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Kin posted:That's the problem with most of them. Your farm ends up getting so big that you simply spend all of your time farming the damned thing instead of enjoying the benefits you're getting (loadsa cash). In Animal Parade you're able to get your spouse and 2 kids to do chores for you, but it can take quite a while to get to the point where you have 2 grown children. I stopped playing Animal Parade partway through my second pregnancy.
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I'm thinking I should just get with Mana, because she's sorta given me a purpose in life, so I may as well pay her back by impregnating her with my seed. Plus, she's a real daddy's girl, so that must equate to fun in the sack. Best of all, her gifts are the easiest, being Pink Turnips. Then again, Julia likes carrots, and perhaps marrying her means discounts for the spa house? I'm gonna have to look into that. (Ugh, but her birthday gift is in a few days, and 4000+G.) Onkel Hedwig posted:I know who you're talking about, and I'm going for her too I read online that she continues to work in the mansion after you're married. Julet Esqu posted:If this is the HM I'm thinking of, then marry the rich chick. Then you get to be in-laws with Max. Where's the benefit in that? I don't want to have to be reminded the guy's name every day. Plus, her gifts seem hard to get, and I'd have to abuse an exploit to make it worthwhile.
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Revol posted:Where's the benefit in that? I say this honestly, without hyperbole; Max is the best character in any Harvest Moon game, ever.
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Vakal posted:I could never bring myself to marry Mist in the two RF games. It always felt you were trying to get with a high-functioning retarded girl. This had me rolling. She really is.
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I guess exploit was a bit too harsh of a word. Basically all it is to get Rosalind's gift, you do a quest for Mana that asks you to go fetch a lucky clover or something. Instead of giving it to Mana, give the clover to Rosalind and drop the quest after. Rinse and repeat.  But Max is really pretty hilarious. People tend to wonder what the hell is wrong with him when first meeting him but then you realize that him and the entire family is pretty great/amusing. He also recognizes you as a brother in law after you marry his sister, whereas if you marry any of the other girls no one's dialogue will really change as such.
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I could never get into the SNES version. Half the fun is chasing a girlfriend and when you've got unlimited time & unlimited respawning items it's just a mindless grind running back and forth until she loves you. Played the hell out of N64 & FOMT though. Played A Wonderful Life...couldn't get into it. Camera messed me up, I ended up playing just to get the endings and did virtually no farming.
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Ka0 posted:Bunch of freeloaders in this thread. Huh? oldskool posted:I could never get into the SNES version. Half the fun is chasing a girlfriend and when you've got unlimited time & unlimited respawning items it's just a mindless grind running back and forth until she loves you. It's already been said once in this thread, but what sets the SNES version ahead of all the others is this charm that has never been recreated before. It's the art, the music, the characters.. they just got all that right the very first time. The latter games all helped upgrade the gameplay, but the charm was never quite right. N64 was a close second on the charm, but it was essentially a 3D SNES game in many regards there. I don't think I ever really played FOMT, so I can't comment on that.
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Revol posted:I read online that she continues to work in the mansion after you're married. Wow, that sucks, thanks for the heads up. I'm going for the retard then 
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oldskool posted:I could never get into the SNES version. Half the fun is chasing a girlfriend and when you've got unlimited time & unlimited respawning items it's just a mindless grind running back and forth until she loves you. Unlimited time my rear end, Eve was the only one you could do this with. Though admittedly you could also abuse the Yes/No glitch and agree with a chick a million times in one day and you could buy the Blue Feather as soon as you got your house upgrade. It's pretty impossible to get a 999 ranch score, though; the highest I ever got was the low-900s. Incidentally, the reincarnation of Eve in HM64 was the only one you could abuse a similar evening glitch with. Honestly, my favorite is HM64. I just wish they'd remake that, and maybe add in one or two really secret things. I've found all the secrets there are to find (unless Rick improves his teleportation machine) gotten a full album, etc. but it's still fun as hell. And something about the world's art is unparalleled even by these new-fangled HM games.
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The White Dragon posted:Incidentally, the reincarnation of Eve in HM64 was the only one you could abuse a similar evening glitch with. Oh yeah, the easiest way to woo Karen was to show her your dog a zillion times. And freeloaders? Pretty sure I posted that nintendo week link a few posts before you, Ka0. 
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I'm around the 3rd of Summer on RF2, and I'm getting loving bored already. I cannot understand why they lock off so much of the game until you have your child. I can barely go anywhere in the seasonal areas, I can't craft, I can't cook. All I can do is farm, which seems to net me money easier than I would have expected. I can fight monsters, but I see no reason for me to just fight them. I can tame them, but I don't really feel the need for help on my farm. And I can go after the ladies, but.. eh.. it's all just boring. Rune Factory: Frontier, on the other hand, stayed interesting for quite a while. I had reasons to go to the seasonal areas, to upgrade my equipment, for one.
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Revol posted:I'm around the 3rd of Summer on RF2, and I'm getting loving bored already. I cannot understand why they lock off so much of the game until you have your child. Even then, there just isn't a lot to see. Well, I guess I never finished all four dungeons so maybe there's some mysterious poo poo even deeper in them, but still. Rune Factory 1 handled progression smartly, but had the glaring flaw of season-specific dungeons. I guess you could argue that the point is to grind your skills up because your child retains those levels? Also, there was that HM SNES LP, and the guy managed to get his wife to leave him, but he was so deep into his story that it would've been too fourth wall-breaking to talk about game mechanics. How does that all work?
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The White Dragon posted:Also, there was that HM SNES LP, and the guy managed to get his wife to leave him, but he was so deep into his story that it would've been too fourth wall-breaking to talk about game mechanics. How does that all work? If I remember the SNES Harvest Moon right, you lost some affection with your wife every day you came home to end that day too late (after she had already gone to bed). I'm not sure if it had other ways to lose affection, like forgetting your anniversary, or birthdays, stuff like that.
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Yay! A new Harvest Moon thread! I think I'm going to go play Animal Parade again after this, it's actually pretty fun. I don't know who I want to marry though, either the awesome island girl or the bartender's daughter. I'm up to the last bell so I'm just running around trying to get people to like me and also make enough money to upgrade my tools and keep my animals alive. And Wind Bazaar, should I get it when it comes out? I haven't heard many good thing about it, but I'd kind of like to move on from the original DS game.
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AG3 posted:If I remember the SNES Harvest Moon right, you lost some affection with your wife every day you came home to end that day too late (after she had already gone to bed). I'm not sure if it had other ways to lose affection, like forgetting your anniversary, or birthdays, stuff like that. You can give people weeds to lower your affection I think. In the later games characters just have items they hate in general that will lower your friendship.
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Fishylungs posted:Yay! A new Harvest Moon thread! Play as a girl and marry the Wizard!
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I think the one thing that annoys the poo poo out of me with Magical Melody is that so much poo poo is unavailable unless you make plenty of the townsfolk happy. I jut got Friends of Mineral town and I am enjoying it immensely. I just wish mining in it wasn't so tedious.
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blackguy32 posted:I think the one thing that annoys the poo poo out of me with Magical Melody is that so much poo poo is unavailable unless you make plenty of the townsfolk happy. The horrible thing about mining is (even if you use savegames to cheat the system to find the stairs in one go) sometimes there AREN'T stairs on the next level no matter what you do. So to guarantee getting to the bottom of the mine you have to use both saves on the cartridge. Or you could just use savestates if you're emulating I suppose. Even so, that's not cool Natsume.
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CarnivorousThing posted:Play as a girl and marry the Wizard! If I was going to play as a girl I'd marry Toby because he's cool, or Chase because he's clearly gay.  I kind of wish I could just marry Ann, she was always my go-to wife. Popourri once, but that sucked.
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Fishylungs posted:I kind of wish I could just marry Ann, she was always my go-to wife. Popourri once, but that sucked. Only guys who are lying to themselves about their sexuality would marry Popourri. It's time to come out of the closet, Fishylungs.
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Ganty posted:The horrible thing about mining is (even if you use savegames to cheat the system to find the stairs in one go) sometimes there AREN'T stairs on the next level no matter what you do. So to guarantee getting to the bottom of the mine you have to use both saves on the cartridge. Or you could just use savestates if you're emulating I suppose. This was the only horrible part of FoMT and it took me half a week to complete. The spring mine's teleport stone was worth it though, so were the green hyper-tools and selling mythic stones.
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Huh. Harvest Moon thread. I played FoMT for a loooong time, then I lost the game. Then I got a new one and started playing it again, and I just couldn't do it, I couldn't grind through it all again. My main cashflow was peppers in fall. Then I got the first rune factory and harvest moon ds, played both for a while, eventually stopped with harvest moon ds. I'd still play rune factory, but It's spring 1 and I'm at the winter only dungeon with every non dungeon thing done (Also married the bath girl and no longer have bath access).  I got rune factory 2 and played that, but it's not even the end of year one and I'm bored out of my mind because you can't do anything until you have your child (I married Julie, have a thing for the bath house ladies.) Now I've got Frontier, and I loved the heck out of that, except I've run into basically nothing to do because the dungeon monster scaling is a bit to quick compared to how fast you can level up. (Also runeys )But overall I love the series. Yep.
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64bitrobot posted:(Also married the bath girl and no longer have bath access). thread is now about who do you marry in harvest moon I went for the bath-house chick in RF1, but went with Dorothy in RF2 because she was the only one who wasn't too ditzy, or just plain retarded (i.e., Mana). In normal HM, I tend to go with Ellen/Ellie, I have a thing for chicks with brown hair in real life.
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Revol posted:Only guys who are lying to themselves about their sexuality would marry Popourri. It's time to come out of the closet, Fishylungs. What does it mean if you are a girl and marry Popuri?  She was the first girl I ever actually married (in FOMT), but in Back to Nature I went for Mary. I don't even know why I married Popuri, except that it was easy to give her eggs every day - I thought she was vapid and childish (but so cute!) Mary and Karen were the best bachelorettes. MFOMT was the doctor of course. In Animal Parade, I don't know who I'll marry but according to the fogu.com forums (which are atrocious, don't go there unless you absolutely have to) the Wizard and Chase are by far the most popular bachelors. Speaking of Fogu, even if the forums are populated by 12 year old girls who write yaoi fanfic about the characters, the main site is pretty good if you need help with something. http://fogu.com/hm
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See, I always went for Gray when I could play as my own gender. I feel like girls get a bit gypped though, sometimes there are only 1-2 guys per game that I would try to marry. With Sunshine Islands, only Will and Vaughn seemed likable and not horribly young.
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naptalan posted:What does it mean if you are a girl and marry Popuri? Popuri means you're a full-on hard-core lesbian. You are butch, but you like a really feminine partner. Karen is the opposite; you are the Portia de Rossi to her Ellen Degeneres. Mary means the two of you are more just experimenting. You aren't sure what you are concerning your sexuality. I would want to see pictures.
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AG3 posted:If I remember the SNES Harvest Moon right, you lost some affection with your wife every day you came home to end that day too late (after she had already gone to bed). I'm not sure if it had other ways to lose affection, like forgetting your anniversary, or birthdays, stuff like that. The best part about this is when I was little I thought my best friend was a pathological liar because she kept telling me how she totally got her wife to leave her in Harvest Moon and killed off her cows. Whoops! 
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PhantomZero posted:So hands down, what is everyone's favorite DS harvest moon game? I just picked up a DS and my handheld collection is not complete without a harvest moon game. I've got to say the first one. Unfortunately, it is riddled with bugs that make it almost unplayable at some points, (although reading this thread I guess these are fixed) but I really prefer moving with the DPAD rather than using the stylus and also the 2D graphics. It also has a lot more 'pure' gameplay than the other ones on the DS do, and it's basically just a DS version of FoMT, my favorite Harvest Moon, but on the DS. For some reason I can never get into the 3D ones. Maybe it's due to my bad experiences with Animal Crossing, which I thought sounded like the greatest game ever till I played it and the execution was subpar to Harvest Moon. I think mostly though it's because the 2D stuff has a real clean, cute charm to them that the 3D ones lack. Especially on the DS, at least. The PS1/n64 ones were fine and a few of the PS2/ Gamecube ones were alright. (I can't stand the Wii ones either though...) On that note, Twin Villages looks fantastic and gives me hope in 3D handheld Harvest Moon. Also, RE: A Wonderful Life, yeah, that has to be one of the worst HM games. I think it was my first experience with the series, and it was both good and bad. First of all, the game is actually kind of wonderful when you start playing it. But it is very storyline focused, and forces an ending on you within like a year or two. And it has no marriages / courting (although it kinda has storylines to make up for that.) It's horrible because you get a really decent HM game and then it turns out to be one big cocktease. And that is why I will forever hate it. bomblol fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Aug 23, 2010 |
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PoisonedV posted:Also, RE: A Wonderful Life, yeah, that has to be one of the worst HM games. I think it was my first experience with the series, and it was both good and bad. First of all, the game is actually kind of wonderful when you start playing it. But it is very storyline focused, and forces an ending on you within like a year or two. And it has no marriages / courting (although it kinda has storylines to make up for that.) It's horrible because you get a really decent HM game and then it turns out to be one big cocktease. And that is why I will forever hate it.
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All I want is a simple stable HM game with no gimmicks and an rear end ton of dialog. Being able to waste my time washing my cow in some horrific touch screen thing or some dumb cumbersome plot does not justify the marriage prospects having one line of dialog per level. I've tried playing several post-64/FoMT iterations and they are all just so bad. I hope Twin Villages will be good but I'm sure it will have some deal breaker
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It's weird, I remember having a hell of a lot of fun playing HM64, but then I got Rune Factory because (at the time) everybody said it was the best HM game to get on the DS. I finished the game to justify my purchase, but at every turn I would get pissed off by some really stupid game mechanic. Farming was basically pointless, since the very first cave was perma-spring with no disasters and strawberries were by far the most efficient crop. So there was no reason to use your main farm unless you needed a specific seasonal crop, but even then the caves were a better choice. Combat was boring and the crafting system was complete pile of poo poo. So many of those items were useless, mislabeled, and/or disorganized that I just looked up a FAQ to tell me what each item actually did before wasting crafting components. There were a ton of items that were the first recipes you learned but couldn't be made because a component didn't drop until the last dungeon, by which time you had way better items. Dialogue in the game was completely retarded and most of the music was grating as hell. It was like they had 20 groups design independent parts of the game with no contact to each other, then slapped it all together and called it a day. Uh, I'll just stop my rant there. All I wanna know is if I should bother playing another DS HM game. I played a little bit of RF2, but it seemed like more of the same. Should I just give up on the series and hope that Minecraft ends up with a robust farming system? Also the only consideration that should be made for marriage is which girl looks like she's actually past puberty, which is usually only one or two of them you sickos 
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Oh hey a HM thread! There are so many I didn't know about and now want to purchase and play  There are not enough hours in the day for me to waste my time petting cows and running to obscure corners of the map for wooing items...
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Zenzirouj posted:It's weird, I remember having a hell of a lot of fun playing HM64, but then I got Rune Factory because (at the time) everybody said it was the best HM game to get on the DS. I finished the game to justify my purchase, but at every turn I would get pissed off by some really stupid game mechanic. Farming was basically pointless, since the very first cave was perma-spring with no disasters and strawberries were by far the most efficient crop. So there was no reason to use your main farm unless you needed a specific seasonal crop, but even then the caves were a better choice. Combat was boring and the crafting system was complete pile of poo poo. So many of those items were useless, mislabeled, and/or disorganized that I just looked up a FAQ to tell me what each item actually did before wasting crafting components. There were a ton of items that were the first recipes you learned but couldn't be made because a component didn't drop until the last dungeon, by which time you had way better items. Dialogue in the game was completely retarded and most of the music was grating as hell. It was like they had 20 groups design independent parts of the game with no contact to each other, then slapped it all together and called it a day. Rune Factory is pretty different from regular HM titles. Only the RF games have combat and dungeons so if those were your main complaints you should try one of the regular games. Friends of Mineral Town for GBA is a favourite title of many people if you're willing to go back a generation and I've heard it compared to HM64 a lot (most of the characters are the same, but play different roles). Otherwise I'd recommend Harvest Moon DS Cute (because most copies of Harvest Moon DS are very buggy, but you CAN get a fixed copy if you'd rather play as a dude) or Sunshine Islands, but both have game mechanics that piss off a lot of people so look into them first if you're worried about wasting money. Also, your avatar is my favourite from the Minecraft thread. Didn't someone buy it for Hard Clumping originally?
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Wandering Knitter posted:So I fell asleep playing the original Harvest Moon last night thanks to my last post, and I couple of questions. And for the hot springs, every time you jump in you get 25 (pretty sure that's correct, if it's not 25 it's 20) stamina, staying in longer doesn't do anything. You start with 100 stamina and get another 10 every power berry. And about the wives, they do lose affection when you come home late but a single egg every time you come home late should mitigate that.
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naptalan posted:Friends of Mineral Town for GBA is a favourite title of many people if you're willing to go back a generation and I've heard it compared to HM64 a lot (most of the characters are the same, but play different roles). Otherwise I'd recommend Harvest Moon DS Cute (because most copies of Harvest Moon DS are very buggy, but you CAN get a fixed copy if you'd rather play as a dude) or Sunshine Islands, but both have game mechanics that piss off a lot of people so look into them first if you're worried about wasting money. quote:Also, your avatar is my favourite from the Minecraft thread.
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Zenzirouj posted:Well, I guess I'm looking for HM64, only better. From what I've seen of Mineral Town, it seems like kind of a port without much added content. Is that sequel(remake?) More Friends of Mineral Town better? Do HM DS and SI manage to gently caress up different things, making each one better in some ways and worse in others, or is one essentially 'the best'? I'd go by reviews, but Harvest Moon games seem to exist in this weird netherworld where professional reviews have little bearing on whether I'll like the games or not. Well, Mineral Town is more like a port of Back to Nature which was a port of HM64 with the characters switched around. They each build on the original in a few small ways, but if you're looking for something radically different you're probably out of luck. What can you really do to improve the "farm stuff, date girls" genre other than "farm more stuff, date cuter girls"? You're right about reviews being useless. I'll have to link to Fogu again, since it offers pretty good rundowns on game mechanics and you can look around for the one you like best. Personally I like having cute distractions that add nothing to the core gameplay, so I'm really looking forward to dressing up and taking my pets for walks in Animal Parade... some people prefer deep character interactions or the opportunity to micromanage huge farms. HMDS and Sunshine Islands both require you to collect things to unlock core gameplay features (for HMDS, you rescue sprites, for Sunshine Islands, you collect sun stones to raise islands). You collect them by performing tasks like watering X squares or befriending Y villager. I found Sunshine Islands was less tedious and didn't take as long to collect stuff but there's no way to check which tasks you've completed so I had to keep a spreadsheet to remind myself. In both games there is plenty to do without raising islands/rescuing sprites but I felt the first was a fun task to work towards where the second was just a lovely way to stop you marrying too early (you need 60 sprites to get the Blue Feather and propose). Also, And that is more words than I ever want to write about pretend-farming.
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naptalan posted:Also, Sunshine Islands adds a really finicky weather system that is not in any other HM game. In the last thread a lot of people kept spreadsheets to keep track of how much water/sun their crops had received because if you're not careful you can kill off your entire field by being careless.
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Whoops, you're right. My bad. For some reason I thought it wasn't in Island of Happiness (which I've never played).
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naptalan posted:In the last thread a lot of people kept spreadsheets to keep track of how much water/sun their crops had received because if you're not careful you can kill off your entire field by being careless.  At least if I decide to give it a shot, the link indicates that there are crops that aren't whiny babies about sun/water. There is no way in hell I'm writing something down for my Harvest Moon game, though. Much less a drat spreadsheet.
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