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@obijuankanoobie I never got any Zelda vibes from this game really tbh. it's a puzzle game with gameplay timing elements built in. bad call saying it's Zelda just cos the main character sprite is Zeldaish and puzzles set in a dungegon. for zelda like games not dark lol Oceanhorn. but Death's Door, Crosscode, Eastward are better.

First one was good but with room for improvement.

Probably need to free up some cash for that Neom fiasco that was supposed to be a 170 km long and 500m wide city in the desert. (now scaled back to 2km)

@Arawn93 "Pocketpair also reports that Nintendo is seeking an injunction against Palworld, which would halt sales of the game until infringing mechanics are removed. Considering that the patents Nintendo is asserting seem to cover some of Palworld's basic mechanics, removing and replacing them seems like it would take a lot of work." the 66k is a smokescreen.

@HeadPirate Great. The biggest third party success ever on Gamepass "doesn't count" was getting tiring in the extreme. And I'm sure that "Palworld Entertainment" "doesn't count" either for Nintendo's actions. Neither of which are remotely true of course.

@HeadPirate All games have massive drop off rates 10 months after release- that's no mic drop- the average playtime per user is 50 hours - it's not as if the average buyer didn't play the absolute hell out of it lol.
Forget your your obfuscation micro-focus on Gamepass -> 20 million sales on Steam Alone. 20 million is a huge result. Now Sony have joined up with them to create "Palworld Entertainment " to capitalise on the breakout success. Getting Nintendo's panties in a further twist.

@HeadPirate Gamepass is not at no cost. It's $120 a year. Microsoft cuts deals with developers who get hard cash based on the deal. The 10 million Xbox user figure is a combination of Gamepass users and sales and that was back in February so who knows what additional sales have come in since then. Microsoft has said that Palworld is the most successful 3rd party Gamepass game of all time. Plus over 20 million unit sales on Steam also as of 30 Sep 2024 from Video Game Insights with an average playtime of 50 hours on Steam and 94% positive reviews! Plus whatever Playstation brings when figures come in. It has been a massive success on both Steam and Xbox. That is absolutely undeniable. https://x.com/VG_Insights/status/1846827236797665552

@BTB20 15 million players on steam, 10 million players on xbox, how many more million will we have on PlayStation? No misinformation there. I hope Nintendo lose this so hard because bringing a court case partly on the basis of throwing a ball to capture a creature is flocking ridiculous and would set a precedent to stifle games development.

So it's still releasing on Github - how is that finished with then?

@BTB20 yes it's the most successful 3rd party game on Gamepass of all time. More success that Nintendo got their panties in a twist about.

@Dr_Lugae I wasn't referring to revenue but unit sales. As of February 2024 Palworld had 15m sales on Steam, 10 million users on Xbox across sales and Gamepass (devs do a Gamepass sales deal like film media do on Netflix so they get hard cash based on users playing, Palworld is the most popular 3rd party game in Gamepass history which is not exactly shabby). Now just launched on PlayStation 5. Nintendo only got their panties in a twist because it was so successful.

@BTB20 I specifically said that Palworld was better and more successful than Pokemons recent products. Palworld is better and more successful with 25 million sales as of February 2024 across 2 platforms (so going to be higher than that now 9 months later) and has just launched on Playstation 1 month ago which is going to further up sales on that 65 million footprint platform so it has already exceeded any Nintendo pokemon release on the switch in unit sales. Nintendo felt threatened ONLY because it was so successful unlike the reams of other games with similar mechanics. As one analyst said: ""This lawsuit would have never happened if Palworld had 500 users per day on Steam," Toto says. "[Nintendo] would have said, 'ok, whatever, let's leave these guys alone; the game will die.'"

The elephant in the room is that Nintendo''s own Pokemon products have been poor for many years and Palworld was better and more successful. There have been lots of games with similar mechanics. Palworld's biggest "crime" compared to those other ones was to be successful.

@Teksetter On the other-hand is the Wolfenstein series a big seller in Germany?!

@miwa dont't leave us hangin' ... what controversy?

@Smackosynthesis CS generally considered the worst of the 3.

one thing is that I find that the horror immersion factor of these games does not work on handheld.

complete jank on switch. the -sequence with the dragon boss at the tower was like a frame-by-frame powerpoint.

Echoes just not all that.

@UsernameMayne so wait, we have Epstein jailed for his transgressions vs a man who molested and murdered his own 5 year old daughter in Saudi Arabia just able to pay the mother and get off scott free - yep. Pretty legit comparison there 2 legal systems.

Never played any of these - they have a reputation for being sort of janky, no?

@Pod sure but most analyst projections have Nintendo target share price with another 25% to 30% to go up. It's not like the Saudis only have this capital to play with so need to sell to buy other stuff.

@Pod it's a good chunk of change but not even 1% of what they have in their sovereign wealth fund alone.

@UsernameMayne Epstein was brought to justice though. Saudi Arabia is the place beheading (2023) its own subjects for being in a protest aged 17 while on the other hand in 2013 a man who molested and murdered his own 5 year old daughter was able to pay a monetary sum to the mother and avoid any prison. That is literally what is going on in their legal system.

Nintendo get annoyed that people like a game more than their crappy game. Well done Nintendo.

@Yoshi3 you just proved the point.

@LEGEND_MARIOID I'm not surprised. There some really good games in that range. But they didn't have the Zelda/Mario "review excess" factor either did they?

@LEGEND_MARIOID Lucky for you. But also it's the worst reviewed new Zelda game in over 30 years at least..

86 on Metacritic - lower than Link's Awakening. Main issue seems to be that Zelda was traditionally an action adventure but that this is a PUZZLE-adventure (no combat for the most part effectively)

Patents huh? Ironic when "patently" Nintendo have had for many years had trouble producing a Pokemon game that that is anywhere near as fun as Palworld

@Neckcrane Gravity Circuit is the game that outdoes MegaMan imo. Not a roguelite / like but a super game.

@JesseJames23 it's hard at the start until you get upgrades. use a guide to find out where the health and burst upgrades are on each level - they are basically essential.

Seems to be getting pretty poor reviews elsewhere. consensus seems to be that other games just do it much better. (and that the hacking part is repetitive)

GTA V ran on an Xbox 360 so could run on a Switch 1

@larryisaman they are standalone stories. many people won't really take to the archaic mechanics and the demo can let them find that out!

@larryisaman there were two demos provided for this game. people didn't have to buy anything to try it for free.

@eaglesfly76 I do agree that when I see the term "amazing pixel art" I do wince a bit but it never has been a clincher for me with a game tbh

@eaglesfly76 the most important thing about the game is how the game is really. this is a 91% metacritic game so it's one of the best platformers released.

how is this going to run on Switch I wonder given what looks like a big graphical upgrade?

any tips on how to "get into this game"? have tried briefly a couple of times and failed.

Tunic meets Death's Door in a fraught feline fantasy frolic?

Clunky movement is a deal-breaker in games like this imo

@RobotReptile Bubble Bobble came out on arcade archives at the end of 2022

I always thought that this was a dumb gimmick tbh

Fast RMX still the racing king on Switch after all these years imo.

@WaveBoy I have HOTD Overkill on the Wii. It's good and very playable using the sensor bar for sure!

controls on the first one were "not great" at best even with the patch. gyro is just not up to it. don't really see how they can improve on that limitation here either...

@Josh_Hickory I totally agree. With the first one the controls were literally completely janky. I didn't get how some of the reviews were so strong. likewise here with NL giving the sequel an 8 - it has gotten a 5 from another site with them saying the controls ruin the sequel also.

I thought the controls were absolutely dire on the first one. regret it. read elsewhere that on the second one the fixed camera fixes some of that but creates new issues...