Welcome to the world of Indie games, I hope you enjoy all the other great indie games! About Palworld, as someone interested in gamedev, and a person that sees video games as an art, Palworld makes me want to vomit. I am sure the game is very fun, and it is probably one of the best survival games made, but I just can't look at it. There is no artistic vision. The models look so inconsitent with each other it is nuts, there is no central core, everything looks as if it was a prototype (a VERY good one at that) but with a ton of content. The game studio behind it copying HK and abandoning their previous game also doesn't set the best precendent but we will see ig. You could say that Palworld is the opposite of Phasmo, as the phasmo devs are 100% dumb for not allowing modded content especially that their updates are slow asf. The best example of this in this video is Lethal Company, which you can see by just how it feels and looks, that there is an artist, a human artist, wanting to make something very creative and still familiar. Obviously, Fun is the most important factor of games... but it doesn't mean they can't have a vision that is coherent. With so much praise of this game I would think it does something more, but no. Although it is so fun, the game just points to how many people have never tried Indie games and other smaller games because they aren't made with Pokemon or funny haha guns. I hope this is an understandable take, and I hope you have fun with whatever game you will be playing next! TLDR: I am happy people can enjoy Palworld, but I am also worried about people not seeing the difference between a game that is made by a corpo that meshes shit together (Palworld, Battlefield, Fortnite, every AAA game now) and a game made by a studio/person with a vision of the game (Lethal Company, Ultrakill, Revita, Balatro, Grim Dawn, Noita, DRG, Risk of Rain 2, CrossCode, Isaac, Hollow Knight, Spiritfarer, Outer Wilds, Terraria, EtG, Tiny Rogues, Archvale, Battlebit, Valheim, etc.).

Indie Devs outselling AAA titles is the epitome of “Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave”

You'd think that most if not all buttplug controllers produced in the last few years would natively use Xinput.

Pokemon left to get milk and never came back. Like my father.

As an aspiring game dev, seeing the success of games like battlebit and lethal company has been a massive inspiration. I have never been a fan of most AAA games, so seeing these indie games make millions of dollars is really a good sign for the industry.

I can answer who asked for the scuicide squad game. The warner bros Shareholders and ceo.

[Pause] Bro the Jerry cut at "2million!!" was gold

I take your Flawless Buddy Holly vocals and raise you Flawless Butter Barn on Lead (this is admittedly not a very hard song but I'm proud of it.)

11:10 i like how this is selling points of some games but others are their downfall as soon as they make it always online (redfall, new Suicide squad game, some other game prolly, etc.)

The DeEsser effect in Adobe Premiere would do magnitudes for this video

so excited for this video i went home from school to watch it

Waiting for the Helldiver’s is great video. Especially with all the account shenanigans that almost happened

you're title had a picture of a helldiver and it wasnt even mentioned once, this caused me great physical pain.

i love that palworld is having such a success, imagine gamefreak wakes up and actually makes a game with pokemon that actually has good quality

Thank for this being so kind Thank you for this day help me get these better know u

God I’m so ever-present in this video 😤😤😤😤

I just found you from the fallout video (I’m sure I won’t be alone) and I instantly subscribed. I’ve seen nothing but negativity from gaming channels for years now and your videos are a breath of fresh air. Bad games deserve to be critiqued, and good games deserve to be praised without using that praise as backhanded insults to other companies all the time. Thanks for what you’re doing here man, and God bless!

I love how u edit ur videos

This is the bradest video I’ve seen I a while, great job well done 👍

Amazing video as always!

im absolutely loving these games. I hope these games improve and more sprout from the newly rich soil

Damn loved the video but WHERES MY TORCHICKEN AFTER MONTHS I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN

If Palworld is just a clone than why didn't Temtem get the same amount of hype when it released?

THE KING DOES IT AGAIN

So three responses to this amazingly made video, just came across the channel due to the Marvel Rivals video and I loving what I'm seeing: 1. I might be in the minority, but whenever a game is announced as co-op I'm immediately put off. Maybe it's because we've been burn so much by "live service" in recent years that I rejoice when I hear a game is single player only. But it could be because the people I used to play games with have just pushed me away from them in recent years. But that leads to... 2. Many communities for these new games are extremely self-destructive and toxic. Player bases surge and the community that forms pushes everyone away. All the arguing over Palworld that you mention is a great example. Why would I want to play or talk about a game that just starts arguments or criticism, or the main talking point is "You know it copies Pokémon right?" Helldivers 2 did the same, where they completely shamed and tore away any good will of the game because you had to make an new account for it that takes seconds to do. Why would I want to play a game and join the community that's toxic like that? Marvel Rivals seems super fun, but I know in a couple weeks, metas will become a thing and the community will force you to either join in or be shamed for not following what you are "meant" to do or be learning still. The fun that you mention is erased by the community the game grows. That's partly why I like single player games. The conversations are much healthier and you can talk about what you liked, a cool thing you did in it, or your experience with it. Which leads to: 3. Games are an art form. It's a medium of art. A lot of these games that you are discussing, while artistic in their own right, are being discussed as products rather than art. I think videogames as an art form are still in its infancy, but hearing people say "Just listen to what people want" only creates good products, not good art. A lot of these games come across as "fads" or "flashes in the pan" because they are products you use rather than art you experience. Games like "Return of the Obra Dinn", "Sifu" and a lot of the Playstation Studio games (especially those created by ND or SM) stick with me longer and will be talked about for the rest of time more than any match I had on BattleBit or something. Either way, loved the video and keep up the great work!

Indies are killing it right now

Good video as always Brad. While I do enjoy other amazing monster taming games that are amazing (Yo-kai Watch, Coromon, Fossil Fighters, Dragon Quest Monsters, etc), Palworld just has a different feeling to it. I just wish Game Freak/Pokemon Company can do more quality assurance with their mainline games, especially when 1st party Nintendo games (Pikmin, Mario, Zelda, etc) completely washes Scarlet/Violet in both innovation and quality.

NINETY EIGHT THOUSAND whole downloads on the lethal company buttplug mod???

Whats the game being shown at 13:03? At first I thought infamous. Then I saw the UI. Im thinking it's Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodhunt. Correct me if Im wrong pls

damn you need more subs. if you hit a viral video people will Definitely stick around and subscribe if you keep this up. you are oddly entertaining sir

Great vid

my guyy

I love the finals and palworld. They're both in my daily rotation and I can't get enough of them. Pokemon has been on a downward trend. The last one I enjoyed was soul silver but I tried sun and I kept falling asleep on it. I reached level 13 and never played it again. The formula does nothing for me anymore and the hand holding is insulting. I get it's also for kids but it feels like it's made for babies that never played a game before.

"pokey-mon" it is POKE-KAY-MON

Wonder how he reacted to Helldivers 2 selling like crack? lol

Brad Cooked

Anyone know the name of the song from around 1:55 to about 3:47?

i need a vaporeon mod...

Based video.

But wait, Hades, Cupehead, and Stardew Valley weren't AAA... right? Also, no matter how much people ask for it, im not sure proximity chat is ever good with the current state of gamers lol

Ehem: grounded Attempt to Change my mind but best survival game by far

suicide squad could've been much more improved in my eyes if the writing were much better. still butthurt about batman

Okay so I've heard a lot of people say it doesn't matter, Nintendo's a multi billion dollar company, we're not lawyers, but the issue isn't that they did something illegal. The issue is that they did something creatively bankrupt, regardless of the legality

Gamefreak doesn't really suck (as far as I know) it's just the insane pressure and deadlines put upon them by Nintendo, so I know everyone knows this, but Nintendo sucks.

This year has been great ish I just need a GREAT movement shooter game on console and this might be the best one