/v/ - Video Games

>>13648748

>pozzed

>>>/reddit/

>>13648761

>implying there wasn't a jewvalley general on /v/ when it came out

inb4 just play rf

>>13648748

pirate it, judge for yourself

It's garbage. It's marketed as "comfy" but it's actually shit, it's tedious grind with little rewards. Even walking from place to place takes fucking forever. The NPCs are nothing special.

Also yeah, it's pretty pozzed. The dev is a 3deep5you hipster and there's some SJW material in the game.

>>13648761

Bump because it triggers you. Likely you’re infected with a literal one yourself.

>>13648776

>>13648808

>>13648814

I am getting a strong "stick with RF4" vibe so far.

>>13648808

It was 15 dollaridoos, I think it would've been worth supporting the dude tbh

>>13648748

We had this exact OP not long ago at all anon. I mean almost down to the letter. What are you doing?

http://stardewvalley.net/

Yeah it looks like its almost done for the multiplayer bits. Beta should come out by december according to him

They banned a mod from the steam workshop that turned every character white.

>>13649210

>Steam

I feel terrible for anyone who still uses Steam when GOG is an option for the vidya in question

And really just in general

>>13648748

It's a solid harvest moon-alike that manages to get a lot of things right that other HM imitators get wrong. I personally enjoyed my playtime with it. If you expect deep rune factory-tier combat, don't, the combat is kind of tacked on, but the farming and sim aspects are fully fleshed out. The music is nice, and it's a fairly comfy game overall.

While timely multiplayer would have been nice, just the singleplayer alone is worth buying it. It was also a solo project that took the creator like 5 years, and despite chucklefuck publishing it (and now working on the multiplayer+ports), it was a game made by someone who actually loves vidya. Do with that information what you will.

>>13648748

There's a racemixing family and it's basically the only family that isn't broken in some way, plus they appear to be among the highest intelligence/importance. That's pretty much where the pozz ends though, and you can download a simple texture pack to turn them white or whatever if you want.

It's pretty comfy, but it's one of those games you should may want to consider pirating for principle/ideological reasons/whatever.

>>13649268

>isn't broken in some way

The black dude is overprotective as shit of his daughter, has completely alienated his stepson, and his marriage with his wife is so shaky that the developer has said bluntly that he considered adding a marriage route for the wife where you break their marriage up and take her for yourself.

All pixelshit rpgs made by indie devs are ubiquitously pozzed.

It's a rule.

Its the monstergirl mod finished? how good is it?

>>13649118

Oh ffs

<Tedious work

Days too short, you spend the day running

Seems like the day-lenght was designed with dungeoning in mind, so you have to rush, but the dev forgot about other aspects

<Low rewards

He didn't say it was hard to make gold, he means

>Wow, i have a lot of gold! Now… what?

You can have animals, but they don't do shit.

Also refer to the previous point about the uselessness of having animals

<Walking

Refer to the first point. Shit is too far away.

Seems like he tried to take a "walk through the woods/scenary route" approach, but because days are short, you start to hate having to navigate that much

Neither of those points have been a problem for me in the RF games.

So yeah, shit game, a shallow copy of the former franchise

I actually like it because I fucking believe some of the characters. Shane's bullshit hit close to home.

>>13648748

It's shit, just like just about anything else.

>>13648895

It is not even a vibe. Compared to RF4 Starjew is so mechanically shallow you should never touch it.

Everything else is even worse. Setting makes no fucking sense and is taken from some child cartoon. Villain in this game is Supermarket. Characters aren't better. They are so fucking bland. I am amazed >>13649814 that managed to get any emotional connections to NPC that only says one line quotes like villager from FF.

When I played it I was fucking amazed at all the people who praised it. They were all so fucking wrong.

Only thing this game done right is fact it is on PC, but than only proves people can't emulate.

>>13648748

>Is it pozzed?

Yes, to hell and back. Dark background underneath the bright and cheery hood.

>Race mixing

>Cuckoldry (one wife cheats on you with the jock and only marries you for free ticket out of the trailer; general store owners daughter is actually his wife and the wizards daughter)

>SJW drama (a mod that turns white to black, cool; a mod that turns black to white, shitstorm, harassment and doxxing of mod author)

>Gay marriage (normally the eligible characters are not, but your characters somehow *opens* their door)

>Mayor nightcrawls with your local rancher

>Le Japan evil warring empire

>Everyone looks bright and nice, but ruthlessly shit on the local homeless

>>13649268

>There's a racemixing family and it's basically the only family that isn't broken in some way

Seb (the "white male") is keptlocked up in the basement and the family rarely mentions him and some townfolks do not even know he exists.

>Is it good?

Mediocre, a fun time sink with mod to de-pozz all the shit.Farm designing can be pretty fun and lots of options on what to do besides agriculture (you can have a hugefuck vineyard or orchard for example). But against RF and HM? Nah, it is pretty shit.

>>13649887

There's a dumb relationship system; I had bought that specific npc a beer on his birthday and he magically transformed into an alcoholic from the relationship boost.

The relationship system changes what every villager says and how they interact with eachother in the version I pirated. There's cutscenes that get triggered when relationship levels are high enough, and that specific NPC just so happened to emulate a few interactions I had with an alcoholic friend of my own in his cutscenes.

Why waste your time depoozing this shit when you could support better indie devs instead? There are other indie pixel games that aren't trying to sell you anything, but are just fun. Don't waste your time on average/sjw-y things, there are people out there making good stuff that isn't propaganda.

>>13650047

Jesus fucking christ that is horrible.

>>13649743

Have you played anything but the launch version?

He increased movement speed (especially diagonally), lengthened days, and animals are an actual way to make money now.

It's good, I've played it twice and enjoyed both times. It's fun breaking the game, the endless dungeon isn't too much fun and it's too easy to get the best ending and after that there's no real reason to keep going.

I've only played one other game like this before, Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town on GBA, so I understand if there are better games of this kind out there, but I definitely loved this one.

>>13649830

>there`s even one that changes the animals to be monstergirls

That's a woman in bondage.

The tail is a butt plug.

>>13650271

>>13650260

>>13650012

I'm guessing there's fucking huge version differences. If you're going to play it, pirate the latest build. It should be available in a GOG version from the share thread archives.

>>13650288

It replaces your pet NPC's sprite. It's fucking weird hearing a cat going "MEOW" when it's obviously a woman.

The only reason to play this is if you have to play a shittier Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons game on PC and you don't want to emulate.

To be fair i'm getting fucking sick of all the SoS games coming out on the 3ds only though.

>>13650329

From the looks of it, the artist was trying to avoid making them have sameface.

He failed miserably.

I bet most of the retards crying about this game here didn't even play it. Here is an honest review from someone who isn't coming from a Tumblr or /pol/ safe space:

It's chill and fun in a casual way. Good time waster. Not the best of the HM clones (RF4 is obviously the best) but it's decent, has mods, and will run on a potato. As for it being pozzed: it's very minor. If don't unironically fly swastikas you'll barely notice it. If you do, the tiniest fucking things already set off your autism so just go ahead and skip this game.

Dev says multiplayer is coming early 2018, but as usual never buy a game based on features it *will* have, otherwise you're just an early access faggot.

>>13649902

My friend gave me this game and said it was really good. What a faggot.

>>13650329

>>13650368

Middle, left, I'd take anything over what we have right now.

Its pretty good. Honestly asking 'is it pozzed' which is literal goonspeak is only going to bring out goons saying it is so you are shit out of luck from OP on that point.

But even though its a fun harvest moon clone it does have problems with its structure. You can just do something like grow hops all summer and keep making insane amounts of money from brewing in winter which has been designed as the 'cool off period' where you make no money but go level in the mines instead which is better spent on rainy days instead.

The early goal is the ghost of your grandfather visiting in 3 years but by the summer of your second year you will probably have teched up to all the best stuff and gotten married and have your perfect, autistically laid out farm and have nothing to do in game but wait for a cutscene another 6 seasons and 240 ingame days away.

I can compare it to vanilla minecraft. When you dont know what you are doing for the first time and monsters come at night and spawn in your shitty hovel and everythings chaos its fun. But when you know what to do and can make a perfectly lit and impenetrable compound and mine down to diamond in a good 30 minutes and realise you have nothing let to do you feel no incentive to play. Its the same thing here.

Granted theres multiplayer eventually which will probably be fun but they really need some updates with new challenges so you can actually fall upon hard times and the like.

Right now its fun and worth getting at a budget price but you will be out of things to do before every reaching the intended end state. So its weird. You will probably get completely absorbed for a week of 'just one more days farming, oh fuck its 2am and i lost 3 more hours' but then just lose that drive and stop altogether before 'beating' it.

Its okay, if these kinds of tiny economy games are your thing its a fun game. Dont expect a ton of depth but still i thought it was worth its price in the end

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>>13651698

He's a basement dweller, he isn't locked up down there.

98% of the time you go down there he's jacking off on the computer.

>>13649135

Multiplayer was the one thing I wanted to be added, then I would have bought it. But the dev decided a Switch version was more important. So I'm sitting here with $15 still in my wallet, happy I didn't jump the gun and buy it.

>>13651759

Well that's less horrifying. Still, what on earth convinced these buffoons to insert this sort of shit into a genre that revolves around cozy farman life?

>>13651827

>these

It's one fucking guy, my dude.

>>13650444

Thanks, but how are the soundtrack and waifus? I'll probably pirate it, can you recommend any mods that improve the game or is the vanilla just fine?

It says a lot about how badly the Harvest Moon franchise has been mishandled that a poor imitation could blow up.

>>13650047

Uncanny, it's like America from 90's to present day horror. It's like you can see the hormones losing balance.

>>13649902

Dear lord you weren't kidding, I looked up the shit you are talking about and the discussions on it are even worse. Especially that Penny chick.

>genuine cuckolds getting excited about the thought of her cheating on you

>other faggots defending her actions as ""normal"" for a small farm town community

These people have never lived on a farm, these people are forcing their degeneracy on farm life. I haven't played RF4 yet but I'm booting that up and playing it over this nonsense.

should I delete the thread or leave it here so other people can vent and shit on this hipster garbage?

>>13651902

Being political would have caused a fuckhuge bigger shitpocalypse to arrive and ruin the game for a load of people.

t. Yooka Laylee devs

>>13650329

isn't that the guy from terraformers?

>>13651976

This. Ignoring it is the safest option; deleting it gets you into the same clusterfuck that Paradox was in with the Stellaris white people mods. And that one didn't even end with the mod staying down from Steam, the guy reuploaded it and they never touched it.

>>13650444

Cuckold

>>13651814

Same way as every single game that has included faggot marriage since the first, yeah. The faggot characters in Mass Effect are only faggots because the ✡PC✡ shows interest.

>>13652131

This. It should be expected in waifu/husbando games.

>>13652131

Schrodinger's faggotry?

>>13651989

>isn't that the guy from terraformers?

It's Homo Erectus.

>>13650260

The money thing doesn't matter because once you're in roughly the second season you make such a stupidly high amount money loses all value.

The issue is the game runs out of stuff to do so rapidly. There's absolutely no real reason to play past the first year unless you really want to do specifically time locked events, but you fall into a rut so absurdly quickly because of how easy the game is. The pacing is awkward mainly because of the lingering threat from GIANT CORPORATION THAT IS SOULLESS. It's just awkward.

Don't get me wrong it's a 6/10 game simply because it doesn't have any horrible gamebreaking bugs that I remember, and it works… most of the time, but that doesn't mean it doesn't suffer from a ton of the pitfalls harvest moon clones fall into.

>>13655969

>>>/fur/

>>13655988

wat

>>13656060

Is this possible in vanilla?

>>13656121

What do you think?

>>13656319

probably not but it can't hurt to dream

>>13656060

is that a mod or just a an evil gif made to tease?

its a good game.

It's ok, just more of the same though. Doesn't do anything particularly interesting

>all these people claiming it's somehow shittier than Harvest Moon

I'm speechless, have you faggots even played the series you're talking up? I've played roughly 8 or 9 Harvest Moon games and here's my evaluation:

While the characters in Stardew Valley are somewhat bland and/or lame, this game actually understands the Harvest Moon series better than anyone at Marvelous has for over a decade. I would put it right up there with the best games in the Harvest Moon series. The only thing I can't say about this game so far is whether it has a proper End, or if it's another non-game pile of wasted potential like Friends of Mineral Town was. Would really hate if it's the latter.

>>13658921

It doesn't have a definite end, and after patch 1.05 the evaluation after two years (the final end goal, in a way) is both repeatable and much more lenient than it used to be.

I really don't know what problem people have with endless grind in Harvest Moon games. Back when we weren't allowed to do it that was what everybody wanted, but now it's suddenly mandatory that you lose all your progress after a while for a Harvest Moon game to be good.

>>13661638

It's important for the grind to end in order for it to be an actual game: a test of skill. Evaluation time is essentially where you find out your high score. Part of the fun of replaying the best Harvest Moon games is that skill essentially boils down to strategizing how to plan your weeks and days in order to end with the most accomplished. That's disappointing to hear the evaluation is easy to ace. Harvest Moon 64 is great because you really have to put a lot of thought and effort in to get that party picture at the end.

>>13650260

Even i know that faster diagonal movement is an amateur game dev fault, "animals make money so they are useful" but FOR WHAT PURPOSE FAGGOT, this anon at least argumented about my points

>>13656884

>You're supposed to be spending it farming

>Content locked behind going to the mine

>That content being, upgrades for your tools

All in all, i meant that the dev put features there "because rune factory/HM have them!11!!", but without adding a purpose.

Monsters on RF/HM can be trained to help to farm=>You have more room for farm management=>Now you have more time available=>That means you can go deep into other game mechanics.

Like shelling out a decent combat system, so it's more than ARCING-SLASH.

And don't get me started on enemies AI, fuck that shit is basic as fuck and doesn't feel rewarding: Thougher enemies mean MORE DAMAGE TO YOU LOL, FUCK BETTER PATTERNS.

Or maybe more complex dungeons, instead of getting a 100lvl copy-pasted shit, thought to be completed on segments of 10 lvl(per checkpoint i think) per day. That shows the dev wanted you to rush it, not to enjoy it. And it also shows that the margin of time given by the dev is shit.

Also >You two seem to just be shit at managing your time resource

No faggot, i'm saying that making a game so you have to rush it's the opposite of comfy, i never felt so pressured on the RF games as i felt on SV

also best sister right there

>>13662383

>Monsters on RF/HM can be trained to help to farm=>You have more room for farm management=>Now you have more time available=>That means you can go deep into other game mechanics.

>Like shelling out a decent combat system, so it's more than ARCING-SLASH.

You mean only shelling out a combat system. Rune Factory is a mediocre ARPG first and foremost, with farming elements tacked on because Harvest Moon had them. Stardew Valley is about running a farm before everything else. It goes completely against the spirit of a Harvest Moon game to just let the game play the farming part itself (although you can do it in FotMT if that's your cup of tea) while you whack monsters who shoot you from offscreen with your stick and get meaningless level ups for doing the most trivial tasks like walking, picking up items and sleeping before 1 AM every minute. Farm animals in Stardew Valley exist to produce animal products, not to play Harvest Moon by themselves while you are playing something else in a game that bore the Harvest Moon subtitle for three mainline games.

But I don't know, maybe there is more purpose to farming when crops exist to randomly give you permanent bonuses to HP and attack upon harvest, and farm animals give you one crafting ingredient that they'd drop on a kill anyway every day. Since god knows the developers of Harvest Moon had no idea what they were doing when they just threw in random shit like digging dirt and tending to a cow with no purpose other than to sell cucumbers and milk for money when they could have focused on combat, dungeons and AI instead.

Not to defend combat in Stardew Valley, but it really isn't any worse than in any Harvest Moon game.

>>13662668

Then what's the point of putting combat on the first place? It's obvious that combat was at the design's core when they created the game, and with farming, you need to balance those two.

At least on RF going to the mines/dungeons helped with crafting shit (not talking only about ores) and felt useful.

I'm not saying RF is christ's second coming nigger, i know it's flawed, but SV is a watered down copy with an identity crisis about its gameplay focus, more preoccupied about adding things because "RF/HM has them" without going deep on them.

I enjoyed SV, but after the first year i couldn't bother myself to continue, shit was repetitive as fuck and didn't feel there was any reward to continue it.

>>13656794

The game is insanely easy to mod so I wouldn't be surprised