Why would they? It takes effort to make something innovative. They can make buckets of money by doing nothing. They might make more, but it’s going to cost a lot more too.
Pokemon Arceus had a little innovation. The thing is: a little innovation after decades of doing the same thing is like a textbook example of “too little, too late”.
Not even remotely the same level of empty. In Palworld there’s 10-100x times the density of creatures and resources. Plus Palworld just looks better than Pokemon Arceus and also doesn’t resort to fog to hide things popping into existence
I don’t think that GameFreak will see this as a wake up call. And even if it does, it might not do the necessary changes to Pokémon main series.
The stagnation runs deeper. It is partially caused by inertia (“we’re selling well, why bother innovating?”), but also by GF’s insistence on making the main series story-driven instead of gameplay-driven. Even if story-driven Pokémon goes a lot against the franchise’s biggest strength - a wide, unique, and immersive universe to explore.
There’s no Rotom bossing you around. No “sit down you player, as we tell you what’s supposed to be your story”. No unnecessary broken bridges forcing story linearity. The story that you see in this sort of game is the one that you build as you interact with the game, not the one that the developer wants you to watch.
People like cathing cool animals and do thing with them valling it a pokemon like game is just weird. No one called pokemon final fantasy with animals.
I hope Game Freak sees this as a wake up call. People will kill for a Pokemon game with a little innovation.
Why would they? It takes effort to make something innovative. They can make buckets of money by doing nothing. They might make more, but it’s going to cost a lot more too.
This game literally cost 6 million though, that’s nothing to the Pokemon company.
Pokemon Arceus had a little innovation. The thing is: a little innovation after decades of doing the same thing is like a textbook example of “too little, too late”.
Also Pokémon Arceus was still empty and boring
So is Palworld if you played it. The island kinda lacks cohesion
Yeah. But it’s also put together by a group of misfits that barely cobbled a game together. Not a decades long gaming empire.
" He built it in a cave, with spare parts!"
It’s also worth noting, that this is an early access game.
Not even remotely the same level of empty. In Palworld there’s 10-100x times the density of creatures and resources. Plus Palworld just looks better than Pokemon Arceus and also doesn’t resort to fog to hide things popping into existence
Oh we wanna use graphics as an argument? Guess I should play Ark survival instead
Ok? Then go play Ark and leave the rest of us alone
I don’t think that GameFreak will see this as a wake up call. And even if it does, it might not do the necessary changes to Pokémon main series.
The stagnation runs deeper. It is partially caused by inertia (“we’re selling well, why bother innovating?”), but also by GF’s insistence on making the main series story-driven instead of gameplay-driven. Even if story-driven Pokémon goes a lot against the franchise’s biggest strength - a wide, unique, and immersive universe to explore.
Except Palworld is insanely popular with essentially no story…
That’s the point. Pokemon could be successful in the same way but they’re saying Game Freak doesn’t want to change how they do things.
Shouldn’t they have learned the lesson from Pokémon Go? That had absolutely no story that I was aware of.
That wasn’t made by Game Freak, that was Niantic.
So? They proved first no one gives a shit about story
Because it’s gameplay-driven.
There’s no Rotom bossing you around. No “sit down you player, as we tell you what’s supposed to be your story”. No unnecessary broken bridges forcing story linearity. The story that you see in this sort of game is the one that you build as you interact with the game, not the one that the developer wants you to watch.
Yeah really goes to show just how massive this market is, and how horribly game freak has whiffed here
People will kill for a pokemon game that doesn’t release broken as hell from bugs. Crazy idea I know
They’re probably finding out all the ways to sue PalWorld in.
People like cathing cool animals and do thing with them valling it a pokemon like game is just weird. No one called pokemon final fantasy with animals.