So good!! I love how you match the vibes of each guest! 😆 This might be the episode where I laughed the most! Thank you Josh and K!! Again, congrats for hitting 1K subs!!! Let's go The Gaming Garden Podcast! That floral shirt is firreeeee! 🔥🔥🔥
My only worry for Tales of the Shire, is that the gameplay loop of cooking to improve relationships will get quickly old. I'm hoping for a lot of other things to do outside of just cooking to up friendship.
I enjoyed the discussion about Tales of the Shire. It's nice to see some more positive and hopeful takes about the game. LetzPlayK was a wonderful guest. Thanks for another episode of the podcast!
I think it's very interesting seeing what you (Josh and K) want to see from the Tales game as not being major lore fans. I worry that this game will fall flat to us Tolkien fans because they will try to add too many things. Hobbits are isolationist as a group and wary of the outside world. It seems this is set well after the Battle of Bywater, but obviously before it was incorporated into the greater Hobbiton umbrella. I want to build the town and do very little else. I just want to be a hobbit. A boring hobbit. No adventures. No riding horses (it would be a pony anyway). No major magic. That stuff will break my immersion. But I could see us being able to become part of the local government or some other level of achievement within the community. There definitely needs to be an acheivement system or collection system to keep the game flowing. And I'm not the largest fan of the cartoon style they chose. It feels generic and the Tolkienverse is anything but generic. I would have preferred a style more in line with the newest My Time game.
I haven't played the My Time series before, but I'm totally sold on Evershine because of Ragnar 😍Kind of makes me want to try out Sandrock before it comes out.
LMAO, cus same! Ragnar gotten to me too! I have Portia and didn't enjoy the craft-heavy aspect of it, doing orders for other constantly, but Evershine sold me with building a settlement from stretch, cus I love that in Enshrouded, u can build from stretch :D
Really enjoyed this podcast, as a LotR enjoyer as well, I enjoyed the movies and the TV series, not so much of the books cus it's too lengthy and too wordy, as I'm deaf so I have very hard time extracting the words from book without picture, and try to imagine the scenario as written, I prefer visual novel, and I know the movies and the TV shows are just adaptions to the books, not 100% true to the lore but it's good enough for me. There's couple more references from the movies to the game that hasn't been mentioned - two NPCs that you interacted with, Deli Brandybuck, is related to Merry Brandybuck from the movies, and Willow Took is related to Pippin Took from the movies as well so it's nice that they have relative living in Bywater that you can interact with. Hopefully there will be a Gamgee (Sam) and Baggins (Frodo and Bilbo) relative to come. The biggest pro for me with the game is, definitely free to decorate without grid or 90 degree locks and I absolutely can't wait to play with that. I'm happy that there is foraging cus I absolutely love foraging and exploring. The characters' design and look doesn't bother me, cus I think K said it best, it looks like a storybook, like a cartoony storybook so that's a perfect word to describe the design of the characters. I don't mind if they do polish them up or make some adjustment. I agree with u both that there should be couple more birds to help guide u to your destination instead of just one bird, visual representation is very important to myself and other deaf people, if we can't hear the birds tweet or sings, how do we know, so more colourful and extra birds would be a big help. My only con is that our character just sit at the table and watch people eat, but host do eat food at the dinner parties too? So I wish that we can join in with eating what we cooked as well, instead of just sitting there awkwardly. It's just unrealistic. But nonetheless, I will be buying the game from day 1 because I love LotR and Tolkien's world, it's so interesting and so beautiful too. I hope we will see more dwarves, men and elven races in the full release too. Like a visit from Aragorn would be awesome. As for travelling quicker, as we are hobbits and we are tiny, horses are too big for us, I think in the movies the hobbits ride on pony so that's possible, or a bicycle for something different and with the beautiful visual of The Shire, a bicycle would be perfect fit for the cottagecore style game. Thank you Josh and K for a great discussion.
Tales of the Shire has been giving me flashbacks to all the hype and marketing around Fae Farm, and it makes me worried that the game will ultimately feel a bit empty and disappointing. As a big LOTR fan I really hope I'm wrong...
So good!! I love how you match the vibes of each guest! 😆 This might be the episode where I laughed the most! Thank you Josh and K!! Again, congrats for hitting 1K subs!!! Let's go The Gaming Garden Podcast! That floral shirt is firreeeee! 🔥🔥🔥
Thank you Migui!! I love K's energy, she's so fun!
My only worry for Tales of the Shire, is that the gameplay loop of cooking to improve relationships will get quickly old. I'm hoping for a lot of other things to do outside of just cooking to up friendship.
This was so fun! I loved hearing both of your thoughts on the game!!!!! 💚💚
I enjoyed the discussion about Tales of the Shire. It's nice to see some more positive and hopeful takes about the game. LetzPlayK was a wonderful guest. Thanks for another episode of the podcast!
I think it's very interesting seeing what you (Josh and K) want to see from the Tales game as not being major lore fans.
I worry that this game will fall flat to us Tolkien fans because they will try to add too many things. Hobbits are isolationist as a group and wary of the outside world. It seems this is set well after the Battle of Bywater, but obviously before it was incorporated into the greater Hobbiton umbrella. I want to build the town and do very little else. I just want to be a hobbit. A boring hobbit. No adventures. No riding horses (it would be a pony anyway). No major magic. That stuff will break my immersion.
But I could see us being able to become part of the local government or some other level of achievement within the community. There definitely needs to be an acheivement system or collection system to keep the game flowing. And I'm not the largest fan of the cartoon style they chose. It feels generic and the Tolkienverse is anything but generic. I would have preferred a style more in line with the newest My Time game.
I haven't played the My Time series before, but I'm totally sold on Evershine because of Ragnar 😍Kind of makes me want to try out Sandrock before it comes out.
LMAO, cus same! Ragnar gotten to me too! I have Portia and didn't enjoy the craft-heavy aspect of it, doing orders for other constantly, but Evershine sold me with building a settlement from stretch, cus I love that in Enshrouded, u can build from stretch :D
@@girlytomboyx I didn't look into it beyond seeing him 😂 That sounds fun though
Invite k back in the future i love her vibe!!
I didn't get in to the my time games but this sounds better. I did a playtest of the project me mobile game & enjoyed the town building part of that
Really enjoyed this podcast, as a LotR enjoyer as well, I enjoyed the movies and the TV series, not so much of the books cus it's too lengthy and too wordy, as I'm deaf so I have very hard time extracting the words from book without picture, and try to imagine the scenario as written, I prefer visual novel, and I know the movies and the TV shows are just adaptions to the books, not 100% true to the lore but it's good enough for me. There's couple more references from the movies to the game that hasn't been mentioned - two NPCs that you interacted with, Deli Brandybuck, is related to Merry Brandybuck from the movies, and Willow Took is related to Pippin Took from the movies as well so it's nice that they have relative living in Bywater that you can interact with. Hopefully there will be a Gamgee (Sam) and Baggins (Frodo and Bilbo) relative to come.
The biggest pro for me with the game is, definitely free to decorate without grid or 90 degree locks and I absolutely can't wait to play with that. I'm happy that there is foraging cus I absolutely love foraging and exploring. The characters' design and look doesn't bother me, cus I think K said it best, it looks like a storybook, like a cartoony storybook so that's a perfect word to describe the design of the characters. I don't mind if they do polish them up or make some adjustment. I agree with u both that there should be couple more birds to help guide u to your destination instead of just one bird, visual representation is very important to myself and other deaf people, if we can't hear the birds tweet or sings, how do we know, so more colourful and extra birds would be a big help.
My only con is that our character just sit at the table and watch people eat, but host do eat food at the dinner parties too? So I wish that we can join in with eating what we cooked as well, instead of just sitting there awkwardly. It's just unrealistic. But nonetheless, I will be buying the game from day 1 because I love LotR and Tolkien's world, it's so interesting and so beautiful too. I hope we will see more dwarves, men and elven races in the full release too. Like a visit from Aragorn would be awesome.
As for travelling quicker, as we are hobbits and we are tiny, horses are too big for us, I think in the movies the hobbits ride on pony so that's possible, or a bicycle for something different and with the beautiful visual of The Shire, a bicycle would be perfect fit for the cottagecore style game.
Thank you Josh and K for a great discussion.
Yes. I would love if we also had a plate of the food and were eating it and talking. Like what you actually do when sharing dinner with others.
@@neolithiumproduction yes exactly
Tales of the Shire has been giving me flashbacks to all the hype and marketing around Fae Farm, and it makes me worried that the game will ultimately feel a bit empty and disappointing. As a big LOTR fan I really hope I'm wrong...