I'm currently playing 4 Special but feel free to discuss the series as a whole. Where did it go wrong? Why is it the greatest farming sim rpg light game I've ever played? There is nothing deeper or more rewarding than this? Why? Why is Stardew gay in comparison? Am I a weeb? All questions to be answered in this thread.
The things I will do to this dork when that update drops...
My bride, Dolce.
>>721113525For me, it's Forte
>>721113643what's the easiest way to get the shit she likes the most so I can fuck her btw?
>>721113514Update?
>>721113525Margaret was better
>>721114189https://x.com/RuneFactory/status/1968876495989772547
4 has the most complexity, but at the same time planted the seeds for the worst entry
>>721114363She lost to the cock didn't she?
>>721114568Can't beat the cock.
>>721113307>Where did it go wrong?The games had too much soul so of course they sold like shit. They sold to Tencent I believe.
where can I find a diamond in rf4? only summer and autumn areas so far. fists of fire would be a huge upgrade
>>721114652Consider the followingLazy, half asleep blowjob
>>721115096You're going to have to sneak through the winter area, past the autumn fieldsGood luck!Prepare your asshole!
the shopkeeper element is such a nice little addition, I was wondering what that window stall was
bump
Haggier
I just started GoA for a first time with the series, this is so chill, colorful and happy, it is a shame the combat so far is piss easy.
>>721116276HAG SEX HAG SEX
from the last thread. ok I made it to the winter area, appreciate the hhelp. nowfrom here, how tf do I get a dungeon or sword seed lol this seems mildly esoteric
>>721116336>>721116363Hags.
Posting honest Rune Factory 4 gameplay
Mama factory
>>721116503If there's a house at I1, there should be mushrooms blocking J1, so just check it every day.Also craft some water walking boots to get to the islands.
>>721116363oh no?!
>>721116503Dungeon or sword seed is locked to you for nowFinish act 1 and start act 2
>>721117682i already did
>>721117802Then you would have access to the spring areaIt's in the spring area
>>721116694here's the house
>>721113307i played 4 on the switch a few years ago and had a shitton of fun, but for some reason i never bothered with other entries where to go after 4? or is it like etrian odyssey where there's only one good entry?
>>721116694That's for a spell, not the dungeon seedThe spring tanuki has the dungeon seeds
>>7211180763, Frontier and Azuma are good.1 is the jank as fuck beginning of the series but has some soul to it, 2 is unfun jank
>>721118907Our good FRIEND Evelyn!
>>721119241!!!
>>7211180763 is basically a beta test version of 4. I don't mean that as an insult, it's still a good game, it's just that it doesn't have near the same amount of content. The hardest thing to adjust to is double tapping to do a short dash instead of R, and I don't know if Special changed that or not.
anyone have any hot artwork of forte? or forte with the male mc?
>>721121592honestly hot was probably the wrong word. good lol
>>721121592
>>721116352>so farBad news anon, it never gets harder outside of bosses. Good news? The game continues being fun.
>>721121695Matsuri vs the ghost
>>721121962Ahem3 Bears
>>721113307>Doesn't like dango>Doesn't like rice>Doesn't like onigiri>Tried giving him back his drops>Doesn't want those eitherWhat does this fag want?
>>721121695Poor Forte forgot to use her sunblock lotion.
>>721122568wait characters from previous games are in goa? I thought they were like ff and always different characters?
>>721122554Enemies tend to like the same stuff they drop
>>721113514Only if Rin approves
>>721122835There are always returning characters in RF, but for GoA the returners are only from RF5 because of timeline reasons. Besides a few small references to past characters
>>721122916wait so 3 has characters from 1 and 2, 4 has from 1 2 and 3, 5 has from all of those and goa has 5 and forte for some reason? do they have continuous story arcs?
>>721122835Hina (one of the bachelorettes) is from RF5.But Forte's armor is just a DLC item.
>>721122835Cameos have always been a thing in RF. though it's usually only a few characters that have had them over the series
>>721123148>and forteNope, it's just a DLC.
>>721123287alright I'm just gonna skip[ all thhe 3d ones then. fuck it I got 3 earlier
What a coincidence Hazel, you're my type too
>>721123403
>>721123148RF4 has Raven from RF3 and Barrett from RF2RF3 has Mei from RF1 and Yue from RF2RF2 has Ceci from RF1 etc.
Dont fuck the milfs
Eating TWO WHOLE ONIGIRI and Azuma kibble (aka Iroha's dango)
>>721123520where does one play 1 and 2, are they not getting SPECIAL'd?
>>721123617RF1 and 2 are WAY more jank than RF3 onward which is when they got their grooveRemaking them for modern day standards would take much more effort
>>721123617On a DSand it's unknown, probably unlikely without extra workThey can at least reuse 3S's new assets, but I really fucking hope they learn how to use a GAN more advanced than waifu2x between now and then
>>721123617You'd need a whole ass remake for RF1-2
does summer field alone suffice for fodder? stupid question probably, I forget how much I need with 3 groups on 2 farms
I'm so happy that we have more Rune Factory nowadays. I expected the series to die with 4, but it seems things are going well. Excited for what's to come.
>>721123617I'd kill for RF1+2 Special, but considering RF3S's pitiful sales and how more work would be required to modernize them compared to RF3S / RF4S, it seems pretty unlikely
>>721124086Going to the secret room in the cluckadoodle nest should be enough for fodder
Only need RF3 and I'm set for the rest of the year on gamesWHERE THE HELL IS THAT FALL SALE GABEN?!
I'm still mad lmao
>>721124228well I guess at least I got 2 good games. they really are fantastic farming sims. legitimately what is second best? elin rules? but isn't done. is it stardew? this really scratches a lot of fucking itches for me. it's a shame it got pozzed
>>721124402Sandrock, albeit swap farming with crafting
>>721123617I played RF1 on my 2DSXL and I had way more fun than I expected. Sure, it's a bit jank, but it still has the soul of farming and adventuring. You should give it a try, I think it's worth it.
>>721124736Anything better than DeSmuME? it's so shit
>>721124194Yes, I sure cannot wait for all the 6 designs to appeal to redditors (Tumblrfags)
>>721124803Melon DS is the new emulator everyone uses nowadays
>>721124892good
Micah voice in 3 Special was such a downgrade, todd was so good as him
silver rules btw. so fast
what are the differences from 3 and 4 special vs the originals? is it comfy to emulate or janky because of controls or something?
>>7211251134S fixes some of the original's ungodly RNGfest to marry your waifu (albeit getting their romantic events is still a pain in the ass, especially if you're after Margaret) and unlock the 3rd act of the storyPlus some bonus post marriage content
>>721124339No ost release btw. The banger OP is cursed to never have full version release
>>721125113I play 4S on the steam deck and the controls are pretty similar to the 3DS versionThat being said, if you plug in a switch controller the buttons are swapped for some reason so you should manually swap the face buttons to keep it consistent with what's on the screen
erm... how?
>>721124339Was it really that badI romanced Hina in Azuma and I kinda want to interact with her loli form
is level 100 max level?
>>721126337No
>>721125434I think there's a switch on another map, I don't remember
>>721126337i believe you are 49900 levels off target
>>721126417>>721126570in rf4? the fuck?
>>721126623it's a big game
>>721126623RF4 has some big numbers for you.
Does Bestiary entries in Azuma permanently missable? Theres this one entry in Fleeting Flower Village that I miss. Its between the Mystic Neko and Veggiesqueek entries.Already cleared the area both in night and day and I can't find the missing monster.
>>721126918I'm still not exactly sure what I'm meant to be doing after getting leon and the credits rolling. I'm exploring sechs territory now but no event has tribggered or anything
>>72112662350k>>721127030When I get home I'll check
>>721127134You have to wait 10 days and exit town via the front gate for act 2 to actually start
>>721113525Based and Dollypilled
I just don't want to play as a japanese guy, sorry.
I’ve only played Azuma. What’s better about the previous games? I just see the 3DS visuals and get a bit turned off.
>>721127441oh gotcha sick
>>721127441I got a ton of other shit done though, leveled up basically all my monsters. taking a break now. I need like a palette cleanser game and a bowl. or a bowl and rf4.
>>721127660Only played 3/4/5The crafting and farming has a lot more numbers autism, and some of the games have a bit more character events, and better festivals.
>>721113307I've been itching to get back into the series. I just got a Switch 2 and want to justify my purchase with a new game which points me at Guardians of Azuma. Is the performance jump from the Switch 1 version worth the extra cash?
>>721124339This should have been the best farming game ever.
>>721122873>Rin no you were supposed to give birth to MY child!
I must say, I didn't expect much from the girls going into GoA dead set on Ulalaka.I ended up marrying the silly goddessfailure instead.
>>721130113
>>721113307Marvelous was convinced to add forced gay shit in to 5 and, along with the game being horribly optimized, it did poorly.
>>721127660Azuma is mindnumingly easy. The other games don't have its town building crap, a proper village where everyone has their own homes, more engaging farming, more RPG elements.As an example, Azuma had a smithing skill, but it's almost worthless as you get every recipe in dungeons and the best bonuses only reduce crafting costs. All this for equipment you never have to upgrade because magic is so much stronger.
>>721127660RF4 has big numbers autism and my wife Dolce. RF3 has very fun bachelorettes. RF2 has love rivals. RF1 is kinda barebones compared to the sequels but that's expected.Frontier has a very pretty artstyle, still the nicest-looking 3D game in the series. Oceans has a big titty ara~ara~ airhead and a dark elf meido, and you control a giant rock golem to explore the ocean and enslave monsters to do all the farming for you.
>>721130113which one?
>>721130607>dark elf meido1 and frontier had it too...
>>721127660Holy zoomer
>>721130673Kanata, the lovable child-woman
>>721131381Why is Subaru brown?
SEXWITHSECHS
>>721131768idk, his design is probably inspired by the more melanated Japanese groups
>>721131841You want to sex Ethelberd?
>>721131841You can't fuck an empire anon.
>>721129772is it good at least?
>>721131768He is from fantasy okinawa.
>>721131768He's clearly a member of the Most Powerful Race in the World, and he's there to spread his Flip genes to RF Japan.
>>721131841Nice Cook
I'm going back in
>>721131990
>>721131968Nope. It barely even runs on the console it was made for.
>>721131990>>721132058Why did these developers from Japan, a former Axis Power, decide to make the National Socialist girl so cute?
how many days in the field until your monsters get tired and is there any consequence to them being tired and just swapping them out when you see the shit above their heads?
>>721132653they are finally noticing the deception, trickery, and grift that has been going on for decades
>>721132653They wanted to see an aryan get black'd
>>721127030I just checked, I'm missing it too
>>721134067I hope its not a one time encounter during the main quest. Some enemies can't be fought anymore once you finish the main quest in that area.Seems there are some hidden spots in the map where theres one enemy that will spawn. Only found it out when I need to hunt Mystic Neko during a Personal Quest
It's the weekend and the gods are going to get drunk
>>721136048That implies there are times the Gods aren't drunk
>>721114363>4 has the most complexity, but at the same time planted the seeds for the worst entryOceans came before 4 though.
>>721136048
>>721136298bottomless cups...
>>721107141>You can be a fag (for both genders) but that's about as far anything woke goes.Why are you lying? The male mc is brown and you can literally breed and racemix the Nazi Aryan Princess. There’s also mutt shilling with Pilika and Matsuri is also brown.
>>721136749He's a Japanese dude. No shit he's not white
>>721136792Dont respond to autism unless its gameplay autism, please.
>>721136298Jesus, she must be the most stacked potential wife in a RF game in ages.
Azuma's rudimentary pregnancy tester, Woolby
>>721113307my first and only game so far has been RF5. It was really fun but I was disappointed I couldn't marry Misasagi so I just beat the game and never replayed it.
>>721137051I'm partway through 4 and obviously am playing 3 next. it's so fucking good. wish I knew about it when I had a 3ds
>>721137201personally i'm taking a good long break before touching guardians of azuma. the experience of proposing to misasagi and her reaction being "don't make fun of me" before dropping it on the ground and walking away was devastating.
>>721137201>>721137334
>>721137334As is tradition.
>>721113525Imagine being a farmer's wife who hates vegetables
Rin is so fucking flat. She should be DLC, Pilika should have been part of the main game.
Who is the "easiest" girl in RF4 & 5?My wife in 3 is content with the colorful grass that spawns every day in the backyard.I remember feeding Forte all the eggs, was there anyone easier?
>>721137334rf5 sounds honestly so fucking terrible. like some sick joke of a video game. I will never play it. I will be a 3 and 4 simp and the rest of the series can suck my dick. there is gold here. gold. but it is limited
>>721138518Amber is similar, she likes flowers, fruit, juice, honey.Maybe I'll get to playing 5 one day.
>>721138518Flan is Dolce's favorite food and all it takes is one milk and one egg
>>721125475If you play RF3/4, you can tell how soulless RF5 is.
>Amnesia protagonist>Unfuckable dragon/hag/female friend>Sech empire being evil>Turnip as your tutorial crop>NTRNow what kind of flavor would you add?
>>721138641>implying any other game in the series would let you fuck a big tittied MILF
>>721139423it doesn't matter. badly moving into 3d is a red flag, I downloaded it and played it for like an hour a while back and the voice acting and characters were so fucking gay it was like it was made for 9 year olds or something. I can't stand when games get that gay anime-ish super infantile tone. 4 has none of that and it's actually good. that's just my experience. there might be something to love but that and being pozzed as fuck and made at a time when every game was some political declaration of war against straight white men, no thanks. 4 and 3 it is for me, thanks
>>721138725Her favorite gifts are fucking insane to make up for it, same with Shoe Pie
I just got first place in the Turnip Fury. I'm a literal fucking God gamer
>>721139678They both love that high level flower but it's still really fast to get their hearts up with gifts that don't require any crafting. A lot of it you find constantly outdoors.
please nothing but different styles of forte artwork. please. I'm working on a collection
>>721140061
>>721140140thank you. please, go on.
>>721140189
>>721140305this is great. do you have any more concept work for rf4?
>>721138328She unironically has more presence and story role than some of the other townies. I wonder why she isn't even acknowledged as one of the town regulars with their own profile and whatnot.
this is sick as I'm playing btw
>>721115121She could still suck you off while fully asleep...
>>721140390That's fan art anon. but thanks
Lock Forte in the mansion and throw away the key
RF1 special with the phone spinoff scenarios implemented when.
>>721113307Which RF: GoA girl has the hairiest, smelliest minge?
>>721140521She can just teleport out tho
And that's about it. I think, don't have much forte stuff
>>721140519well it's sick. does anyone have concept art? would love to see some
>>721140552Unequip her teleport spell and lock her in the mansion.
>>721140537
>>721140554
>>721140554>>>721140521can you find one tastefully seductive and mostly nude for me. thank you again. no reason btw
>>721140594
Weaponized dorkiness is powerful
>>721139591I have about 150 hours in RF5 and I wouldn't recommend it. It's just so much of a downgrade compared to 4 and 3. I will admit it has some positives over 3, like the main story actually lasting a decent amount of time. And you may ask why I spent 150 hours on a game I didn't think was good. It's because it took god damn forever to get married and have a kid, and secondly because I learned how to fly in the game so I did retarded shit.
>>721140454You think if you waved it in front of her while she slept she would smell it and latch on?>>721140541Pilikers
>>721140714this isn't forte? it's some fucking skank
>>721140407I'm really disappointed the side characters don't have their own events. They can be party members and everything, but they're mostly in the background. I'm not saying to be able to romance Hisui or anything, though I wouldn't be against it. But it's a waste of my nigga Sakaki.
>>721140648
>>721140808>I'm not saying to be able to romance Hisui or anythingI amGive me the hag romance(real, no pussying out with her young form)
>>721140707Pilika is not even half animal, she wouldn't be hairy
>>721140537>>721140596>Literal Queen of Elves and is pretty much incarnation of sex that suddenly sprouted two legs and walked>Left her kingdom to work as and dress up like a literal old maidWhat the fuck was her problem
>>721140891She'll suck you dry of your shekels
>>721140896Anon you can't bait images of her fluffy ears out of me, I have none
>>721140928Being a maid servant?
>>721140928>Literal Queen of ElvesIt's actually funny that Raguna has multiple royalty riding on his cock. That's on top of his cock being royal itself.I miss when we weren't forced to play as poorfag dirt eating peasants.
>>721141016There's characters with both ears and tails, she's not one of them. don't be dumb
Which deity should I put a baby in? Kurama?
>>721140714wait is that forte? no foolin
>>721141072Fubuki is always asking for it
Is it worth to get the new runes game, guardians of azuma? Currently I'm having a lot of fun with rune factory frontier, really like this cozy village setting
>>721141276Its good, less in depth regarding farming because no soil quality and such, has slightly better combat, girls are good, pink succubus has massive milkers
>>721140707Undoubtedly. She's a sleepwalker and she can do most chores while asleep so she'd totally be able to suck you off or even ride you while she's snoring loudly.
>>721141276Cozy village vibes are no more, instead there's multiple villages you are constantly warping around. And there's almost no interiors, so no home visits.
>>721140714>>721140752>>721141194Nta but I am that anon which umm character m-might this be in this ph-ph-photog-g-raph?
>>721141069Raguna is a richfag larping as a peasant, Lest/Frey are poorfags larping as richfags. Dunno about Azuma, are the protags rich pre-amnesia?
>>721141506Wait didnt she also say something about wanting kids?Imagine going to bed only to wake to her wringing kids out of you while she's still asleep, her body just acting on the subconscious desire to breed
>>721141778Their village is a half dead shithole like 99% of Azuma before (We) show up
>>721141990> like 99% of AzumaIt's specifically just the region that got Celestial Hiroshima'd. Tons of characters talk about the Capital which is far more functional and populated.Actually, does Azuma refer to Not!Japan as a whole, or is it just the shithole region the game takes place in? Kind of like how the mainline numbered games take place in certain cities/regions that are just a small part of the Norad Kingdom as a whole (which in turn is just one Kingdom in the continent of Adonea itself)
>>721142161They sure treat Azuma as referring to the whole region
>>721117767Sometimes I get filled with the dread that someone will make one of these with the shitty English dub voices and I'll have to hear it because I won't realize until it's already playing
>Azuma and Grand Bazaar remake both much better than their predecessors RF5 and POOTMarvelous farming bros, are we fucking BACK?!
finally made it to sercerezo hill. fuck yeah
>>721142541We are re-entering the good timeline
>>721142161The capital is the 1%
>>721142562ok how tf do I manage all of these fields?
>>721142721teleporting with the ship wheel thing
>all we had to do was have faithRF6 might be the start of the golden eraThere could be hags and colossal milkers over there...
Beauty
>>721142898has a series ever successfully unpozzed itself? I really don't think so
>>721140714I was joking before but I literally don't know who this is, I only know the in game models lmao
>>721143274Forte
>>721143414God bless you
>>721143414From the hit Rune Factory Series?
>npc housewife isn't just architecting her husband, but is practically trying to fatten up everyone in townholy kek
For me, its Yellow.
>>721142161Where's my wife from?
>>721144148>Japanese folklore is filled with all sorts of cute monster girls>RF game set in notjapan doesn't have a single cute monster girl
>>721144414
>>721144414I'm really sad GoA didnt have a big oni gf or somethingOr a yuki onnaOr big ghost lady or somethingAnd the cat hag isnt marriable
>>721144532I meant actual monsters you can beat up and enslave into your farms anon.
>>721144629
>>721144715I still can't put her to work on the fields.I like seeing monsters walk around my fields instead of some retarded bumfuck villager.Ironically, monsters in the past games are much better at following instructions than the goddamn villagers, who I fucking swear actively work towards ruining your fields.
Enjoy your Saturdays anons!
>>721145525
>>721129482Yes, the difference is very noticeable both in visuals and performance, which goes to 60fps. Plus mouse mode is very convenient for farming.
>>721144117I think it might be the first game in a while where Ive been actively trying to know the villagers. Even in Azuma I ignored everyone except the three girls I wanted to marry
>>721142161It's kinda funny how they have a whole apocalyptic event confined to a relatively small region. It would usually involve the entire world, but I guess it suits the vibe of Rune Factory.
>>721142541Titanic Scion is also much better than the first Daemon X Machina, too bad nobody fucking bought it should've done an emergency delay out of Silksong's release date.
I fucking love this game so fucking much bros
>>721146696not hairy enough
>>7211133074 is good but I just don't like home base
>>721146838
>>721146696not naked enough
>>721146756I want to get it. Boughtered the first DxM when I saw it for 5.99 at my local game store and had a decent amount of fun. It's been a rough summer though with Azuma, Silksong and Bazaar and Silent Hill and Hotel Barcelona coming up as well. Will probably be my Christmas self-gift, hopefully it'll be cheaper by then
>>721147218UNKEMPTSWEATYSUMMERBUSH
>>721146696Think of it as just having the white house nuked or something.The setting of the Azuma games seemed to be the "divine" region of the country and where the deities resided. But it was explicitly spelled out that the center of population, infrastructure and commerce of the country itself took place in a completely different place i.e. the capital. The actual central administrative and military power of the country itself seems to be doing just fine even after getting the gods hiroshima'd.Assuming Azuma's history mirrored Japan itself, then the parallels make a lot more sense. Because there came a point where the Shogun was the actual ruler of the country that handled day to day affairs while the Emperor was more just a cultural/spiritual head. If the Azuma gods were fulfilling the role of the Emperor in real history, then the situation in Azuma becomes much more believable.
uh oh...
>>721147769I know its not exactly a serious game but jesus christ
>>721147769Get raped fag! I'm level like 100 something I might be op now
>RF 4 release date 2012>RF 5 release date July 2022I wonder what the fuck were they thinking when they disbanded the OG Rune Factory team, 2016 to 2022 were the time when battle farming sims or cozy games took a boom not mentioning the covid buff, even kickstarters shit for these type of games racked shitton of money
Is RF4 Special on steam good? I heard there were fairly annoying audio bugs on release, is that still the case?
>>721147907>fuck, lords of magna flopped>quick, make rune factory 5>fug :DDDD how does unity worg :DDDD
>>721147907It was their best selling game but everything was garbage.
>>721147812>its not exactly a serious gameOne thing that RF5 glossed over and didn't dwell too much on outside brief references is that the collapse of Sex actually caused a continental war of sorts in Adonea. Gideon spergs out about how there were tons of death, suffering, brothers turned on fellow brothers etc. WAR IS HELL and all that.Things calmed down by the time RF5 happened, but some crazy shit happened in the 4-5 decades between RF4 and RF5. Thanks Lest/Frey. Thanks Venti.
rune factory thread in anno domini 2025? RF6 is around the corner or something?
>>721146423Having the villagers have their own inter-npc bonding scenes which only trigger when you befriend them all was a very nice touch in incentivizing people to interact with them, and just fleshing out the town in general outside of their interactions with (You)Only thing I wish the game had now was Rival marriages alongside the already existing tival events
>>721148013You have to think how much worse everything would have been if Ethelberd went through with his batshit planIt would've most likely triggered a celestial-collapse level event for Adonea considering that Venti would've been dead and Adonea's runes would've all been siphoned up to either power Ethelwill or the Sechs's magitekIt would've made Shinra and Midgar look like a utopia
>>721148013Blowing up Sechs unironically probably caused an immigration crisis of war refugees. Other countries also tried filling in the power vacuum that Sechs left, or tried pillaging Sech technology for their own agendas. Hell, Frontier showed that Norad isn't exactly filled with goody two shoes either. Powerhungry madmen knows no country.Meanwhile, the survivors of the Sech royal family fled up to their world's equivalent of the north pole only for them to get nearly wiped out by some random edgy japanese furry.
>>721148013Literally not my problem. They should be thanking me for ensuring the whole continent stays fertile because the super dragon stayed on the planet instead of fucking off to the FoB
>>721148013is the protagonist of the first game still alive
>>721148284>RF5 takes place like 70+ years after RF1Extremely unlikely, but not impossible
>>721148284If he is, he's a 100+ year old mummy
>>721148284There's a good 80 years or so between Azuma and RF1 so not unlikely, but probably not.
>>721113514>>721114302Nice, might have to come back for more. >>721113307>There is nothing deeper or more rewarding than this?Sakuna is a lot deeper. Fantastic game too
>>721148119Yeah, same, I also wish rival marriages were still a thing. I think they could even do it without people complaining, when I saw that interaction between June and the other girl about the necklace I thought "man the tumblr girls will for sure ship them"
We should go back to the RF1 timeline, I want to play as Ivan and see where he and Raguna came from.
>>721148428no the otaku and yumejos will froth from the moth and shed tears of blood, the very thought a single speck of ash marring the beauty of pure undriven snow
this series has been offputting to me because all of the waifus look very childlike or like teenagers, why dont we get any matured fridge bodies like the male marriage options
>>721148496Yeah, I want to know more about the earthmate group/kingdom/whatever
>>721148428They are shipping them yeah, along with Samir and Arata, but eh I think their actual rival ships, June/Derek and Arata/Diana are better, though Lloyd/Sophie is way on top
>>721148496>>721148587They're just high nobles from Norad, what with being related to the King, not some other country
My personal headcanon is that the hubris of mortals and Earthmates is what led to the current state of Adonea with Fiersome awakening to finally hit that cosmic kill switch.Sechs and Norad started dabbling in crazy rune research and were playing God.On Sech's side, this resulted in their invasion plan which led to the forceful awakening of Terrable to a still undestroyed world.On Norad's side, we got the crazy manmade monsters we saw in Frontier and the forceful life support of Ventuswill way past her expiration date, a process which sacrificed both monsters and humans.Meanwhile, Aquaticus was being a retarded faggot asshole NEET. The cosmic order of the universe finally got tired of everyone's shit and started ringing Fiersome's alarm bells for it to hit the reset button, only to get thwarted by literal children.On a related note, Viatrea/Mihoshi looked an awful lot like Terrable's true form who we only saw the silhouette of in RF1's ending. And Viatrea is some kind of Flower Dragon thing. Which is thematically in line with being an Earth Dragon. Terrable and Viatrea were probably siblings or some shit. Except Viatrea was probably the shitter underperforming sibling so they told it to fuck off and die in some obscure eastern shithole.
>>721148428It feels like they wanted to do rival pairings in Azuma too:>Matsuri/Murasame>Ulalaka/Fubuki (or Fubuki/Clarice)>Kai/Kanata>Hina/Mauro
>>721148428>>721148527Honestly they should just do like they did back in Animal Parade and have one of the characters from the possible couple come to you and ask you if they should go for it, it gives the chance to tell them no if they're after the one you want or are the one you want and they could even have it be in stages so it starts with them maybe becoming friends to help the sort who feel cucked just by their waifu looking someone in the eye while saying hello feel less like they're in danger.
>>721148738This is how Viatrea looks btw. See the resemblance to the Silhouette?
>>721145525She is going to show up in a future game and be about 10 to 15 years older to be a potential bachelorette and she'll still be the best girl in that game.
>>721148610To be fair I can see why they'd think that, I just hope Marvelous is testing the waters to see if they can get away with rival marriages coming back if they give the yaoi and yurifags something
>>721148696I still want to see the place.
>>721148738>>721148827And following the same justifications of the Native Dragons having real bigger forms that aren't the ones we necessarily fight in-game, you could argue that Ventuswill's true divine form is that weird gigantic flying whale dragon thing you fought in RF4's main story final boss. >Fatass whale dragon>Imagines her idealized human form to be a cute and petite human loliLike pottery
>>721148428>NTR more popular than ever.>But they got rid of rival marriages in both the SoS and RF games.It's rough out there these days...
>>721149016I really wish they'd do an official memoirs 2, or something similar.
>>721148738Viatrea is the Native Dragon of LoveThe only element that is conveniently missing a dragon, and the Azuma MC's special personal artifact just so happens to be love element.
>>721149057I can accept fatfagsI can accept footniggersI cannot accept cucks
>>721148785>they should just do like they did back in Animal Parade and have one of the characters from the possible couple come to you and ask you if they should go for it, it gives the chance to tell them no if they're after the one you want or are the one you wantGrand Bazaar basically does that already except rival events only start after you're married, so saying no to them even then is just letting the player be pretty and keep their favorite from falling for somebody else even when they aren't fucking them this timeline
Or you know, do what FE did and let you set up your bros if you want to
>>721149480Only if everyone has their own farm/shop and you can plan marriages to minmax the next generation.
>>721148827You do get to properly talk to it in the forest of endings though, and it acts more like a divine protocol program, saying it has no concrete form and its current appearance is just what people think it should be
>>721149480How many events would that be if they let all the candidates marry each other including gays and every combi had their own love/marriage event
>>721150429Obviously their events wouldnt be as elaborate, you're not participating after all, just looking in as a bystanderProbably also not make everyone pair with everyone, just give each one like 3 options
>>721150429Stop making everyone gay because that's just lazy pandering.
Who is more basic, Forte or Margaret ?
>>721149174what about me? I like black women
>>721150971Depends if they're the hot kind or the ugly kind.
>>721150429it doesnt make sense if they all can marry each other. just make canon alt couples, throw in a gay couple and a lesbian couple (just being realistic here) and then not all of them even have to have kids
Elf wife
>>721151156Could always go the RF2 route where there's a designated "spare" character too
>>721150936Forte
>>721151156On the other hand, add a bunny girl bachelorette like Rin an make it so that she has 5+ children.
>>721151156Just don't introduce gays, and make kids a thing again like AP to justify everyone's straightness
Can't choose between Clorica and Dolce...
>>721151475You have multiple save files for a reason
>>721149480It's such a western mindset."It's weird that this game allows me to date whoever I want. Instead of that, the girls should date other people."You see it all over the place, even in games like FFXIV, where Westerners get sqeamish if girls (only girls, guys are fine) show interest in the player character, and so they desperately try ship every available girl with someone else instead.
>>721151412never played animal parade. thinking about emulating it on my deck. would the lack of wii gimmicks be a problem?
>>721148428>>721148785Or just do the simplest thing in the world and setup pairing storylines among non-romanceable NPCs, while leaving the romanceable ones single. That way everyone's happy.Stardew Valley did that a little with Lewis and Marnie.
>>721151475There's a really cute conversation where Pico makes you pick between Dolce or Clorica.
>>>721151667I remember the game working fine enough when I remapped some of the wiimote based controls to some other button on the controllerThe main problem I had with the game was certain spots just being laggy as fuck compared to other parts of the game, which hot obnoxious
>>721151567>everyone should be alone forever except for me and my waifuThere is no point to this, youre already married, you cant have anyone else, there are no harems here bozoThere is literally no reason why you shouldnt allow anyone else to get married and have familiesIf the idea of a female character finding love elsewhere AFTER YOURE ALREADY WITH SOMEONE ELSE bothers you, you are beyond insecure and should consider therapyI see this muh cuckery muh ntr argument shat out all the time and it makes no sense, how would your wife feel about you getting all pissy about her friends finding love?Do you not love your wife anon?Is she not enough for you?You fucking disgust me.
>will have to wait who knows how many months for GB to get a additional content patch like AzumaIt hurts...Though admittedly it doesn't need it quite as much since the game has a lot more stuff to work towards vs Azuma were you can achieve everything major in a year, and complete all side quests in 2 years
>>721152127There comes a point when you have to let it go, anon. It's not like there's a shortage of games to play.
I only played a week in spring in RF5 and my main personal complaint is that the owner of the bathhouse is absent most of the time, so I can't level up crafting or cooking skills fast. Maybe there is some solution with some early fish or food recipe being a source of RP but I don't know anything about it.
I'm getting burnt out, should I just start skipping days until I can finally pop the question
Frontier > 1 > Oceans > 4 > 2 > 3 > nuFactoryMist > Witch girl > Other main girls > Store girl > vaguely oriental girl > fishing girl > vampires, etc.
>>721154821I didn't know turnips could post on 4chan.
>>721131841Don't do that, they're pure evil.
>>721154738Sure if you don't have anything else to do.Also coward game not letting us marry Porco for real.
>>721113307Stardew Valley is gay because all of the NPCs are subtly shitty people, on purpose, for "muh realismums".
>>721117689I can understand the doctor's wife because he lives in the town, but ain't no way we shouldn't have been able to marry and impregnate Fa Li
>>721156343>Fa LiWhomst
>>721156452The innkeeper. Forgot her damn name.
>>721156343I'm pretty sure she's still MARRIED and the dude comes around for some sidequests.
>>721156690Lin Fa
>>721157114It's like once, and he's a generic NPC. Fuck 'em.
>>721156343Her husband is a bucket seller or something.
>>721082556Here, pretend this is in-game.
>>721144414>RF game set in notjapan doesn't have a single cute monster girlTry your luck with technically-not-indie games.The demo's gameplay wasn't very good, unfortunately.
>>721158293where would one find images like this one? asking for a friend of course
>>721144414All the monsters are men, which just reinforces the idea that all of the bachelors in GoA would have been fine women
>>721113307Are these games fun if I don’t care about dating sim waifu weebshit? I like runescape style progression and dungeon stuff, is it worth checking out 4 on my 3ds for just that
>>721158776There's plenty of numbers autism if that's what you want. Skill levels, soil stats, crop optimization, unexpectedly intricate crafting mechanics, and so on. It's kind of easy but you can crank the difficulty if you want.
>>721158532It's from this pixiv gallery: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/132671089The same artist has done several including a futa sex one.
>>721158776RF4 is literally runescape in animu form, go play it right now fucker
>>721144117I wish the Harvest Moon artstyle wasn't so unappealing.
>>721157980Sounds like he's a scam artist.
Maybe I should have been doing this shop thing sooner
>>721160507Just power through it.the actual gameplay loop of preparing for the bazaar blowing all your splooge gaining shit tons of money during the day itself is fun enough to make up for anything
>>721162782after a certain point you gain stupid amounts of money just doing your regular farming and cooking work that selling on a stand just seems like a hassle
>>721162782What was that one meme strat people mentioned in the threads, something about using monster elephant's move that sucks up people closer to you, so you don't waste as much time while trading, was that a real thing? I've seen hello cancelling in that Xiao Pai tomato webm, so that ones is definitly real.
Any recommended mods for 4?
>>721163235yep, get yourself an elephant and force everybody around you to purchase your gold juice, that's how I got my 2bil cash stack back in the day
>>721154821>Oceans and 1 that high>Over 4 yet tooSupremely weird taste…
>>721163235>hello cancellingkokokokokokokonichiwa
does hell difficulty further increase monster aggro? it feels like these things zero down on you almost immediately. easy mode they're just lazily wandering the map most of the time
>>721164338It's goodMight want to wait for the new content patch they're working on to release though
>Maekawa states that the text-volume of RF Guardians of Azuma is the largest of any in-house Marvelous developed game.>They don't want to streamline too much elements in the number mainlines. Their focus is to refine and improve upon the last.>Maekawa and Fujii want Guardians of Azuma to continue as its own sub-series. The numbered games will be set in Adonea while GoA entries will be set in Azuma. They're committing to the whole East and West bit.>Maekawa and Fujii are aware of the numerous competition on Steam in the fantasy farm life genre and want to draw inspiration from places where they feel is the most appropriate, citing that RF has a lot of potential.>Maekawa namedropped Hashimoto. He refers to an old interview with him, in which he described RF as "Wouldn't it be great if you could keep living in the world after defeating the Demon Lord in an RPG?". Maekawa states his full intention of wanting to keep Hashimoto's original vision going forward, while still innovating and evolving the series.Neato, though I wonder were the fuck do we go from here on the Azuma side of things after we basically fixed the big crisis of the region
Hey so iv played all the RF games and saw elranatos or whatever its called by the dame director. Is it any good or just boring? Also any good farming sims like azuma on switch or ps5? Iv played graveyard keeper and the new harvest moon and stardew
>>721164923Could try Fields of Mistria though that's still in early accessIt's a fantasy world farming game with fighting and adventuring in the mines
>>721164338It's not too much like a traditional RF. Farming takes a backseat, and difficulty modes might as well not exist.
squeeb
What is it that makes Dolce an appealing character? Is it her violent nature?
>>721148003You just made me remember I bought Lords of Magna off my local pawn shop years and years ago and I still haven't touched it.
>>721164923>elranatos or whatever its called by the dame director. Is it any goodNoIf you don't need the fantasy fighting stuff check out the Story of Season games if you haven't.
Based. Morning everyone. Ready to load up rf4
>>721113525Based Dolcefag
>>721148428>Fight for affection>Now I have to do it in my comfy farm gameIt would make for like a grand total of 5 minutes of entertainment but honestly fuck that shit
>>721147769
man it's such a shame they dropped the ball so fucking hard after 4. is there honestly any hope for 6? or is it just gonna be pulling a barb level pozzed
>>721168312Anime conditioned incels into thinking that abuse = affection.
>>721169568Sofia enjoyer spotted, welcome brother!
>>721142541I'm so happy about that. It wasn't looking good but they really turned things around for both.
Didn't special butcher/censor the dialogue? I remember most mentions of violence being changed to some random thing.
>>721160507I like it. The game looks really pretty to me.
>>721160507It used to be good. The artist really fell off.
>>721160507It's ok but you know what's better than ok? The ANB/SoS/3oT style. Why the FUCK did they go back to chibishit
I really want Mistria to quit early access, looks fun and I love the waifus. A bit skeptical though, I backed Sunnyside because it looked like the perfect farming game for me with big worlds and realistic farming and vehicles and all that and it wasnt good at all and the devs pretty much abandoned the game after blaming the publisher
>>721168791nigga youd have the power. Im not talking about ntr, if you want to marry a girl you would always be able to do it, its just that the other waifus you dont like also deserve a husband and a family
>an entire event dedicated to monster battles with the townspeopleYou could do so much with this, it's crazy that they only made it a one time thing. With daily gifts you can modify your monsters to have access to nearly every stat in the game. You can stack every status ailment, every elemental resistance, crit, knockback and of course they share the same max level as you do. I'm tempted to go for a monster battler-only playthrough.Also>that buddy battle reward
>>721171792It took 3 games for me to finally back a My Time At game because I didn't want to get ganked like that.
>>721113307i married margaretanyone else?
>>721171792Mistria is so terrible though, the only combat you see is in those procedurally generated mines, all the villagers are boring, the story is nonexistent and the days pass in like 5 seconds also>10+ pronouns.jpg
>>721174032Mist > Witch girl > Other main girls > Store girl > vaguely oriental girl > fishing girl > Book girl > Ojou > Elf girl > Vampires, etc.
>>721174213the farm sim genre seems to be incredibly cursed, there are a million of these games out now and 99.99% of them are irredeemable garbage
Have there ever been Rune Factory figures? I'd buy them for the entirety of Azuma's cast except maybe Mauro.
>>721174449Mistria tricked a lot of people with the old anime style but it couldn't be any different
do I dare buy 5 on sale?
Hot
>>721175217Little rough, don't you think?
>>721169408>man it's such a shame they dropped the ball so fucking hard after 4.Azuma was good though…
>>721168350Thanks for reminding me about that game.
>>721163289If you want the vanilla graphics still, there's a map fixes mod to fix some of the visual bugs
>>721170059Not 4
>>721173065Not really judging you but havent the first two My Time games been hits? Why would they need another kickstarter? I checked and they got like 3 million dollarydoos too plus whatever they get on sales when it comes out plus whatever Phil Spencer pays them when it inevitably comes to Game Pass so I hope they don't do it a fourth time
>>721151308are very important.
>>721142541Too bad they're still in the red thanks to their largest game, Daemon X Machina, flopping hard.
>>721174032Of course I married the manga canon wife.
>>721178486oh she's the one they chose for the manga?incredibly good taste
>>721176494Who knows, but I'm not opposed to giving them more upfront if it means they can make a better game with it.
>>721178726You get to see a number of the girls in cute outfits too.
>>721179014That's from the nintendo dream comic.
>>721179173Whoops. Got them mixed up.
>>721179014Ugly daughterbeater hag in the back trying to blend in
>>721180292>daughterbeaterWhat
>>721180449Amber is my daughterfu
>>721118076>is it like etrian odyssey where there's only one good entry?Those are fighting words you know. Out of the curiosity though, which one is that?
>>721146423Same for me. I've grown to really like all of them.
>>721146423One of Azuma's biggest failings is that the non-romanceable characters are borderline pointless. You won't miss out on anything if you never speak to them again after getting to rank 3 for birthday presents.
>>721180449Lumie bitchslaps Amber for stealing seeds from the shop
>>721174032Me too. Took an annoying amount of soft resetting to get the required events though. Because I'm funny I named our daughter after an instrument.
>>721181352The only reason I ever go inside is to talk to Amber
>>721174032Me too, she won me over far harder than any of the other girls
I'm enjoying Oceans a lot more than I was expecting
>>721181308rank 6 for cook together recipes, a number of them are loved dishes for the candidates.
>>721182602A lot of people didn't like it for the same reasons that they didn't like Azuma (at first): they were expecting a mainline RF and were unhappy with the lack of farming and things of that nature
>>721181649https://youtu.be/o2hVRV931l8?si=Ey1Y-KhCGXSXHD-NVery fitting.
>>721141276I'm the exact opposite.I already finished GoA a d now playing Frontier.Honestly Frontier is so much better even though it's dated.If you like the comfy vibe don't buy Azuma.It's nothing like Frontier.
>>721182602It was my first Rune Factory and I hadn't played Harvest Moon since over a decade before getting it so I didn't have any expectations and ended up liking it too.
>>721154821I can understand Oceans and Frontier so high but why 3 so low?
>>721182909It's the opposite for me, Azuma starts out fine enough but it quickly shows how shallow it is compared to the older games. The village stuff is just a hassle, and it doesn't have many of the series staples you come to expect.
>>721131841>blonde>military uniformit was a no brainer when i saw her
>>721182976>ywn have children with margaretfuck... FUUUUUUUCK
>>721131841For me it's Lynette
>>721113525Ritual posters are mentally ill, but Dolce drives me crazy too so i get it.
>>721119241me on the right.
>>721172030Monsters are easy mode since you can easily cheese the game with themTame Typhoon and it will carry you for the rest of the game, then in the post game you can just crank the difficulty to max and tame any monster in the post game dungeon (though the giant fairies are really strong picks), then lower the difficulty back to normal then they will carry you throughout the post game dungeon.
>>721119790double the bachlorettes though. 3 was the only game where i legit had a hard time choosing which girl was best. adding male romance options was a mistake.
>>721188181I don't mind male romance, a lot of women are into farming games, it's the fact that everyone is playersexual that bothers me. I know it must be a hassle but I like the Cyberpunk approach of having a gay guy, a lesbian and a straight female and male. The % is off, in my ideal game there'd be like uhhh 6 straight bachelorettes, 2 bi bachelorettes, 2 lesbian bachelorettes, 4 straight guys and like 1 gay guy. And they dont hit on you if you dont do it first.
>>721188181>3 was the only game where i legit had a hard time choosing which girl was best.because they were all shit due to being terrible one-note caricatures
>>721164338Rune Factory has two styles, even if the second style is less common. Mainline meaning any numbered game where the game is mostly building on the previous numbered game in some way, with 5 having been the first time that didn't really work out like it should have.And spinoffs like Azuma or Tides Frontier kind of is halfway in between where they're clearly experimenting harder for better or worse which can cause certain things that you're used to being a focus being less of one such as crop development or item customization. Types of marriageable waifu also seems to be something they like to experiment with in the spin-off ones.Azuma does a good job of being fun and some of the things it tried experimenting with like the villager management and town development are kind of alright and would be interesting to see developed more solidly.
>>721188842We should have an option to select our preference before starting the game. But that'd require double the writing so uhhh never gonna get it.
>>721188181They put like three times more work in the 6 girls from 4 than they put in the entire cast from 3What's the point of having 12 choices if they get one casual dialogue line a season and jack shit post game?Compare Dolce's 5 hours dialogue (I think she has the most out of the guys and girls in 4) vs Kuruna's 2.5 (the girl with the most in 3)https://youtu.be/I-o5rgu668Uhttps://youtu.be/Pgxa4B_l0ToThis guy's channel has everybody's. Tides and Frontiers have a pitiful amount with 1.5 hours of dialogue per candidate AT THE MOSThttps://www.youtube.com/@houcha/videos
>>721189117*5 hours of dialoguefug :DDD
>>721188956>with 5 having been the first time that didn't really work out like it should have.Ahem, your 2?
>>721189117Wait, I was wrongKarina has the most in 3 at 3 hoursIt's funny that with the exception of Dolce, the candidates they give the most dialogue are some of the least popular. 4's second most is Kiel, for example
It's incredibly funny to me that every single time I see someone bring up wanting to marry Lin Fa they can't even remember her name
>>721189117Keep in mind these videos only do the actual events and dates. It doesn't include any of the day-to-day dialogue, story dialogue, group conversations, inclusions in other town and character events etc.
is there ever a quotable number of how much men vs womins play these games.
>>721192606not reallyThe english speaking forums seemed split, even since back in the dayfogu is/was chock full of bio women, gamefaqs had more men
>>721178726There's multiple manga adaptations. Another one went with Dolce and, IIRC, one had Frey with Dylas.
>>721194672There's only one proper manga, and that had Lest paired with Margaret. The nintendo dream comic had Lest and Frey simultaneously and paired them with Dolce and Dylas.
I played 3 Special. It was such a waste the live2D was only used in the after story. I didn't have a good reaction with seeing how nice it looked.
>>721195189And the final boss's dialogue made no sense if you picked Pia.
>>721195189it's a very strange remaster with lots of effort put into the visuals at all of the wrong times and no effort put into improving the base game
>>721195286Or Raven. Or Kuruna.
>>721195286Nobody picks Pia.
>>721195286>>721196082You're still different races, sheep should fuck sheep. Not fish, birds or horses
>>721189349I wonder how many people here actually played 1 and 2.
>>721195286The story was an obvious afterthought in pretty much every way. 4's wasn't exactly good but you can tell they at least actually tried in comparison.
>>721196731My first Rune Factory was 2, all the way back in the day. I preordered it from gamestop after reading about 1 on fogu's forumsI still have it somewhere
>>721188842I mind male romance because it openly and directly reduces the amount of female romance. I don't have a problem with farming games appealing to women, but i do have a problem with it coming at a clear cost to me as a consumer. Should save that split for harvest moon, Rune Factory being a fantasy RPG obviously appeals more to men than women anyway.
>>721188842>having a gay guy, a lesbian and a straight female and maleThis is absolutely a recipe for disaster and would piss off many more people than a playersexual option. It would fuel the animus of canthavefags. Especially since they almost could've had them, but the devs made their favorite character gay or whatever. Could you even imagine the shitshow if they remade RF4 with Venti romanceable, but only by Frey?>>721197175I don't mind the series having a female mc with her own options. Just make her a second-class citizen like Tides did.
>>721196731I played both but never finished either of them, I remember getting past the winter cave for RF1 and reaching at least gen 2 for 2 before peaceing out
Are you really not fine with the amount of romance options and quality as Azuma? Eight characters per gender are a lot even if you intend to ignore the same-sex options.
>>721199757It's the same person or perhaps a small group of people who cry and cry about it. They use the same arguments and type the same way. They stick out like a sore thumb, same as anti-rival-fag from the azuma threads
>>721196731not me. I'm obsessed with 4s and just bought 3 what the fuck is rune factory 1 and 2?
>>7212000721 and 2 are kino.
>>721200072ah Rune Factory 1... now that was a good game
>>721196731ME :DI was very lonely in my youth :(
>>721201684She was always there to keep you company
>>721196738>they actually tried in 4>only to completely shit on the very themes they were developing come Act 3Fucking writers
>>721202250>tfw shortly after Frontier Raguna went on to ghost her, and everyone else he knows for at least a decade if not more What an ass
I don't care much for RF1 but frankly I wish RF2 would get some kind of special version with the updated gameplay from 3 and 4 because frankly it was the RF that made me love the series.Palermo Temple best ost.
>>721196171
>>721203431I'll give her a squid alright.
>>721203431
What are some services a mother and daughter can provide?
>>721196738>NOOOOOOOO MUH VENTI WE MUST SACRIFICE EVERY TO SAVE HER EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE INTERACTED WITH HER FOR 5 MINUTESX3000 timesI'm not so sure honestly, RF3's story only really has that flaw, the rest is solid
>>721208551The kind the dragons don't want you knowing about.
Bump limit, oh yeah.
>>721203431The smile makes it better.
>>721212239It seems pretty fishy.
>>721196731I did.I like 1 a lot. It's insanely outdated but still enjoyable.Same with 2, not a fan of being blocked from half the game until I get my children though.
