Comment on Fields of Mistria is one of the most impressive games I've ever played
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
There was a highly upvoted post on the cozygames subreddit which I’m paraphrasing from memory.
Every time a shares something in the Stardew Valley genre, there’s like a militant group of commenters who are outright hostile to that new game. I’m seeing it sprinkled in the comments.
Like, imagine any other genre having to deal with people like that? “Oh that looks like it’s ripping off Doom how unoriginal looks boring just play Doom”.
Buttflapper@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Oh definitely. It’s really funny though because these keyboard warriors that keep criticizing any game that looks similar to Stardew Valley, doesn’t realize that Stardew Valley faced those exact same criticisms when people said that crazy ape, the developer of Stardew, basically ripped off harvest Moon. It was such a silly and absurd thing to say, but everyone started regurgitating it over and over again. Just because one game starts becoming successful people forget the other games that they were very similar to in the past
If people really wanted to go down the rabbit hole though, this all started when Farmville hit Facebook. That was the beginning of it all that I remember personally. Farmville made people lose their fucking minds. People were all over that shit, it was like cocaine. No one would shut up about it for years
Bobmighty@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Farmville was a shitty knockoff of harvest moon.
Buttflapper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It was, but the important thing is that it was conveniently located inside of Facebook, and generic enough that it grabbed people’s attention, which is exactly what you need sometimes. When it’s too niche or specific, that’s when people lose interest. That’s why fields of mistria is not necessarily as popular. It’s a little bit more niche and specific, with magic and washed out color theme, pastel colors, appealing to the cozy gaming crowd. And that’s okay! Not every game needs to be so generic that it appeals to everyone
Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Pretty sure harvest moon predates Facebook by at least a decade
logos@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
But seriously, Stardew is just remade Harvest Moon or even maybe Animal Crossing. It’s not like it invented the genre.