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Would be cool! Not sure if Concerned Ape has said anything on the matter tho, sadly
I want custom pronouns, I want several appearance sliders, I do not ask for much gamer slop so pls.
Full customization should be standard these days honestly
I don’t think he’s posted much besides a trailer right?
Don't think so
When it finally comes out it will have been long enough since Stardew for the CHUDs to declare that the creator has since "gone woke" and will chuck a fit at everything present in Choclatier that was already in Stardew.
Awesome, free publicity and angry chuds to laugh at!!!
I don't expect it to, will be glad if it does, we always get so excited when we can play ourselves in custom character games.
CA, tho I love Stardew, I've not got super high expectations for on character department, I don't like anyone from Stardew and the setting itself is a real bummer. I go to cozy games for wish fullfillment - Helping adolescents trapped in a small town who have had their dreams crushed, under the shadow of war and encroaching corporate control of their town, come to term with their place in life is just sad times man. I kinda hate talking to anyone from vanilla. Also it really does feel like your their parent's friend hitting on them for most of the single characters - but that's at least in part just that I'm so much older than the target audience. Shane especially. Edit: Be fair, nothing here is knocking the quality of those characters - everything above could be called good writing I'm just not in Stardew for it.
Tangentially: PoOT on pc was what brought me back to farming games after having not played one since the early 00s, separating body type and pronouns is so damn easy and I really wish every game (not using an actual named, existing, character as 'you') would do it already. Come to think, even Saint's Row 3 yonks back just had a M/F option and like 6 voices between them for the protag, open gender play could be on the table even for set protags.
I don't like anyone from Stardew and the setting itself is a real bummer
Thank u for saying this hot but correct take. I end up missing the people and settings of Harvest Moon games ffs.
What's PoOT, but also nice that sounds rad. And yes, SR2 had even more options, a masc/fem slider and such, that shit rocked.
Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town - it's not great, but it is cute and was a good place to come back to farming games. Started a "I only play cozy games now" trend holding strong since like 2021 for me.
Oh right, aka "Marvelous recycles Harvest Moon 64 for a ninth time" holy shit...
Kinda yeah - except it's got genuinely less coherant gameplay and feel emptier than most of them. I enjoyed Harvest Moon: One World and Light of Hope more, and they're not great either.
If yer gonna play specifcally a HM game I recommend Animal Parade, boyfriend got me to give it a try and it mostly holds up, villagers have like no dialogue but that's been a thing HM has gotten away with forever. Alternatively Story of Seasons A Wonderful Life, cause you have a kid and get old and stuff and that's neat. Also hybrid plants.
Actually good games in the genre, Fields of Mistria just hit EA and I put 70 hours in, boyfriend did 60, and we only stopped because we ran out of content (technically I have about 20-30 more hours I can do going for 100% item collection, prolly slowly do that at work). If you don't do EA, I still recommend making a note of it, check back in a couple years.
Moonstone Island, Sun Haven, Rune Factory 4 or (if you got a wii/emulator) Frontier, Littlewood, Nova Lands/Forager at a tangential sort of game, Coral Island is still EA but seems to have survived the false 1.0 and continuing devlopement apace, Harvestella if you want a more JRPG Sci-Fi tone, there's absolutely bonkers numbers and sorts of these games and having played at least a hundred those are the top of my head "These are just solid".
Also very cozy is Dysmantle, originally an android app I think it's a post-apocalypse "destroy everything, craft gear, learn the truth" game, you can break almost literally everything in the world, kill some zombie things, raid some temples, in a top-down hack and slash sort of experience and it's insanely content filled after all the Expansions and it's like my favourite game ever.
Realizing you did not ask for game recs...but I wrote all the things...so enjoy me gushing? lol
Story of Seasons A Wonderful Life,
Are they just remaking all the HM games? Jesus.
But also, fukken saved and will research, ty!!
Lol, yeah they also remade Friends of Mineral Town. It's definitely better than the original but also. . .Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons are the old codgers doing their old thing from when they had no competition even now. They are trying new stuff lately, but have kept so much of the old trappings and just shallowness of the games.
Yep, living in a bubble seemingly unaware that Stardew and its ilk exist. 0 awareness of anything. HM64 was semi remade into Back to Nature, was demade into Friends of Mineral Town, was remade into Harvest Moon DS, was remade into Story of Seasons Mineral Town.....
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