(Dec. 15, 2008 1:32 AM)Doompenguin Wrote: I like Animal Crossing, but I'm not getting the next one until I beat the first.
lmao
(Dec. 15, 2008 1:41 AM)Roan Wrote: I liked Animal Crossing: Wild World on DS and I spent a lot of time playing it, but I've just got franchise fatigue. It doesn't help that Nintendo has done absolutely nothing to differentiate City Folk from the original Gamecube game or the DS game.
Yeah pretty much. Here's what I posted on Joystiq about it:
It's sad, because I was a huge fan of Animal Crossing, but just because I enjoyed the formula previously doesn't mean I will enjoy the same formula rehashed again.
There are so many places they could go with Animal Crossing. Imagine how cool it would be if towns were composed of both players and NPCs, and instead of being a human you could pick an animal and customize it. (Of course, everyone would be Bob.) The world needs to be much bigger, with forests and mountains and caves to explore. Perhaps make a "planet" with multiple towns, and you could explore the planet and meet other people from different towns. New equipment like pickaxes so you could go mining in caves. Haunted forests where you could talk to ghosts and play games with them. And why are there not more social events in this game? There's just too much time where there's nothing to do.
Essentially I'm saying take Animal Crossing and AC: Wild World and Harvest Moon 64 and multiply it all by 10.
What made Animal Crossing initially so exciting was the sense of freshness and exploration and wonder. While I can see this new game being interesting for people who've not played the series before, for those of us that have played the previous two installments, City Folk is just more proof that Nintendo has become stagnant and comfortable to rest on its laurels as its profits increase.