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One thing I wanted to see in ToTT was rivals. Seeing the rival heart events, giving weeds to your rival, and later trying to get the rest married. I liked the characters having lives. Also, the harvest goddess in this one is completely nuts. What does she want for presents? Those apricots looked pretty tasty, but she hated them.
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tsuki posted:One thing I wanted to see in ToTT was rivals. Seeing the rival heart events, giving weeds to your rival, and later trying to get the rest married. I liked the characters having lives. Flowers and later-game/expensive vegetables: http://fogu.com/hm10/villagers/harvest_goddess.php Toodles! 
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Sep 27, 2011 17:52
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Does anyone know if Tides of Destiny will be released in the EU? I'll probably import the PS3 version anyways because I really want to play it. Did anyone here play the Japanese version and could share his experience with it? I really loved all RF games even though Frontier was so bad with sluggish animations / Runeys
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Sep 27, 2011 18:05
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It makes me sad that you can't marry the carpenter in Bluebell. She's the hottest one in the town 
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Sep 27, 2011 18:09
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Falcon2001 posted:It makes me sad that you can't marry the carpenter in Bluebell. She's the hottest one in the town It seems like lately they always make the hottest one someone you can't marry. drat teases.
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Sep 27, 2011 21:39
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So I started playing Rune Factory 3 on a whim a few weeks ago, and a question: what is the intended audience for these games demographically anyway? I mean, I have always been (perhaps mistakenly) under the impression that these games had a primarily female audience (hence stuff like stuffed animal pack ins etc), but this game is... odd in that regard, I would say? The entire female cast having their own forms of mental retardation, namely. I mean, it does make for an interesting cast in its own way (in the sense of "When idiots collide" rather than "These characters are astoundingly well written"). Maybe that's just what they're aiming for, dunno. The fact that the game is basically "get this sheep of a young boy to marry any one of these idiots/ lunatics" doesn't exactly scream "yes, I can see why they would write this given an intended audience of young girls/ women/ whatever" I'm enjoying the game, but I'm not entirely sure why. Zorak fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Sep 27, 2011 |
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Sep 27, 2011 22:04
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Zorak posted:So I started playing Rune Factory 3 on a whim a few weeks ago, and a question: what is the intended audience for these games demographically anyway? In Japan, Rune Factory is primarily aimed at a male audience while Harvest Moon skews female. Harvest Moon didn't start that way; it took a good while for them to make 'for girls' versions of the titles and the option of playing either gender in the same game is a fairly new invention. It does not mean that folks aren't free to enjoy either series, it is just the culture of the promotional items and the personalities of the characters within. For Oceans/Tides of Destiny in Japan, the majority of pre-order bonuses were creepy loli poo poo (art of them in lingerie, bikinis) with all of one bonus featuring the bachelors. The ladies in said game run the Anime gamut a little bit more than RF3 did, from 'little sister' to angry, agro chick. Marvelous and Neverland loves dem anime tropes, the majority of what they publish is still along those lines. Over here in America Natsume guns right for girls for both series, hence the awwwwwdorables animal plushes they tend to give away. quote:I'm enjoying the game, but I'm not entirely sure why.
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Sep 27, 2011 22:32
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Yeah I'm glad the Sharance Dungeons exist, although doing those has made the main game kind of a joke in comparison. Even so, I only have one more dungeon to go, and I've heard that if you've already done all the requests there is nothing left to do in the postgame, so I figure I'll just do everything I can before I continue. I've even found and tamed monsters in the Sharance Dungeon I'm not supposed to have seen yet. I befriended a Little Golem and I can ride around in his chest compartment, it's great.
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Sep 27, 2011 23:25
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Does anyone know if Two Towns on 3DS has any sort of online? I haven't played a Harvest Moon since Friends of Mineral Town, and a friend and I are both getting the 3DS one when it comes out. Just wanted to know if we'll be able to do anything together since we don't live near each other.
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Sep 27, 2011 23:52
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Jimmybob posted:It seems like lately they always make the hottest one someone you can't marry. drat teases.  Howdy, Ma'am.
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The dungeons are actually kinda awesome (albeit short) if you set it on hard, and don't farm the hell outta the level. The first time I did the first boss fight it actually wrapped around to the next day. And in the next dungeon, I got one of the rare spawn monsters whooping my rear end horribly. It's also a bit fun because it rewards you with extra stats for everything kinda like Diablo keeps you incentivized with loot. No matter what you do, you're making progress.
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ThemeMusicC posted:I've even found and tamed monsters in the Sharance Dungeon I'm not supposed to have seen yet. I befriended a Little Golem and I can ride around in his chest compartment, it's great. I'm sorry, you can do what? Where the gently caress did I put my game, I need one of those. Zorak posted:I'm enjoying the game, but I'm not entirely sure why. It's all the fun of Harvest Moon but with light action RPG elements to fill in the gaps between watering plants and milking buffamoos. And while they aren't exactly well written bastions of characterization, the NPCs are lively and seldom boring. GruntyThrst fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Sep 28, 2011 |
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Sep 28, 2011 04:30
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I still have my cart copy of HM64. It was one of those rare games in which I repeatedly thought I had seen everything but there was always some little variation or undiscovered thing you could end up doing. So great. And if you weren't trying to woo Karen you were doing it wrong.
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Sep 28, 2011 04:48
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:Ah, dammit, are you kidding me? Roughly how long does it take to harvest a 3x3 square of crops? Is the animation quick at least when you put something away? gosh, I couldn't tell you a time. it's relatively fast but nowhere near as good as RF3. Anyone else feel like the time passes REALLY slowly in ToTT? I spend fuckloads of time standing around waiting for the evening so I can water my crops again and most of the time I can't be bothered. You can only ransack the entire mountain so many times. Zorak posted:So I started playing Rune Factory 3 on a whim a few weeks ago, and a question: what is the intended audience for these games demographically anyway? Judging from my own experience and looking up poo poo at the fogu forums, women in their 20s (c'est moi...) and homophobic 12-year-olds. gently caress those kids, i want the 'special friends' option back.
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Jimmybob posted:It seems like lately they always make the hottest one someone you can't marry. drat teases. Anybody who looks even just slightly like an adult? Not a marriage candidate.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Well yeah. It's the Harvest Moon tradition of only being allowed to marry 12 year olds. Unless you play a little girl, in which case all your marriage candidates are low-life 30 year olds who are struggling at managing their economical situation. Or maybe that was just Harvest Moon Cute DS which had nothing cute about it, allowing you to kill the mayor in the first scene of the game prompting an instant game over.
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Mordaedil posted:Or maybe that was just Harvest Moon Cute DS which had nothing cute about it, allowing you to kill the mayor in the first scene of the game prompting an instant game over. Uh, what? This reminds me of a different Harvest Moon - I forget which - but you're asked to take over the farm after your grandfather or father dies. Anyway, you get the big tour, and then the dude who gave you the tour asks if you will take over the farm. You can select "no", and you will just walk off, and the guy stays there all dejected, while a GAME OVER graphic comes on the screen.
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In the DS game, your dog attacks the mayor and you have a choice to call off the dog or just let it kill the mayor.
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Mordaedil posted:Unless you play a little girl, in which case all your marriage candidates are low-life 30 year olds who are struggling at managing their economical situation  But no you can't marry Shino in RF3.
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At least in the more recent games the 'men' have been in your age bracket. Or just drawn that way, it is hard to tell now and then. I don't know about Dr. Toddlerface over here though, I just don't have the heart to woo someone who looks the same questionable age or younger than my farmer. The other day I popped into Gamestop with my husband and he held up A Wonderful Life for PS2 asking if I had it already. I went, 'no, that is the one where they creeped it up by letting you marry a little girl and wait a couple of years to knock her up.' he blinked and put it back onto the rack with a "Oh."
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SUPERFINE CONCUBINE posted:gently caress the haters I married this guy every time I played Harvest Moon Girl version.  Also I don't know if this will be handy for anyone else, but you can be a huge cheat and submit food bought from the Tea House/Cafe to the cooking festival. It saved my bacon after my summer of no loving crops what so ever. 
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I love RF3 too but yeah the over the top quirkiness of all the characters really irks me. The only marriage candidate that isn't batshit insane is Shara. (Edit: Oh, and I guess the bigot monster gal.) Also true story, I couldn't tell if Micah was male or female for the first few minutes of the game. I don't understand Japan.
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Shara's quirkiness is that she's the only normal person in a town full of crazies. I really wanted her to go yandere at one point and complete the chain.
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Shara's quirkiness is that she's the only normal person in a town full of crazies. I really wanted her to go yandere at one point and complete the chain. Shara seems nice to the point of absurdity, which is Another Thing.
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Zorak posted:Shara seems nice to the point of absurdity, which is Another Thing.
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I wouldn't call Karina crazy or quirky, just lazy. I guess there's the fact that she likes Evelyn's clothes, but other than that, she is pretty normal. Or maybe I just relate to her too much.
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Tupperwarez posted:Also, I dunno if it's just me but the game seems to keep telling the player "By the way, did we mention that Shara is the canonical waifu? Because she is. Just saying." There is definitely nothing "just you" about how when you marry someone else it still shows you a second opening video depicting super happy together time with Shara.
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Zorak posted:Shara seems nice to the point of absurdity, which is Another Thing. Also, she's very irrational and flighty, though that doesn't manifest too much. Although, her flightiness is directly tied to her niceness, so it makes sense, and it isn't necessarily overly zany. I Watson posted:The other day I popped into Gamestop with my husband and he held up A Wonderful Life for PS2 asking if I had it already. I went, 'no, that is the one where they creeped it up by letting you marry a little girl and wait a couple of years to knock her up.' he blinked and put it back onto the rack with a "Oh." Uh, what the gently caress? I'm trying to look this up right now, can you clarify?
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:Uh, what the gently caress? I'm trying to look this up right now, can you clarify? The PS2 port of A Wonderful Life allowed you to marry the previously un-marryable little girl who grows up in the second chapter of the game. I'm pretty sure you also have a kid pretty much at the start of second chapter in A Wonderful Life too. It's been forever since I've played A Wonderful Life, so I might not be completely right about the kid thing, but yeah it's pretty creepy.
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:Uh, what the gently caress? I'm trying to look this up right now, can you clarify? I was curious too and for a while was confused while reading the wiki entry for the Gamecube version, since while Celia is young, she's not THAT young. Then I caught a glimpse of a link to a Special Edition for the PS2, and suddenly ten year old Lumina becomes a marriage candidate. Whoopie-loving-do.
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Saoshyant posted:I was curious too and for a while was confused while reading the wiki entry for the Gamecube version, since while Celia is young, she's not THAT young. Then I caught a glimpse of a link to a Special Edition for the PS2, and suddenly ten year old Lumina becomes a marriage candidate. Whoopie-loving-do. Yeah, in the Gamecube version she was one of the two people your kid could grow up to marry.
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Sep 28, 2011 19:21
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I have the PS2 version since I don't own a gamecube. That's one addition I pretend doesn't exist.
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Dammit, Japan.
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The "Asian" type girl in RF:F doesn't look very old either but apparently no one is bothered by that?
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FrickenMoron posted:The "Asian" type girl in RF:F doesn't look very old either but apparently no one is bothered by that? I was, but I ignore her for that reason. The fact that the PS2 port got the ~special~ addition of marrying Lumina just makes it a bit more disturbing somehow. It would be like a port of Frontier that includes the bonus feature of being able to marry Candy. Tides has Candy make a guest appearance but I beleive she is still a small child in it and non-hit-on-able. Thank god.
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RF1 fans also wanted to marry Cecilia and got their wish granted in RF2. She was older though so yeah.
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DeathBySpoon posted:Does anyone know if Two Towns on 3DS has any sort of online? I haven't played a Harvest Moon since Friends of Mineral Town, and a friend and I are both getting the 3DS one when it comes out. Just wanted to know if we'll be able to do anything together since we don't live near each other. Mmm does not look like you guys will get anything meaningful out of it, http://fogu.com/hm10/ds_vs_3ds.php has confirmed differences in the game and the only online interaction available in the original is covered here http://fogu.com/hm10/basics/special_crop_field.php.
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Wandering Knitter posted:Also I don't know if this will be handy for anyone else, but you can be a huge cheat and submit food bought from the Tea House/Cafe to the cooking festival. Whaaat?? The soup competition this Summer snuck up on me, so I didn't have any combination of ingredients that day that would turn into soup when thrown in a pot. I decided to see if I could poison Pierre instead. I attempted to submit a rock, a branch, a bug, and even a failed dish, but the stupid mayor wouldn't accept any of it. For the following entree competition I thought I had it all sewed up. I made an omelet, and with pretty good milk and egg, too. But I didn't notice that my oil had gotten old and was rotten which degraded the freshness of my dish as well and the stupid mayor wouldn't accept it. I threw it in his face before going in to watch the competition, where TWO people from my town had submitted failed dishes. All this and it turns out the mayor doesn't even check whether you made the dish yourself? Hey, Mr. Mayor... 
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Speaking of RF, anyone tried the Japanese version of Tides? How does it compare to RF3 (obviously aside the graphics)? A step up? Same good? Or did they break something they shouldn't?
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