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- games@sh.itjust.works
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I wonder how Palworld’s early access release is affecting development of DokeV.
Gameplay trailer, for those who missed it: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=LNXamzH_TQk
honestly I am not looking forward to that one, it looks fun but their character models are nightmare inducing
Never been a fan of pokemon or pokemon style games and I gotta say I am not really interested in monster catching aspect of palworld either but still the game is just so much fun to me
Its Arc not Pokemon
Cheap to make games when you just copy every other game’s ideas and arts
Putting these different ideas together is the novelty and isn’t cheap or easy to do.
Any design with a wheel in it is unoriginal, I guess.
I dunno. Plenty of AAA developer spend way more money copying other people’s ideas. Just look at all the battle Royale games that came from what started as a mod for ARMA which was already based on a movie that itself was based on a book/manga.
You confused cheap with profitable.
Consumers are stupid. They seldom want something new, more often than not they want something familiar with a few slights twists. Movie studio’s don’t do reboots because they’re lazy, they do it because people keep fucking going to see them.
A handful of people online complain every year about how “Sports Game Franchise '23 is just SGF '22 with some new player skins” and yet it still sells like hotcakes. If your goal is to make money, why wouldn’t you do that, there’s no financial incentive to spend more money on development.
I starting playing MMO’s with the Ultima Online beta, and was in a number of other betas over the years. Vanguard, The Chronicles of Spellborn, etc. The number of beta players who kept shouting “it needs race X from WoW” and “why aren’t there any druids like in WoW” was deafening. For decades, people talked about the next “WoW killer”, which meant “a game close enough to WoW for people to migrate but maybe with slightly better graphics”.
6 mil is very cheap, and this game was obviously a money based on popular game tropes and memes
That’s not a point though, valid or otherwise.
Do you know where the money gets spent when you come up with original ideas? Into the trash can. It’s literally paying people to write down ideas on paper or in code, iterating, and then throwing them out, over and over again.
AAA titles also spend a truckload on voice acting and mocap. You don’t need to mocap a round sheep monster. Sure, you could be incredibly stupid and pay Alan Tudyk to voice act the sheep, or pay Vin Diesal millions to say “I am Groot” 300 different ways, but no one should be ashamed for not doing so.
God thats boring
Jesus Christ, I can smell your fedora from here.
“consumers are stupid”. So I guess you and everyone else is stupid? Calling people who like things you don’t like stupid means you have the mind of a toddler and probably act like one.
But you’re right. People don’t want new things. It’s why movies like Oppenheimer bombed and only made almost a billion. It’s why “Everything, everywhere all at once” bombed and nobody watched it nor talks about it ever.
People like things that they like. Crazy.
Yeah a lot of people grew up with superheroes, so they watch their favorite franchises. Less so now since we can see some decline with people getting sick of it all.
People like sports, so they buy sports games. EA has a strangle on licensing rights for the players. People want to play as their favorite players. Fucking wild right? If a competitor came in, had the license rights and made a decent game, guess what, people would probably buy it.
I started off in MUDs. When WoW was new, the class synergy and the contexts in which they worked was new, exciting and fun. Yeah people wanted to see that outside of WoW because back then it was new.
You sound like a grognard loser who likes the smell of their own farts and tries to establish their milquetoast opinion as fact
Inb4 “you’re a marvel watcher” I don’t watch them because I’m not interested in superheros. Inb4 “FIFA slave” nope don’t care about sports ball.
Your reply is going to be some nonsense about how you’re right because you’re just…right! Don’t bother, I won’t read it.
Ok you do it then.
It also helps if the game is genuinely fun or interesting to play. I can tell you I’m having a hell of a lot more fun watching people play this than recent Pokemon games, and it’s making me consider dropping some money to buy the game.
I think you have no idea how long it takes to make a game. Even the simplest game will take months. Most survival games take years.
If you look at their site, it honestly looks like they just took their EXISTING game from a few years back (Craftopia) and cheaply re-skinned it for PalWorld.
So the cost posted might only be for the re-skinning cost too, making it even cheaper.
I saw this game, like, 5 minutes ago and I can already say it looks bloody awful. It’s like they put all the buzzwords in a hat and decided to make a game from them.
I can see bits of Fotnite, Zelda, Pokemon, and every Minecraft clone under the sun. Not a single new thing brought to the table.
