this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2024
227 points (92.8% liked)

Games

16800 readers
1177 users here now

Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)

Posts.

  1. News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
  2. Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
  3. No humor/memes etc..
  4. No affiliate links
  5. No advertising.
  6. No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
  7. No self promotion.
  8. No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
  9. No politics.

Comments.

  1. No personal attacks.
  2. Obey instance rules.
  3. No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
  4. Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.

My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.

Other communities:

Beehaw.org gaming

Lemmy.ml gaming

lemmy.ca pcgaming

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works
227
Palworld has broken Counter-Strike's all-time concurrent players peak at 1.8 million, and is now #2 most played game on Steam ever. It is only behind PUBG which holds the record at 3.2 million. (twitter.com)
submitted 10 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works
95 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Nitter link: https://nitter.net/steamdb/status/1749789691467997482

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pokemon Arceus had a little innovation. The thing is: a little innovation after decades of doing the same thing is like a textbook example of "too little, too late".

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Also Pokémon Arceus was still empty and boring

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So is Palworld if you played it. The island kinda lacks cohesion

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not even remotely the same level of empty. In Palworld there's 10-100x times the density of creatures and resources. Plus Palworld just looks better than Pokemon Arceus and also doesn't resort to fog to hide things popping into existence

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh we wanna use graphics as an argument? Guess I should play Ark survival instead

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works -2 points 10 months ago

Ok? Then go play Ark and leave the rest of us alone

[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah. But it's also put together by a group of misfits that barely cobbled a game together. Not a decades long gaming empire.

" He built it in a cave, with spare parts!"

It's also worth noting, that this is an early access game.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Considering the studios treck record, I won't get my hopes up. I'll believe when I see