Fishing in games however is a chore and hasn't improved since clicking the bobber in WoW.
What is your fishing dream game like?

Man
I
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Fishing

Zelda TP mastered the fishing mini game.

>>717123276 (OP)
the concept of dredge was great but the execution lacking. it was too boring and fishing was too easy and not really rewarding. the best part was sailing at night with all the creatures coming out but you weren't incentivized to sail at night

Have you tried fishing in Dark Cloud 2? You can fish in dungeons or outside and then raise your fish in an aquarium. There are also fish races and other competitions. You can also ignore all that and fry the fish then eat them to regain hp.

>>717123276 (OP)
RDR2 fishing was great

RDR2

>>717123276 (OP)
ETS2 but with fishing.

stellar blade fishing is ok

PEACEFUL AS FUCK

>>717123276 (OP)
>hasn't improved since clicking the bobber in WoW
this is pretty much bait or you are retarded, many games have a little minigame when you fish and that is miles better than wow
Some games i really like fishing, kiseki series (all games, fishing is much better starting with azure), far cry series, wow and yeah that's it for me, i guess i don't play much games with fishing in it

fishing was fun in breath of fire 3 and 4, but it's lost game design apparently. fishing should always be a rhythm game.

>>717125318
oh yeah and more modern ys games also have good fishing

I'm quite fond of the 2d type where you need to lower the hook down into the water while avoiding garbage/bad catches until you get deep enough to hook a good fish and then pull it up avoiding the hazards, much more engaging than the "wait for the bobber to twitch and hit A"-type at least.

>>717124896
Based

>>717123276 (OP)
MH Wilds has decently cozy fishing. It's my favorite version of fishing in Monster Hunter so far. I like any game where you have to actually move your stick in a reeling motion to reel in fish.
Best fishing in any non-fishing game I have ever played was in New World though. Shame about the rest of that game

are any of the Dovetail games on PC good?
>>717124939
call of the wild the angler convinced me the one way to ruin fishing is to make you drive or walk between a bunch of lakes and rivers

>>717125950
Wilds' fishing is decently fun yeah, I think my only issue is that countering the jumps can be a bit ambiguous.

>>717123276 (OP)
Fishing is about relaxing in mother nature. A fishing game would require including enough of the wilderness area and aethetic to be immersive. The actual fishing really is secondary.

This game had so much potential… I wish I could actually fight back the monsters and not just run away.

>>717124896
Rolling the stick is not good gameplay

>>717126118
Obstacles are even worse. I also hate gastronome tunas because they hang out underwater which makes them impossible to see when it's plenty in the forest

>>717123276 (OP)
I really love Merlord's Ultimate Fishing mod for Morrowind, especially how it works with Morrowind's mechanics and geography. Different types of lures, some that can scavenged from the environment/animals like pearls, crab meat, and scales, and you can use smaller fish you catch as bait for bigger fish. Region and time of day (and being in or out of caves) affects what fish can bite, and the mod author has even made it so it works with landmass mods like TR, Cyrodiil, S:HoTN, etc. You can harvest fish for ingredients to make potions and meat for survival/needs mods if you use those, and some of the bigger fish even give you a trophy head you can mount in your house.

I'd love a pure fishing game that had a fantasy environment you could traverse like in Morrowind, just going around the world and fishin'.

>>717123276 (OP)
I was fortunate enough to play Sega Bass Fishing and Sega Marine Fishing back in the day. No other game has come remotely close.

I still think of them when I eat yuzu in the summer and dream about lake Biwa.

>>717124230
I have similar thoughts
The reviews rave about its setting but it barely brushes the terror shit
The gameplay barely progresses; the fishing mechanics are extremely simple and stay that way
I'm still looking for a good fishing game this one sucked

>>717123276 (OP)
>underrage

The only game I've enjoyed Fishing on in recent years is Palia, a non-combat quasi-MMO with pretty good house building. The fishing is simple, not too slow, not too fast, you cast, you wait for a bite, then you have to reel in while keeping the cursor on the fish shadow, stopping if it jumps.

FFXIV had a surprisingly fun fishing.

>>717127479
it did until heavensward

>>717123276 (OP)
Fishing in Tower Unite is pretty good. Game's full of pronouns so be warned.
You select your bait which determines what kind of fish you can get, some baits will up the chances of getting sea junk, like furniture or gold.
You cast your line using the mouse, then you can move the bobber around within a circle. The fish will appear as transparent blue swimming around within that circle. Some fish are transparent orange which means they are rare, some have a question mark above them which means they have special items. You move your bobber in front of the fish to attract it's attention, similar to animal crossing fishing. When the fish is "hooked" a minigame appears on your screen and you have to keep your mouse cursor within a small radius of a circle that moves around the edge of a circle. If you fail to do this the fish will escape. Any fish or other items you collect can then be placed in your player housing, or sold for more in game currency.
The game's focus isn't really fishing, so it can be a bit of a hassle learning the UI/controls, acquiring a fishing rod and acquiring the bait. I'm sure there's guides and wiki about getting there though.

>>717123276 (OP)
ArcheAge had easily the best fishing of any game I've ever played, the barrier to entry was high though.
You had to build an ocean liner which was a crazy expensive end game item that cost a lot of gold and resources. You then had to use a fish finder on the ocean liner to find fish spots, these spots were out on the open sea, which was full pvp. The fish spots would only appear periodically. You could go out to fish and get wiped by pirates. When you hooked a fish it would go into a simon says style minigame where you had to react to the direction the fish was pulling by pulling the opposite direction. If you failed this the line would snap and the fish would escape. If you succeeded the fish would then become a resource pack that you had to carry on your back. After that you placed the fish in a tank within the ocean liner and once the tank was full you had to sail back to shore and trade your fish for gold at a port.
It made for some really great moments, fleeing from pirates, trying to stealth fish when the pirates weren't logged in, betrayals from within your guild of people alerting the pirates to your fishing location. Playing sea shanties on the ingame instruments. It had a layer of tension that other fishing games didn't have.
Too bad about that game, the core mechanics were the best of any MMO I've played but the monetization and itemization were the worst.