Poll of the Day > Is Animal Crossing supposed to be boring?

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I am not actually sure what the point is of anything I'm doing.

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Yes. Its just a boring relaxing game where you fart around, talk to animals, and collect shit

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And sometimes you have IRL friends and you visit their island and you pretend to like but usually dont actually care lol

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its a chore sim. I personally will never see the appeal.

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It's Iyashikei. It's intentionally the way it is. If you don't like it then don't play it. The world needs more Iyashikei media.

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Judgmenl posted...

It's Iyashikei. It's intentionally the way it is. If you don't like it then don't play it. The world needs more Iyashikei media.

you appear angered

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UnMead posted...

you appear angered

I appear tired. I posted that at 5:11am.

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Judgmenl posted...

I appear tired. I posted that at 5:11am.

I command you to rest

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Judgmenl posted...

It's Iyashikei. It's intentionally the way it is. If you don't like it then don't play it. The world needs more Iyashikei media.

is there a better Iyashikei?

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BigOlePappy posted...

I am not actually sure what the point is of anything I'm doing.

If you're playing New Horizons (the latest) yeah it's pretty boring. It didn't help that the villagers were super bland up until the very latest patch or that all of the holidays are not included in the core game (they have to be downloaded during certain times, which is crap). All the random islands you can visit are boring and dull, and there's no awesome mini games you can play there. Add to that now you have to craft basic tools just to do anything - and they break all the time - and it just doesn't cut it with me. And you can't even collect all the fruit without visiting other players! It sounds dumb, but it shouldn't depend on multiplayer for something basic like stupid fruit. Pretty much the only things it really has going for it are better graphics, a way better museum, and that you can put stuff outside now. It lacks in nearly everything else.

The previous one, New Leaf, is really awesome though. That's my favorite by far. Definitely give that a shot if you can.

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It's a weed game for people who weren't cool enough for weed

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VioletMassacre posted...

Really? Is it some kind of anti timetravel thing?

You can go to any holiday if you time travel. You need to download it the first time.

This is really shitty, and the fact that they didnt change this for the last big update is baffling. Its bad enough that they removed several fruits from the start.

Yea, it is. Acnh really sucks. The only reason I dont regret getting it is because I know if i didnt have it then i wouldnt know how boring it is and id constantly want it

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I really loved in Wild World the museum and observatory which makes it a lot more fun than the other games in the series.

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Blightzkrieg posted...

It's a weed game for people who weren't cool enough for weed

were cool enough now tho

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Black_Crusher posted...

If you're playing New Horizons (the latest) yeah it's pretty boring. It didn't help that the villagers were super bland up until the very latest patch or that all of the holidays are not included in the core game (they have to be downloaded during certain times, which is crap). All the random islands you can visit are boring and dull, and there's no awesome mini games you can play there. Add to that now you have to craft basic tools just to do anything - and they break all the time - and it just doesn't cut it with me. And you can't even collect all the fruit without visiting other players! It sounds dumb, but it shouldn't depend on multiplayer for something basic like stupid fruit. Pretty much the only things it really has going for it are better graphics, a way better museum, and that you can put stuff outside now. It lacks in nearly everything else.

The previous one, New Leaf, is really awesome though. That's my favorite by far. Definitely give that a shot if you can.

Yeah, I'm playing New Horizons. I came into it with an open mind, I really did. But wtf....I feel like I am playing an elaborate custom avatar/homepage creator. If that makes sense.

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It's definitely not a game I'd recommend people buy blind unless you have a large friend group playing it and you wanna interact with them more than the game, but it does have an appeal with the right expectations.
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They didn't want people time travelling forward to see events early. It seems weird at first but I'm ultimately for it. You can only time travel to what has ever happened at least once, which is fair enough. After the game's been out a year, everything is available to time travel.

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BigOlePappy posted...

Yeah, I'm playing New Horizons. I came into it with an open mind, I really did. But wtf....I feel like I am playing an elaborate custom avatar/homepage creator. If that makes sense.

Yep, it's a lot like Harvest Moon. You either enjoy it or you don't. I dip in and out of it. I fell in love with it with the first one, quite a lot different from the previous 'life-sims'. Really good writing, really good music, so just good for chilling. Totally reasonable to find it boring though.

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BigOlePappy posted...

is there a better Iyashikei?

I remember reading about a PC game thats very similar to Animal Crossing and it was good but I absolutely don't remember what the name of it was

edit: found it https://store.steampowered.com/app/1458100/Cozy_Grove/

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I loved it as a kid when I had nothing to do, I have fond memories of talking to my favorite vilagers and sending them mail, I remember when one said they wanted to move so I sent them a full length letter on why they shouldn't leave, I have never put so much into writing something, even lenghthy essays for schoolwork.

But I played one years later and even as a teen there were about a million games I'd rather be playing, there is absolutely nothing of substance in those games.

the gamecube one was cool cuz you'd collect NES games

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agesboy posted...

I remember reading about a PC game thats very similar to Animal Crossing and it was good but I absolutely don't remember what the name of it was

edit: found it https://store.steampowered.com/app/1458100/Cozy_Grove/

That one actually sounds really good.
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RoboXgp89 posted...

the gamecube one was cool cuz you'd collect NES games

Yeah I had a bunch of them in my basement. The rumor was you could also get the first Zelda but I never found it.

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It's not supposed to be exciting, at least. It's a very chill sandbox game with pretty limited/simplistic formal goals, mostly consisting of designing your island the way you want it. If you're expecting excitement, you're going to be bored. If you're just looking to chill virtually, less so.

NH is a very good AC game in many ways (though tool durability was a mistake, particularly not ever providing the option to make unbreakable tools), but at the end of the day it's still not going to be a super exciting game. A lot of the hype surrounding it was a product of when it came out: The pandemic had just really started to hit North America and everything was locking down. Everyone suddenly had a lot of free time and the real world became a stressful, scary, uncertain place. Being able to spend dozens of hours immersing oneself in a virtual world that was so chill and (mostly) predictable was exactly what many people needed, so the game sold like hotcakes.

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Black_Crusher posted...

Yeah I had a bunch of them in my basement. The rumor was you could also get the first Zelda but I never found it.

You could but you had to have an Gameboy Advance and get it through the island if I remember correctly. I think the item codes didn't work for that one.
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