Or in other words, changing your system clock to advance the in-game clock. Do you do it? Why or why not? Personally, I'm just too impatient not to do it 😬.
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“Time Traveling” in Animal Crossing
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This is the first Animal Crossing game I've ever played, and I'm loving it so far. My first day was really exciting, and knowing I could get a house the next day was great!
I'm not fussed with waiting, it gives me a reason to put the game down and look forward to what's coming next. I don't see any point in messing around with that.
I'm not fussed with waiting, it gives me a reason to put the game down and look forward to what's coming next. I don't see any point in messing around with that.
I love the day to day design of Animal Crossing. I understand why those who do it choose to do it, especially in New Horizon's case where it has a slower start than past entries, so no judgment from me, I'm just less inclined to play with and visit friends online who do it. I just personally like it existing as my parallel life, it's always been the appeal of the series to me.
i have a friend who does it, so i've just been going to her island just to look at turnip prices
my brain won't allow me to time travel for some reason
my brain won't allow me to time travel for some reason
I had previously but not gonna this time. You're really only cheating yourself out of living your game out.
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I'm actually pleasantly surprised by the responses so far! If I had more games on my plate, I'd most likely steer clear from abusing the mechanic. But it's the only game I'm playing presently :(.
Each to their own on how they decide to play the game, but time travel would ruin the whole experience for me.
I kinda wish there was a game that was somewhere in the middle between Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley, i.e. not as stressful as stardew, but not as restrictively snail paced as Animal Crossing.
I liked how New Leaf simply let you specify the time when starting. Didn't feel like cheating. My schedule right now it reaaaaally making me want to fuck with the system clock. Not to travel back and forth, but just to be able to see daytime! And sell my shit at full price!
Cheating is corny. Just be patient and let things progress naturally. Makes the game last longer.
Delayed Gratification 101.
Delayed Gratification 101.
That's my issue right now. So much essential content is gated that I couldn't help but time travel.
However I'm done with it for now. I have 3 new townsfolk and am willing to ride out the natural flow of the game. I just wanted to get the ball rolling
It's kind of annoying - particularly around launch when there's a real sense everyone is in it together. You help each other get wood and resources, you share fruit...all to build stuff that you see slowly coming to life in almost real-time.
If you're just going to skip ahead and get everything, fair enough if that's how you want to play, but it does seem against the spirit of the game. And you can hardly brag about anything you have if you got it by cheating the system...
If you're just going to skip ahead and get everything, fair enough if that's how you want to play, but it does seem against the spirit of the game. And you can hardly brag about anything you have if you got it by cheating the system...
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I personally don't do it. It kind of defeats the purpose of the game for me. Animal Crossing was always a slow burn, you do little by little every day. Speedrunning it by skipping ahead in time so you can get everything immediately ruins that sense of progression for me and guarantees I'll get bored of the game much sooner. I want the game to last so I can enjoy it over a long period of time. If I time travel and get everything I want in a week what is there left to do?
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As far as I'm aware nothing. Except the self-satisfaction and gratification missed out on by being patient :).
I mean...there's no way to "beat" the game, so what would a speed runner even do? lol
If people want to do it, no issues but I think for me it would ruin the game. I enjoy this as something to pick up every day, do a few jobs and put back down. To just speed through it all, I think is not the intention of the game and would ruin it for me in the same way that breaking systems such as XP in games does.
Huh?
Resetti showed up when you would turn your game off without saving, not when you would time travel (advance or roll back the game/system clock). You could always do it without the game really penalizing you for it outside of rotting any turnips you bought.
These games are designed to be picked up daily for half a decade. I've done it in the past, but I always feel bad after. I'm fine with the pacing of New Horizon, and How abundantly clear it is when you reach your "end day" and it becomes time to move on to something else in your life.
I did it for new Leaf
especially after I didn't touch the game for some time and when I played it already and was going back
before though when I was playing it in a timely manner I did not time travel
especially after I didn't touch the game for some time and when I played it already and was going back
before though when I was playing it in a timely manner I did not time travel
Restricting holidays until it's time to actually do them was a good call. I understand why some people travel otherwise.
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