Iacobellis
Junior Member
Nostalgia.
Someone explain the appeal of Animal Crossing games?
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Mauricio_Magus
Banned
- It's like a family-friendly MMO. The Friend Codes keep out strangers who might mess up your mojo.
- It introduced real-world time based events. Certain characters only come out on certain day at a specific time of day. Holidays happen in the game at about the same time they do in real life. Stock up on Halloween candy, watch the New Years fireworks, compete in a fishing tournament.
- TONS of customization. Everything from your town layout, your characters appearance, and which vegetation prospers is in your control.
- Thousands of things to collect and buy.
- Open-ended play. Focus on home decorating, gardening, fishing, collecting, designing clothes, meeting as many characters as you want. You make up what the game is about.
- No pressure to do anything you don't want to to "progress."
- The town feels alive and you can build connections with the residents.
In conclusion, I'd say the appeal of animal crossing is collecting, customization, and socialization. It's like a small MMO for Nintendo gamers(and the 3ds needs some online stuff), it's perfect for handhelds.
- It introduced real-world time based events. Certain characters only come out on certain day at a specific time of day. Holidays happen in the game at about the same time they do in real life. Stock up on Halloween candy, watch the New Years fireworks, compete in a fishing tournament.
- TONS of customization. Everything from your town layout, your characters appearance, and which vegetation prospers is in your control.
- Thousands of things to collect and buy.
- Open-ended play. Focus on home decorating, gardening, fishing, collecting, designing clothes, meeting as many characters as you want. You make up what the game is about.
- No pressure to do anything you don't want to to "progress."
- The town feels alive and you can build connections with the residents.
In conclusion, I'd say the appeal of animal crossing is collecting, customization, and socialization. It's like a small MMO for Nintendo gamers(and the 3ds needs some online stuff), it's perfect for handhelds.
hgarrett54
Banned
Wait... Seriously? Wasn't expecting multiplayer at all. What exactly can you do online? Can you farm together? I MUST KNOW
Red Chocobo
Banned
You can crush little bugs and watch their soul float away.
Dark Octave
Banned
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
Yes, and go fishing. Or catch some butterflies. And so on...
Nostalgia towards what?
hgarrett54
Banned
Oh my god. I need to like... make new friends that are getting this so I can play with them.
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Neuromancer
Member
Well if you don't have, say, orange trees in your village you can take an orange from a friend's village, bring it back to yours and plant it to grow your own tree. Then you can sell the oranges for boku bells.
If memory serves you can also teach your friend's animal people to say inappropriate things.
ShadowgeistX
Member
This. If I told people Harvest Moon was a farming game, it wouldn't sound good at all.
Also, Mr. Resetti is awesome.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
With actual personality.
Iacobellis
Junior Member
For me, the original. Such a breathtaking game at the time, I always come back.
The_White_Rose
Member
They involve animals and crossing things. What's not to get?
boku bells
Each game doesn't bring in people because of nostalgia, though. AC:WW sold to people who never played the original. It brings in people because it's appealing.
Auron_Kale
Member
Animal Crossing in a nutshell. It's always the damn fish.
Doctor Decimate
Member
the newest one is making some big changes.
and honestly City Folk was pretty much a port of Wild World so that's not the best gauge of being done with the series or not.
Hot Coldman
Banned
Because fuck Tom Nook that's why.
Crash Station
Member
You can't explain it, you just feel it.
They do understand them in some way. They react to some key words and if you type gibberish they will most likely notice. Fun part is that when your neighbours move away to some friend's town they will show them around to the other players.
For those that have never played it, the game is viral to hell and back, and probably that's the highest appeal to me. When you visit other players, his animals will remember you and talk about you and vice versa, constellations you draw will appear in other places. Neighbours move back and forth players' towns bringing along their memories of the last places they lived in and the obscenities you might have taught them. Clothes and patterns you design could end up in the other end of the planet.
Goldenroad
Member
Lord_Nergal
Member
It's charming, it feeds my addictive personality, there's a bunch of things to do, etc.
Mortimer Brewster
Member
Its amusing getting Mr Resetti all riled up when you quit the game without saving.
I had never played them either and I had absolutely no interest in them, but last year I found the Wii version used for the equivalent of 3$, so I thought I might as well give it a go.
Needless to say I got pretty addicted. I didn't play it for hours at a time, instead I would play for maybe 20 minutes every day for maybe 3 months. I don't visit my town that much anymore, but when I do, I still enjoy it.
If there was ever a game that should be pre-installed to your hardware, it should be Animal Crossing, I think... It's not a system seller for me but when I finally get a 3DS it's sure to become a part of my gaming routine. Play game X for 2 hours, and then maybe 10 minutes of Animal Crossing. Game Y comes out, play that, sprinkled with short Animal Crossing sessions. It's the game of the forever, in that sense.
Pretty sure this an elaborate joke that your in-game mother automatically sends you gifts on the birthday you input
If I remember correctly, it doesn't even have to be your birthday. I think I've gotten stuff labeled from "Mom" on random dates as well.
Neuromancer
Member
Yeah that guys an asshole
sorijealut
Member
I don't know about others, but for me, It was something like this:
You arrived on a cold, damp night on the train.The first nights were the hardest.
You had to loan a house from a raccoon shopkeeper.
You walked into this small house, where just a cardboard box and candle greeted you.
Why did I come to this town?
No one welcomed me here, with unsociable neighbors and a raccoon to order you around.
Although, little by little, you would come to realize the small joys in this foreign lifestyle...
I think this start of the game really left an impression on me.
I had a lot of fun playing with a friend back then, we would compare the furnitures we've found,
what interior designs we've selected, to see what kind of living spaces we planned on having in different rooms.
It was about walking into your friend's room and seeing a giant fish he's recently caught.
It was also seeing things you didn't yet know about in your friend's town, or trading clothing and custom designs.
Time travelling to find out what surprises the holidays hold.
Even relaxing and playing on the NES systems.
I can't really put a finger on it, but it was an experience no other games could make for me.
You arrived on a cold, damp night on the train.The first nights were the hardest.
You had to loan a house from a raccoon shopkeeper.
You walked into this small house, where just a cardboard box and candle greeted you.
Why did I come to this town?
No one welcomed me here, with unsociable neighbors and a raccoon to order you around.
Although, little by little, you would come to realize the small joys in this foreign lifestyle...
I think this start of the game really left an impression on me.
I had a lot of fun playing with a friend back then, we would compare the furnitures we've found,
what interior designs we've selected, to see what kind of living spaces we planned on having in different rooms.
It was about walking into your friend's room and seeing a giant fish he's recently caught.
It was also seeing things you didn't yet know about in your friend's town, or trading clothing and custom designs.
Time travelling to find out what surprises the holidays hold.
Even relaxing and playing on the NES systems.
I can't really put a finger on it, but it was an experience no other games could make for me.
Rollo Lawson
Banned
2nd life collectathon with the best soundtrack, and an incredible feedback system (<--the reason its so addictive). Everything you see in the game, your world, is a direct result of things that you do. Write a letter to an NPC? Boot the game up the next day and find a reply letter in your mailbox, attached is that rare couch you thought you would never find. Plant certain flowers next to each other...the next day find that they bred a rare color flower worth 34 zillion dollars ("bells"). Visit other towns online, find that table in their store...the one that completes your set...the one not offered in yours. The game clock parallels real time. It knows holidays, seasons, your birthday. Events happen accordingly, event-related items are given. I could go on...
Rollo Lawson
Banned
For some reason, his nephews are worse. I hate how they all follow you around the store. Second life, indeed...
Iacobellis
Junior Member
The feels.
Also, Stalk Market.
I won't wake up for Church on a Sunday Morning, but for this, I will. Nothing is more satisfying than buying 600 turnips for 48 bells a piece in the morning and selling them all for 523 bells on a Friday.
...you become an instant BELL-ionnaire!
I won't wake up for Church on a Sunday Morning, but for this, I will. Nothing is more satisfying than buying 600 turnips for 48 bells a piece in the morning and selling them all for 523 bells on a Friday.
...you become an instant BELL-ionnaire!
I couldn't help myself
hgarrett54
Banned
Okay, one last question.. Is New Leaf a port of a previous game on Wii/DS or a brand new game?