Animal Crossing Fan Thread

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

I've been a fan of the Animal Crossing video games since the early 2000's, with the Nintendo GameCube Animal Crossing being the very first game in the series that I owned & played, which I really liked playing it back all of those years ago. I did of course reset my town a lot, mainly to see what all villagers there was and also due to wanting to try out different town names, which one was just simply called "Halloween", since I thought it would have added a lot of Halloween themed items to the town, but of course it sadly didn't do such a thing; though there of course in Animal Crossing: New Horizons the Halloween update in 2020, which added some fun Halloween themed items to craft & to place in my town.

I've played most of the Animal Crossing video games, other then Happy Home Designer on the Nintendo 3DS, Amiibo Festival on the Wii U & Pocket Camp. The most games in the series that I own is three, New Leaf on the 3DS, City Folk on the Wii & New Horizons on the Nintendo Switch. The games, to me, are pretty relaxing & very fun to play, as well as feeling satisfied when I finally have my in game house's mortgage paid off. Decorating my in game house has also been pretty fun to do with all of neat furniture in the games.

I do have a lot of favorite characters, which I do like the lazy villagers the most, specially what they say in New Horizons. I'm sure people on here have seen a few of my favorite villagers in that one forum about it on here.

 

[DunkeyKong]

Animal Crossing have one of the most cartoony yet iconic looking art style. Even though I haven't played this kind of games in awhile (the last time I did was the DS one), I've always loved how charming the character looks

 

[ciro64]

 

[bjork]

It's probably my favorite series that Nintendo has. Pop in for 20 minutes or six hours, whatever the day allows/requires, and just mellow out. I've played them all a ton except whatever was on Wii and Wii U as I didn't have those consoles, currently am spending a bit of time each day on the AC for phones. It's nowhere near as robust of an experience, but it's still enjoyable in short bursts.
Favorite villagers are Biskit the dog, Bob the cat, and Ribbot the robot frog who doesn't seem to know he's a robot? Though, I met some robot octopus today and I'm not sure what that dude's deal is yet, they might also be cool.

 

[rollout]

Do you know that doomguy from doom and Isabella are married?

 

[DunkeyKong]

Do you know that doomguy from doom and Isabella are married?

I knew the release date is the same, but what…

 

[Ikagura]

Do you know that doomguy from doom and Isabella are married?

They're just best buds.

 

[rollout]

They're just best buds.

Probably

 

[Tonberry]

I'm kinda bummed that I feel like I've "completed" everything I want to do in New Horizons now, but I don't know if I want to replay an older game either, and I definitely don't want to start over, I always regret that when I do.
I know City Folk is pretty chill to play on Dolphin with keyboard and mouse as a sort of computer game, but I struggle to imagine what I'd be doing in the game I guess lol.

 

[Ikagura]

I need to do Animal Crossing 64 translated.

 

[Tonberry]

I need to do Animal Crossing 64 translated.

Isn't that just the gamecube version with less features more or less?

 

[Ikagura]

Isn't that just the gamecube version with less features more or less?

Exactly, I want to experience the genesis of the franchise as much of a hassle it could be.

I got more nostalgia for the GC game. I don't hate the sequels but they're just not the same.

 

[Tonberry]

Exactly, I want to experience the genesis of the franchise as much of a hassle it could be.

I got more nostalgia for the GC game. I don't hate the sequels but they're just not the same.

Fair enough! It's quite charming to play a game you thought was for one generation, when it actually plays just fine on another. I was blown away the first time I learned of the japanese N64 version.

 

[Ikagura]

Fair enough! It's quite charming to play a game you thought was for one generation, when it actually plays just fine on another. I was blown away the first time I learned of the japanese N64 version.

Many franchises have their roots in japanese exclusives.

Magical Vacation (Magical Starsign's prequel on the GBA), the first Dragon Quest Heroes Rocket Slime was also on the GBA under the title Slime Mori Mori, Tomodachi Life had a DS prequel and I think there was a tomato themed game by the devs of Mario & Luigi.

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

Though, I met some robot octopus today and I'm not sure what that dude's deal is yet, they might also be cool.

Ah Cephalobot. I used to have him in my town a few years ago but he moved out.

 

[MasterEn]

I need to do Animal Crossing 64 translated.

there is a translation of it. i have a copy, but i don't remember where i picked it up. probably the archive or cd-romance.

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found it.

https://retrogametalk.com/repository/n64-roms/doubutsu-no-mori/

 

[PhrawzT]

I love the Animal Crossing games and was devastated that the Switch game was abandoned after only a year. There is so much that was done in the Wii, 3DS and even the mobile game that could have been adapted to keep people interested and engaged.

I feel like the online black market ruined the game and Nintendo decided to just cut their losses and give up.

 

[Ikagura]

I feel like the online black market ruined the game and Nintendo decided to just cut their losses and give up.

I'm not sure if it's directly linked but I hate scalpers.

 

[spectresfrommercury]

its all just honestly normie baiting stuff with a lot of half assed missing features these days with an equally obnoxious fandom too.

 

[DunkeyKong]

its all just honestly normie baiting stuff with a lot of half assed missing features these days with an equally obnoxious fandom too.

I'm not sure about that, but the fandom? Yeah

 

[MasterEn]

I'm not sure about that, but the fandom? Yeah

i got about a 1,000 hours in new horizons. they definitely took out stuff from previous games and added them in with new updates. swimming was built into new leaf. the summer update added that to new horizons. when they did the mario update, i was hoping for more stuff like zelda and pikmin items and outfits.
nope.
just some basic mario stuff.
wild world had an arwing and the master sword buyable from nook's shop.

 

[DunkeyKong]

i got about a 1,000 hours in new horizons. they definitely took out stuff from previous games and added them in with new updates. swimming was built into new leaf. the summer update added that to new horizons. when they did the mario update, i was hoping for more stuff like zelda and pikmin items and outfits.
nope.
just some basic mario stuff.
wild world had an arwing and the master sword buyable from nook's shop.

Oh I see, well that's unfortunate

 

[MasterEn]

Oh I see, well that's unfortunate

yeah. the new stuff like island terraforming was fun. you could make rivers and lakes and cliffs. my house sits at the top and back of the island. got some praise from how i decorated my island and house from family members.
it's just an instance of nintendo having something and not trying to get it to reach its full potential.

 

[tigg]

i get addicted to AC games when they first get release, logging hours upon hours in. Then I will suddenly lose interest in it :(

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

i got about a 1,000 hours in new horizons. they definitely took out stuff from previous games and added them in with new updates. swimming was built into new leaf. the summer update added that to new horizons. when they did the mario update, i was hoping for more stuff like zelda and pikmin items and outfits.
nope.
just some basic mario stuff.
wild world had an arwing and the master sword buyable from nook's shop.

There was a lot of fruit missing in New Horizons as well & I don't understand why they stopped at making Timmy & Tommy's store being able to get upgraded any farther then what it did.

New Leaf did have those fortune cookies or whatever they were that you could get a random Nintendo item from the in Timmy & Tommy's shop.