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Animal Crossing is one Nintendo franchise I missed out (the other was Pikmin, both born during the Gamecube era IIRC, and it was a time I didn't play console games too much). I've seen videos, reviews, the Nintendo Direct, etc but I have some questions.

- What is the actual objective of the game? I know what you can do in this game, I just don't know the whole game's objective. Does it have an end?
- Is it right if I compare this to Harvest Moon? I liked HM, or peaceful games in general.
- Do I need many friends to fully enjoy the game? It looks like one of the key features was sharing things.

Keep in mind that if I'm getting one, I'm getting the 3DS one. Thanks!
 
You know a lot of that boring shit your parents made you do as a kid, and some of the boring shit your parents did that you wondered about as a kid?

That's what Animal Crossing is. A game about boring shit.

But it's fun.
 
vareon said:
Animal Crossing is one Nintendo franchise I missed out (the other was Pikmin, both born during the Gamecube era IIRC, and it was a time I didn't play console games too much). I've seen videos, reviews, the Nintendo Direct, etc but I have some questions.

- What is the actual objective of the game? I know what you can do in this game, I just don't know the whole game's objective. Does it have an end?
- Is it right if I compare this to Harvest Moon? I liked HM, or peaceful games in general.
- Do I need many friends to fully enjoy the game? It looks like one of the key features was sharing things.

Keep in mind that if I'm getting one, I'm getting the 3DS one. Thanks!
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Your objective is to dick around in a town filled with animals with funny personality traits. Except a few of them are asshole animals that you wish would leave but never do while your favorite Penguin just left and you're all broken up.

It's like HM only even more laid back. Instead of a minute equaling one hour a minute equals one minute.

Friends are optional but nice. You can't go online with your 3DS at all? The game has been very online friendly since the DS one.
 
Animal Crossing is like that old friend who's always doing the same thing no matter how long it's been since you saw him last.

It's a relaxing game of do what you want, at your own pace. It's best enjoyed alongside an action-packed title for a change of pace, and only for about 30 minutes at a time.
 
It's atmospheric and relaxing. That's about it. Just a nice little life simulator that shouldn't be as charming as it is. You either "get it" or you don't, but that can't be found out from just explaining it to someone. You have to play it on your own to find out if you get it or not.
 
If you like Harvest Moon, then I'm sure you'll like Animal Crossing. It creates the same sort of peacefulness.
 
vareon said:
- What is the actual objective of the game? I know what you can do in this game, I just don't know the whole game's objective. Does it have an end?
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The goal is to get all of the NES games... Oh, and get all of the bugs, fish, pictures, fossils, songs, furniture, clothes, etc. And of course, pay off your house's mortgage (each full mortgage payment gives you more space in your house).

vareon said:
- Is it right if I compare this to Harvest Moon? I liked HM, or peaceful games in general.
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It plays in real time and doesn't hand you a list of chores. Play at your own pace, or change the game/system's clock and play that way.

vareon said:
- Do I need many friends to fully enjoy the game? It looks like one of the key features was sharing things.
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Yep. I even had my mom get involved in the GameCube game. She's paid off her home's mortgage several times, even to the point where it would take her mere hours to get the final house (via time travel exploits).
 
On Saturday nights if you don't have plans in high school (or was it middle school?) you can hang out with K.K. Slider on the north edge of town and hear a new song.

Or request an old song by mistake and have to wait another week.
 
The joys of consumerism and an addiction to material goods attainable via an almost infinite mortgage debt, where you'll be regularly running chores for animal friends who'll either give you some more material goods to decorate your home with, be rude to you, or pass judgment on the cleanliness of your house.

Get ready to play this every single day, and with the portable version, be prepared to take breaks from your real life commitments and make trips to the bathroom in order to keep your appointments with said animal (or human) friends, and not miss out on special events that occur sometimes in the morning, and sometimes at night. Real time.

I say all this in the best possible way though. Animal Crossing is awesome.
 
Man God said:
Your objective is to dick around in a town filled with animals with funny personality traits. Except a few of them are asshole animals that you wish would leave but never do while your favorite Penguin just left and you're all broken up.

It's like HM only even more laid back. Instead of a minute equaling one hour a minute equals one minute.

Friends are optional but nice. You can't go online with your 3DS at all? The game has been very online friendly since the DS one.
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Thanks. I can get online, it's just I don't have many friends (local) that have Animal Crossing to begin with. And I'm mostly online when I'm in my office so my time with 3DS is kinda limited.

The Mana Legend said:
Fuck Animal Crossing, wait for a possible Fantasy Life localization. And the new Harvest Moon in a month looks amazing.
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Harvest Moon is nice, but today I liked Rune Factory more than HM to be honest. And both RF4 and Fantasy Life hasn't been announced for the US, so...

Crashpro3 said:
The goal is to get all of the NES games... Oh, and get all of the bugs, fish, pictures, fossils, songs, furniture, clothes, etc. And of course, pay off your house's mortgage (each full mortgage payment gives you more space in your house).

It plays in real time and doesn't hand you a list of chores. Play at your own pace, or change the game/system's clock and play that way.

Yep. I even had my mom get involved in the GameCube game. She's paid off her home's mortgage several times, even to the point where it would take her mere hours to get the final house (via time travel exploits).
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Now this sounds like I'll never leave my 3DS lol. All this sounds neat.
 
They've always looked and sounded really boring to me. I get that a lot of people love the series but I don't think anything could ever "sell" me on it.
 
Rune Factory 4 will be localized. Fantasy Life is completely unproven.

Vidiot said:
They've always looked and sounded really boring to me. I get that a lot of people love the series but I don't think anything could ever "sell" me on it.
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Got a Gamecube or a Wii that can play GCN games? You can probably find a used copy of AC for under ten bucks. Give it a try!
 
You know, I was being completely serious with my post. That is what Animal Crossing is actually like.

I like the series a lot (save for City Folk, that was a terrible rehash).
 
Man God said:
Rune Factory 4 will be localized. Fantasy Life is completely unproven.
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Hmm considering every single RF game is localized I think you're right. Though we might need to wait for a year.

This all sounds pretty good actually. Hopefull Nintendo will have a demo?
 
I'm with you, OP. I've always looked for a good reason to finally give the series a try, but nothing has really gripped me yet. It's one of the rare cases in which I don't "get" a Nintendo franchise (the other most prominent cases being Pokemon and SSB).

If it's a communication game, as I've occasionally heard, is the dialogue well-written (ie, humor on par with Paper Mario, Mother, etc) ? If not, how are the characters appealing? What kind of surprises are in store? I hate excessive repetition in a game.
 
There really isn't a set main objective. However, there are some goals you can complete like catching all of the bugs, fish and whatnot.
 
I just enjoy collecting fruit and planting new trees to create new fruit orchards. I love relaxing with some fishing and searching around my town for things every day. I put so much time into the DS game and couldn't even go online. I ended up trading it in around this time last year but I really wish I had it now.

It's just fun and relaxing, where you don't have to worry about micromanaging a party of fighters to take on a boss or worry about where to go next on your epic adventure to save the kindgom from evil. It's a wonderful change of pace from just about every other game that it's worth playing if you find the formula fun.
 
- The aim in the last game I played was to escape a lifetime of servitude by paying off your debts with the local construction industry/mafia

- Totes peaceful. Mad peaceful, even.

- Friends really makes it shine.

Bonus round:

Portable crossing is best crossing, wise choice.
 
- What is the actual objective of the game? I know what you can do in this game, I just don't know the whole game's objective. Does it have an end?
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there isn't one, and no

- Is it right if I compare this to Harvest Moon? I liked HM, or peaceful games in general.
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yeah, without farming or marriage but with holidays and clothes and other cool things to do

Basically you live in a town. You can talk to people. Go shopping. Furnish your house. It's more fun than it sounds.

Crashpro3 said:
The goal is to get all of the NES games... Oh, and get all of the bugs, fish, pictures, fossils, songs, furniture, clothes, etc. And of course, pay off your house's mortgage (each full mortgage payment gives you more space in your house).


It plays in real time and doesn't hand you a list of chores. Play at your own pace, or change the game/system's clock and play that way.



Yep. I even had my mom get involved in the GameCube game. She's paid off her home's mortgage several times, even to the point where it would take her mere hours to get the final house (via time travel exploits).
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I'm not sure you pay off debts in the new one since you're the mayor and all but I could be wrong. Because there's not much else to do
 
Baller said:
You can save money on Animal Crossing by simply watching grass grow or falling asleep.
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yeah. If he wants to be sold though I guess he only wants positive comments? Well, in case not...

My experience with Animal Crossing 1 was enough for me to call the series the worst series of games I've ever "played":

When I first heard about the game, I didn't really think it'd be a chore simulator. I thought it'd be like, you know, you have to manage your life, and if you do poorly at it you'd die. Instead, I was subjected to the most torturous gaming experience of my life.

Dropped off in my new town, I was told I was now to pay off some debt to this fucking guy. Ok, that's cool. Apparently though the fact that I am in debt means I must suffer a lifetime of endless torture, because the town was a dead world with no real means of entertainment, so I was stuck into an endless bitter cycle of horrific fishing mini-game after garbage fossil digging mini-game after awful bug catching mini-game. It was like living in North Korea. All of these mini-games played worse than 99% of the freeware shit on Newgrounds, but that was just the start. The rest of the game was me going up to an Animal, pressing A to get some item, and then wandering to the other side of town, pressing A at the other animal to deliver said item. It's one big ponzi scheme, because the only real goal is to get yourself deeper in debt by buying more items or making your house larger so you can fill it with all the useless detritus the villagers pawn off on you for doing their shitty fetch/deliver quests.

And the game is an asshole. Potentially one of the biggest asshole games of all time. Let me elaborate.

Nintendo put in some option to write letters to the animals. Why? What is the point of this? I'll tell you what the point of it is. Somewhere there is some poor little tard child with no friends playing Animal Crossing, and he's writing letters. Dude is putting real effort into his letters too. "DEAR MR. PIG, I REALLY LOVE THE FLAVOR CHOCOLATE. I AM SENDING YOU A PEACH SO YOU'LL BE MY FRIEND. MY DAD HITS ME SOMETIMES AND MY MOM DRINKS AN AWFUL LOT, SO YOU'LL BE MY SPECIAL FRIEND AND PROTECT ME." And the animal will send back something like "I LOVE THE SKY. BALLOONS ARE COOL. I HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER, HERE IS A RUG. <rug attached>"

What the poor kid didn't realize was that he could have wrote "DEAR FUCK YOURSELF, $*#&**SJSJSSJKA" and the animal would have still responded with this fuckin' rug, because the animal A.I. is the worst garbage shit ever conceived.

And why did my stupid fuckin' gullible ass stick with it long enough to allow myself to be tortured with this non-game crap? Because Nintendo put a fuckin' carrot at the end of the stick. Oh yeah. They said 'you know how we're always so cheap? Well, we're feeling generous. On Animal Crossing, we have released a set of classic NES titles. Oh yeah, you heard that right! The catch? You have to spend potentially hundreds of hours doing horrendous, tedious, lobotomy-worthy activities in order to get them all!" So I spent those damned hours, I did my time, and it was like what I imagine getting ass raped with a gigantic AIDS-infected spiked dildo would feel like.
 
Let me tell you why Animal Crossing is awesome.

When I was younger I used to work at GameStop. We had recently had a trade in of the DS version of the game. We sold it without really thinking twice about it.

A day or two later the guy who bought the game came in all pissed off that his kid was playing a game with characters named
"Pussy McFuckerton, Titty Shitbrick and HugeBlackCock"


We laughed. He cried. And that is why it's awesome.
 
vareon said:
Animal Crossing is one Nintendo franchise I missed out (the other was Pikmin, both born during the Gamecube era IIRC, and it was a time I didn't play console games too much). I've seen videos, reviews, the Nintendo Direct, etc but I have some questions.

- What is the actual objective of the game? I know what you can do in this game, I just don't know the whole game's objective. Does it have an end?
- Is it right if I compare this to Harvest Moon? I liked HM, or peaceful games in general.
- Do I need many friends to fully enjoy the game? It looks like one of the key features was sharing things.

Keep in mind that if I'm getting one, I'm getting the 3DS one. Thanks!
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Is like Farmville, but being a game. Or, at least, giving the impression that is a game, the most part.

But, at the end, you will realise that you connect once each day to get the fruits and other elements that spawn once each day, and listening some random dialogs of the NPC, doing more a job than playing.
 
Here is all you need to know about Animal Crossing: aside from Zelda 2, it's the best thing Nintendo has ever produced.
 
You can become friends with Cube, Buck, Wart and Anchovy!
200px-Anchovy.png

Just check the nookipedia.
 
Saddest thing I've ever seen involving video games was that a kid who's mom died liked Animal Crossing and once he logged in a year or so later he thought all the gifts sent to him from "mom" was his mother, and it was just the in-game mom.

Ugh.
 
vareon said:
Animal Crossing is one Nintendo franchise I missed out (the other was Pikmin, both born during the Gamecube era IIRC, and it was a time I didn't play console games too much). I've seen videos, reviews, the Nintendo Direct, etc but I have some questions.

- What is the actual objective of the game? I know what you can do in this game, I just don't know the whole game's objective. Does it have an end?
- Is it right if I compare this to Harvest Moon? I liked HM, or peaceful games in general.
- Do I need many friends to fully enjoy the game? It looks like one of the key features was sharing things.

Keep in mind that if I'm getting one, I'm getting the 3DS one. Thanks!
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- What is the actual objective of the game? I know what you can do in this game, I just don't know the whole game's objective. Does it have an end?

There is no objective other than what you want to do.
Things to do:
  • collect all fossils
  • collect all fish
  • collect all bugs
  • collect all furniture
  • collect all clothes
  • fully upgrade your house
  • decorate your house
  • collect all gold tools
  • decorate your town
  • breed flowers

- Do I need many friends to fully enjoy the game? It looks like one of the key features was sharing things.

No, but having friends can speed up your efforts. Everyone has a different town, with different items in their shops every day. Friends might have an item you need on their store's catalog and be willing to give/sell it to you. Everyone also has their own prices on the stalk market. Animal crossing has a feature where you buy turnips at the start of the week. Then for the rest of the week you can check the selling price to see if you can turn a profit on your investment. Having friends increases the chances of you finding a high price.

Amir0x said:
Nintendo put in some option to write letters to the animals. Why? What is the point of this? I'll tell you what the point of it is. Somewhere there is some poor little tard child with no friends playing Animal Crossing, and he's writing letters. Dude is putting real effort into his letters too. "DEAR MR. PIG, I REALLY LOVE THE FLAVOR CHOCOLATE. I AM SENDING YOU A PEACH SO YOU'LL BE MY FRIEND. MY DAD HITS ME SOMETIMES AND MY MOM DRINKS AN AWFUL LOT, SO YOU'LL BE MY SPECIAL FRIEND AND PROTECT ME." And the animal will send back something like "I LOVE THE SKY. BALLOONS ARE COOL. I HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER, HERE IS A RUG. <rug attached>"
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Well, that feature is good if one of your neighbors has an item you want. You can spam them with gifts trying to force them to replace that item in their home and throw the item you want in the recycling bin.
 
Amir0x said:
yeah. If he wants to be sold though I guess he only wants positive comments? Well, in case not...

My experience with Animal Crossing 1 was enough for me to call the series the worst series of games I've ever "played":

When I first heard about the game, I didn't really think it'd be a chore simulator. I thought it'd be like, you know, you have to manage your life, and if you do poorly at it you'd die. Instead, I was subjected to the most torturous gaming experience of my life.

Dropped off in my new town, I was told I was now to pay off some debt to this fucking guy. Ok, that's cool. Apparently though the fact that I am in debt means I must suffer a lifetime of endless torture, because the town was a dead world with no real means of entertainment, so I was stuck into an endless bitter cycle of horrific fishing mini-game after garbage fossil digging mini-game after awful bug catching mini-game. It was like living in North Korea. All of these mini-games played worse than 99% of the freeware shit on Newgrounds, but that was just the start. The rest of the game was me going up to an Animal, pressing A to get some item, and then wandering to the other side of town, pressing A at the other animal to deliver said item. It's one big ponzi scheme, because the only real goal is to get yourself deeper in debt by buying more items or making your house larger so you can fill it with all the useless detritus the villagers pawn off on you for doing their shitty fetch/deliver quests.

And the game is an asshole. Potentially one of the biggest asshole games of all time. Let me elaborate.

Nintendo put in some option to write letters to the animals. Why? What is the point of this? I'll tell you what the point of it is. Somewhere there is some poor little tard child with no friends playing Animal Crossing, and he's writing letters. Dude is putting real effort into his letters too. "DEAR MR. PIG, I REALLY LOVE THE FLAVOR CHOCOLATE. I AM SENDING YOU A PEACH SO YOU'LL BE MY FRIEND. MY DAD HITS ME SOMETIMES AND MY MOM DRINKS AN AWFUL LOT, SO YOU'LL BE MY SPECIAL FRIEND AND PROTECT ME." And the animal will send back something like "I LOVE THE SKY. BALLOONS ARE COOL. I HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER, HERE IS A RUG. <rug attached>"

What the poor kid didn't realize was that he could have wrote "DEAR FUCK YOURSELF, $*#&**SJSJSSJKA" and the animal would have still responded with this fuckin' rug, because the animal A.I. is the worst garbage shit ever conceived.

And why did my stupid fuckin' gullible ass stick with it long enough to allow myself to be tortured with this non-game crap? Because Nintendo put a fuckin' carrot at the end of the stick. Oh yeah. They said 'you know how we're always so cheap? Well, we're feeling generous. On Animal Crossing, we have released a set of classic NES titles. Oh yeah, you heard that right! The catch? You have to spend potentially hundreds of hours doing horrendous, tedious, lobotomy-worthy activities in order to get them all!" So I spent those damned hours, I did my time, and it was like what I imagine getting ass raped with a gigantic AIDS-infected spiked dildo would feel like.
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XD. What an amazing post
 
For the love of god never ever not play the game for long periods of time!

Weeds will overcome and your town will suck really fucking bad, at least in the first animal crossing.
 
Amir0x said:
And why did my stupid fuckin' gullible ass stick with it long enough to allow myself to be tortured with this non-game crap? Because Nintendo put a fuckin' carrot at the end of the stick. Oh yeah. They said 'you know how we're always so cheap? Well, we're feeling generous. On Animal Crossing, we have released a set of classic NES titles. Oh yeah, you heard that right! The catch? You have to spend potentially hundreds of hours doing horrendous, tedious, lobotomy-worthy activities in order to get them all!" So I spent those damned hours, I did my time, and it was like what I imagine getting ass raped with a gigantic AIDS-infected spiked dildo would feel like.
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You spent hundreds of hours on a game you hate? Damn, I guess that's why you aren't too fond of fans of the game. Closest I came was a little over 100 hours on FFXII, but I don't hate all the people that like it.
 
I don't really think Animal Crossing is all that worth playing if you don't have friends that are actively playing it. The fun I've had with the title pretty much all revolved around visiting other towns.
 
I've only played the GC version, it's a pretty boring game, you could run around digging for fossils and fishing, collecting stuff and talk to the few villagers with limited dialogues per day, and small minor random stuff like picking up apples (I think)...

There are a few new dialogues here and there and it's based on your console's clock time, so something will happen during certain days, but not much, once you're done with the objectives (the chores), and you get bored of looking at your room and the placing furnitures around, or playing the few nes games, it gets really boring with nothing much to offer, you also realized the objectives were just chores where you run around and collecting stuff.

Haven't played an animal crossing game after that, don't think it's a series for me. Though I did think it might be fun to visit other people in the new version, etc.
 
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