason lol thats fixed though occasionally Pokemon will get stuck inside a mountain but you can still attack and throw balls at it so its not that big of a deal. Take with it what you will but the game is super fun and man its only gonna get better!
I love the fact that they let you choose how fast you want to progress with the world settings. I don’t have much time to play so it’s perfect for having to grind less and play the game more. Also I have tried games like ark and exiles but could never really get into them so this says a lot for me. I’m addicted. Looking forward to seeing this game grow and hopefully customize even more little things in your world/server.
Depends if you mean kid as in 5 years ago or kid as in 25 years ago. Because nobody did for the first few gens, open world games and survival didn't really exist.
I am someone who never got into Pokémon as a kid because my parents thought it was weird. I wanted to get into it since they released the more open world games (shield was my first game) but as I played shield and violet, they just kinda sucked… Don’t get me wrong I loved the aspect of catching Pokémon but… Palworld has totally given me what I was looking for from Pokémon. It’s ironically a breath of fresh air
I very rarely leave comments, but when you said "talk about Palworld in a year and if Nintendo sued them into the dirt" You had me ROFL.👍 Thanks for all your Before you buy videos!
I would do ANYTHING to be a fly on the wall at TPC rn lmao. The 🥜 to *even* have EEVEE, AKA TPC’s ‘secondary-mascot’/Pikachu-sidekick’, in essentially the video game-version of ‘paraphrase sources in your own words’ lmaooo YO💀 not a *single* f Id bet a *lot* of money this game will wind up being LTD sooner rather than later based on the *extreme* passion TPC + Nintendo hold for ♡litigation♡, but holding out hope for survival of some VERY MUCH NEEDED competition and *slight* crippling of the unrivaled-behemoth that is the entire Pokémon ‘franchise’(monopoly) so that MAYBE, just maybe, our children’s children can enjoy a 10% improvement in Pokémon game quality over SV Anddd as an added bonus: how’s that karma for *RETIRING ASH & PIKACHU* TASTE, you soulless monsters 😭 fk around w the worlds greatest pokemon master and find out
Im kind of hoping its closer to 50% or lower done cause, yes its huge, but i would love to see the whole level of complexity this game has the potential to have. Its already deeper than pokemon in terms of the relationship between the player and creatures. Id love to see it go even further. Also there definitely needs to be WAY more human involvement in the world that makes the whole factions and designs more convincing
The Japanese game developer stated it's about 40% done, but they're having problems implementing pvp, he said he didn't think it would be so difficult.
this is what future pokemon game should look like. being a pokemon trainer is more than just capturing monsters and battling. despite Game Freak being a multi billion dollars company, their recent game's graphics and gameplays hasn't seen much upgrade at all.
Im excited to see how this game continues to be built. A whole lot of potential and considering its only 60% done, im hoping the rest is doing what you talked about, connecting all of those puzzle pieces together. I think a proper story to fill out the massive world would be awesome and help fix a bunch of those criticisms. Some tweeking would be nice and im sure we will probably get more pals too. Right now, the game is fun to play but im curious how much replayability they plan on adding because i can see a big burnout happening until the next big update and people come back and then burnout again and that keep happening until the game is finished.
I really love the game so far. I am surprised with how much there is on Early Access. The map is big and I enjoy exploring and finding eggs, effigies (sp?), treasure chests and of course new pals. I believe with the success of this game, they will hopefully pour more love into this game and by that I mean really give us more and more to a perfect full fledged out game by next year. I am looking forward to all the new stuff coming in the future.
My greatest hope with this game is that it will finally obligate Nintendo to make a good Pokemon game. Pokemon has become just like FIFAs and CoDs, soulless empty repetitions without very little added and no junk removed
I love that you can set your own parameters for your world. Some people say this game is "too easy". They must not realize they can make it more challenging. They just must love complaining instead of challenging themselves.
That game doesn't become more challenging when you change the settings. It becomes more tedious. You do less damage and receive more. It's harder to catch pals or they become less frequent. No new mechanics or anything to make the game more interesting. It is an easy game and it doesn't change at higher difficulty settings.
It's just weird how good it is. It's still super janky & souless but there's a lot interesting ideas & mechanics that are addictive. It has so much potential that I hope gets realized.
@@PigBenis-f5u A game simply doesn't "die". That's also a common negativity.. It's in early access and if they keep up with it. They will continue to carry on a good amount of players in their game playing actively.
@@keiztratno this is literally the flavour of the month, there are so many survival crafter's coming out over the next 3months that this could easily be forgotten
Competition a lot of times is a good thing. Pokémon was to dominant in this space and did what they liked, competition will help expand grow this genre of gaming.
@@nefuros551 Ark also has a good story. For me it was the game difficulty in single player. I'm talking about what will help prevent this game from becoming a blip and make it popular in the mainstream. Ark isn't really popular outside of its player base.
@FireFox64000000 ark player base is pretty gigantic considering how old it is. Palworld is also a parody so I can imagine the story writing will be pretty corny and comical. Considering it is THIS playable at early access I would imagine this game is going to the stratosphere. Should have enough funding to really polish it into something great.
I feel like you should redo this "Before You Buy" as it's just come out on PS5 and has most likely changed a fair bit since this video. On the contrary, thank you again for your helpful insight ❤
Out of curiosity, did they allow you to fast travel with resources yet? As that's what stopped my friends and I from continuing playing it after release.
Howso? I booted it up recently and it was the same. Do I need to play a good few hours for new content? It looked nicer and had some extra building items but I saw nothing new beyond that.
@@goughy3687 There are different things about the world you can change for recourses, like .5x all the way up to 4x Materials. and yes even a setting that makes it so you can transport materials through portals :D
I felt like as soon as I stepped out of the spawn area and saw a church down the hill and how grand the map was. I thought, Elden Ring. Don’t know why that is but the scope, scenery and mystery pulled me right in.
I really hope the Pokémon company can’t sue and ruin this game. Wayy better than Pokémon, their games have been extremely babified and stale for about a decade
I really think the people saying that this game stole assets from Pokemon are really grasping for straws, because there ain't anything resembling Pokemon in here at all. Even the rabbit, being the most plausible is just literally "The Easter Bunny" generic as can be just painted green and even Nintendo stole from the same source there. Grow up, nintendrones, and find alternative hobbies that don't involve raging in social media.
I'm genuinely impressed with Palworld being as good as it is when all anyone expected it to be was a meme game. It's just genuinely such a fun game, and even if it's more like Ark and other survival games than Pokemon itself it's pretty hilarious that the Pals have more personality than the recent pokemon games and actually have 'high quality animations' like Pokemon supposedly has.
I'm really enjoying it so far. It scratches several itches I've had in wanting a game that does one of the things this game does. Is it fleshed out in each category I like? No, but it combines them in a way that's fun. Also the exploration with friends is great. I love going through dungeons and finding things in the open world, getting distracted by one collectible after the other, never getting to my goal, always getting sidetracked.
You know the real irony? The Pocket Pair CEO used to work at Nintendo to some extent. And both Nintendo and Pocket Pair HQs are both close by to each other.
Whether ppl like PW or not. I gotta say it's pretty dope Pocket Pair actually give Game Freak and Pokemon some competition. Competition is as healthy in gaming as it is with anything else. Competition drives progress. So Palworld might be constructive for Pokemon. Doesn't mean the products will become better automatically. We have far to many examples of the opposite. But still. I also think it's cool that a small studio are able to actually make a BILLION DOLLARS worth studio..which happens to be one of the most popular franchises ever.. to show their claws. No matter if I like them or not, I always nod in respect for that. All in all though, I don't think Palworld is an existential threat to Pokemon as a brand or on any other lvl at all. Nor will it ever be.
One of my facorite features of Palworld that i wish other survival games would adopt, is that if you place resources in a container within the border of your base you can access those resources from any crafting table in the base.
you would love grounded
How does that work? Can other players access it too?
they use AI for assets and to manipulate social media. no thx
Grounded has the best and most user friendly mechanics I've seen. Its just sad that theres nothing much to do after you finish the game
@@EarlOfLemongrabb grounded is really slept on. It felt like a pretty complete survival game even during the alpha test
As much of a mess it can be at times, I’ve had more fun playing Palworld than any recent Pokémon games.
That's because palworld did what Pokemon wouldn't, and changed the formula. Pokemon has been the same game for 3 decades now just with different pokemon per game. They have done nothing to be different
That is not hard to do. You can have more fun breathing then playing any recent Pokemon game.
@dubblejumpchump this is like an upgraded fully functional legends arceus
People mention pokemon first because its the first comparison that comes to mind @NukeSonys
@@Straight_White_Fatherly_Figure Fully functional is a bit of a stretch, its a great game, loads of fun, but it's buggy af.
This is a waaaaay better experience than most of the shovelware survival crafting games on Steam. As long as it isn't permanently in early access, and doesn't get abandoned, I'll be happy with it
They apparently announced Workshop Support. So, if the Community goes hard, the Game will sustain for years.
Considering PocketPair just made $80 Million in profit over the weekend and made their 20-30 employees multi-millionaires, I don't think it's likely they're going to abandon the game.
Apperently they had a 10k dollar budget for this game so who knows, maybe its just a quick cashgrab with little or slow updates in the future. Probably still worth 26E just to enjoy it for the time being tho@@Joreel
@@nedbear1970 doesn't matter if it's abandoned by devs since there will be mod support that will indefinitely lengthen the lifespan of a game
@@nedbear1970definitely not a 10k budget. Game was announced three years ago and has 40 Japanese employees working on it.
It cost them millions. Probably 5-10 million. Instead of 100-200 like bigger games
Nintendo: is that not a black Lucario?
Lawyer: naw..that’s Anubis.
LoL. You saw RDCWorld too eh?
My bro asked me
"Is that zapdos?"
"No its beackon. It's totally distinct! Legally"
@@alirezaomrani7650 yes sir lol
@@alirezaomrani7650maybe RDC copied this comment 😂
@@alirezaomrani7650yes sir
Being able to ride , swim or fly on a mount and still be able to attack or catch pals while on the mounts is a overlooked kudos.
Swimming on a pal, more like drowning with how your head is below water 😂
I was surprised tbh I was able to ride and shoot
@@GravitasZero like the older pokemon games where you could still dive below the water
@@GravitasZeroI found a glitch where I was running on the ocean floor, NGL it was pretty surreal, there's grass down there, felt like I was in the Elysian feilds
even simpler, grabbing stuff from the ground while mounted. that alone is already something alot of games don't have.
The devs are hiring. Immediately after Palworld's release, I saw in their news that they're looking to bring on new members into their company.
That speaks loads on them wanting to make sure this game gets the development it deserves!
Now they can certainly afford to!
Started with a $10k Budget, Now they have over $70m+ to go all in on this IP and expand into a world wide success like Pokemon managed to do over the years. @@SALT_KING
The guy who did the assets/effects is just a highschool kid that had a part-time job on the convenience store the devs liked to go, so it makes sense they wanted to hire some more people now.
@@rockstepguy3524 Yeah and the devs themselfs didn't really know how to make games either haha just the senior dev who pointed them in the direction of Unreal Engine. That interview was hilarious
Hopefully they don’t pull a Valheim and but this game on the back burner , delivering mediocre/okay-ish update after mediocre/okay-ish update that took way too long for what they were
They really have a gold mine in their hands right now. If they keep the content coming and really flesh out this game it’s going to be incredible
The update added bunch arrow creating by 3x lovely update
It's a good thing 😌
Yes and no, its already sold a lot, so if theres nothing more to buy, theres no more money to make = abandon game. Happens all the time with EA.
@@JoshTheMadLad they could easily add microtransactions that aren’t predatory and it would make them a bunch more money
Yeah but if they did that..peoples trust would go down and future game they make will suffer
Who’s here after PS5 release?
So glad I’m not the only one
Here 😂🏃🏻♀️
I got it yesterday, hooked after 30 minutes. It's the Pokemon game I always wanted but Nintendo was too dumb/lazy/comfortable to make and instead rehashed the same formula for 20 years with Arceus being the only slight exception
Yep 🙋🏻♂️
Yessir
If Pokemon addressed the void in the gaming market then Palworld wouldn't exist because wants and needs from within the market would have ALREADY been properly met.
But Pokemon did not address the void in the market, so Palworld addressed it for them.
I hope Palworld continues to be an example of what happens when you neglect the market and ALLOW competitors to do a better job than you.
Palworld deserves every bit of success that it's getting.
Agreed. Pokemon keeps making games for children. The original pokemon game fans are now in their 30s or close to it.
They probably so jealous and be like wow why we didn’t think of this before 😂
@@haydenhamilton3109 to be fair like there last game made 25m sale which is very very high and was at the top so many still buying them no matter how lazy they are
Imagine palworld makes an anime, an interesting world with some story. And keep building on it. Do it like Pokémon did but indeed grow with the market and innovate and listen to their fans. Pokémon has become too arrogant.
I declare that Palworld is the most excellent game. It surpasses CS2, DOTA2, PUBG, Baldur's Gate 3, elden ring, GTA5, APEX, Fortnite, COD, monster hunter, 2077, p5r. No other games can compare with Palworld. Palworld has created a new way of making games. The game industry will definitely thank Palworld in the future. My god, it's amazing that I can play such an interesting game in my life.
30hrs in so far. I like the small details they added like before a fire pal goes to sleep, it will go around my base and light all the torches for the night. Some of it is comical like seeing a tiny fluffy pal defend a base with an assault rifle. All around crazy and fun game.
Awe, fire pals do this!? That's adorable now I might make torches for my base after all.
Amother really small detail is that the higher you go the colder it get , some dude in my server decide to build a 130 floors tower and he confirm this 😂
Also fire/ice pals warm/cool you too. So a fire pal out at night should keep you from freezing while naked
That's one thing I actually dislike because it's trying to light my lights from outside my house and will just stand there...menacingly
It would help if there was a single pal that looked at least okay. They all look like shitty tumblr fan art.
As a Pokemon fan, I can confirm that this game has achieved what Game Freak should have accomplished a long time ago, and I'm really enjoying it.
Indeed! I hope they take notice and actually make something like this. I remember that old pc game this guy made for Pokémon that was like this but he got sued to oblivion to stop.
OG Pokemon fan here, and absolutely will confirm. Palworld is what Pokemon shouldve been. Full stop.
It really proves how lazy and poor Game Freak really are. Just riding that same wave... lame. Hopefully now it gives them the actual kick up the arse to realise, they need to try and that will bring fans back but who knows now.. The last few games were a little.. meh.
This game is really enjoyable and I am hoping they bring a bunch of things that prolong the life of the game.
@@CymbalMonkey Not trying to suck GameFreak dicks but I recall them stating on a interview that usually what they want is a 4 year cycle to make a pokemon game but since its being rushed to every fucking year the quality and everything else pretty much goes out the window, which is fucking sad. Loving Palworld though playing with my kids and I know it has a lot of problems too but if they could work on those, add more pals, fix bugs etc it might be a contender for GOTY ngl.
@@CymbalMonkey I think this game will finally knock some sense into them, they have been untouchable in their Pokemon Catch and Battle games for so long, now this game has finally did it.
Built a base near the giant elephant boss … he stumbled in at level 18, killed most of my pals, but I ended up catching him 17 levels early 😭 it’s pretty solid for an early access.
This… is your reason why it’s a solid game?😂
@@AnonYmous-hu7jo Freedom in finding solutions is quite attractive. It's the same way I fought against my first legendary. Loved it.
@@AnonYmous-hu7jolol
@@AnonYmous-hu7jo I think he meant a solid monster rather than the game but i guess tht still applies
One thing I really appreciate in this compared to pokemon is that every single pal actually has full and mostly unique animations for all of their attacks which for me adds so much to the game
Game freak could never
Gamefreak: Best I can do is a generic shake animation
Working animations too. Watching a depresso do anything in the base is hilarious
Yes and gameranx never mention this in the video smh
@@goodtimesgivecancer1watching them drop their pickaxe or drag eggs on the floor is really funny 😂
I seriously hope Gamefreak takes note and starts to deliver top quality games. This early access game is in much better shape than Scarlet/Violet was.
They will more likely sue Palworld for it's likeliness to Pokémon and continue to make sub par games.
100% They would rather use resources to sue away any good Pokemon game than make their own. @@RoomofMima
Gamefreak delivering top quality games? You're wishing for hell to freeze man.
Or they can just make a main line game in the same vain as Legends was.
Sure ive heard that S/V was pretty much that, but i also heard that some of better parts of Legends are missing.
@@RoomofMimathey absolutely have no stake in a lawsuit. First off, it’s on Gamepass and you’ll never out money Xbox. Second, it has very little of anything to do with the IP of pokemon. Third, Gamefreak doesn’t own the concept of “catching cute monsters in spheres”. They can sue all they want but it won’t go anywhere.
I'm not usually a fan of survial-esque games, but this game is addictive. It hits all the right things in my brain, progression, open world, heavy on crafting, but perhaps the biggest thing for me is the Pals!! So adorable, and the fact that they can help you in your base instead of just being there is top-tier.
Can you tell me if I buy the early access game, will I also have to pay for the finished game?
I've never been into a survival game, but this one has somehow gotten my attention. It's fun to have little creatures around who can help me survive instead of having to rely on surviving long enough to craft a gun
Thsts cause ur gen Z and like furries. Why this game is so popular. Ark is exactly like palworld without furry anime creatures. @TrainerAQ
@@jubronni599 On steam? Once its bought its bought.
@@PigBenis-f5u lol imagine generalizing a whole generation on an anonymous profile.
When Jake said he isn't info Survival games normally but this one got him hooked, I felt that something about it doesn't feel as boring as other survival ark types especially with friends
Palworld is what happens when you mix nostalgia with a bit of insanity. And I'm totally here for it! 😍🎮
This game feels like every early access game on steam combined into one and somehow it’s a more finished game than anything Pokémon has produced since black/white 2. Seriously. It’s actually a lot of fun
Yeah
PokeArk of the Wild is pretty fun. Pretty clean for an Alpha as well.
That’s what I keep saying, bro this is Alpha build! Like they admitted they’re giving this next year to continue strong development.
Let’s just hope this insane payday doesn’t make them cash out early.
I hope they do what no man sky did in a sense. I hope they reinvest a lot of the money to make this already good game even better@williamndiii
I'm so using that nickname for Palworld
PokeArk of the Wild Quest. Perfection…
@@DaDude2011 Although, with it being an alpha, I am VERY tempted to stop playing and return at a later date. I don't want to re-encounter every Pal. It might be better to leave some for later.
I'm so glad to finally see a game that's exploding but also fun! Definitely a breathe of fresh air.
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More of these slop channels. Great.
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A game that is five other games stitched together and character design that's just bad tumblr fan art is "a breath of fresh air"? I don't see it. They couldn't even have any creativity for the name of the creatures or world.
He even said it's lifeless and devoid of character.
Palworld scratches the itch that OG Pokemon gamers have been wanting for so long. There's so much potential here, and the fact that it's not limited to dated hardware like the Switch is huge too.
Yeah , man. I recently started playing the hell of my Switch, and SO many of the games have a crap framerate. Its not aging well.
Palworld has so much potential. I hope the developers don't get lazy and screw this one up.
Na man they invested in this they had no clue this game would take off
It'll die in a month.
@@Shumaverse3080 its common sense tbh, devs are not perfect i'd prefer this game to be lowkey bec. if its still blowing up Hackers will infest the game and ruin it.
@@LanzkiTgaming Im just tired of hearing about it, the entire thing of Poke fans vs Palworld fans has put me off this game.
I will be a lot happier when it fades ingo obscurity
@@Shumaverse3080your obviously a pokemon fan.
Your videos tell us that .
But just enjoy the game.
So what it rip off pokemon didn't all games a knockoffs other Gamez lol.
Just nobody dared to try a pokemon crown.
I've never been a fan of Pokemon and I still don't play those games, but I absolutely love this game. Palworld is so dope
I don't get it. I played it for like 7-8 hours last night. The game feels very clumsy and half assed. It's sluggish to control. The melee combat is god awful. The shooting is OK at best. The bow feels pretty good, automating your base by enslaving little cutesy creatures is kinda fun. But mostly it's just a bog standard survival crafting game. Go punch some trees for some wood. Go punch some rocks for some stone. It's not offensively bad, but i genuinely do not get the appeal.
@@johnwrath3612 at like 20ish hours almost all of that is automated and most of the gameplay includes hunting new pals which in my opinion is the best part
The problem with Pokemon is it hasn't updated in 30 years. I don't like the overuse of "survival" mechanics, but at least Palworld is trying to add something to creature capture games for once.
@@johnwrath3612it feels clumsy and halfassed bc its not done lol its in EA but honestly i dont find a problem with the combat and it improves the more you play aswell
If everything is automated at 20 hours, you're play on easy or extra easy mode. I'm playing on a customized normal mode and things change dynamically as I progress and explore the map I'm well over 20 hours in and have only explored maybe a quarter of the entire map. The map is huge
This game is fire. Pokemon should’ve been at this point already. All this game need is a fire story and Pokemon is history
Considering Pokemon is one of the highest grossing games in history, i very much doubt this.
Ya this could actually be more profitable. less Mons more memorable you have to live with Pokemon and the ycan faint you and people can get captured. Pokemon got rich and lazy. This was low budget and I heard the Xbox version sucks because its early early access but man ive never seen this much hype for a video game in a long time
@Draconic_Incenerator he's not wrong this game has potential to take over if they keep with it
You are insane if you think this is a threat to pokemon at all. They're not even remotely similar gameplay wise and once you beat the 5 bosses there is literally nothing else to do in the game, specially on console where its limited to 4 players and no pvp
@DJGaming-XSX no it doesn't. Seriously do you guys not realise how big pokemon is? Also don't forget it's not on the switch so how is it ever going to be a threat
So here’s my take and perspective. I came across Palworld through a friend after it’s release as he described it as Pokemon with guns(more like Pokemon with survival) which is intriguing and surprising that Nintendo hasn’t jumped on this themselves cause the people clearly want it. Going into it I thought the game looked familiar and came to realize the developers also developed Craftopia (breath of the wild clone) not a bad game but when comparing it to Palworld it’s just not as put together. It would seem that Palworld has received more love and has more intricate features even in early access. It also gives a very comforting feeling reminiscent of playing games as a kid. This mindless excitement. What’s there is good but definitely needs to be fleshed out in the long run. My main concern is that both Palworld and craftopia are both in early access. I wish they’d finish what was on one plate to solidify the core gameplay, identity, and world a bit more. But I’m no game developer. Palworld is definitely the most exciting survival game in my library currently. It definitely has some faults and buggy moments but is definitely worth supporting. Looking forward to its growth and full release🤘🏽
pokemon legends arceus is a pokemon survival game similar to palworld that nintendo did make
Despite the jank and bugs, The gameplay loop is addictive.
Yeah, the game is still pretty rough in a lot of ways. But it is still the very beginning of Early Access. They're definitely owed some patience.
For sure dude! Loving this game!
@@Amins88 yup ive bought too many recent releases to jump on some thing esp early access.. but this one shows promise ill buy it a month or two later after some qol changes/ bug fixes for an even better experience.
It's great because it takes all the extra boring stuff out. If your materials are in any chest in your base, you can use them to craft at any station. If you want to fast travel, there's no animation, just touch a statue you already touched, and you can instantly travel. There's NO PICK UP ANIMATION. Just gameplay. Such a satisfying game.
And there are no dumb and useless dialogues that you are forced to watch like in the last pokemon games
Something I love about the game is the combat and party building. In pokemon only the active pokemon really fights and they all generally do the same thing. In palworld they can all have beneficial abilities to help on the adventure. Pokemon sorta tried this with hm moves, and then later just gave up on that.
Pokémon also do different things in battle. That is what abilities are. But I do get what you mean. Outside of battles, picnics, and super training, there’s not much to do in Pokemon but the story. Do you feel like both the games have positives and negatives? (Genuine question. Not trying to be rude or nothing)
the good about pokemon its their first game the next series just milking from the success@@zemellion26
@@zemellion26 what he is saying is in palworld other pals in your party can be involved in the combat depending on their partner skills without them being on the field
@@ilovecats3169 oh i know that. I play both games, but I was specifically talking about in battle
@@zemellion26that's what the other person means. You can unlock pals passives to aid you by just being in your party. Some follow you even if they are not the party leader, others add elemental dmg to your attacks, some make your leader pal stronger, etc.
A fleshed out story with missions, small boats, cities and combat arenas would sell me completely.
We also need cool starting Pals to choose, maybe a teleportation or similar travel system... And if they want this game to succeed long term they need a really good end game to tie everything together
I love how my Pal will look for stuff to work on when we get back to base. A stupid thing, but I enjoy little things like that.
Well, you can make very good working Produktion lines.
For example, use Level 2 Mining pala and the Squids for transporting (Plus God of course) by the big ore field near the Church in the Red biome, and you got unlimited Iron and Spheres if you place your base with a Rock inside.
I love how well animated the pals are and how diverse their actions are. The sanity mechanic also adds more depth. Tons of stuff to do, collect, and craft. It's varied and well paced enough that it rarely gets dull. I hope some good story content gets added later down the line and of course there's been some bugs, but I can't really complain so far.
I appreciate that they appreciate getting pets.
The animation of Ryptryo dipping his front feet in the hot springs because he's too big to fit made me appreciate the detailed animations.
Depresso mining is iconic.
The thing I love the most about this is they nailed the Pokemon type open world game I was wanting. The survival aspect makes it even better, you can fight alongside your mons, there are bosses and dungeons.
And also you’re incentivised to ‘Catch them all’ because you can use the additional pals to upgrade existing ones. Every pal has a use in your bases as well. It’s the perfect formula.
Can you tell me if I buy the early access game, will I also have to pay for the finished game?
@@jubronni599usually no
@@jubronni599 No. You will not have to pay for the finished game.
They nailed it if you're a slow child and easily entertained.
@@jpes609 are you a fast child and hardly amused?
Wow. He did not even mention the best feature: capturing humans!
Which color?
@@siyabongamkhize692 🤨📸
@@siyabongamkhize692doesn't matter grow up.
Shut up and take joke as well as you take other things@@lavapop1900
@@lavapop1900 you can't tell me what to do
Palworld is what I was hoping the direction that Pokémon would take after Legends Arceus. It's also saving me from breaking and buying the Ark "upgrade". Palworld hits all the same notes with better automation in my bases. Just an all-round fun weird pokemon knock-off.
Not only that but it is half the price of one of those shitty Pokemon games too... haha Pokemon sucks really. They had ample time to get to this stage, or at least, something similar and actually do something but they didn't.
We already had Pokemon clones anyway... Nexomon and others are already out there and they still changed some of the formula... like having the choice of any type, as your first type. Pokemon have done the same shit and it's just tedious really. I hope Game Freak pull their fingers out and actually get something done
@@CymbalMonkey 1/4 the price, because you know you always have to buy both pokemon games or you're going to miss out.
to give all due credit, Arceus took 6 years to develop. it was one of the best received pokemon games of all time, but it would take a few years before they would be able to make another legends style game. though we can assume, since it was given a series title and a personal title. we will likely see another legends game in the next few years, like we did with the mystery dungeon and rumble series.
This game came out of no where for me, my first impression going in was a meme , expected to play not more than an hour and now 20+ hours, I’m hooked. I love Pokémon and now I love pals as well. Game has great potential and I am looking forward to it!
Pokemon as a concept yes, but the pokemon company its trash today.
When you're enjoying a game but has many harsh things to say about it, it means you're hooked and you want the company to do better and succeed! You described how I feel about this game well. Palworld has a bright future as long as they keep working on it
Or your caught up in the hype and coping
You're* Maybe learn to spell first.@@Brotheroppi
@@Brotheroppi OR this game is what people have wanted forever and it's finally hear. Stop trying to be a drama queen to bring people down.
@Kanoog just giving another perspective little guy
@@Brotheroppi Is it hype when the game is already released and so far there isn't any promises out in the field?
I'm one of those people who would actually be 100% okay with the game staying as it is right now. Its phenomenal and a really good experience in my book.
I was skeptical of Palworld at first, but after starting my playthrough of it, I've come to love it! There are so many features I wish Pokemon had, that I can explore and play with in Palworld :) That being said, I still also love Pokemon too
Has a ton of potential and is well worth the price for the early access. Yes it has some rough edges as it should be with early access but for what is and what it will hopefully grow into it’s off to a great start. Really enjoying it so far.
I think if you want to see Palworld as what it is, you should see the Dev's previous game, Craftopia. Because that game pretty much follows the same idea, it might even be the seed that makes Palword possible.
Palword and Craftopia feels like a game that a kid dreamed of (imagine combining Breath of Wild, Fortnite and DayZ) then someone actually put it the effort to actually make it. It's like turkey curry on Boxing Day, it was made with leftovers. It shouldn't work, but somehow it works, and it was delicious. I really wanted to see how the devs take it from here
oh wow, I didn't realize it was the same devs that made craftopia. That actually explains a lot. Craftopia was a mostly fantastic game that suffered from excessive grind, but I can see a LOT of the same elements and heart and HUMOR of that game carried over into Palworld. When held in that light it feels less like a mashup of a bunch of popular games and more a sequel to craftopia.(which in itself was a mashup of a few other game styles, but didn't cause nearly as much of an internet fanboy shiitstorm.)
@@ryan_nstuff Huh, I guess Craftopia made them know what to do and don'ts, I didn't play Craftopia but in Palworld, the progression feels really REALLY good for a survival game
@@raka1996craftopia is already abandon and shit. That alone shows and proves this game will get the same treatment. Plus it's 4yrs old and STILL IN EARLY ACCESS LMFAO.
@@PigBenis-f5u Yee that's what I'm afraid of, even one of the game I bought is still in early access like 8 years later or probably more, it does get better though, can't really find anything close to Project Zomboid now
I'm thinking it's popular because it targets the younger demographic which is often overlooked within the Game Industry. That would explain why such a mundane game is so popular, I'm sure there are some older people who like games like this as well and I would probably find it mildly entertaining. Sometimes a Chill game like that can be pretty welcome too.
I think this game will improve drastically over the year, considering it’s only been out for a week and I doubt the developers were expecting such a massive reception I’m sure they’ll have the money to make a full story inside and much more
It doesn't feel like early access at all.
@@Jonas-ej7id Compared to most other games, it really doesn't.
Considering the game is obviously blatantly inspired by popular titles like Pokémon and Breathe of the Wild.
I’m sure they expected it to blow up.
Pocket Pair has a huge history of abandoning their IP to work on the next project. Or selling it off to be updated to even smaller companies.
They already have things on their plate for the next game.
Which is literally stolen HollowKnight assets.
Yeah I'd keep my expectations low. Takes a lot of time to properly develop a game like this. We thought the same when Valheim came out few years ago, and although the devs are hard at work it's still far from finished
I think it’s plenty interesting. If you stop thinking about what it copies and just immerse yourself in it, it becomes its own thing. I’m greatly enjoying exploring the world, slowly building up my base, meeting all the Pals one at a time. It’s funny cause if you stop caring about which Pokemon they imitate the Pals begin to shine.
I can attest to that as someone who didn't grow up with pokemon. Everything in this game is fresh to me and I love it
Most games if you think about it are mixes of other games I mean look how many FPS games are on the market ,how many ways can you run round playing tdm etc?
Of course it would if you didn’t see Pokémon, Digimon, or any of those series.
I definitely hope they flesh out the story and NPCs in a future content update. A main story quest and side quests with named NPCs to interact with would go a long way towards making the game feel complete. The gameplay loop is solid, just needs bugfixes and polishing.
With all the money they've made, I hope they expand the team a little bit and go nuts with steady updates. If so, this game will become huge.
Your suggestion will make the game bored and like every failed game
@@donorTrumpet >Your suggestion will make the game bored
Having an actual story fleshed out/more NPCs that are actual NPCs?
>and like every failed game
Every failed game failed regardless of whether it had a story or not. How would a "story" ruin Palworld, when it already has one?
The problem is that it's story is incredibly barebones and takes a massive backseat/doesnt incentivise you to do the towers too much. Let alone answer "ok so who actually are these people and why do they matter"
The first thing you see is a vague "The Towers are the key..." and "...the tree holds the truth"
"Why are the towers the key?" and "What's with the tree/why does it matter?"
@@higueraft571 fact: the game already a success
Opinion: i think it will be nice to have a storyline
Who cares?
@@donorTrumpet "who cares?" Your point is that a story would make the game "boring" somehow.
@@donorTrumpet "who cares ?" apparently you bud, you replied to an opinion with an assumption you present at the fact, and then when someone confronts you with actual arguments, you point out how it's only an opinion.
My god, internet commenter in a nutshell.
The more realistic style of the environment kind of contrasts with the style of the creatures but the gameplay itself looks kinda fun
I think the game taps into what people actually want from games: fun. It's not about the lore, worldbuilding, voice acting, story, graphical fidelity, etc. In a way, I think it's the simplicity that makes games like these succeed. It presents you with a very simple gameplay loop that you do again and again. In return, it rewards you with incremental feelings of accomplishment every step of the way. If I had to pick a single element of why most people don't complete most games, it's because their progression systems don't offer that. If you truly felt your own growth in a step by step way in a lot of these other failed games, I think they would be very successful. It's a simple psychological thing that I don't think many developers understand.
"before you buys" are the best reviews out there, you always tell us exactly what we need to know about games, that's a great service thx fam
Can you tell me if I buy the early access game, will I also have to pay for the finished game?
@@jubronni599no, if you buy the early access, then you don't have to pay when the game is finished. And the game is on discount at steam
@@jubronni599 NOT how it works. Once you bought it, you own it.
I haven't heard of any game that makes you pay more when the 1.0 releases. I believe it's the same for this. If you buy it now you have it also when the full release comes around.@@jubronni599
@@jubronni599 no.. your early-access game becomes "full-release" version on release
My overall opinion, I think this has the potential to be a game that we needed. Whether it's from the source of inspiration or from this developer that had the balls to gather the most successful elements of popular games, this is already a great start. My first impression was "Ark with Pokemon", and it already has the advantage of local servers that don't tether everyone to the host (biggest roadblock to playing casual with friends in Ark).
Tethering was my first major concern so that's a relief. Really shit all over my Ark Survival Ascended experience with friends.
The thing with this game is it caters to those who aren't big survival game fans.
I love survival games, but compared to Ark, rust ect the grinding in Palworld is fairly light, that comes down to the pals helping.
This game could be huge, it's just where they go from here. Either way, I'll be here for the ride.
True,its more chiller game, play on your own pace without racing other player. But once people play it once I don't think it had replayability,not that it need one. Most story game, people also play it once
You would probably be more interested in Enshrouded if you haven't heard of it yet.
@@Djinzee what's that?
A lot of things certainly feel like they have just being "frankenstein'd" in, but the game does feels and plays decently and certain systems are well fleshed out. Hopefully they try to elaborate more on storying telling/building within the game so there is more cohesion. I'm having fun regardless, it's different.
I'd argue that story telling, really isn't required. We are playing as some washed up player, trying to survive the world. He doesn't know anything about it and unless the random NPCs tell us stuff, who cares?! There are random people around campfires, who give a little information about certain places but I think they are also survivors in the same situation?!
Either way, I would rather they focus on fixing bugs/glitches, adding more places, more Pals and other stuff, than story telling because again, they have done small bits and it's most likely going to be open ended.
I played Conan Exiles, the closest game I've played to this, and frankly? I think Palworld already has the same amount of story/worldbuilding that Conan Exiles had. The item descriptions, the npcs, the little logbooks, I think they amount to the same amount that Conan Exiles did imo.
Me: I sure wish I could find a video with just some straight up gameplay, maybe even some first impressions.
UA-cam: you’re gonna love this
Asmongold has some videos of him playing it.
videogamedunkey
Streamers are all about hyping up this game to build up the audience, what with it being a meme game.
It’s not bad but it certainly isn’t that good either.
Played it a while and all that was said in this video is true. This game feels more early EA than many other early EA games I bought the past year.
@@millirabbit4331 His videos are so entertaining because he really shows the limits of how insane you can be and have a blast.
@@millirabbit4331 yeah but they are over 2 hrs long
one thing to note, in multiplayer if you join others, it seems that it is separate from your single player (even if you select multiplayer) character. its a totally separate character. idk if it was mentioned.
Every world is its own instance. So if you make a world and progress in it then decide you want to join a buddy and join their world you start fresh in that world and progress your data saves per world.
I currently have 3 different worlds I play in and 3 different progressions (one solo, one with my fiance, and one that is my friends world). The nice thing about that is you can have a world that you and a friend or 2 can all progress together in and no one gets left behind.
Isn't this how it is in most games?
I used to get annoyed when new games are compared to older, more popular games. But I've since realized that it makes it easier to understand what a game is like for someone that hasn't played it yet.
I’ve fell under the map so many times but other than that and a saving glitch every now and then I’ve loved this game so much and I normally play shooter fast paced games
Same I have not touched cod since this dropped missing the events and dont care .. was over cod anyway
I’ve fallen through the map once and I knew it was coming. I tried to jump a see through crack and I made a huge tiny mistake. As for the save glitch, I wish I understood what was causing that. Now every time I see the save icon, I wonder if I will need to get out of the game or if it will for me. That and crashes. Like, no rhyme or reason, just crashes and then none.
I was very suspicious of it, but I've been really enjoying it. To me it doesn't feel cheap. The "pals" are well thought out and really carry the game. There are interesting combos and they seem to have personality and there are a lot of them. Palworld seems to combine what I like in multiple games in to one.
3:19 Daedream gets hit by arrow.
Also Daedream: smiles and waves.
Fittingly, my first captured Daedream has the masochist trait.
I’ve wanted this kinda game ever since I knew what Pokémon was. I shedded tears when I opened up the game and saw the graphics knowing that this was as close as my dream would be made reality. And this is STILL just the beginning. I can’t wait to see what happens next. :)
Playing it on gamepass and loving it so far, only have played about 3 hours though.
Playing on gamepass to about 21 hours in
39h here. Very fun to travel around the map and gather materials to craft higher tier Pal Balls and catch bosses
I heard gamepass is 2 versions behind. Do you notice anything different from the videos and your version?
Gamepass is always behind, its like microsoft store. @@FlyingInRedWings
Theres no exit button so i have to cloae it using task manager@@FlyingInRedWings
My favorite part of this game is when you gathering wood/stone. We went from catching colorful wild animals and forcing them to fight, to catching them and forcing them to do manual labors, work on plantations and THEN forcing them to fight. It's only a matter of time before they add a way for pok- I mean Pals to go on a strike.😂
They do actually go on strike if they get too hungry or aren't happy with working conditions
Looks like it could have a lot of potential. A game you don’t take too seriously and just chill and play. They seriously need to improve that melee combat though! That single move of prodding enemies with a stick looks like it will get tedious very quickly lol
It already is. And it's VERY weak too. I don't bother with melee anymore unless I'm trying to capture Pals that are way lower level than me.
They game is designed to use your Pals in battle.
It’s nicknamed “Pokémon with guns” for a reason. It’s not Pokémon with clubs lol
Who’s coming back to this now that it’s on PlayStation?
I’ve played ark, I’ve played Pokémon (red and blue only thou). 7 days to die and many others. Being able to make your pals work and see them relax in a hot tub, or sleep underwater… yes it’s broken in places but endearing. My partner who has played every Pokémon game is just happy as can be to play a poke-like game and we are for sure going to catch all we can.
Make sure you get to breeding them, and breeding different types together for new results. It does feel hollow without a story but the opening cinematic makes me feel like they know, and plan to do more later on. We will play it to “ pal ‘‘em all” then put it down for a year and come back to hopefully something more amazing.
But sales figures don’t lie, this is what many fans of various genres have been looking for.
Happy gaming..
This game caught me really off guard. My expectations going into it were low, but man is it addicting. It checks off so many boxes for me and is straight up just fun, with friends or grinding solo. I haven't played a game you just want to grind all day and when you get off, you think about it since Jedi Fallen Order. I know it’s early to call this my game of the year, but this has been a pleasant surprise
Around level 15 or so progress started to slack off. But there are world options, and you can give a slight multiplier in xp to keep progress increasing steadily. World settings are very much derivative of Ark, however there are a few options I think the game could add, such as a slider that lets you increase the frequency of raids which currently seems pretty rare.
I had like 3, 2 that were full of dire wolves and the purple lizards (forgot its name) and the 2 suicide bomber birds(luckily I was able to take ‘em out before they got to my base)
I’ve been raided 3 times in one day 😂😭😭
xp rate is pretty high. you just gotta keep catching 10 of each pals
I've been seeing a ton of mention online. Just finished the free preview, and I'm impressed. It has plenty of similarities yet differences from all the games it has been compared to to set it apart. I'm not a huge survival game fan and definitely not a Pokémon fan but this game itched a scratch that no game has since I first played Minecraft.
I appreciate your review. It gave me additional insight on what to expect if (when) I decide to buy it. I would also add that the price is very reasonable. Some games that have had a typical (~$60) price on release have been a buggy mess and dont quite deliver on expectations. Your mention of the less finished aspects don't bother me much considering it is pre-release .
Overall, it seems this game has had so many comparisons in part because it is somewhat unique. So far it seems to deserve the recognition it is receiving. Fingers crossed the development team is able to keep their vision in mind as they move towards release and deliver the awesome experience they have shown off thus far.
I spent hours farming crops, chopping trees, and mining stones. All it accomplished is make me want to play farming sims. So i ended up trying Story of Seasons and Coral Island instead. Much more my speed.
You can edit your world settings to make it less grindy.. I did that and Im enjoying it even more.
I think, although unfinished, the concept of this game works. It takes so many good ideas and makes them work and fit into a pretty nice gameplay loop. It definitely feels like there's supposed to be more behind this game and I really hope to see it fleshed out and finished
I have to imagine that 90% of the player base are in their 30s (like me) and have finally been given the "Pokemon" game we've all been waiting for our whole lives!
I've had to do my whole work day on 0 hours sleep because I couldn't get off Palworld. I absolutely love it
Damn is this really the case? Haha for once I thought this was a game where I was joining the younger gen.
@@DaDude2011well fear not I for a change will be joining you guys as the younger generation. Pokemon was after my childhood so no nostalgia but this thing looks like a good time. Guns and critters
I'm 48 and love it
I'm having the same experience I had with Legends: Arceus. Which is to say, I stayed up until 9am all weekend playing this game!
Hey I feel called out lol but....I'm surprised everyone keeps saying pokemon. with the guns and the way the world is its more like digimon world
People comparing this to Pokemon really need to learn about a little game franchise called Dragon Quest Monsters. The concept for battling and capturing monsters to work alongside you came in 1992 before Pokemon and then became what Palworld basically is in 1998.
This game is more closely related to that than Pokemon.
I agree it needs a lore. A story some quests and side quests more towns and NPCs to interact with. I don't have much of a need to venture out other than to get that higher lvl pal.
Lol, you just described what the whole game is about. A: You are slow at crafting/collecting stuff as just a player alone, so -- B: you go out into the world to collect pals to quicken this process -- C: you enter 30 sec - 3 min repetitive combat to capture said Pal. This is the game. There's nothing more. This is it. And people seem to like it. You'll have to get trained psychologists to study this phenomenon.
@@w0tnessZA I don't get what is fun about this? No lore, no story, no relationship you get with your Pals, no interesting NPC's.
See this is what games companies keep on missing that palworlds got right. It's fun! And lots of freedom, the game is cheep and so fun with friends
I love this game so much. Catching pals feels so good. It plays very well and the fact there isn’t a cash shop helps a ton too.
Yeah, I think a big part of the game's success is that a cash shop would be very easy to do with the progression system, but they chose not to do it.
Never been into the survival genre but this has me hooked at the moment. My only gripes have been the game crashing, falling through some of the map and some of the pals in bases get stuck sometimes. Apart from that it's fun, massive and you can literally spend hours just messing about exploring.
I think most of those will be addressed, considering the game earned 80 million dollars.
I find myself just flying around, looking for chests and eggs, and still enjoying myself. A game where you can enjoy yourself while doing basically nothing is pretty rare (outside of those bullet heaven survivor type games where all you do is move around).
Looks pretty sick! Still a little too "early accessy" for my taste but I'm excited to see how the game evolves over time and will probably pick it up once it has a few more updates under its belt
Personally i havent had many issues it crashes after 3 hrs but really not a problem and when you join its a bit laggy for about a minute not super bad but dont try gliding over water it will drop you lol oh and if you throw your pal too close to an enemy it wont attack it. They put a patch out yesterday fixing some of the bugs. One weird in was if you were on multiplayer (at least with 2 people) itll switch your voices for wahatever reason lol thats fixed though occasionally Pokemon will get stuck inside a mountain but you can still attack and throw balls at it so its not that big of a deal.
Take with it what you will but the game is super fun and man its only gonna get better!
For an “early access” alpha state game - it runs better than most full release games these days 😒
@@DaDude2011 Never said it didn't
I have 22 hours into the game and I can tell you the issues are so minimal. You would think it was full release.
I love the fact that they let you choose how fast you want to progress with the world settings. I don’t have much time to play so it’s perfect for having to grind less and play the game more. Also I have tried games like ark and exiles but could never really get into them so this says a lot for me. I’m addicted. Looking forward to seeing this game grow and hopefully customize even more little things in your world/server.
Ark had adjustable world settings too
Is it just me or does Palworld feel like the Pokémon game we all secretly wanted as kids? 🌍🔫
Yes I wanted to steal Pokemons and eat them
Maybe but less base building.
Idk if i wouldve wanted this as a kid. As an adult. I thoroughly enjoy it haha
Depends if you mean kid as in 5 years ago or kid as in 25 years ago. Because nobody did for the first few gens, open world games and survival didn't really exist.
@@swarllybase building is a plus
I was skeptical at first, got it for me and my kiddo to play. I honestly am having a blast on it more than I should be lol.
I am someone who never got into Pokémon as a kid because my parents thought it was weird. I wanted to get into it since they released the more open world games (shield was my first game) but as I played shield and violet, they just kinda sucked…
Don’t get me wrong I loved the aspect of catching Pokémon but… Palworld has totally given me what I was looking for from Pokémon. It’s ironically a breath of fresh air
I very rarely leave comments, but when you said "talk about Palworld in a year and if Nintendo sued them into the dirt" You had me ROFL.👍
Thanks for all your Before you buy videos!
Thank you!
I would do ANYTHING to be a fly on the wall at TPC rn lmao.
The 🥜 to *even* have EEVEE, AKA TPC’s ‘secondary-mascot’/Pikachu-sidekick’, in essentially the video game-version of ‘paraphrase sources in your own words’ lmaooo YO💀 not a *single* f
Id bet a *lot* of money this game will wind up being LTD sooner rather than later based on the *extreme* passion TPC + Nintendo hold for ♡litigation♡, but holding out hope for survival of some VERY MUCH NEEDED competition and *slight* crippling of the unrivaled-behemoth that is the entire Pokémon ‘franchise’(monopoly) so that MAYBE, just maybe, our children’s children can enjoy a 10% improvement in Pokémon game quality over SV
Anddd as an added bonus: how’s that karma for *RETIRING ASH & PIKACHU* TASTE, you soulless monsters 😭 fk around w the worlds greatest pokemon master and find out
Im kind of hoping its closer to 50% or lower done cause, yes its huge, but i would love to see the whole level of complexity this game has the potential to have. Its already deeper than pokemon in terms of the relationship between the player and creatures. Id love to see it go even further.
Also there definitely needs to be WAY more human involvement in the world that makes the whole factions and designs more convincing
The last 10% of a project tends to encompass about 90% of the effort. I probably wouldn't worry too much.
@@jhemp According to who..
The Japanese game developer stated it's about 40% done, but they're having problems implementing pvp, he said he didn't think it would be so difficult.
this is what future pokemon game should look like. being a pokemon trainer is more than just capturing monsters and battling. despite Game Freak being a multi billion dollars company, their recent game's graphics and gameplays hasn't seen much upgrade at all.
this game is addicting, me and my buddies have been spending days on this game and were only a little under halfway complete
Im excited to see how this game continues to be built. A whole lot of potential and considering its only 60% done, im hoping the rest is doing what you talked about, connecting all of those puzzle pieces together. I think a proper story to fill out the massive world would be awesome and help fix a bunch of those criticisms. Some tweeking would be nice and im sure we will probably get more pals too. Right now, the game is fun to play but im curious how much replayability they plan on adding because i can see a big burnout happening until the next big update and people come back and then burnout again and that keep happening until the game is finished.
I'll be honest. I'd rather they skip story for more boss content and/or more pals. And of course, bugs/fixes.
@@millirabbit4331 I mean, it'd be nice to have a bit more meaning for whatever the towers/tree is, and what the groups you fight even ARE...
I really love the game so far. I am surprised with how much there is on Early Access. The map is big and I enjoy exploring and finding eggs, effigies (sp?), treasure chests and of course new pals. I believe with the success of this game, they will hopefully pour more love into this game and by that I mean really give us more and more to a perfect full fledged out game by next year. I am looking forward to all the new stuff coming in the future.
My greatest hope with this game is that it will finally obligate Nintendo to make a good Pokemon game. Pokemon has become just like FIFAs and CoDs, soulless empty repetitions without very little added and no junk removed
I love that you can set your own parameters for your world. Some people say this game is "too easy". They must not realize they can make it more challenging. They just must love complaining instead of challenging themselves.
That game doesn't become more challenging when you change the settings. It becomes more tedious. You do less damage and receive more. It's harder to catch pals or they become less frequent.
No new mechanics or anything to make the game more interesting. It is an easy game and it doesn't change at higher difficulty settings.
It's just weird how good it is. It's still super janky & souless but there's a lot interesting ideas & mechanics that are addictive. It has so much potential that I hope gets realized.
I'll keep an eye on this one. After those "voids" are filled.
It's just like ark it's nothing new. Only diff is palworld has anime furry creatures and this generation of lady boys LOVE IT
@keiztrat it will die in a month so ya. The game is WAY overhyped by streamers
@@PigBenis-f5u A game simply doesn't "die". That's also a common negativity.. It's in early access and if they keep up with it. They will continue to carry on a good amount of players in their game playing actively.
@@keiztratno this is literally the flavour of the month, there are so many survival crafter's coming out over the next 3months that this could easily be forgotten
Competition a lot of times is a good thing. Pokémon was to dominant in this space and did what they liked, competition will help expand grow this genre of gaming.
For me It just needs a good story. It can survive without one but a good story will take it into the stratosphere.
Nobody played ark for the story and it is still gigantic. This game is more an ark ripoff than pokemon
@@nefuros551
Ark also has a good story. For me it was the game difficulty in single player. I'm talking about what will help prevent this game from becoming a blip and make it popular in the mainstream. Ark isn't really popular outside of its player base.
@FireFox64000000 ark player base is pretty gigantic considering how old it is. Palworld is also a parody so I can imagine the story writing will be pretty corny and comical. Considering it is THIS playable at early access I would imagine this game is going to the stratosphere. Should have enough funding to really polish it into something great.
I feel like you should redo this "Before You Buy" as it's just come out on PS5 and has most likely changed a fair bit since this video.
On the contrary, thank you again for your helpful insight ❤
It’s Pokémon Arceus (capturing)+ Zelda Botw (graphics, climbing, gliding, fast travel points) + Ark Survival (guns, building and technology tree)
I really hate that you put fast travel under BotW like it hasn't been a major staple in the gaming industry for decades
@@watchingyoutube_I'm really offended that you commented that and might consider taking further action
Don't forget straight up worldbuilding ripoffs like the church from caelid at 1:09
Hey, you guys should do a recap on Valhiem! It has changed significantly since it was released. Would be great to see ❤
Good idea, thanks! Valheim is awesome
Out of curiosity, did they allow you to fast travel with resources yet? As that's what stopped my friends and I from continuing playing it after release.
@@goughy3687 Yes, you can now toggle that as a world setting (among many other QOL things, such as difficulty, drop multipliers, etc).
Howso? I booted it up recently and it was the same. Do I need to play a good few hours for new content? It looked nicer and had some extra building items but I saw nothing new beyond that.
@@goughy3687 There are different things about the world you can change for recourses, like .5x all the way up to 4x Materials. and yes even a setting that makes it so you can transport materials through portals :D
I felt like as soon as I stepped out of the spawn area and saw a church down the hill and how grand the map was. I thought, Elden Ring. Don’t know why that is but the scope, scenery and mystery pulled me right in.
I saw the church too and also thought of elden ring because it looks really similar to the church in elden ring after the first tree sentinel.
Every time I fast travel, all I see is BotW.
I really hope the Pokémon company can’t sue and ruin this game. Wayy better than Pokémon, their games have been extremely babified and stale for about a decade
I really think the people saying that this game stole assets from Pokemon are really grasping for straws, because there ain't anything resembling Pokemon in here at all. Even the rabbit, being the most plausible is just literally "The Easter Bunny" generic as can be just painted green and even Nintendo stole from the same source there. Grow up, nintendrones, and find alternative hobbies that don't involve raging in social media.
Nintendo just announced they're suing them lmao
I’m from the future and I’m here to tell you, they’ve announced their suing.
I'm genuinely impressed with Palworld being as good as it is when all anyone expected it to be was a meme game. It's just genuinely such a fun game, and even if it's more like Ark and other survival games than Pokemon itself it's pretty hilarious that the Pals have more personality than the recent pokemon games and actually have 'high quality animations' like Pokemon supposedly has.
remember the game launched in early access like 4 days ago. it’s not finished and its store page makes that crystal clear. it’s a work in progress
Yep and remember what happened their last early access game
@@SteOhara now they definitely got the funding to finish both games
Ya, just like their last 2 games.
You mean like was mentioned multiple times in the video you're commenting on?
I'm really enjoying it so far. It scratches several itches I've had in wanting a game that does one of the things this game does. Is it fleshed out in each category I like? No, but it combines them in a way that's fun.
Also the exploration with friends is great. I love going through dungeons and finding things in the open world, getting distracted by one collectible after the other, never getting to my goal, always getting sidetracked.
You know the real irony?
The Pocket Pair CEO used to work at Nintendo to some extent.
And both Nintendo and Pocket Pair HQs are both close by to each other.
Lol so glad you mentioned Depresso. He's definitely my spirit animal.
Another day another great video so far. Thank you Gamerankz!
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I've been waiting for a Pokémon game similar to this since the N64. I'm enjoying it so far, and I hope it's a success.
Whether ppl like PW or not. I gotta say it's pretty dope Pocket Pair actually give Game Freak and Pokemon some competition.
Competition is as healthy in gaming as it is with anything else. Competition drives progress. So Palworld might be constructive for Pokemon.
Doesn't mean the products will become better automatically. We have far to many examples of the opposite. But still.
I also think it's cool that a small studio are able to actually make a BILLION DOLLARS worth studio..which happens to be one of the most popular franchises ever.. to show their claws.
No matter if I like them or not, I always nod in respect for that.
All in all though, I don't think Palworld is an existential threat to Pokemon as a brand or on any other lvl at all. Nor will it ever be.
Great Review guys! Palworld looks like it has a lot of potential.