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« on: August 22, 2010, 01:12:04 pm »

For some reason, I just had the strong urge to play a game that included commercial fishing. Anybody here know of any games with a good fishing system, preferably on a large scale. I've seen a few MUDs with things like this but not much else.
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« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2010, 01:47:15 pm »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_King May be what you're looking for. Harvest Moon but with fishing. I remember one was released for gameboy and one for DS, but I'm not sure what other ones hit outside of Japan.
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« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2010, 01:54:59 pm »

You reminded me there was this awesome mud that was entirely based on realistic fishing. It took place in an island and the time of the day, water temperature, bait type, everything was important to get just the right fish. It was fun in a relaxing way. I wonder what happened to it.
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Re: Fishing
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2010, 02:02:08 pm »

Deadliest catch?
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« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2010, 02:40:25 pm »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_King May be what you're looking for. Harvest Moon but with fishing. I remember one was released for gameboy and one for DS, but I'm not sure what other ones hit outside of Japan.

Looks interesting. Not quite what I'm looking for though.

You reminded me there was this awesome mud that was entirely based on realistic fishing. It took place in an island and the time of the day, water temperature, bait type, everything was important to get just the right fish. It was fun in a relaxing way. I wonder what happened to it.

If you find it, let me know. It sounds like a lot of fun.

Deadliest catch?

My cousin has that. It's pretty fun actually.
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Re: Fishing
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2010, 03:05:37 pm »

Deadliest catch?
Isn't that a TV show?
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Re: Fishing
« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2010, 03:47:39 pm »

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« Reply #7 on: August 22, 2010, 03:52:57 pm »

Haven and Hearth has a fairly extensive fishing system where bait, time of day, and phases of the moon all affect what you can catch. Not sure if location has any effect though. It's pretty grindtastic and you can only fish with a pole (unless they changed it) so large scale fishing would be difficult.
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Re: Fishing
« Reply #8 on: August 22, 2010, 03:56:26 pm »

Breath of Fire 3 has a pretty awesome fishing side-game. The main game has nothing whatsoever to do with fishing and if you were to play the game without taking an interest in fishing then the only reason to play it would be to catch the uber merchant fish 'Manilow' (IIRC). The fishing game is good though, there are a variety of floater/sinker/things and tons of fish. It's well worth a try
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Re: Fishing
« Reply #9 on: August 22, 2010, 04:41:21 pm »

Breath of Fire 3 has a pretty awesome fishing side-game. The main game has nothing whatsoever to do with fishing and if you were to play the game without taking an interest in fishing then the only reason to play it would be to catch the uber merchant fish 'Manilow' (IIRC). The fishing game is good though, there are a variety of floater/sinker/things and tons of fish. It's well worth a try
BoFIV for that matter, had an awesome fishing game, that took into account location, bait, and rod(for casting range and line durability, at least). It had a very large(close to 100, I think) variety of fish(granted, most of them were palette-swapped, but still quite a few), and almost every single one of them could be used as an item, many could be traded to certain shops for items, or you could just sell them for cash(making it, technically, "commercial" fishing ;)). One of the game's "Masters", who you could have your characters train under to gain skills and stat bonuses, requires fishing to train under(note: that particular Master gives rare items, not skills, as rewards). Even after catching every single fish in the game, including the largest size for quite a few of them, I still hadn't reached the third goal for him.

The series had a super-capitalist fish-race called the Manillo, so that might be what you're talking about.
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Re: Fishing
« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2010, 04:50:01 pm »

Yeah, that sounds pretty much identical to BoFIII, I've never played IV though.
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Re: Fishing
« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2010, 05:00:58 pm »

Its the middle of August and he wants to go fishing in a computer game.

*crotchety old man disappointment*
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Re: Fishing
« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2010, 05:38:58 pm »

Its the middle of August and he wants to go fishing in a computer game.

*crotchety old man disappointment*

To be fair he did say
commercial fishing

Which your everyman isn't exactly equipped to do.
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« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2010, 06:06:34 pm »

To be fair he did say
commercial fishing

Which your everyman isn't exactly equipped to do.
He could always go make a net and steal a boat...or steal a net and make a boat.

At the very least he could buy a gun, steal a car, try to run, but he can't get far


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Re: Fishing
« Reply #14 on: August 22, 2010, 08:00:18 pm »

Its the middle of August and he wants to go fishing in a computer game.

*crotchety old man disappointment*

Hey! I do plenty of fishing on my own. Just not commercial fishing with huge nets and stuff. I had an urge to play a video game that incorporated this after watching a show about Alaskan herring fishermen today.
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