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Nintendo will be like "I wish someone had told us that a 3d multiplayer open world Pokemon game would be something fans would want!"
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2024
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As a pokemon fan, I'm surprised I didn't hear about Palworld until literally yesterday.
I was thinking just last month that it would be nice if there was some Pokémon game that let you farm and do everyday stuff with them. Then comes Palworld and it's not just Pokémon with guns but you can manage a whole base of creatures doing stuff for you.
Fans: "We've been telling you this for two decades now!"
Alternatively
Nintendo: "Send the C&Ds. Sic the lawyers on them! We'll show these guys not to do Pokemon better than us!"
Does game freak or whoever owns Pokemon have any claim on this? The game doesn't infringe from what I have seen.
Dragon Quest 5 had a similar mechanic in 92, so GaneFreak/Creatures inc/Nintendo will never be able to have a copyright over the concept.
I doubt it. They don't own the concept of monster collection and fighting and such, and I'd say the designs are distinct enough. Not to mention all the other mechanics the game features.
Not really a fair comparison as Starfield was put together quickly by a little no name indy studio.
Why are we still struggling so hard to keep starfield relevant?
If I was this development team I would be popping bottles all weekend long for being this successful. In the 30+ years of gaming I have never seen a game so unknown, basically become one of the most successful games of all time in 24 hours like this. I feel like this was the equivalent of hitting the lottery for them.
Minecraft went from obscurity to widly popular pretty quickly, but probably not this fast. I remember reading about how Notch (also fuck that guy) woke up one day to his bank account frozen because millions of people bought the $10 licenses.
This is way faster than MC.
MC snowballed. This exploded.
Baldur's Gate 3: A game that devs put years of blood, sweat, and tears into. Community feedback driven, and one of the most successful RPGs of recent memory based on a grassroots marketing campaign and intense nostalgia and goodwill based on the franchise.
Palworld: Fuck all that. Some youtuber mentioned it. Biggest game of all time in less than 24 hours.
Flavor of the Week vs something that will remain a classic for decades.
So? Why does it offend you all so much? If people like it, that's good surely? Why be offended because other people like something? You still have Bg3, if that's your bag.
And the content of the game is a hodgepodge of other games. And the developer abandoned other games.