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Still don't get this kinda stuff, it's not even vaguely competing in the same ring as Pokemon. But hey if it pisses off the brats into Pokemon then it's fine by me ┐(シ)┌
I'm aware that the game is more Ark-like than Pokémon-like, but the sales comparison reminded me Masuda's rather shitty public message justifying Dexit, it sounds outright hilarious in hindsight: "the world of Pokémon keeps evolving". Now we only need Palworld devs saying "evolution is the survival of the fittest!" for extra burn.
Gotta be honest, maybe it really is the coat of paint, but I could not at all get into ark. Palworld has me hooked tho.
Ark had basic structural problems. Even ark lovers strugglento get into ark
I love ark, but i hate ark and wouldn't expect anyone to get into it
I liked Ark a lot in the beginning.
Now the game is an unplayable bloated mess that wants to take up half of my Steam drive.
The "coat of paint" is a bigger deal than we players often pretend that it is. It's what put us in the mood to play, so it's often the difference between "play 5min, go play something else" and "fuck, it's already morning!".
Plus what other posters here said, Ark had quite a few other problems.
I do wonder what will happen with those 19 million once the shine wears off. Getting to max level and “catching them all” isn’t really that difficult nor that terribly time consuming. If I had kept playing, I would have hit 50 by now and probably have most of the available pals. And to be fair, I may get back to it and do so, but once I’m done with that I’ll probably put the game away.
I suppose a goal one could have is to work toward being as efficient as possible with their base. But unless there’s some compelling feature after maxing out level and catching the pals, the game is effectively won. Which may be fine and be what is intended (until an expansion arrives).
It's definitely more shallow as a singleplayer experience. In the end it's a survival game and those shine with emergent gameplay when you play with others. Looking at stuff like Rust I believe there will be a core playerbase that sticks around just for that.
But even if singeplayer isn't its main focus, it's definitely a breath of fresh air to have a creature collecting game, that isn't a slow strategy combat slog for once, like Pokémon for the past 20 years.
Good points!