the more i learn about palworld's development the more amazing it is that the game came out at all
apparently, the monster collecting was supposed to be a minor background mechanic, and they were only going to have around 20 pals. once the trailer dropped and people compared it to pokemon, they decided they needed to have more monsters like pokemon does, this lead to hiring animators, artists, etc, and created so much scope creep that it went from a planned 1 year of development to 3 years of development. it went so over-budget that the ceo stopped looking at their funds AT ALL and had a letter prepared to explain pocketpair's bankruptcy
what an emotional rollercoaster that must have been, 2 years stressing about the product going over budget, the acceptance of your bankruptcy, and then hitting the number one played game on steam among non-free games
@RehnSturm256 i don't think pokemon will ever die, no matter how bad the games get. it's just going to mutate into sonic the hedgehog: nostalgic for a handful of people, a handful of nonfunctionally autistic people will obsess over it forever, most people will think it's horrible and want to avoid it
i don't think there's a single videogame that brought me more joy than shadow the hedgehog. i still remember when i first saw a big poster for it in blockbuster. i stared at it in utter disbelief for the better part of a minute. a sonic the hedgehog character with GUNS? named SHADOW? that's pure comedy. the blockbuster employee who made that fake poster was a genius. i went up to the counter to ask who made it, because i wanted to congratulate that genius
it took the poor man ten full minutes to convince me that it was a real game. he had to pop in the disc to a gamecube and start up a game to convince me he wasn't going really really far with the bit.
when i saw shadow pump his pump-action SMG i just lost it. i spent like 5 full minutes laughing at how stupid it was. i wound up doubling over and couldn't even keep myself upright using the counter. i laughed so hard i was actually crying and lightheaded.
thank you, sega, for making my favorite shit game i will never play