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Dr Pepper posted:I... I never saw that scene. I never saw that character Funnily enough, that's exactly what I'm thinking right now.
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Oooh, fellow crafting game nerd here. If you haven't heard of them, the Atelier series games are JRPG's where crafting is one of the major focuses of the game (the others being time management and character development). Atelier Rorona and Atelier Totori for PS3 *very* good games despiting having some creepy otaku pandering in parts. I've also played a bit of Atelier Annie for DS and Mana Khemia for PSP, which are also fun, and thankfully don't seem to have the creepy otaku pandering. I love crafting in games so much. I nearly flipped my poo poo when I saw the skills menu in Rune Factory 1 for the first time...
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nonnemaus posted:I feel vaguely dirty for picking up my old cart of MFoMT and then going back to ToTT the next day. I'm so sorry I just wanted something easy to play to relax after work ToTT is great for that, though! My sister keeps stealing my DS and copy of ToTT to play when she's in bed about to go to sleep.
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Revener posted:Does anyone have access to a great beginners guide for Rune Factory? My girlfriend recently got into this but she has a lot of questions and trying to find the answers piecemeal online is getting pretty obnoxious. The one at http://www.fogu.com/hm/rune_factory/ maybe? It has a really good beginners section at http://www.fogu.com/hm/rune_factory/basics/index.php
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naptalan posted:Stuff about Shepherd's Crossing 2  Wow, I had NO IDEA the game was like that. I just saw the anime people on the box and figured it was like an an off-brand Harvest Moon. After your description, I really want to play. Hello, Amazon wishlist! Wandering Knitter posted:Honestly I was thinking of some Let's Play/Let's Cook hybrid since (as naptalan pointed out) a lot of the conversations in the game revolve around food. Maybe I'll cook some of the easier recipes and find information/videos on the ones I won't be able to do. As much as I'd love to give it a shot I don't think I can make roast cavy in NJ. I would follow this from day 1.
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^^^^ That's good to know. I've only actually played Rune Factory 1 so far. I got into it late!Zettace posted:I always hate watching the Japanese trailers for Rune Factory. It makes me so sad that the good list of voice actors will be replaced by crappy dubbing. I know it's only a few lines at most but still. I feel the same way, too.  I've listened to Japanese VA's in games (and anime when I still watched it) so much that I've actually gotten fond of some of them, even though I don't really understand much of what they're saying. Listening to the trailer had a lot of, "hey, it's That Guy!" moments.
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I Watson posted:While there was still some questionalble poo poo in the pre-order bonuses "Huh, that just looks like a soundtrack CD and some promotional art, I wonder wh--  I'm too scared to click the second link to see how it was worse.
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Your Dead Gay Son posted:Which one of these still has festivals? It looks like a lot of the newer ones don't, so I don't want to make a poor choice. Grand Bazaar (DS) has festivals. Tale of Two towns (DS & 3DS) has different festivals based on which town you are currently living in (The animal town has animal-related festivals and more Western-style festivals, and the crop town has crop-related festivals and more Eastern-style festivals.) I'm pretty sure A Wonderful Life doesn't have any festivals, and Magical Melody does have them.
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The FAQ on their preorder is here: https://www.facebook.com/notes/natsume-inc/harvest-moon-a-new-beginning-pre-order-faq/465902393430278 and I'm reading the comments to see if a preorder from Natsume contains both the yak and large 12" cow plush. If push comes to shove, I'll order the version with the cow plush from the Natsume website. BUT, if the Yak plush doesn't come with the Natsume order well, I'll probably find someone who doesn't want their plush, and offer a $15 Amazon GC in exchange.
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Natsume posted a picture on their Facebook page where you can see how large the new plushies are comparatively. 
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Annexed posted:So I guess RF3 I hard to find. Personally, I've found that prices of Harvest Moon and Rune Factory games tend to fluctuate as they go in and out of stock. If you don't want to pay the current prices, I would recommend waiting up to a few months to see if the price evens out. Also, I've never used it, but I've heard that Gamestop has a service where you can ask them in store to try and find what nearby (within a few states) stores have used copies in stock, which they will then ship to your store so that you can buy at their price. (Be sure to ask about the manual and the case, if that matters to you; they often are not included)
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Rock Epidemic posted:In addition, did anyone else with a Anniversary Edition pre-order just get a note about it being available tomorrow? I have the Anniversary Edition on preorder, and I just received that email, too. Additionally, this was posted on their Facebook: "We were going to reveal an AWESOME secret tomorrow, but our automated shipping system kind of ruined the surprise... "ETA: Additionally, this is in my Natsume order details page: "This order will be shipped after the release date of 10/23/2012" Catalina fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Oct 18, 2012 |
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If I buy a digital copy of Trio of Towns, will I be able to make backups of my saves (preferably on the console, but copying from my PC to the SD card would work) and still use multiplayer? I'd like to be able to keep more than 2 save files.
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Dehry posted:I think they anticipate that now and block it. Thanks! I'll probably go with a Powersave, then. I'm not trying to cheat, I swear, XSeed! I just want more anime husbands.
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at which point you can just pirate the game.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Haven't played a HM game since RF4. Worth jumping back on (even if there's no combat) or should I just wait for them to continue getting better two steps forward and one back at a time? Personally, I was wowed by by Rune Factory 4, and found Harvest Moon A New Beginning and Story of Seasons 1 to be ok, but kind of off, and I'm loving Trio of Towns. I recommend it! The strong points to me are 1) lots of things to to that unlock quickly, but not too quickly, 2) Stronger, more interesting characters (though not as great as Rune Factory 4, but still good. If RF4 was an A+, I'd give Trio of Towns a B+), 3) Lots of freedom of what to do, but clearly defined small goals to help you advance the story, 4) Better visuals, with a lot of variety in character designs and environmental designs, coming from good design direction over 3 different kinds of environmental areas. I'd say that it's a Rune Factory 4 quality with a major focus on giving depth to the farming aspects.
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Aerofallosov posted:I'm enjoying Trio a lot. I keep meaning to figure out what high points to hit on my Skytree post. The DLC marriage candidates are great, but SoS has stolen me away. I look forward to your Skytree post! I've followed SoS because I know what I like, and I've liked it since 1997, but I am really curious in how Natsume's doing with their own IP.
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54 40 or gently caress posted:Ohhhh noooo I want like four dogs. You can have up to 12 pets; you just have to put down one pet house per pet. http://fogu.com/sos2/your-farm/pets.html
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By the way, if you upgrade your hammer but still want to mine for black rocks, you can buy a second hammer from one of the general stores and keep it alongside your upgraded one. Do the wild animals and stray dogs and cats do anything?
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Important PSA about the Cooking Festival: Make sure you bring both the ingredients for your dish AND the recipe. If you have to forfeit because you didn't have the recipe, the judge will get to you, comment on you not having a dish, and proceed to publicly humiliate you in front of all your friends and family.
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Linnaeus posted:lol I just assumed they wouldn't have put the dialogue in, and let you forfeit with watching a "regular" cooking contest, but nope.
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Fru Fru posted:Why are these weirdos bringing mayo to the drink contest? Gross Wayne, herb cheese does NOT go in black tea and you are NOT allowed on my team.
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Fru Fru posted:So now that everyone's had this game for a while, I can ask the important question: Who are you gonna marry??? I'm planning to play a boy farmer game and a girl farmer game to do each of the character's pre-boyfriend/girlfriend heart events and then choose. (I'll probably make an Action Replay save so I can go back in time and see Stephanie and Woofio when that DLC is released.) Right now it's just too hard to pick one. For now, Ludas in the lead for the guys, and Komari is in the lead for the girls. I don't know how long I'll be able to keep it up, though...thinking about my family from Animal Parade, and how everyone would have holidays together is making me kind of nostalgic. Now, some important bits of important information: You will have a wedding in the style of the town whomever you marry is from. If you're going steady with someone, you'll celebrate your birthday with them if you go into your house between 19:00 and 24:00. You can also get a birthday party in town if you are rank C or higher and walk into the town restaurant between 13:00 and 17:00. The first year is Westown, the second is Tsuyukusa, the third is Lulukoko, then it goes back and repeats.
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Personally, I think all 11 marriage options in the game are great.  I found the male ones to be really boring in Story of Seasons 1, so I'm glad they're all more interesting this time around. Though, um, I'm not so sure about how the storyline with Woofio will be when it gets released...
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eggrolled posted:I was actually surprised, but Fogu actually has a summary of the whole Woofio thing. I didn't want to spoil any of the regular candidates' events (want to experience those through gameplay), so I went ahead and read his event summary and it's weird--but less weird than I would have expected? That is more insane and interesting than I expected it to be.
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Man, why does Woofio have to be the DLC bachelor when Moriya is right there in Tsuyukusa? I don't care if he would make me sign a prenup and keep separate bank accounts, he is still very attractive.
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Corridor posted:i thought i was being trolled when someone said woofio was the dlc bachelor. i can't imagine any femC players were actually pleased by the announcement except like, literal furries. whether ur an adult creeping on the bachelor hotties, or a literal child just playin the game, that poo poo is just weird. I believed it immediately, because I remember More Friends of Mineral Town, and which bachelors they decided to add instead of making new ones. 
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Corridor posted:or in harvest moon DS cute, where they let you marry the gross middle aged guys like the alcoholic bartender, and the archeologist who looks like my grandpa. the mad scientist and the huge black artist guy would have been better, even. I still want to lesbian-marry a mermaid. I was so close.
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Just another reason HM64 Ann was superior. Harvest Moon 64 had more depth of character, IMO. The characters had deeper flaws or more serious life circumstances. When it transitioned over to Mineral Town on the PS1, the characters got more smoothed out and shallow. I've always been mildly bummed that the series has gone in the direction of having characters like from PS1 rather than N64: likeable, but more boring.
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I just checked to see if there was a hack to restore the gay marriage option in English DS Cute yet, and while I haven't found that yet, I did find these ROM patches for same-sex marriage options in these three games! GBA: Friends of Mineral Town DS: Sunshine Islands (Apparently this is based off a swap of the main characters, so you can date your doppelganger self lol) Gamecube: Magical Melody (Holy poo poo, I forgot that game existed.) I'll update if I find more.
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World Famous W posted:Karen, change out of that night gown, this is a wedding for heaven's sakes! Harvest Moon: A New Beginning for 3DS is based around a game of where you place and customize buildings and decorations to build up a town, along with your farm. I haven't played either of the Natsume-developed Harvest Moon games, The Lost Valley, and Skytree Village, but I seem to remember previews saying they were going in a more Minecraft direction, with more player customization. Fogu describes Skytree Village as, "It has many of the same features as Lost Valley such as building graphics, animals, crops, area layout (you grow things in the "valley" while the town is in another area), and controlling the land by raising or lowering areas."
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A Spider Covets posted:They're awful, can confirm. Yeeeeah. Thanks for confirming. From the beginning, I've had a low impression: I was pretty annoyed with the whole "shadily using copyright to slap the brand name on a amateur-developed property" thing, and when I looked at the previews and style and decided it didn't look that great. The Amazon reviews are pretty low too...and lol that if you put The Lost Valley through fakespot.com you get a grade of F for the number of fake positive reviews.
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drat it, I had planned to do all 5 bachelors' heart events, but I kept inadvertently triggering Ludus's events, and now we're going steady.
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Fru Fru posted:You could have said no. If you change your mind later, you can still pick him. Also don't carry the pendant around in your bag. It is super easy to get reverse events in this game, like without even trying. Oh, I knew that. It's just, he was my favorite and the 3rd heart event was so sweet. I didn't have the willpower not to go out with him after that.
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This game even has unique dialogue when I gift wrap an offering and throw it in the spring. It owns.Corridor posted:drat, i wanna play this! get released for PAL already! stupidass region locks! Ugh, that sucks. I think happy thoughts towards a PAL release in case that'll help it happen sooner. Maybe even pray to the harvest goddess.
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Corridor posted:thank u, NTSC friend Hahahaha. No, I'm USA, I've just always felt bad for my NTSC friends, ever since the SNES days.
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Strange Quark posted:NTSC is America, as opposed to PAL for Europe. *face in hands* Oh yeah...that's right...
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A Spider Covets posted:I don't know what homebrew is, but if you want to backup your saves and swap them out whenever, Powersaves Pro lets you do that and is pretty cheap. You should be able to find one on Amazon. It's really nice to have on hand if you're a chronic game restarter like me. That's what I'm using right now, at the suggestion of this thread. We have 3 save games going at our house, and writing and rewriting has been flawless. It only cost me about $20. ETA: I've never used homebrew myself, but the SA thread is here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3759546
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Tired Moritz posted:someone told me the first (second?) SoS in my local store was in sale. Is it still worth playing? Yes, absolutely. It is very strong gameplay wise with lots to do. Trio of Towns has the same good base mechanics but with a bigger emphasis on social events.
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