People be like “tHiS gAmE wiLl KiLl pOkEmOn” then show you fucking ark survival with a mildly bigger emphasis on cute monsters and bare bones ass gameplay
Oh what’s that you made a witty meme about “GREAT GRAPHICS”? You mean to tell me the GRAPHICS are you selling point when the game you keep jerking off is literally just ARK with worse graphics? WOWIE
Pick up fucking Cassette Beasts or the upcoming Beastie Ball, not plagiarism simulator 9000. At least those games are made by people who support LGBT instead of someone who couldn’t give less shit about your right to exist.
Go go gadget strawman meme. Do you think the same about Hogwarts legacy too?
I pirated and completed Hogwart’s Legacy because I fucking hated how little it respected player agency and I wanted to write about how fucking bad it was. (I pirated it because fuck JKs TERF ass)
It’s a game that abso-fucking-lutely refuses to let you play it how you want it and instead endlessly railroads you into how the developers want you to play.
Early in the game is a great example, you’re following the professor through the dark. Instead of something interesting or engaging, like dark hands grasping you and pulling you into the dark, or a Nier Automata-like hidden ending with instant credits, no…
A big blaring ALL CAPS RETURN TO PROFESSOR FIGG with a fucking countdown and when the countdown ends it just says “Game Over” with no real explanation of why not staying close to the professor mattered or failed the mission. No, no reason just DEVELOPER SAID DON’T DO THAT.
That whole fucking stupid shit game is on rails like that. I’m so glad Baldur’s Gate 3 came out and showed people what a fucking game that lets you have agency and play how you want is like.
People shitting on the game are so much more annoying than people praising it. Obviously it’s not going to kill pokemon, no shit. It’s still a fun game. The progression is solid, and its fun collecting cute creatures. The whole reason it blew up is because it was surprising that what was thought to be a meme game released with the amount of quality and depth it has.
It looks like a shit game but calling it plagiarism because they’re both games about capturing monster seems a bit silly.
Well it’s also a little absurd because you can’t actually copyright game mechanics. Throwing a ball to capture a creature would fall under “mechanics” I would assume.
You can copyright Pikachu and Ash Ketchum and Pokemon and the name Pokeball, but you can’t actually copyright the game mechanic of using the ball to capture a mob.
Why is it absurd?
You think a movie should be able copyright plot elements?
The plagiarism part is about creature designes. They are very simillar to Pokemon at times, down to proportions being nearly identical:
https://twitter.com/covingtown/status/1749462735291859423
That isn’t the most especially convincing thread to me (I’m not entirely sure I buy that those models being similar means anything, but will wait for more info before rushing to judgment), but more to the point it’s so sad that after leveling these accusations, they have to go so far out of their way to tell people not to harass the artist. Like yikes, it’s wild that people who don’t like a game have to be convinced not to harass somebody instead of, you know, just… not buying the game?
And? You realize how little that holds up in copyright court? Have you heard of aquaman and namor? Or Donald duck and daffy duck?
Why does this has to mean anything legally? I see an obvously traced asset, and what I get from that is that there was not a drop of passion put into the designs. It just adds to the feeling of this game being uninspired as fuck.
I just want to say that as somebody who never played Ark, the discourse on this game is infuriating. Game reviews suck now because they’re all predicated on other games: “this game is like Blasphemy 2 meets Stardew Valley,” well that’s great unless you haven’t played either Stardew or Blasphemy.
When did we forget that good journalism defines all terms before using them? When did we start accepting this lazy non-commentary?
To me, and anyone else who has never played Ark, all we know is that Palworld apparently isn’t Pokemon-like but is some nebulous something else instead. It’s so frustrating.
Did you know the dev is also a crypto shill?
