Is it likely that we'll get a RF6?

[CCIceTea]

I've been a fan of this series since 2014, and I'd rather it not end here (like it once did with RF4). So I was wondering if the chances are high they'll continue this franchise forward and not abandon it for another decade or so...
Also correct me If I'm not right but RF5 sold the best in the series I believe? 500k? Or did RF4 sell better?

[Huillam]

RF5 reached 500k in march while RF4 sold for a bit more than 135k.
Those numbers don't account for the PC release (although even right after release RF5 wasn't in the trending games and I've no idea how it performed).
Hopefully we'll see a RF6 as those numbers don't seem bad at all.

[HeraldOfOpera]

We've still got the Love element dragon to meet.

[Algester]

Hashimoto would finally let us bag a dragon waifu

[Outlaw Mugen]

Honestly... if the next game is also half baked like this one... I don't think I would want it. There are so, so many issues I have with RF 5. It feels soulless compared to previous instalments or maybe it's just nostlagia speaking.

I'm not even talking about graphics here. Small things like camera changing when running close to the field ( just let players do it manually! ), lock on is super wonky, balance is either die in 1 shot or don't take damage at all, heroines are meh and cliche, character dialogues are somewhat boring, short campaign ( finished the game within 1 in game month and a few days! ), open world full of empty houses / areas that feel like an MMO ( not in a good way ), don't feel any sort of bond with farm animals ( games like Harvest Moon let me talk with animals, pet them and even take them to pasture and watch them graze, in RF they just walk around like idiots ).... many many more smaller issues that I have with the game that sadly make this experience mediocre.

That being said I'm glad to see games like this being released and getting some traction because in the future we might get some good RPG / Farm / Dating sim. Whether it will be done by Indie studio or triple A developer.

I played all Rune Factories and Harvest Moons and I feel like there was more charm and effort put into the older games than the new ones. If they make RF 6, then I hope it will have lots of quality of life changes, improvements and balancing.

[Huillam]

Originally posted by Outlaw Mugen:

Small things like camera changing when running close to the field ( just let players do it manually! )

There's an in-game option to disable the Farm Camera.

Originally posted by Outlaw Mugen:

That being said I'm glad to see games like this being released and getting some traction because in the future we might get some good RPG / Farm / Dating sim. Whether it will be done by Indie studio or triple A developer.

While that doesn't guarantee it will be a good game, Harvestella by Square-Enix may have a bigger budget.

[GameAW]

Originally posted by Outlaw Mugen:

Honestly... if the next game is also half baked like this one... I don't think I would want it. There are so, so many issues I have with RF 5. It feels soulless compared to previous instalments or maybe it's just nostlagia speaking.

I'm not even talking about graphics here. Small things like camera changing when running close to the field ( just let players do it manually! ), lock on is super wonky, balance is either die in 1 shot or don't take damage at all, heroines are meh and cliche, character dialogues are somewhat boring, short campaign ( finished the game within 1 in game month and a few days! ), open world full of empty houses / areas that feel like an MMO ( not in a good way ), don't feel any sort of bond with farm animals ( games like Harvest Moon let me talk with animals, pet them and even take them to pasture and watch them graze, in RF they just walk around like idiots ).... many many more smaller issues that I have with the game that sadly make this experience mediocre.

That being said I'm glad to see games like this being released and getting some traction because in the future we might get some good RPG / Farm / Dating sim. Whether it will be done by Indie studio or triple A developer.

I played all Rune Factories and Harvest Moons and I feel like there was more charm and effort put into the older games than the new ones. If they make RF 6, then I hope it will have lots of quality of life changes, improvements and balancing.

Its important to remember that this game went through a very troublesome development process including the death of the company that made the series. Had they had their way. RF5 would have been a 3DS game just like 4 was. Plus this is their first 3D game in this kind of scale. Honestly I feel its more they got a bit overambitious in the scope category and slapped on RF4 for the core gameplay.

[Algester]

I mean Oceans was big but... do you enjoy loading screens?

[Black Mirror]

If they intend to do another copy/paste from 20 years ago, without anything new beside crappy story, then I hope this is the last game of this series. Even this one was totally unnecessary. They want to be like Game Freak and sell the same game over and over again, without any effort put in the product, beside some marketing.
They should be ashemed of this game and just hide under a rock. I was considering getting RF4, after seeing this tragedy, but decided against giving them my time and money, its just not worth it with other games around and more incoming.

[Pickleton]

Originally posted by Algester:

I mean Oceans was big but... do you enjoy loading screens?

Oh lord, Oceans is probably the only game in this franchise I couldn't stomach.
I thought the male/female swap thing was a neat idea, but the game was just kind of ... overall bad. I can't even really put my finger on what caused me to put the game down, but I don't even think I made it past the first in-game week, and I bought it in Japan on release and was really hype about it.

[Black Mirror]

Where people get the bankruptcy stuff from? It says developer Marvelous inc, they never went out of business. Some studiuos they were publishing games for did, but not the one that was making Rune Factory or Harvest Moon games. They had some issues with Natsume and they split. That lead to more issues in case of who has right to use Harvest Moon title, and other such nonsense. You can justify the bad RF5 however you like, but most of that is not true or based on assumpions that have nothing to do with reality.
It seems like they didnt even bother to test the game properly before publishing it. Despite all the funds they have, they managed to make worse game than 14 years ago.
They delayed this one and it still didn't help them at all, someone in the company made very bad decisions for this whole project and since they burned money to make it, they had to publish it anyway. For their surprise game sold quite well, so I guess hype an marketing did its magic, but tricks like that don't work on me anymore.

[Algester]

Originally posted by Black Mirror:

Where people get the bankruptcy stuff from? It says developer Marvelous inc, they never went out of business. Some studiuos they were publishing games for did, but not the one that was making Rune Factory or Harvest Moon games. They had some issues with Natsume and they split. That lead to more issues in case of who has right to use Harvest Moon title, and other such nonsense. You can justify the bad RF5 however you like, but most of that is not true or based on assumpions that have nothing to do with reality.
It seems like they didnt even bother to test the game properly before publishing it. Despite all the funds they have, they managed to make worse game than 14 years ago.
They delayed this one and it still didn't help them at all, someone in the company made very bad decisions for this whole project and since they burned money to make it, they had to publish it anyway. For their surprise game sold quite well, so I guess hype an marketing did its magic, but tricks like that don't work on me anymore.

Neverland Co was the developer for RF through out most of its history, Hakama is now compossed of 80% former Neverland Co employees when it got Thanosed, Marvelous is the distributor never the developer. However Marvelous being the new name of Victor games they are the developers of Harvest Moon but that should be common knowledge

Do take note this was originally announced 8-9 years ago that was meant to be released sometime 2016 2-3 years after RF4.

However due to the entire dev hell this game went through (was idle for 8 years) there's a lot of artifacts with how the place was set up to be on the 3DS down to the RF4 code base... (literally having HYDE transfer the RF4 source to Unity and use what ever concepts Neverland Co had before going kaput and then have Hakama's input)

[Algester]

Originally posted by Pickleton:

Originally posted by Algester:

I mean Oceans was big but... do you enjoy loading screens?

Oh lord, Oceans is probably the only game in this franchise I couldn't stomach.
I thought the male/female swap thing was a neat idea, but the game was just kind of ... overall bad. I can't even really put my finger on what caused me to put the game down, but I don't even think I made it past the first in-game week, and I bought it in Japan on release and was really hype about it.

Honestly much like Frontier's Runey system I was put off with the entire farming mechanic.... its really not an RF game but more experimental as a "farming game" more like they were testing and prodding things if they can make things smarter and faster essentially "declunkify" a clunky game

[NineTailedFox89]

Originally posted by Outlaw Mugen:

Honestly... if the next game is also half baked like this one... I don't think I would want it. There are so, so many issues I have with RF 5. It feels soulless compared to previous instalments or maybe it's just nostlagia speaking.

I'm not even talking about graphics here. Small things like camera changing when running close to the field ( just let players do it manually! ), lock on is super wonky, balance is either die in 1 shot or don't take damage at all, heroines are meh and cliche, character dialogues are somewhat boring, short campaign ( finished the game within 1 in game month and a few days! ), open world full of empty houses / areas that feel like an MMO ( not in a good way ), don't feel any sort of bond with farm animals ( games like Harvest Moon let me talk with animals, pet them and even take them to pasture and watch them graze, in RF they just walk around like idiots ).... many many more smaller issues that I have with the game that sadly make this experience mediocre.

That being said I'm glad to see games like this being released and getting some traction because in the future we might get some good RPG / Farm / Dating sim. Whether it will be done by Indie studio or triple A developer.

I played all Rune Factories and Harvest Moons and I feel like there was more charm and effort put into the older games than the new ones. If they make RF 6, then I hope it will have lots of quality of life changes, improvements and balancing.

ia kinda like this new approch, dont i dont want to returns to the rf4 style game.. that was horrible to play though.. but i hope they improve on what they started with in rf5 love intrests should be a lot better there was like 0 male that was intresting and the only 3 females that was intresting was the succbus woman, the princess and the half elf girl.. cant remember the sames.

i wouldent mind seeing new things added like newer weapons and some skills that you level up should be mixed together,, like instead of each weapon being its own skills have thme combine into one called i donno " weapon mastery"

overall i preffer this game over rf4.. as much as rf4 was good in some things it dose.. that game style was hard and horrible.

[Pickleton]

While we're listing off things we'd like to see in future RF games, can we add in some older characters to the bachelor/bachelorette lineup? I feel like every singe RF game, the character I wanted to go for was unavailable, and instead we had literal children like Colette and Amber. Heck, I'm surprised Hina wasn't a bachelorette in this game. At least the devs haven't sunk THAT low.
Give me Natalie from 2, Shino from 3, Lin Fa from 4, Misasagi from 5. It's not like you can marry multiple people at the same time, just give their children a few additional lines and have them live at your house. It really shouldn't be that hard to program in. Just don't repeat that weird thing in RF2 where if you marry Dorothy, your child can marry Cammy (their aunt).

[NineTailedFox89]

Originally posted by Pickleton:

While we're listing off things we'd like to see in future RF games, can we add in some older characters to the bachelor/bachelorette lineup? I feel like every singe RF game, the character I wanted to go for was unavailable, and instead we had literal children like Colette and Amber. Heck, I'm surprised Hina wasn't a bachelorette in this game. At least the devs haven't sunk THAT low.
Give me Natalie from 2, Shino from 3, Lin Fa from 4, Misasagi from 5. It's not like you can marry multiple people at the same time, just give their children a few additional lines and have them live at your house. It really shouldn't be that hard to program in. Just don't repeat that weird thing in RF2 where if you marry Dorothy, your child can marry Cammy (their aunt).

i wanted the foc mother of hina.. shame she was not a option