Ark also is not the first game to do this I'm sure. And it won't be the last. It's called 'expanding options to feed a wider variety of players playstyles' wtf

This stupid little game is addicting I have it on my Series x and I bought it on steam to play it on my that's where it's getting the majority of it runs surprisingly very well on the legion go very addicting little device the moment I unlocked the ability to give lip monk the little squirrel whatever. His name is a machine gun to sit on my head and shoot people that came to attack my base. It was game over and then I unlocked the assault rifle. Oh man, you know what I'm surprised at the map is actually pretty big. I wasn't expecting it to be this big. There's a lot of areas to explore. There's a lot of things to collect. I am truly truly addicted to this little game. It's literally the only thing I play on my legion if it wasn't for the fact that it has to be online I would be playing it a lot more if it was offline because I take my legion go with me everywhere. I have a bag for it. I get to work early. I play on my legion go outside until the I open the store. I take a lunch break which is roughly about an hour and a half. I play on my legion go. I use my legion goal more than any other device. It is my greatest gaming investment that I've made in a long time. Super happy. I even went out and bought 100 watt charger for the house for the car which is a cigarette lighter. So I'm playing while I'm gaming in the car and I'm charging it. I have a I have a massive 3000 watt battery pack with 65 w charging fast charging so I can be able to play while it charges if ever. I'm going to area where I can't charge it while I play. Truly addicting. I have so many games on there

​@@rickywood8805 I said so in the video, but System Shock (1994) is the first example of custom difficulty I could find! Super cool and ahead of its time to have separate 'Combat', 'Mission', 'Cyber' and 'Puzzle' difficulties.

7 days to die lets you customize the EXP modifier and game rules (including day and night duration, whether you drop item on death etc) but i doubt that's where they got this from

@@koitsuo Oh in terms of EXP specifically, that's a good question, I wonder which game did it first? I know Persona 4 Golden had it in 2012, that's the earliest I can think of. But I'm sure someone had to have done it earlier?

Researching is just copying with extra steps.

They're like the De La Soul of video games.

they're like the 100 gecs of videogames.

Right? Like I'm hearing "we took a bunch of mechanics from games that people loved, from developers who would NEVER work together, and put it into one game" sounds like a genius move to me!

if only people thought the same way about AI

Good for them, cuz good lord grinding to 40 and to 50 is painful at x1

"Making the most of what they have" seems to be the motto of Palworld! I couldn't fit it in the video for time, but there was a Pocketpair post a couple years back seeking engineers to hire, and I found it very interesting: twitter.com/PocketpairJapan/status/1317109810811203585 "12. Always goes above and beyond the job category. Engineers often decide on plans and specifications. 13. There is no concept of seniors and juniors. 14. There is no concept of hierarchy." If all that's true, it's an environment where it's very easy to allow implementation to influence design, rather than just the other way around, and everyone can have a say in decisions. I suspect that this is what let them do the "dev tool -> front facing feature" trick that you just described!

That and Ark did it.

@@WhyDoI feel like there might be a story after it’s full release

@@WhyDo Actually, i will note one thing, apparently the "traced models" mentioned near the end MAY be just slightly *modified* to fit better? Apparently the person who compared them has a grudge against Palworld for "endorsing animal abuse" (as if Pokemon already dosent :V) and didnt expect their post to blow up QUITE as much as it did... Definitely hoping Palworld goes decently hard on replacing the cardboard cutouts with people/an actual plot, which the intro SEEMS to hint towards... there's just jack shit for now outside of the Journal entries and Paldeck entries (alongside map STILL not being complete, despite how massive it is) :V Now the important question: What's your favorite Pal? 🔫 This is not a request, choose wisely.

Thanks! And that's a good point, it's a strangely refreshing kind of... blatant stealing to see in a game. I think for all the controversy (they got hollow knight/BotW ripoffs too) this studio has something special going on. Wishing them the best with any high quality 'heavily inspired' games in the future, since it honestly might be a big untapped market outside of just Palworld. I wonder what crazy genres they can blend

​@@WhyDo we've always had imitators as the staple of video game iteration. We call those who follow in the footsteps of the greats "clones" (remember all the "doom clones"?) and we even call genres by the names of the games they imitate (like the classic Metroidvanias, or Rogue-likes). I think people are losing their minds over exactly nothing of substance; if you take something from someone else and you take your time to digest it, to iterate on it, to give your own spin on it, then it becomes yours, and I see Palworld has done exactly that; they have not iterated over the surface appearance of what they copied from (much), but they have trodden genuinely new ground in the gameplay department: this is the first monster tamer where your monsters are a meaningful part of the base building, where they provide automation. You can't find that ANYWHERE else today, and that's huge, on top of all the other things that they have done well. I think Palworld could easily spawn a fair numbers of imitators in turn, a new generation of monster tamers where the monsters do more than just one thing, where they become a meaningful component of other game loops instead of being a self-contained ecosystem.

@@Tosxychor this guy gets it👆🏽

THIS

Suprised seeing you here. I was patron on you patreon for like a week months ago and could never get the discord access. Just wanted to see if i could get copies of your old abridged content

As you should!

@@eldiablo4160 They get stuck sometimes, but it's okay because they're cats.

@@greed94 fear not, you just need to erase the entire universe and remake it like before and everything will be fine (reload the save)

Just remove them from base and re-add them

was about to comment this, just remove them and add and they respawn in front of u @@Cracker_Smacker

Sounds like art to me.

1000th Pokémon for example is the same way just to tell you a peak of history of Pokémon.

Sounds like art in a nutshell lol

As an artist, This is basically how it's always been done.

Sounds like a pizza with all the toppings you can think of slapped into one. And it works.

💀

😂😂😂

They'll be cheaper imported by force from a poor continent- Prince Henry

Bro he want even real lmao

Unfortunetly humans are to hard to catch for their price.

Full quote being: "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery mediocrity can pay to greatness" So....

@@zoromax10 Too bad that "greatness" doesn't exist.

@@zoromax10 L

There around 115 pal and all of them have unique walking eating working and fighting animation either pocket pair is goat or game freak is dogshit but i believe it's the later

@@Cracker_Smacker "either pocket pair is goat or game freak is dogshit" i believe its both lmao

Pokémon has shown signs of changing to taking more time for game refinement and postgame, but they usually take a huge amount of time to act on it. Palworld’s success might just be the thing needed to expedite the process of reforms needed to fix the rushing of what would’ve been GOTY contenders.

Sales wise it is already almost caught up with Scarlet/Violet. It took Scarlet Violet about 6 months to reach 23.3 million and Palworld is already over 19 million in nearly two weeks.

Honestly it's more of a competition on ark than pokemon

​​@@Tazrealeit also helps that palworld is multiplatform and on PC specifically where the most people are while Nintendo is very puritan about only wanting their stuff on the switch

@@toukoenriaze9870 Yea, I heard Playstation also wants a slice of that pie.

Most definitely. If Nintendo ever has a slight chance of winning a lawsuit over anything, they sue. It's not like they are letting this slide out of the goodness of their hearts. They are not doing anything because they are powerless to, even though you just KNOW they want to sue the devs into oblivion.

@@clarkem4119 They nuked the pokemon mod. Also Pocket Pair and Nintendo are both Japanese companies and Japan has no Fair Use laws so it wouldnt even be an international lawsuit. Nintendo has known about it since 2021 at the latest.

How am I just learning about this LMAO

*Desire to know more intensifies*

i found him completely by accident and i cant even remeber where, i think he is close to the bridge near that village settlement southwest of the first rayne tower with grizzbolt

@@MrCodey360 yeah i think so, i couldn’t find him again either but when i do i’ll mark it on the map

@@Recoil1808 there’s an npc i haven’t been able to find since that says he “almost got hit by a truck” and woke up on the island, and he found out if he thinks really hard about it, he can make a pizza appear. when you talk to him he gives you one and trying to get more in quick succession results in him telling you it makes him hungry to do that and come back later

YEAH!! It got a good laugh out of me when I first saw it. We need more humorously censored violence in games

That was my exact reaction when I first used the butcher knife

Like Scott the F****** Woz

if you go into the gamefiles, theres actually a blur screen animation for butchering. you can remove it and the game works fine. HOWEVER it reveals another truth of why they probably did it. the animations looks so outlandishly ridiculous that it could create thousands of memes. the fact that when you butcher humans it looks like they are laying in fetal while begging for their lives with their hands above their faces to protect against danger is absolutely hilarious and i cant figure out why. its just so silly, i literally sat for the first half hour of it off crying laughing because its so crazy boring but ironic at some times with some pals and the humans.

Pokémon lately often look more soulless than these Pals, imo.

how are they more soulless than pokemon exactly ?

@@jeffdagena4298 I think nostalgia glasses may be making people overvalue the "soul" of Pokémon lately. 🤔

It also works well with the action gameplay. Each enemy pal has different animations for every attack they can throw, so you know what to expect and can dodge it.

Pokémon definitely did a lot to make the Pokémon themselves more liveley and expressive in Scarlet and Violet. The overhauled models and the new animations both in and out of battle make them feel alive.

Disney is a great example of the copyright lobbying, and a lot of Disney's works take from existing things. Like the rennaissance Era films for example, and rapunzel and frozen. Those are all based on or just adapted straight up, old myths and stories and the like, into films based on things that were in public domain for 100s of years. So yeah.

@@Its_Asteria well yeah but that remixing disney do is still lazy compare to this. They just remixing ONE STORY ALONE to be their own version, and remixing from ONE THING ALONE FROM SOMEONE ELSE is litterally a lazy rework. Like bro even when someone make their own thesis about something on college, they are not allowed to remixing a word from one source, but they have to remixing a word from alot of source, and let me tell ya remixing a word from alot of source while making it not look like you copy other people is a hard work that take times lol

They never actually said it. It was just implied. The internet did the rest...

Not even a day. It was 8 hours.

They did NOT say that. However that was the clear implication. I can remember back in 2021 I wanted to play this game because it's such an obvious idea that no one before has bothered to attempt. Meanwhile the Pokemon mod for Palworld got instabanned. Palworld clearly passed Nintendo's vibe check.

​@@angel_of_rustwhat's your thoughts on Nintendo's most recent statement?

the one where they confirmed they heard the feedback? when i read it Nintendo sounded like an annoyed dad "OKAY I GET IT THE LEGALLY DISTINCT POKEMON WITH GUNS GAME EXISTS, but they aren't egregious enough. But that Pokemon mod, OH BOY that Pokemon mod is gonna get a beating from me"@@SoulDude24

Yeah but Larry is a human

Idk, my deer caught depression because he wanted to hit a tree and refused to use one of the two Jacuzzis i built

Depresso is one of the best. The bathing animation kills me.

@@pineapplepizzasandwich1974 So it kills him

Clearly you haven't learned English well enough yet.

ITS THE EYES

If we're going the "cartoony chicken" route, then it'd be closer to a Cucco from Zelda.

@@WhyDobro the most passionate Pokémon game I played was years ago this is more passionate than a 60 dollar cash grab and also check out Pokémon and dragon quest and a idea can’t be plagiarism

literally just the eye? so all anime copy from each other? since they have similar big eyes? lol

@@WhyDoI think it’s closer to Harvest Moon chickens. Harvest Moon animals are super cute like that.

Thats actually a great summary of the topic.

Thank you so much for your $0.003! 🫡

What's even more depressing about that is gamefreak has shown it could do just that with the animations back in the pokemon colosseum games + xd Gale of Darkness but rather just puke out a game with little to no polish every year since they know people will buy it hoping for a better experience than the last one.

And some quality of life changes on PC: carry pals with v instead of f makes a huge difference

​@@silsternensandalso, you can now know where you are throwing the pal in the base.

To be fair the patch also added a bunch of new bugs.

@@DKSprocket That's every game ever, though. No patches come without bugs, ever.

It's the stamina system used to balance climbing mountains which was stolen

@@Scotch20 Botw may have made it popular, but it isn't the first game to tie a stamina system to climbing either.

So he was basically got isekaid to palworld XD

I knew that i would like that game when I saw you can capture humans.

Not how it works. Patents in America protect only the original invention. Improvements are not only permitted but encouraged both by the original inventor and competition.

I am waiting for MODS and to catch WAIFU.

That combined with just cranking the egg hatching speed and breeding for specific goals is very cool. I bred an insanely fast wolf to get around on for example.

There's also the breeding mechanics, that are surprisingly in depth. The best way I can describe how it works, is the selective breeding humanity has done for centuries or even within decades to get various animal and plant species to best produce or look good etc. Except in Palworld, it's trying to get god traits on ones you'll put into a base or bring with you on adventures, while also trying to ensure that breeding weights are correct, so you could get the best Quivern you can possibly get as an example.

That's true, it's dangerously addicting sometimes. I definitely just spent a couple hours in search of the perfect horse...

​@@johnwong5317There's already mods on Steam.

The funny thing is, all these people yelling "this game is AI generated, don't give them money!"... The trailer was released in 2021... That was before ChatGPT, DallE2... Using an AI to generate a blurry picture that might pass as a kitchen from a distance was the best we could do... They 100% couldn't have used AI to design anything that was shown in the trailer like pals, the game concept etc.

@@tr7zw Yeah, the AI witch hunt is stupid. If anything, they used AI to come up with vague ideas of what they wanted (which I believe was shown by the devs at one point). Not once did they say they actually used AI images to make the game. Most of the Pals in the trailer from 2021 are the same ones they're claiming to be AI creations... head empty. Also, AI means SO much more than just "AI Art", and people somehow don't even understand this. AI is just using a teaching a program and using it to automate. This could have easily have been done with code, but people just want to be outraged and believe the first thing they see on Twitter.

Also I think it's not right to judge the plot of palworld. It's a preacces game of course it's not finished what do you expect?

Would make for really good community building ... Altho they would have to weed out copywritable submissions which they already did for the main game otherwise we wouldn't be playing it lel

I have never played a Pokemon game...only Pokemon go. I have never played Palworld. And looking at Palworld Pals and Pokemon. I realised how uninspired Pokemon are. Shaymin is just a hedgehog. Is that really copying. Eevee is just a fluffy cat/dog. Basic. Lucario is every bipedal basic furry. That dumb football player rabbit is just that. I have seen mascots like it. Like they are just basic animals with a color swap. I cannot consider that palgiarism. People are comparing them to Pokemon and screaming plagiarism or copying and all I see is how boring Pokemon really look. How basic. Not copying if they are both color swapped animals.

The reason some of them "feel dull" is precisely because they are ripped off, the copy is only ever going to be as good as the original after all. If you stole from a lazy and dull design then your own design is going to be dull and lazy if you don't make some major modifications.

​@@YurinanAcquiline theres also pokemon that are just keyrings, trash cans, a pile of trash, when i 1st saw the keyring pokemon in the anime i just went "wtf" and laughed at the design, really lost alot of love for the future of pokemon that day... As for eevee, eevee is designed to be generic as its there evolutions that add to the design. Eevee is a blank slate where anything can happen and thats kinda cool to me. (need more eeveelutions!)

why are you calling em pokemon

Hopefully they fix those, but the temporary solution is to put them back in palbox and set to base again

Is that an Xbox thing cuz I've played PC and I've never seen that happen

they just fixed majority of the glitch occurences you speak up with the 0.01 patch released earlier today. let the game update and its fine, ive been playing 3 hours with virtually completely different quality of game play. no crash when you are overweight and use your grappling gun to get next to palbox and teleport. i tried forcing myself through the terrain by using the summoning of certain pals and couldnt get myself through the layer barrier. alot of the major complaints have been fixed, and im excited because its proof that this isnt just a scamware.

the last patch helped with that quite a bit actually

i had a gumoss that got stuck on a cliff right next to the base and stood there until it starved i didnt even notice until way later

And he drags items he moves. I LOVE IT!

Toss in that Depresso faceplants into the hot springs? The combat ability of 'WEAPONIZED ZOOMIES'? One of the best early dark types in the game.

which is ironic, since people have been trying to hate on the game by calling it "soulless" when the pals have more life to them than the pokemon of the last 15 years combined lol.

Depresso is literally Larry's Palsona. Change my mind

I find it hilarious how over the top Lovander's animations are. When it carries items she does it by holding them in one arm like she's a maid carrying a tray, all that while shaking its hips and tail. Truly the quintessential thot

He straight up changed the models to match the pokemons

now THAT'S misinformation

@@K40005 even still there VERY diffrent like no parts line up (head , body so on

wowie, another crazy info. nice clarification tho.

I thought this too, but while fact checking this video I discovered that Steve Jobs made up that Picasso quote (I'm serious). Turns out Picasso never actually said that!! 'Nice argument Steve Jobs, why don't you back that up with a source...?'

But to be fairer, no it doesn't. Kind of a weird justification from a single connection. You can argue it was inspired by it, but that's the whole difference in this Palworld discussion. They didn't "take it," they might have riffed on it. Very briefly. Fromsoft has been using religious iconography for several games, and there's churches all over the Lands Between related to some of the very central lore elements. There's too many differences to say they're even similar unless you really really squint. If anything, it felt more Dark Souls 3 than BotW.

@@cyclic_infinity It’s not a weird justification my dude Elden Ring took heavy inspiration from BotW in the first place, the whole gaming industry did what I said wasnt a new revelation of anything. Also last time I checked DS3’s opening doesn’t start with you overlooking a hill with an NPC to the side of it and a church/cathedral immidiately down the hill w/ a mid game enemy lurking around… Palworld, Elding Ring, and BotW all have this which was the comparison I was making in the first place.

@@ihateanimebutonlywhenitiso7227 Dude, looking for exact reduplication being a silly way of drawing these links is actually what I'm talking about. By your logic, BotW lifted from Dark Souls by having you start in a Shrine of Resurrection with trash gear, which is functionally how every Dark Souls game starts. Tropes and Ripoffs are different. And I misinterpreted you in my first comment. I was thinking the actual start of Elden Ring, the Chapel of Anticipation, which is a little linear "bridge" from DS3 to ER. You meant at Varre. I'd call that a homage at best. The wandering strong early boss has been getting done for ages and the sight-lines to the church are very different. I remember FFXII doing that in 2006 and it was already a trope. That's just basic game design for PvE. Honestly that bit isn't one of the many things I'd take issue with Palworld for. But I won't fight on this, Palworld's not worth the fucking effort. Palworld sucks and I'm in the minority, whatever, maybe people will come around and maybe they won't, with a lot of that depending on Pocket Pair. I also think Brandon Sanderson's books suck, so I'm used to being the minority critical nerd.

its kind of like the rdr1/rdr2 glitches and bugs. they are so hilarious at timing that you can't even be mad because now you are just staring at a crocodile chase you on your horse in circles while you just stand there

Self plagerism moment

Not exactly. Craftopia happens to be a unity based game while Palworld got switched over to UE5 during its development. Prior to that switch, yeah - a lot of the code likely was carried over (kinda like with a bethesda game), however upon making that switch - they had to rewrite practically all of the code for it to work correctly in UE5 (hence why many of the features from the Trailer [which is the unity version] do not appear in the current game).

@@icaruswindrune7116 I see what you're saying and would like to clarify that I didn't mean a rip of the code but rather they just took the ideas and mechanics they already had.

I've seen that take doing its rounds, and that's what I'm hoping is the case. So I wouldn't really call it necessarily hot, so much as very logical. Pocketpair is literally 5km from TPC's HQ in Tokyo. It would've been easy to talk it over during those three years.

it s not a hot take , it s the most obvious take

it takes all the best ideas from all of the popular mainstream games, smashes them together to make an unironic smoothie. and we're all here just sipping that bad bitch down because its so smooth and delicious

LMAO I love this, 'literally the exact sum of its parts' is the perfect phrase to describe how I feel about this game. The 'I'll play it ironically' to 'wait this kinda rocks' pipeline is very real, though... I swear that liking things ironically is just the brain's shortcut to liking them unironically...

​@@WhyDoI held off a week before paying for Palworld, but something sold me in on it. The fact that I saw my friends stream the gameplay on discord slaughtering pals with rocket launchers at max raid settings is fucking funny

​@@WhyDoas someone who unironically listens to boi what and glorb (ai SpongeBob music artists), i can confirm that irony is a very fast way into liking something unironically

he's literally the most annoying one of these youtubers due to how smug he is about his own opinion. and how right he thinks he is. with his retarted rip off and cash grab accusations

Yep I believe they are classified as 'World Settings' so you can still customize everything! And yeah def want to give multiplayer a shot, honestly part of why I'm making this is to get some of my friends to buy palworld LMAO they're all playing fighting games or monster hunter...

​@@WhyDomultiplayer is a little buggy with anything to do with moving (grappling hook ... Eikedeer/fenglope charge attack ... Jumping while on a cliff sends you to the bottom of the cliff instead of the up jump it does in single player) But ye it's still pretty good all things considered

@@WhyDo Basically what the guy above said. Movement is all jank but everything else works pretty perfectly. Just have the person with the best specs run it and it should go fine.

Unless pistol

Learn what an asset flip is ... This game is nothing like The Day Before

@@toukoenriaze9870 I have edited the comment for you

You mean BOTY?

Botw is a green circle that unfills over time

@@toukoenriaze9870 you want to know who DID rip the stamina wheel directly from botw/totk? another good early access release game, enshrouded. its identicle both with function and in upgrade capacity.

​@badboxmedia6237 You mean Shadow of the Colossus

it s not like the design was extremely complicated ,it s the most simple and efficient way to do it

@ReuloricsLead artist is literally a Fakemon designer. She just drawing what she knows.

Didn't WarnerBros patent the nemesis system from shadow of war/mordor?

Wait your AAA games crash? Wtf. Do you play on pc?

@@chaselowell4567 yeah pc life

I crashed like 6-7 times, but I was causing memleaks every 5s so its fair it crashed. How? hangyu glide tech

Same here. About 70 hours and haven't had a crash, compared to my pokemon violet playthrough which had THIRTEEN. For early access it runs astonishingly well I was expecting garbage because of pokemon tbh.

that is the way I see it too