Hey guys here is where you can discuss what you think the next Harvest Moon should be like. The characters, the village, etc.

I wold like the town to be Harvest county and have the tot and awl charecters in it and to have more choices in animals

I would love it to be on a whole new island called paradise island with all new characters. but this island is huge! it has atleast 10 bacholers and bacolerettes! and atleast 100 different villagers! please keep posting!!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalagrin.gif)

come on people share your ideasss!

I was thinking like, a game where your Jill/Pony or Claire and your a teen living in Forget-me-not or Mineral Town with your parents and younger Brother and you can date one of ANY of the guys from ALL the games! You go to high school with them you can see them around town (you can go to any of the towns from the games.) But which ever girl you choose to be the other one will be you BFF.(example:you are jill your Best Friend is Claire) In the end you go to prom with the guy you wooed and it'll show you a picture after the credits role of you and the guy married and what not..like Princess Debute a romance game for the DS.

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It's really fun!

Here are a few things I would like in the next HM game~

1. Best Friend and Marriage systems. Unlike the system in the Japanese version of HMDS Cute where you could have one or the other. My idea would be to make it so that having a certain amount of FP with someone other than the avaliable marriage candidates for your gender would trigger a scene where the character would ask to be your best friend. Having a best friend could be made benefical, with options such as getting gifts from that friend on special occasions and on the anniversary of becoming best friends, or having certain 'best friend scenes' to trigger, etc, etc. Of course you could only have one best friend, but it'd still be a nice additon.

2. More customizable kids. I admit, the child system in Animal Parade is unbelieveably amazing compared to the normal system, but I still wish they had made it more random as to what the child's appearance looks like. In other words, have the ability to look like you or your husband/wife, and have multiple hair style choices. Other than that, I would like the children to have job ambitions and to eventually have a crush on/date the rival children. This could be random or based on common interests.

3. More romantic heart events. On the DS/GBA games, the rival events always seemed more romantic than the heart events with your character. On the wii games, the heart events before the date and confession seem more like friendship events. Sure it would be a nice addition to have bachelor/bachelorettes give you presents, but that doesn't mean there shouldn't be regular heart events too.

That's all I can think of for now, but I'm sure I'll come up with some more later. ;D

Yea I wouldn't mind them bringing back the girl friend thing...

I've actually kinda been hoping for a remake of FoMT. Maybe it could be for the Wii and handle more like Magical Melody.

Let me go ahead and make my list :)

1. at least 20 marriageable Bachelors/bachelorettes.
They should bring the girl friend thing back.

2. They should allow you to have up to 4 kids.

3. Bring back part time jobs.

4. WAY more villagers! hmm atleast 100 people total... hmmm
Maybe a more variety of people...

5. More horse colors.
And they should let you ride them without making you have 5 hearts...

6. Change the ores to where they sparkle again.

etc.

Just a small thing, I'd like for everything to be available to me from the start as long as I have enough lumber and money for it. Same goes with characters, I hate having to wait for a certain amount of time to pass or to complete a certain event to get something.

That said, more character events too! Just don't make them mandatory to get certain things

Two generations, totally. Where you can start over as your kid, but instead of going to the same island again like in ToT's New Game+, the other village kids age up and become the starting set of candidates, and more people keep moving to the town.
Kinda like AWL, but with non-suckish farming mechanics (truer to the classic style. Actually, AP's farming mechanics are pretty much fantastic. But with a pasture like in ToT, where the animals will actually autonomously eat the grass. That's the one reason I don't like keeping livestock in AP.)
Well, I guess what I'm thinking is not like, the chapter-thing, but activated in the manner of a NG+ in ToT and AP, except your kid doesn't leave. As soon as your kid would grow up, you could start the next generation whenever you wanted. Which would eliminate the need to go through ANOTHER ROUND OF TUTORIALS, 'cause your kid grew up on a farm and SHOULD know how things work.
Or you could choose not to start over as your kid, have them stop aging at their teenage years, and have them frolic off and flirt with whatever rival kid tickles their (I.e. your) fancy.
But everyone ages up separately, unlike AWL. I didn't like AWL. I don't want it to be too much like it. (There were SO too few characters in that game.)

More events, so the game doesn't start going stale. More things to do after marriage, too.

Character customization is always nice. Even if it's something so minor as hair and eye color, and of course clothing customization. No major slide-for-rotation-of-nose-bridge customization, just hair and eye color would be fine. And hairstyle. And I wanna style my kids' hair. I wanted two long-haired kids in AP.
And that extends to genetics; the kid has a chance of getting my hair color or the spouse's hair color, and same goes for eyes.

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Really, though. I mean a full-blown gay option. As in, when I play as a girl, I wanna be able to marry a girl.
But there's no way it's going to make it into an E-rated game. Hmph. I'd settle for "Best Friends," then.

But all that's probably too much for the Wii to handle. >> Or for the programmers to handle. I'unno. But it seems like it would take up a lot of space.

Agreed. There shouldn't be anymore of that kind of discrimination. I'm not gay myself, but I do think it's a bit unfair to gay players to basically force them to play as a straight character when the character is supposed to represent the player.

it will be in 2050 year


alot of villger new animal like pig.hamster

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I'd definitely like more things to do after marriage - things that can only be triggered by being married. Having said that, I'd also prefer that there be certain events you can only unlock by remaining single or by dating multiple guys or girls - give it a bit more variety and replay value, and I'd also prefer that you have a choice in whether or not you decide to have children, and how many.

Of course, the programming on that might not be so easy - it could be a lot more complex than it sounds. But games are making incredible advances these days, so I'm certain it could eventually get done.

I also want gradual season changes, like in A Wonderful Life, as well as similar graphics - running around the town in a 360-degree 3-D view, giving you a better idea of the views from different points in the area.

I also want them to continue branching off the heart events by the choices you make, like they did in Island of Happiness - where each answer could lead to different heart events. Again, it adds variety.

I also want certain things to not be so insanely time-consuming/difficult to unlock - like the flour/soybeans/mushrooms/et cetera in Island of Happiness. And no sub-villagers, and no more of that "If you ignore the villagers, they leave" stuff. Too co-dependent and creepy.

And, of course, balance in how you choose to make money - I want some sort of equal footing between fishing, mining, foraging, farming, and ranching. I also wouldn't mind seeing different events or possibilities unlocked by which paths you choose to follow in making money.

(I do realize that I'm asking a lot, though.)



I hear you there. I am gay, myself (although I don't terribly mind playing as a guy and marrying a girl in these games when it's the only option - helk, on Magical Melody and Island of Happiness, I have separate boy and girl files), but the closest I can get in here is by playing as a girl (when the option's available) and marrying a dude... and no offense to girls or anything, but... I am a guy, and I'd prefer to play as one while pursuing the others.

Have all the bachelors in one island...Wizard, Skye, Cliff, Trent, Chase, Gill, Marlin, Rock, Vaughn...-drools-
Then you can marry any bachelor you want! <3

It'd be good to have the ability to alter the future according to your actions, sort of similar to how the Fable series allows you to choose your destiny. I think that the pets you adopt should be more useful, IE dogs being able to herd (I don't have animal parade and I don't know if that's a capability) and fetch, cats being able to hunt (fish, I suppose), bring back pigs truffle hunting, etc. They could add a little more of a seamless world - larger, more to explore. Maybe instead of "explore" I should say have a few towns to visit - even bring back an improved version of the ship that sailed once a week to the city in one of the gameboy versions.

I agree that there should certainly be more characters in the game, and maybe a few different outcomes. I don't know if a hundred would be an ideal number to begin with, but maybe start with a handful and harness TOT's idea but let it continue to grow.

I realize this is a lot to ask from programmers but what the series could use is a group who wouldn't mind spending years working on a game like this. It really could turn out wonderfully if they could. In the meantime they can continue to release games like these - great, but not quite fantastic - to keep fans at bay.

I hope its like Harvest Moon A Wonderfu Life but shorter and alot better.

I once had a following fantasy: the future where a ship is sent to colonize other worlds. The ship eventually crashes on a remote planet, but thankfully it's Earth-type enough to survive. You use the ship remains to build a house and start exploring the land, trying to cultivate it, taming strange creatures and maybe even making contact with inhabitants of the planet. Just make sure the protagonist has some basic lodging and facilities from the start (lest it should become like too much like Lost in Blue) and at the same time does not have too many robot helpers (lest it should become too much like Innocent Life). I think such an experience (even as another spin-off) would be refreshing and interesting.

That's a nice idea. It would definitely end up as some type of a spin-off game though. Right now all I can think of is what I would want in the next Rune Factory. But I'll talk about Harvest Moon anyways.

-Not too many villagers (if there are too many people they end up less interesting)
-More events (lots of festivals, heart events, and random events).
-I would like the game to have a storyline.
-A simple farming system (none of that sun/water point stuff).
-A large map with different places to go.

I would like to see a Harvest Moon for the 3DS. I might come up with more things later.

Make it like the old ones, I actually completely played through those.