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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Genuine question, what makes this game so popular?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Best features of best games crammed together. It lacks end game, but everything else is fun with few exceptions.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Its fun with minimal bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's Ark, Pokemon, and BOTW thrown into a blender and filtered down to the good bits.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's a (opt. Co-Op) Pokemon Survival Craft Base&Factory Building Game with Guns.

While sometimes buggy and rough around the edges, and without offering many original ideas, the ensemble of everything they threw together is really good.

Sure, it's far from perfect, and every other moment, you can see the quite heavy inspirations they got from popular franchises.

But it's quite good.

While not surpassing any of its inspirations in the field they got inspired in, it offers all these other things the inspirations missed.

It's parts may not be that good, but overall, it's the combination of those parts that make it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

It’s a legally distinct (opt. Co-Op) Pokemon Survival Craft Base&Factory Building Game with Guns.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People have been wanting a similar open world Pokemon game for the longest time and Nintendo just hasn't delivered. Plus Americans really love guns.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

To be honest the guns come relatively late in the tech tree of the game, bows and crossbows are used most of the time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Careers pages seems very Japanese focused. Which I mean if knowing Japanese is preq it is what it is, but might limit the amount of the newly released devs in the market.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean it's a Japanese company so it makes sense that they would focus on hiring Japanese people

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Great news, cause there should be plenty of them with all of the gaming industry layoffs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Turns out that making a good game matters more than IP, publishers, cramming, and layoffs.