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It's ok, but it's no Rune Factory 4, the Cowboy Bebop of video games
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Terper posted:It's ok, but it's no Rune Factory 4, the Cowboy Bebop of video games "Bang." -A Dragon, Episode 4 of Rune Factory
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Oct 26, 2014 08:01
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That dragon at the beginning of the game is coming onto me. 
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Oct 26, 2014 08:30
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Shinjobi posted:"Bang." HELLO. SO TINY. SO TINY.
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Oct 26, 2014 08:53
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You're gonna carry that weight (to the giant turnip festival). See you space farmboy. Edit: Jesus Christ I am so sorry.
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Oct 26, 2014 13:45
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(crossposted from the vita thread) Anyone have opinions on the best Harvest Moon game for Vita? Options are (PS1) Harvest Moon: Back to Nature, (PSP) Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley, (PSP) Harvest Moon: Boy and Girl, and (PSP) Innocent Life: A Futuristic Harvest Moon. I know some Harvest Moon games have some light dungeon/combat elements but I've got no preference either for or against that. Monster fights would be cool but I'm also totally into a pure farming game, so either way works. I think I remember Back to Nature on PS1 being good, but the sci-fi one sounds interesting too and I just have no idea at all about the other two PSP games. If anyone's got any insight I'd love to hear it.
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Oct 30, 2014 07:29
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Corridor posted:wtf, fantasy life is out in stores now How'd this game wind up being, btw?
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Oct 30, 2014 07:33
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Blhue posted:How'd this game wind up being, btw? it's good, i made a lot of nerdy posts about it in the thread, and also in animal crossing thread
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Oct 30, 2014 07:36
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XboxPants posted:Anyone have opinions on the best Harvest Moon game for Vita? Options are Well Boy & Girl is BTN, so yeah thats the best choice. Though I might have some bias, because BtN was the first harvest moon that I absolutely fell in love with.
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Oct 30, 2014 07:40
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XboxPants posted:(crossposted from the vita thread) Hero of Leaf Valley is an expanded version of Save the Homeland I believe. Has a lot of loading screens though, since every area has its own loading screen. They're fast loads though, it can get annoying. I didn't play enough of it to really get a good opinion on it, so it probably had a slow start-up.
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Oct 30, 2014 07:50
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so what is the word on lost valley? i'm on an extremely tight budget and i cant afford another hometown story blunder.
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Oct 30, 2014 09:25
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Flynn Taggart posted:so what is the word on lost valley? i'm on an extremely tight budget and i cant afford another hometown story blunder. Its not out until November 4th, so we dunno yet. Edit: Went to gamestop's website to check that, and decided to check on Story of Seasons while I did so, looks like we have a real release date for that now. 02/10/2015.
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Oct 30, 2014 09:29
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Blhue posted:How'd this game wind up being, btw? It's like Rune Factory 4 without the stupid event system.
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Oct 30, 2014 14:55
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gmq posted:It's like Rune Factory 4 without the stupid event system. Also without the farming. I see where you're coming from though, the game is kinda like if you took the farming out of rune factory and instead funneled the effort into making everything else more fun and engaging. It is really good. Everyone should get it. Every facial feature and hairstyle is available for every gender and I am playing as the foppiest man in existance.
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Oct 30, 2014 15:12
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Flynn Taggart posted:so what is the word on lost valley? i'm on an extremely tight budget and i cant afford another hometown story blunder. No-one knows and we probably won't know until sometime after release. Is Natsume even sending out review codes? Someone must have played it by now, surely.
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Oct 30, 2014 15:17
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Hi Harvest Moon goons I just started playing Rune Factory 4 recently because apparently it's the be all end all 3DS experience currently AAAAHH I'm enjoying myself so far, and in my usual Harvest Moon neuroticism I rushed to upgrade my tools right away. Is it true that this time if I want a better tool I simply have to build a new tool with better materials? I can't upgrade an existing tool with raw ores like any other Harvest Moon? I'm not exactly interested in raising my cracked watering can's strength stat..
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Oct 30, 2014 16:22
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Poulpe posted:Hi Harvest Moon goons Basically, what you need to do is go buy farming recipe bread from Porcoline. This will give you recipes for better farming tools (as in they can hit a wider area and hold more water and etc). They generally require better raw ores as you get higher up.
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Oct 30, 2014 16:24
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:No-one knows and we probably won't know until sometime after release. Their Tumblr page indicates they are shipping out the limited edition now, so my guess is at least someone who is a series fan will have it before the weekend.
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Oct 30, 2014 16:25
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DoubleDonut posted:Basically, what you need to do is go buy farming recipe bread from Porcoline. This will give you recipes for better farming tools (as in they can hit a wider area and hold more water and etc). They generally require better raw ores as you get higher up. Right yeah, I just found it incredibly peculiar that I have to build new ones outright. What are the old ones even good for anymore? Shipping? 
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Oct 30, 2014 16:26
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And being base items for upgrade purposes, so you can grind out your smithing skill later on.
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Oct 30, 2014 16:29
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Poulpe posted:Right yeah, I just found it incredibly peculiar that I have to build new ones outright. What are the old ones even good for anymore? Shipping? Each tier uses the tool from the previous tier to make. Like a lot of the other games, one you get your silver watering can you don't have a copper watering can in your inventory. You can still make the older versions but there's no real reason to do so.
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Oct 30, 2014 17:47
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Flynn Taggart posted:so what is the word on lost valley? i'm on an extremely tight budget and i cant afford another hometown story blunder. If your budget is at a point where you can't afford a 3DS game being disappointing I'd say just save your money for Story of Seasons which we know is pretty solid. I mean, Lost Valley looks neat, I'm pretty into it, but it's Natsume's first solo HM project so it'll probably need some polish but, given their vast experience as publishers and all, I imagine they know what makes a good HM game. Wait till the game is out proper but I myself am expecting it to be a 3.5 situation.
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Oct 31, 2014 03:38
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Has anyone given "Farm for you Life" a try? It's billed as Harvest Moon + Tower Defense on the PC. For Rune Factory: I just discovered that if you have monsters water a field you've planted grass in, they'll harvest it and put it in the feed bin for you. This saves me literally hours spent putting hundreds of fodder into the feed bin by hand every time Raven has it for sale. It's a really nice feature.
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Nov 3, 2014 02:53
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Apparently it's more of a casual sort of game that tries to combine all those successful genres into one (PLUS ZOMBIES), but it doesn't have the content to prop it up for any one of them past several hours.
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Nov 3, 2014 03:01
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Any buzz on possible Lost Valley reviews tomorrow or are we waiting till launch?
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Nov 3, 2014 05:21
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Any buzz on possible Lost Valley reviews tomorrow or are we waiting till launch? All I have seen is one picture of it out in a Target store and one guy on twitter saying he's going to get his in the mail today. Nothing official though.
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Nov 3, 2014 21:09
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Dehry posted:All I have seen is one picture of it out in a Target store and one guy on twitter saying he's going to get his in the mail today. Nothing official though. Yeah my Target had it out this weekend and I tried to impulse buy it even though I told myself I would wait for reviews. But it wouldn't ring up at the register so the girl took them off the shelf. I guess it wasn't just my store's employees that messed up.
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Nov 3, 2014 21:36
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So I beat the first story Arc in Rune Factory 4, only took me until about Summer 4 or so to do it. Figured I would spend my free time upgrading farm space and making use of the "wild" farms. And then a hurricane hit and destroyed 90% of my everything.  Is there anything I can do about this aside from "race everywhere with an armful of typhoon-be-gone and hope you don't lose much"?
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Nov 3, 2014 21:40
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Poulpe posted:So I beat the first story Arc in Rune Factory 4, only took me until about Summer 4 or so to do it. Figured I would spend my free time upgrading farm space and making use of the "wild" farms. Eventually you get to command typhoons to gently caress right off through the orders screen, but I forget how long it takes to unlock that.
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Nov 3, 2014 21:49
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One of your mayor abilities is to make typhoons go away. Course, there's one specific monster that only shows up in typhoon who drops an ingredient, so there'll be a time you might end up having to summon a typhoon yourself, which is also an ability.
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Nov 3, 2014 21:49
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Make your fields capped at 255 HP in advance by hoeing corn, four leaf clovers, and/or dead weeds into each plot. Still won't prevent all loss but it will not wipe everything out. There's also the Prince[ss] Order's eventually that can prevent an potential hurricane from occurring the next day. The best way of checking when that's happening is if the option to call in a hurricane is missing in your Order's list.
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Nov 3, 2014 21:52
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You haven't really experienced Harvest Moon until a hurricane destroys everything you've worked for
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Nov 3, 2014 21:54
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Sage Grimm posted:Make your fields capped at 255 HP in advance by hoeing corn, four leaf clovers, and/or dead weeds into each plot. So much effort though! That and I haven't got a reliable source of any of these aside from growing corn which is lost cash. Looper posted:You haven't really experienced Harvest Moon until a hurricane destroys everything you've worked for Seriously I only made it out with like 20-30% of the crops intact.
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Nov 3, 2014 22:05
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While I'm here, Is it possible to grow four different trees all on the same 4-tile plot? I planted two orange trees, an apple tree and a grape tree on a 4x4 plot and the orange trees grew fine on two corners, but the other two seem to be trapped at the "almost a tree but not yet" stage.
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Nov 3, 2014 22:07
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Poulpe posted:While I'm here, Is it possible to grow four different trees all on the same 4-tile plot? Trees grow at different rates. You can grow different trees, but given how much better it is to have a Giant Tree, why would you?
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Nov 3, 2014 22:34
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Patware posted:Trees grow at different rates. You can grow different trees, but given how much better it is to have a Giant Tree, why would you? First time through the game and I didn't want to spoil it with guides v  v
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Nov 3, 2014 22:40
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Poulpe posted:So I beat the first story Arc in Rune Factory 4, only took me until about Summer 4 or so to do it. Figured I would spend my free time upgrading farm space and making use of the "wild" farms. Keep in mind that if you are regularly talking to Porcoline, Margaret, and I think Dylas, they should warn you of Typhoons a few days beforehand, so you should have enough time to spread Wettable Powder. Poulpe posted:While I'm here, Is it possible to grow four different trees all on the same 4-tile plot? First, Orange trees grow two or three times faster than the other fruit trees do, so they may just need more time. But also make sure to regularly check your soil with the magnifying glass and keep an eye on your Growth/HP/Quality and such. When in doubt, throw some Formula on it and rake in a clover.
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Nov 3, 2014 22:48
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YggiDee posted:Keep in mind that if you are regularly talking to Porcoline, Margaret, and I think Dylas, they should warn you of Typhoons a few days beforehand, so you should have enough time to spread Wettable Powder. If you're not talking to Porco every day, then something is clearly already horribly wrong. 
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Nov 4, 2014 00:05
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YggiDee posted:Keep in mind that if you are regularly talking to Porcoline, Margaret, and I think Dylas, they should warn you of Typhoons a few days beforehand, so you should have enough time to spread Wettable Powder Honestly I make a note to talk to everyone every day but their speech blends together so much I have a bad habit of ignoring them outright sometimes. My bad!
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Nov 4, 2014 02:06
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Looper posted:You haven't really experienced Harvest Moon until a hurricane destroys everything you've worked for
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Nov 4, 2014 06:59
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