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I've never played Pokemon, but I have played Ark and BOTW. Palworld is like a love child of multiple games that I love and does a reasonable job at them (IMHO).

everforward 3y ago
I am also an avid Ark player (Ark 2 can't come too soon), at least when I have copious quantities of time to waste haha. I kind of enjoy the grind, reminds me of a more manual and exploration focused Factorio. Get dino to enhance resource acquisition, use new resources to make new tools, use new tools to get new dino, and repeat. To be clear, I don't think Pokemon is entirely the reason Palworld is selling. It's a reasonably well-made game for an early-access indie title, and it does pull the best parts of a lot of games. My only gripe is that I don't love the capturing system and I wish they would re-work it a bit. Having to try to get them down to 1% HP without good control over how much damage you're dealing can be very frustrating, especially when you try to go back and capture things much lower level than you. It ironically becomes harder to capture low level things as you level up. I prefer Ark's dual-HP system where HP going to 0 makes them die and torpor going to 0 (or max, can't remember which way it fills) makes them pass out so you can tame them. It feels like I have a lot more agency, and having to protect the dino while it tames makes it feel like a huge accomplishment to capture a high level dino. The breeding system is also in dire need of some love, but I think that's more easily fixable. They just need to add some randomness when you're breeding two dissimilar species. I.e. you shouldn't be able to deterministically breed a level 43 boss (Anubis) out of two level 17 Pals. It's super cool that it can happen, but it should be like a 10% chance.

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I've never played Pokemon, but I have played Ark and BOTW. Palworld is like a love child of multiple games that I love and does a reasonable job at them (IMHO).

by lsaferite 3y ago

everforward 3y ago
I am also an avid Ark player (Ark 2 can't come too soon), at least when I have copious quantities of time to waste haha. I kind of enjoy the grind, reminds me of a more manual and exploration focused Factorio. Get dino to enhance resource acquisition, use new resources to make new tools, use new tools to get new dino, and repeat. To be clear, I don't think Pokemon is entirely the reason Palworld is selling. It's a reasonably well-made game for an early-access indie title, and it does pull the best parts of a lot of games. My only gripe is that I don't love the capturing system and I wish they would re-work it a bit. Having to try to get them down to 1% HP without good control over how much damage you're dealing can be very frustrating, especially when you try to go back and capture things much lower level than you. It ironically becomes harder to capture low level things as you level up. I prefer Ark's dual-HP system where HP going to 0 makes them die and torpor going to 0 (or max, can't remember which way it fills) makes them pass out so you can tame them. It feels like I have a lot more agency, and having to protect the dino while it tames makes it feel like a huge accomplishment to capture a high level dino. The breeding system is also in dire need of some love, but I think that's more easily fixable. They just need to add some randomness when you're breeding two dissimilar species. I.e. you shouldn't be able to deterministically breed a level 43 boss (Anubis) out of two level 17 Pals. It's super cool that it can happen, but it should be like a 10% chance.