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Gibbo, let's be friends. See, I'm typing with nice grammar and punctuation just for you.  What is your favourite Rune Factory, and what characters do you like? Personally, while I know that RF3 and RF4 are technically better games, I just find RF2 to be so charming.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Dragon Quest Builders is the new best farming game in the world, believe it. What makes it any good? I checked out a couple of gameplay videos and it just looks like a slightly more refined Minecraft.
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Bunch of new ToT characters were posted today. Each town has nine characters listed now, not counting potential spouses (no new ones were introduced this time either). The judges from SoS are back too, but now there's a new Master of Ceremonies (the girl in the top hat, who, honestly, looks like she'll be a secret bachelorette), so animal/produce/cooking/fashion shows are all back.
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Jun 20, 2016 15:43
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Is this also the thread for Story of Seasons since it's the same game or does that have its own thread I can't find? Because I just played it for 13 hours almost straight on an exceptionally long flight
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Jun 20, 2016 17:34
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cheetah7071 posted:Is this also the thread for Story of Seasons since it's the same game or does that have its own thread I can't find? Because I just played it for 13 hours almost straight on an exceptionally long flight Yeah, this is also the thread for SoS.
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In that case, is there something I'm not getting about the stamina economy? My ability to acquire land is vastly outstripping my ability to water it every day, even with an early copper water bucket through lucky copper drops from fishing
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Jun 20, 2016 17:48
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cheetah7071 posted:In that case, is there something I'm not getting about the stamina economy? My ability to acquire land is vastly outstripping my ability to water it every day, even with an early copper water bucket through lucky copper drops from fishing Eat food. Buying food from the restaurant also unlocks recipes, so it's a good idea. Eventually you'll be able to make a jewelry combo that restores stamina, but the blueprints don't unlock until Year 2.
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Jun 20, 2016 18:05
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cheetah7071 posted:In that case, is there something I'm not getting about the stamina economy? My ability to acquire land is vastly outstripping my ability to water it every day, even with an early copper water bucket through lucky copper drops from fishing play on seedling mode. there is absolutely no reason at all to play on original mode, unless your favourite part of HM games is the soulless grind
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Jun 20, 2016 18:13
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Corridor posted:play on seedling mode. there is absolutely no reason at all to play on original mode, unless your favourite part of HM games is the soulless grind Can you lower difficulty mid play?
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Jun 20, 2016 20:30
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cheetah7071 posted:Can you lower difficulty mid play? nope. but i restarted halfway through spring 1 with seedling mode, and was very glad i did because it makes the game actually playable.
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Jun 20, 2016 21:02
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i want to marry the dog suit
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Jun 20, 2016 21:07
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Corridor posted:play on seedling mode. there is absolutely no reason at all to play on original mode, unless your favourite part of HM games is the soulless grind poo poo! I'm dumb. I figured Original was The Way It's Meant to Be Played, and the "seedling" name was a jab at my pride, but if all it does is reduce the grind...
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Jun 20, 2016 22:44
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harvest moon, a series infamous for insulting the player's gamer skill
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Jun 20, 2016 22:54
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:poo poo! I'm dumb. I figured Original was The Way It's Meant to Be Played, and the "seedling" name was a jab at my pride, but if all it does is reduce the grind... It's called original because it's the bullshit way the game originally was and Japanese gamers complained about. Seedling is far better if you enjoy having fun when playing your anime farming games.
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Jun 20, 2016 22:55
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Corridor posted:nope. but i restarted halfway through spring 1 with seedling mode, and was very glad i did because it makes the game actually playable. Halfway through Fall 1 is a bit different and I think I'll have more fun slogging through new stuff than restarting with something better
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Jun 21, 2016 05:28
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cheetah7071 posted:Halfway through Fall 1 is a bit different and I think I'll have more fun slogging through new stuff than restarting with something better Once you get the stamina regen jewelry going, the difference becomes mainly in the endgame trader unlock requirements, as stamina becomes mostly a non-issue
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Jun 21, 2016 05:49
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How does Story of Seasons compare to Rune Factory 4? If I'm tired of feeding dragon's pancakes, but would like to still have a ton of monster taming / farming.
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Jun 21, 2016 05:58
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Turtlicious posted:How does Story of Seasons compare to Rune Factory 4? If I'm tired of feeding dragon's pancakes, but would like to still have a ton of monster taming / farming. there are no monsters
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Jun 21, 2016 06:01
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Harvest Moon, and by extension Story of Seasons, is exactly like Rune Factory but with the RPG elements, fantasy elements, and goofiness removed. I wish the goofiness weren't removed though
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Jun 21, 2016 06:19
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harvest moon can still be pretty goofy, but a lot of it is replaced with even greater amounts of chill
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Jun 21, 2016 06:22
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cheetah7071 posted:Harvest Moon, and by extension Story of Seasons, is exactly like Rune Factory but with the RPG elements, fantasy elements, and goofiness removed. Also, the pace is a hell of a lot slower - in RF, farming can be done in a very short time because it's a supplementary activity. In SoS, it's the entire game, so it takes longer to do everything.
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hopeandjoy posted:It's called original because it's the bullshit way the game originally was and Japanese gamers complained about. Seedling is far better if you enjoy having fun when playing your anime farming games. it's pretty impressive to make the grind in your autistic japanese farming game so bad that even the target audience of autistic japanese gamers call bullshit cheetah7071 posted:Harvest Moon, and by extension Story of Seasons, is exactly like Rune Factory but with the RPG elements, fantasy elements, and goofiness removed. while there is less of the pants-on-head insanity everpresent in rune factory, SoS characters have a kind of repressed quiet insanity about them, though it's probably unintentional by the devs. i admit i did prefer it when i could run around as miku with leek twinswords, or when the horse boy cooked too much lunch and gave some to me, i'd be doing him a favour by taking it, and it's definitely not because he likes me or anything
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Jun 21, 2016 08:26
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without having played sos, given xseed's typical translation work, i'd be surprised if that kind of stuff about the characters wasn't intentional
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Jun 21, 2016 08:34
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cheetah7071 posted:Halfway through Fall 1 is a bit different and I think I'll have more fun slogging through new stuff than restarting with something better hopeandjoy posted:Eat food. Buying food from the restaurant also unlocks recipes, so it's a good idea. Eventually you'll be able to make a jewelry combo that restores stamina, but the blueprints don't unlock until Year 2. oh ya, i believe it's deliberately designed around forcing the player to eat at Restaurant every day, because eating lots of foods unlocks new recipes from the cook boy if you are having trouble affording Restaurant's prices on a daily basis, flax > sewing studio > gold linen cloth is the big money maker. the golden dye job takes 6 hours per linen thread, but if u feed lots of small piles of thread into the dye pot, instead of one big pile of 99 thread, then they will all process at the same time and take a couple of days instead of all month
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Jun 21, 2016 08:38
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Flax is pretty happy to grow all year so it's pretty easy to keep fertilizing it up to 5 stars. And then applying it to festivals and winning to maximize the money you receive from selling it.
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For SoS, is there a time limit kind of thing where you can fall behind and end up missing stuff? I get some enjoyment out of scraping by with a meager beginning and building up from there, so I'm thinking of playing original mode as long as there's no downside to starting slow. I've never played one of these games before but the Seedling changes seem... Pretty drastic.
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Nah, you'll be fine. The vendors have a time lock in addition to their unlock requirements anyway, so even if you were stressing yourself hustling as hard as you can, you might still have to wait until at least year 2 before you could actually get them to show up.
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Jun 21, 2016 15:46
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I just hit fall and instantly unlocked sakura, wheat, and rose country one after the other.
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Jun 21, 2016 16:54
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Am I doing crappily if it's Fall 1 and I only unlocked Cabin Country? I'm unspoiled so I don't even know what the requirements are
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Jun 21, 2016 19:01
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No. Cabin is the only one you can unlock before Fall 1 anyway, so.
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cheetah7071 posted:Am I doing crappily if it's Fall 1 and I only unlocked Cabin Country? I'm unspoiled so I don't even know what the requirements are to get the others, it has to be fall, and u have to have shipped a certain amount of stuff i had the sewing studio so
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Here's the first 30 minutes of the new game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RsKb5svX_o
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Jun 22, 2016 18:56
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Linnaeus posted:Here's the first 30 minutes of the new game This is the worst thing I've ever had to listen to. It's 2016.
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The Joe Man posted:This is the worst thing I've ever had to listen to. just hope and pray that they'll actually include sound settings in this one
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Our Love Will Grow claims to be a harvest moon like. Has anyone tried it?
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double post
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LLSix posted:Our Love Will Grow claims to be a harvest moon like. Has anyone tried it? Just looking at the steam page, the stock RPGMaker assets, and the fact that you can only play as a dude, I have no idea why anyone would pick this up when Stardew Valley exists. Looking at the reviews, you can't even befriend the non-bachelorette villagers.
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Jun 24, 2016 22:51
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dmboogie posted:Looking at the reviews, you can't even befriend the non-bachelorette villagers. 
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There were a bunch of interviews with the Bokujo producer that came out around E3 and the stock response to marriage/relationship questions was "this series primarily sells in Japan and primarily to children so we'll continue catering to them and maybe do other stuff if we feel like it"
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Is Seeds of Memories worth it at 30% off? I'm curious but I don't want to get it if it's - super bad on a tablet.
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