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Palworld, an ARK-like game described as Pokemon with guns, has seen concurrent player numbers swell into record-breaking territory this week. But according to execs behind the game the team is not celebrating, choosing rather to spend the time preparing for an attack from their most feared enemy: Hbomberguy.

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[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Something just puts me off about it, I usually love indie monster collecting games, but I just get off vibes from this one.

I think maybe I played too much Ark to enjoy the survival angle, or the humour reminds me too much of the part of the 90s I'd like to forget

[-] CoolYori@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago

I'm just not into the type of content that game provides I think. I have been vibing and playing something called INFRA. You play a civil engineer who goes around taking pictures of safety violations while fixing things like water treatment plants along the way. Its done in the source engine so feels super comfy to play for me as its mostly urban exploration based.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

That sounds nice. I do love me the source engine

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

*a blur zippps past you at three hundred miles an hour. After a moment you realize it was frank bunnyhopping backwards with sub millisecond precision to exloit an infinite movespeed bug*

[-] beardown@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

the humour reminds me too much of the part of the 90s I'd like to forget

What is this referencing?

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago
[-] beardown@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

I don't understand why this is a negative thing, especially considering that hexbear is fundamentally about taking an edgy approach to class issues. And presumably we don't have a problem with that

[-] axont@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

Being edgy is making a game about fun little creatures you can actually enslave and make shoot one another. When we say Warren Buffett is a ghoul who should be buried in a pit, that's not edgy because he probably deserves worse.

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

edge isn't funny. we like laughing at things. grimdark grim grim dark dark is just exhausting.

[-] kot@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

We're not Marxists because Marx was edgy, we are Marxists because he was correct.

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