Stardew Valley and it's consequences have been a disaster for videogames.
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Harvest Moon*
Harvest moon was painfully slow and clunky compared to stardew. Only snes is somewhat comparable.
Stardew valley only exists because the dev was a big harvest moon gay and was disappointed in the garbage modern harvest moon/story of season games.
>Story of Seasons is literally just ports of these under a non-HM title
What did Anon mean by this?
Zoomers these days, eh?
Seeing all those people claim "stardew rip off" when stardew itself is a rip off is hilarious
Well it was the first of its kind natively available on PC, which is the 2nd biggest platform out there after mobile, so it makes sense.
No, SV definitely dragged the farm sim genre out of niche status and this is the outcome. HM was pretty much ignored by everyone but its fans.
Also Stardew was and still is only 15 bucks or less. Pretty good deal compared to the 40/60 dollar price tag for Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons.
No. Everyone who read a gaming magazine at the time (i.e. everyone) knew about it and those interested and who could afford it tried it out and let their friends know it was good. It is not an unknown niche game.
Harvest moon always has been, and will forever be niche. Story of Seasons has all the old devs and Stardew Valley shattered the popularity of both of them at least tenfold. Or are you actually saying Harvest Moon was the first video game that let you farm?
Might have been the first, but is not the direct inspiration.
Like how BoTW clones came from BoTW and not Skyrim.
Skyrim doesn't have glider
It has horses that don’t care about physics
Hell naw, not this most recent crop of crap
there are more stardew streamers/viewers than all harvest moon games combined
>streamers/viewers
Holy motherfricking zoomer
>there are more stardew streamers/viewers than all harvest moon games combined
As long as HM has more people BUYING and PLAYING the game I'm sure it'll be fine.
*Animal Crossing
The consequences of Bingtendo no longer updating it was opportunists coming out of the woodwork
>before stardew valley
no farming gaems
>post stardew
FARMING GAEMS
go frick yourself
The only one on there that looks interesting at all is Harvestella. The rest are shit.
If I wasn't tired I'd try the demo.
But they all look the same
harvestella only had me interested cause of the music here
athttps://youtu.be/XNU8W9bsSKM @1:14
it reminded me of nier
harvestella would be interesting if the MALE mc wasn't so insanely gay and feminine looking
gay
>Nintendo and it's consequences have been a disaster for videogames.
Ftfy
Don't two of those game series predate star dew?
yes but the OP is a moron probably under 18
Story of Seasons and Rune Factory are the games that Stardew ripped off.
Various Daylife is a Miitopia-like.
Spotted the newhomosexual. Go blame Harvest Moon on SNES, dipshit.
No, this is NH influence. They want the easy female whale audience.
Yeah that was moronic. Nice variety you've got there Black folk.
Various Daylife is not a farming game, it's classed based RPG
It's also life sim though. Maybe not farming, but it has sim elements
I like all of those games, what is your problem with them?
>6 games that are essentially the same in gameplay
i though diversity was nintendo's strength?
You must be an idiot to think Nintendo wasn't going to go the way of the entire industry. Literally just copy what sells and maybe add your own tiny twist.
Nintendo isn't making a single one of the games this thread is whining about. Like this isn't even like Pokemon where you can call them Nintendo games, this is straight up just 3rd parties releasing games on Switch
Let the man enjoy some videogames
Those games aren't even first party and gotten ports to non-Nintendo platforms
Why is the Switch getting so many of these types of games? Are Switch owners secretly 40 year old women?
I'm a 36 year old man, so that wouldn't surprise me.
>Why is the Switch getting so many of these types of games? Are Switch owners secretly 40 year old women?
There's a hole in the market that was created by animal crossing. There are very few games to appeal to the animal crossing demographic and everyone is trying to rush to be the guy to do it and make a million bucks.
what all those guys somehow don't understand, is that women value the aesthetics much more.
That's why stardew valley is so big, it's cute pixel graphics with nice lighting and atmosphere.
Animal Crossing looks fantastic in a cutesy way.
They just need to emulate stuff like that
That's arguably why the Wonderful Life remake went the extra cutesy route on the visual overhaul.
Yeah
Switch has sold so much better than the snoy moviebox that they actually have a variety of demographics to sell to.
>variety
>jrpgs
>jrpgs
>jrpgs
>jrpgs
>jrpgs
>jrpgs
not him but the term jrpg is very broad and could refer to turn based, action, real time strategy, rougelite, shop management and frick ton of other things.
I wouldn't call final fantasy tactics, botw, lobotomy corporation and recettear the same shit and nor would anybody else.
jrpg>rpg
mad that a japanese gaming company features japanese games on their japanese console
the only good genre along with fighting games, based
I mean no one is forcing you to not play them
don't you have some fzero or some other N64 tier game to play?
>variety of demographics
I wouldn't call the same audiences that watch the Disney Channel a variety.
Well I know for a damn fact my sister loves this shit, has a cheap game called Cattails she keeps recommending me. Loves Stardew and Animal Crossing, so I'm gonna see if she's interested in any of these.
She won't be, our entire family are cheap fricks kek.
Is she also a spinster wine aunt or future one? Is she hot?
You should recommend story of seasons. It's the best of the homosexual farm games. The newest one (pioneers of olive town) has been out for a while so I'm sure it will be on sale eventually.
>(pioneers of olive town)
Did they at least TRY to fix the frame rate/pacing issues from launch? Or the loading times? I don't want to offer someone something more tedious than another thing of that very subject.
Most switch owners are women.
Women want shitty jrpgs, otome games, farming/life sims
Thank you for finally coming to the conclusion that I am indeed a woman
no you're not
-There's no dominant force in the console market for these kind of games
-Where else are they going to go?
>-Where else are they going to go?
mobile, like all sane japanese people do
20 million sales of animal crossing should explain this one.
I can't exactly put my finger on why, but something tells me these games were made with trans people in mind
The amazing thing is each one looks absolutely mediocre. The only interesting thing was the aging mechanic but the game is by Marvelous so its not going to be done well guaranteed.
AWL is a remake how bad could they frick it up
it's just people trying to jump on that money train
>various daylife
dunkey was correct about the squeenix jrpg producing AI
apparently it came out 3 years ago on ios and this is a port
remember when the direct showed some random old SHMUP game? wtf were they thinking!
Frick you Radiant Silvergun is ludo
looked like every other pew pew game
Better than any game you like. What are your favorite games, you homosexual pup?
SE made a Fantasy Life ripoff
Is anyone playing the Harvestella demo? Does the gender selection lock you out of anything? I'm getting Gnosia flashbacks where picking non-binary locked me out of all romantic cutscenes rather than letting me collect'em all.
That menu music is comfy as hell though.
>picking non-binary locked me out of all romantic cutscenes
Holy based. This is what every dev should do if they can’t just ignore the seething twatter trannies anymore
you still get Setsu and SQ at least, but them locking you out of every male or female only scenes was pretty hilarious/stupid
Isn't Story of Seasons suppose to be the Harvest Moon canon despite not using the Harvest Moon name?
Yes, the original Harvest Moon titles up to around the DS era were localizations of the japanese Bokujo Monogatari. Natsume USA lost the localization rights but got to keep the name, so now the Harvest Moon games are made in the west and unrelated to the original japanese ones, and Story of Seasons is the actual current localization by Xseed/Marvelous. Kind of a clusterfrick of a story.
>story of seasons
Meh
>fae farm
Looks gay
>rf3s
I fricking LOVE 3 so YEAH
>more rf games
Don't do 5. 5 sucked ass.
>harvestella
What rf5 SHOULD HAVE BEEN
>various daytime
Really stupid title but I'm open to it
OP is a homosexual because he grouped a class based JRPG with farming games
OP is always a homosexual.
>all those squeenix exclusives and tendies still saying squeenix has playstation bias
boggles my mind
I FRICKING LOVE FARMING
you will farm turnips
and you will be happy
You posted the wrong image.
I hope rf3 have online mode
Which one of these is the most coomer?
RF3 by far
>year of the mecha
>year of feudal japan
>year of farming
it's just a trend
>>year of feudal japan
I find it weird because years ago during the release of Assassin's Creed III the director said Japan was a boring and overused setting but at the time we had pretty much nothing. Now you can make the argument for it but what the frick was he smoking at Ubisoft?
Ninjas live rent free in the mind of people who lived through the 80s/90s
I'll play the one with the best romance system.
Simple as.
Oh no. Throw away devs who cash in on FOTM are making games I don't have to play. These types of companies would either be making mobile trash instead of latching onto another FOTM.
Stardew and AC are to blame for comfy shallow farm sim targeted at girls
Rune Factory is to blame for "farming with RPGshit" games
HM/SotS is at fault for both.
Anyone else feel like this us sone fishy mkultra type shit? Why the sudden attention to farming games? Are they preparing us for societal collapse?
ENTER
>bravely default 2 was so shit it had to be followed up by a fotm game
The only one i liked aside SV was Rune Factory but the last one quality is shit
wtf happened that Ganker hates rune factory 3 now?
nobody hates it here, people just dont want this many farming games
there's even a thread solely for it up right now
>6 games
>this many
show many shooters or indie depression shit are there?
Only 4 actually, Various Daylife is not a farm sim and one of the Rune factor games was just they saying "we are making more of these". Maybe it kinda felt like more because Atelier Ryza and Octopath II kinda share that look.
JP direct has Harvest Moon 64
i mean a lot at once and loads of companies are doing it at once as the big thing they're showing.
nobody would care if it was spaced out or not in a single direct
i think people are just still mad about 5
harvestella looks good.
I love how it was basically a square enix direct.
And odds are they will be showing a lot of shit at the PS State of Play today too. Square's crap factories are working over time.
TWO fricking farm games from SQUEX?
>Story of Seasons
looks like shit
>Fae Farm
looks like gay shit
>Run Factory 3 Special
looks like a shitty remake
>Rune Factory new series
nothing to see here
>Harvestella
maybe good
>Various Daylife
looks as uninspired as the name sounds
Why can't any of them do it right?
Because if you try you are compared to stardew valley and will likely fall flat. Imagine a hundred man company losing out to a single shitposter on Ganker who makes a game that sells 20+ million units.
>almost all these games are coming out next spring
The frick man. I don't wanna play comfy farming games in spring when I'll be outside. I want to play this shit when it's brick as frick outside and I don't wanna be there. That's why I loved Stardew's original switch release. These idiots dropping the fricking ball.
They’re coming just in time for the nuclear winter
Literally half of these games are from a farming series that predates Stardew you moron
That's why it's so sad Stardew is better than all of them
>Stardew better than RF3
homie you gay?
wait and tell you hear about this call of duty series
>bitching about a genre you can just ignore
kys
thank god I'm not the only one who noticed this, and pretty much every single one of them (besides Story of Seasons) has the exact same 3DS upscaled model style.
>boot up harvestella demo
>game asks if I'm non-binary
Fricking christ.
>non-binary
In those words?
Thanks. Dumpstered.
At least you aren't forced to be a they
What does the option even do, there's not a third pc model is there?
probably just changes the pronouns
You can choose nb but then the character models are male or female. And you only get an option for one male voice and one female voice. So there is genuinely no reason to put that in.
The only people who play anime games are troonytards so there is absolutely a demand for this.
Only with anime crap. Mario will never be black and mario will never be a bigender. Cope, Snoy/PCgay.
>pick the dialogue choice that isn't one of the two
>pick a model choice that IS one of the two
>pick a voice choice that IS one of the two
I do not understand the logic of these non-binary morons.
Would you prefer the game assign you a gender, anon? Forcing you to play as a girl no matter what?
Playing as an established character? Like what a good portion of games do? Whats wrong with that?
I don't wanna play as a girl, if possible I'd like to play as a guy. No reason not to give me that option.
Fair. Those are still normal, unlike that no-gender bullshit. I picked a guy for the demo since that doctor mommy is a babe.
That's called "playing as an established character" anon
Oh nsory, I didn't know Harvestella featured a pre-established main character.
Who is it, Cloud Strife?
Why are you trying to understand the logic of morons?
thats a nono from me dawg
this is litterally genocide
aryan bros stay away from this game!
my life is threatened, shaking and crying right now.
Whatever, at least the music's good. Also there seems to be some gameplay in there, unlike the non-troony games.
aaaaaand dropped
Explains the absolutely bland and androgynous protagonist designs.
I’ll pass, thanks for the info
wew almost pre purchased, close call
pirating this shit when it comes out
Yep, same. Or I'll keep my eye on Gamefly.
And this is why there's no romance options.
Literally the entire reason I play these games
I'm so fricking tired
>an option in a menu is making you physically weary
Imagine if you actually experienced hardship
im not buying it now im getting tired of this snowflake shit
This. I was mildly interested in this game but this turned it to -1
oh holy frick. I don't expect romance then. dead on arrival.
wow there's a lot of harvest moon clones! wonder which one I should play
oh...
well that makes my decision a little bit easier
Let's make it even easier
We need a "nazi/racist/sexist" version next.
Does it really?
Harvestella looks good. Story of seasons let's you have a job, a family, get married, have kids, and get old so it might be fun since those things are impossible to achieve in real life nowadays.
I am a pretty big RF4 fan but god damn. I would have preferred if they just fricking didn't botch RF5. I guess rather than make that game good, they would prefer to port 3 and then just start a whole other sequel at the same time? Lol. Xseed's gonna be busy.
But most of these titles are from series that predate Stardew Valley
Yahtzee was right
pretty funny that a baka gaijin made the best farming sim in over a decade and now the nips are copying him
Disneydew Valley is actually pretty good since it does away with most off the time wasting crap that's in Stardew, it's just all dopamine hits, and it has the most time generous battle pass in history, as I was able to get every item I wanted in 2 game sessions.
But for the fact it's disney
the shittiest, most soulless, corporate IP to exist
Where is my otome?
Actually I'm pretty sure this is because of Animal Crossing NH
farm games have a way of being massively hit or miss in quality, so having 4 new ones around the same time is really staking the odds at least one of them will be any good.
lol? Farm games are all, without exception, 0/10 mindnumbing dogshit.
Three of them are from XSeed who can pretty much only make farming sims game and not even good ones now.
Ok but seriously, is the Life Sim fandom really big enough to warrant devs putting out 6 fricking games in it next year on the same console? Won't they all cannibalize each-other?
If they spread out releases then I don't see the problem? I'm always down for more games to play in genres I like. Switch is also one of the best consoles to play these games on. RF5 is the only one that had really bad performance from what I've played.
the industry is starved for new entrants at the moment
and they all look like something a little different
so they probably not only appeal to different niches
but anyone starved for farm sim games is going to end up trying them all (time permitting)
Agreed.
What's the difference between these games?
Why can't Mutts tell the difference between it's and its?
That faefarm is more like rune factory with the fighting and such, and ascetically it reminds me more of animal crossing
*harvest moon
>simslite with generic grid farming
when will sakuna get a proper contender?
Sakuna 2..edelweiss doesn't do many sequels however.
As much as I want sakuna 2, I'll riot if kokorowa doesn't get her own game first.
>genre that thrives on a small budget
>top down/isometric viewpoint to further make it easier to develop
>most of the "gameplay" can be designed through spreadsheets
>the rest of the game is just low budget art assets and a small handful of animations
>the perfect combination of development shortcuts and handicaps for an underpowered system where nobody will expect high production value
that's really all there is to it. Not specific to stardew valley, there have been dozens of farming/life sim games over the years and they have usually been for nintendo consoles for the reasons I stated above.
>rf3
Oh boy I can't wait for Carlos begging for my wiener, and translator-troons "fixing" the problematic dialogue.
>Various Daylife
never seen a game title so shit
>Octopath traveler
>Triangle strategy
Sqenix mark of quality naming
i tried stardew for the first time and my god this is tedious bullshit
WTF
>Hyped for rf3 remaster
>Watch trailer
>Looks like ass
GOD FRICKING DAMMIT
>it's
What kind of stupid fricking name is "Various Daylife"? And I thought "Triangle Strategy" was bad
When anon included that in the list, I thought it was meant as a new, generic term for the type of game these are, not as a specific entrant.
Im pretty sure Square Enix's trademark department is running out of conventional names and just flinging darts at a board at this point.
They literally give a list of random English words to the devs and they just pick two they like the sound of with zero context. This is on record in old interviews.
Soul.
>zero context
>harvest
>daylife
b***h I like all those games. You're a fricking disaster I'm gonna be comfy growing potatoes
The player house in Harvestella is really comfy. Night looks great too.
Was that the one that had the little Animal Crossing like rooms that load separately?
Seriously what the actual frick? All these farm games gave me cancer. And by the same studios, too. I refuse to check out a single one.
where the frick is my new legend of the river king. i need that anime fishing itch
>Women would rather have farming sims and taking care of pets rather then have children
God please just unleash your wrath on us already
>back in the 90's girls got Barbie's Horse Racing, Polly Pocket Dungeon Crawl, Super Pipi Longstocking
>now girls have 5 different versions of "grind endlessly for no challenge or reward but you can now call yourself a grrrl gamer" with anime chibi aesthetics bordering on Tumblr
Damn, I love being male.
Rune factory 3 needs the gameplay update, so do 2 and 1. I am apprehensive of the words "new rune factory SERIES in development"
Harvestella looks fun but they haven't shown romance so it might be dead on arrival. Story of seasons can keep doing remakes if their new games are gonna suck like pioneers of olive town. Fae farm looks like a decent rune factory like but again, no romance= dead on arrival. if all 5 of these flop I'll go thanos and do it myself. Competing with stardew may be suicide but at least I'll have a game with my ideal scenario.
*its
>muh girls
Harvest Moon has been for boys the the whole time. It had you get married to women.
Don't be moronic.
well no one has done ''stardey valley'' but better after him
the only games i consider better are rune factory 3 and 4
>hating comfy games
You don't like video games at all!
> harvest Moon repuke with shitty design changes
I'm the most interested in Harvestella.
It looks mainly like a JRPG with some farming sim elements, not the other way around. That's always my issue with something like RF, where I feel like it tries to do both but never quite satisfies either itch (hell farming in 4 is borderline automated/obsolete at some point)
Indeed