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Further reports on Return to PopoloCrois: Reaching Chapter 3 gives you two farms to work with, and opens up item synthesis (with teases to a further advanced form of synthesis later in the game), animal care, and bug collecting. The game is still a little clumsy on the controls, but I'm starting to get used to it. Crops, stones/ore, and other collectables can be shipped, or saved up for gifts and synthesis. So I guess the game really just suffers from a glacial start. The RPG combat is simple but enjoyable.
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Amazon said I would get my copy today. They lied to me!
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Thanks for the impressions of Popolcrois. Are there any full reviews floating around?
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The White Dragon posted:monogame is cute in that the sole developer of the engine has never implemented garbage collection  Is it some kind of running joke with his programmer friends? That's terrifying.
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I mean I'd play Stardew if it was on DS or something because my tube ride into work is just lost time otherwise. But if I'm at home I have so many better (worse) games to play and so much other stuff to do. (That I'm sadly addicted to)
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Okay so there's American Town, Japan town and what India Town? I do like their clothes I'm just too dumb to pin the obvious culture they're going for here. Also Popolecrois is definitely a JRPG first and a farming game second, but its hitting some familiar Rune Factory 1 beats in being an early, clumsy yet charming marriage between two styles of games. I do like when you beat bosses for dungeons that they actually say "some weak mook takes their place in the power vacuum" but you can easily go in and beat them for another reward. Crabtree fucked around with this message at 11:36 on Mar 4, 2016 |
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Yorkshire Tea posted:I mean I'd play Stardew if it was on DS or something because my tube ride into work is just lost time otherwise. But if I'm at home I have so many better (worse) games to play and so much other stuff to do. (That I'm sadly addicted to) 15 bucks is a steal for how good it is and you're missing out by not playing on your PC even if you otherwise wouldn't play a Harvest Moon game at all. I've enjoyed Harvest Moon games for over a decade but I don't see how I'm going to be able to go back to them after Stardew. Just a bunch of stupid poo poo that's in every Harvest Moon game was reworked to actually be decent or fun in Stardew.
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Crabtree posted:Okay so there's American Town, Japan town and what India Town? I do like their clothes I'm just too dumb to pin the obvious culture they're going for here. I think it's supposed to be a generalized Polynesian style.
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I'm enjoying PopolaSoS, it's pretty simple , especially the farming aspect of it but overall it's a good filler until the next actual SoS for me. And agreed, the rpg aspects are simplistic but still fun. English voice acting is wretched.
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Mar 7, 2016 19:04
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I'm gonna gently caress the hot dad
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Toriori posted:I'm enjoying PopolaSoS, it's pretty simple , especially the farming aspect of it but overall it's a good filler until the next actual SoS for me. And agreed, the rpg aspects are simplistic but still fun. Yeah this game gets a solid OK from me. The story is cute but don't get it if you wanna farm. Toriori posted:English voice acting is wretched. Mr. Hero!!!!!!
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Met posted:15 bucks is a steal for how good it is and you're missing out by not playing on your PC even if you otherwise wouldn't play a Harvest Moon game at all. Sprinklers make me weep with joy. It is so incredibly good to walk outside and see the day's watering already done. That alone makes Stardew worth playing to me.
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Gematsu posted:■ Lulucoco Village Marriage Candidates link.  This will be the HM/SoS game I actually play when it comes out instead of years afterwards  Still hoping they'll reveal at least one gay character though
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Mar 8, 2016 11:19
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Knorth posted:link. Seeing as they specified "the bond between boyfriend and girlfriend", I somehow doubt it.
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Junpei Hyde posted:Seeing as they specified "the bond between boyfriend and girlfriend", I somehow doubt it. Yeah, I noticed that  Still holding out hope that it was just translation quirk but not really optimistic about it...
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Junpei Hyde posted:Seeing as they specified "the bond between boyfriend and girlfriend", I somehow doubt it. That sounds more like the Gematsu guy's wording. I'd have to see the Japanese text, but the screenshot with the guy uses the gender neutral "koibito".
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I don't know anything about how Gematsu runs but I really wish they'd translate more than just the marriage candidate bios... Like, I want to know who these people are and what's going on with those pets
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Strange Quark posted:That sounds more like the Gematsu guy's wording. I'd have to see the Japanese text, but the screenshot with the guy uses the gender neutral "koibito". Oh OK. There still probably won't be gay marriage so I wouldn't get your hopes up.
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Knorth posted:I don't know anything about how Gematsu runs but I really wish they'd translate more than just the marriage candidate bios... Like, I want to know who these people are and what's going on with those pets I'm not great at translation but I can give a rundown of those. Besides the marriage candidates, that's the fisherman, the grocer, and their children. The pet page has a partial list of the cat and dog breeds available. You can have multiple pets and select a main one as your soulmate. That one gives you presents and gets special events with the other animals.
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Knorth posted:link. I assume it'll be like the last two where you're androgynous as hell and can crossdress so you can kludge it if you want
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Mar 8, 2016 17:01
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Am I the only one that wishes they'd go back to sprites instead of these ugly unexpressive 3d models?
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Mar 8, 2016 17:34
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I'm loving these character designs
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Yeah man. I hope the gameplay is solid too, because I love that they're going for a more exotic aesthetic.
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Any word on a release date?
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Christmas Cake posted:I'm not great at translation but I can give a rundown of those. Ahh, that sounds good! Thanks Blhue posted:I assume it'll be like the last two where you're androgynous as hell and can crossdress so you can kludge it if you want I really hope that's still the case LLSix posted:Any word on a release date? June 23, for Japan. Nothing for anywhere else so far
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In the first rune factory, is there anyway to manually move monsters into different huts? Can I have say 2 monsters in one hut and 2 monsters in another hut without filling up the first hut?
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Oh hey, this thread didn't die after all. Almost finished with Return to PopoloCrois and it was a decent ride if not the best harvest moon. You basically raised crops just to have something to sell or something to craft into gear/gifts for girls; the game is very easy even on hard difficulty, I really liked most of the characters and its not bad for a time sink. Cute game for cute farmers. And according to this ancient gamefaqs post, no, there is no way to control monster assignment outside of deliberately capturing one type to fill up one barn. I'll have to dig out the cartridge to make sure, but I don't remember being able to do that in RF1.
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Does SV blowing up annoy anybody else? In a total 'you guys are just getting excited over HM mechanics that have been around since-' way? In other news, RF was on special on my 3DS estore. Not sure if that was just NZ though.
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Lampsacus posted:Does SV blowing up annoy anybody else? In a total 'you guys are just getting excited over HM mechanics that have been around since-' way? Imo a thing I like being popular is good.
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Junpei Hyde posted:Imo a thing I like being popular is good. I'm just secretly curious whether SV is actually worth playing if you've played HM heaps. Love.
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Lampsacus posted:Yeah + 'stop having fun in your way' etc. I haven't played it very much but from what I can tell it's both: 1. A really polished and good HM style game. 2. Available on PC.
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It's kinda funny that they managed to beat Natsume to market and completely suck all the oxygen out of the PC J-farming market for them and probably everyone else.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:It's kinda funny that they managed to beat Natsume to market and completely suck all the oxygen out of the PC J-farming market for them and probably everyone else.
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I've played about 40 hours of Stardew Valley and it's quite good. I prefer Rune Factory 4 overall, but Stardew Valley is better than all of the recent Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons games imo.
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it lasted me about a week and a half of play before i had reached the point where i had nothing to spend my income on and became boring, whereas SoS took at least a month, so there's that
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Stardew Valley also doesn't timegate anything, though.
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Rune Factory 4 is still the best harvest moon game, but Stardew Valley is a close second. I like the fishing in Stardew Valley the best out of any HM game, but it did take me a little while to get into. Stardew Valley and RF4 are on different systems so that makes it a pretty easy choice as to which to play.
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Yeah, I like Stardew ALMOST as much as I like RF4. The developer's favorite HM is BtN and it holds up pretty favorably to that era, with some more modern QOL stuff. vv Yeah, it's not so much deep as tonally weird, sometimes, which can be interesting but there just isn't enough distinct dialogue in it. Yakiniku Teishoku fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Mar 21, 2016 |
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stardew valley is kind of neat but people sold the game as 'woah look how deep this game is... it even has a starkly presented image of homelessness' but then everyone is really nice to the homeless guy and the mayor is all 'haha, hey, im happy to give you food!' and the rest of the characters are really boring
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the characters make pretty bad first impressions but then you get to know them more and make the pleasant discovery that like half the town has some form of depression an accurate depiction of small towns
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