I honestly don’t understand how people saw this slop and all just threw their wallets at it. The only way I can cope with this beating fucking Counter Strike is that it’s “Adult Pokemon” premise was too interesting to pass up. I can’t imagine it’ll be like this in a month or several. As an outsider this is beyond bizarre to watch. Maybe PETA got to me but it turns my stomach watching people gleefully butcher and enslave Pokemon.
Yep! Clearly I’m in the minority thinking it’s distasteful to take innocent, bright, goofy looking creatures that resemble the childhood characters most of us grew up with and literally fucking slaughtering them with a butcher knife for soup. I’d rather shoot unnamed terrorist #32 in his terrorizing face. Correct.
If the game wasn’t also low effort slop that’s borderline an asset flip with how many designs they’ve stolen, I’d probably tolerate it more but I’m awestruck so many people are eating this trash up and celebrating it.
Oh the premise is the same but the difference is I can’t go stab my Pikachu, cut it up, then turn it into soup because I got bored. Pokemon still has kid gloves on it to where nobody dies, injuries are superficial, and everything gets better with a visit to a special building. Palworld shatters that and goes “Hey, fellow psychopaths, you can now enslave and butcher all those friendly creatures you grew up with!” like all of us were just fucking drooling at the chance to murder cute animals. Clearly I’m the weird one because I never grew up thinking the Pokemon should be killable.
I typically associate a circlejerk as a bunch of people who really like something not being open to outside critique and I’ll keep it a buck that’s exactly what I’ve experienced from the Palworld crowd.
Calling it slop is shorthand for the critique, friend. I’m sure you’re familiar with the term?
The game is a basic, watered down, cheap, imitation of something better. In this case, Pokemon and Ark. The developers had a small budget, have a history of ripping off other games, and is succeeding only off the novelty of the concept “Pokemon with guns” and “Adult Pokemon with slavery!”. There is no depth, no substance, it’s a sandbox they cobbled together and all of you lined up for your yummy slop and now defend it because god forbid you take a step back from the group circlejerk to analyze what it is you’re beating it to.
You’ll have post nut clarity in a couple months. Once you all get your fill a new game will take it’s place. Among Us, Valheim, Fall Guys, PUBG, H1Z1, Fuck even Lethal Company which I’d consider pretty damn good. They’re games that have massive surges but ultimately fall off. No staying power. They’re not a Fallout: New Vegas with memes almost everyone can relate with (some exceptions with Among Us). They’re not Counter Strike that keep people logging in and have a highly competitive community. They’re not Warframe that develop their game in cool new ways to bring old players back. They’re not Elden Ring with a story rich world hand crafted with quiet whispers of deeper lore scattered around. They’re definitely not Baldur’s Gate 3 with some of the most unique companions and interactions that have created memories which will last for years to come.
It’s slop. A flash in the pan. Tasteless grool to tide you over until the next bowl, then the next, until someone makes another good game worth remembering. Worth talking about.
I honestly don’t understand how people saw this slop and all just threw their wallets at it. The only way I can cope with this beating fucking Counter Strike is that it’s “Adult Pokemon” premise was too interesting to pass up. I can’t imagine it’ll be like this in a month or several. As an outsider this is beyond bizarre to watch. Maybe PETA got to me but it turns my stomach watching people gleefully butcher and enslave Pokemon.
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Yep! Clearly I’m in the minority thinking it’s distasteful to take innocent, bright, goofy looking creatures that resemble the childhood characters most of us grew up with and literally fucking slaughtering them with a butcher knife for soup. I’d rather shoot unnamed terrorist #32 in his terrorizing face. Correct.
If the game wasn’t also low effort slop that’s borderline an asset flip with how many designs they’ve stolen, I’d probably tolerate it more but I’m awestruck so many people are eating this trash up and celebrating it.
Are you this mad at pokemon too? They obscure all of this, but the premise is the same…
Oh the premise is the same but the difference is I can’t go stab my Pikachu, cut it up, then turn it into soup because I got bored. Pokemon still has kid gloves on it to where nobody dies, injuries are superficial, and everything gets better with a visit to a special building. Palworld shatters that and goes “Hey, fellow psychopaths, you can now enslave and butcher all those friendly creatures you grew up with!” like all of us were just fucking drooling at the chance to murder cute animals. Clearly I’m the weird one because I never grew up thinking the Pokemon should be killable.
Careful, the palworld circle jerk machine is in full effect here.
Ah, the classic “people that disagree with me are circlejerking” defense
I typically associate a circlejerk as a bunch of people who really like something not being open to outside critique and I’ll keep it a buck that’s exactly what I’ve experienced from the Palworld crowd.
Calling something “slop” isn’t a critique, and people downvoting it aren’t circlejerking
Calling it slop is shorthand for the critique, friend. I’m sure you’re familiar with the term?
The game is a basic, watered down, cheap, imitation of something better. In this case, Pokemon and Ark. The developers had a small budget, have a history of ripping off other games, and is succeeding only off the novelty of the concept “Pokemon with guns” and “Adult Pokemon with slavery!”. There is no depth, no substance, it’s a sandbox they cobbled together and all of you lined up for your yummy slop and now defend it because god forbid you take a step back from the group circlejerk to analyze what it is you’re beating it to.
You’ll have post nut clarity in a couple months. Once you all get your fill a new game will take it’s place. Among Us, Valheim, Fall Guys, PUBG, H1Z1, Fuck even Lethal Company which I’d consider pretty damn good. They’re games that have massive surges but ultimately fall off. No staying power. They’re not a Fallout: New Vegas with memes almost everyone can relate with (some exceptions with Among Us). They’re not Counter Strike that keep people logging in and have a highly competitive community. They’re not Warframe that develop their game in cool new ways to bring old players back. They’re not Elden Ring with a story rich world hand crafted with quiet whispers of deeper lore scattered around. They’re definitely not Baldur’s Gate 3 with some of the most unique companions and interactions that have created memories which will last for years to come.
It’s slop. A flash in the pan. Tasteless grool to tide you over until the next bowl, then the next, until someone makes another good game worth remembering. Worth talking about.
“could I possibly be wrong?
No, it’s a circle jerk…”