Animal Crossing, now with chainsaw bayonets!
 

I've been thinking about making this thread since yesterday, and Regulus Tera's last post in the Not Goddamn Youtubes thread pushed me over the edge.

So, that there new(ish) Animal Crossing game came out on Sunday. Any one here buy it? Want advice from your friendly NPF weirdos on what you should name your town or what your town song should be? Fashion tips? Horrible things you've done so far to your fellow villagers? Put it all here.

Currently, my town song is the first second of Mou Ikkai, and our flag is a meat-and-bone. Also, Mike's hogging it and getting ahead of me. And I should visit that guy who moved in today; he's probably unpacked.

I guess this is also a general Animal Crossing thread, for those of you who didn't fork over $50 for the new one, if it has to be... I do know that it isn't a Friend Codes thread, since we have one of those and Meister will hate me if this becomes another. And I don't want him to hate me.

Hey guys, I got a confession to make: I never played Animal Crossing.

My sister, however, was crazy about the DS game, so we're getting it by the end of the week (hopefully the bundle with Wii Speak). What do I expect from this game? Should I run while I still can?

If it's anything like the first game, it's kinda like having a second job that consists of nothing but pointless and menial labor with no actual pay off, as almost all of your money goes to paying off an ever increasing debt.

Also, all your friends are insipid morons who don't know how to say more than three phrases at a time, and the only person worth while is a dog who also plays guitar.

So... basically it's an amazingly accurate life simulator. Except with a guitar playing dog.

So taking youtube into account, it's an amazingly accurate life simulator.

I haven't played Animal Crossing either, and that one Let's Play supported my stance. Though I've never been one for the "Live another life where you do the same shit you normally do" games.

If they threw in chainsaw bayonets I might consider it actually.

Let's not forget the whole conspiracy going on against you.

Almost there

I might consider picking it up, since I still enjoy the occasional shindig on Wild World when I'm on a plane or something. Provided this has more for me to do than constantly pick up fruit and make people walk into constant pit falls.

Krylo pretty much hit it on the head. Also, spoken from someone trying to break the original, the mechanics are retarded (mechanics being the stimulus/words in letters and crap necessary to get a proper response from NPCs, among other things).

Really, just don't bother.

Oh, you guys are no fun.

Your vulgar letters can go to children you don't know in this game! Tell me how that isn't awesome?

And that's what I'm talking. Anything else I tried to talk to an NPC about in a letter, they found boring, stupid, or offensive (note: I was hardly being offensive). But the most affectionate and interesting letter (according to an NPC) I've ever seen is when my sister called them a fugly slut bitch whore cunt, while insulting their intelligence.

You guys are crazy: Animal Crossing is totally awesome.

Today in my new town I sent an insulting letter to my zombie-bear neighbor, stole several items from the lost-and-found, designed and distributed a shirt that says KICK ME and turned it into the hot fashion item of the year, joined Crazy Redd's secret underground crime ring, sold questionable mushrooms to Tom Nook, stole flowers from other people's yards to plant them in my own, and got a free bubble wand from the prize man!!


I've never played the DS version, but I've got the GameCube one and City Folk. I miss having the gyroid outside my front door to insult visitors and I don't like that the museum won't say who donated what so I can't compete with my sister anymore, and the fact that Kapp'n, the bus driver, hits on me every time I go into the city is kind of creepy, but I'm still enjoying City Folk. It also seems harder to bum furniture off your neighbors this time around. I do, however, enjoy the little details, like the fact that new neighbors have to unpack when they move in.