It just better not take forever to get a rod and net I swear to god.
Animal Crossing is painful when you see bugs/fish and can't catch them.
Animal Crossing is painful when you see bugs/fish and can't catch them.
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons Hype Thread
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That's how I did it. Getting lucky with turnips was fun but getting like a guaranteed 800k+ a night was more than enough for house expansions and public works.
Unfortunately it immediately ruined any sense of economy in the game, but that's been the case ever since post-GC game as online multiplayer inherently lends itself to wealth being easy to attain.
I'd visit some absolute ballers in New Leaf, but would only ever accept stuff like duped 7-Eleven/region specific furniture or a nice bowl of perfect fruit.
How lovely you've got those memories with him. Maybe name your town in his honour?
Late to the discussion I guess, but Stardew Valley is a game you need to tame before it becomes enjoyable. You need to reach a certain grade of automatization before in becomes a relaxing game.
It's enjoyable before that, but for that you have to enjoy the farming gameplay, and not bite more than you can chew. Not a game I would recommend to people that mostly enjoys the relaxing pace of Animal Crossing games.
It's enjoyable before that, but for that you have to enjoy the farming gameplay, and not bite more than you can chew. Not a game I would recommend to people that mostly enjoys the relaxing pace of Animal Crossing games.
Good luck with that zombie outbreak. Hope the RCPD are up to snuff.
How do you introduce More Gay into a setting where everyone barely even seems to comprehend the concept of romance, though?
Clearly we need to *cough* cross new horizons.
More Trans
Yes, I don't want any kind of sex in Animal Crossing. We won't have time for it in my upcoming town. There's work to be done.
I mean, gay doesn't necessarily entail sex, a person can be gay and asexual.
What I'm saying is that I'm pretty sure Animal Crossing civilians by and large can't even fully comprehend the concept of a relationship beyond general platonic friendship.
They seem kind of, uhhhhh. . .dense.
The few characters I entirely trust to understand the concept are all married to their jobs or just extremely poor fits for a normal dating regimen. Like, I have no issue assuming, say, Isabelle gets it, but she's also running on one hour of sleep a night and lucky if she hasn't had to have her contact lenses surgically removed at least once with how often she wears them and then inevitably passes out because of the above. Contrary to the fanart that earlier pages were making cracks about, I doubt she's had that kind of time since before she started college.
That work ethic syncs up well enough with our collective resolves to create banana republics on release, at least.
I'm not sure what I can add here, other than that I agree 100%. At the risk of repeating myself, Animal Crossing has turned the focus from you interacting with the things around you - to the things around you interacting with you. The series is becoming more and more of an empty canvas and they're letting us do more and more when it comes to the customization of our overall experience. While this sounds dandy, it's come at the cost of the atmosphere of the earlier games, IMO. The Gamecube game was very much "you're new in this town, this is how we live" and you had to adapt. In the more recent games it's been the opposite.
And yeah, where I feel most strongly about this - Animals went from being these characters you wanted to interact with to characters you had to interact with. They really felt more like a necessary evil to me in New Leaf than something the devs really wanted me to spend time with, which is a huge shame. Tbh I have a feeling this isn't going to change a whole lot, but I really hope I'm wrong.
New Leaf was my first AC game...And honestly I loved the NPC, that's mostly why I fell in love with the game in the first place. They were all so charming, funny and well written.
I tried the older games later on and while it is true they had more "bite" I didn't find that much of a difference.
They were more things to do in NL, so maybe the focus wouldn't seem as much as usual on NPC at first but I felt that if you wanted to focus on social interactions, the game still had a ton to offer. To me it mostly felt like you had more options to handle how you wanted the experience to be.
I would definitely agree that you had more options on making the experience what you wanted it to be - but I just can't agree about the villagers. I envy you for getting into the series with New Leaf, because I wish I thought there was any depth to the social interactions.
It's not just that the villagers in say, the Gamecube version had more bite (although that dynamic is welcome), it's that they had WAY more to say, and what they had to say had WAY more depth. I could probably count the number of unique things the animals would say in New Lead on two hands. Okay, that's an exaggeration, but it honestly feels like that to me.
I was still running into new things that the animals would say in the gamecube game like years after first playing it. And they would ponder life, question the meaning of things, question coincidences, etc. In New Leaf all the the things they have to say are completely surface. "HEY WANNA WORKOUT?"
This is a good post going into why I love the Gamecube villagers. A lot of people seem to think that it's just the rude aspect people miss (which I mean, them being rude is funny) but it's so much deeper then that. They had personalities and weren't so dumbed down. Snooty villagers talked more then just makeup and fashion, jocks talked more then just sports, etc. The 6 personalities were just a base for some conversational topics but did not dictate everything they would talk about.
I am going to be so very disappointed if New Horizons fails in this aspect. Just remember that when they localised the original for Gamecube they did such a great job they got asked to translate it back for an updated Japan only re-release.
Somehow I completely forgot that they would probably use live instrumentation and now I'm sooooo excited for the soundtrack!
Multiple islands are cool, but yeah, I'd rather have the essential shops and the museum on the main island instead of having to go through a loadscreen or something every time I want to look at stuff.
I am sure there are other ways of making the other islands more interesting than forcing us to go visit them every day.
I know it's probably a stretch, but the first thing I thought when seeing those neighbors in the center was: are they doing morning aerobics a la Gamecube? They could be just waving but I wasn't the only one (Twitter agrees! Lmao). But maybe Nintendo is listening for once.
There already is an AC Era discord. I think weemadarthur manages it?
Edit: invite link is in the community thread op.
I think they are too angled to just be waving. I am on team aerobics.
Oh, maybe we'll need a new discord. Aren't those for NL and Pocket Camp?
I mean it's the AC Era Community discord. I'm sure we can request an NH specific channel, there's already plenty of discussion of NH there. I'm sure most NL players will be migrating to NH anyway.
Agreed on all accounts.
And I did NOT know that about the Gamecube version - how cool is that!
Oh my god if aerobics are back....
Did we know villagers can wear hats now? Jay with a hat is great.
Tinkered with my real-time music player website today and added both the Gamecube game and City Folk as options. Plus on certain days, special events will happen.
Animal Crossing Realtime Music Player
(I still plan to replace every video with my own highest-quality possible rips from the raw files, but that's a longer job)
Animal Crossing Realtime Music Player
(I still plan to replace every video with my own highest-quality possible rips from the raw files, but that's a longer job)
Thank you for fixing the time discrepancy. This is almost as useful as the Switch Icon Showdown website.
Villagers have been able to wear hats and other head gear (glasses for example) in Pocket Camp.
Was playing Saturday and finally noticed Bill Trinen (and like 3 others) were the localization team. Go Bill!
I just wanted to post the Meadows scene clip, really. My thread about that comparison was initially about how multiplayer was implemented... And that's pretty much what we're looking at transpiring, but in the most Nintendo way possible. You can finally play with the same people in your town, but much more compromised than MP in Stardew.
If you fancy something to do between now and New Horizons, a first patch for Doubutsu no Mori e+ has been released.
gbatemp.net
I love the Town Decorations feature, which we didn't really see again until New Leaf. And I am sure New Leaf is still missing some of the ones listed on this page..?
Animal Crossing e+ English fan translation project releases its first public patch
[ATTACH] Animal Crossing has a storied history, originally beginning as a Japanese-only Nintendo 64 game called Doubutsu no Mori, or, as it's more...
I love the Town Decorations feature, which we didn't really see again until New Leaf. And I am sure New Leaf is still missing some of the ones listed on this page..?