Do I HAVE to get married?

[The Eternal]

For plot or missable rewards and such? Would much rather not if it isn't necessary.

[Piperbird]

Nope! The only thing it unlocks is the ability to have children and some cut scenes.


I would recommend if you do not wish to marry, don't worry about upgrading your house the last two steps. You can only decorate the central hallway, the other rooms are for the family. So skipping marriage will save you a lot of money and resources.

[Owly]

Originally posted by Piperbird:

Nope!
I would recommend if you do not wish to marry, don't worry about upgrading your house the last two steps. You can only decorate the central hallway, the other rooms are for the family. So skipping marriage will save you a lot of money and resources.

Wow, thanks for that super helpful info!! I had no idea you can't really decorate the rooms upstairs.

What I suspect though is that not marrying might affect Steam achievement hunters. I'd be very surprised if marriage and kids will not be an achievement. Luckily I personally don't care much about that part of games.

[gustavo.etch]

No, you don't have to. Fortunately, this is not Harvest Moon.

[Lady Snaccident]

Originally posted by gustavo.etch:

No, you don't have to. Fortunately, this is not Harvest Moon.

Not gonna lie, when I saw that you had to get married in the remake of that game, I removed it from my wishlist right away. I don't like being railroaded into those decisions.

I'm glad Coral Island doesn't do that to us. Ace spectrum people of the world, rejoice! 'Cause you have a choice!

It would be awesome if we got a choice to be roommates or have a QPR with a character in order to unlock achievements without marriage/children. Not gonna throw my toys outta the pram if we don't get it, but I would cheer if we did. :D

[LyaranTirel]

Originally posted by Lady Snaccident:

Originally posted by gustavo.etch:

No, you don't have to. Fortunately, this is not Harvest Moon.

Not gonna lie, when I saw that you had to get married in the remake of that game, I removed it from my wishlist right away. I don't like being railroaded into those decisions.

I'm glad Coral Island doesn't do that to us. Ace spectrum people of the world, rejoice! 'Cause you have a choice!

It would be awesome if we got a choice to be roommates or queerplatonic with a character in order to unlock achievements without marriage/children. Not gonna throw my toys outta the pram if we don't get it, but I would cheer if we did. :D

Remake?
Even the first harvest moon you had marriage as a requirement for the perfect ending.

[Lady Snaccident]

Originally posted by LyaranTirel:

Originally posted by Lady Snaccident:

Not gonna lie, when I saw that you had to get married in the remake of that game, I removed it from my wishlist right away. I don't like being railroaded into those decisions.

I'm glad Coral Island doesn't do that to us. Ace spectrum people of the world, rejoice! 'Cause you have a choice!

It would be awesome if we got a choice to be roommates or queerplatonic with a character in order to unlock achievements without marriage/children. Not gonna throw my toys outta the pram if we don't get it, but I would cheer if we did. :D

Remake?
Even the first harvest moon you had marriage as a requirement for the perfect ending.

When I was a kid, I couldn't afford games like that. So I only got into it when SDV hit Steam. So I thought to myself, "Let's try the remake of the OG that made all these things happen." Ya know, like I couldn't do as a kid. But once I saw that marriage was a requirement or you *failed*, I was just like awww hell no!

[gustavo.etch]

Originally posted by Lady Snaccident:

Originally posted by gustavo.etch:

No, you don't have to. Fortunately, this is not Harvest Moon.

Not gonna lie, when I saw that you had to get married in the remake of that game, I removed it from my wishlist right away. I don't like being railroaded into those decisions.

I'm glad Coral Island doesn't do that to us. Ace spectrum people of the world, rejoice! 'Cause you have a choice!

It would be awesome if we got a choice to be roommates or have a QPR with a character in order to unlock achievements without marriage/children. Not gonna throw my toys outta the pram if we don't get it, but I would cheer if we did. :D

Originally posted by LyaranTirel:

Originally posted by Lady Snaccident:

Not gonna lie, when I saw that you had to get married in the remake of that game, I removed it from my wishlist right away. I don't like being railroaded into those decisions.

I'm glad Coral Island doesn't do that to us. Ace spectrum people of the world, rejoice! 'Cause you have a choice!

It would be awesome if we got a choice to be roommates or queerplatonic with a character in order to unlock achievements without marriage/children. Not gonna throw my toys outta the pram if we don't get it, but I would cheer if we did. :D

Remake?
Even the first harvest moon you had marriage as a requirement for the perfect ending.

You know, it may even be a heresy for is to make this sort of criticism, as Harvest Moon was the father of this whole game genere. After all, this is where Stardew Valley came from, and then all the others followed with the renewed "goal free" formula.

However, when you think about it... The townsfolk from Harvest Moon games are sick b@$tard$. Basically, they are focing you to bread and have a child to stay on the town. You are just a livestock at their hands, just like the animals of your very own farm! Simply ironic...

[Lady Snaccident]

Originally posted by gustavo.etch:

Originally posted by Lady Snaccident:

Not gonna lie, when I saw that you had to get married in the remake of that game, I removed it from my wishlist right away. I don't like being railroaded into those decisions.

I'm glad Coral Island doesn't do that to us. Ace spectrum people of the world, rejoice! 'Cause you have a choice!

It would be awesome if we got a choice to be roommates or have a QPR with a character in order to unlock achievements without marriage/children. Not gonna throw my toys outta the pram if we don't get it, but I would cheer if we did. :D

Originally posted by LyaranTirel:

Remake?
Even the first harvest moon you had marriage as a requirement for the perfect ending.

You know, it may even be a heresy for is to make this sort of criticism, as Harvest Moon was the father of this whole game genere. After all, this is where Stardew Valley came from, and then all the others followed with the renewed "goal free" formula.

However, when you think about it... The townsfolk from Harvest Moon games are sick b@$tard$. Basically, they are focing you to bread and have a child to stay on the town. You are just a livestock at their hands, just like the animals of your very own farm! Simply ironic...

I don't think it's heresy so much as it's shown us how these games have progressed and moved on as humanity has. It shows us how far we've come that marriage/children are not the only road to happiness and success. There are multiple roads! And I'm hoping that the devs here will give us multiple roads as well—I'm figuring they're all about diversity, so it would be very odd not to give people the chance to complete in a way other than marriage and kids. I expect they'll give us some other possibility. :D

[LyaranTirel]

Originally posted by gustavo.etch:

Originally posted by Lady Snaccident:

Not gonna lie, when I saw that you had to get married in the remake of that game, I removed it from my wishlist right away. I don't like being railroaded into those decisions.

I'm glad Coral Island doesn't do that to us. Ace spectrum people of the world, rejoice! 'Cause you have a choice!

It would be awesome if we got a choice to be roommates or have a QPR with a character in order to unlock achievements without marriage/children. Not gonna throw my toys outta the pram if we don't get it, but I would cheer if we did. :D

Originally posted by LyaranTirel:

Remake?
Even the first harvest moon you had marriage as a requirement for the perfect ending.

You know, it may even be a heresy for is to make this sort of criticism, as Harvest Moon was the father of this whole game genere. After all, this is where Stardew Valley came from, and then all the others followed with the renewed "goal free" formula.

However, when you think about it... The townsfolk from Harvest Moon games are sick b@$tard$. Basically, they are focing you to bread and have a child to stay on the town. You are just a livestock at their hands, just like the animals of your very own farm! Simply ironic...

The fact that you and the other person think like this shows only how far the farm games went from time.
Harvest moon WASN'T the first farm game, but it was the first farm game with life-simulation like relationships.
They tried to make harvest moons with only the farming and no marriage, and the games failed. HARD.

Now a days the farming games everyone has to be bisexual and no one can marry anyone other than the player and you need to have all the time of the world, but the originals you literally had a time limit.

You think the 3 year thing of Stardew was new? Harvest moon had a 2-4 year limit for you to do EVERYTHING and you get a diferent ending accordingly. Including selling animals and befriending everyone.

The point is: If you are complaining about it now is because harvest moon first made it possible to be popular. It's like people complaining about how slow a internet server is when they actually HAVE a internet server in the first place

So before calling those heroes that made the farming game an actual category that people enjoy "b@$tard$" you should be bowing down to them and thanking them for their contribution

[gustavo.etch]

Originally posted by Lady Snaccident:

Originally posted by gustavo.etch:

You know, it may even be a heresy for is to make this sort of criticism, as Harvest Moon was the father of this whole game genere. After all, this is where Stardew Valley came from, and then all the others followed with the renewed "goal free" formula.

However, when you think about it... The townsfolk from Harvest Moon games are sick b@$tard$. Basically, they are focing you to bread and have a child to stay on the town. You are just a livestock at their hands, just like the animals of your very own farm! Simply ironic...

I don't think it's heresy so much as it's shown us how these games have progressed and moved on as humanity has. It shows us how far we've come that marriage/children are not the only road to happiness and success. There are multiple roads! And I'm hoping that the devs here will give us multiple roads as well—I'm figuring they're all about diversity, so it would be very odd not to give people the chance to complete in a way other than marriage and kids. I expect they'll give us some other possibility. :D

Originally posted by LyaranTirel:

Originally posted by gustavo.etch:

You know, it may even be a heresy for is to make this sort of criticism, as Harvest Moon was the father of this whole game genere. After all, this is where Stardew Valley came from, and then all the others followed with the renewed "goal free" formula.

However, when you think about it... The townsfolk from Harvest Moon games are sick b@$tard$. Basically, they are focing you to bread and have a child to stay on the town. You are just a livestock at their hands, just like the animals of your very own farm! Simply ironic...

The fact that you and the other person think like this shows only how far the farm games went from time.
Harvest moon WASN'T the first farm game, but it was the first farm game with life-simulation like relationships.
They tried to make harvest moons with only the farming and no marriage, and the games failed. HARD.

Now a days the farming games everyone has to be bisexual and no one can marry anyone other than the player and you need to have all the time of the world, but the originals you literally had a time limit.

You think the 3 year thing of Stardew was new? Harvest moon had a 2-4 year limit for you to do EVERYTHING and you get a diferent ending accordingly. Including selling animals and befriending everyone.

The point is: If you are complaining about it now is because harvest moon first made it possible to be popular. It's like people complaining about how slow a internet server is when they actually HAVE a internet server in the first place

So before calling those heroes that made the farming game an actual category that people enjoy "b@$tard$" you should be bowing down to them and thanking them for their contribution

Take it easy, guys, no need to go knee deep. It was more a joke comment...