The beginning is very grindy and unpleasant IMO. I would have given up if my friend hadn’t told me I was on the verge of the survival easing up. Once you have a few pals doing your chopping and mining, you can turn your focus to exploration (which I find much less tedious)
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Maybe they should spend more time criticising their favorite companies and demand a better product instead of spending money on borderline broken garbage every other year
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I genuinely don’t know how crossover there between the two games tbh. I’m not interested in either,.
Maybe because it’s like 15 years ahead of the last official Pokémon game, even if it’s a regular survival game with monster creatures attached. It only shows the low level of Game Freak games.
It’s obviously a joke
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I assume so, but my main focus is the fact PoP released at the same time as PalWorld shows which one got more attention to everyone. Media outlet was all on PoP but general audience is all on PalWorld. It’s like Hollywood, audience will be starving for summer film while critic will be on indie or non-mainstream ones.
Now it makes sense
https://x.com/palworld_en/status/1749047519265632440?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ
Sorry, but I have to make this joke. I can imagine Head of PS meeting with Square and HD2 dev similar to Iron Man Film where the main villain went irate over the fact scientists with all tech can’t outmatch Tony.
Sony: You absolutely have to get a million users on day one.
Square/HD2: But sir, that’s not possible. One is new IP and the other hasn’t been marketing well.
Sony: Microsoft managed to get a very popular game that’s essentially a BOOTLEG POKEMON!!!..…….WITH GUNS!!!
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It is in the league of its own now
https://twitter.com/Palworld_EN/status/1749047519265632440?t=7BsJYFA70JqSk7NFwOnQ9w&s=19
At 1.2M now
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WTH ?? I’m floored. That’s insane.
No the hardest part will come, maintaning a high number of players.
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Yup, when you look at that list 2 of those games weren’t able to hold onto the momentum they’ve built. However, most of those games were able to hold onto their momentum. It’s very curious to see if this game becomes a Terraria or Valheim/new world
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That’s part of the charm it seems, people love the clunk and the survival already. Throw in the monsters with abilities and actually having to fight them and along side them and the whole thing blew up.
Supposedly it picks up a lot once you got the fundamental down pack. If you like what you see, then you going to love what’s inbound. If you don’t, either quit or give it a little more time to truly see if it clicks.
MS needs to open the checkbook and make this exclusive or buy the dev and lock down Palworld 2 in a few years. This might become big in popularity like Ark and having it tied to Xbox could help with sales.
Also would help to make sure it can work with Steam users. Don’t know why in 2024 a game’s multiplayer isn’t crossplay. I have a friend playing with us using the windows store version but he wished he had gotten the steam version as it has more features right now. Really wish people wouldn’t have to think about that and just could assume games are cross platform, especially since there really doesn’t seem to be a reason for it being locked down the way that it is.
It also goes quick if we pay attention to Pals abilities, some of them just start working right away it seems.
Planning on trying PalWorld tonight. Figure it must be good since when I Google it I get a slew of salty IGN and Kotaku articles about there not being multiplayer player count parity between PC and Xbox.
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Gotta remember, it’s an Early Access game. Cross play is probably not very high on the list of priorities
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Actually it has some sense of cross play. I was playing on my buddy’s PC world and I’m on Xbox
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