What Makes Some Farming Sims so REPLAYABLE?! The Gaming Garden Podcast #18 with Emmalution

[@emmalution]

thank you again for having me on the podcast! loved chatting with you! (p.s. having a blast with Rune Factory 5!)

[@Ninja40K]

Emma greatly appreciates your playthroughs. Thank you for providing such cozy content.

[@GamingGardenPodcast]

Thank you for joining me Emma! So glad you're enjoying RF5!

[@sleuthytv1228]

You know what game I miss the most ? The original first FarmVille on Facebook 😂. Man I loved that game and was obsessed

[@dragonfariy830]

Me too

[@girlytomboyx]

YES! I was literally just thinking about Farmville while watching this lmao. And Cityville too, and I loved Treasure something, all by Zyega too.

[@tinahoefs1455]

Big farm story for switch gives me Farmville vibes with a story. Farm together also is very similar but doesn't have a story. It does have multiplayer though.

[@foreignuser_]

when farmville first came out, it was singlehandedly responsible for policies changing at my work and restrictions being added to the network. so many employees were playing farmville instead of working and the game was taking over conversation in the office. it was ridiculous. i never played it but i had to suffer the same consequence of our internet at work being locked down so much more

[@jdhlsc169]

2500 hours in SDV, not counting what I played on mobile in 2017. Love the game! It's adorable! The music alone is comforting to the soul. I always feel like I'm "coming home" when I play. Every 6 months or so I will play again. Sometimes to perfection, sometimes not. It is my happy place in gaming. (For perspective, I played Harvest Moon as an adult back when it came out. It is what lead me to look for something similar and what led me to SDV in 2017.) PS: Sandrock has an awesome story. Teared up in the game quite a few times. It's like a great book that grabs you, doesn't let go and you don't want to end. I put off the ending for many in game days. It IS one of the best story driven games I have ever played due to the emotional roller coaster ride it took you on. I highly recommend it for all!

[@Lunicia]

I love to play Dinkum with mods! There are also many quality of life and decorating mods. My personal favorites are placing grass under buildings/items and picking up items/plants and placing them anywhere else you want. Sun Haven also has great mods! Totally recommend trying some 😁

[@girlytomboyx]

Really interesting podcast! I love the discussion u and Emma had about replayability of the farming games. Stardew is also my main go-to, but I do get burn out from it, everyone are different. I try not to play like, hours of Stardew, just like, play 1-2 days when I log in to play a game, just to keep myself progressing toward Perfection in Stardew, and not to get burnt out if I play it for hours in a day. Lots of upcoming games in November I'm looking forward to, so it's always hard to juggle around and I agree with what u two are saying about comfort game, we go back to play the same game for comfort and think about do we have energy to play a completely different game? I felt like that with Stardew, I played a bit, got overwhelmed, then I watched lots of Stardew for Beginner videos on KZbin from several different KZbinrs to pick up something new from each one of them because they all play it differently and have great tips, now Stardew is like, the farming game that I keep going back to. But I'm also breaking the farming game to play some of my backlogs to mix it up a bit. Great discussion from u two, I really enjoyed this one. Thanks Josh and Emma!

[@PIka15Channel]

28:45 I always do this, I love to watch all the cutscene with all bachelorettes, especially in RF and SoS games, Marvelous really doing a great job with their character developement, but my main save file is always with the one I love the most 💖

[@SilverWingsSoar]

Stardew Valley is my favorite farming sim! However, the lack of overlay to show how far the scarecrow covers has always annoyed me. Although mods are a nice way to add variety to a play through I do not think that their existence excuses the developer from adding quality of life functions to the base game.

[@tinahoefs1455]

I don't feel guilty replaying favorite games. I only feel guilty buying more games I never get around to playing because I'm replaying something I already finished. Right now I just restarted wylde flowers.

[@tinahoefs1455]

Have you played garden paws at all?

[@Feirgheim]

I love rune factory and I keep coming back to 5 despite it flaws, I just think that everything just clicks with that franchise, I hope we get more info about guardians of azuma.

[@Ninja40K]

My two favorites are cozy content creators.

[@countrygamergal]

You need too play amber isle longer it gets better the longer you play.

[@tinahoefs1455]

I don't play but think minecraft probably has mods.

[@foreignuser_]

netflix games 🤮🤮🤮