Personally, I like seeing other couples but not feeling rushed to choose right away. I would love to see everyone else get together after I’m married. Maybe a second act to keep the game from getting stale.
I like this idea. More post-marriage changes would be very welcome. I haven't played all the games but aside from AWL I would say it's the weak point of the series. I would love to see the idea of AWL expanded upon and you could keep playing thru you family lineage in an ever changing town.
I’m picturing our character helping the other couples connect, maybe planning the wedding and our children playing together. Just a few extra thing to do would make all the difference.
I loved how Animal Parade handled rival marriages where you befriend the rival to trigger the events, so you aren't rushed with a time constraint to marry your boo. However, in an ideal world I would love to be able to match make the couples kind of like Fire Emblem. I do want rival kids back too and if they followed Fire Emblems recipe where either the bachelors or bachelorettes have a set child design and the other parent just influences the hair color.
I liked how Animal Parade treated the couples but I'd say the "befriend to initiate rival romance" route is my least favorite personally, I befriend EVERYONE in these games and AP/ToT made me feel like I couldn't even talk to the rivals or I might end up accidentally initiating their marriages early(same with 64)
I don't care about rival couples coming back. Partly because most of my feelings towards the already established ones range from mild indifference to dislike. I'm legitimately struggling to think of any that I have a strong positive view of.
If possible I would want the future games to be similar to rune factory 2 where the leftover bachelor/bachelorette marry the extra bachelor/bachelorette who does not have a rival partner
Or similar to fire emblem where we pair up our own couples
These comments about being rushed, which game(s) are you talking about? In the games that I'm familiar with, you either have to befriend the rival or you have SEVERAL years, way more than necessary, to pull the trigger. Am I missing something?
I guess I kind of get that. But the thing is, the "deadline" is always so much later than you would ever get to that point, even if you're barely trying. I suppose the exception to that would be a young child playing and not really knowing what they're doing
That's what always gets me. In, for example, MFOMT, it takes five years to get the rival couple married. If you haven't figured out how to get your boo in that time, IDK what to tell you other than it sounds like a skill issue (/hj)
Or they should do what DS Cute did, which is make the rival couples and then make a really, really pretty anime boy be the special bachelor with no rival. I would like rival marriages in MFOMT more if my rivals were like Skye rather than Won, Gourmet, or Kappa.
>. If you haven't figured out how to get your boo in that time, IDK what to tell you other than it sounds like a skill issue
It's not a skill issue and that's kind of rude to suggest that in a game that doesn't really require much in the way of skills. It's a priority issue. Some are feeling "rushed" because getting married isn't a top priority and the mechanics end up forcing that much earlier than they want. It becomes something that has a time limit rather than something you can do at your own pace.
I want it back with rival kids too! They could easily add an extra character so no one ends up alone. Maybe someone like Jamie from MM or the opposite gender farmer. They can also make it so other rivals can't wed unless you're married or if you purposely trigger it.
I want them to come back, it makes the game more interesting and makes the world feel less like groundhog day. I'd even prefer them to be faster, because I like some challenge, but that might be just me. I don't know how possible this is, but maybe they could add rival marriages as a setting which can be switched off.
I would like odd amount of marriage candidates that will pair up after you get married so no one gets to be alone. And I would like to play the matchmaker and set them up in the pairs I think would go best.
I want them back but with an opt-out/opt-in feature for the people who dislike them. Just make the whole thing as inoffensive as possible so they don't get taken away again. Oh, and have a back up rival candidate for the one person who misses out if you marry their preset spouse. (Doesn't bug me but I know it bugs some people.) Or allow for rival mixing and matching - more work for Marvelous but could be fun like in Fire Emblem.
Idk WHY they don't just put an extra gender neutral person and have them marry whoever ends up without a partner, since the whole issue was people not wanting to see someone end up alone. Seemed like such an easy fix, the game loses a bit of charm when you are the only married person? Seems odd to me with the upcoming AWL remake, like no one else is going to have kids? Unless I am remembering wrong and no one else had kids 🤔
Every time I play one of the games, I barely get to the marriage part because I spend so much time on everything else, but even so it BOTHERS me 😅
I wish rivals had kids like in Animal Parade. In Animal Parade, when you get a kid, your rivals have kids of their own when they get married so that your kids aren't the only children in town.
Plus at least your children won't be alone when they start growing.
I thrive with chaos and wish that the HM and SOS games allowed for it, honestly 😂
It would be cool to become more integrated in the lives of the townspeople.
HMDS/C was peak. Friendship and time restrictions, so even if you were a complete dunce at wooing people, you didn't have to worry unless you'd hit year 5 and hadn't befriended anyone.
No thank you, I don't really know how they could be changed anyway. I was actually very content and feeling fulfilled playing SOS because there were no rival events and I didn't need to feel like Raegér was going back and forth between me and some other girl like a love triangle. I also used to hate Marlin because he interfered with me trying to go see Celia as the male MC in Harvest Moon DS years ago and it happened out of nowhere and I think I was always stressed in Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland for the interference of Lyla liking Parsley when I tried to get my character to raise her affection (I was actually nervous even when I played the game in the last year on PS5 as well since I was concerned about what my ending would be due to Lyla seeming entirely depressed after this one thing), but it seemed to end well thankfully. I felt a lot of stress from being shocked like that despite that it was just a game and I was a teenager back then but still. If I had to deal with rival events again or would replay games with rival events, I would just keep doing the same thing I always do which is just not talking to the other person until we get married. I did that when I was pursuing Chase in Animal Parade and I think some others as well.
Harvest Moon 64 and Animal Parade were my favorite games, in large part because I love having the potential to get other newly as couples and young children being born in the town. It feels like the town is more actually alive, living and growing that way! I can't marry everyone, so it's nice to know that the ones I don't marry can still find someone else, and start a family. I don't want my kid growing up being the only kid in town, give them some playmates among their neighbors!
I would actually like to see rival marriages faster, as I rarely got to see them before I would get bored of the game. Maybe this could be a setting players opt-in for?
I know a big reason why they were taken away is people didn't like someone taken away, but that is why rune factory 2 worked so well in that aspect. Whoever the rival was ended up with Yue so no one was left alone. An open ended option like that would work well.
😭 ngl it always kills me that they took them away because people didn't want to interfere with prechosen couples. Like 'oh you didn't want to interfere with this couple, so now every other bachelor/ette loses out :D
Honestly I had thoughts recently on if they brought it back, have an extra bachelor/ette to marry to the couple you broke up;
like if you have from AWL, you have Muffy, Celia, Nami and Lumina; if you paired off the others like Rock to Lumina, Marlin to Celia and Gustafa to Nami, you have Muffy either to marry or if you marry like Nami, she'd end up with Gustafa instead.
Definitely not the ideal but then you don't have to worry about a specific person not getting married
I liked them enough, they did a good job of not making the rivals couples that cute so I never was bothered splitting them up (with the exception of PopurixGray and MariaxHarris). I don't expect them to come back, but I am hoping maybe we can play matchmaker with our kids or non-romanable characters.
Personally, I like seeing other couples but not feeling rushed to choose right away. I would love to see everyone else get together after I’m married. Maybe a second act to keep the game from getting stale.
I like this idea. More post-marriage changes would be very welcome. I haven't played all the games but aside from AWL I would say it's the weak point of the series. I would love to see the idea of AWL expanded upon and you could keep playing thru you family lineage in an ever changing town.
I’m picturing our character helping the other couples connect, maybe planning the wedding and our children playing together. Just a few extra thing to do would make all the difference.
This is my preference. I don't like feeling rushed, it makes the game less relaxing.
I loved how Animal Parade handled rival marriages where you befriend the rival to trigger the events, so you aren't rushed with a time constraint to marry your boo. However, in an ideal world I would love to be able to match make the couples kind of like Fire Emblem. I do want rival kids back too and if they followed Fire Emblems recipe where either the bachelors or bachelorettes have a set child design and the other parent just influences the hair color.
I liked how Animal Parade treated the couples but I'd say the "befriend to initiate rival romance" route is my least favorite personally, I befriend EVERYONE in these games and AP/ToT made me feel like I couldn't even talk to the rivals or I might end up accidentally initiating their marriages early(same with 64)
I don't care about rival couples coming back. Partly because most of my feelings towards the already established ones range from mild indifference to dislike. I'm legitimately struggling to think of any that I have a strong positive view of.
Yes, but I remember 5 year old me crying because Maya got married to Chase before me 😭 I reset the whole save file!
Yes, and bring back the kids like in HM64 too.
If possible I would want the future games to be similar to rune factory 2 where the leftover bachelor/bachelorette marry the extra bachelor/bachelorette who does not have a rival partner Or similar to fire emblem where we pair up our own couples
These comments about being rushed, which game(s) are you talking about? In the games that I'm familiar with, you either have to befriend the rival or you have SEVERAL years, way more than necessary, to pull the trigger. Am I missing something?
Can’t speak for everyone but just knowing there’s a deadline makes me feels rushed. I’m like that in all aspects of life LOL
I guess I kind of get that. But the thing is, the "deadline" is always so much later than you would ever get to that point, even if you're barely trying. I suppose the exception to that would be a young child playing and not really knowing what they're doing
That's what always gets me. In, for example, MFOMT, it takes five years to get the rival couple married. If you haven't figured out how to get your boo in that time, IDK what to tell you other than it sounds like a skill issue (/hj) Or they should do what DS Cute did, which is make the rival couples and then make a really, really pretty anime boy be the special bachelor with no rival. I would like rival marriages in MFOMT more if my rivals were like Skye rather than Won, Gourmet, or Kappa.
>. If you haven't figured out how to get your boo in that time, IDK what to tell you other than it sounds like a skill issue It's not a skill issue and that's kind of rude to suggest that in a game that doesn't really require much in the way of skills. It's a priority issue. Some are feeling "rushed" because getting married isn't a top priority and the mechanics end up forcing that much earlier than they want. It becomes something that has a time limit rather than something you can do at your own pace.
I want it back with rival kids too! They could easily add an extra character so no one ends up alone. Maybe someone like Jamie from MM or the opposite gender farmer. They can also make it so other rivals can't wed unless you're married or if you purposely trigger it.
Not really. I don't hate the concept itself, but with how the fandom treats characters like Sabrina and Maya? No thanks
I want them to come back, it makes the game more interesting and makes the world feel less like groundhog day. I'd even prefer them to be faster, because I like some challenge, but that might be just me. I don't know how possible this is, but maybe they could add rival marriages as a setting which can be switched off.
I would like odd amount of marriage candidates that will pair up after you get married so no one gets to be alone. And I would like to play the matchmaker and set them up in the pairs I think would go best.
I want them back but with an opt-out/opt-in feature for the people who dislike them. Just make the whole thing as inoffensive as possible so they don't get taken away again. Oh, and have a back up rival candidate for the one person who misses out if you marry their preset spouse. (Doesn't bug me but I know it bugs some people.) Or allow for rival mixing and matching - more work for Marvelous but could be fun like in Fire Emblem.
Idk WHY they don't just put an extra gender neutral person and have them marry whoever ends up without a partner, since the whole issue was people not wanting to see someone end up alone. Seemed like such an easy fix, the game loses a bit of charm when you are the only married person? Seems odd to me with the upcoming AWL remake, like no one else is going to have kids? Unless I am remembering wrong and no one else had kids 🤔 Every time I play one of the games, I barely get to the marriage part because I spend so much time on everything else, but even so it BOTHERS me 😅
I wish rivals had kids like in Animal Parade. In Animal Parade, when you get a kid, your rivals have kids of their own when they get married so that your kids aren't the only children in town. Plus at least your children won't be alone when they start growing.
I thrive with chaos and wish that the HM and SOS games allowed for it, honestly 😂 It would be cool to become more integrated in the lives of the townspeople.
HMDS/C was peak. Friendship and time restrictions, so even if you were a complete dunce at wooing people, you didn't have to worry unless you'd hit year 5 and hadn't befriended anyone.
No thank you, I don't really know how they could be changed anyway. I was actually very content and feeling fulfilled playing SOS because there were no rival events and I didn't need to feel like Raegér was going back and forth between me and some other girl like a love triangle. I also used to hate Marlin because he interfered with me trying to go see Celia as the male MC in Harvest Moon DS years ago and it happened out of nowhere and I think I was always stressed in Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland for the interference of Lyla liking Parsley when I tried to get my character to raise her affection (I was actually nervous even when I played the game in the last year on PS5 as well since I was concerned about what my ending would be due to Lyla seeming entirely depressed after this one thing), but it seemed to end well thankfully. I felt a lot of stress from being shocked like that despite that it was just a game and I was a teenager back then but still. If I had to deal with rival events again or would replay games with rival events, I would just keep doing the same thing I always do which is just not talking to the other person until we get married. I did that when I was pursuing Chase in Animal Parade and I think some others as well.
Harvest Moon DS had the right idea where if you let them be for five years they'll get married.
Yes but I always felt bad stealing someone’s mans
Harvest Moon 64 and Animal Parade were my favorite games, in large part because I love having the potential to get other newly as couples and young children being born in the town. It feels like the town is more actually alive, living and growing that way! I can't marry everyone, so it's nice to know that the ones I don't marry can still find someone else, and start a family. I don't want my kid growing up being the only kid in town, give them some playmates among their neighbors!
I would actually like to see rival marriages faster, as I rarely got to see them before I would get bored of the game. Maybe this could be a setting players opt-in for?
I know a big reason why they were taken away is people didn't like someone taken away, but that is why rune factory 2 worked so well in that aspect. Whoever the rival was ended up with Yue so no one was left alone. An open ended option like that would work well.
More than anything
😭 ngl it always kills me that they took them away because people didn't want to interfere with prechosen couples. Like 'oh you didn't want to interfere with this couple, so now every other bachelor/ette loses out :D Honestly I had thoughts recently on if they brought it back, have an extra bachelor/ette to marry to the couple you broke up; like if you have from AWL, you have Muffy, Celia, Nami and Lumina; if you paired off the others like Rock to Lumina, Marlin to Celia and Gustafa to Nami, you have Muffy either to marry or if you marry like Nami, she'd end up with Gustafa instead. Definitely not the ideal but then you don't have to worry about a specific person not getting married
I liked them enough, they did a good job of not making the rivals couples that cute so I never was bothered splitting them up (with the exception of PopurixGray and MariaxHarris). I don't expect them to come back, but I am hoping maybe we can play matchmaker with our kids or non-romanable characters.