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It absolutely was for a week. There is no content beyond breeding pals and the second you Google anything the game is boring. No story, no interesting fights, everything is level based and the second you are within 5 levels of something you can kill it.
I think it is kind bad/lazy, but giving it a second thought if its just secondary info thats there for people who want to know the lore and it wont make the main game confusing it may be fine
Depends on how its done, and how you find those text thingies.
Imagine a game where you explore some military lab that had some sick experiments get loose and you're piecing together what happened from chat logs and such. Or a murder mystery where you're sifting through letters between a serial killer and the victim you're trying to get justice for.
Hell, some of the charm in Fallout is reading those little flavor text logs to flesh out the "why" behind what you find in the dilapidated areas you're exploring.
That’s the thing, it doesn’t matter if your game has world class graphics, diversity, originality, innovation, or is made by a great team of people, all that matters is that playing it IS FUN. Seems all these studios are forgetting that part.
Normal gameplay is fun if it wasn’t it wouldn’t sell 20M copies every release. People like to dunk on pokemon and there are many reasons to but they are still fun to play for millions of people.
It being pokemon helps it sell as well, though especially for kids I bet it being pokemon is more important than gameplay for wanting the games. It being the pokemon brand reallys helps to sell the games.
Though yeah fun is subjective so I'm sure a bunch of people who buy it do find the gameplay fun. Or some parts of it.
Exactly this. I havent played a pokemon game in 10+ years because theyre ALL the same. I played palworld start to finish and loved every second of it, in my head its the pokemon game we deserved and what fans have been wanting for DECADES. Its just sad that it took an indie company to do it instead of nintendo with its billions.
After nintendo sued them for copying the 'throwing a ball to capture monsters', i said im out, cant support that company any more.
The only issue is that it has basically no artistic merit and is basically a tech demo that exists purely to say 'look at what you could have done with your IP' instead of doing anything interesting. It has no identity other than 'pokemon clone with guns' in the public mind and frankly, the worst mainline pokemon games absolutely style on it in terms of tone, writing, and consistency.
Shit on nintendo all you want, but if you choose to uplift the brain rot, don't be surprised when everything falls to shit.
It’s not even a ripoff of pokemon. It’s ark with creatures where a lot of them are very similar to pokemon. People keep saying it’s pokemon with guns but it’s not even close.
Thats a fault of where it's positioned in the market and the deliberate aesthetic overlap.Â
People who are capital G gamers and 'in' on the scene know that. But the average consumer doesn't. Thats not how the public consciousness works. You can try to deny it but you throw balls and cute, furry fuckers with elemental affinity. If you say that and think of anything but Pokemon, the largest and most valuable franchise on earth, you're cracked.
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u/Mughalbadsha12 23h ago
leave the billion dollar corporation alone theyre just a small indie team