This game has effectively ruined most JRPGs for me. You're given so much freedom throughout your playtime that RPGs nowadays that don't offer similar mechanics just seem lacking.
Rune Factory thread
Too bad the waifus sucked. That's really all that matters in a JRPG
>>383483051
Dolce was good. Amber (Kohaku) was good in Japanese, they ruined her in English.
Overall RF3 had better girls, but 4 had some stand outs too.
>>383482709
It fucking sucks.
I couldn't progress with my waifu because I had to wait for an event that never came. It's fucking BS.
>>383482709
it only ruined stuff like harvest moon and animal crossing for me. Clorica is best RF girl
>>383483236
>they ruined her in English.
How?
>>383482709
>>383482709
>This game has effectively ruined most JRPGs for me. You're given so much freedom throughout your playtime
how so?
best grill
>>383483714
This game allows you to
>Forge your own equipment to a huge degree of freedom, right down to poison, crit, elemental affinities, lifesteal, elemental resistances and other abilities
>Farm, raise animals, fish, mine and craft for money
>Marry a cute girl and have a daughter with her
>Suplex dragons and piledriver giants with your big dick hand to hand combat skills
>God is your next door neighbor and you can chill with her
>Literally everything is a skill right down to walking, sleeping, and different elemental magics
>You can forge a magic staff, and proceed to give it all sorts of crazy attacks and different spell combinations like Poison - Paralyze - Silence
>The game is so long it has THREE CAMPAIGNS
>You can stop progressing whenever you want to befriend villagers, get a waifu and get married, do sidequests, raise animals and improve your town
>>383483552
>>383483236
>Marrying a literal child with an actual mindset of a child
>>383484287
Amber just pretend to be retarded. She's also not a child.
>>383482709
It ruined farm sims for me because people actually have dialogue. Stardew isn't TOO bad bad because it has some for every day of the week or something, but SoS was unbearable because they only had 1 line for each affection level or something. It's like why bother becoming friends and talking to people if they just say "farming is hard!" every day for the next season and a half? It amazes me that you an go a year or two and not have a single repeating dialogue on the datable characters.
>>383483830
>>383483714
This is a game that takes into account your proficiency in opening chests or finding hidden items in the environment, your proficiency in eating, your proficiency in walking, your proficiency in bathing and your proficiency in sleeping.
Shops are pointless because you can brew your own potions, forge your own gear and cook your own food. Food heals a ton and gives lots of buffs. You even the proper cooking equipment, you have a frying pan, stove, cooking pot, mixer, oven and more.
The game has three story arcs you can do at your own pace, you can literally ignore the story at any time and focus on holding festivals, developing friendships with the townsfolk and improving your workshop if you wanted to.
I only played Frontier and loved it.
>>383484401
Have you played SoS: ToT? It gives the villagers a larger variety of dialogue and the DLC adds even more dialogue on top of that.
>>383482709
Rune Factory 4 is insane. It's the game that keeps on giving. You think you've completed it once, but it turns out you haven't. Then you think you've completed it again, but nope! It's like buying three games for the price of one.
It's one of the few, very rare occasions where the game has too much content.
>>383484359
>Loli thats 1000 year olds pretends to be retarded
>>383484635
play 3 and 4 at the very least.
>>383484676
ya know, this was something I asked when it first came out and no one answered me. How long will you go until it starts repeating? Is the framerate stable?
>>383484732
Sadly I don't have a 3DS, and emulation a shit.
>>383484801
they don't cost that much anymore. like seriously these games are high quality man
>>383484801
3 is a ds game, just play that til 3ds emulation improves.
>>383484801
3 is a DS game, but honestly I'd almost recommend buying a cheap system just for 4 anyway. Literally the only problem I had with it was RNG-based events and that only comes up at the extreme endgame (and can still be rigged to some extent anyway.)
>>383484770
Unfortunately, the dialogue isn't varied enough to completely not repeat like RF4, but I'd say the villagers have 4-5 times the number of lines as compared to SoS1.
The framerate is much better. ToT fixes so many things. Your farm is close to all the towns so no more constant travelling, the progression requirements aren't nearly as grindy, the cast is really fun.
And the three towns are fucking adorable. The Westerners literally go "Howdy, pardner" and hug you and have ranches and bald eagles and mines, it's literally Texas.
>>383485138
The biggest upgrade that I've heard and was looking forward to was that you get a dog right away instead of in fucking year 2. Still though, if there's at least several lines that they'll cycle through throughout the week I guess I'll give a it a lookover later.
>>383485232
Yeah, you get the dog in like the 2nd week. And the Dachshund is fucking adorable, it's a walking sausage.
ToT has so many improvements it's hard to even list all of them. It's basically better in every way to SoS1. You might want to wait for the localisation of the DLC to finish, it adds more dialogue for villagers along with a ton of new content, scenes and events.
zzz
>>383484676
>search for europe release again
>get ready for disappointment
>"Big news from Nintendo of Europe! STORY OF SEASONS: Trio of Towns is coming to Europe on October 13! "
finally. Best news of today so far.
>>383485232
You can get a number of pets of different breeds including capybaras. They can do a number of different tasks I use a couple per field for helping me deal with my massive number of animals I raise.
>>383485764
Enjoy, anon, it's easily the best BokuMono game since the GBA/ console games.
Also, chocolate waifus and superior Nihon waifus.
>>383483830
Can't have.
>>383485713
why would someone choose any other girl?
>Mfw Trio of Towns allows you to have a traditional Japanese wooden home, decorate your farm with bamboo and shrines and other Japanese stuff, marry a black-haired Japanese girl that wears kimonos, and allows you to wear yukatas
>Despite both your parents being Westerners
>>383486224only if they don't like /comf/ slep waifall other girls are good t b h but Clorica a best
when will I be able to emulate this
I don't like to spend money
>>383485982
That's what i hope. But i read a lot of good so far.
the last game I really played a shitload was FoMT. ANB was fine I guess, but from there i played most Harvest moons only for an ingame year or two.
Speaking of, i'll guess i play some FoMT until then.
>>383486787
as soon as you give me the source of that gif
>>383488347
How come you can't look it up yourself?
Xiao-Pai best girl
>>383489217
Xiao Pai worst girl
Thread could use a little more RAINBOW (the best color)
>>383489329
Why you so mean? (you just want to fuck her mom don't you?)
>>383483051
waifus are literally the worst thing to happen to video games and anime
>>383489435
>you just want to fuck her mom don't you?
her and every other mom of girls that are worse than them. if it makes you feel any better Xiao is better than Sakuya and Karina
>>383486224
I like elves
>>383489217
Yes!
>>383489829
Elves are nice
>>383489893
Elves are for loving and breeding
>>383489703
milf factory, when?
>>383483236
I love clingy lolis. I'm also grateful the undub was done by the time I picked up the game.
This would be perfect if it had a decent guide our anything anywhere, it really does have too much content.
And the game expects you to use it all to an extent too, you can't just ignore what you don't get or remember and blaze through the dungeons.
>really liked RF3 even though I never finished it
>couldn't be bothered to sit through the tutorial segment of RF4fuck anime bullshit
>>383489893
How does Frontier compare to the others?
Just starting this gameon Citra and it works well. Are there any important tips for beginners or am I fine going in blind?
>>383491671
It's pretty good, if you can deal with the runeys
>>383491671
Very slow start. NPCs get introduced gradually and it's a ghost town for quite a few first hours of gameplay. That aside, it's very nice.
What determines the dialogue in RF4? Is there different dialogue per day? Will I miss some if I don't talk to everyone on every single day?
>>383492668
No you wont miss any. It starts to repeat after a while, but there is still a fair bit of variety.
>>383491947
If you plan to waifu someone early on, get ready to soft reset like you're playing Fire Emblem. Learn to not rely on the armory after the second dungeon. Grow everything. If you're going to require a weapon, put it in the shipping bin. Try to get a buffamoo and cluckadoodle as soon as you can.
>>383491118
But RF4's dub as a whole is absolutely fantastic, speaking as a seiyuufag. Some sort of miracle happened and Amber sounds adorable and not terrible like other English little girl characters.
>>383489217
I like how she actually proposes to you, like a reverse marriage, and the fact that she takes the initiative for most things in the relationship.
Alright /v/ if you could make a Rune Factory 5 what waifus would you for sure want as a Bachelorette
Lonely christmas cake is for sure a shoe-in for me
>>383494449
Hard minded general/spy that has to learn how to be cute.
The robot equivalent of Pia.
Some mystic girl like Sharom from RF1, but with an actual personality.
>>383494449
Just give me a genki tomboy (in spats) and a Christmas cake that you can actually marry and I'm a happy man.
>>383494449
An actual dragon waifu since we got robbed in RF4.
>>383494449
I want a narcoleptic wolly girl that is all fluffy and snuggly when dating. like getting diabetes just from looking at.
>>383484103
The gear crafting in this game got me rock hard. I love being able to ridiculously overpowered gear, and in this game, it was practically necessary for the final dungeon. I don't recall the exact details, but I'm fairly certain I was immune to all status effects, absorbed all elements, and was immune to 90% of any other form of damage.
Are there any time limits in this?
>>383495634
No.
>>383482709
I've only played the original and 4, but as far as I'm concerned that's all I really need.
>>383482709
I've played Rune Factory 2 and enjoyed it a ton.
Only once, though. Tried to get back into it again and talking to the villagers every day just wasn't that fun anymore. Not to mention how hard it is to go back to the basic first half after doing just so much cool new shit in the second.
Pic related, it's best girl.
>>383494449
The girl protagonist like in Tides of Destiny, and the magic loli also like in Tides, and a member of De Sainte-Coquille.
>>383483051
the only bad part is that you cannotdate the dragon
>>383496014
waifu'd the same girl, those eyes are cute
>>383496148
>Tides of Destiny
That was my first Rune Factory. Killed my interest in the series, game wasn't good. Just recently started 4 and having fun.
>>383496482
It was good, it just had a terrible farming system, which is half of the point of the games.
>>383482709
I liked RF4, but it'd be a million times better if you could customize your character's appearance. I personally disliked the design of the male MC.
>>383482709
This is one of my favorite games ever made, and if RF5 ever gets made I'm buying a Switch for it.
>>383489492
Thats your opinion. Its a shit opinion.
>>383484401
>that pic
why can't we have nice things?
Can I play as a male (male) and seduce males (male) in this game or is it yet another big tits waifu simulator?
>>383498143
you can be a boy(female) after you beat the game by switching your appearance to the male MC as the girl but that's it. also big tits are rare in this series
>>383498143
You can play as a female, change your avatar to male, and marry a bachelor.
>>383498143
It has no homomarriage, because lol Japan, but they made a workaround in which you can later unlock a place that changes your appearance to any other in the game, including the male MC.
>>383498373
>>383498380
Will the dialogue still treat me as a shy slut with big tits or is it all gender neutral or barely noticeable?
>>383499119
Dialogue is the same. Someone on gbatemp is making true love patch afaik
>>383495491
I remember making lots of overpowered weapons with really long reach. I love that you can extend your weapons reach to absurd levels.
So I only played a few hours but this "freedom" you speak of appears to be
1. Farm
2. Go beat up monsters
Did I miss out on something?
>>383499119
Frey isn't shy and she doesn't have big tits, and also she's the best girl in the game so watch your mouth boyo. A lot of the dialogue is gender neutral, but they will still call you princess, which is changeable at marriage. You can pretend it's ironic since you're such a flaming faggot.
>>383499513
>date little girls that want the d
You forget the most important "freedom"
>>383499416
>>383499579
Good enough I guess, I shall buy your weeb game and try it out. Thanks.
>>383494449
Girl who starts out as an enemy but joins the town after getting backstabbed, like Lynnette in 1
>>383499579
>Arthur asks me if I'm good at cleaning
>Answer yes
>He says whoever marries me will be a lucky man
>I picked the male character
>I'm already married and have a kid
>>383502304
haha the four eyed nerd called you gay lol