/v/ - Video Games

>>15426992

Story of Seasons is Harvest Moon. The company that localizes Bokujō Monogatari, Natsume, are fucking jews that continually did a shitty job of porting the game and so the Japanese developers told them to fuck off. Natsume owns the rights to the english Harvest Moon brand, though, so when the devs switched to in-house publishing, they had to change the name of the game to Story of Seasons.

Now fans refer to newer Harvest Moon titles as Natsume Moon to differentiate the Bokujō Monogatari series from the shitty cash-grab that Natsume made.

I tried Graveyard Keeper but holy shit does it suck.

And it's all because of a simple mechanic: tool degradation.

It's not like your tools are the best around to begin with, yet somehow they made them degrade, as if the flimsy energy bar wasn't enough to keep you from being able to do fuck all.

I hate this kind of delay bullshit to make you feel as if the game is longer that it has any right to be.

There's Little Dragon Cafe, which is made by the guy that created Harvest Moon, which is supposed to be decent but not great. I haven't tried it yet.

But fucking hell would I kill for a comfy River King game with a focus on exploring places to find new watering holes and new fish, in between engaging in fishing competitions and making sure you earn enough to keep your family fed and sheltered.

Fishing is the best mini-game in any RPG.

>>15426992

The team behind Rune Factory is out of business now. I believe the trademark is in limbo too. I don't think we'll ever get another one.

>>15427131

Rune Factory 4 is fantastic, by the way. It felt like the Harvest Moon that Harvest Moon always wanted to be.

>>15427111

>The team behind Rune Factory is out of business now.

>it was revealed that the Rune Factory development team had been hired by Marvelous AQL

different name same team. Will you actually buy the next one?

>>15427145

Xseed is localizing for them now I enjoyed Story of Seasons.

I'll buy a new Rune Factory if its good instead of falling to some gimmicks.

>>15427145

Hot shit that is awesome news.

Yes I will be buying the next Rune game, whatever they call it, provided it is in all but name a Rune game.

The only reason I never bought RF4 is because it was eShop only here in Australia and never went on sale, and I wasn't paying $50 for the fucking thing.

>>15427167

It's old news, they already shipped some games under marvelous.

>>15427176

Can't believe I never heard about it. What's their new team name, and what games did they ship?

>>15427131

I emulated Rune Factory: Frontier. It's pretty good, but I haven't gotten very far into it. I've been playing other games since then, and haven't had the chance to jump back in.

>>15426750

>Meanwhile the Harvest Moon devs lost the name

As if that was even the central problem. The Harvest Moon series has been circling the drain for years, the "Harvest Moon devs" were hacks.

>>15426750

have you played the boku no natsuyasumi games OP? you might like them.

>>15427455

I'm currently at Meruru

just get mods for stardew valley

also Slime Rancher

>>15427131

>Have you played a Rune Factory game?

1 is good, but very grindy.

2 is considered to be worst one of all of these from numerous reasons.

You needed to grind relationship with villagers to unlock proper part of game and if you took too long some choices were locked by them marrying someone else. Grindy as previous one.

3 changed franchise most, it's also easiest one. Don't start with that one, previous ones will become complete pain to play.

4 has most content, but also had some weird decisions for gameplay.

>>15427186

I hope you used cheat for Runes in that game. Game becomes kind of impossible if you forgot to manage these at any moment.

>>15426750

Isn't the good thing about those games that they can be replayed countless times? Start a new file, my dude.

>>15432075

>Shit is valued by weight

>Big poops are worth more

>Had an Ent that shat out a 100 lb log

>Got like 2000g for it

>>15428177

That game barely has gameplay, and it certainly doesn't have any RPG mechanics by any sane definition of it. It's pretty much a slow walking simulator with a very basic rock paper scissors card game minigame.

>>15427455 (checked)

How is Elona Plus is a "soft" RPG? Am I missing a path where you can be a farmer or something?

>>15434163

There's still a main quest, and you can follow it for access to new areas, but you can dick around and farm and shit. Kinda pointless though.

>>15434190

I see. Haven't thought of farming. I just took the murderhobo route

>>15434163

Elona has a main questline, but goofing around doing whatever you feel like doing is where the meat of the game really is.

Hell, some starting classes/races are made with farming/working as it's intended focus.

>>15434163

On one of my earlier playthroughs when I still had no idea how things work I spent most of my time entertaining guests at parties by preaching about my god and sending the listeners into a bloodied frenzy, killing off most of the guests and still managing to succeed in the quest. Bought a nice and big house at the end.

>>15426750

you're not alone, i tried playing the new handheld hm games and they were just not very good.

stardew is still my current favorite but i'd rather have something with the detail and fun of the original and 64. it never felt tedious or rushed in those games.

>>15427100

You hit the nail on the head, everytime i kinda have fun on graveyard keeper i remember tool degradation and i'm back on no fun again.

Too bad, game had potential

>>15434438

>two humans, a nigger, and a spicmutt

thanks shlomo

>>15434438

that shit is STILL early access?

I just want a game where i can get a girl,marry her, impregnate her,and live a life with our children doing shit

is that so much to ask for

>>15434714

Crusader Kings

>>15434726

He asked for a game, not a findom fetish spreadsheet.

>>15434726

I mean like an actual game though,not some strategy bullshit

Would King of Dragon Pass technically count?

>>15428177

Not a very good game, but holy shit do I wish more games shared its setting. Rural Japan is criminally underused in vidya. And don't give me shit about there being VNs, those aren't vidya

>>15434438

Stonehearth's pretty neat. It's mechanics are simple enough for a comfy experience but there's some nifty shit there I wish other games had as well.

Like when you start building a house and you plan furniture there, it's automatically added to the workshops that can make it for instance.

I also like how it handles the terrain allowing you to dig tunnels and see cutouts of the land. Makes me want to try making an underground city and live like a proper dwarf.

Last update I checked they were working on fluid mechanics, so there's probably some great stuff coming.

Also, if you like or at least don't mind the artstyle of Stonehearth, there's Staxel:

https://playstaxel.com/

I haven't tried it yet but from the premise, it seems like Harvest Moon: Minecraft edition. There's your farm and the villagers but you can and have to build most things around.

>>15434469

Apparently, it's finished now. Dunno if they'll keep making content for it, though.

https://www.stonehearth.net/stonehearth-is-1-0/

>>15427137

>Rune Factory 4 is fantastic, by the way.

I feel like time passes way to fast in that game, it feels outright stressful.

What was that PS1/PS2 game about summer and fishing or some shit?

It's only in japanese with no official translations

It's a relatively untapped market because of humble sales.

Rune Factory 4 is the best selling game of the series and it's sold over half a million units. 3+ years ago they were celebrating 200,000 units sold in America with a price drop.

But I doubt it's ever reached the million mark, and that's the best selling one. The other titles are far more humble in sales.

Stardew Valley is a surprising success story with 3.5+ million copies sold. I would have hoped that this would inspire others to contribute to the subgenre, but given we haven't seen any news yet it's a good chance they won't.

I think it's a problem for larger publishers and studios looking into the subgenre because it simply wouldn't work on commonly utilised engines and doesn't offer much room for monetisation.

For the likes of EA, this wouldn't work with the Frostbite engine and unlike other games with a reliance on short term gratification over a long term period (which is ideal for monetisation) this relies on long term investment for gratification (which is difficult to implement monetisation that doesn't ruin the game). Others would share the same issue trying to get into the subgenre.

Another example like Animal Crossing is both successful and niche in its own ways, and Pocket Camp is the perfect example of how modernising the formula ruins it.

>>15427455

>elona

>soft

"boy and his robot" rpgs are now only released every once in a while. Last one I can think of is LBX/DanBall Senki and that was in 2015.

>>15444208

There's Graveyard Keeper. It's essentially a smaller, looser Stardew Valley with more emphasis in the story and mechanics than the villagers. Even the fishing minigame is almost copied from Stardew Valley.

It's still in development and there's some issues there, but the art style is a lot better than Stardew and there's some neat gameplay there as well.

>doesn't offer much room for monetisation

That's not true. You know how you can take a bus to visit the Calico Desert in Stardew Valley? It's a whole new area with different materials, NPCs and more stuff to get.

Well, DLC and expansions for newer areas could work, giving the player a new place to visit and find out new things.

Or simply expanding the recipes and crops with more flowers\vegetables, new animal types both wild and in the farm. Some later games give you outfits, something you could sell as cosmetics too.

Shit, they could sell waifus! NPCs that move into town and you can marry! Animal Crossing has NPCs rotate around, imagine if something like that happened in Harvest Moon and you could buy DLC to add more waifus into the pool of possible NPCs?

>>15444295

Mixels are always down to incompetence.

>>15434714

Sounds like you just want real life.

>>15434438

Stonehearth development stopped, don't buy this ame if you don't want your computer fried, even Yandere Simulator runs much more smooth.

>>15444581

Last update was on August 7, and they have hit 1.0 already, with some features still planned to be added, what are you going on about?

https://www.stonehearth.net/release-notes-893/

What kind of shitcomputer do you have anyway? It's performance is quite good as is, and considering it's a voxel-based game why would you even make a comparison with Yandere Simulator?

>>15443927

>Rural Japan is criminally underused in vidya.

Never got why really. Maybe it has to do with the fact that there's not much room for coming up with a plot.

>>15445861

Looks comfy. Too bad i don't know nipponistanese.

>>15426750

Why would you play those kind of games when dwarf fortress and rimworld renders them utterly irrelevant.

These are games where you press a and listen to badly translated pointless dialog. How do you want that.

>>15445872

>why do you want comfy good times when you can have autistic neckbeard trash.

Please return to your /mu/ dragonforce threads Pete.

>>15445878

You like walking up to square sprites and pressing a. You read the dialog. Damn.

>>15445872

how are df and rimworld even on the same page as harvest moon and stardew?

>>15426750

Any game that has its primary descriptor as 'slice of life' sets off instant alarm bells. I can spend 10 hours doing repetitive, boring tasks once before I never want to play them again. Unless it has some measure of depth, which 99% don't, or leans heavy on good RPG mechanics, which 99% don't, it's trash.

>>15447669

Df has adventure mode

also what's the lewdification version or mod for Elona+? i remember there was a /hgg/ thread about it like a year ago but they turned off public archive, so i'm shit outta luck

>>15427111

They actually nailed that kind of gameplay in Golf Story, oddly enough. The meter mechanics, the characters, and the world design would easily pass for a Harvest clone if you subbed clubs with fishing rods. I hope they either make a sequel to that, or branch out to other underrepresented sports.

>>15447770

Rune Factory 4 hit a really good spot for me with its action/comfy balance. That and introducing me to my butterfly wife made me love the game. I will always love her, and our Daughteru.

How would a total conversion of StarDew into harvest moons remakes work?

do any of these games (stardew valley, animal crossing, harvest moon) have clear objectives that trigger some sort of progress in the world when completed? I'm kind of autistic about not having an objective/mission

>>15455028

Vaguely? Depends on the game

>Stardew Valley at the end of the 3rd year (start of the 4th?) the ghost of your dead grandpa comes back and judges the fuck out of you depending on how well you did stuff, but the game doesn't really end after that.

>Animal Crossing

Has no definitive end. I suppose you could count getting your house fully upgraded and paid off, but that's about it.

>Harvest Moon

Depends on the installment in the series. It usually doesn't end, but there can be a kind of overarching goal.

All-in-all, Rune Factory is probably the exception to this trend; there's a pretty well defined plotline, if I remember correctly.

>>15455125

>>15455127

thanks