I'm making a Zelda+Stardew-inspired game right now :D This talk was really great for me!!

As far as edge goes the thing with Linus eating from trash cans is pretty grim.

Why is the audio on escapist podcasts always so quiet?

you do your farming work and then you chill, says yathzee not for min maxers like me, every moment of day has to be used to it's maximum potential which leads to the whole day being stress, haha

Minecraft has a 20 minute day..

Funny how in his "review" of Stardew Valley he dunked on the game and called the datable characters all 'interchangable'. Guess he's shoved his bad review up his own ass and started appreciating SV now.

This show is a MUCH better idea then slightly civil war. Just saying.

Swamp Card =Vampires means that Vampires cant heal anymore, and that their healing actually does damage to them I believe. Anything else that spawns on those swamps (spiders) will suffer the same issue. Not good to use them if you have a regen build of course.

I found stardew frustrating and stressful. I liked the core, but the time mechanic stomped all over what could have been idyllic.

I'm into it

Huh, the RLM/Yahtzee crossover I didn't know existed.

There's some confusion between the Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons franchises which may be confusing to consumers. Solution: play Stardew Valley!

Listening to this podcast while playing Valheim is very sooting for my soul.

Congrats on this reformatted Slightly S.E.. Listening to you two share your thoughts on videogames in depth is a delight.

What's the song at the beginning?

On Loop Hero: Swamps are really good next to vampire mansions, as they will kill themselves with their own vampirism. Vampire mansions are important because orbs of expansion only drop from combats with at least five enemies, and only four enemies can directly spawn on a tile.

Great new format! I liked Slightly Civil War most of the time and will miss it. But I liked the podcast that came after EVERY time, so this is really just more of the best stuff.

5:08 “Hello, I’m Yahtzee Croshaw and this is my friend Jack and we’re talking the fuck about some HAAAAARVEST MOOOOON for the SNES”.

Really cool you figured out a way to incorporate youtube comments into a podcast

.... i've never realized how much you guys resemble each other.

I always have a hard time analyzing the core loop of games when they get more complex. Take the SoulsBorne games for example, since Yhatzee/Jack are both fans. What is the actual core loop there versus the secondary and tertiary loops?

No I have to go buy that freakin game - thanks guys!

I like this

Also I legit played stardew valley while listening to this. The 1.5 update sucked me in hard

Loved this!!! I actually been following escapist for a long time without subscribing cuz I just stuck to zero punctuation, but this made me subscribe

Guys, do you plan to upload this to Apple Podcasts app into old slightly civil war (now has new picture) feed? Currently it’s not there

Everyone: "omg yahtzee and jack are so great together!" Me: *sad gabe noises*

You can have both - Rune factory series.

I'm sad to see Slightly Civil War go. I really loved those jokey debates with all the animations

Speaking of Rune Factory, I remember Rune Factory 4 had a Chzo Mythos reference. In a haunted house there was a journal that ended with "it hurts" written in red over and over again.

Much prefer this show over slightly civil war. I like hearing about your guys's actual opinions than opinions you guys are arbitrarily assigned.

Just wanted to say I love Yahtzee Croshaw's Trilby game series and hope he puts them on the Switch!

Loop Souls Podcast

Loop Hero... Picked it up after Jack talked about it... 100ish hrs later on 1 save.. not including other saves of trying to get the boss on the first play. Dangit... you said the magic word, I took off my headphones and put it on speaker to do some house stuff and my dog grabbed the lead.

Never played Stardew Valley but I'm quite intrigued 🤔 "They drinking themselves to death Jack!"

Harvest Moon 3D: A New Beginning (for 3DS) is the last true Farm Story game to use the Harvest Moon name. Everything after that are the crappy bad ones. But even that one isn't that good....mostly because the tutorial is horrific, and lasts the entire first year of the game before they let you just freaking play (it's fine after that point). (as in locking out whole mechanics and introducing 1 new thing a week if you're lucky). I literally could not be assed to replay it because there's you're wasting hours of your life with the most patronizingly hand-held trash in existence and wastes like 6 hours just getting to the point you can start playing. Story of Seasons did A LOT better in that regard. Since they only somewhat restrict your first week (which is fair enough since it only takes 10-15 minutes to rush through it), and there's more to do since you're not playing in a mostly abandoned town with only 2 npcs to talk to for 3/4 of the first year like in HM 3D. If HM 3D had done the same I'd feel it was a lot better, since the Town Building aspect IS fun, but it takes like 6 hours to brute force your way through all the tutorials to get to the point you can start playing.

“Adjust glasses, smug voice” Nothing changes

I like that hack fraud Jack Packard

Finally, a theme that doesn't remind me of "what a friend we have in Jesus"

I think another great take on "Farming Sims" is the factory management games like Factorio or Satisfactory. The gameplay loop is basically same in terms of short and long term goals and gains but a type of game also satisfy the engineer/nerd in some of us. For me I can't be bothered to water the plants but I can spend days building up to a space elevator.

Jack: A lot of the girls are just what you put into them. PHRASING, JACK.

*Mah* *Wife*

“They’re fucking drinking themselves to death Jack!”

"Large Cynical Man Cuddling Tiny Dog Stream" is what my brain calls this.

You know, I really wanted to make a Farming Sim x Cosmic Horror type RPG at one point, mixing "chill" with "freaky secret stuff"...But managing a full-blown farming sim type game in RPGmaker is legit difficult and I moved on to other projects. XD

Why does Jack have a framed corndog?

My favourite part of slightly civil war was the podcast that comes after slightly civil war, so I like that this is continuing. I'm not bothered about it being live, I prefer to have it as a sort of podcast I can listen to/watch later on. Keep it up chaps.

Yahtzee looks like my dishevelled university professor tbh

@1:04:24 More specifically it's a fuck hunt. I don't even want to know what the hunting dog would be snickering at in THAT game...

Yeah i went for Shane, and was pretty annoyed when he moved in he put beer on my bedroom floor!

I kinda wish Minecraft had a stardew valley/harvest moon game mode and plays like it because 10 mins days are short and hostile mob spawning just keep you from doing stuff

48:00 reference to Sayori in DDLC

20 Min is about the length of most 30 min shows once you cut out the commercials and even the filler sequences

This was good.

Will the Podcast be posted on Spotify/ other podcast aps?

Graveyard keeper is probably my favorite harvest moon Star dew valley descendent

Pull things out of the ground 20 minute day loop Pikmin is a farming sim

Every day we come one step closer to a Rich Evans cameo

After the stream by hours. I just want to say that I'm looking forward to Stardew Valley meets Wing Commander: Privateer.

That was an excellent new form. A great accompaniment on my morning walk do school! But where did Jack get that amazing T-shirt??

I feel like darksouls/stardew valley is a game i would probably play.

All this talk about Stardew Valley and y’all haven’t tried the boardgame yet. And it’s even got a solo mode!

Love the new format

Perfect in that it ate weeks of my life and I'm feeding it more. Yahtzee warned me that it hits them addiction receptors, but I just had to know ... EDIT: And yet, in all that time, I never sided with Joja. I even started new games with it in mind that I would see the Joja ending, and yet pouring that much time into seeing what I know will be a shitty ending is devoid of the fun of working toward the ending you care about. I guess that's how I know how much I play games for the story.

Of all the things I would change about SDV, I think the big one I would change is to make the characters who give up booze, i.e. Pam and Shane, stop LOVING it when you give them Beer even when they're supposed to be sobering up.

Well just look at those hungry young talents now!

I hope the make animated snippets of highlighted moments.

Just go gay and date Shane, Yatz.

Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life and Harvest Moon Another Wonderful Life on the GameCube were the last good Harvest Moon Games that I would recommend trying if you like Stardew Valley. I mean Tree of Tranquility was a decent Harvest Moon game but it doesn't hold a candle to the previously mentioned titles. Previous Harvest Moon games that came before those two are also great but everything after them is just kind of "eh".

Was sad when they announced slightly civil war was ending, now I'm grinning like a silly little boy. Long live jack & yahtz

The Rune Factory series is the one I think really did manage to combine quality farming with quality combat stuff. It keeps them separate though; no bloody tower defence tiresomeness.

For a guy who got fired like a week ago, Jack sure does like to give free labor.

48:09 - if one of the stardew waifus had a literal hook, that would be 'something' too! She could have lost her hand in a tragic farming accident, and is depressed about it or something.

me listening to this podcast while playing stardew: 🥲

Still pales in comparison to Rune Factory.

30:00 talking about "useless" cards in loop hero, both yahtzee bring up 2 cards they both individually don't like, but the thing is that if those two cards are played right near each other there are some huge synergies. swamps reverse healing such that vampirism and heal over times actually do damage instead. throw a vampire castle next to a swamp and you get vampires spawning there. vampires have a passive that gives them and any other enemies vampirism and since the swamp reverses the healing this gives then it is essentially free damage. this type of setup goes really well when you build your character for dodging and defense. you can rely on your potions to heal you instead and just avoid damage.

loop hero advice, if you hold down the return to camp button, it turns on auto return, the next time you pass through camp it'll do it for you, no timing required.

Love hearing you guys, but these anti-dog camera angles are a crime!

"Cooki has already scratched at my..." cut off by loading. Do I want to guess at what he was about to say or wait to find out.

I couldnt really get into it at all. I mean I enjoy it in theory, but meh. I just found it pretty dull.

Talk about The Sims, which has always had a farming side, but became specially powerful on Sims 3 and Sims 4. You can have a huge farming simulation in the Sims 4 and live off of the land if you want to.

I mean... Harvest moon back to nature is 'perfect-er'

I'm having let's drown out flash backs... It's beautiful (=

Stardew Valley feels like a management program disguised as a game. Hopefully the dev makes something a little more inspired next time. I love their visual art style.

I LOVE the show change! while I thought Slightly Civil War was okay if I thought the topic was interesting. the after Discussion was what I listened to the most!

We need Terminal Montage to make "Something about slightly something else"

You want perfect gameplay loops? Civ 5 has got to be up there. I spent 16 hours yesterday hitting next turn and just lost an entire day of my life.

swamp card is good to fight vampires

For a moment I thought we had drown out mk.2

In my opinion as soon as I played Rune Factory 4 I never wanted to play Stardew again. Something about all the skills in the game made Stardew seem boring to me.

I will never tire of Yahtzee's voice

Yatz and Jack appear at 1:28 :)

@1:30 they finally start

They probably stumbled into the timing because I think they just programmed 1 minute in real life = 1 hour of game time. Several games like BOTW and Majora's Mask also set their day/night cycle at the same pace.

I would love an episode where Yahtzee and Jack just talk about their favorite games

Each day we come one step closer to it being a jack n yahtz radio show

10:50

New podcast babeeeeeeeey

When they said it would be called Slightly Something Else, I didn't expect that to be literal

Damn, I missed the stream.