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Fields of Mistria is one of the most impressive games I've ever played (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As a long-time Stardew Valley fan, I never thought I'd find a game that could capture my heart quite the same way. Fields of Mistria has done just that. I'm honestly blown away by how good this game is

note: just a random fan, have nothing to do with this game at all. It kinda saddens me that it hasn't gotten as much attention though, there are so many mediocre games with soooo many reviews.. this game is legit insane. it's gorgeous!!

Edit: Concerned Ape must've seen my post, and now Stardew Valley has a midweek deal for -50% off LMFAO you cannot make this up

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Another cozy game with a ugly bleached out pastel color theme. Thanks and I wish fun for everyone who plays it, but this is nothing for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

this game is fucking lovely, and i appreciate that the early access has about an ingame year of content. really excited to see it come out in full before i play through it all

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Well that's definitely a pick-up line.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Nothing about that screenshot is "the most impressive" anything tbh.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

I'm not a stardew fan but "this game is legit insane" is not a phrase that would get me excited for any game.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why does Hayden look like he wants to consume my magical items?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

He wants to consume more than that 😉

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Makes me sad to see it’s Windows only given it’s so graphically simple and low tech. Should be a shoe-in for a Mac and Linux version.

Edit: yes I know proton exists, my point is that as an indie game it is likely built with something like Unity or Godot, and thus exporting a native Mac and Linux build is just a matter of turning on a couple check boxes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

This game works flawlessly on the Steam Deck, which, in almost all cases, means it will work on Steam for Linux through Proton, which is an emulation layer built-in to Steam

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not a high end game, so it should be fine to use emulation like proton and wine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Obligatory, and please please take this as the most silly of jokes: pushes up glasses UUUMMMMM akchually WINE is a compatibility layer, not an emulator, its name literally stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator.

Again, it’s just kind of a running bit in the Wine community. The same thing is right at the top of the projects home page if my memory serves, and it is definitely easier to refer to it as an emulator. “Compatibility layer” just doesn’t have the same ring to it lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, just hard to explain that to a layman, whereas "emulator" is a commonly known word. I get the difference, but most people don't.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

What do you mean? Native Linux isn't that relevant these days. Most games run well through Proton, and some even better than on Windows. Judging by the protondb entry, you wouldn't notice on Linux that this was a windows game: https://www.protondb.com/app/2142790

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't know how gaming on Mac works, but since I switched my home rig to Linux a couple of years ago, I have not once had a problem with installing a new game that doesn't have native Linux support^[1]. I wonder whether developers have learned that they can rely on Proton for their Linux support (for better or worse).

[1]: there was a point when Baldur's Gate 3 stopped working after a big update, but I fixed it by switching to Proton-GE, a forked version of Proton. https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is it an issue for games with bios level anti cheat?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I don't think I've personally played any games with that, but I think it can be a problem? I get the sense that it may vary game by game, but as I say, I have no direct experience or knowledge

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

There’s CrossOver on Mac which works pretty well for most titles too. Not as good as proton but let’s say 75% there. But you might be right that the success of proton is disincentivizing developers from targeting either. Still disappointing though as a game like this is an ideal candidate for Mac and Linux, compared to some AAA title.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, it'll probably be quite some time until they have a Linux version. But can't you download some sort of emulation for Windows if you really wanted to try it? I don't know how that works though I've never used Linux

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes you can run windows games fairly easily on Mac and Linux these days but it’s never quite as good as a native build.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I have had proton stuff run better than native. But it was probably a shitty native build.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There was a highly upvoted post on the cozygames subreddit which I'm paraphrasing from memory.

Every time someone shares something in the Stardew Valley genre, there's like a militant group of commenters who are outright hostile to that new game. And yes, I'm seeing that sprinkled in the comments on this post.

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".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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. And yes, I'm seeing that sprinkled in the comments on this post.

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, was heavily inspired by* 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

But seriously, Stardew is just remade Harvest Moon or even maybe Animal Crossing. It's not like it invented the genre.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Farmville was a shitty knockoff of harvest moon.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure harvest moon predates Facebook by at least a decade

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