Make fishing great (for the first time)

Fishing is important for people who think it is important. Many games make fishing boring and/or pointless. How would you make fishing great? Here are my ideas.

Engaging gameplay
Don't just make us click a "fish" ability and then wait for the bobber to move and then make us click it. Make it more fun, maybe throw in some timing, reflex bonuses, speed clicking bonus. Make it varied, skillful engaging and interesting.

Progression
Many games simply make you spam fish non stop. Sometimes in different zones. Give us fun quests. Give us fun events. Make us travel. Make us prepare. Make us unlock different stuff and perks. Make us upgrade our fishing rods and bobbers. Give us flexibility. Make us feel like we are getting better at fishing. Make it more dangerous. That epic rare shark that rarely spawns? Dont make it purely RNG based. Make us prepare for it with the right rod and bait. Make us scream of happiness when we catch it. Make that shark be valuable through other professions

I really want a journal with about 100 different fish, all of different rarity, sizes and requirements. Make us fill up this journal with fish we find. Give us titles and mount skins for doing so.

Fishing rod & bobber
This is the soul of the fisher. Give us different fishing rods good for different things. Make us craft those epic special rods that are good for different things. Make us work hard for them so the rods are rewarding to use. Give some rare rods special abilities. Maybe walk on water for 10 min? Maybe underwater breathing? Maybe swimspeed? Maybe teleport to nearest water once a day?

Cooking synergy
Everyone knows fish oil gives BIG BRAIN. Make our fish be useful for cooking. Make those rare fish become ingredients for raid wide feasts with buffs. Give us fish that give fun effects when eaten.

Tournaments
Give us the ability to do tournaments with other players and NPCs. Make us climb the ranks of fishing gods.

Decoration
After grinding 7 months to finaly catch ol'jackjaw, please let me display him on my house or guild hall. Also give me the option to display fishing rods on the wall.

Multiplayer
We have cool ships in the game. Why not use them? Let us fish with friends. Let us fish whales etc or big sharks or maybe a massive squid. Make it a team effort.

Do you have any other ideas? I like fish

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Jamation

Since this thread is back:
I love fishing in almost every game I play and usually always have that skilled maxed or highest in them. On that note my plan for Ashes is the same and my goal is to Master fishing before any other gathering skill.

On the idea about engaging gameplay I usually found that I enjoy a mix of different styles. The simple bob and click style in Minecraft is usually fun when I want to mellow out, while the hold and follow method in Stardew Valley is a fun challenge when I’m more focused on the game. But I’ve never been a fan of the spam clicking type of fishing because it seems less about skill and more about just smashing your mouse. Not to mention I usually enjoy fishing late into the evening so the less overall noise I can make doing it the better.

As for the progression the wiki says there may be different types of fishing and with the fish variety they’ve been showing on the streams I’d be shocked if there wasn’t. Also there should be upgradeable tools and such like any gathering/crafting profession so I think progression will be pretty well covered from the get-go.

For the rod and bobber comment, I’m not sure how I feel about some of those perks (like underwater breathing) but I think a little special bonus could be neat. Or perhaps a specialized rod that is like a super magnet for a certain type of fish rare or otherwise.

As for tournaments and quests I remember them saying there might be some kind of like fishing contest every once in a while where you have a time limit to catch X amount or the biggest or whatever the criteria was for the contest.

As for team effort fishing…that could be so cool! Like imagine it’s like “yo I caught a big one” and then your team mates come behind you (“click on you”) and help you reel it in/perform that task. That’d be pretty nifty.

And the comments about fish spoilage I think could really enhance the fish market. I really hate fish having to deal with it, but it’d make fish a commodity in certain landlocked areas and could make for a very interesting market. Not to mention there could eventually be down the line more fishing related items like a tackle box or cooler to help preserve them and maybe if you put it on your boat/mount it’d help preserve fish for longer at the con of losing some inventory space.

BigPapa1

I don't think I agree that fishing should take lots of skill, there should be some activities that are for more patient people and usually casual players really enjoy fishing. That said, there are some games that have much more engaging fishing minigames than WoW and such, where all you do is click at the right moment. For instance, I recently played Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral town, and the fishing minigame in that is possibly one of my favourites, it makes catching rarer fish much more challenging.

Stretch

My biggest concern is that I already know I'm going to no life this game for a few months when it comes out...that's going to be exacerbated if the fishing is good!

Flem

Stretch wrote: »

My biggest concern is that I already know I'm going to no life this game for a few months when it comes out...that's going to be exacerbated if the fishing is good!

Good problem to have tbh

Cadac

Water mount, underwater spearfishing. For the big ones.

Xentuul

Fishing Suggestion: Since you have some great water mounts how about fishing by riding your mount in the water to catch fish. The Jelly could grab them with its tentacles, the gator could snap them up with its jaws. You would ride the mount and steer it into schools of fish or catch individual ones. Also for fishing with a rod, make it more exciting like the Bass Master games.

Wyborn

I remember Ultima Online had treasure chest, sea serpents, home furnishings and more that you could fish up with max fishing level. You had your little boat and could go out on the sea and fish. The sea serpents made sure you also had some other skills leveled up so you didn't die.

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