• callouscomic@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Decided to finally go watch gameplay of this game.

    It’s definitely a fan ripoff mashing up Breath of the Wild with the newer open world pokemon games.

    I’m not saying nobody else is allowed to make these kinds of games. But this absolutely is just trying to rip those off. Looks as unimaginative, boring, and empty as all of Nintendo’s adventure games.

    They’ve stolen Nintendos IP of providing half-assed garbage and watching people eat it up.

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      2 months ago

      I mean, it also has very distinct gameplay from Pokemon? The newer open world games but like sword and shield released the same year pal world opened it’s early access (2019). Legends, which is the closest, was 3 years later.

      Also, definitely adds FPS gameplay, survival gameplay with base building, and etc.

      While it’s still not a great game, it’s definitely A: still early access and B: not just a Pokemon game.

      Definitely took more than BotW and Ark than it did from anything else.

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      2 months ago

      I wonder if people actually played Palworld here.

      It’s an obvious mash-up of existing games, ripping straight from games like Breath of the World, Pokemon and Fortnite, even up to the music chimes.

      I don’t think Nintendo should be suing, but people here defending how original the game is should really take a closer look at it.

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        2 months ago

        The original part is the specific formulation. Pretty much all games are mashups of other games anyway. Palworld found a formula among popular games that really struck a chord with people, and they executed on it pretty well.

        And yeah, I’ve seen extensive portions of Palworld since my SO is really into it. My SO doesn’t care much at all about Pokemon, Breath of the Wild, or Fortnite, though they really like Palworld. That alone is a pretty good argument for Palworld being distinct.

        Nintendo is mad that Palworld did a great job with some of their ideas, and I think they want a piece of the action. I don’t think they’re concerned that anyone would mistake Palworld for any of their IPs, they just want some cash. I’m interested to know which patents they claim Palworld violated, because it’s honestly really rare in video games for patents to actually be enforceable because there’s so much prior art and a lot of variations in how mechanics can be used.

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      2 months ago

      More like a (much more polished) ripoff of a game that came out a couple years before Breath of the Wild.

      Ark with pokemon and fortnite graphics.