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Crabtree posted:Would this be them reacting to Stardew Valley however slowly in trying to dip their toes into gay or bi characters? Even a "opposite gender of the player" is something rather than nothing. It's been done before, in Magical Melody for GC, where Jaimie can be married by both genders
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Turtlicious posted:
The Harvest Moon experience
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May 21, 2016 06:34
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Turtlicious posted:Has anyone heard anything about Rune Factory 5? I heard the publisher still wants to make it even though the developer went under, but I'm wondering if they'll really be able to capture that charm. If they can't, what the hell am I going to play after Rune Factory 4!? I will keep dreaming for a RF5, and that the Rune Factory team is still alive in Marvelous somewhere
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May 28, 2016 05:57
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Corridor posted:So what is this PopoloCrois: Story of Seasons thing and do I want it It's more of a PopoloCrois game than it is a Story of Seasons game. And even then, it's basically a very straightforward rpg with no real strengths other than charm.
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Jun 1, 2016 06:57
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Corridor posted:i looked up the mechanics for SoS and am I parsing this right? u can just perform a hostile takeover of anyone else's rented fields via challenges at any time, and if they're growing poo poo on there at the time, that's just too drat bad? and they can do the same to me? i thought harvest moon was supposed to be about building an adorable community of closeknit little communist friends. i'm not entirely comfortable with this libertarian paradise... Well not at any time. Basically when their rental period is up, you can challenge each other for the rights to that field for the rental period duration. When your rental period is up, you can just renew it without fear of getting challenged. I always renewed it, so I dunno what happens if you don't do anything when the period's up. Also it's really easy to take over every field. The real problem is having the stamina to water every field everyday in the first year.
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Jun 3, 2016 08:47
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Yeah there's a lot of things you can jump on that has a chance of dropping things. I don't remember all of them though and it tends to be a low drop rate
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Jun 5, 2016 19:31
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Aerofallosov posted:I wonder if the TLV people announced the new one in response to Trio of Towns. It's kinda weird considering they haven't released their planned Wii U/PC one yet, and now they're going back to competing directly with Marvelous with a new 3ds one.
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Jun 8, 2016 05:27
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Story of Seasons is 19.99 digital right now so I bought it. Story of Seasons is the original franchise, branded with a new name cause Xseed/Marvelous doesn't own the rights to the name Harvest Moon. Natsume started developing their own Harvest Moon games since they lost the distribution rights to the original franchise.
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Jun 16, 2016 03:44
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Cake Attack posted:hasn't marriage been in harvest moon for forever Yeah. The ones without marriage are the outliers, mostly cause of limitations as in the GB ones, or they were experimenting, which were the ps2 ones I think. Socializing with villagers is basically one of the big staples of the series.
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Jun 17, 2016 22:00
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Have you given her better equipment yet? That usually helps a little.
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Jun 26, 2016 18:55
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That is a good set of pets available to choose from.
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Jun 27, 2016 04:13
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And More posted:I've been playing A New Beginning, and I've finally unlocked the mine. I was really hoping for this: Not really. ToTT and onwards in the series is a lot more chill about pacing. I think savescumming works for mining though if you really need those mats right away. But yeah, relax and build your town and farm to be as pretty as you want.
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Sep 8, 2016 08:57
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Turtlicious posted:Where do I go now that I've finished Rune Factory 4? I specifically liked the "tame a monster, collect it's drop, make it farm your wheat" aspect. Rune Factory 3. Otherwise, you're outta luck till Marvelous resurrects the Rune Factory series
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Sep 20, 2016 04:06
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And More posted:So, since the crops in A New Beginning are coming along nicely, I figured I'd try to get my cows and sheep up to snuff. Turns out getting them to max level requires me to hang out at the Animal Sanctuary, which requires me to put down the game for five minutes, and wait until the ingame day is over. I guess it's endgame content in the sense that I walk away from the game, get distracted by something more fulfilling, and don't ever play the game again. I think you can just leave the sanctuary. Either way, the game gives you an hour just for sending them there, so sending them there 50 times will eventually get you that great quality milk.
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Sep 23, 2016 23:51
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And More posted:The hours I spend there count towards those 50 hours, though, right? Leaving seems kind of pointless considering the game immediately ends that day. I might as well get it over with. Yeah, you have to stay there to get those hours unfortunately. I'm not a fan of that mechanic since there's not much to do there. At least they slightly improved it in SoS by adding a mining node, and pond to fish in so you can kill time there while your animals are grazing.
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Sep 24, 2016 00:13
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Oh good. Now if only they'll bring back actual mines instead of these lame mining nodes... Alternatively the Rune Factory team gets absorbed into SoS's team and we get all of RF's improvements, and Rune Factory 5!
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Sep 24, 2016 00:25
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Dr. Fetus posted:Is that even possible? I thought whoever made the RF games went bankrupt. They got absorbed by Marvelous, so it's possible they could pursue reviving Rune Factory. Rune Factory costumes were added into Trio of Towns on Rune Factory's anniversary, so they still remember it at least.
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Sep 24, 2016 03:52
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Being able to do all that within your first week of farming sounds very broken, even with the newer SoS games being very relaxed.
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Nov 11, 2016 23:24
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Stardew Valley isn't even easily available in Japan yet. I heavily doubt it's influencing a Japanese studio that's generally more focused on their Japanese audience
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Nov 17, 2016 00:09
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I don't remember if you could walk on crops yet in Sunshine Islands. It was one of the later games that removed that limitation of blocking you from the middle crop and just let you walk on crops. I don't recall any that messed with crop quality for walking on them though. I half-suspect Rune Factory 3 did it first with letting you walk on crops and then it was brought back into the main series.
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Dec 31, 2016 02:25
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Sage Grimm posted:Grand Bazaar is the one you're thinking of. It's a weird version where you can run or walk based on a toggle and running wrecks crops. The only reason you'd walk otherwise is to catch bugs. Ah, I skipped that one since it seemed very non-typical and I heard mixed things about it.
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Dec 31, 2016 13:29
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Jimmybob posted:Didn't Natsume just localize grand bazaar? Yeah, Marvelous are the main developers. They were in a transitory period on DS too I feel, since I think their staff got shuffled up I think, with the former leads focusing on their console games. Grand Bazaar was the directorial debut for Takahiro Yura, I believe, and he's been in charge of the series ever since. Which you can see with how everything's been pretty consistent and iterating from Tale of Two Towns.
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Fun Times! posted:Got Trio of Towns from GameStop and it came with a little stuffed critter The stuffed critters are the main things I miss from not buying physically anymore.
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Mar 3, 2017 01:45
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The thing is, Story of Seasons had lots of variable dialogue too. The main problem being if you followed a set routine, you usually talked to villagers in the same spot and time, so they'd usually say the same thing about that particular area or activity they're doing. Rune Factory 4 was good at this by making what villagers say more dynamic and not set in stone wherever. Dunno if Trio of Towns has adopted RF4's dialogue system yet though since I haven't started my copy yet.
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Mar 4, 2017 05:59
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Haven't played enough to notice repeating dialogue yet, but I like that villagers greet you, or have some kinda dialogue when you walk by them so that's nice.
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MotU posted:when does stamina start to feel a lil bit better, or am I meant to just be ramming food down my gullet constantly? I'm only in Summer 1 but I still basically wipe out 60%+ of my stamina just watering the fields you start with in the morning. You get a heart after every Farming tip, 1 for getting every village to Rank A, and 1 more for getting married, for a maximum of 10 hearts. There's food effects that can slow down your stamina usage as well.
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Mar 7, 2017 07:17
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54 40 or gently caress posted:So seriously, is the only way to get lumber is to buy it or chop it down on your property? Because I've already chopped the trees on my property down. Effectiveness
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Mar 7, 2017 19:52
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I find myself saving a lot of things in general in Trio of Towns, moreso than usual since I figure it'll pop up in a part-time job, so I don't ship everything right away.
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Mar 10, 2017 06:16
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Fru Fru posted:You can also buy the fertilizer maker eventually which makes it essentially free but it takes a while to produce. Right now I'm fertilizing everything because money is already trivial. I actually think I should have chosen veteran instead of seedling. I chose veteran just because I assumed there would be time-gates, might as well not shorten the grind to give me something to do. Didn't expect the higher stamina usage though, so that's something for me to work around.
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Trebuchet King posted:I never made it as far as marriage or victory in Story of Seasons; should I "finish" it first or just dive right into the new installment? Just go with whatever you feels better to you, unless you need to save money or something.
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Yeah I love RF3. A RF3 with RF4's improved mechanics and bigger world would be perfect.
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