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Rune Factory 4 |OT|
- Thread starter RuneFactoryFanboy
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3rd party games are 9am Pacific-12pm eastern. Everytime.
chickdigger802
Banned
Mr.LightMan
Member
Can't wait to get the game. loved 3 and frontier.
Doesn't this game use midi music again 
I hope they did the whole magical "get the girls together to cheer on the hero with song" thing again though for the last boss. I remember that with the SMTIV music CD I got with the preorder it was ackward hearing midi-ish music coming out of my CD player. (I don't know how the music is in this game though. Just speculating)
I hope they did the whole magical "get the girls together to cheer on the hero with song" thing again though for the last boss. I remember that with the SMTIV music CD I got with the preorder it was ackward hearing midi-ish music coming out of my CD player. (I don't know how the music is in this game though. Just speculating)All my buddies getting a retail copy had theirs ship from amazon yesterday. It's definitely out October 1st.
Reluctant-Hero
Member
Maybe you're thinking of the new Etrian Odyssey? I don't RF has an LE.
Hours Left
Member
I've always wanted to get into this series, but the character designs are very unappealing to me.
weemadarthur
Member
Game in transit. Thread subscribed.
I'm ready!
I'm ready!
FearMyWrench
Member
Any similarity in this game to something such as say Animal Crossing? I've heard it mentioned before, but I'm not really seeing it looking at the OP.
Don't think I've ever gotten XSEED games from Gamestop before, so I dunno how it works with them.
Only got it this time cause I was hoping to pick up both at the same time.
weemadarthur
Member
You can get a really relaxing vibe from it.
You're free to fish, garden, make friends, attend festivals. Whatever you feel like. But add marriage and children and cooking and crafting and fighting. Subtract cataloguing. Turn to a new day at your preferred pace.
So they have certain similarities, and a fan of one series may be attracted to the other. But it's not a guaranteed love.
They weren't appealing to me either. Not at all, but now I love the games despite that.
I would say absolutely. I totally get the same vibes from Rune Factory as I get from Animal Crossing. Both chill, both fairly open-ended, very relationship driven, super relaxing. I love both so much for almost the exact same reasons.
Gamestop is generally safe if you pre-order, but I'm not sure how it's gonna go for me cause I had no idea it was coming out tomorrow until a few hours ago. Just gonna waltz in to my closest one and see if they have any copies in stock.
Edit: There should really be a link to the character page of the website in the OP. None of the new bachelorettes do much for me visually, but the voice clips are nudging me in the right direction. Not!Saber's voice doesn't match what I thought she sounded like in my head.
I remember when I tried to buy Retro Game Challenge at launch it took them like 1 or 2 more days to get their copy in. I was steamed.
However, I did buy The Last Story at launch and had no issues.
Also, I'm very good friends with our Game Stop's general manager. I asked him today if they'll have it tomorrow and he said they would, to the best of his knowledge.
Looking at the pic of Clorica I was hoping she would be a little like Lilly Satou in personality. Nope. Does shit whilst asleep? Not sure if want.
^Aw, I was hoping Clorica would be like Karina from RF3. I'm about to make the marriage decision for Micah in RF3 to continue the story, and even though I'll have him marry Shara the default, if I were playing the game beyond getting done with the story I'd totally have him waifu Karina, it's so funny how she flirts with Micah but through parentheses in the dialogue, like she's fantasizing about Micah but holding back.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
No same-sex relationships!?
lol
Nooooooo ;_;
Bugger that
CaptainMoose
Neo Member
Pretty excited to pick up my preorder even though I've never played RF before. I've had the Wii one sitting in my backlog for a long time but never get to it.
chickdigger802
Banned
Gonna stop by the GS across from work during lunch. Zero chance of it being there, but why not.
Thank you. I think I will play female and sprite swap then. Question: How long does it take to get to this point? Does it cost in-game currency to do this? It changes your voice/appearance/everything? Can you change back if you like? Otherwise it is permanent if you want it to be (sorry, lot of Q's)
Cool that they did this. A compromise like this is way better than having no options at all.
SkullHydra
Member
Hm. I guess I'll wait for for my Pokemon fever to die down a little bit before I head into Rune Factory. I wouldn't want to do a disservice what seems like a really fun game, by shelving it almost immediately after getting itIf it's like previous games in the series, if it clicks and you get into the game, you'll get into the game (that's what happened when I innocently began playing Frontier this year), and it'll be a long one at that. So it'd probably be fair to wait until after Pokemon and you have time to give the game a fair bit of your attention
Thanks for the advice.
chickdigger802
Banned
i guess we can't really expect reviews today?
RuneFactoryFanboy
Member
I'm surprised I missed that, it's added now.
I've only ever made one other OT, what is the norm?
Edit: Ruh Roh, as I look at the thread now half the images are broken. Where should I re-upload them to?
Edit2: I'm trying imgur now, if anyone has a better suggestion while I am re-uploading everything please chime in.
Man, this game had better have a good script.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/RuneFactory3 (RF3 spoilers, obviously.)
And more, scattered about this page: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/RuneFactory3?from=Main.RuneFactory3
Maybe I should just play RF3 again. :lol
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/RuneFactory3 (RF3 spoilers, obviously.)
And more, scattered about this page: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/RuneFactory3?from=Main.RuneFactory3
Maybe I should just play RF3 again. :lol
imgur should be good. Here's the FAQ on image posting.
RuneFactoryFanboy
Member
Alright we should be good now. Let that be a lesson to me.
An idea I had if it doesn't get many professional reviews after a week or two would be to ask members here for impressions that could be added to the OP. Neogaf impressions are far more valuable to me than any review site anyways.
I plan to add any Reviews to the OT as they come in but I don't know if many(any?) sites are going to give it the time of day. According to Metacritic, only 10 sites bothered to do reviews for RF3.
An idea I had if it doesn't get many professional reviews after a week or two would be to ask members here for impressions that could be added to the OP. Neogaf impressions are far more valuable to me than any review site anyways.
Hmm, it's hard to really pinpoint how long it takes to finish the 2nd arc, because it's highly user dependant. Took me about 40-50 hours myself, but could take someone else less time depending on how they play. (Which difficulty, if they focus on farming/relationships instead of plot, etc.)
It costs prince/ss points, which is a new currency in RF4 that you get from fighting monsters, winning festivals, talking to villagers, and more. You have orders which you can use to buy and build up the town, and the sprite swap feature is one of the orders you can end up getting. (The orders system is a LOT of fun and adds a lot a depth into the game!) The sprite swap feature costs only 50pp each time you swap, so it's really cheap. You can change it at any time if you have enough points!
No restrictions at all.If you sprite swap to the other main character (say you start as Frey and swap to Lest) It'll change your in-game sprite, portrait AND voice. The only thing it doesn't change is pronouns, so the characters will still call you she, princess, etc. If you switch to one of the marriage candidates or villagers, only your in-game sprite changes. Your portrait will still be Lest or Frey, but they will be silent. When you fight though, your character will use the character voice you switched to (say you switched to Leon, it'll have his voice in battle).
Also, after you beat the 2nd arc on one file, which you start another it'll be opened from the start, so right off the bat (after you select your name and see the intro of the game) you can switch your character over. No worries about the questions, I don't mind answering any of them at all
Sorry for the lengthy reply and I hope this helps!So how long is the game overall, is it like the previous handheld games, like the console games (100+ hours)? I'm still finishing up RF2, 3, and ToD so I want to give myself a good estimate of what it'll take timewise in my schedule to finish this one.
Super salty that there was no Rune Factory 4 mention in the October lineup of the Nintendo Direct today.
Anybody been able to pick it up yet? Nobody around me got it in store yet... All the sads...
Best Buy actually has the release date listed as next Tuesday? What's up with that?
Anybody been able to pick it up yet? Nobody around me got it in store yet... All the sads...
Best Buy actually has the release date listed as next Tuesday? What's up with that?
You can easily sink 100 hours into this game, yeah. I have almost 400 into it (I played around on a lot of different files though) and I haven't even completed the 3rd arc yet.
Also, it's up on eshop now! 10964 blocks.
Hero of Legend
Member
Never use Imgur, it compresses pretty much every image, no matter if it's a jpg already or not and it tends to turn png to jpg as well.
Go with Minus.com.
Go with Minus.com.