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Nothing has made me more happy in a long time. I had almost gave up hope. Now can we marry Ventuswill's human form?

>>16119208

That actually brings up an interesting point. Is there any extra content at all in the remaster?

>>16119212

They showed off near the end that their will be special newlywed cutscenes for all the bachelorettes and bachelors. They have animated portraits too which will most likely be in RF5. I'm sure there's gonna be more.

>>16119190

My greatest desire is finally being able to have the ara this time

Whether it happens or not, I'll be fucking happy if the original team is working on it

>>16119192

go be gay somewhere else

>>16119182

>Speaking of, what girl types would you want the most?

A tomboy. Closest we got was Lynette in 1 and Carmen in 3 but I want a straight up short hair martial arts chick. She will get flustered on dates and be the fucking cutest.

On pure conjecture, I think this one might revolve around a ghost/free roaming soul protagonist, able to take over NPC bodies,, kind of in the vein of 3's monster transformation.

I wanna romance the dragon.

I've been meaning to get into this series for a while, should I just plow through all the games or are there games that can be skipped?

>>16119903

Just play 3, 4, and maybe Frontier. The games are in the same world but the games are disconnected from eachother.

>>16119192

>Harems

A man of culture and superior breeding. How fucking hard could it possibly be to let the player marry all the waifus at once?

>>16119977

without

>>16119980

Thats probably what we'll get finally with 5. 4 is still technically a port of a DS game.

>>16119990

If it was basically just an updated frontier I would be perfectly fine with that.

>>16119182

>What would you like to see from it

Male MC that isn't a shota faggot.

>>16120068

You'd be better served hoping for a game that physically pours you hot coffee.

>>16120068

>not liking shota protagonists

It's like you enjoy NTR or something. It's far better than a nonwhite """"tanned"""" protagonist. It's also far more fitting since the girls look more like lollies than anything.

I want tits and ass. RF girls are flat as an ironing board.

>>16120111

>>16120121

Variety is the spice of life. I'm a greedy man. I want it all.

>>16120138

The Third Position, always the superior choice.

Pettanko tomboy is nice. So is ara nee-san and leggi loli nee-chan. Also reverse trap with surprise titties and inverted nips are great too. And dragon waifu tails.

>>16120213

>>16120138

>enlightened centrists

>>16120221

>I don't know what Third Position is

Back to reddit with you.

>>16119182

Holy shit that's great. I thought this day wouldn't come.

>>16120220

>Pettanko tomboy is nice

Indeed. She must be a ボクっ娘 though. Hearing a "tomboy" character use アタシ is shit.

>>16120299

What about 俺?

>>16120416

>I don't care if it's used goods

Cuck.

>or if they already have kids

Go back to reddit already you fucking embarrassment.

>>16120425

>do I fit in yet?

>>16120425

>>16120497

He makes good points. If they're not virgin's it's a shit game!

>>16120425

You're completely right, I only fuck /pol/ approved virgin MILFs.

>>16120511

I don't think /pol/ would aprove of you fucking Jesus's mother.

>>16120497

>why are you making fun of my shit fetish?

>what is wrong with single mothers?

>what is wrong with raising someone else's bastard spawn

Cucks gonna cuck.

>>16120416

come to think of it, did the aras in previous games even have husbands? i remember them being flirty

>>16120416

Never ever

>>16119182

I know this is most likely gonna sound like heresy… But I want a lot of the farming and crafting to be automated for late game instead of done by you.

As in, you make decisions on how things are done and then they just are by someone else. We already have something similar with animals tending the farm, but I want it to go even further.

I want a menu that shows you your current field and it's state for any given day of the month, where you can "plan" seeds to be planted in a specific tile for that specific day. Then it gives you a projection for the days it's still growing and if you move it to the day of harvest, you can select what to do with it (sell or store it), as well as "plan" new seeds to be planted there.

Eventually, you'd setup your field at the the start of the seasons (or it'd just use last year's plans) and you'd have a constant supply of cash and materials that you planned for, freeing you to do something else.

It could be limited to big large fields where you'll only get normal regular crops and for the special ones, you'd have to do them manually, it could also be costly so it's something for lategame mostly, but the point is that when you go far enough, there's little reason to keep managing so many fields on your own.

Also, automated crafting, where you get someone or something to work on a station and automatically craft things from a list you setup with the materials you supply. You could come back from mining\hunting and drop a bunch of trash in a chest only to find it full of weapons, armor and medicine ready to sell or use without you having to do it yourself.

Again, this would be for simple recipes and they wouldn't get the best quality either, but it'd be nice.

I'd also like to see your relationship with everyone raising primarily from something other than gifts. I know it's something that reinforces the basic gameplay loop, but at the same time it can get repetitive and shallow so I'd like to see some more options, like hanging out and playing games to make friends.

>>16119974

Also this. It's really dreadful when you start thinking a bit more seriously about the stories of each character. Most of them have some kind of personal problem or issue that prevents them from being happy, something that you help them with while wooing the character. This is great narrative but for every girl you end up helping, all the others will stay as they were…

At the very least, I'd like to see more "friendship routes", where we can help the characters with their issues without ending up in a romantic relationship. Maybe even be wing man for all the other dudes that want to bone the girls you're not gonna marry anyway. Might as well be a bro for them instead of a cockblock.

more "reverse proposals" like xiao pai so i dont have to choose…

also stronger late game enemies

>>16120577

If they weren't faggots they'd implement the harem route and remove the need to choose.

>>16120592

As long as they make it special and hard to obtain I think it would be a good compromise. They shouldn't make it easy otherwise everyone will just end up doing it.

>>16120599

I'd love something like a "build your own robots" gameplay mechanic where you have to go around exploring for or buying robot parts to build machines that you can then use to automate various jobs on the farm.

>>16120601

>As long as they make it special and hard to obtain I think it would be a good compromise.

You won't get complaint from me on that. Maybe make it so you can only get it if you unlocked the single routes for all the heroines beforehand, or make it very expensive since you now need to build a house for 5+ people, along with future children, and need to really have a shitload of income to maintain such a decadent lifestyle.

>>16120602

It started on DS and it's been on Wii and some kind of PlayStation if I'm not mistaken, learn before you shitpost

It's not the fact that it's going off the handheld it's the fact that there's coming a new one when it looked grim it would ever come

Things I want from this game;

>A non-shitty art style

>The ability to customize your character so I don't feel like playing a trap

>Being able to marry older women and monster girls

>armor actually shows up on your character

>the ability to train your monster so you can take it well into the endgame, even if it's one from the beginning

>Don't fuck with the farming mechanics

That's it.

I hope both games emulate well. Not even RF will make me buy a switch.

Farming plots that arent just "new empy rectangular N*N grid".

>>16119974

God I hate haremfags

>all these retards wanting expired hags

The entire fucking point is of the marriage aspect is to find a girl around your age, or a bit younger as has been the case throughout almost all of human history, and starting a family. The point is not to be shit-tier fetish fuel for faggots that are brainwashed by feminism into thinking that hags that are about to or already have expired are attractive. You're supposed to start a family with a fertile young woman, you stupid fucks.

>>16120973

I'm not an arafag, but judging from some of the posts that I've been seeing in recent years, I think what they really want is a mother.

Better combat and exploration.

More customization options for the main character. I'm not saying character creation but more outfits or better accessories would be nice. Best would be if you could actually see the armor you're wearing.

More focus on companions in general. Maybe a way to auto assemble your team when you leave town.

Better upgradable house. Frontier was a good example of doing it right but i want more options. A larger field as well.

No faggoty.

Tons of easter egg events like Frontier had. Really that game got a lot right besides the runie bullshit.

>>16120981

I wouldn't be surprised if most fetishes are some sort of parental-related disorder

>>16119182

Some more combat dynamics and a bit more stuff to do with the waifushit would be nice. Maybe they could take a hint out of isometric hack and slashes instead of having the usual slow stickthrows, but that might be too complex when you already have all the other shit going on.

I'm not quite sure how they could flesh out waifushit more, I just know there should be more functions involved with it. I have no idea what.

>>16120973

>The entire point of dating a virtual girl is upholding my real world ideals

I know you've got your "muh horsehoe" argument ready, but it doesn't make you any less of a bubble-thin skinned faggot.

>>16121041

That one is a classic. If you'd grow up with younger sister you'd probably never consider fapping to imoutos

I don't want used goods. I want fertile big breasted virgins ready for reproducing.

>>16120973

But anon, options. And since we're on the internet arguing for logical extremes, I should also say that wanting less types of women is gay. Even if they're the shitty kind. But you know what? With fiction, no characters are really all that shitty unless they're written by shitty people.

>>16121070

Give me all of your autistic personal info, then :^)

>>16121070

incest is not a fetish

>>16120927

So buying more land or, like, elevation and planters?

>>16120973

The entire fucking point of a videogame is to live an unrealistic fantasy, not uphold IRL morals. Everyone here has no problem following this logic when it comes to violence but when it's sex or relationships suddendly your character is supposed to be you and vice versa. What a fag you are.

>>16121159

Maybe have irrigation? Dig ditches around to route water and automatically water crops near them to a certain distance so all you need to do everyday is turn a switch around.

Maybe have different types of plots for different plants, like aquatic ones that need extra water too.

Maybe have to setup trellos and the like for plants like grapes or tomatoes.

>>16121159

I just want something more interesting than "screen with farming rectange in it", it feels too sterile and un-organic. Make it weirdly shaped, split it into different sections, allow planting in the plant pots outside the house, even better if different spots have different soil properties.

>>16119977

Just cheat, anon.

>>16119182

I want an actual house again instead of living in some ugly hallway.

>>16121059

Yeah, just like people who are into mothers were brought by the stork.

>>16121182

Oh and give the plant spots more uses, so you can do other things with them than planting things onto them.

>>16121204

>>16121208

>>16121214

Anon, why

>>16121070

But did you fuck your sisters?

>>16119182

More good waifus, especially the boss characters you defeat who became marriage candidates after joining the town. Maybe marry the female dragon this time, if there is a female dragon. If not, maybe we can marry Ventuswill in Rune Factory 4 Special. Would be worth buying again.

>>16121632

There shouldn't be anymore dragons this time. IIRC they've all been more or less dealt with. Unless it's a cluster fuck of a game that'll have you running between all 4 towns while living in a 5th, centrally located town or on that flying whale from Frontier. The island from ToD being DLC

>>16120935

Lol what a gay.

>>16121655

No dragon girl waifu?

>>16121632

>More good waifus,

Not every cute girl is a waifu

>>16120121

>All those moms in 3 that were off-limits

FTFY

>4 was one with that blueballing dragon.

I am confused, didn't the company that made these games go under? Did they come back or is someone elese making this one?

>>16122389

Well that gives me hope this will turn out well.

>>16119974

This. One big problem I have with Harvest Moon is that you see your could-be wives being dragged away by lesser men.

>>16123279

>3DPD nigger terminology

<patrician

Pick one, shitter.

>>16120324

もオk

I'd like combat that was a bit more in depth. I know the game is supposed to be cozy, but the combat in 4 was not very fluid. It was nice having multiple rune abilities, but they really didn't flow together well from what I remember.

>>16123354

Everything is "nigger terminology" these days according to you fags.

>>16121070

Good goy

>>16124742

What could it besides bonus stuff?

Also, Special is an odd subtitle, but it's nothing nips aren't accustomed to.

>>16123292

Fucking this

Tomboy was a nice substitute, though not as good

>>16124742

Maybe extra stories for the other NPCs.

wonder how relegend devs are taking the news

>switch only

fingers crossed for working emulators in the future because I'm not buying their shitty console for one good game

>>16124911

Well they better bring their A game because that looks kinda slow. Having animations is nice but RDR 2 has proved to me that gameplay > nice animations every single time. If I have to fucking do the blacksmithing animation every single time it's going to be a fucking chore.

But anyway having more rune factory like games is not a bad thing, but I've yet to see one that's in development that looks to be a real competitor.

>>16120900

>>16124927

Either a samefag or a NPC.

>>16124938

I just found out about the news so I checked here to see if there's a thread up. There's not a chance in fucking hell that I'm buying a switch to play the game you triple nigger

>>16124911

It's being made by a western indie dev? I can do without a RF clone filled with niggers and homos.

>>16124945

Where can I subrscribe to your blog?

>>16124938

>buying nintenshit

lol

>>16124927

Yuzu's coming along pretty well. Pretty much the same schedule and function as citra. Depending on your hardware and the build of the engine, you can maybe play some switch NSPs to a degree that isn't a complete fucking eyesore.

>>16126088

>Behaving like an attention whore is alright and pointing it out is shilling nintendo

This isn't reddit. Get bullied, niglet.

>>16126101

>anon uses 'I' in a post

>it is now a blogpost

lo, anonymous' fellow third-person interpretive poster, what folly have you stepped into? The being which describes itself as "I" would think you're a buffoon.

Faggot.

>>16124911

It looks like it's going to do a Stardew Valley, it will be inferior for the most part but succeed wildly compared to Bokujou Monogatari. I think at this point Stardew is the highest selling of these kinds of games, my a significant margin too.

>118 replies

>almost no gameplay discussion

Is this a game or a dating VN? The gameplay is grindy gook shit, isn't it?

>>/v/16126343

Thou hast earned thyself a filter. Rejoice; I shall allow it.

>>16126343

Just go and be retarded somewhere else.

>>16126343

This is weeb farming simulator with action RPG on side.

>>16126343

Anon, you just don't understand.

Nobody talks about the gameplay because there's no need. It's one of those rare cases where you have a very simple concept to understand that works and connects with the rest of the game really well with a lot content to keep you busy without actually having to be autistically deep unless you want it to.

The core gameplay of these games is mostly the same in every game: Get seeds, plant them, sell the produce and reinvest in seeds, using any leftover cash to improve your life somehow. Meanwhile, give gifts and talk with people to explore their personal story and eventually woo a girl/boy you like to marry her/him.

Rune Factory changes the formula a bit by introducing a neat hack&slash that doesn't actually feel tacked on (like in Stardew Valley) but it's entire process isn't that different from foraging in Harvest Moon, you just use HP as well as your fatigue too.

The core gameplay loop is short enough that you can grasp it instantaneously, but it connects with almost everything else in the game in simple but effective ways too. Some of the plants you can grow are good gifts or make good ingredients to craft something with. Most of the money you make comes from your farm and you're going to need a lot of cash for upgrades so farming funds your expansion. Farming will also often make you stronger directly or indirectly depending on the game.

So basically, doing the most basic activity in the game feeds into pretty much anything else depending on what you're doing.

And then the autism kicks in depending on how far you want to take it.

It starts simple with some cost-benefit analysis of the different plants to decide what gives you more profit. Then it progresses into optimizing your calendar so you can harvest the most you can, and then you start saving plots to grow a gift that will be ready to harvest precisely on the birthday of whoever it's going for. Then it's optimal routes to forage the woods or mine for resources and then knowing the schedules of everyone so you can use whatever free time you have to gather as much stuff as possible while still talking with as many people as you can.

Before you know it, you have a routine planned down to every 30 minutes for every single day with the next 30 days already having been planned too.

Of course, you still have things like crafting in Rune Factory where you can get to ridiculous levels of detail picking the ingredients to make some godly weapons and armor. But you'll hardly have to be optimal to "win" the game anyway, you'll do it for fun and because you can.

Then the stress kicks in, this stops being fun and you suddendly realize there's really no need for all of this. You can pretty much relax on the profit making, which will make the game take longer but it will overall be more enjoyable. At that point, you'll be able to just take a whole day to go fishing or hang around with your love interest or go on an adventure and that's when the fun kicks in.

The thing is, that's all these games are. It's what the entire genre is about. Newer entries into the series are welcome simply because they bring new characters, some QoL changes and some more content for the base formula. But overall the concept is still the same, recognizable and comfy as always.

Nobody talks about the gameplay because there's no need. It genuinely just works really well and you're in for some fun comfy times every minute of playing the game and that's what matters the most.

I mean, we could be discussing what weapon to use in endgame and what items to enchant it with, but that's simply not as interesting as discussing best girl.

Saying that you prefer dual daggers over staves is far less heresy than saying you prefer that lazy bitch over Shara, for instance.

>>16127777

Too bad you play as him for such a relatively short time and there's fuck all to do during your time as him

>>16127777

What I like about Kyle is that he's supposed to be disposable. He came to that port town to die, it was his mission. And he just accepts it because he ends up falling in love with Alvarna anyway.

>>16127840

He's canonically the weakest earthmate, conversely his child is the strongest.

>>16126343

I'd like to see the game let the player become some kind of low level ruler of the village, like a baron. Then beyond just farming you could manage the town and upgrade it (Or exploit it. You could be Gilgamesh with the women.)

>>16127966

Isn't that already the plot for RF4?

>>16127152

Very good reply, thanks.

I've only played RF1. How do you think they will improve the spell casting system?

>>16130257

I hate how she was easily the best girl yet you could do nothing with her.

>>16130287

>easily the best girl

He didn't post Forte, though.

>>16130385

>best girl

>not Dolce.

>>16130385

I've been hanging around with Forte and she seems to be best girl in RF4.

Was the first to join me in my adventures and provides some solid backup, plus she is a cool knight that still likes girly stuff (and I started reading Treating a Knight like a Woman at the time)

Dolce seemed pretty cool except she's always followed by that ghost, Xiao Pai is pretty cute as well, but I can't read her at all while Amber is too ditzy (but her "Welcome" always makes me smile) and Clorica is lazy so not that attractive either.

>>16130398

>not Dolce

I think she loves Pico more than she could ever like you. Though I really enjoyed sharing a Diary with here, that was a nice experience.

>>16130412

I love how you forgot Margaret, because she is that forgettable.

>>16130412

>>16130385

Could it be that the best girl title in RF4 is about as valuable as the 5th place in another rune factory?

>>16130429

Who? I honestly don't even remember all the romance options in any of the rune factory games, all of them have one very forgettable person at least

>>16130447

The elf who makes music.

>>16130438

No

>>16130447

Elvish girl that plays on her harp in diner.

>>16130429

Pretty much every girl has some upside and a downside. Some tragic past or flaw that she's working on or at least she has something quite unique going for her. Margaret has none of these sadly, just like Daria. She's just the upbeat artist and that's it. Even Amber is a better character since she has the whole loli butterfly going for her.

>>16130438

Well, Raven, Shara, Sofia and Kuruna are far better than the entire cast of 4.

That's not to say it's all like this, Amber is basically Pia 2.0, same thing for Xiao Pai and Sakuya, Clorica and Karina, Margaret and Daria. It's just that the character in RF3 wasn't that good to begin with unless you had that particular fetish (ditzy girl, yellow fever, lazy girl, aloof artist).

Forte's closest equivalent would be Kuruna, but she's still distinct enough from her that you don't make that connection and thus ends up looking like an actually original character.

Compare that with Dolce that's a mix between Raven and Sofia but comes off as the gothic lolita stereotype, which is why she still has fans but isn't as popular as Forte or Xiao Pai and loses to Raven or Sofia too.

>>16130516

>Even Amber

You say that like Amber wasn't the best girl.

>>16130257

Would Ventuswill be an ara or a loli monster girl?

>>16130257

I do kind've wonder if they'll add it or not, I'm leaning towards no because it would kind fuck with the lore I think

>>16130633

In the special section she's drawn as a loli but it is non canon.

>>16130633

There is a quest where she turns into a loli in the game.

>>16130649

>>16130653

She dun goof if she's a pettanko and not ara. That said a marriage route with her just for the special edition as a non-canon route for the fans could happen.

>>16130633

Why not both? Magic dragon powers.

>>16130811

As long as I can boop her snoot while she is in dragon form.

Speaking of monsters, there was an idea many moons back about the possibility of wedding a monster girl you adopt on your farm. Anyone remember?

>>16130803

Do you not know the glory of lolibaba? It's like an ara but not shit.

>>16130843

>It's like an ara but not shit.

>ara is shit

How can this much shit taste be contained in single human body.

>>16130907

Old hags are garbage whether they are 2d or not. I bet you are a mothercon too.

>>16130843

What kind of subhuman doesn't like both ara and lolibaba?

I don't want homo shit in the game, that's it, they could even introduce an ugly 80 year old woman as one of the girls you can marry and i'd be okay with it, just don't give me a tranny or a faggot, the pretty boy from 2 was enough. I also hope they don't cancel the fifth game if 4 on the switch doesn't sell enough.

>>16130999

Only faggots with mommy issues like older women.

>>16131102

Switch games sell like hotcakes, and despite that it's a barely enhanced remake of a game most RF fans have already played they'll probably buy it anyway. My only question is what the setting will be. There's only two possibilities I have for the setting of RF 5, given that we've seen most of the rural areas of Norad as well as all four of the Native/Elder Dragons, the only place in Norad that would matter would be the capital. However, something more interesting would be a game set in the Sechs Empire, now that Ethelberd is fucking dead and they're becoming a republic. There's a lot of interesting things you could do with that premise, depending.

>>16130257

Why? This bitch does nothing but repeat tutorial lines and asks for pancakes 24/7. The stuffed dragon was a better idol for the town than her.

>>16131219

Where was frontier set anyway? I really didn't know there was a limited amount of rural space apart from the whole 4 dragons thing.

>>16131102

I dunno man the MC is always a twink and now there's almost definitely going to be a female MC as well so that means there'll be the usual bunch of feminine dudes in the mix so I'm not sure if you count those.

>>16131466

Let me put it this way, the game has only hinted at so much lore. Granted I'm not lore expert, so everything I'm saying might not be super accurate. Frontier is set in Trampoli which is apparently fairly close to Kardia. Also of note is that you can see several areas from Rune Factory games from various observation points in Selphia, so if you really wanted you could try figuring out the positions of them if you've got autism. The only other mentioned areas are "the East" and the island of elves, and I fucking hate elves so I wouldn't want an RF game set there. I will note that Grimoire are actually younger versions of Native Dragons, so one possible concept is the creation of a new one during the course of the story. We can also look at the various logos of the games to see if we can get some hints on what the game could be about. The original RF logo looks fairly earthy while also being ornate, could be a clue to Terrable's role. Color wise RF 2 and 3 seem switched with the important native dragons in the story, but 2 takes place in a maritime city making the blue wave-ish 2 make sense, while 3 is about making the Sharance Tree bloom which could explain the red foliage seen in the 3. 4 straight up has Ventuswill in the logo and a green 4. 5 is interesting, it seems to show a sunset over the ocean actually, which implies that this might take place near an ocean. If not, it definitely has some other significance, so you can count on that coming into play somehow.

>>16131520

Shadow dragon for 5, light dragon for 6, calling it now. There can't be a "love" element dragon since Aquaticus took that role for some fucking reason.

>>16131527

Actually, given how important love is to Rune Factory, I wouldn't be surprised if we don't get one at some point, probably involving some fucked up shit like you having a child that's somehow part-Grimoire or something because RF3 happened and we can't erase some mistakes like that.

>>16131559

Aquaticus was just trying to save the world from miscegenation.

>>16131520

So 5 will be a Tides of Destiny remake, got it.

>>16131582

I wouldn't know, I never beat RF3 because when the game revealed that the only way to progress was to get married, and I realized I didn't like any of the bachelorettes, I stopped and played RF4 instead. I think I made a good choice.

>>16131698

I would be fine with that

>>16130843

>TFW no oppai lolibaba.

Did the undub for Frontier ever get finished?

>>16132528

Of course.

>>16131735

>not liking Comrade Kuruna and helping her struggle

>not liking Shara and how sweet and nice she is

>not liking mysterious and quiet Raven

>not liking Sofia's quikiness and helping her with her daddy issues

I'll give you fish lady, lazy bum, asian jew, retard squid and wacky artist, but there's plenty of good girls to pick from.

If none were pleasing to you, then you should try RF4, where you can play as a girl and marry pretty boys instead.

>>16132757

I said I played RF4, and for the record I picked Forte. She's mostly my taste, and again none of the others really did it for me. Let me give you my appraisal of the RF3 options alphabetically because it's been so long I've forgotten my opinions.

>Doctor fuckup

>Carmen seems kind of like my taste but I never actually knew she existed at all so either I've got super autism or the game did a poor job of presenting her

>A girl whose only personality trait is she eats

>An elf, meaning she's automatically out of the running for me

>Lazy piece of shit

>Some unicorn bitch I don't know

>Don't fuck fish

>Raven seems alright, and I can see why lots of people like her, but not only is she not my taste, but I had enough problems with playing as a furry, so I'm more against marrying one

>Loli I don't care about

>The most generic girl possible and if I actually cared about playing more I might have ended up picking her

>Spoiled bitch

Again, I've got such bad autism I can't have a waifu, so this experience probably isn't normal.

>>16133677

But carmen is great.

the thing i dont understand is why the game describes her as plump in her compatibility test.

>>16133677

That most certainly ain't normal. Raven turns into a phoenix and birds don't have (that much) fur.

Unicorn bitch "I don't know"? You know that there's a very simple solution to that, which is actually getting to know her, right?

And Shara is generic best girl, but still best girl.

For some reason, you remind me of a friend that played the original Harvest Moon strictly for the money. All he did was planting shit and foraging. Come 3rd year and Gramps comes to visit, chastizing the player for being such a social fuckup, that guy just said "fuck you gramps" and proceed to keep on making mad dosh instead.

This was basically MGTOW about 15 years before that even became a thing.

Point is, autism ruins comfy unless you get your comfy from autism.

>>16126282

Being available on PC makes a huge difference

>>16133829

Yeah, that's how I played most of these sorts of games until RF4, where I actually bothered to deal with people. Granted in RF4 it's mostly worthless, I think fucking Friends of Mineral Town has better rewards for dealing with people. Then again I've only played Mineral Town, RF, RF3, and RF4, so my view on these games is sort of skewed. It's been so long since I played the first RF I can't tell you much about my experience anymore, and in MT I try to game the system as much as possible and go big in trying to marry the Harvest Goddess because why not, but I quit too soon most of the time.

>>16133729

I'm sure she is, I do like me some tomboyish girls, and if they're cute brown girls that's also a good bonus. If I ever do play it again I'd probably go with her.

>>16133883

>If I ever do play it again I'd probably go with her.

You know how in game all the villagers mock you a bit because you look like a gay twink?

Well she gives you the equivalent of protein shakes so you buff up.

Theres also the bonus of becoming brother in law with carlos.

>>16134165

Family decision making issues.

>>16133829

I don't blame anyone for forgetting about Kuruna. I forgot about her. Her only traits are die human scum and living in the desert.

>>16134299

You can only have two partners, meaning you stick with your waifu and a monster or your kid most of the time, especially late game when you get that white stone that boosts your family. Not that it matters too much, whatever. I will say that Forte being willing to join you pretty much instantly is also doesn't make me want to interact with the rest of the town as party members, but it's not like I hate most of them. Except the elves, I hate elves.

I can never decide on a wife in these fucking games. Must be a brain disease or something. At least the Dolce-Pico dynamic is top tier.

On one hand if we get fewer bachelorettes in RF5 I hope that they are better quality with interesting personalities and more varied body types.

Also I'd be a sucker for white-haired dark-elf vanguard maid.

>Some enemies resist or even fully absorb different damage types

>Sometimes the next highest available weapon upgrade of your preferred type deals damage absorbed by the enemy you need to kill

>Fist weapons let you do grabs and throw attacks

>Nothing resists gravity

>Defeat elementals by throwing them back into the aether

>Kill ghosts by slamming them back into their graves

This is my favorite part of the game. Why can't more games have a system like this?

>>16137313

>white haired dark elf

You're a gentleman and scholar. What eye color would you have it be?

>>16137393

Classic red. The eye color of a pure breed. Any other color, even heterochromia, makes her a half-breed mutt.

I wonder if RF5 will have disgaea tier skill sets and post game. RF4 is pretty close in that regard, and it's really fun if that's your thing, but surely a game being released like 7 years later would have all the good stuff turned up to eleven. Honestly RF4 is just so fucking good I hope they take what they added there and simply stick with that specific example with just more everything.

>>16137353

>Sometimes the next highest available weapon upgrade of your preferred type deals damage absorbed by the enemy you need to kill

Thats why you use 2 heart crystals to change your weapon to love which is resisted by almost nothing and heals you with every hit.

>>16137607

You meet Lin Fa's husband in a random event as well during the events leading up to Xiao Pai's proposal. He's a huge cunt, particularly in the latter chain of events.

On an unrelated note, there's a good chance RF5 will have gay marriage, if not even the RF4 remake. It's the popular thing these days and not only the journalists will screech about it, but also a very vocal minority of the players. The guy behind Harvest Moon even said that their games will probably have it in the future. So there's a real risk that they will spend whatever time and effort they could spend on something like a Venti route or more events on literal faggotry. As if the yaoibait wasn't bad enough in RF4.

>>16137642

>RF4 is just so fucking good

Its a frustrating game the RNG events really hobble you its almost like the game is trying to force you spend literally 1000 hours playing it just to unlock every scene. And what isn't RNG is tied closely to progress so chapter 1 goes by way too quick and as a result venti spends 90% of the game gone or in a coma.

Forgot to mention in the above post: Lin Fa's husband is just a faceless NPC, with a generic traveller model.

>>16137643

>using two crystals just to change the element when you could use those two slots on something to make your weapon stronger

>>16137657

Yaoibait was like two characters, and even then it was mostly just naruto tier fujoshi suckering. Venti a shit, also.

>>16137663

I think the RNG actually adds quite a bit to the game. Sure it's bad if you're trying to absorb everything but I dunno if that was ever the intent.

>>16137667

If you're such a scrub that you're using fists instead of transcended axes/longswords into shortswords then clearly you aren't playing at the top anyways.

>>16137676

The unfortunate thing is, fujoshis are EXTREMELY profitable. Add in "societal" pressures and you'll get more gay characters. Look at Fire Emblem. They're starting and staying small for now, with two bisexual characters, but it'll get worse.

It'll only get worse. I just hope we get one more untainted Rune Factory before it happens but I doubt we will.

>>16137718

fujoshits are only more profitable by way of them being an untapped market. But they're an untapped market for a reason. It's like trying to get both the western audience and the chinese market at the same time, you just can't do it. Pandering to more than one demographic, no matter how nonspecific, is horrible folly. Businesses, if they have honest and effective management, will see this shit after it blows up in their face.

>>16137730

Fujoshis are embedded in the sorts of communities that already play these games. There is a baseline pressure to do this. Now that it has become "acceptable" for fags to be in media in America and Japan, they're going to start building towards them. Tolerating it at all is going to end slipping down an endless slope until Rune Factory 8 is just Stardew Valley.

>>16137657

>On an unrelated note, there's a good chance RF5 will have gay marriage

That's fine, these games were missing a yuri option anyway.

This could be a big change in RF in general. Do you think we might see some vertically like climbing ladders and trees? I'd love to grow crops like honey on the cliff side. Pretty sure Switch could handle a vertical perspective when climbing. Otherwise the game would be an overhead RPG when not climbing.

>>16137969

There's no need to keep the overhead perspective. Just make it like Frontier.

>>16137657

Dude there's already a harvest moon game entirely about homo weddings and it got censored, you can play as a girl and court the other girls, but you can't marry them, iirc you can get the large bed and all the stuff needed for marriage, but they won't accept the proposal and will just hold a ceremony in your house instead, after that they move in with you because you're "best friends", you can even have magic children.

>>16138023

Your statement was a bit confusing. You're so starved you would buy it even if it has gay marriage, or you wouldn't buy it even if it didn't?

Regardless, these things have a way of righting themselves because when they focus on shitty things like this their business and such tends to fall right through.

>>16138085

I'm saying I'm starved for another Rune factory so I will probably end up buying the next one regardless.

>>16138085

>Regardless, these things have a way of righting themselves because when they focus on shitty things like this their business and such tends to fall right through.

Pretty much. Hell to the previous Fire Emblem example even though you had to buy 3 versions of the game to get the full story in Fates, it still just barely sold as well as the previous game in the series and caused the fandom to go into revolt. It's pretty funny browsing various FE forums as they're all full of shitposting against the series and no one seems to be looking forward to the new one coming out in a few months. tl;dr if they put faggotry in 5 then we won't need to worry about 7 even being made.

Also, is Frontier worth getting into? I can grab the undub but I never played the original RF and the game seems kind of stripped down.

>>16138134

It's the best game in the series but ruined by one shitty mechanic.

>>16138304

Which mechanic would that be?

>>16138316

Runeys

>>16138316

I have never played it, but I can tell you it is Runeys. Imagine if your field was effected by little assholes you can't really control, and every time it rained the top of the food chain multiplied a ton and upset the ecosystem. That's what little I know about it, I imagine it's much worse for anyone who actually played it.

>>16138326

>>16138323

Having just read about it, this looks like aids. Seems like it would've been better if the runeys were just tacked on for the wonders instead of actually effecting the ecosystem of your farm.

>>16138343

It's bad enough that most people recommend you cheat using a third party program to avoid having to deal with them

>>16138343

In my first game of it i ignored them, and when they finally went extinct it made progressing in game impossible. Frontier is great otherwise but they might have been the most retarded mechanic i've ever seen added to a game.

>>16138326

>every time it rained the top of the food chain multiplied

Oh so that's why chaining rainy weeks with candy when using the runey cheat is so good, rain is meant to fuck you up.

>>16138362

That's hilarious and really fucking sad. Guess I'll swing by gecko codes. Hopefully it works with the undub.

Also god damn this OP is fucking amazing.

>>16138326

>>16138323

>>16138343

Pretty sure the official and proper way of playing this game is to just use cheats to lock the Runey-population in place.

Not sure what they were thinking when they came up with that system.

>>16138398

I'll follow that advice, I guess. I sure as fuck don't want to develop a degree in ecology to play videogames.

>>16138343

It would be fine if you could just move them from a menu or something. Instead you have to go to each area and use this weak vacuum thing to suck them up, and then go to each other area and release them. And you have to go to one specific NPC to even check the distribution, so you can't do it while you're wandering around vacuuming/releasing them.

Bump

Also, if anyone hasn't played it yet, Oceans runs pretty well on the PS3 emulator so you don't have to deal with autistic motion controls on the wii.

so Rune Factory 4 Special is coming out in japan july 25th, think the western release won't be that far off?

>>16146984

>autistic motion controls on the wii

The only thing you "need" them for is if you want to knock at somebodies door.

>>16147042

The game is already translated by Xseed so if there isnt much new content dialogue wise we'll get it soon after japan does.

>>16119182

I want to fuck the dragon loli.

>>16124742

Hopefully, fuck the dragon loli.

>>16151646

Unless NiSA swipes it up like they did with Falcom IPs.

>>16152220

Let's pray that never happens and to one day IMPREGNATE DRAGGO.

>>16152231

I would like to make babies with the dragon loli as much as the next lolicon, problem is that the special ones like her never really become a wife. When you marry a goddess, she doesn't move in with you and then just pops by one day and drops off a baby then fucks offs back to her normal spot away from you.

>>16152257

Sounds like there was a story to this.

>>16152309

Probably most or any HM-like games that let you marry a goddess. In Trio of Towns, for example, Inari doesn't live in your house if you marry her. Hell, no one seems to acknowledge that you suddenly have a child if you get the DLC that allows you to have one with her. Because even that wasn't possible in the base game.

>>16152309

I think that happens as early as Friends of Mineral Town.

>>16152353

Truly the worst case scenario.

I don't think RF ever fell into that trap, though. Might, if there's a venti route.

>>16152377

Agreed. Venti seems like the kind of girl who will show up in your kitchen as a surprise one day weaning nothing but an apron and a thong. Not because she's that lewd but because this is what she learned humans like from reading too many smut novels dropped off at her shrines.

The best joke about this is you were the one who placed them there.

>>16126343

it's boring autistic farming shovelware game for plebbit nintendrones, no idea why this thread is here

>>16152212

I would kill myself

>>16153199

Typically RF games get revealed in Famitsu when they're 60-80% complete, so they have something concrete to show off. The way RF5 was revealed, I gather is nothing less than a mix of development hell and just beginning.