Thread 3796404

I just picked this game up because I saw there was a DLC for Sakuna and I love the rice goddess loli. Is it any good? I've only played RF4 and I loved it a lot, spent 100+ hours in it.
Also general RF thread.

>>3796404 (OP)
Yes it’s good so long as you’re not a crafting autist who only plays these games to fulfill your crafting autism. (But if that’s the case you should really be playing something like Atelier over Rune Factory anyways where crafting is actually the focus, RF has always just been an extension of Harvest Moon and is focused on being a life-sim first and foremost), most regular people only play Rune Factory for it’s social and dating sim mechanics, and in that respect it’s as good as any other Rune Factory that’s not 1, 2, or Tides.

Also now that our generals have been kicked off of /v but Rune Factory is finally back, /rfhm/ general revival WHEN?!

>>3796550
I did like the crafting at first in RF4, but I'll admit toward the lategame the crafting grinding got a bit insane.

>>3796604
Are you the OP? You should post this thread on /v/ too, you’ll get more traffic there.

>>3796606
Getting more traffic from underaged summerfags posting cropped Zelda porn isn't a very appealing prospect.

Played the game for the first time and it crashed immediately after the first boss. Incredible.

>>3797212
it never crashed for me, I had stutters and lags when there was a lot going on the screen but never a crash

>>3797212
I beat it on the steam deck without a single crash, that's wild.

>>3797745
>>3797976
Yeah I couldn't find too much info on crashes either. It's weird because my rig was running it just fine overall, it's not the strongest PC ever but it runs pretty much anything out there just fine. Just got done playing the RE4 Remake on high graphics just fine.

>Can’t do this with Hound
Shit game.

>>3799361
>can do this with fubuki
100/10 best game every made, will name my children after him

It’s a 6 out of 10. The game is “fine” or “okay.” I wouldn’t go so far as good but that’s just me. It starts out fun but gets old before you roll credits.

>>3799595
>It’s a 6 out of 10. The game is “fine” or “okay.” I wouldn’t go so far as good but that’s just me. It starts out fun but gets old before you roll credits.
What are you comparing it to? Other JRPGs? Action RPGs? Life sims? Harvest Moon/Rune Factories?

>>3799993
I’m not comparing it, or I would have mentioned a comparison. I am scoring it off of its own merit.

anyone knows how to find this dungeon here?
it cant be the post game dungeon, thats at the end

>>3800178
I think that one's the Old Village. You fly there and it's not a dungeon, look for the random light pillar

>>3800341
nah, it isn't I already visited it
exept if there is another dungeon inside there that I missed

>>3800346
Another dungeon? It's just basically a room
No, not the place you rescue Ululaka from, it's the old village you and the other MC came from. It's one little map with a shrine, some non-quest archery targets, and a hidden chest you find with the staff

>>3799361
just once I want a yandere bachelor in these types of games, but not a shota one that’s gross

>>3800421
>thinks shotas are gross
What are you, some type of normalfag?

>Director keeps retweeting MC/Hound fanart, including ones outright begging for Hound DLC
What does he mean by this?

>>3801951
white(haired) women....

>>3801951
keep your mental illness on /v/

bros I beat post game and still haven't found that location, what the hell is going on?

>>3802441
I'll check my list when I get home this evening

>>3802441
it's ??? village where you go to buy ??? seeds

>>3802487
I wish more farming games did mystery seeds, they're fun
I think it's just Stardew Valley and ToT/Animal parade

oh no, the old lady got prosessed by fubuki

>>3802441
You didn't explore the sky islands?

>>3802775
>turns out if you never manualy land in spring village, that point of interest doesn't get unlocked even when you originaly start your jurney there
thats dumb

>>3802532
IT HAPPENED AGAIN, she is speaking tounges

>>3796404 (OP)
5/10 game at best.

Has fuckall to do with Rune Factory so if that's why you bought it, might as well refund it.

Combat is garbage. Farming barely exists. Crafting doesn't exist except through predetermined menus. Story sucks.

About the only thing half decent about this game is the village building if you care about that but even that is limited and not that great.

I have no idea why anyone talked about this game at all. There are way better games to spend your time on.

>>3803043
Oh yeah, the spring skies teleport location
I didn't find out about that until almost the end of the game

>>3803171
Shut the fuck up, retard.

I love RF and I just started playing this last week, and I love it. It's definitely different from a mainline game but it is by no means a bad game, or "not RF".

MOGGED

>>3803171
>Combat, Farming, Crafting and Story
Absolutely none of those things matter in a life-sim and are tacked on window dressing at best. What really makes or breaks a Rune Factory is the social life and romance and family aspects. Are those well-done with lots of dialogue and interactions? Well congratulations you have yourself a good Rune Factory then!

I really liked the Viatrea lore dump desu
Really have to wonder were the fuck the games are going next after RF5 and GoA's developments though

>>3803310
>>3803775
Both of you are retards and only a retard would play a farming game for the life sim. They are called farming games for a reason. The life sim portion only exists because at the beginning of the genre, there wasn't enough things to do without adding that in.

I have played farming games since the original harvest moon on SNES and the only time I've given a single fuck about villagers was when a festival was going on or something is locked behind talking to them.

The fact that you dick suckers think that is the main pull of these games is retarded. I will give you that AT BEST 50% of the base likes or cares about it and most of that 50% are women who would be just as happy playing Animal Crossing which also has fuckall to do with Rune Factory or anything like it.

>Features
>Adds the ability to adjust village farmer behavior in the Options menu. You can now toggle the following tasks on or off: sow seeds, water fields, and harvest crops.
>Adjusted the volume of certain lines for Zaza and Woolby in Japanese.
>The Sacred Sword can now harvest crops over a wider range.
>Added new warp points for Spring Village’s and Autumn Village’s development zones
They unfucked the game bros, well for switch players anyway, pcbros have to wait.

>>3803951
That's funny because pc got the last patch first

>>3803775
the dialogue and interactions aren't very good compared to rf4
3d was a mistake

>>3803989
Over the shoulder 3D was a mistake
>tfw we could've had a watercolor-style game in the vein of the doraemon sos games but in minako iwasaki's artstyle
I've said it once, and I'll say it a thousand times
We were robbed

>>3804024
For Harvest Moon maybe, that style can fuck off for Rune Factory

>>3804031
I would rather have it and have it look like 1, 2, 3, and 4

>>3803934
>The life sim portion only exists because at the beginning of the genre, there wasn't enough things to do without adding that in.
>I have played farming games since the original harvest moon on SNES
I can tell you’re an LARP zoomer because if you weren’t you would know that the original creator of Harvest Moon, Wada, always intended for the series to be a life sim first and foremost and it’s actually the exact opposite of what you first claimed. Hell, some of the games entries he’s directed such a A Wonderful Life or Save The Homeland barely even have farming.

You want a pure autistic farming simulator than go play Farmville, the genre has never been about that and you know it.

>>3803989
>the dialogue and interactions aren't very good compared to rf4 3d was a mistake
What does it bring 3D have to do with anything? Are you implying no 2D portraits makes it less immersive or something?

>>3804209
the reason conversing with NPCs is sluggish and limited is because of the 3d models/face to face camera
that's why there's no group dialogues outside of scripted cutscenes and why they wouldn't waste lots of dev time scripting such cutscenes for miscellaneous events throughout the year

>>3804262
>the reason conversing with NPCs is sluggish and limited
How is it limited?

>No group dialogues
There is though, you just have to put certain combinations of characters in your party.

>>3804209
Except no one gives a fuck about what he intended. In the end, it's the farming part that's interesting. This retard is the same guy who fucked the whole series over time because they couldn't envision the idea of giving freedom to the player and got quickly outclassed by other games as soon as any rival hit the market.

Even on the SNES, it was funner to try to see how many berries you could carry from the forest to your bin before the day ended than it was to find villagers and hear what useless bullshit they have to talk about. The furthest I've ever interacted with that system is picking out a wife from all the chicks available and only because I consider it part of beating the game.

>Director still retweeting Hound bait shit like pic related
Really what is his motivation for this?

>>3807323
suffering

>>3807323
fueling your mental illness

I miss harvest moon...

>>3808035
>I miss harvest moon...
? The Grand Bazaar remake is coming out next month anon…

Bumping.

>>3808237
I hope that game turns out good

>>3813697
Cute and canon

So who here is picking up the Grand Bazaar remake?

Are the special versions of 3 and 4 better than the ds originals?

>>3818461
QoL aspects they are, also add some minor bits of content, as well as offering JP VAs but at least in RF4's case it takes a pretty heavy hit in graphics by adding some garbage filter over it, not sure if 3S corrected that as i havent looked into that one too much, aside from that they're upgrades i think

>>3818451
I am, it's around my birthday so I'm hoping the universe will give me a good game for a present

>>3818532
3S had a little more work put into it (like with the item icons and the NPC/monster models), but when it comes to the backgrounds, they were still run through a version of Waifu2X
A more modern version of the one they used in 4S, but still, they could've at least dedithered the backgrounds first

>>3818540
Think 4S got a mod to de-filter it, not sure if 3S got the same treatment but yeah that's all i can think of that was a real negative with those 2 remakes. Aside from personal preference in that i prefer te 2 screen format the DS provided

>>3818543
Yes, it did. I made it lmao. I was going to look into one for 3S but I want to redo 4S's mod first now that I got my grubby little hands on a 5090 and I can train better upscaling models much faster.

>>3818561
Bless you then anon, not sure why they couldnt have just left that as simply an on/off option as id rather have the old "ugly" 3ds textures then the trash filter they decided to use instead

>>3801951
>literally just a murderous psycho
>no redeeming features
>would kill every other god in the game given an opportunity
>eats humans alive and demands human sacrifices
>his twin brother who is a good person is RIGHT THERE
>women still desperately want to marry him
Scary…

>Clarice just moved up a spot
oh nonono Irohabros

>>3821163
Pilika Pals…is being DLC locked too much of a nerf?

>>3821271
DLC isn't a part of the achievements, otherwise Cuilang would be way up there

>>3821285
…The autismbot is popular?

>>3821326
Women love him

>>3821392
>Women love the awkward bot man and the theocidal serial human eating wolf man
>Guys like the sweet motherly woman with huge tits and the childbood friend

>>3821501
Who likes Iroha the canon wife?

>>3820168
You think if it was a girl it would be different?

>>3822439
people who play Kaguya, the canon protagonist and ship her with her canon lesbian wife with their canon gay turnip babies

>>3821163
Man the women and gay men love Kai huh. Maybe I'll see his stuff

Anyone here got the Japanese guide that just came out?

Bump

>>3821326
>>3821392
>>3821501
I personally feel insulted guys got a cute bear waifu for DLC while us girls got a literal walking vibrator when we could’ve had the Hound…

>>3828920
Cuilang's a good character, though

>>3831123
He’d be even better if he weren’t a robot, like his design, not so much the fact that he’s literally a programmed A.I. It just ruins immersion.

I wanna kiss my plastic husband

>>3799362
>>3822671
>gayshit
You have to go back.

Grand Bazaar remake releasing in like a day, reviews are already up and they’ve been pretty good so far, seems like it’s a massive step up over the original…

Who’s getting it?

>>3833574
I'll take one for the team
I liked the original well enough, I just hope this one added more map

>>3833574
The food expiration thing is kinda putting me off.

>>3833895
>The food expiration thing is kinda putting me off.
Who the fuck cares about that, is the dialogue good? Is there a lot of variety?

>>3834034
I don't know. I haven't played it yet.

Started RF5 last night, played 4 some years back and liked it. 5 is...kinda weird? Can't say I remember everything from 4, but menuing in 5 feels kinda bad. Also I'm far from a graphicsfag, but the game looks like an uni student's project, they should've either taken their time or stuck to the old style. The furniture placement system is also pretty ass and triggering my autism. The rest is decently enjoyable so far at least, though I haven't gotten very far. Being able to run into males' affection events as a guy is absolutely diabolical, what the fuck

>>3836376
>Paw, make me a harem protagonist!

Grand Bazaar's pretty fun so far
definitely fixed my issues with the original

>>3836900
>Grand Bazaar's pretty fun so far
definitely fixed my issues with the original
Is there more daily dialogue now? How’s the dialogue variety compared to say RF4 or Trio?

>>3837285
There's a lot more dialogue from what I can tell.
There's contextual dialogue too, like in the newer games.
The heart events/villager events are really good so far (still in the first spring), even better than GoA in terms of expressiveness and framing, in my opinion. In fact, even though I chose to have portraits on, you really don't need them on (but I'm glad that they're there)

>>3837365
i should mention I should've said "a lot more dialogue than the original" and definitely not more than rf4

>>3837368
>i should mention I should've said "a lot more dialogue than the original" and definitely not more than rf4
More than POOT at least right?

>>3838206
I didn't play that piece of shit so I couldn't tell you

>>3838231
>I didn't play that piece of shit so I couldn't tell you
So which game would you say Grand Bazaar’s dialogue variety resembles?

>>3836376
>Being able to run into males' affection events as a guy is absolutely diabolical, what the fuck
I seriously don't understand why these games can't just add a sexuality option when you start the game.

If you pick straight, you only have straight romance options/events. If you pick gay, you only have gay romance options/events. If you pick bi, you get all romance options/events.

Why is that so hard? Instead, most games with romances now just force you to be pansexual.

>>3839026
I would say the first SoS on the 3DS, maybe a bit more thanks to all the contextual stuff

I started Rune Factory Frontier yesterday.
After GoA this game feels so much better.
It's sad how much they walked away from the original way of this franchise.

>>3839145
>After GoA this game feels so much better
In what way? What problems did you have with Azuma?

Grand Bazaar or Azuma?

>>3840560
If you like farming, Grand Bazaar
If you like combat, Azuma

>>3839145
I'm still sad they didnt continue with that graphic style, it upscales pretty well to the point it might be the best looking game the series has