Let’s talk about this, because I’ve seen this idea being passed around a bit.
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What can hurt the industry is Palworld copycats (more pokemon with gun/survival games). Sort of the battle royal fatigue we had after PubG
But what pal world could bring to the table is more variety in gameplay styles with monster taming games. What makes Palworld really engaging is that the Pals operate mostly independently of player input and controlling your charater is engaging enough that you dont end up getting bored. Unique gameplay/interaction with monsters has always been something explored from the indie side of the genre. We may see less of a developers defaulting to a tunr based play style
the only thing that had me truly worried about palworld was all the talks about the developers using AI art (something I'm against), so far it doesn't seem to be the case which has me relived a little, I am wanting to give this game a shot but I currently don't have the funds to do so at the time of writing
Competition is good
Nintendo cannot make crap anymore, ppl now know they can get more for half price.. its the end of an era of shit monster taming games thx to palworld
I actually believe that Palworld is very, very beneficial to monster taming, since it gets peoples eyes away from just pokemon, and onto other amazing games, like monster sanctuary and yokai watch.
This is healthy for gaming in general.
People like it, the only people that don't are egotistical and fools.
Nope it’s gonna heels it very well
I think people forgot the dozen or so monster taming games thate existed before pokemon
No Palworld will not hurt the monster taming genre. It is that simple.
This is what I believe, there's only so many different designs you can make for creatures in a game, pokemon has monopolized the market with having so many effing monsters now that they can just copyright anything that looks like it. I completely disagree with that model because it kills the smaller, more hungry studios that actually want to push for better games (in this case a different genre game) than what pokemons been giving us. If game freak really gave a crap, they would've released a game like palworld years ago
I’m on the same page as you I laughed really hard when I saw “boycotters” sharing other monster taming games like yes Palwolrd is already very successful I hope the others can have a good boast in their sales
Are you going to make an announcement video when steam adds monster taming to their search
Like 90% of mt games are still turnbased. So palworld being the the biggest mt other than pokemon will only hurt the genre cuz it doesnt seem like any other devs have the guts, like gamefreak, to do anything other than basic pixel 2d turnbased games.
Thre was a time when every FPS game was called a DOOM or Quake clone. Half Life 1 changed that. I think that PalWorld is Monster Taming's Half Life moment.
Just like Stardew Valley turned Harvest Moon into a whole genre, a lot of games have tried to do that to Pokémon like Temtem and Casette Beasts, but none of them hit mainstream appeal like Palworld
Palworld is just gonna make it better, also pokemon ripped off others before it.
What's the background music?
A better title is "Will Pokémon's continued stagnation hurt the Monster Taming Genre?"
I truly believe that the Monster Taming genre, just like Palworld did, it can be spun differently. They don't necessarily need to mimic Pokemon's JRPG style.
It hurt the genre for me personally at least. One of my favourite genres reduced to Palworld as the pinnacle of it. Why do people consider it innovating because of purely sales? When you look at the gameplay they've combined fairly simplistic survival mechanics with monsters attached to it — how is this moving the genre forward? Many indie titles are much better in my opinion and because they're more niche, they're simply not considered; popularity is the only thing on people's mind and it isn't everything. I don't care if you like the game, more power to you, but I feel like I should express the other side of the argument.
Me, I'm hoping this gets FromSoft considering another Monster Catching game. They never touched the genre again after the souls games took off, give or take a little bit of summoning in Elden Ring. But now that Palworld has outsold Elden Ring on Steam, and since Armoured Core 6 did reasonably well showing they can make other kind of games than just souls likes, maybe they'll think about reviving the Lost Kingdoms series.
The only thing that ever hurt me is how Digimon has never had a proper RPG between World 3 and the Cyber Sleuth series. Then we get to the monotony left by Survive.
I feel like it will make it more popular if palworld becomes a miss like it did for me. I hunted out other games for that reason.
Palworld is the exact reason I grew an interest in the genre for the first time. I had no interest in the genre before because Pokemon(the only thing I really knew) was Nintendo exclusive and I don't care about any Nintendo products. I've already gotten an interest in Cassette Beasts and I'm sure much more will follow now that I've seen the genre has an accessible and PC oriented route for me.
If this is the case for others, it will most definitely grow interest for the genre overall. Even if one disliked Palworld it will have people asking what alternatives exist and lead to them finding those alternatives. This is good and will help lead to natural growth to games that's not gotten the attention they deserved.
Really glad Palworld let me find this channel, honestly been a fan of the monster taming genre for a long time but never cared for most of the creators, these videos are honestly what I have been looking for. Like a great voice plus nice video pacing
Hot take … Pal world is just monster hunter …the difference is monster hunter focused on the combat moment … Meanwhile palworld focuses on the before and after the combat moment and what it means to be a pal in that world
Palworld is to monster tamer games as breath of the wild was to open world games 🔥
I don't really want to rain in your parade here and I get the idea behind this being a genre. But I think that is also the weakness of this 'genre' so to speak. The fact that really something like Pokémon is already considered an RPG by most mainstream gamers. And if you call SMTV and Persona etc 'Monster Taming' then we're really getting in the area of disagreement.
Simply said, while you can view all these games through the lens of the monsters that are in them. Most people also could argue Pokémon is an RPG. SMTV and Persona are definetly RPG's. Palworld is a Survival game etc. So while you want to see it in this light because the hook for you with all these games are the monsters. For allot of other people that's simply an element. Like say guns are an element of Half Life. Or loot is an element of Baldurs Gate.
The concept of wanting more of these games though is very much something everyone would agree with. Who doesn't like Pokémon. But you might have some issues or overlap trying to focus on it being a genre. I get why though so don't take this comment as anything but someones isolated opinion.
Defending theft in 2024 ☝️
I have a feeling that 2024 is gonna be a great year for the Monster Taming genre. I'm hoping we get at least 3 new projects starting up that want to innovate on the formula. Idc if it's rpg, survival, open world etc, I just want innovation in the genre so that we, as consumers, get more options to play around with.
One good example would be if someone made a chill, Stardew Valley like monster taming game.
I think the only "harm" to the genre will be the large amounts of low effort attempts to mimic their success. In a month or 2, Steam will be loaded with shovelware "creature collecting" games. Mobile will probably be even worse since on any given day you can find at least 3 games literally using Pokemon and somehow Google lets it through.
Its interesting seeing the old trailera for Palworld being played in this vid Ed, theres quite a lot of things we see that arent in the current iteration of Palworld. Do you think they will bring those in, e.g. the cart where hes dragging a pal by a rope behind it, the giant flying whale Pal and that mega city as just a couple of examples of things not currently in game.
Crazy how poketubers are encouraging pirating the game