@construx Ehh while there's been a lot of issues with people getting their hands on Switch 2 and I've seen quite a few say the price isn't right (for them for what it is), they're raising Switch 1 prices in US and Canada and basically threatening that while it's not happening to Switch 2 right now it may in the future. (So let's be real it will and I can only hope only after the people who are struggling to get one and really want one get one at least, would add insult if someone had to pay more because they had no chance despite efforts.)
They're trying to push Switch 2 while not even having the stock in multiple areas and likely doing it at the expense of the appeal for Switch 1.
I gotta be honest, I get there's external factors going on but there's aspects of all this that I can't make sense of.
@wiiware On the flip side I'm already basically out of space from my Switch 1 and some of the games were archived there (and still have that icon even though I can't archive anything on Switch 2 so IDEK how that's gonna work).
I basically can't get anything because I don't know about deleting instead of the archive feature, makes my skin crawl.
You know, it's one thing for him to give updates like that and it's another to write articles about them over and over. In his case it feels like he, as the one working on it, is reassuring people they're not forgotten. Which means a lot in the current gaming landscape. Articles over and over like this feels like farming clicks....
Seriously at this point Nintendo should stop selling this game! One excuse after another, old bugs popping up, a new community manager for the publisher in the discord basically said if they told us anything they probably wouldn't be community manager anymore...
That's a huge red flag, especially when the studio/dev has been straight up silent with customers and apparently more and more silent with the publisher! The dev gave up. Still never been able to cook and post patch had a shop break.
The game still breaks! I've seen a few people saying they randomly got the save file issue again! As long as Nintendo sells this they're complicit at this point.
This was pre-ordered for me back in like November! I am hyped! (But at the same time with semi tempered expectations. Don't want to over hype and end up disappointed.)
The article and you say that, and hey I'm not trying to say your feelings aren't valid. People feel the way they do and it's definitely not my place to tell someone what they like or dislike. I just respectfully disagree. I've never stopped and wondered why I was bothering with the farming in One World. I have in PoOT. Multiple times.
The mutations give me a reason to actually try to keep at it. Improving crops is both painfully easy and yet painfully difficult and there's no sense of achievement in it. They're the same crop worth a little more money. Which the game half throws at you. It's apparently fairly easy to break the game making money wise with bees and mushrooms, and then bypass a chunk of the makers by buying materials. The story is apparently super short, many have talked about beating it in the first year. So ultimately you have skills as an in game goal. The balance feels bad to me, especially when actively trying not to take shortcuts. It feels like waiting and not getting into the satisfying farming loop I'm used to in a SoS game.
Whereas One World gave me what I wanted from a Harvest Moon title, farming and mutations. The loop is slightly different for that game, because the franchise is different, but I can get into the comfortable farming system I have for that franchise easier even with the weird gimmick that makes it slightly harder than their previous entries. It's slightly harder vs feels painful.
@Ryu_Niiyama I've played nearly every entry in the series and this is my least favorite. It's even slightly behind SoS1 that I literally can't play because the way they have the tool upgrades with the last two vendors means that either I burn myself out or get them long after they matter. And the weird time locks of getting clothing patterns before the animals and the whole nearly 5 years to grow gold crops reliably. At least the farming is fun.
The seedmaker is terrible in this game, and without a crop festival it feels even worse to me. Can't get into that satisfying self sufficiency farming loop the same way as more recent previous entries, and the only in game reason to is money. Which the game throws at you. It even has an abysmally small shipping bin that you can't upgrade.
Makers are a giant part of the game, and yet you can basically pay to bypass most of them. It doesn't feel very good as a farming sim, it feels like a crafting sim with farming to me. I say this as someone who has been playing the series about 21 years and has had it as a hyper fixation as well for that long. I have some fun playing, but I find myself questioning the balance and wonder what I'm wanting to do more often than not.
Honestly PoOT has been so hyped by the producer or director (I honestly forget which) and reviews that I'm not surprised to read so many people are disappointed. (On Reddit and some on GameFAQs at least.)
As it is, being apparently so material maker focused and the makers being the way they are I feel like I'd be better off playing MTaP which I already own and waiting on a sale for PoOT. The cooking thing was the first thing that made me reconsider pre-order, and as I read more I realized that while it looks decent it's not at all anywhere near the levels it was hyped to be.
With OW at least I got exactly what I expected, a decently fun game that to be fair isn't without flaws but nothing that ruins the game for me. There are multiple things that I'm not a fan of in PoOT tbh.
Marvelous themselves basically are the ones that ended up causing me to give Natsume's games a chance, with the lack of hybrids outside of AWL/AnWL and the time locks and last two vendors of SoS1. I've loved both franchises so far overall, but if balance continues this direction with SoS I may have to accept that they're not for me. They're not the only farming sims around now too, there's bound to be other choices than even these two in the future! (Hopefully they don't all stick to PC!)
Honestly! And on top of that the characters in One World show expressions very well imo. There's about a million (hyperbole obviously) complaints about not being able to see characters' faces well in PoOT and expressions being flat most of the time.
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Re: Switch Is Now Within Touching Distance Of The DS' Lifetime Sales
@construx Ehh while there's been a lot of issues with people getting their hands on Switch 2 and I've seen quite a few say the price isn't right (for them for what it is), they're raising Switch 1 prices in US and Canada and basically threatening that while it's not happening to Switch 2 right now it may in the future. (So let's be real it will and I can only hope only after the people who are struggling to get one and really want one get one at least, would add insult if someone had to pay more because they had no chance despite efforts.)
They're trying to push Switch 2 while not even having the stock in multiple areas and likely doing it at the expense of the appeal for Switch 1.
I gotta be honest, I get there's external factors going on but there's aspects of all this that I can't make sense of.
Re: 'Rumble Has Been Turned Off Due To Prolonged Use'? Don't Worry, Your Switch 2 Joy-Con Probably Aren't Broken
Are the players the ones playing or Nintendo. Thankfully haven't had it happen myself, but my lord this feels bad to me NEGL
They're really out here trying to make me regret wanting and getting a Switch 2....
Re: Unsurprisingly, SSD Adapters Aren't A Suitable MicroSD Express Stand-In On Switch 2
@wiiware On the flip side I'm already basically out of space from my Switch 1 and some of the games were archived there (and still have that icon even though I can't archive anything on Switch 2 so IDEK how that's gonna work).
I basically can't get anything because I don't know about deleting instead of the archive feature, makes my skin crawl.
Re: Stardew Valley Creator Shares Update About Version 1.6 Console Release
You know, it's one thing for him to give updates like that and it's another to write articles about them over and over. In his case it feels like he, as the one working on it, is reassuring people they're not forgotten. Which means a lot in the current gaming landscape. Articles over and over like this feels like farming clicks....
Re: Review: Monster Harvest - Poor Execution Of A Promising 'Stardew Valley X Pokémon' Premise
Seriously at this point Nintendo should stop selling this game! One excuse after another, old bugs popping up, a new community manager for the publisher in the discord basically said if they told us anything they probably wouldn't be community manager anymore...
That's a huge red flag, especially when the studio/dev has been straight up silent with customers and apparently more and more silent with the publisher! The dev gave up. Still never been able to cook and post patch had a shop break.
The game still breaks! I've seen a few people saying they randomly got the save file issue again! As long as Nintendo sells this they're complicit at this point.
Re: Rune Factory 5 Lets You Cook, Fish, Smith, And Ride Cows With The Love Of Your Life
This was pre-ordered for me back in like November! I am hyped! (But at the same time with semi tempered expectations. Don't want to over hype and end up disappointed.)
Re: You Can Get Your Official 'Year In Review' Switch Stats Now
@Eel Mines loading and then a blinding white, empty page so I feel that lol
Re: Feature: Should I Play Story Of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town Now?
@ClassicJetterz
The article and you say that, and hey I'm not trying to say your feelings aren't valid. People feel the way they do and it's definitely not my place to tell someone what they like or dislike. I just respectfully disagree. I've never stopped and wondered why I was bothering with the farming in One World. I have in PoOT. Multiple times.
The mutations give me a reason to actually try to keep at it. Improving crops is both painfully easy and yet painfully difficult and there's no sense of achievement in it. They're the same crop worth a little more money. Which the game half throws at you. It's apparently fairly easy to break the game making money wise with bees and mushrooms, and then bypass a chunk of the makers by buying materials. The story is apparently super short, many have talked about beating it in the first year. So ultimately you have skills as an in game goal. The balance feels bad to me, especially when actively trying not to take shortcuts. It feels like waiting and not getting into the satisfying farming loop I'm used to in a SoS game.
Whereas One World gave me what I wanted from a Harvest Moon title, farming and mutations. The loop is slightly different for that game, because the franchise is different, but I can get into the comfortable farming system I have for that franchise easier even with the weird gimmick that makes it slightly harder than their previous entries. It's slightly harder vs feels painful.
Re: Feature: Should I Play Story Of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town Now?
@Ryu_Niiyama I've played nearly every entry in the series and this is my least favorite. It's even slightly behind SoS1 that I literally can't play because the way they have the tool upgrades with the last two vendors means that either I burn myself out or get them long after they matter. And the weird time locks of getting clothing patterns before the animals and the whole nearly 5 years to grow gold crops reliably. At least the farming is fun.
The seedmaker is terrible in this game, and without a crop festival it feels even worse to me. Can't get into that satisfying self sufficiency farming loop the same way as more recent previous entries, and the only in game reason to is money. Which the game throws at you. It even has an abysmally small shipping bin that you can't upgrade.
Makers are a giant part of the game, and yet you can basically pay to bypass most of them. It doesn't feel very good as a farming sim, it feels like a crafting sim with farming to me. I say this as someone who has been playing the series about 21 years and has had it as a hyper fixation as well for that long. I have some fun playing, but I find myself questioning the balance and wonder what I'm wanting to do more often than not.
Re: Five Years Later, Nintendo's Lawsuit Against 'White Cat Project' Has Finally Been Settled
@bluesun
Most of those are like... 99% of mobile games honestly. They're so vague and so everywhere that I'm genuinely just baffled.
Re: Random: Fan Theory About Possible Nintendo Reveal Debunked By 20-Year-Old Magazine Article
@Zeldafan79 I actually thought of that too, tbh. Nice catch!
Re: Feature: Should You Buy Harvest Moon: One World, Or Story Of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town?
@Nic-Noc20th-C
Yeah I feel the same way!
Honestly PoOT has been so hyped by the producer or director (I honestly forget which) and reviews that I'm not surprised to read so many people are disappointed. (On Reddit and some on GameFAQs at least.)
As it is, being apparently so material maker focused and the makers being the way they are I feel like I'd be better off playing MTaP which I already own and waiting on a sale for PoOT. The cooking thing was the first thing that made me reconsider pre-order, and as I read more I realized that while it looks decent it's not at all anywhere near the levels it was hyped to be.
With OW at least I got exactly what I expected, a decently fun game that to be fair isn't without flaws but nothing that ruins the game for me. There are multiple things that I'm not a fan of in PoOT tbh.
Marvelous themselves basically are the ones that ended up causing me to give Natsume's games a chance, with the lack of hybrids outside of AWL/AnWL and the time locks and last two vendors of SoS1. I've loved both franchises so far overall, but if balance continues this direction with SoS I may have to accept that they're not for me. They're not the only farming sims around now too, there's bound to be other choices than even these two in the future! (Hopefully they don't all stick to PC!)
Re: Feature: Should You Buy Harvest Moon: One World, Or Story Of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town?
@King-Demon
Honestly! And on top of that the characters in One World show expressions very well imo. There's about a million (hyperbole obviously) complaints about not being able to see characters' faces well in PoOT and expressions being flat most of the time.