Palworld VS... Animal Crossing?
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
- Palworld has been out for several weeks now but it only took a day or so before it started breaking records. It even managed to worm its way on to the more "cozy" side of RUclips and that's made things pretty interesting...
⏱️Chapters:
0:00 Has Palworld has KILLED Cozy Gaming?
1:07 WT* is a "Cozy" Game?
2:03 Stardew Valley Clones
3:18 Palworld: The Same Thing Over and Over
5:27 Are Cozy Games Dead?
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I forgot to say this super clearly in the video... I still plan on doing ACNH streams and other Animal Crossing content. Palworld has been a really nice break though. 😅
i totally agree with your point people saw the success of stardew valley and animal crossing and have just been releasing there own versions of it. Pokemon is still sticking with the same old format becuase they know they can shovel garbage in our faces and the fanboys will eat it up. they dont need to take risks becuase they dont NEED to. Palworld i think happened at the right time that nintendo and other companies will see this game and say "huh if this is THAT popular lets try that to" and now we will see a ton of knock off clones of palworld / pokemon in the coming years as the trend always goes people riding the coattails of successful games. but i dont see nintendo ever changing there ways there to successful with a loyal fanbase that will eat up anything shoveled at them. SW/SH /Scar/Viol to give examples and when they did innovate with arceus they saw we loved it and saved it in there back pocket to probaly retry later with a "were listening" to make bookoo bucks as greedy companies do. I just believe the stagnation is self inflicted becuase of how much we want change and how much companies only see dollars and are telling us "No"
Didn’t expect a video like this from you, Dan - but you nailed it! I’m here for the video essays!!
So addicted to palworld, I build cozy farming/breeding bases and my husband builds weapon bases lol
for me a game like zelda botw is a cozy game. walking around in the serene world with nature sounds and subtle music notes, exploring different locations, and collecting resources like chasing stars or opening chests is super chill. the quiet does get broken up by the camp fights and other mobs like lynals but its nvr so hard and its a part of the natural play that it doesnt ruin how calming the game is. i do however have one gripe that extends to multiple games; generic mob combat music is tiresome. i wish there was an option to turn it off cuz when im mindlessly wiping out mobs i dont want the good in game music im vibing to be interrupted. something i would like is to have the normal music not stop but add a layer of like a subtle battle beat, similar to pokemon bw2 where walking added a little marching drum.
palworld does that for me as botw did. its nice to explore and build up the bases while hanging with your pals (both irl and in game), tho the battles on hard mode are anything but chill.
Most farming game are similar but there is one farming title tried to be different. Rune factory, farming + fantasy + combat. Wasn't really my cup of coffe but it was popular enough to have its own franchise. Start at NDS era and i think i saw a title for switch some time ago
rune factory was actually a spinoff from harvest moon/story of seasons(Natsume kept the English name but the story of seasons brand is the original series renamed)
I've got Rune Factory 1-4 for the ds/3ds and have been looking at getting 5 on steams. I've also got Rune Factory Oceans on the PS3, which focused more on the monsters and less on the farming(you assigned monsters to an island that you'd harvest certain materials)
Great video! I think AC did more then just create new gamers it taught them how to use controls and got them ready for other games as well. the low stakes makes it a great first game for adults especially who haven't really gamed before.
If "chill" games go away completely.... I would likely stop buying video games. I'm not a fan of combat at all (and not watch as many videos on games either). Fantastic video however. You are always a joy to watch. More please.
Me too.
Rune Factory. Did no one play that? It’s a spin off of Harvest Moon (aka Farmville with romance storylines), but with crafting and dungeons and fighting. Rune Factory is freaking awesome, and the animals you tame can help you fight or give you crafting items. Palworld isn’t the first to do this.
Awesome video, Dan! I hope this video, along with your Palworld content, brings you lots of attention your channel deserves!
Must be why I’m enjoying Dinkum so much lol
Great video! I agree that Animal Crossing brought a lot of new players into gaming overall and that Stardew inspo from the old Harvest Moon did really well but also ConcernedApe's determination and efforts to make Stardew better is why the game is also so popular and is the "standard" now. I am tired of the same farming formula and while I don't mind somewhat playing similar farming games, I do want more new stuff. I would argue that Cozy Games have another huge issue other than the same formula going on. Most Cozy Games are going in EA and then fully launching with still a roadmap which is now a gaming industry issue and not just Indie
I also look at Palworld from the perspective that the Devs combined popular genres into one game such as monster collecting and survival which clearly did very well but I have also seen a lot of Pkmn fans who are playing Palworld never cared for survival games so the fact that the Devs made survival fun in Palworld is amazing.
However, I don't agree with the title. I am in a few content creators that have labelled themselves as cozy who are playing Palworld and they love it but I am also in some where they won't touch Palworld because of the controversies circulating it. I tried to recommend this game on the Cozy Subreddit and was DOWN VOTED and had people replying to me that it has AI which is once again not proven. Overall what Palworld has done is amazing but from the popularity side, I think it's one of those games where it becomes such a massive hit that it's going to get shoved in your face no matter what community of games you're from. Similar to Genshin, Botw/Totk, BG3, Among Us which we do need games that becomes massive hits but I don't think Palworld killed Cozy Games when the community has been having issues prior just like how people have issues with Gamefreak.
I would like more videos like this though. I think you made very good points and I want to see more videos talking about the issues the Cozy Games have asides copying the same formula if that is something you're interested in! 💖
My first cozy game was Disney's Pixie Hollow, where you flew around as a fairy and collected stuff to buy clothes/furniture. They had unique, annual events that made me appreciate the different seasons and I loved a lot of the mini games. But then Disney killed it. So my next cozy game was Free Realms, where I could run around and explore a large map and do all kinds of quests. But then they added more combat, making it stressful. And then the creators of the game killed it. So I moved on to Star Stable Online, where you ride around on a horse doing quests and training your horses. But then the company stopped fixing bugs and the cozy vibes became bitter.
Actually, most RPG games are cozy for me, as I use them to zone out and destress. Sometimes I just want to hit things with a sword, okay? I can't do it in real life, that'd be awful, but I can in a game world. It's almost the same as screaming into your pillow or breaking plates in anger.
If palworld was more sword and bow and didn't have such a jarring dissonance between the world and characters I'd probably play it. It reminds me a ton of OG RuneFactory with how the creatures help out around your base.
I'm a cozy gamer who will never play palworld, I dislike high stress games. However, I am already over Stardew Valley copies. I won't play Fae farm and lost interest in Coral island. Disney Dreamlight Valley is an awesome case study in innovating cozy games. Questing, friendship rewards, photo contest, decorating, multi-player, puzzles, farming, variety of character customization, and main/character storylines. It's definitely different and very cozy.
It's not that stressful, it can be challenging but not anxiety inducing lmao.
The game isn't stressful at all. ^^; It's actually fairly relaxing outside of some of the highest level pals and the tower bosses. And once you outlevel the first 2 bosses they're really easy to kill a well. And all of the high level stuff is pretty much optional unless you really want those pals.
If you pick custom when making a new world, you can turn off raids, stop buildings to deteriorate outside the base area and lower egg hatching times to instant.
It IS possible to go to max level by only hatching eggs, you only need to unlock the incubation capsules and the ranch and you can breed + farm materials only and never fight. (though you do need at least 1 purple technical point to unlock the incubator but the lowest world boss is lv 11 so it's not too hard to kill) :)
The only thing stressful is the amount of times I’m crashing per minute
@@unnaturaldog1794 weird, as in my 200 or so hours of play I've only crashed twice.
7:28 "sending out for little mission"
actually they did, in Sword&Shield and Sun&Moon, but pretty bare bones.
Sword&Shield is just a short cutscene, trainer waves his hand and pokemons head for the "Job" collect money or consumable items.
Sun&Moon is watching pokemons pixel icon jump around on a island collecting items or training EV their own.
And ...after order proceed, the "Little mission" takes 12~24 real time hours, cancel it lost all the progress, completely the anti meaning of Cozy.
Love this format Dan. Huge fan of listening to a video essay style video. Palworld was definitely a pleasant surprise for me and I have been wanting to pick it up again when i get a weekend soon!
truer words were never spoken lol this was great Dan!! Thanks!!! I'm glad you took a risk!!! :)
hi, i'm new to the channel. the topic hit the nail on the head for me. thanks!
Such a great video Dan!
Thank you!
"What if you could send Pokemon from your boxes out to get supplies that you can make items with?" Believe it or not, both Sun and Moon and Sword and Sheild had a feature like that.
I did miss those specific games tbf, but could you do any kind of base building with them? That's the big thing for me... These worlds in Pokemon now are so big but with so much empty space. Would be really fun to see them give us some other things to do
@@CrossingMinute Base building is locked into the older games of RSE DPP and their remakes. Sun and moon was send your pokemon out for several hours at a time and they would bring back items like evo stones, vitamins, shards, held items and berries, while neat most people probably got little out of them due to long mobile game like timers.
@@CrossingMinute Totally agree. I just thought it was ironic that was the example. In fact it kind of shows that Pokemon has experimented with a lot of the features people really want even before they got popular (like base building, but that was early 2000's) but for some reason didn't commit to them. Hopefully they do more games like Legends Arceus which actually did take a risk. Can't wait to try Palworld.
I didn’t get into palworld, but I’ve left cozy games for final fantasy 14, (rpg mmo) and baldur’s gate 3 (rpg). Both are way more combat-focused than anything I’d played before which made me nervous, but now I’m hooked! I still play cozy games here and there, but mostly when I’m trying to make myself bored and tired before going to bed lol.
Great Video Dan 👍🏻. Like to see more of it. 😃 I love the video games without combat a lot and will always play them 😍. But I found my way to Palworld too and can say, I like it a lot. But I always switch the games. Today I started a completely new town in Stardew Valley and played 3 hours that flew by. But Palworld is such a good way to have combat and cozy gameplay together and the pals are cute. 😍 depends on my mood. A few month ago I stick to one game till I finished it (besides ACNH). But now I became more flexible 😄😂
Has anyone played Wylde flowers? It’s like Stardew valley but with a witchy storyline.
You make potions, You unlock stuff, you meet people, you do quests, it’s pretty fun ngl.
Tho I’m still pretty new to the cozy gaming community. I think this game is one of the best Cozy Games.
Good Video btw!!😊
I like this new Dan. This was such a funny yet informative video essay !
Hehe...I'm the opposite to you on this, cozy games specifically, because I was tired of shooting at things and collecting, collecting and..collecting. AC and Subnautica had me building and exploring - with AC it has me exploring my creativity while collecting!The building genre, in general is about the creativity you bring to the environment you're in. You can't get that in WoW or any fps game for that matter. Haven't played Palworld yet and may never, not sure I want both. I play cozy games for just that, just cozy, with little stress. Let cozy game live on!
I am here for the video essays🙌🏼🥰
I have not been watching Palworld content, but I may go back and watch yours from the start. I am soooo scared of survival games..(example: i have been playing Dinum almost a year and have yet to go down the mines or try to kill a bush devil😂)
It’s popular of course RUclipsrs will follow the hype the real question is will it have longevity or get dropped a month later
One can hope.
Its been a month and its player count is still high for a game of its genre. Lots of people beat everything and moves on, which is fine after all its not a game as a service style game, its just how most games are. The real question is was it just a trend, due to people still talking about it I would say, maybe? We have to see if it is still talked about at the end of the year.
For those who don't know look for pokewilds, it is basicaly what palworld did but made by fans years before palworld was born, it has craft, survivor and you use the pokemons to help build, farm, craft, traverse terrain, etc. very creative.
I'm shocked pokemon never took that down.
I couldn't play pokewilds I'm not a fan of the style anymore and find it hard to play those games now but it is still cool what they did.
Great video! I agree with all the points you raised and I’m particularly excited and hopeful that Palworld is the spark that reignites this sector of the gaming industry.
Thank you! Same here!
I tend to play a variety of game categories (cozy, RGP, puzzle, casual, Simulator, dungeon etc). its definitely appreciated for game companies to be original and give us something different, but I also think its good mentally for us gamers to branch out a little and try new types of games. i have surprised myself a few times by just trying something different. Palworld and Enshrouded are examples of survival games i am currently playing, and thats not a genre of game i played previously. Which is why i think streamers are so valuable, we are not only super entertained, but you introduce us to games we either did know about, or saw but didnt realize how fun it was until you played it.
found your channel as a brand new viewer because you did a Palworld video essay, it worked
Palworld didn't kill cozy games for me, Rune Factory 5 did... That one still hurts lol
i don’t exactly share the same opinion as you but i like seeing this style of video essays as well and would love to see more in the future! i’ve not played palworld myself but from the footage it reminds me of pokemon legends arceus, i did a double take when i saw the pal(?) storage/sorting interface. legends arceus despite not being part of the mainline series, was imo a really refreshing take that gamefreak had.
for me whenever i get bored/burnt-out with acnh/sdv i’d switch to playing the don’t starve series, it has the right amount of combat & base-building that still falls under the “cozy” category for me but is still somewhat exciting, and playing co-op with strangers in don’t starve together brings me a different kind of joy than say, playing co-op with friends in sdv. then a few months later i’ll be reminded of acnh/sdv again 😂 i find myself often just cycling through these games, instead of getting the new stuff.
for me, cozy game in Palworld comes after you've figured out how to live peacefully after grinding the game real hard. i now have a peaceful town where my Pals live happily doing farming etc and i just need to manage it. i can just sit down at my town and watch them do their thing... it's freaking relaxing i can't believe it
Totally agree with every thing, love this style of video also! As for Palworld I’m completely addicted 😅 nearly 60hrs in mostly exploring, leveling up, catching pals, building bases trying to get efficient. Haven’t even touched on the storyline or attempted a boss yet, there’s just so much to do it’s ridiculous lol. Also “cozy” is subjective to me, I’d consider Palworld cozy but then again so is Animal crossing, Skyrim, Stardew and assassin’s creed
Loved the video! I am a cozy gamer brought into gaming by Animal Crossing & 2020. Palworld has those cute animals but then you have to like beat them with a stick or something. Not for me. Loving DDV for the combination of questing, designing, farming etc...I don't think I will ever go to battle-type games but agree that the cozy genre needs to innovate more ways to be cozy.
100% right there's a big lack of innovation in this area. I think Palworld really dives into giving me what I want.
I definitely appreciate this take!! I agree that cozy games have become a bit too recycled as of late. I definitely think they have their place, but the same thing can get stale. Speaking of remaking the same thing over and over... I've been playing good ol COD lately. Big departure from animal crossing, but there's something so cathartic about shooting things sometimes hahaha variety is good for the soul!
I agree that the "cozy" genre existed before but it has become popular and with that popularity unfortunately comes very company under the sun trying to profit from it. Don't get me wrong I adore that we are finally getting a whole bunch of cozy games but I would love to see some innovation in them. The same thing is happening in the book world because of booktok. Romantasy and certain tropes are being over done and pushed out at a crazy rate. I think it's just a cycle that anything goes through but I'm glad you spoke about it Dan!
I love this SO much!!! I love all my favorite content creators to death, but when they all start saying "You've GOT to get this game it is soooo good!" and it's literally just a Stardew clone with maybe better graphics, I just can't. Great video Dan!
Agreed. I actually came from a very strong mmorpg background, like quiet a few thousand hours in various mmorpgs, then later on got in to more "cozy" types of games. Palworld has been a breath of fresh air for me. It's kind of got me wanting a nice mmorpg like ffxiv arr or a new WoW.
I really appreciated this video. Great job.
Excellent essay! I enjoy chill games but like you said, sometimes I just want to shoot something! 😂
Great video! :D
I loved this and it was so super relatable!!! Palworld absolutely has me in a chokehold
How Palworld killed cozy games: with a meat cleaver and zero mercy...
If game freak takes anything away from Palworld. Is that we want our secret bases back. Possibly with berry fsrming features and base expansion.
Just wished competitive Pokémon was more popular it’s already been going on since diamond and pearl
I love the irony that palworld is simultaneously an amazing cozy game, creature capture game, and monster slaying game.
I haven't played Animal crossing for 6 months and i been busy playing Disney dreamlight valley its mixture of Animal crossing with Disney characters with farming and so much fun.
I’m in the middle. I can play games like Assassins Creed and Last of Us but still spend hours playing Stardew Valley and Spyro
(Stardew Valley is based off Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons)
Its always palworld vs pokemon thing
But palworld killing cozy games?? Now thats a peculiar take🧐🧐
Edit: watched the whole vid , it makes sense now ,great video btw
ty ty!
It hurts my feelings that no one has been comparing this to pokewilds
Great video and spot on! I think the difference with Palworld vs other shooter games is that these are technically battles with non existent creatures. Shooter games are geared at battling other people gamers just for the sake of wanting to unalive them. Also, Palworld takes a more realistic approach with graphics and gameplay, which I definitely prefer over Pokemon.
Keep up the great work Dan, and for goodness sake, dont make me sniff this Danley cup anymore😂 Ho Ho
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Though I havent succumbed to PalWorld (I don't gravitate to the graphic style), I have though taken up Dragon Quest Builders 2 recently and I am addicted. Not only do you unlock fab building opportunities, you get to play a story to do that with combat. Never been a combat person before, but have really enjoyed moving away from the same gameplay cozy games follow.
I think the biggest reason is because of choice. People severely underestimate how much player choice MATTERS to a lot of gamers.
Palworld lets you CHOOSE when you want to sit back and play cozily, or be a violent psychopath. Games like Animal Crossing and Stardew Vally don't. Sure, you can make some pretty messed up things in them, but the intention is always to be wholesome.
Palworld lets you do both, and leaves you to decide what you want to be.
Great vid man
Great video. I disagree with one point though. If you turn off raids, Palworld is 100% cozy.
Unless palworld comes to switch i cant play.
Dragon Quest Builders 2 should be right on your alley, if you can past the dreadful slow cutscenes. Otherwise, i think you wil love it
Palworld won't kill cozy games - the violence, guns, combat, competitive PVP aspects and dark themes are still majorly off-putting for a lot of people. It's going to kill off a ton of major indie survival titles though, like Ark or Rust. And its success has permanently changed the monster-collecting genre forever.
7:22
This right here. The thing is, Gamefreak kinda did that. In Sun and Moon, you could take Pokemon from your boxes and send them to the Pokepelago Islands, where theyd play, earn xp, gather items, level up, etc. It wasnt Palworld, but it was doing SOMETHING different. And then right on cue, very next game, that feature is scrapped.
Gamefreak is notorious of trading features in and out of games, throwing spaghetti at the wall to see if itll stick. Hopefully NOW (after S/V and now Palworlds explosion) theyll get their heads in the game and do the next games right and STOP REMOVING FEATURES.
I should have played more Sun and Moon 😅
Great video! 😊
Thanks! 😊
Garden Paws ... another farming cozy game. And, Grounded, can be a cozy game but there is some tough bosses in that game.
Palworld feels like a Cozy Survival game.
I grew up on Harvest Moon (the series was core inspiration for Stardew). Rune Factory very quickly became a favorite series as well. I love most survival games, but can't handle the stress that seems baked into the vanilla experience of things like Ark and The Forrest. Survival genere games seem to have a huge "must be grim and gritty" bias. Palworld manages to have all the survival mechanics, while including just enough softness and comedy, and base model customization, to have an enjoyable experience.
I like this vid, nice work!
I enjoy palworld. Im a long time pokemon and ark player.
I cant play ark anymore bc my pc is garbage. Having palworld on xbox has been a great itch scratcher.
Before this, i really love/d hogwarts legacy.
I guess the big thing is for gamers to not feel stuck with one genre or another, play what you like regardless of hype or controversy
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Have you tried Persona? 3-5 are pretty much a cozy-ish (especially 4) life/dating sim that has a full sized monster collecting high stakes turn-based RPG attached to it.
I have not! I only know it in name alone, so I may need to take a look at it at least
I do disagree with your take and think a lot of it is related to genre burnout by creators who built their brand on cozy gaming, but this was a great video essay and I really enjoyed watching it!
You're right there are too many samey games , I play acnh and totk
I only played Animal Crossing on WII. To complete any collection require too much luck. 100% is like a carrot dangling in front of you that you will never get.
Do mundane things and then wait for the RNG for things you want does get old fast.
Palworld you have to earn things. Gather them build them. Problem solving and innovation. But can still do the mundane if you still want to.
Oddly enough, Stardew Valley is not cozy for me. It stresses me out. xD
I think it's because of the seasons. You have to finish all Spring stuff before Spring ends, and if you don't, you have to wait until next Spring to try again.
Feels like pressure, which is not super cozy to me.
Idk HM/SOS is what my brain goes to for cozy. I dont think wed have stardew valley with out HM
We wouldn't but that's not really the point I was making in this video
2:37 it's unfair to put Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons on here because they literally inspired Stardew Valley.
Back when Stardew came out I'd agree with you, but these days Stardew is at the top of the food chain in my perspective. New Story of Seasons games and Harvest Moon games have had every opportunity to innovate.
I remember asking you in chat how different the farming game you were playing was from other farming games. And the only features you could call out were basically just some quality of life features. Nice to have of course, but it only proved to me how very much the same all those farming games are. Once you played one of them, you have basically played them all.
Dan have you played Red Dead Redemption 2?
Yeah! Haven't beaten the main story but played a good bit
@@CrossingMinute oh great! Was just gonna suggest it. I love open world games where there’s just countless things to do!
Aaauuugh!!! No more farms from ded grandpa!!!! Agree.
I agree that we don't need 30 Stardew Valley clones, but it's not as though shooting things also hasn't been done to death in video games. I'd argue that it's a much more tired genre.
My favorite pokemon games are the spinoffs.
take risks. the algo liked that.
I am a fan of Pokemon and farming style games but I’m not a fan of Pal World despite it looking like something that I would enjoy.
The reason is partly because I’m not a fan of survival crafting games like ARC: Survival Evolved, and partly because I don’t like how explicit it is with “pal cruelty” (for a lack of a better term) with corpses of the pals you kill, able to turn your own pals into meat, being able to make your pals suffer as they work, makes it feel like it’s a game PETA created.
But I would probably enjoy a Pal World style game if there was less “you kill, enslave, and abuse innocent wildlife”, like if Dragon Quest had a game that was a mix of Dragon Quest Builders and Dragon Quest Monsters with added farming.
The thing is, you don’t HAVE to do those things. I’ve just started the game, and my pals work for me, but they have indoor beds, a hot tub, lots of food, and I’ve never slaughtered any of them. Don’t even have the meatcleaver you need for it.
It’s up to the player how bad the pals are treated.
Can’t do anything about the survival crafting though, that’s the nature of the game.
@@Mousse9 true, the main reason I don’t play Pal World is because of the Survival Crafting being similar to other generic survival crafting games, but the internet’s depiction of the game as “turn these creatures into slaves that you can slaughter if they complain too much” does make the game appear like it’s an anti-animal abuse PETA game.
@@typemasters2871 I haven’t played all that many survival crafting games, so I’m enjoying that aspect.
I find it funny that Palworld is (well, can be) everything Peta accuses Pokemon of. I enjoy the parody.
Yeah as someone else said, it's really up to the player when it comes to HOW the pals are treated. TBF, and this is just my opinion, Pokemon doesn't feel too different to me in that respect. You capture innocent creators in the woods that are just minding their own business, and then they either sit inside your storage forever, or you train them to fight. That's pretty much it... In later games you can eat sandwiches with them or whatever I guess. So I dunno. If we're gonna call out games for being "cruel" to creatures, I would say all "creature collecting" games share that blame.
But also it's a video game. I like GTA as well but it's not going to result in me running around and stealing cars IRL.
@@CrossingMinute I do hope the developers will put an actual story mode in. The diaries are pretty lacklustre for it. Reminds me of Breath of the Wild.
I fought the first boss tower and…No idea who that is, why she’s there, etc.
Welcome💙 🏆🙂🙏🏼
Pokemon have done what you mentioned. Not fun though.
I'm one of those new gamers. I've been a developer for over 30 years and one thing that kept me from fitting in with my peers was *not* being a gamer. Why not? I don't understand why shooting things is "fun." Most games are shooting or driving, two things I have no interest in. I have zero interest in Palworld. Yay guns. It's not as though they are a societal problem in the US or anything.
Just to be clear, my enjoyment of Palworld isn't me saying "yay guns" IRL
@@CrossingMinute No, I did not think you were saying "yay guns" irl. But most video games are shooting things. I actually want some respite from the real world prevalence of guns. It has been disheartening that *every* streamer that I enjoy is playing Palworld now. Exactly the opposite of why I finally learned to enjoy video games.
There are so many games where you can play without weapons especially guns so Idk it's kinda strange you didn't want to get into games bc of one thing that can be avoided ??
@@Asunnixe name some. And make sure they are at least 25 years old. MOST video games involve guns or driving.
@@LynneCooney Uh why do they have to be at least 25 years old?? I'm not understanding your criteria for games. If your friends like fps and only play those games then yes you won't find any without guns. Video games isn't just about first person shooting, there are many genres than that
Never got into stardew...hate the 8bit style. Ddv is better.
XD
You do realize that Stardew Valley is just a indy reimagining of another Nintendo Cozy Game that predates even Animal Crossing?
Look up Harvest Moon.
As for Palworld? It didn't kill Cozy games in the slightest.
Welcome to the Survival/Crafting Genre. Palworld stands with the likes of Minecraft, Terraria, Starbound, ARK Survival Evolved, Subnautica, RUST, and many more. If you liked Palworld, give some of those a try. (I personally recommend Terraria and Subnautica.)
There's room enough for you to enjoy both genre types. Get your adrenaline rush fix with close calls, managing your bars, dealing with environmental changes, having your base raided, and dealing with a world that IS trying to kill you. You're not paranoid, they really ARE coming for your head.
When the rush clears and you get hit with the dump drop, settle back and enjoy a more relaxed atmosphere with your cozy games while your body readjusts to the fact it's not really under threat.
Yes I'm well aware of Harvest Moon 😅
imo stardew valley is just a new continuation of harvest moon from snes 10 thousand times better, if you play both you will see how similar they are and obvious the newst harvest moons after this one from snes are just a remake of each other with a few new things each game. Another cozy game imo is a free game called Holocure, you don't need to do much in the game and just relax unless you are after their achievements lol
Cozy gaming is still exploding dw lol
I’ve never been this early!
I don't think these are even in the same genre, so...like, I don't understand how you think they're comparable? Survival games are almost the antithesis of cozy games. They're two very different genres. That's like saying 'battle royal games killed JRPGs.' No? Neither of those have anything to do with one another? It's nice that you like this better, but I think it's a bit of a stretch to claim it 'kills cozy games' in any way. Especially since the majority of those who do enjoy the cozy game genre play it because they like the generic premise in the first place. Me, personally, I don't get tired of inheriting farms/repetative systems.
All fair points. The reason Palworld in particular is comparable to me is because of the adorable creatures and base building/decorating mechanics. I could have called this out more in the video of course, but it feels a bit like Palworld wanted to capture a bit of the "cozy" market with some of the things they've added to the game.
Anyhow I don't think you're wrong here. I think it's just a matter of gaming backgrounds and how these different genres have influenced each other, from my perspective.
I wish palworld was a little more innovative by not blatantly copying pokemon designs
Pals are super uninspired for sure, but they're not 1:1 copies as some people have suggested.
I haven’t watched yet but just popping into the comments to say I watched my husband play the game preview of Palworld for like an hour and honestly… I don’t really see the appeal. The character moves super slow, the tutorial is kind of vague, and the pals - a lot of them anyway - look like knock off Pokemon and I’m just kinda super confused how this game is literally taking over everything 👀👀👀
What?
I don't understand all the Palworld hype. I mean... it's just Ark with borderline copyright infringement. O.o
I'm still playing acnh, when I need a change it's always Zelda. When I've had a bad day fighting monsters seems to help
Love this comment. I still enjoy cozy games the most, but I'm realizing lately that when I'm facing setbacks in life, I sometimes benefit more from a game with some hurdles for me to overcome.