I Read Palworld's Negative Reviews (so that you don't have to)

power world is a super strange game it had absolutely no hype whatsoever before its release and its developer was mostly unheard of and then suddenly they released their game onto Steam and Bam 2 million concurrent players this came completely out of nowhere it was truly an overnight success so you might think that this sudden burst of popularity would be a sign of a good game that people overwhelmingly enjoy right well not quite this feels like jingling Keys the video game full of hackers hackers that destroy your base hackers who kill you and steal all your party Powers blle too overrated and buggy AF turning off motion blur doesn't actually turn off motion blur and it hurts my eyes I think I might be I can't read that one actually this is the game that killed Tupac weight for real power world had incredible overnight success but it isn't without its controversy and you know I've actually done quite a few of these negative review videos in the past but most of the time I'm usually read reading the reviews of a game that I actually like enjoy but I'm just going to come clean with this one I don't I don't like this game I don't like power world I think this game's kind of garbage and for most of the time I played this game I was just like mad about it and I can't fast travel back to my base unless I run to a [ __ ] I and I can't climb this rock because the game doesn't want the game doesn't want me to do it and for some reason the Geniuses that made the game made the interact button F when in every other game ever made it's e and I kept pressing e by accident over and over again and it it just made me really unhappy right every single R get reveals muscular chest I'm going to get [ __ ] Larry in a minute this is it's going to punch a drywall so sorry in advance for being super negative in this video but yeah I don't like this game so whilst I was reading through all the negative reviews I was just like yep mhm yeah 100% absolutely right completely do [ __ ] and I think the ones that I agree with the most are the ones that say something like this this game has a liberal 4 to8 hours of content before you hit a brick wall grind World utilizes a ton of very long timers that are completely unnecessary in a single player/ Coop game it is not Arc or rust there's no no PVP so there's no actual reason to make people wait up to 72 hours for an egg to hatch on hard difficulty the crafting forces you to sit and hold the interact key for the entire duration of The Craft and some of them take minutes in fact scratch that all of those reviews use way too many words to describe it it can actually be summed up even quicker than that just three words valheim with Pokémon and I can't stress enough I I hate valheim I just I really hate that game it's just just oh it's so bad I know a lot of people like valheim but that game just really it just it just but at least valheim is actually a functioning video game you know power world doesn't even get that part right power world is completely infested with bugs and glitches ranging from Annoying bugs that make the game frustrating to bugs that are super funny oh look I'm in the sky holy [ __ ] oh I'm going to die wait I'm going to die are you I'm in the sky I [ __ ] that literally make the game unplayable in fact about a third of all of the negative reviews were all complaining about one single gamebreaking bug absolute trash I played the game for 20 hours and all my progress reset completely fix the issue where players save files corrupt on dedicated servers this issue is so common that people talking about it makes up the majority of the negative reviews about the game in fact I personally had two save files corrup in this exact way after about 10 hours on each save file fortunately I'm not amongst the people who spent 500 hours in their world before losing their save and in a game with literally hundreds of hours worth of grueling grind having people lose their save progress on mass like this isn't particularly acceptable at first it can be forgiven right because it's an early access game that had an unexpected popularity explosion but after they made tens of millions of dollars in about 2 weeks you'd think they'd spend some of that money on like actually you know fixing their game and stuff but these issues have gone completely unresolved for months now as have all the really annoying minor bugs that the game is full of not to mention the issues with power world's official servers the multiplayer has already been ruined by hackers every official na server is riddled with Chinese symbols spamming third party sales cheaters roam around official servers and demolish everyone's bases for no reason so you can't play the game online with your friends unless you use a dedicated server and if you do use a dedicated server your save file is likely to get corrupted after the game updates anyway so you'll lose your progress regardless it's not exactly ideal I'll be honest the negative reviews did also point out something else that I just completely agree with the game doesn't have its own identity it feels kind of soulless too I wish they were more creative instead of piggybacking on Ark a little too much this review makes an incredibly good point but I actually think they understate the point a little bit because it's not just Ark that it's piggybacking off in fact that one valheim with Pokémon review was saying basically the same thing literally everything in power world is taken directly from another game it has creature mechanics from Pokémon it has crafting mechanics from valheim and Arc it has Base building mechanics from Val breath of the wild climbing breath of the wild fonts and sound effects it even has Dark Souls Dodge rolls for some reason and all of these things are taken wholesale from other games and just copy pasted into power world without changing a single thing about it now you might be thinking to yourself but H2 there's no such thing as being original anymore and these games you brought up didn't necessarily invent their ideas either and you know what that's absolutely true breath of the Wild didn't invent climbing Ark didn't invent crafting and Dark Souls didn't invent Dodge rolls but what these games did do is they took a concept like climbing or Dodge rolling and they made an iteration of it in their game that feels unique lots of games have climbing in them but breath of the Wilds climbing is specific to that game they took something as broad as climbing and they made the mechanic feel special and unique so much so that when you see those climbing mechanics mecs used in another game like power world you don't just see a climbing mechanic you specifically notice it as being breath of the Wild's climbing mechanic same goes for Dark Souls Dodge rolls lots of games have Dodge rolling in them but the way Dark Souls implemented it into the game makes it feel different from other Dodge rolls in other games but whereas these games take inspiration from other mechanics power world just takes power world doesn't just have climbing it has breath of the wild climbing it doesn't just have creature mechanics it specifically has creatures that look like Pokémon that you capture in balls that function exactly like pokeballs power world isn't taking inspiration from other games it's just taking from other games but there's actually one more Super interesting thing that I discovered whilst reading the negative reviews something about power world that I didn't previously know about the fact none of the reviews mention power world is literally just a onetoone copy of the developers previous game craftopia is kind of concerning it even has the exact same bugs pocket pair made power world as an asset flip from their previous Early Access title craftopia which at the time of writing is still unfinished but instead of throwing your spheres at animals you instead throw them at Pals you see pal world is developed by a company called pocket pair Incorporated and if you type pocket pair into Google the very first thing that comes up is their website for a game called craftopia and if you watch a little bit of craftopia gameplay on YouTube you'll notice that it looks a little bit familiar as it turns out power world is nothing more than an asset flip of a previous game from the developer same visual effects same gameplay Loop basically everything is almost exactly the same the animals just aren't called Pals and all the base automation is done with Machinery instead of your enslaved little Pokémon guys this previous game is also an early access release that never actually ended up getting finished so that's why pal World feels so soulless that's why it takes so many ideas from other games that's why it's so buggy it explains literally everything and you might be wondering how a game like this could even become so popular in the first place How could a game so full of bugs that so obviously an asset flip that so blatantly plagiarizing from other games become such an overnight success becoming the second most played game on Steam of all time I think the theory that makes the most sense to me is a very simple one power world is successful not because it's a good game that people love but instead because modern Pokémon the franchise people are in love with is so lackluster Game Freak the developers of the mainline Pokémon games are really dropping the ball on most of their modern releases they've been incredibly rushed incredibly buggy and the switch can barely even run the games in the first place and Pokémon fans have been crying out for an open world Pokémon game for God knows how long now and they've just never received it so a company like pocket pair sees this and they come along with power world it's clearly a knockoff it's Tesco's own Pokémon but it's also open world with crafting mechanics just like people have been asking for for years now and power world might be buggy but it's not this buggy so people eat it up if you ask me power world is nothing but a testament to just how easy it would be for Game Freak to make a Pokémon game that makes a billion dollars all they would have to do is make a game exactly like power world but with real Pokémon in it and they'd make more money than God but quite frankly with the state of modern game freak and modern Nintendo I highly doubt this will ever happen so until then power world is going to reign supreme thanks for [Music] [Applause] [Music] watching [Music] oh

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Length: 11min 7sec (667 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 23 2024