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Palworld is terrible (kbin.social)

submitted 9 months ago by newtraditionalists@kbin.social to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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I was stoked to boot it up and like......what? It's such a stupid game on all fronts. I get that stealing mechanics works if you're into that kind of gameplay, but there's no way that anyone other than pokemon obsessed people enjoy this. Even then, it's such a poor analog for actual pokemon games. I feel like it's "success" is all media buzz. Every actual human in my life agrees it's terrible. Even my partner who is actually pokemon obsessed lol. But the coverage on the internet would have you believe it's goty contender. I have never felt more convinced that we are living in a simulation lol. I can't be alone in this, am I? Is there where I learn that I'm that far out of touch? Like, truly, if you enjoy it, good for you. We all have things we love that others don't get. But like, someone please tell me I'm not the only one lol.

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[–] thantik@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

but clearly they aren't so bad that they didn't inspire the Palworld dev team to rip and "remix" their art assets...

Something palworld didn't do. The guy who got caught claiming that, eventually came clean and said he had morphed and touched up the models so they looked closer than they actually were. They didn't rip any assets, they didn't 'copy' pokemon. There was no AI gen being trained on pokemon models either. This was haters making up fake controversy. So now you've also allowed your ignorance surrounding the game, to affect your judgement of it.

No art is created in a vacuum. Every artist, every creation, stems from the inspiration of something else. Palworld and their studio just didn't shy away from using mechanics that were popular. They know those mechanics are fun, so why try and reinvent them for the sake of trying to be unique?