Clorica edition
Fubuki mating press!
>>737656436
RF6 news...When...
Dead series that got co opted by women.
>>737656436I finished RF4 recently and I liked it. I just think it was underwhelming that you just kind of go to the end of rune prana, have a schizo conversation, and when you're back Ventuswill is just there and "fuck you, you beat the game". I liked the fact that you can actually get married and have a child that is an actual character. Unfortunately, I was only able to accomplish that once I had finished the game, because this mechanic of random town events is completely fucking retarded and I only got all the necessary events to marry Forte right at the end when I had nothing to do except take care of plants and sleep until they grew so I could level them up with the scythe, so once I married Forte and had a kid I just closed the game and ggs. The golden crops/emery flower taking so long was pretty annoying since I wanted to get them all to level 10 and it took way too long even with 5x growth.Turnip heavens are busted and you can always make a profit Also it's cucked I can't fuck and marry the dragon. Overall fun game
>>737657607women??????????????
>>737656436So any new games recently that are similiar to rune factory?
>>737657631forte shit tastedragon is basedi dont even remember the endingDolce & Pico best girls
>invents drones>does nothing with themis cuilang stupid?
>>737657631>Also it's cucked I can't fuck and marry the dragon. they also smear it all over your face in the remaster
>>737658123forestia ~chiisana machi no bokujou life~ is pretty decent and is pornographic
>>737659978Decent is REALLY stretching it, but I guess it's serviceable if you really want something to scratch the itch.Sex with the dog btw.
wife
>>737656436Dug up my ps3 and I am thinking of playing Tides. Who is best grill? I kinda like Elena based on appearance.
>>737660361
How many?
>>737659978>MC is a cute shotaI'm sold
>>737659952The moment I got the dialogue of >"If I were a human would you.... Oh Never mind" I wanted to kill myself
>>737660361Why, best girl ofc
https://x.com/mentchokke/status/2048050244609585580yurichads, I kneel
I pirated this, played it to completion and enjoyed it so much I bought it afterwards but have 0 game time and achievements. Does this make me a nigger?
>>737656436>>737657538>>737658065>>737660413>>737663327Mating press
>>737663448Well since you bought it later then you're ok,anon.
>>737656436>>737663718
>>737656436Clorica sleep sex
>>737659978Is that complete now? I feel like I was waiting for a big update or something.
>>737656436>see dragon wife>see you can' actually marry dragon wife>avoidRF is for cucks.
>>737657486Soon anon, soon.
>>737670061I only have one wife and it's the sleepy girl.
>>737671184Based anon
>>737657696Enjoy hell.
>>737660361Mikoto of course.
>>737672285Sorry, you gotta roll her first, anon
>>737672572This will be EZ.
>>737672572I will be taking her from you anon, just watch and cry
>>737672992S-She's fast!
>>737672285For me it's Odette
>>737673502Nice job anon.
>>737673502Teach me senpai!
Moar rolling
>>737674873Well I certainly *don't* want Sophia or anything
>>737674873I haven't gotten around to play it so maybe I'll go with whoever I roll.
>>737659513Robot cant lust anon.
>>737677135Booom, headshot
>>737660278>not matsuriIts over for this board forever.
>>737674873I'm taking my rainbow dork elf.
>>737677458That was close anon
Why did he do it?
Without Dolce-anon these RF threads die too fast
>>737658065Clorica a cute
>>737674873roll
>>737656436She's the main reason I want to replay this game, I never got to knock her up. How's the steam port?
>>737656436What's the appeal of sleepy girl?
My love, Dolce.>>737678521Nice webm.
>>737683713She cute
>>737656436I love cute tomboys and wish RF fans would shill them more. Fake Chinese flatties need not apply.
>>737683713Get it together!!
>>737656436>>737678776Nighty nighty
>>737660413At least half a dozen
>>737684918Oh it's Dolce-anon!
>>737687379Here, just for you my german freund
Who are the most fun heroines in the 3make? I like the princess, I like the tomboy, and I like the mermaid.
>>737690140
>>737690521Princess? You mean Sophia? She's the most fun one along with her sister.Raven is cute. Karina is for big, long hugs.
>>737690305
>>737690876Raven is alright... She's cute but a bit dull. Karina seems like a cunt. Daria is also quite cute and made for producing babies
>>737690305S-Seven?
>>737691063Say the line!
>>737690521
>>737691379I really wish I had a partner with a cute tummy like this... Not even in a sexual way
Aaaaaaaah!
*brushing sounds*
POV you're getting brushed
>>737691114Uh-huh. Pico can help out.>>737690973
>>737694602Oh my...
Autuum vibes
Heh
Bad transparency job, but it shouldn't really show up on blue.
>>737696019I dont understand
>>737696286Because no one in the village notices him, Rosetta thinks the vegetables on his field are up for grabbing.
>>737697072Lewd
It's cute that Anette secretly spies on you when her LP is high
>>737674873Uhh, umm, no!Stay away from me!Don't marry mee!!!
>>737698429
Even moar rolling!
>>737698909My wife, Tabatha!
>>737698962Well, Rosetta is fine too
>>737699181That's some nice Dolce art
>>737699759It was nice commission. Cheap too.
>>737699859Sweeeet.If I ever get good at drawing I'll draw a Dolce for you
Should I marry Daria or Carmen?
>>737700939Thanks a lot if you do anon!
>>737701663I'll draw many Dolces, just you wait
>>737701598Why not both?Carmen has a protective bro tho.
>>737659513he's made of wood
>>737681050It's pretty good, there's a few mods too
>>737703385Which mods do you recommend? Or is the vanilla good enough?
>>737702047At once?
Did Guardians renew your faith in RF6?
>>737703637If you don't like the vanilla graphics, there's one to make it less smeary. https://www.nexusmods.com/runefactory4special/mods/84If you don't mind them, there's a different mod that fixes some map glitches.https://www.nexusmods.com/runefactory4special/mods/89And if you don't mind some of the monsters getting changed, there's this mod that changes some monsters so they drop stuff like rice and bread so high level cooking is way easierhttps://www.nexusmods.com/runefactory4special/mods/94
>>737704835That would Dolceoverdose me, I'm afraid
>>737704971Thanks anon! The graphics mods seem to improve a lot of things, specially those light shafts.
>>737704970
>>737659952>MC and Ventuswill have crazy chemistry, constantly flirty dialogue>they even bothered to tease her humanoid art in the original release>remaster>nothingI could handle the milfs of the series being cannot haves, but no dragon waifu broke me.
>>737656436Clorica my beloved!
>>737674873Can I get my waifu Kuruna?
>>737710480Our beloved!
>>737710647good taste!
>>737706163>>737707996>>737710328When's the Rune Factory Frontier remaster?
>>737698909ROoooooooooooooool
>>737710675She's always been my favorite, I was introduced to the series because I had a friend who really liked her so I've developed a soft spot for her too.
Good evening.
>>737710714I doubt they'd do it after 3S kinda floppedI remember the devs saying in an interview that the games before 3 would need a lot more work to remaster
>>737711607Good evening missus
>>737710715Noooooooooooo, give her baaaaack!Take her sister instead!
>>737710630Based
>>737656436so RF6 sometimes this year?
>>737714456Yes!
>>737714456It would be perfect to coincide with the anniversary but they would've announced it by nowSo probably not
>>737714872>>737714903I wish crafting autism will be back with 6, even more autistic even
>>737714456Can't wait for ANOTHER dragon I won't be able to marry.
>>737715534I think they're pretty much out of Native Dragons now, so don't worry about itEvery element is covered.>Earth=Terrable>Fire=Fiersome>Water=Aquaticus>Wind=Venti>Dark=Radea>Light=Livia>Love=ViatreaSee? No more Native Dragons left to cockblock
>>737716375They can just pick up the plot point of them being replaced every now and then with a proto Native Dragon.
>>737714903Be patient anon
>>737716375In the old games there was only four dragons right? What's stopping them from just creating random ones like Light and Love?
>>737718363They already did that with 5 and AzumaLight and Dark are from 5
>>737719583That was my point...
>>737719785They've already done it, why would they do it again?
>>737719785Oh, I see what you're trying to say nowNo, the elements have been pretty set in stone, I really doubt they'll change it up now
>>737719421Cute!
Sharance Tree, home...
>>737698909Rollo
>>737722287Underrated waifu
>>737724386It's less about Mikoto being unpopular and more that almost no one here gave Oceans a chance.She's one of the ones people always bring up together with Pandora and Sonja.
Post Runnies who sleep with other men
>>737724529I wouldn't be surprised if half the fanbase is composed of people that have started with 4 or 5 and is barely aware of the previous ganes.
idiot
>>737726673
>>737717656This short character arc spooked me, but in a good way! It was very neat
>>737727229That just sounds like she kidnapped a child to raise as her own.
Wasn't there an in-game leaderboard for most popular bachelorette/bachelor in ToD/Oceans? I wonder if there were any noticeable differences in popularity between Wii and Ps3 (unless they shared the same leaderboard).
>>737729105Apparently there was but I don't remember it existing on the wii versionhttps://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/610924-rune-factory-tides-of-destiny/60722870
>>737728103Indeed, very wholesome.
>>737729105Here is a really old JP pic from the PS3 version.
>>737730365>Sierra 2%
>>737657631I've never actually beaten RF4. I get to the end and the event that's supposed to trigger the endgame and bring Venti back never triggers.
Is Rune Factory 5 good on PC? What is everyone's thoughts on Azuma? I personally don't want to play Azuma, but I can't explain why. It just gives me a feeling of "it's going to disappoint me".
>>737657631Yeah, the ending is meant to be an optional epilogue I guess, it's extremely underwhelming. Still, that's fine, the game ends really well on the end of Act 2 as it is. You should play Guardians of Azuma next.
>>737730554>Is Rune Factory 5 good on PC?It's okay, I had fun with it some years ago after dropping the original during release on the Switch. You can actually have double fps numbers in the ice dungeon now!>What is everyone's thoughts on Azuma?It's really fun, think of it like Oceans 2 rather than a mainline game.
>>737659952>>737707130>MC and Ventuswill have crazy chemistry, constantly flirty dialogueI saw people saying this shit for YEARS before I finally played the game. I was really looking forward to seeing Venti and Lest's dynamic. But, honestly, it's all just headcanon.Venti and Lest barely interact much at the start. Then she's asleep for almost the entire rest of the game, with just one brief period between acts where she's back, and then she's dead. Even when you revive her there's no big scene or any real dynamic between them. Lest talks like he and Venti have this amazing relationship, but the game never actually develops it. The relationship dynamics with the love interest girls are way more fleshed out and far better written.
>>737672572I guess I'll be rollan.
>>737730365I never bothered taking a pic of my ps3 (I only played it a few years ago), but I think it was still pretty similar.
>>737730783It's not about how much their relationship is fleshed out, it's the quality of what's there. None of the bachelorettes interact with Lest quite the way Venti does with all that fun banter and the romantic undertones, which is what people are attracted to. Their interactions especially at the beginning are pretty entertaining imo. Also people are inherently more drawn to the characters they can't have. I don't think Lest and Venti's dynamic is as bare as you're suggesting, but her being in a coma for most of the game does hurt.
>>737732647That anon may have rushed through the story on accident. Or actually, maybe I should say he played at a normal speed and got through act 1 before summer was over.A lot of people miss Venti's dialogue for all of the holidays and events and the like because the game doesn't really gate your progress at all.I only ended up seeing most of the dialogue I missed on my second playthrough, where I purposely avoided triggering act 2 for a year and a half until I was married and had a kid.
What's his problem?
How the FUCK do I beat the Lava Cave in RF4S on Hell mode, all I got is silver equipment and I can't get any gold to progress until after I've rescued LeonAlso how the hell do I level Leadership, I take 2 Villagers and go beat the shit out of monsters yet the progress bar isn't rising at all!
>>737733280I think Leadership might be busted. Nobody really knows what makes it go up, some people say it's requests and stuff. Try using those buffing skills (bonus concerto, striking march, and iron waltz)I use those skills and my Leadership is at 31. That save file was at the beginning of act 2.You might be able to get gold now in Maya Road. It's just very, very annoying and you will die a lot. Just get a fast monster mount and ride them past the first section of Maya Road. Fall down one of the holes on the second section and head to the rightmost underground cave (you will need to run fast as fuck to not die) and when you go up the stairs you will see a single gold rock
>>737734002Update: Watched a YouTube "guide" and the dude said to just use Fairies from the fields to cheese the game, they attack at range and the resource item they give daily in the monster barn boosts their INT/M.ATK so they hit hard from far away.I wish I didn't learn this, so it seems that hell mode is just monster battles with you dodging and providing support, makes sense but now I know I've been playing wrong.
>>737734481IIRC Amber boss scales super hard as well. One of the best allies to have.
>>737716375Physical attack dragon nextIt's going to be a tomboy
>>737734119This is a blue board, anon...
>>737732996It makes me wonder how hard would it be to make a mod to ignore Venti's losing consciousness trigger while also being able to progress the story after Act 1?Just keeping her awake in the castle so at the very least you can read her daily dialogue?
>>737734865As one of the few people who can say they know a lot about rf4 moddingIt would be hard as fuck. All of the event and map data is basically uncharted territory. Maybe if you get really, really lucky and manage to find whatever flag triggers her unconscious state, but you'd be scouring the event/npc files with a hex editor with little to no indication of what does what.
>>737656436i still have guardians of montezuma game downloaded and i've yet to play it. im so fat
>>737735164Sad.That's really the biggest issue I have with RF4. I always end up rushing Dolce (and at that point Venti is barely able talk already), and after arc3 there's barely anything left to do anymore because I've played the game so many times I end up optimizing the shit out of everything unconsciously.Well, there's always hope for RF6 I guess.
>>737735358Even though it just released, I never pay more than 30$ on a video game, I'll wait until next year for price reduction + sale combo, hopefully RF6 will be in the works by then.
Wish we got more RF threads, there's so much gacha spam and twitter screencap drama that it's hard to find anything worth engaging with.
>>737732996I actually stayed in place for AGES, months at a time, because I knew there was a romantic event if you were married before heading to Leon Karmack, and so I wanted to get that. So I waited until I had all the girls at LP10 and had finished their Events... and then I realised you couldn't marry Dolce until after that point anyway, only Xiao, Forte and Clorica have that event. Point is, I definitely wasn't rushing.
>>737736290There's just so many times you can keep talking about the pre-RF4 games, most people refuse to give RF5 another chance, and, while good, GoA just doesn't create a lot of discussion beyond marriage candidates, it was pretty lively during release though.I've seen some anons trying out Frontier and ToD for the first time in the past months, that's nice too but it's not really enough to rekindle discussion.You'll have to wait until RF6 if you want more threads.
>>737736595Yeah I hope RF6 goes BIG. If it flops I'm not sure there's much hope left after that.
Why is she like this?
>>737730554>What is everyone's thoughts on Azuma? Absolutely loved it. It's the game that made me want to play 4S (which I also loved).It's not a mainline game, so it's not as in depth with things like soil level (but, honestly, fuck soil level) and farming is simpler overall, but it's just a really fun time. >Easily the best RF story (the story is not good, it's a 7/10, but hey, it's still clearing that low bar)>Great character models and incedibly aesthetic towns>Very nice character relationships and stories/dates. High effort>The best Marriage Event I've ever seen in any game >Pretty solid combat>Decent mechanics all around, no real clunk or jank>Very nice selection of Batchelorettes>Can have two kids>Can marry all the girls and switch between them basically seamlessly>KanataBiggest downsides that spring to mind are>Effectively no seasons>Much simplified crafting>Some of the batchelorettes romance is either locked into the very end of the game, or postgame>Story is pretty short, postgame will take a while but the main story will only take about a year if you're taking your time
I am anxiously awaiting the results of that poll. She will make it into the top five and get an illustration. I know she will.
>>737737130Did you also play other RF games?
>>737737260
>>737737260I'll lose my shit if Venti and/or Livia are in the top 5.Fuck you Marvelous, I just want to fuck a dragon.
Dolly will win.
Tabatha will win!
>>737736760>Yeah I hope RF6 goes BIG.I think the series is too niche to be able to do that
>>737712557should've gave them long hair
>>737712557Cuties
>>737712690I can't believe she's not romanceable.
>>737726673Did she die?
Why is RF6 taking so long? I have a bad feeling about this.
>>737744239It's a matter of time!
>>737730783I just vibed with her from the first interaction desu
I always wanted to get into the series. Should I play 1 for an authentic experience or a later entry. Frankly what I've seen of Frontier looks the comfiest and I may just do that tomorrow
>>7377448621 and 2 are pretty dated. Frontier with a Runey mod is a great starting point.
>>7377448621 is fine and is a good starting point, just be aware of the winter dungeon only being available during winter and you'll be fine. I still think it's a game worth trying at least, it's kinda barebones but it has soul.Frontier is sort of a direct sequel to RF1 so it features some of the same characters plus some new ones. It's a fun game, but do read online about the Runey system and its challenges beforehand. It's not that hard to manage but it does require work and some time to get used to it. You can also resort to a hack that sets them to a fixed value so you won't have to bother with it if you don't want to.If you're playing on Dolphin you can also set "emulate disc speed option" to off to improve loading times.
>>737741584Her hair defies gravity
>>737746089Just another magical thing about her.
>>737744239Pssst, I've heard you like them rooney factories kiddo. Tell you wat, I've got one of them right here in this box. That's right my boy, one of them rooney factories right here, fresh outta water. You know, I kinda like the way you swing, so I'll make you a special deal. That's right, a limited time offer, just for you, just for today. For the small price of a bag of fresh turnips, them rooney factories is all yours kiddo. Yeah, you heard that right. Not for the old hag over here, not for the little princess over there. For you, and only you. Now, what will it be? You won't get another chance, I guarantee you. Them rooney factories are hard to come by, so you better hurry or I can't guarantee they'll still be available next time you come over!
>>737744239Maybe they heard the complaints about RF5 graphics and are giving it some time in the oven.>>737744862It's hard to recommend 1 because it's a bit barebones compared to other entries, but if you start elsewhere then it's even harder to go back and play 1. I would say only play 1 if you are dead set on playing a lot of Rune Factory, if you are just exploring the series then start elsewhere (Frontier is a good start, just read up some on Runeys before you get too deep).
>>737659978>>737667626the english version still operates off 1.06 and is pretty barebones, There's been a bunch of bug fixes and new content in JP like summer events. it can scratch the itch and get you back in the mood since everything is pretty bog standard farm game gameplay. It's just pretty basic is all. Like RF1 without combat levels of basic. With sex scenes of course.
>>737739039>>737736760RF's always going to be pretty niche, the most you can hope for imo is RF6 being released on a slow release month and people having money in their pocket to burn. There's a ton of indie and small studio farman games with anime aesthetic these days, even the combat niche isn't a unique thing anymore. RF pretty much has to distinguish itself with above average polish + timing.
>thread alive since 2 dayswhat the fuck
>>737748940The characters are the main selling point for most players other than gameplay and visuals of course, but I find them becoming less appealing in comparison to earlier entries. The addition of bachelors was the dividing point for me.
>>737659978Its got sovl for sure.
>>737749461
>>737749537>make a niche waifu farm sim game or>try to get some of the sims/tomodachi life playerbase with stuff like feMC, male lovers and casualized elementsThis is pretty much the Sword of Damocles over RF.
>>737734481reading cheesing guides ruins the fun of any RF, it's way more rewarding when you find such things yourself, stop doing that lol
>>737750458Unfortunately we're never going back to a waifu-centric RF.The male characters all look effeminate now, and there are furries everywhere.
>>737710714Other than having an official release on modern consoles I don't see the point of remastering Frontier
>>737751162That's kind of the state of affairs everywhere, yeah. I mean even the waifu with porn jp game has its share of aninal girl content.>>737659978>MC girl>religious girl>eccentric artsy girl>dog halfu shortstack girl>lazy cat girl>fox girl>brown /fit/ elf girlI don't mind it but if it bothers you, yeah it's everywhere.
>>737659952This was the first game I could think of where the main heroine the MC's plot revolves around is not an option to marry
>>737752321It could be re-released with no graphical changes and some small runey tweaks and it would be fine for people wanting to play it on a modern console.
>>737752321The designers of Frontier had a really good artistic sense while using what they had to work with. Game is really aesthetic for its era.
>>737753101The Wii games definitely have the best visuals in the series
>>737749628I got 3x don't do its when I tried this, does this unlock a scene with her sad/angry or just dumpster your relationship?
We need more cute elf girls.
>>737659978>I can't be hurt by cannot haves anymore, maybe this game will help me pass time>start playing>want to fug the 3 sauna girls and lolimilfNoooooooo
>>737754217You can scroll down.
>>737757175Twisted, I like it
>>737752552
>>737656436Been getting back into the RF mood recently to want to revisit my RF4 save file.How was the new RF game anyway? Was it any good?
>>737660361Violet of course
>>737742376This is still an unforgivable crime even after all these years.
>>737764561It's pretty good, yeah.
>>737764561Pure decline. It's ogre
I can't believe the thread is a little over half way over. Feels more like we should be hitting 500 soon.
>>737771275RF threads never last that long unfortunately
>>737764561The latest Rune Factory game is a spin off that does very well, and is fun. It's better than 5, and has many top tier characters as well as an interesting role you take on.
>>737772049Either that or it just lasts a few days. The thread on /vrpg/ is finally about to hit bump limit and it was originally posted on the 4th of July
>>737774086RF has some dedicated posters who will keep the threads alive, the problem are the threads lasting long enough for them to gather in the first placeMost RF threads I see in the catalog die at around 5-15 posts
>>737774287Yeah, that's true. Sometimes I don't catch a thread until it's at like 400+ posts and I get pissed
>>737730478i can't remember if i got to that point either.never made a baby :(
>>737730478>>737774664RF4S removed the RNG for Arc 3 btw, if you want to try it again.The town events still are random though.
>>737752898>>737753101I love frontier but fuck the runeys. That system ruins everything and its just extra chore that I don't want to engage with at all. But if you ignore it it will literally ruin your game cause nothing will grow anymore. RUNEY HATE, KILL THE RUNEYS!
>>737775215>RUNEY HATE, KILL THE RUNEYS!Maybe if you stopped killing your runeys you wouldn't have so many problems with the system, dummy!
>>737775279Frontier has the best bachelorettes,I had hardest time choosing wife in frontier from any RF game there is just too many cute girls.
>>737774065
>>737775676For me, it's a draw between Frontier, Oceans and RF3.
>>737775845But Oceans has Pandora, I could never choose anyone but her. RF4 has lot of good girls but I like the Xiao Pai most on that one.
>>737775845Aaaaand we're never getting that again. That's when the franchise lost its sparkle. Now we have fags and furries instead.
>>737776131I was curious about RF5 but then I heard that the best girl was DLC and I got mad and kinda lost interest. I might get it on sale someday though.
>>737776240>best girl was DLCfor one reason or another there was never any girl added as DLC for RF5, so if you have someone in mind then she was probably a never-ever. Sorry!
>>737776025Same, she's just too cute.
>>737776240We used to have so many options it was hard to not find at least one or two to your liking. Now we can't even be friends with our bros because they may turn out to be closeted fags.
>>737776436
Why does it feel like RF4 is forcing me into a relationship with Forte as a male protagonist?She's the only one who will go on adventures with me when I first start the game and her events all triggered before Summer ended when all I did was hand out medical herbs daily to the townspeople.I'm stuck between Dolce and Margaret at 5 hearts but I'm already at 8 hearts with Forte for some reason?
>>737777774Cause she is best girl
>>737779027ngl, for me Dolce and Margaret are tied but Forte is most definitely 3rd place
>>737777774You will breed with the saber clone and you will be happy.
For me, it's Iroha
Forte is cute but I can't help feeling like she attracts the most retarded of fans...
>>737782478Carbs are the enemy!!
>>737783259
>>737783471>fat girl will actually lose weight if you tell her you like thin womenYou couldn't have a character like her in modern gaming
>>737783608She would definitely be cut or completely changed to suit "modern standards"
She's more interesting as a fatty though. Not that she loses her cuteness or anything but she stands out massively for having such a different body from the other bachelorettes. Typically the only differences are bust size and hair.
How long until we get a character who starts out as a Batchelor but you're able to convince them to transition into a cute trad wife? This is the kind of inclusion I'd actually be excited for.
>>737783942Tides of destiny
>>737784214That's the shitty wii game yeah?
>>737783942ray if we get an RF2 remake lol
>>737784573Based and childpilled
>>737784842>ywn bring ray to azuma to grow a tunip child with him
>>737784374No that's RF5 and Azuma. Wii games are kino, KINO.
I want to play RF3 but I have such decision paralysis on which heroine to date... There's too many.
>>737785234You like rainbows, right? There ya go ez.
>>737787140This
>>737656436Anyone else thoroughly underwhelmed by Guardians of Azuma
>>737784573Looks like a boy
>>737784374Yeah it's a bit roughBut it has a Naoto-esque character that you turn from a reverse trap to a woman
>>737788557actualy I should remake that since I actualy played all romances now
>>737788053Almost everybody. Little hope for RF6.Would be nice to get some RF1 and 2 remakes, but I'm pretty sure they would find a way to add censorship and "modernize" stuff.
>>737788619>Almost everybodyDon't treat your own experience as everyone else's experience. Guardians had a ton of threads on release and lots of people were enjoying it.
>>737788742Eh, mostly furries and fags. For them it's a victory over Japan and yet another franchise they've managed to corrupt. Anybody that started with the first three games knows we're at the lowest point in the franchise's history.
>>737788742I always ignore the people shitting on the new games while focusing only on "censorship" and fags.It's almost surely shitposters baiting for (you)s. Of all the rightful reasons to shit on RF5 or GoA they always go for the lowest hanging fruit.
>>737789651"Censorship" is funny because GoA unironically felt more risqué than any of the previous games in the franchise to the point it felt like were pandering a bit too much for my taste.
>>737789651I think it's a holdover from the post-5 and pre-GoA shitposting era. They invested so much time and energy trying to summon the TORtanic #∞, they feel the sting of the sunken cost fallacy when GoA came out and it was actually pretty good, and so now they just double down.also back in the day I did a little digging into the people who were shitposting on the steam forums prior to the release (because they were using the same arguments and same complaints word-for-word from 4chan and I thought that was notable) and discovered a group of people who were all from Hue-land who were going from game forum to game forum to shitpost and it all just so coincided with whatever game was getting shit on on /v/ that day
>>737789848>>737790151It's ok anons, you can just admit you like men and move on. No need to write walls and walls of text to hide behind.
RF5 Has no fans, only "It wasn't that bad!" postersGoA has some people that do like the game actuallyMake of that what you will
Is there enough of a female fanbase to even justify having an equal number of male candidates? Don't get me wrong, I'm not grudging them having one or two options, but when it takes up half the cast it just becomes distracting and frustrating when they take up the slot of a more deserving female option.
>>737734481Monsters are really strong, yeah.If you manage to tame Typhoon then it will carry you throughout the entire pre-post game, the only reason that it falls behind in post game is only because you can tame higher level Fairy monsters in the post game dungeon so you don't have to level grind to catch up.
>>737790842Yeah, it's pretty obnoxious that instead of adding options for w*men they went with replacing options for men instead, those lazy gits.
>>737790842There's a really old poll in the jap RF2 website that has something around 55%/45% male/female ratio for correspondents.https://www.marv.jp/special/game/ds/runefactory2/special/index.htmlI remember some official polls where they asked for gender some years ago but they never posted the results.
I still don’t understand how crafting works in RF4. All I know is that it’s possible to completely break the game with insane stats.
>>737791271Must be majority female by now then
>>737791395>>737791271Could be the female feedback trap Eiichiro Oda (One Piece) talked about where the majority of fan letters are written by girls. Or it might not be! Spooky.
>>737791395Maybe? Pretty hard to say anything without real numbers, but adding bachelors in RF4 surely boosted the % quite a bit.The female player base was big enough for Marvelous to release FemMC versions of Harvest Moon games too. Farming games have always been popular with them.
>>737791231Because if you don't enforce equality, people will complain. That's why you focus on one or the other, not both simultaneously, otherwise everybody loses.
>>737791271>I remember some official polls where they asked for gender some years ago but they never posted the results.You know the reason why...
>>737791693And even online, pretty much the only two places to talk about bokumono and rune factory on the English internet was gamefaqs and fogu. And even back then, fogu was full of women (and ran by one)So unless you never left gamefaqs, you shouldn't be surprised that women loved those games
5 and azuma suck because they're hideous, badly coded, and missing both the simplicity and details that earlier games already solveda game is only as good as the people making itthey still couldn't make a good game today if it only had 4 bachelorettes and no men in sight
>>737791945A harsh truth but the old team that made the best RFs is dissolved and dead.
>>737790842The genre is more probably popular with women than with men if anything
>>737791680On the westoid side there must be some crossover with the Stardew Valley fanbase (female redditors) too
>>737791395>>737791885>>737792452It's funny people keep making claims about this, but here's an experiment. Make a RF exclusively targeted at women, that is, with only bachelors available. Then, make another RF but exclusively targeted at men, with only bachelorettes, zero fags.We all know which one would outsell the other. RF was always popular because of the high quality waifus and the male characters were well designed and fun because they were never meant to be romanced. From the moment they started adding bachelors, you can tell the male character design went downhill. They now all have that faggy or prince-charming look. It's impossible to care about these characters anymore. Not to mention the Azuma characters were designed by another person and they all have that generic genshin look.
>>737792929Contact me in 10 years, I'll become an oil baron by then so we can conduct this experiment
>>737792929Meanwhile, in reality, 3 and Frontier sold the least in Japan, while 2 and 4 (both with female protag options) sold more.Hell, I love Frontier but it sold less than 50k copies in Japan. It flopped hard. According to the famitsu sales, it sold a bit more than 30k in the first two months of its release (it came out in early november) and then could barely make another 10k sales for the entire next year after that. And Frontier, as you may know, has the most bachelorettes.
When's a new game coming out?
My tard wife
Which Rune Factory on the original DS is worth playing? I need something to play and i've known of rune factory for a long time but never played them
>>737793641It's best to play them in release order because the series only gets better QoL as you go on. They're all good games, but 1 and 2 are unique in the series. Especially 2 with the two generations thing. The father is basically a long tutorial and the child character is the real game.
>>737793308You mean the direct sequel to the first one and the most marketed RF ever sold more? Wow anon, who could have guessed?Now go get number of fanarts and count me the genders of the characters.
>>737794110>fanart=saleswow touhou must outsell call of duty
>>737793641You either do what the other anon said or you could start with 3.
>>737793781>>737794291Interesting, thanks
>>737794220Cope and seethe.For a franchise that *allegedly* has 50% of its fanbase composed of women, kinda funny that barely any art of the bachelors can be found. Rune Factory's main audience is male, and the appeal is in the female characters. Just look at how much art is posted in all those RF threads for further evidence.The moment the female characters become unappealing, no one will play this franchise anymore. Ironically, not even the women will.
I love women
>>7377935486 was announced at the same time azuma and grand bazaar was, so who knows
>>737788053>Kino weapons (Matsuri's Katana Greatsword is still my fav)>Liked the gimmick sacred weapons>Fun bow combat>Alright maps>THE FUCKING BEAR>Okayish puzzles>Meh bachlorettes (Still can't decide between iroha and Pilika since suzu is verboten)>forgot what the plot even was>Kotaro is more of a boss than fucking Kurama who just gets a generic tengu model>Farming areas feel kinda small but whatever>Modded the game to give it actual color and for Kaguya and the others to have gracious heavenly white underwearEnjoyed it as much as 5, which i have 500 hours in.
>>737656436Which rune factory girl has the biggest jugs? I'm talking the most mondo melons. The mightiest milkers. The most monstrous mammaries.
Fucking Etrian Odyssey Next Stage is gonna come out before Rune Factory 6 at this rate.
>>737673502Too bad that scar ruins her pretty face
>>737799493Ulalaka from the newest one
>>737791334Me too. I only used it to add magnifying glass to farming tools.
Which RF5 girls have the best romance stories?
>>737806774Poor Dolce
My retarded giga dork girlfailure wife
Which rune factory game should I play? I've heard 4 is pretty good and I can get it on steam.
>>7378125674 is most people's favorite and it's also a good starting point but my personal favorite is 3 which is a fair bit shorter than 4, RF3 has more waifus to choose from but you can't play as a girl if that's a dealbreaker for you. You can get both on Steam
>remaster had to chance to reintroduce the cut illuminata romance>doesntFAGGOTS
any good farming sims to look for? im so thirsty...
>>737812898I've been following fogu for new games but it's mostly shovelware tier slop so if you're in the mood for farming just boot up an old HM/RF game
>>737812858does it let you fuck the dragon at least
>>737813143lollmao
>>737814457Why is this one so popular
>>737814896its litteraly just one person who spams her every thread, we need more people like that
>>737788053Plot sucked, farming sucked, villagers sucked, combat was okay, content volume suckedPost game reward super sucks.It did what it was meant to do though, which is get tourists into the series.
>>737814896the rest of the bachelorettes really arent that good. shes the big fish in a small pond.
>>737815065it did the romance system better than the rest. id say that was the one bit it excelled in.
>>737815026smelly hairy hunter girl...
We NEED to go dorkier
I really enjoyed Guardians of Azuma even if there was a LOT of cooking recipe filler and no different cooking implements (oven, microwave, etc.) like in previous entries. It felt like a real return to form.
>>737815792>no different cooking implements (oven, microwave, etc.) like in previous entries. It felt like a real return to form.Return to what form bro the first game in the series had an oven
>>737799429It really needs a hell mode difficulty though, even without the bow the game is pretty easy and there's barely any reason to upgrade weapons.
>>737816178Modern entries really attracted the most dishonest type of tourists. They'd rather lie than admit they never played the game, just like journalists.
>>737818365I've been playing harvest moon since the n64 and played rune factory 1 the day it released. Still so much better than Stardew valley.
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>>737818442Unfortunately SV won and it created the worst timeline possible since it's hailed as the gold standard.
>>737819252Maybe Marvelous should stop being a bunch of pussies and actually let us mod the game for once.
>>737819381I'd prefer they just stop catering to the wrong audience. Mods can't fix that unfortunately.
