Palworld entered Early Access to the tune of over 300,000 concurrent players

This is what an open-world pokemon game should have been. Not the buggy disappointing mess GameFreak gave us for 2 generations.

  • CileTheSaneEnglish
    132·
    10 months ago

    But the dog pokemon fighting rings were okay?

    • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      84·
      10 months ago

      No. Pokemon itself is definitely kidnapping and dog fighting. But at least it’s cute and they disguise it a bit. This game seems (I haven’t played yet, may check it out on GP) to throw off the veil and that squicks me out a bit.

      Honestly if it wasn’t for the Pokeball-horror, the fighting aspect would be more tolerable. It could then be pushed that you convinced pokemon to fight with you and they live good lives the rest of the time. Instead of either being in a state of stasis with the only thing they know is fighting, or being in literal prison when not fighting.

        • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Heh, I played it. But being super evil in that is very risky unless you have the (I forget?) psychopath trait. It’s generally easier to be good in Rimworld for the shallow-end amount I’ve played it.

          • TRBoom@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            With the Ideology DLC you can have a whole colony of monsters!

            A nomadic group of nudist cannibals? Go right ahead!

            A matriarchal society where men are property and must where burkas? Yes.

            Cave dwelling mushroom eaters with an eye gouging ritual since they all crave to be blind. Absolutely!

            And that’s all without the families and babies DLC!

      • Pheonixdown@lemm.eeEnglish
        10·
        10 months ago

        If it helps, inside of a Pokeball it’s supposed to be a simulated paradise for the pokemon, but that is also a form of cyber dystopia so …

        • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Ah. So then the incentive to leave is seeing other people. Yeah, it’s not great. :)

          • Pheonixdown@lemm.eeEnglish
            4·
            10 months ago

            Worst most captured Pokemon only leave their Pokeball to battle themselves to exhaustion in either gladiatorial combat against another similarity trapped opponent, for the purpose of additional enslavement or simply to physically or mentally cripple their free opponent into unconsciousness.

      • CileTheSaneEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        This game seems to have just as much of a veil as Pokemon games. It’s not some “gritty reboot”.

        • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          The steam page is pretty veil-off, they make it pretty clear that you gun down pals and can force them to work in factories literally to a death of starvation if you like.

          I dunno if that carries through to the game, but the advertising definitely shows it