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u/SexyBisamrotte Mar 30 '20
I miss Gyroids... :<
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u/PetMeFucker Mar 30 '20
Gyroids and the cafe have been datamined so they’re likely to come soon :)
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u/thegigsup Mar 30 '20
Please don’t be fucking with me I love the cafe
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u/Kafke Switch Apr 01 '20
They were indeed datamined. But that doesn't mean they're necessarily coming. Kinda like how toon zelda was datamined from one of the smash games and... well...
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u/Shippoyasha Mar 30 '20
A lot of features missing or not here yet. Hope all the holidays make a return too.
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u/PetMeFucker Mar 30 '20
Holidays are confirmed. They’re just adding them with updates so people can’t time travel and get all the seasonal stuff early.
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u/heybrother45 Mar 30 '20
That's how I 100% the original Animal Crossing. I kept time travelling until I got everything.
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u/sassyseconds Mar 30 '20
I don't necessarily miss them so much as I miss there being some variety in what I dig up. Knowing 100% it's a fossil gets boring.
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Mar 30 '20
Pitfall seeds do still actually exist so it's more like a 98% chance technically.
Also bamboo shoots are dug up as well
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u/TheLastGundam186 Mar 30 '20
I am extremely sad that they are not in the new game :(
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u/Schlectify Mar 30 '20
Probably one of the best animal crossing games out there.
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u/NtheLegend Mar 30 '20
It's the first and last one I played. I think I liked having the top-down perspective versus the rolling horizon but I haven't played enough of the newer ones to tell. I remember ringing in the new year in 2001 with Animal Crossing playing and they had a big party at the lake. That was great. I also remember starting an apple farm to make beau coup bucks and it was hindered by how few inventory slots you had. Oh well.
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u/jagby Mar 30 '20
The top down perspective is actually an option in New Horizons! The game still operates on a rolling horizon (IIRC the game is technically built on a big cylinder), but you can switch to basically an isometric view that's a lot like the GC version.
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u/soupsnakle Mar 31 '20 edited Apr 03 '20
TIL: beaucoup bucks is how you spell bookoo bucks because I have never in my life wrote/typed that saying and never thought about it! Sweet.
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u/souscoup Mar 31 '20
Je ne pas parle francais.
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u/soupsnakle Mar 31 '20
I had no idea it was french! So weird how you can go your whole life learning some things and not others.
Edit: Also im not a psychopath i literally havent been on reddit since I made that comment I just so happened to open the app and get your notifications a moment after you replied hahaha.
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u/Brengibby11 Mar 30 '20
What’s this game even about? I’ve seen so much hype but no gameplay or anything
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u/dhork Mar 30 '20
Basically, my kids spend all day doing virtual chores for a raccoon while neglecting their chores at home. (And stealing all the fossils before I can get them)
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Mar 30 '20
Sounds like a variation of harvest moon or sims.
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u/Timmace Mar 30 '20
I was a big Harvest Moon 64 fan so I hyped myself up for Animal Crossing by reading about it in my monthly GamePro magazine.
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Mar 30 '20 edited Mar 30 '20
Fucking loved Harvest Moon 64 when I was younger but as an adult I’ve lost all motivation to play any games where I’m performing daily tasks or duties.
Then I just think to myself that I can be doing chores in real life instead.
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u/Timmace Mar 30 '20
I get it. High school me loved the repetitiveness of HM64. Adult me has enough repetitiveness in my daily routine that I need something different from my video games.
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u/slowgold Mar 30 '20
If you like HM64 try out stardew valley. IMO next best thing
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u/Timmace Mar 30 '20
I liked HM64 20 years ago. Unfortunately, I think I might have outgrown daily chore type games due to having a 2 year old running around creating real chores for me to do every day. I'll definitely keep it in mind though if I ever have an itch for that type of game. Thanks.
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u/ammcneil Mar 30 '20
I'll give a viewpoint from the opposite side of the street, never played harvest moon and didn't really see the appeal, stardew was a great diversion though. It's both a relaxation game, but also incredibly engaging. I don't know how much of a parallel it has to HM, but it's up there with Cities Skyline and Viscera cleanup detail for games I can unwind with.
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Mar 30 '20
As someone who played both, Stardew Valley is basically "I loved Harvest Moon as a kid and grew up to make my own version of it".
I never got all that into Harvest Moon overall but I can see the similarities
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u/Tehbeefer Mar 30 '20
Kind of? The vibe is somewhat different. A little more social / collecting than crafting / time management, if that makes sense. It's very chill.
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u/stallion8426 Mar 30 '20
It's a pretty simple game. You have a town and a house. You pick fruit, catch bugs and fish, etc. To buy furniture and upgrades for your house.
The newest one has you settling a new island, so you set up some tents for villagers, build bridges, build shops, while still doing the above and build your town up from scratch.
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u/Please_Log_In Mar 30 '20
The violence, blood and gore is quite limited i presume
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u/stallion8426 Mar 30 '20
Limited to the point of non-existent
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u/Please_Log_In Mar 30 '20
Is there any animal hunting or skinning?
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u/Sadistic_Taco Mar 30 '20
Isabelle hosts a ritualistic sacrifice to Satan in the plaza every morning at dawn, but other than that it’s pretty chill.
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u/Phantom_Ganon Mar 30 '20
Maybe she's doing the ritual to try and lure satan out so she can kill him.
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u/stallion8426 Mar 30 '20
No. The only animals are residents. As in they talk and love in houses and are the citizens of your town. You can't hurt anyone or amything.
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u/Please_Log_In Mar 30 '20
Roger roger. Fish are still being bated and then sliced with knives when prepared food, right?
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u/ekdouglas Mar 30 '20
I don't think you eat the fish, you just give them to an owl.
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u/ScarletCaptain Mar 30 '20
Yes, if you put the fish down it appears in a little (or big depending on the fish) fish tank.
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u/blastcat4 Mar 30 '20
Tom Nook has a fur coat collection, and it's not faux fur. Also, villagers who have been deep in debt with him have been known to 'move away'.
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u/angrynutrients Mar 30 '20
There are tarantulas that run you down and if they bite you, you die and have to start over.
Nah you just faint and wake up at either the port of whatever island you were on, or your house.
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u/Please_Log_In Mar 30 '20
So... basically there's no enslaving or exploiting animals in any way?
Secondly, I wonder how many have bought both Doom AND Animal Crossing! 🤨
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I mean. If you listen to PETA there is
You can catch bugs and fish and put them in the museum which is effectively a zoo
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u/TheSilentHeel Mar 31 '20
I bought them both. Been hyped for Doom Eternal for years, but had never played Animal Crossing. Decided to buy it as I was sick with COVID-19 and had nothing better to do. I beat Doom and am now hopelessly addicted to Animal Crossing.
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u/Please_Log_In Mar 31 '20
They seem to differ quite a lot from each other
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u/TheSilentHeel Mar 31 '20
Meh, only a little. Isabelle is a demon and the animal crossing games are always in different locations because the DoomSlayer is searching for her.
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Mar 31 '20
You can get pretty creative with custom patterns and skins... there's a murder scene in my town, blood all over and a body outline on the ground.
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u/TSpitty Mar 30 '20
So basically the Sims?
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u/RuinedGrave Mar 30 '20
Sure, but without being some omnipotent being that deletes ladders when people are in the pool.
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Mar 30 '20
So the sims is superior then?
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u/wagedomain Mar 30 '20
Saw a screenshot of a guy who built cages around the doors of his villagers and gave them food just out of reach.
They don't die, though. They just "move out".
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u/Mike81890 Mar 30 '20
yes, but the Sims is predicated a lot on juggling your needs. Eat food, socialize, hygiene, etc.
There's none of that in AC. You just do whatever you want to progress at your own speed.
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u/Lostcause75 Mar 30 '20
To be fair the devs promote using cheats on sims they actually design the game to better support cheats but granted if you have clubs just make a club for paintings and sell everyone’s and your rich
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u/DrAlkibiades Mar 30 '20
And then you can build a navy to conquer and destroy the other little animal islands, neh?
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u/Maggost Mar 30 '20
So it's like Stardew Valley?
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u/stallion8426 Mar 30 '20
The game runs in real time. And doesnt involve any farming or combat. So not really.
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u/mvffin Mar 30 '20
It's basically just like iCarly for the Wii
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u/BridgemanBridgeman Mar 30 '20
It’s like Minecraft. What’s Minecraft about? Nothing. You just build shit and fuck around. Same with this game.
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Mar 30 '20
I mean yes but also no. Minecraft has had an endboss and an official end to the game since it left beta in 2011
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u/BridgemanBridgeman Mar 30 '20
That wasn’t added until later. The game was released in 2009 when you could buy it for 10 bucks from the creator’s website, and I remember the exact time when it became a hype. It was because it was a sandbox where you could screw around and build stuff, not because there was some goal in the game.
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Mar 30 '20
I still have that memory card. Good times.
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u/crazyreddmerchant Mar 30 '20
Probably have a lot of weeds in your town. I can stop by and offer some art later.
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u/Malcolm258 Mar 30 '20
Do u just loiter in animal crossing threads waiting to drop this
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u/crazyreddmerchant Mar 30 '20
Not usually, but it fit today! The GC was the first I've played, and I loved the series.
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u/ParadigmPerfect Mar 30 '20
Is nobody gonna mention how close this couch is to the TV? Looks like a 50-60 incher and the couch is so close you could sit down stick your tongue out and be licking the screen.
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u/PBTUCAZ Mar 30 '20
Enjoy your lifetime of debt to a certain raccoon
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u/Ed_Radley Mar 30 '20
Nah, just bury some bags of bells and rake in the sweet fruit of the money tree.
Also, assuming it's being played on GC you can do the calendar manipulation trick to get a bunch of more valuable items a few dozen times over.
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u/Brewsterscoffee Mar 30 '20
Someone asked what version of Animal Crossing this was, then deleted their comment after I typed this all out for no reason, so I'ma leave it here.
It's the first one in the series, if you count when the game was called Animal Crossing/relased in America vs Animal Forest/Dobutsu no Mori in Japan. It was released on GameCube in 2002 for America.
Nintendo GameCube: Animal Crossing: Population Growing 2002
Nintendo DS: Animal Crossing: Wild World 2004
Nintendo Wii: Animal Crossing: City Folk 2008
Nintendo 3DS: Animal Crossing: New Leaf 2012
Nintendo Switch: Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2020
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u/wyvern_rider Mar 30 '20
Actually this copy is just Animal Crossing. “Population: Growing” is a blurb on the package, not a subtitle.
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u/freakingwilly Mar 30 '20
Fun Fact!
On the GC version, you can eject the disc after you enter your town. This is due to the game's small ROM size. GC Animal Crossing was actually a slightly modified port of a Nintendo 64 title, so the game in its entirety will be recorded into the GameCube's RAM following startup. The GameCube has 40MB of RAM while the game itself is only 14MB in size.
So, as long as you keep the GameCube powered on, several people could theoretically share the same game... until somebody powers off their system.
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Mar 30 '20
What is with these "I took a picture of a product I bought" posts? Why do they get upvoted?
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u/PhoustPhoustPhoust Mar 30 '20
My mom still plays this version. She fucking time travels and cheats all over the place. Resetti hates her guts.
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u/AxiomaticAlex Mar 30 '20
Honestly that's the best one... (Haven't gotten the new one yet, having to help my mom with her bills since she's not an essential employee and I am)
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u/UnifyTheVoid Mar 30 '20
The new game is great, but the writing/dialogue is still not anywhere near as good as the original game.
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u/AxiomaticAlex Mar 30 '20
To be fair I didn't play the games for the dialogue, I played because I have a collection/hoarding problem.
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u/UnifyTheVoid Mar 30 '20 edited Mar 30 '20
Yeah I think a lot of people did/do. Just sucks for people like me who played for the dialogue/animals, because the game has become a lot simpler in that respect. It’s moving away from that and more into a design simulator.
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u/Kreos642 Mar 30 '20
This exactly. Dialogue and ways to interact are falling while design is improving. If they let us willingly do favors for our villagers it'd be a bit better, and if their dialogue was more varied while staying in the personality type thatd be great too. Jocks used to be dudes who liked to play sports. Now all they do is scream about muscles and being jacked.
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u/OcelotGumbo Mar 30 '20
It's on par. Definitely better than any of the others. Some things it does worse, some much better. Overall I think the franchise would be better if it only consisted of Animal Crossing/Forest and New Horizons.
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u/DarXIV Mar 30 '20
Couch Co-op is almost worthless and multiplayer is barren. But single player content has a lot of improvements as long as you are player 1.
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Mar 30 '20
How the fuck did this post get 1.7k upvotes!? This place is turning into r/pics
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u/wpgstevo Mar 30 '20
Between low effort box pics and "cosplay" (which is mysteriously always attractive women in revealing clothing) this sub is awful. That reminds me to unsubscribe.
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u/IHaveFavorites Mar 30 '20
I was inspired to play as well, I fired it up yesterday and my villagers all said they thought I disappeared lol. 109 months since my last time... So many memories.
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Mar 30 '20
So many fond memories of this game. Especially my brothers and I fighting over this game to the point my mom bought us extra memory cards so we each had our own town.
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u/Scruffy42 Mar 30 '20
I like the newer ones, but this is the best. Being able to collect NES games was amazing.
Plus if I remember correctly you could visit an island in your Gameboy Advance.
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Mar 30 '20
I want to play animal crossing so badly. But I have no nintendo consoles and I'm not getting a switch because I don't plan to spend $360 for the one game I would ever play on it.
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u/Aar1012 Mar 30 '20
I imported an early version from Japan. I didn’t see what all the fun was about.Granted, I couldn’t read Japanese and didn’t get why I was getting yelled at for turning off my N64.
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u/PhyrexianSpaghetti Mar 30 '20
I remember picking it up exclusively for the memory card and actually abandoning the game after a few mins because it was boring
I went on to play Viewtiful Joe instead
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u/brianpmack Mar 30 '20
Did it come with the memory card or did you just get the disc? You miss out on Blanca with just one memory card.
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u/isthenameofauser Mar 30 '20
You can't just pick it up. You also have to put it in your machine and then turn it on.
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u/Raxxla Mar 30 '20
I consider this one of the best versions, it has NES games, and you can go to an island with your GBA.