Zero Punctuation: Animal Crossing: New Leaf
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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Christ that got heavy
fun time waste in cute little village... this is no mean to life we are all just trapped in the banality of existence.
I've actual always wanted to play a game like this where the futility of existence is a central theme.
I mean in some of the bigger RPG's (after completing the main store) i occasionally wonder what is the point of my characters existence.
then i realise i could equally well ask what is the point of my existence.
Is life just a missive sandbox with no objective markers?
maybe (or yes was my conclusion)
might be nice to see a game tackle this head on.
fun time waste in cute little village... this is no mean to life we are all just trapped in the banality of existence.
I've actual always wanted to play a game like this where the futility of existence is a central theme.
I mean in some of the bigger RPG's (after completing the main store) i occasionally wonder what is the point of my characters existence.
then i realise i could equally well ask what is the point of my existence.
Is life just a missive sandbox with no objective markers?
maybe (or yes was my conclusion)
might be nice to see a game tackle this head on.
Yeah I pootled about the GC Animal Crossing for a few hours, went back to it a couple of weeks later to find every resident asking me where I'd been and would I mind weeding the entire town.. and never played that game again. It was a deeply disturbing experience.
Sounded like one of the old reviews at the start but I can't put my finger on why - something about the tone of Yahtzee's voice and speech mannerisms.
Sounded like one of the old reviews at the start but I can't put my finger on why - something about the tone of Yahtzee's voice and speech mannerisms.
It can still be saved. With a Dwarf Fortress-esque difficulty tweak mod.
The crushing dread of banal existance as a conscious creature trapped in a pointless pocket existance will be gone. Replaced by the sheer joy of being alive, having weathered the relentless undead spongemen attacks as well as the poisonous fog that gives everyone ebola.
Adversity is the best motivation to keep at it that there is, isn't it?
The crushing dread of banal existance as a conscious creature trapped in a pointless pocket existance will be gone. Replaced by the sheer joy of being alive, having weathered the relentless undead spongemen attacks as well as the poisonous fog that gives everyone ebola.
Adversity is the best motivation to keep at it that there is, isn't it?
I've actually payed off my entire house, so the raccoon mob boss is now pretty much out of work, serving only to supply exterior house parts that I either don't want or already have.
Also if your next review isn't Dream Team I will be disappointed.
Also if your next review isn't Dream Team I will be disappointed.
I remember loving the Gamecube version and playing it almost every day for nearly a year, then I ended up buying the DS version and eventually Wii version but didn't actually get around to playing either too much and sorta forgot about them. I'd go and try them out again but honestly I'm a little scared at what I might find in my wake.
Animal Crossing is really the only game I can think of that makes you feel genuinely guilty for not playing.
Animal Crossing is really the only game I can think of that makes you feel genuinely guilty for not playing.
Yeah, there's a reason I don't play this game, or care about dailies in MMOs, and got out of EvE Online as soon as I wasn't depressed and working graveyard shift anymore.
No! Fuck off, game! I'm not doing your daily grind, I don't give a shit what you give me as a reward. I like playing games I can get back to in a week because I have a goddamn life, and a game that tries making me feel bad for NOT playing it can EABOD. If I wanted something that requires daily maintenance from me and is fun, I'd get me another dog. I can go on vacation and board the dog, and the dog isn't pissed and disappointed in me when I come back.
No! Fuck off, game! I'm not doing your daily grind, I don't give a shit what you give me as a reward. I like playing games I can get back to in a week because I have a goddamn life, and a game that tries making me feel bad for NOT playing it can EABOD. If I wanted something that requires daily maintenance from me and is fun, I'd get me another dog. I can go on vacation and board the dog, and the dog isn't pissed and disappointed in me when I come back.
I first thought of how demonic and angelic possession works on Supernatural after hearing Yahtzee's opening.Triaed said:
In before someone points out the series existed before the gamecube game over in japan like a hopeless despot?
Probably not.
Probably not.
The most amusing part is when you describe why you shouldn't play Animal Crossing you are also describing why nobody should live.Yahtzee Croshaw said:
Something dark in there.
I like me some Animal Crossing.
PS. For 20K in game (a few seconds of selling) you can make the game do all the upkeep work for you.
Someday you will look back on this sentence and realize it sounds like something a person with terrible brain damage would say.Vicioussama said:
There is almost no case where unironically calling people "sheep" doesn't end up sounding pants on head and glasses on ass stupid.
I suppose we should all at least be grateful you didn't use "sheeple".Vicioussama said:
OT: This review came two and a half weeks too late for me. Damn you, you filthy raccoon, why can't I stop buying house upgrades? And why am I the only one paying for my fountain? It'll benefit everyone!
Sheep? I love sheep. They're my favorite villagers in the game next to wolfs.Vicioussama said:
But really, I think some of people's attachment to the franchise has to do with them growing up with it. If you start it when you're older you might find it harder to get into but I got into it when I was like 9. I spent like a year playing it and I bought every game in the series.
Either way, I think the franchise has charm and it's relaxing. The only goals you have are the ones you set yourself and you're not going to get much out of it if you don't set a goal for yourself. Generally my goals for each game are to get a nice house, pay off all the debts and maybe make my town as pretty as possible. New Leaf gives a lot more options for customizing your town and a lot of dream towns I've visited shows just how much more customizable and amazing your towns can get. It's a fairly simple game. I don't play it every day just so my town doesn't go to shit, I continue to play it so I can get closer to my goals, and when I get tired of it all I just quit.
I remember playing Animal Crossing on the Game Cube.
I took a lot of convincing of my parents, because the thought it was a hunting game (because of the name).
I tried naming my town "Earth" but ended up with "EATH."
I tried setting the in game clock correctly, but fucked up on the AM/PM. There was only a small window really earlier in the morning and late at night that little me could successfully play the game (because Tom Nook is the only not nocturnal raccoon in the world).
Good times. I almost found all the fish and dinosaurs.
I thought about going back to good old EATH, but decided it'd be too sad. Like the end of Toy Story 3, minus any kind of resolution.
I took a lot of convincing of my parents, because the thought it was a hunting game (because of the name).
I tried naming my town "Earth" but ended up with "EATH."
I tried setting the in game clock correctly, but fucked up on the AM/PM. There was only a small window really earlier in the morning and late at night that little me could successfully play the game (because Tom Nook is the only not nocturnal raccoon in the world).
Good times. I almost found all the fish and dinosaurs.
I thought about going back to good old EATH, but decided it'd be too sad. Like the end of Toy Story 3, minus any kind of resolution.
You have to get the rooms on the left and right to be able to change the exterior of your house to Castle, Zen Castle, Modern, etc, and they cost the same as one of the late house upgrades (in the range of 400k bells).McMarbles said:
I pretty much pay off every public work on my own, usually in the day I start it, but I assume the developers assumed you'd be collecting donations for several weeks and paying it off little by little. Maybe if you didn't want to pay it off all at once you could wait a bit for the donations from villagers to accumulate.
I don't know. It does bother me when I'm the only one to show up for the ceremony in a fucking thunderstorm for the public works project I paid off all on my own. I hate my villagers.
