Palworld Sucks

so back in 2021 when my videos were even worse than they are now I made a quick little video about a game that had received some publicity from a couple articles that mentioned the comedy of combining a certain other franchise that I won't mention just quite yet and guns while a lot of the coverage surrounding this game was predictably about the comedy of starting up sweat shops in a survival game with cute little creatures I decided to actually look at the developer track record of games made up to this point considering their previous track record was an abandoned card game with middling reviews and an abandoned Early Access game that shared shocking similarities among assets and trailers with power I took it as a sign that this early access game was going to release as a buggy broken mess regardless I would buy it day one because of course I was going to in the time between my video and the year 2024 a lot of things happened namely power world getting delayed from 2022 to 2024 in that time the developer seemly changed quite a bit from what the trailer initially showed from overhauling the cartoonish look of the world to adding a lot more Pals and fleshing out the systems in which they interact with the world come the beginning of this year I remembered power world was set for release and I prepared to play it and record it expecting a mess of a game like I had described earlier suddenly The Gaming Community was inundated with news about power world from people who had gotten early access codes talking about the game and hyping people up for it and then the game released and sold a million copies in no time then 2 million 3 4 5 6 7 8 19 million people had purchased or played this game this game set records for concurrent player counts on Steam and nearly dethroned pubg for the concurrent player count record nearly overnight this indie game boasted sales numbers that rivaled the franchise it was seemingly parting when it comes to other monster catching games no one had truly come this close to toppling the rat this has to mean the game is good right now to preface me talking about this game let me clear the air a bit because discussion surrounding this game has been absolutely psychotic if you like the game you support AI art theft and the collapse of gaming if you dislike the game you support a multi-billion dollar Corporation anti-consumer business practices and the collapse of gaming while there's seemingly no winning when it comes to discussing this game allow me to clear the air surrounding some of the things you might have heard about power world before I actually talk about it first there's no concrete proof that this game used AI to generate the designs of the pals while pocket pair does have a game that uses Ai and the CEO has tweeted about liking AI power world itself did not use it as far as we know you might say the CEO's tweets about AI are pro enough but every CEO likes AI so this doesn't really mean anything being unlikable is 90% of what being a CEO entails so stuff like this seems part for the course and secondly this game is not going to get sued for stealing models there's not evidence models were directly lifted and yes I know a statement exists from a certain company but this statement means nothing and honestly sounds like they're just sick of people sending them power world clips and putting out a statement to say yes we know this game exists with all that cleared up I think I have a strong enough reputation to be able to call this game what it is without someone posting this image and thinking they're contributing anything to the conversation power world is slop from its presentation down to its fundamental components the entire game is built solely on the basis of I think it'd be fun if we did this with no further thought on whether or not it should be in the game in the first place and I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I'm now seemingly above enjoying slop just because this time it's from an early access game in a genre I'm not big on power is fun about as much so as a puddle the idea sounds fun and I have fun jumping into it but I hit the bottom fast and then I'm left standing there with soggy shoes I will say what power world does best is that it managed to trick 19 million people into playing ark or Conan Exiles but seriously its survival mechanics unlike usual entries into this genre are pretty easy to understand from the get-go and progression feels pretty quick in the beginning stages of the game having the piles you go around and catch become your workers is a pretty smart thing to do because it begins to automate a lot of the early game grind that turns people off to this genre while also allowing you to expl or while still feeling like you're progressing further into the game this is without mentioning that PC players seem to eat up survival games like crack regardless of their overall quality rust Ark Conan Exiles Daisy valheim Etc all come with a level of Jank that the average player base is willing to accept because well there's nowhere else to really experience this type of gameplay this game also happened to follow the rising trend of an indie game releasing and it just becoming the game you and your friends hop on to play for a while battle bit lethal company and now power world have all been Co-op multiplayer experiences I'm willing to bet a lot of people tried out this game because their friends dm' them about it with how accessible power makes its survival mechanics and the general feeling of exploring a world and coming across new creatures to catch and employ it's no wonder 2.1 million people hopped on to play this game at the same time praise out of the way issues began to appear when I actually started getting deeper into the grind of power world the way the game is marketed makes it feel like you'll be running around with guns shooting these little creatures in no time but the truth is after about 11 hours you'll probably have your first gun maybe by the time you do get your first gun which is a musket and kind of blows even if it is what God intended for man to fight these creatures with the shallowness of the game really begins to show when you're not grinding for stuff in your base you're meant to be out in the world exploring challenging boss Towers or boss Pals or rescuing Pals from Raider camps but outside of personal ambition to have a bigger guy with better stats there's no real reason to do this the bosses are incredibly stupid as are all the AI in the game there's no sign of tactics or strategy they just choose to run at you and deal damage or sometimes they'll just run into a wall or get stuck in a wall the point I'm making here is The Game's pretty buggy I began to wonder why I was even really exploring this world in the first place and I managed to boil it down to three reasons Pals dungeons or bosses and resources at a certain point your base becomes like 95% self-sustaining especially if you strategize your second base correctly by essentially building an or Farm the only reasons to go to dungeons is sulfur unless you just buy all your ammo at merchants or for Alpha Pals or anent technology Parts as for bosses they really just give you XP I see no other reason to show up for these especially when as far as boss fights go they're pretty boring this leaves the last and final reason to leave your sweat shop catching more Pals which was personally the main thing I was interested in when this game was announced and what I bought it for all right brace yourselves because I'm going to break the glass and it's time I mention the p word Pokémon Pokemon Pokemon despite the astounding amount of discourse surrounding this game neither side truly understands what the real issue is behind the designs of pal world's Pals once again the models aren't AI generated and with the current information we do have there's no solid evidence that pal straight up stole Pokémon's models either the real issue with Pals is that from admission of the company and their CEO they're not in the business of creating an original set of creatures for the world or an original game for that matter which means I can look at 80% of the roster of Pals and let my brain instantly make the connection to which three Pokémon they shoved into a blender to form them not to mention while again there's no defend itive proof of anything being stolen a few specific designs definitely feel that way however what people don't seem to understand is that yes Pokemon does not own the rights to certain Concepts and at some point if you ask people to make a hedgehog creature you can only come up with so many Unique Designs what power actually took was Pokemon's Core Design philosophy a lot of people like to post this image right now to show that Pokémon itself isn't entirely original with its Concepts but this image just ends up proving my point because you would never mistake a creature from Dragon Quest or Digimon or temptem with a Pokémon my friends that played power world never even attempted to call these creatures Pals and some have even asked me why these new Pokémon look so weird if I had to be honest I think there were only at most three or four Pals in the game that I caught and thought looked good enough to actually be Pokémon which is sad because one well-designed Pokémon pretty much solos the entirety of power world's lineup and you'd think with the mount system in the game that should be motivation enough to go out and catch certain Pals because why run or walk everywhere when you can ride a pal instead however I'm convinced they just included this because it was an arc and didn't think about how the pals would actually interact and move about the world like mid game I found this guy and he swims that's his gimmick why am I the same speed as him in the water or better question why is the flying Mount faster than him what's the point of this guy being mountable specifically to ride around in the water if he's slower than a flying Mount that doesn't get tired hovering over the water forever and I'm aware there are in fact faster mounts than this but to get them requires sheer luck or hundreds of hours of egg breeding for very diminishing returns I can't bring myself to care about these creatures because they have no identity of their own okay so long-winded rant about Pokemon over what does that mean it means that when I'm running around to catch a bunch of Pals I have absolutely no interest in owning or employing I'm left to explore the sights in scenery of a map that feels like it was bought off the unreal store Library sometimes I even get to find the ever jails from Elden ring or the churches from Elden ring rarely I might even get to find a lifeless town where I can buy stuff from Merchants that make going into dungeons nearly irrelevant incredibly rarely there are radar outposts across the map and in theory you could have fun freeing a pal from people looking to sell it but in practice you just end up steamrolling guys on 300 ping stuck walking into walls and it's sad because power world attempts to have some World building but throws it out instantly because either just isn't implemented yet or they haven't thought about how it would be implemented like there's two islands at the edges of the map and they're described as these sort of wildlife sanctuaries for Pals what makes them so special is that stepping foot on the island and being spotted by the guards will immediately make you want it and I'd love to show you footage of that but it never happened to me because my friend and I found out you could just stay on a flying Mount the whole time and because you're flying your feet never actually touch the ground which I guess is a requirement to become wanted so you can just taunt the guards all you want go around and Slaughter or catch these rare Pals whatever why World build we don't care about original Concepts we just care about fun with none of those things around despite the same three to five Pals stuffed into a certain region the map is well and truly Barren and lifeless I'm talking Sonic 06 solely on a forest Hub World levels of empty past that the game overall feels incredibly unpolished and not in the it's an early access sense I can't help but think that everything it does well wasn't a purposeful decision from the develop velers and was instead just a stroke of sheer luck after mashing other games mechanics and features together with no real thought about how they should fit in and interact for example this is a survival game so naturally power comes with a hunger mechanic a motivator for you to find food and eat it but there's no real punishment if you run out of food not even on hard mode starvation just means your health will sit at 1 HP but you won't die there's not even a penalty to your stamina regeneration you can just run around forever with one HP and never eat not to mention there are a plethora of foods to cook but no reason for you to not just farm and eat cooked or raw berries the only difference with the other Foods is that they fill you up quicker hundreds of best food and power world articles yet no real world replacement found for farming berries and clicking berries 20 times and sure take it from Reggie if the game isn't Fun why bother clearly 19 million people in counting find some form of enjoyment out of the slop and for that I'm glad that some of them don't feel like they wasted 30 bucks it's no surprise power did get this popular the idea of Pokémon with guns combined with a genre PC players are practically addicted to leaves little room for the game to have fallen flat on its face not to mention any Jank power world might have inherently come with is looked over because as I said earlier people who play this genre are used to Jank that's probably worse than whatever power world is offering and you get all of it for $30 with no microtransactions or DLC and free updates promised to be coming soon a lot of people find that to be more than enough I definitely cannot recommend power in its release state or even currently after first couple round of patches don't get me wrong if you're fine with everything I listed above don't let me stop you from having fun with your friends I still believe that's ultimately the reason most people ended up enjoying this game through the slop that it is just keep in mind that it's shallow and if you're one of the people looking for a Pokemon experience on the PC I'd keep looking or even just wait the 2 years it'll take for poell to be either the Pokemon killer people want it to be or a survival game worth investing your time into if you enjoyed this video consider watching another and subscribing down below

Channel: Stryxo

Views: 79,044

Keywords: stryxo, stryxo gaming, stryxo part 2, palworld, pokemon, palworld debate, palworld gameplay, palworld mount, palworld tutorial, palworld location, stryxo modern game user interfaces, stryxo minecraft, stryxo teardown, stryxo konami, stryxo battlepasses, stryxo console wars

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Length: 12min 26sec (746 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 28 2024