So the game shouldn't have multiplayer because of the game's story? What's the fault in that? The game doesn't even have a story yet, so you, me, none of us know how fun or unfun it would be with multiplayer. It could be amazing. You can easily play single player and ignore every e-mail you get and it's still the same game.Camychan wrote:Sure multiplayer would be a blast, I'm all for playing games with friends, in fact I prefer it that way. But with regards to this game in particular, you have to really think about it. How would multiplayer work? Sure you could have two or more people running around, but the game is centered around one main character because of it's story.
Hundreds? Talk about blowing it out of proportion. So lets say for example they make it 2 player. That just adding a playermodel and a player2 playermodel. If they make is 4 player, just make 2 more playermodels. I doubt that would be extremely difficult for the talented bunch at Monomi Park. Everything else looks nice. If they make it more than 4 player, and they don't want to bother with different character models, just have one playermodel and put the player name above the user. What's the bother? I'm really not seeing a problem with multiplayer yet.Camychan wrote:If it was multiplayer, even if they made a variety of ranchers, there is no way to not have hundreds of the same exact character running around.
So your argument here is "It shouldn't be multiplayer because it's not multiplayer"? Not to mention multiplayer harvest moon sounding awesome. Who wouldn't want to run a farm with their friend, goofing around, raising animals and splitting daily chores. One could milk the cows and feed the chickens while the other gardens. That sounds way better than single player. But that is just me.Camychan wrote:Secondly, take into account the gameplay. I've heard people say that it could be multiplayer in the same way minecraft is, but that's not a very close comparison. If I had to compare this game to anything, it would be more like Harvest moon. In which you play a boy or girl who has taken over an old farm in some way or another (each harvest moon story has a different reason for starting up a farm) and you work to make that farm profitable with it's animals and resources. The game itself is also completely single player.
The game in it's current single player form is too easy. The game is still in alpha. It's very very not done.Camychan wrote:Lastly, having more than one person on a single farm would just make it to easy. The challenge in the game lies in the fact that your always kept busy, running around and taking care of your slimes and crops.
Why do you need the farm to be twice as big just for one more person? The starting farm is fine. The rest of your arguments stem from supersizing the farm and making it uncontrollably massive and things would fall apart, which is weird right after you said the game would be easier, too easy, with multiplayer.Camychan wrote:The farm itself is super small and while the devs are working to add new areas and there are expansions they would have to triple/quadruple the amount of space provided (expansions included) to account for another player, which would make it pretty hard for anyone who wanted to play it single player and not have to spend literally an entire in-game day to get from one side of their farm to another. This would result in hungry slimes and rotting crops and I'm sure a lot of complaints from the solo rancher community.
glinkBobby wrote:As of right now, multiplayer is not top priority. Finish the single player game first, then maybe multiplayer after. I wouldn't advocate "hundreds of players" as you seem to be worried about, but a 2 player would be sufficient. Just messing around on a farm with a friend would be mighty fun. Now I want multiplayer harvest moon. Does that exist yet?
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