Annoyances and Pet Peeves..., Vent off what you don't like about this game. Options

[mijito]

finally got the game after waiting almost a year...

load the game up and noticed that the wii remote warning screen looks awfully stretched... still hoping there's some in-game menu option or something as this is usually a system-wide setting but no luck... can't believe a 2008 game doesn't have this.

that and the choppy framerate was a bitter surprise after playing RF frontier which was definitely something else (I know it's kind of an unfair comparison but still) named the farm "choppy" after this...

Technicalities apart... this one's so much better than ToT that one can't help thinking all of us who got ToT should be entitled to this one at reduced cost, a rebate or something (kinda like the Win7>Vista thing)

other minor and not so minor annoyances:

- harvest "god" was changed to "king" so it's now Religiously Correct (same as PC but aimed toward religious nuts, guess I can see them saying there is/can only be one god... let's sue marvelous and natsume a la rockstar) yet the goddess' still a goddess :P... why oh why...

- removed some alcohol stuff (like RFF but not as bad, though)...

- "cleaned up" dialogues... Luna doesn't sound like her anymore...

- some dialogue it's waaaay cornier now (yes, it's possible).

- livestock riding issues: when you get off an animal and enter the house, or the fugue forest (not sure about the mines) it automatically enters the barn leaving you stranded, then when you whistle, you get another animal, especially annoying when you get on the horse which is very fast... get off it and do whatever and when you whistle to get back on it... you're on a cow or sheep (just a bit faster than running by yourself)...

p.s.: fall 16th and 5 bells. so far so good.

[Zen Clarke]

It's not laziness. To have time running indoors would require events for every possible place when you should not be inside anymore. The people would need to kick you out of the house. It doesn't sound like much, but it's still a fair bit of work. As for tools, like I said, it could have been buggy and stopping time momentarily may have been a quick fix. I call in HM64 you could go to the hot spring and if times right, end up naked in your house the next day. Lots of bizarre things happen when dealing with a time system, so I feel they were justified in their actions. And really, is it even that big a deal? I'd just like time to go a bit faster.

*eyebrows shoot up* Haha! That's funny! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaexdee.gif)

Time not passing indoors has actually saved me many times. Before I got any animals up to 5 hearts, I had to run by foot. I think one time, I forgot that I needed fodder, and the next day Horn Ranch was going to be closed. I had no phone (nor the money) to order fodder and feed over the phone, so I had to race to the store before it closed. I got there at 17:50. If time had passed indoors, I would've been kicked right back out, and my animal would've gotten mad at me for not feeding it. So, I'm very much okay with time not passing indoors. ^^;; And as far as time stopping when you use tools, it's saved my animals a few times, when they're stupid enough to start to turn around to walk across the area I'm watering. If I'm quick enough, I can water the area before they get in the way. And I know the simple solution to not getting your animals while working in the fields is to wait until you're done with those chores before you let your animals out, but sometimes I forget.

As for my pet peeves...

-Characters have changed personality. I loved that Selena was a female dog at first, and that Chase and Gill were a bit arrogant. Now they're nicer, and it bugs the absolute crap out of me. And Kathy kinda insulted me. She said she thought I was going to be unreliable at first, but I'm okay. Gee, thanks. Good to know that you thought I was a spazz at first, and now I'm just "okay".

-I hate that when you're cooking, you can't check your recipe when you click 'recipe'. You have to search through all of them, and if you don't have it already, you don't know for sure. In ToT, if you hadn't made the recipe, but you had all the ingridients there for it, when you hit recipe, it would have it already, I think. That was nice.

-I despise the refining. I can handle it costing. But could they sparkle and give me a hint, please!? TT-TT

-I think this is my number one pet peeve. Okay, I married Owen, right? I took him for a walk on the day of the Starry Night festival. Kathy was there, too. So, I go and talk to her, and what does she say? "I love looking up at the stars. They're so beautiful. I might have the courage to tell that special someone my feelings," or something like that. That girl was makin' a move on my man!! >3< Afterwards, I noticed she'd walk close to Owen. I pulled out my axe, and she walked away. A little freaky, but hey. She just messed with the wrong girl.

-Like Strawberry Kiss, I don't like that when you get the 20th heart, it's the exact same dialogue as the 19th heart. Okay, you want to be with me forever. Got anything else to say? "I love you" would be nice every once in a while....

-I do not like that they don't let you choose what your spouse calls you. :( I was so looking forward to being called "Sweetie" or "Honey."

-Livestock's moods. I don't get why some days my cow and/or horse have the mad squiggly over their head when I first walk in, and sometimes they don't. What the heck?

-I don't like that the second child is, as another topic says, shunned. You have hardly any events with them, and it's fairly depressing.

-I don't like not being able to see what I'm buying. Oh my gosh, I hate that so much. Before I buy anything, I go to Fogu, because they give pictures of pretty much everything you can buy.

-I find it really weird that when Owen gave me a garnet as a 2 heart present, and I got it made into a necklace, it went from being red, to purple. o-o Whaaaaaa?

-As Loser said, it's annoying/weird that the people teleport from place to place. I can understand some things, because for something like Renee or Kathy to walk all the way to and from Harmonica Town and Horn Ranch is a lot. But, maybe skip your ranch inbetween? Like, maybe 'magically' transport Renee to the entrance of Harmonica Town/Horn Ranch, and have her walk to the place she'll be wandering around at? :\ Maybe that's just me that feels that way.

-I hate the colds. I went about 2 weeks with one. I figured that I'd eventually wake up one day and it'd be gone (it was towards the beginning. I didn't have the money to go buy cold medicine). But it didn't. It was so annoying. And nobody even cares. :( At least in ToT, they'd make some comment about it.

-Hamilton never says anything relevant. You're at a festival, and he says, "The painting at the Church? They say it's a gift from the Harvest Goddess, blablabla." And that whenever you win a festival, you're only acknowleged for the first one you win.

-Finally, the one thing that makes me truly angry (other than colds), is the animal race. I cannot win it for the life of me. I always get last. And I have a horse at 10 hearts!! DDx Whyyyyyy? I get my butt kicked by the goats!