IIRC the jade in SoS were also a really light blue (or at least bluer than you would think of when it comes to jade), so possibly it's a regional thing?Nurse Fin wrote:It isn't a mixup, that item is called Jade in the Japanese version too. I know it doesn't really look like one, but jade can come in light blue, even though it isn't cut like that.
I think what you're saying is true, but I'm making a (kind of) farming game and I did pretty extensive research into the gemstones. I even went to an artists colony in my city and spoke with gemologists and lapidaries about their work and checked out their equipment... but I actually have a gemologist character and the setting is based on a specific (real) location with a limited variety of minerals to be found so it's more important to do research. I also just REALLY love learning, so there's that >__>Nurylon wrote:I doubt it's a mix-up so much of a lack of knowledge. Mastery over each and every gem would be a kind of esoteric skill for people making a farming game.
It sucks when something you really care about is not represented well, but it's important to adknowledge the fact that its a niche skill and not common sense.
Oh that's so cool! Actively engaging in their community must have really been an experience :3 There is that thing, though, where we kind of silently adknowledge that it's an exception and not the rule to do something like that.Nurse Fin wrote:I think what you're saying is true, but I'm making a (kind of) farming game and I did pretty extensive research into the gemstones. I even went to an artists colony in my city and spoke with gemologists and lapidaries about their work and checked out their equipment... but I actually have a gemologist character and the setting is based on a specific (real) location with a limited variety of minerals to be found so it's more important to do research. I also just REALLY love learning, so there's that >__>Nurylon wrote:I doubt it's a mix-up so much of a lack of knowledge. Mastery over each and every gem would be a kind of esoteric skill for people making a farming game.
It sucks when something you really care about is not represented well, but it's important to adknowledge the fact that its a niche skill and not common sense.
But it's such a minor part of this game... the mining feature has been almost completely shafted so it wouldn't make sense for the developers to put a lot of effort into accuracy. The prices of gemstones in 3oT is really really REALLY off compared to their real-world value, too (emeralds can cost upwards of $14,000 per carat, but in this game it sells for the same price as agate, which is a bargain-bin gemstone lol)
Nah, more like playful scolding. Or arguing. Or something.princesszelda wrote:Also, rude as anything,
Yeah, the issue is that it's called a jade, when aquamarines are specifically known to be light blue in color and cut in teardrop shapes. Even blue jades are nowhere near that light of a blue. Or that blue of a blue, for that matter. :/princesszelda wrote:I just googled 'Aquamarine' and a gem that looks exactly like that pops up in images. *Shrugs*, I would never notice if a gem was accurately or inaccurately represented.
Which is funny because I learned the classic Aquamarine appearance through Harvest Moon and Hamtaro Ham-Ham Heartbreak. Either Natsume has been correcting them all these years, or somebody who doesn't care about gemstones is doing these things now. I certainly wouldn't have made that mistake and I'm not even a major gemstone enthusiast. (I do, however, like mining in video games. So that's probably a thing.)Nurylon wrote:But it's such a minor part of this game... the mining feature has been almost completely shafted so it wouldn't make sense for the developers to put a lot of effort into accuracy.
I am disappointed in you, Marvelous. Learn your gemstones! lolFrom what little I've seen of XSeed's work, they tend to be a little TOO literal with their translations. Well, I guess that's better than the opposite end of the spectrum. So many games these days suffer from horrible translations that had things changed for no reason at all. (And I'm not even speaking of censoring, either. Just...random dialogue changes for no reason)Also, the "lapis lazuli mislabel" you claim is in RF4 has been called an aquamarine since the first Rune Factory. So the alleged mixup of gemstones is not an XSeed issue; it's marv/the developer.
Ooooh okay, gotcha. Totally misread that. Yeah that is definitely not jade, lol. I still wouldn't have known whether aquamarine was light or dark blue without googling though.Yeah, the issue is that it's called a jade, when aquamarines are specifically known to be light blue in color and cut in teardrop shapes. Even blue jades are nowhere near that light of a blue. Or that blue of a blue, for that matter. :/
