It felt like Monster Hunter where you can catch the monsters with poke balls.

This

Yeah. You can argue about creature designs and capture mechanics... but I recognize engrams when I see them.

Absolutely this. So tired of people calling it Pokemon with guns. This isn't a turn based isometric RPG with a child protagonist trying to become the very best...

Ahh Ark. The game I bought purely because it had a dinosaur on the cover. 😂

Thank God I'm not the only one who saw that. Thing has a similar palette, but doesn't actually resemble Leafeon.

That gem in the forehead definitely screams Emerald Carbuncle. And as a former Summoner Main, that makes me happy, more than it makes me offended about "plagiarism".

Yeah, the more I play it the less I’m seeing pals as Pokémon knockoffs for some of them. Example, Anubis doesn’t look that much like lucario to me once I see him in action. He’s basically just a 1:1 to the Egyptian god if anything.

That's a Leafeon if I've ever seen one, man.

@@YamatoTre So, you've never seen one?

Palworld’s has more voice acting than Pokémon has had since gen 5 too, despite being grunts and laughs

That's literally just not true, but okay, keep yapping

​@@zzeroara9511 It literally is true, keep coping

yeah that makes sense. I get to play a game that is similar to something I enjoy

This is basically the definition of toxic positivity. There is absolutely a discussion to be had about inspiration versus plagiarism. That doesn’t mean we should always assume the worst, but if something smells fishy it’s at least worth an honest discussion.

@@michaelt5459 you can t copyright gameplay mechanic

@@ysbrann3059 that doesn’t address the broader point of my comment at all. Also this is beyond gameplay mechanics anyways, it also includes the graphical design.

@@michaelt5459 your point was about toxic positivity about OP comment who talked about Genshi. using Zelda Gameplay mechanic.... how did i don t adress your point ?

The fans mostly or at least those writing articles about it.

@@SaintLiam3000 I see. Yeah, I guess it's also Twitch streamers and KZfaqrs who wanted to put Pokemon in their title for more clicks. But all of them together contributed to this false description of the game.

Yeah the trailer got me excited for it but the actual game is pretty mundane

It as both fans and haters alike The devs actually HATED the phrase "Pokemon with guns"

and BotW mechanics are mechanics from other games Glider thats been in Just Cause for ages Climbing over stuff, thats been in Assassins Creed Getting cold or warm. Nearly every survival game Cooking, thats from survival games Worlds catching on fire, thats kinda Zelda old school but Far Cry 2 and other games console generations ago have done the same These are all things BotW copied from other games, however the UI and some sounds are very very much inspired from BotW

@@imo098765 i mean "gliders" isn't the most innovative concept ever made, i doubt it copied it.

There's a difference between having a mod that IS the IP. And a game that is ripping off an IP. One is the easiest thing to prove and takedown. The other requires an actual trial.

Totally agree...also love how you avoided getting your comment getting deleted by spelling it as pokeymon.

Yeah and on top of that they gave the pals emotion which I thought was cool if there good there eyes are completely open they have smiles but if there overworked they look sad and depressed I thought that was a cool touch

It's pokemon not pokeymon

i completely agree with this as a artist. picaso told us to steal like a artist we are all inspired bvy something we dont create something from nothing there are no original ideas just new repersentations of these ideas

Are working professionally? I work professionally in 3D and the designs here a clear rip off. You should check out videos on how pokemon actually get designed and created, you would see that palworld obviously didn't do anything like that and just fused a bunch of pokemon designs. It's very much a ripoff design wise.

Difference is asmongold looks & talks like a smug arsehole. Never liked him.

Agree, we already have proof of that products made bad working conditions still succeed, even us ignore where things we buy came from, where do we draw a line? Is hard.

The studio is sus and has a history of rip-off, you blind yourself if you think it is a pure passion project. And a budget of 6.75 million isn't a small indie budget

The allegation didn't come from anywhere even if they happened to be innocent

If anything, this shows us how lazy Pokemon is.

It's a Leafeon and Pachierisu fusion obviously. XD

The best thing to do about the studio mappa situation is to genuinely just watch the shows that they make because in a way you are supporting the artist that make the anime and talk about it let it be known to the world that studio Mappa is a sweatshop and that's why I think people are joking about it because it's a way to get the word out about the conditions of the animators

The Twitter art community is genuinely the most rage filled and ridiculous isolated community ever. Truly everything is a controversy when it comes to them. Then the games they try to cancel just end up being top sellers.

@@jsuperhalo1 Well I can't really blame the artists too much since they were bombarded with both NFTs and Generative AI people both stealing their hard work. So they were pretty much conditioned into being both super aggressive and defensive. Not to mention Twitter's toxic atmosphere in general. It's why I gave up on the site.

@@ShadowEclipex Its already toxic even before NFT and AI stuff. Back then whenever you make/post some art, you will got bombarded by people who act like that bald Masterchef guy and just want to mentally destroy you. The exception is if you just draw some big anime tidies.

@@mardshima2070 I never saw that sort of stuff. Of course I wasn't cronically on Twitter either.

for real, his mindset is what i strive for. I care, but i don't want to stress myself out over things that i can't control

Remember a 25 $ horse in WoW is one of the principal reasons we have microtransactions everywhere.

Fellow josh strife hayes enjoyer​@@Yo_Cami

No sorry, thanks for the recommendation

Why? Even if pokemon was still good, people would still play other games

The problem is how the game was made and the consequences of his success. Game editors go where money is. If the consumer buys a rehashed game with reused AI and copies pasted gameplay coming from over studios. They will start an Era of games being a copy of a copy of other games

People love spouting out rage against these things while still giving them money

To be fair, Shein is actually awful. It is actually abusing alot of vulnerable people who don't have job mobility. Ai art is a first world problem for a group of people who has been in the losing battle since the 17th century, when art became more accessible to the mass, devaluing their ability to make a living off of it.

@@FFXfever The idea that creative labor has in any way been devalued by some ambiguous 17th century development is laughable. Art is more widely consumed and profitable now than at any point in human history. That you can recognize how bad the outcomes of a profit-driven and automation-led race to the bottom are when it concerns factory work but find yourself making up some kind of vague historical narrative to justify it happening for creative work is actually pretty weird.

Game freak are probably the people that put the most care to Pokémon, but they get given 1 year deadlines to make a good game

@@perritoshido5845 I really wish they were able to take their time with the games so they could make a quality game that people would enjoy

@@garbagelmao2730 Oh no doubt, Palworld is for sure gonna die soon, I just hope it has ANY kind of effect (it won't). Also yeah, wasn't Scarlet and Violet their biggest game launch ever?

@@garbagelmao2730 I mean palworld is a finite game obviously people are going to beat it. If the devs continue to update it however the game could be around forever. It's pretty good.

All I heard is that you're upset that a pizza place doesn't sell burgers.

The designs are there own. The majority of what people are saying are "rips from pokemon" are very shallow similarities. Like the "Leafeon ripoff" is a squirrel. And doesn't actually use the same color pallet. Leafeon is yellow, not green. It's just that it's similar enough to make people think of it. But put them side by side and you can point out a bunch of differences.

@@WillLI05 equivalent of 'copy my homework but make sure that it isn't similar enough'

@@toonyandfriends1915 Somewhat but not exactly. I mean if you make it in the art style of pokemon, of course everything will look like a pokemon. But Pokemon is a super simplified art style, and if you look at it, a lot of pokemon actually look a lot like eachother too. So like if pokemon can't even make their own pokemon not look like other pokemon, of course other people using the same art style are gonna make things that look like pokemon.

@@WillLI05 the amount of pokemon ripoffs who have animals that do not look at all like pokemons is pretty staggering so your claim is unlikely to be true.

@@WillLI05 look at Temtem and it truly feels like they are not ripping of pokemon designs so your excuse doesn't really work

The major comparison for Palworld is it's like Ark or Conan Exiles with Pokemon-style creature collection

That's because it's a survival game with heavy Ark elements (Conan is a fair comparison too) from the HUD to the technological technologies meny and systems to research and build. Sure climbing and the temp game assets not the concept even Ark has a temp gauge. So some BOTW in there and NPC creatures looking like Pokemon but automation with NPCs or machines has been around for years done so in Minecraft for years modded let alone Ark with it's dinosaurs and mobile dinosaur bases. If I compared it to Indie games you can tell the popular titles they are inspired by. Versus games with original ideas. Enshrouded is more original and came out after. It has a setup, has a mix of Ark and Minecraft building as a great quality of life. It has stamina and it uses it badly. But used stamina mods in Minecraft way before BOTW/Dark Souls did. Nightingale is made by ex Bioware deva with it's own tricks up its sleave. I reference it to Myatcraft from Minecraft a mod focused on books and pages for making new dimensions with any blocks the game contains. It's similar to that but with cards and more story/direction to it. People base off popular games ideas. Indies or AAW. Only few have new ideas. I get more fun out of old platformers then I do Indie platformers because like with Nightingale they have actual deva making new ideas in them. Indies a certain percentage want to use popular games in a fan game way and sell of nostalgia. Which is fine I just find with SO MANY they can be boring and unexciting to try out and seek the different ones by Indies or old games still fresh to this day.

Anubis is also from their other game Craftopia. Same reason he's the statue model.

The irony 😂

But it was never about the mechanics that's not the real problem with the game did you not even watch the clip?

I did. As I said, I don't care about the artistic discourse. It's not remotely within my interest, the game can look like shit (and it does) and I'll still play it. So all these things about looking like Pokemon or sounding like botw doesn't matter to me.