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.

  • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
    25·
    11 months ago

    you can catch people

    Wait… what?

    you put what you catch to work for you at your camp

    Hmmm.

    • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      95·
      11 months ago

      This and the obvious modern guns are what are giving me pause. Slaughtering cute pokemon and slavery.

        • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
          84·
          11 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.

          • Pheonixdown@lemm.eeEnglish
            10·
            11 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·
              11 months ago

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

              • Pheonixdown@lemm.eeEnglish
                4·
                11 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.

            • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
              3·
              11 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·
                11 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!

          • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
            4·
            11 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·
              11 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