>On July 10, Palworld released its official 1.0 version. Developed by Tokyo-based Pocketpair the game first launched in a beta form in early 2024 to massive success.>Its full release suggests enthusiasm remains high for a Pokemon-esque game with new mechanics and a grittier story: After drawing 2.1 million concurrent players on Steam during its early-access launch Palworld’s version 1.0 release again approached 1 million concurrent players.Zaaaaaamn, Game freak sure is in decline after losing so hard, looks like Wind Waves will be the last nail in Pokémon’s coffin
so, this is Gamefreak without Nintendo's shackles, woah...also>Palslop out of nowherewhat's it like letting pokemon live rent-free in your head?
>>744548629That’s literally what the review says
We've known forever that Game Freak are hacks. They are a glorified mobile studio.
>>744548694why are palcucks so pathetic?
every time game freak attempts to leave the poké mines they get utterly humiliated
>>744548823palworld won, give it a rest
>>744548823This but Poketroons
>>744548958>won>had to remove mechanics and change Pal designsweird way for a winner to act.
>>744549062>had to [dicksucking noises]Just kill yourself already Pokecuck, you’re living on borrowed time, in 3 years no one will remember Poketroon
>>744549383>no argumentTypical Palcuck behavior.concession accepted.
>>744548958Winners don't suddenly start relying on the "players" cope metric.
>>744548629>Nintendo's shacklesNintendo LITERALLY give them wings and they reject them.
>>744548524>title and image is about game freaks and beasts of reincarnation>thread is about palworld, constantly mentioning pokemon to describe itIs the game freaks game good even with reduced expectations like with tombo or harmoknight? The switch "town" game was a bit tedious to play but at least well stylized, what of this one?
>>744548859Drill Dozer was great though. It has one of the best final boss sequences in games.
>>744548859Except Pulseman. And Drill Dozer.
>>744550047it wasn't a serious post, anon.idiots all over were acting like this game existing proved that Nintendo was holding Game Freak back.
the mysterious apocalypse was Palworld not releasing and gamefreak drowning the world in pokemon rehashes btw
>>744548524gamefreak has many non-pokemon games and they are all complete dogshit
>>744548524>barely any discussion about itIt will flop aint it?
>>744548958>palworld wonWon what?
>>744548629>Nintendo's shacklesLiterally when where they shackled at allGame Freaks started developing Pokemon as an early gen gameboy rpg but left it languishing in development hell while prioritising their deals with Sega (pulseman, taruruto) and Enix (Bushi Seiryuuden, later Enix was fed up with the delays all the way to 1997 on snes so they went with another pub)At Nintendo's darkest time they were publicly developing games for Sony (click medic, a dr mario clone with voice acting, pokemon concepts and narrated endoscopy fmvs), refusing to do console pokemon games or allowing others to (dooming genius sonority's potential with nintendo), refusing to support the wii u (they "forgot about its logo" when doing tembo), constantly trying to go third party with pokemon starting all the way back with docomo i-mode flip phones...
>>744550920see>>744550161
>>744550375Yes, Winds and Weaves will flop so hard that shitendo will have to shut down
Gamefreak would've gone under ages ago if they didn't own a third of the Pokémon IPThey literally are so fucking incompetent that everything they do besides Pokémon always super flops
>>744551249Not to defend them, but it's be surprising if a company that created and owned 1/3 of a money printing machine went out of business.
>>744549383Other way around, no one will remember Palslop by the time WiWa comes out.
>>744551562>Palwordl out of nowhereObsessed
>>744550297gachaslop? really? could you BE more of a shit-eater tendie?
>>744548694It's the final lines of the review, I was probably the first to post this review on 4chan and I certainly didn't feel compelled to put the ending at the start, as fun as the ending was to read.
>>744551746who the fuck is talking about gacha, you fucking moron? you busy in another thread and get confused?
>>744550094The actual review part of the article OP pulled his bait from said it's pretty shit, it's the review from the Japan times
>>744548524Genuine question, why is game freak so bad at making games? Every single game they do outside of pokemon is a massive flop, is everyone in the company just that incompetent or has the years on pokeslop just deteriorated their skills that much?
>>744551960Because they are literally talentless hacks that stroke gold once with Nintendo's help mind you and because Pokegfags have literally no standards they haven't been confronted for their lack of skill.
>>744551960it's truly a mysterywell, not really since the teraleak confirmed they refuse outside help
>>744551909oops, i meant to quote >>744551562
Damn, so this is their answer against Palworld…RIP, We won’t miss you Gamefreak
>>744552242That post is about wind and waves not wuthering waves
>>744553120>Wiwathen the shit-eater is too retarded to type his own precious game correctly, because search engines come up with wuthering waves.
>>744551960The only reason their Pokemon games aren't worse and on par with their other releases is Nintendo and Creatures tardwrangling them.
>>744551960my crackpot theory is that everyone in gamefreak is under silent agreement to never try too hard and never accept outside help so they can lazily work on pokemon and collect huge paychecks foreverthe company is probably filled to the brim with nepo-babies as well
>>744551960They're not particularly competent but struck gold with Pokemon(which is buggy as shit). And what really gave it the staying power it did aside from the anime was the fact you could "catch 'em all" thanks to Iwata cleaning up GF's dogshit work to the point he could add in the entire gen 1 region. If he didn't step in there'd only be gen 2 pokemon in gen 2.They also refuse outside help and they can make that demand since they're one of the 3 that own Pokemon and while Nintendo and Creatures also own part of it that ownership is what gives GF leverage.The transition to 3D models they were ALMOST intelligent in that they made super high poly models to future proof the series... Only to then use those high poly models in the 3DS games which made the games run like shit.>tl;dr - they were always incompetent but have a single point of leverage that means they can never be killed off.
>>744548524>another post-apocalypse game.yaaaay.
>>744548524Didn't this game come out like 10 years ago?
>>744555192Nah, but Sekiro gameplay and Nier and other postapocalypse shit did come out ages ago. Gamefreaaakuu has almost zero originality
>>744549062>removed ball throwing and gliding on a monster because of bullshit patents that didn't exist when the game first came out>improved a few designs>got a gorillion sales and still has 400k playing a month after the game came out of EA>also didn't get sued into oblivion and might only pay 30k if nintendo gets lucky with their first lawsuitdamnwhat a loss lmao
>>744550861Don't forget your shit intake Anon, billions of flys can not be wrong!>>74454852490% outsourced so they can't even fucking hire the right people either. Gamefreak can not do a single thing right.
Yikes
>>744548524gamefreak have no excuse now, it's their fault, always has been
>>744548958Objectively correct
Game Freak so badly want to be more than "the pokemon guys". I remember when most of their game freak 30th anniversary stream was dedicated to that little town game and they've gone on record saying that they ask new employees what they would like to create besides pokemon. I'm sorry but if you defend and buy pokemon when the creators havent given a fuck for at least a decade - you are a cuck
>>744558435did you mean the 20th anni stream?
>>744548524Yeah I can see Gamefrak shutting down after this and Wiwa flops bigly
>>744558529The one during SWSH release year
>>744558543>things that will never happen
>>744558604yeah but you said 30th anni which is wrong because the 30th anni is this year
It's parryslop
>>744558714>>744558294>>744548524>reading games journalism in 2026yikes
>be game freak>sick of making the same shit every year>make other series>3 sales total>alright lets experiment with pokemon itself in a spin-off series but labelled mainline for sales>everyone loves it>fuck it all up immeditately after with SV and ZA
>>74455867630th anniversary of pokemon, not game freak the company who made games and doujins before that
>>744548524>be gamefreak>hey let's try something new>copy what already has been slap across all media>sales suckguess we go back to the pokemon chair....
>>744558865Game Freak's non Pokemon games aren't meant to be big sellers, they're pet projects and training for their younger talent.
>>744558543>pokemon game>floppingBro, SV were the best selling games until Palworld came out and they found 10 million RBY sales hidden in the closet. WW will easily become the best-selling games in the series from hype alone, and the anger at Palworld being competent and beating them in court might also squeeze a bunch more sales from the cult too.
>>744548958Pokémon is:- Still the highest grossing franchise in the world- Still the second best selling video game franchise in the world despite being exclusive- Still the second highest grossing franchise in video game revenue despite being exclusive- Still the best selling TCG of all time- TPC just anounced their most successful fiscal year to dateNothing is on the same league as Pokémon. Not even Star Wars, Marvel, DC, Harry Potter, Mickey Mouse, etc. can compete. Let alone fucking Palworld, LMAO.
>>744559087what else are they gonna do, a fucking tetris game?there's nothing new anymore, everything is just a copy of something else
>>744559140so they're training their interns to be bad on purpose
>pokemon games aren't sold in china>pal world releases on steam, thirty million chinese people play it>retarded dexit fags think its success shows people hate pokemon now and not that nintendo should try harder to sell pokemon games in china
>>744559223>pokemon games aren't sold in chinasince when?china even gets exclusive pokemon cards, why wouldn't they get the games?
>>744548524>and people STILL don't believe in there being a Nintendo Bonus
>>744559223https://www.pokemon.cn/
>>744559305the commie government doesn't like dedicated gaming devices like consolesmobile phones and pcs get a pass because you can also do "work" with them
>>744559336The game is not for switch
>>744559457...that's my point. It not being published by Nintendo or released on their systems means reviewers won't be kind to this game.
hey at least this game will have more players than little town hero on steam!
>>744559572to think I wanted to try this game when it got announced
>>744548958Won a bullet to the head.
>>744559572How the fuck is this even possible
>>744559191More like they make so much money off of Pokemon alone that they can afford to make pet projects like this.
>>744559680God if I ever get the urge to make an indie game I just need to look at this to see how effective it'd be.
>>744548958It's only popular among incels or ccp communists
>>744559840Glass house and stones talking about getting laid as a pokemon fan, Anon.
>>744559752Too bad GameFreak wont see a cent of that money. Their budget for pokemon games are in 10s of millions. Thx for funding the Mario movies tho.
>>74456003999% of Pokemon fans are normies
>>744559680It was game primarily advertised as a switch and pretty much stealth-dropped on steam. Hell, I didn’t even know it was on there until you guys pointed it out
>>744550347So, no different from the pokemon games of the last 15 years
>>744559151>my fwends are allowed to make slop because other goyim like me eat that slop upGrim. But that’s the mentality of the average tendie.
>>744559680It was shit, like, utter dogshit.
>>744560118>99% of Pokemon fans below the age of 18 are normies>90% of Pokemon fans above the age of 18 are furries and adult children who never grew up and are the equivalent of a Disney adulthere fixed it for you
>>744559840I like how every popular games are somehow>i-i-it's le chinese faultDoes that mean they actually have good taste in gaming?And why is that bad to you?
>>744548524>30 year old veteran dev in charge of a 200 billion dollar franchise still needs to learn and grow, you guysIs this a joke?
>>744548958Why did this post mindrape pokefags so hard?
>>744548524Game Freak only exists because they were lucky enough for Pokémon to be a decent idea and it was put on severely limited hardware. Pokemania ensured that they should shit out liquid dogshit and their fanbase would lap it up anyways. Game Freak are dogshit devs who exist purely on brand name alone, not quality. Literally every single non-pokemon game they make is universally panned garbage.
I thought Tembo the badass elephant was a neat game.
>>744550108I'mma let you finish, but Mr. Driller Drill Spirits was the best drill based game of all time
HeyGamefreak did learn some lessons.I think this is unambiguously better than Little Town Hero
>>744551960Theseus shipGame freak is just a name that holds ips
