You Know, Maybe It Is Time for Another Animal Crossing

Played them all but the Wii version

@draxyle: I think it was. "Brought to you by the Mayor's Office"

The goal is to just be, really. There's a lot of things to do, but nothing you can just set out and get done like you would any other game. Most of the fun is seeing how much stuff is actually in the game, and that requires you to explore a tiny bit of it every day. Check what's in the shop, buy as much as you can afford to eventually upgrade it, take a moment to look for new fossils and wildlife, allow new animals to move into town and chat with them regularly to see how much zany dialogue they wrote for all of the personality types. Hang around for special events, festivals, holidays and whatever other time-sensitive activities they thought of. See how the world changes from summer to autumn to winter and back. Get scared shitless the first time you stumble across a tarantula or scorpion... or get a mild thrill when you spot the giant silhouette of a shark or ocean sunfish in the water for the first time - followed by immense disappointment when you're too on edge to actually catch it and watch it swim away into the ocean never to be seen again...

It's all just content, in a sense. And the game is asking you to set aside just enough time each day to attempt to see it all for however long you decide to stick with it. Once you get over the initial flood of things to do, this should be about ten minutes each day, leaving room for extra stuff like whenever Crazy Redd shows up, and K.K. Slider's concerts on saturday nights. If you want a chance to collect every furniture, catch every fish and bug and be around for all the events and exclusive items, this will amount to ten minutes a day over the course of 365 days. And I love it, because it's something you can do first thing in the morning when waking up to help get you out of bed, or chill out with on the bus for half an hour on the way home from work, or whatever it may be. It's brilliant like that. No other game quite like it.

I guess, in a sense, it does have that in common with Minecraft. It eventually turns into a game that you'll start up just to exist inside it for a little while and enjoy the different, colorful world it presents, in which you can do absolutely nothing and somehow still have fun.

It looks exactly the same as the Gamecube version except with swimming. I need some sort of innovation before I put down money like that.

I have had this pre-sale from Amazon from before release of the system. Looking forward to no longer receiving the email from them each month telling me they are sorry that they are still "trying to get my item"

Sad that without Nintendo Power, where am I going to get my monthly calendar of events.

Oh, and can my eReader cards work with this version? ;)

This looks like the same damn thing.

This is my most anticipated game of the decade.

I cannot wait.

THANKS, MAYOR'S OFFICE

Arriving at the perfect time before summer vacation!

I also haven't touched Animal Crossing since GameCube, but I don't think I really need anymore.

Really looking forward to this. I skipped over the wii version because I had played the ds one so much, but now it feels like a good time to go back to it.

You just chill. I know, shit sounds crazy, but I find something immensely appealing about just doing jack shit in a game.

I'm in the same boat as you, I've played a little bit of the previous game but after the tutorial I felt kind of lost what to do.

You get things for your house. That's pretty much the goal of Animal Crossing right? I haven't been able to be hooked by these games, maybe there's something I'm missing.

My friend told me that a new Animal Crossing was coming out for the 3DS, and I went out and bought a 3DS. That's how excited I am.

I hope this time I'll have the option of supporting local businesses to drive up competition against the mega-conglomerate Nookington's and lower those bell costs.

1:12.....butt fruit

cannot be unseen!

I'm kinda curious about this. I've never played Animal Crossing before, so I have been looking forward to this.

The ratio in that nightclub looks terrible.

Never.

This commercial reads like one of those plan for your funeral commercials.

That's what I always assumed, so I never played one.

I was ridiculously addicted to this game back on the Gamecube. I would have to turn it on once a day and the way it used the console's clock to syncronize real world calendar events was cool. Haven't played one since then and this doesn't look a whole lot different. Tom Nook is a fucking bastard, though, I hope he rots in Hell.

Bring back the NES games and we can talk.

Mundane tasks the game.

Haven't played since the GC days, either, but I am so ready to dive back in. I'll finally be getting a 3DSxl specifically for this game.

Terrible trailer, though, no doubt about it.

It's all fun and games till you're squishing cockroaches in your living room and pulling weeds all day in the year 2099. Never should have moved to Guy City.

So whats the point of this?

What a boring and pedestrian trailer for a potentially really cool game. ):

OH GOD YES

YESYESYESYESYESYESYES

I WANT TO PLAY YOU SO BAD

You mean Legend of the River King? I have that game. It is dope!

This really makes me want to get that Virtual console version of Harvest Moon that's on the way. OH AND LEGEND OF FISHING KING!

Tom Nook's indentured servitude now available in 3D.

dont let them fool you again like theyve been doing with mario and zelda.

Brought to you by the mayor's office?

Well this looks like a lot like Animal crossing alright. However I've played the Gamecube, NDS and the Wii version so I think i'll skip this one. They're pretty much the same except they add a new feature here and there. They're still great games but this one looks like the Wii version but with a few new features (swimming, night club)

I'm glad people still have lots of love for this series.

Looking forward to this, though the trailer makes it seem more open and dynamic than it really is unless they've changed a lot. You can do what you want, but that's only in the terms of whether you participate in the set events or ignore them.

@billyhoush: The XL, I think they still have the Mario Kart 7 bundle available.

K.K. Slider throws the hardest beats! The secret is: Pears.

First off, that comic about the persons mother that plays animal crossing obsessively nearly made me cry.

In other news, diving seems cool, new towns person looks interesting! I hope they've improved everything under the hood, it would be sorta fun to send drawings to animals too, not just letters. I'd buy a 3DS XL for this, but I'm currently petitioning the lack of good colours in North America. Just one solid black or white colour is not too much to ask Nintendo.

So excited for this. I bought my damn 3ds for this right here. AWHHHHHHHHAWHAH

@driadon said:

Apparently this is the one Animal Crossing where your not indebted to Tom Nook since your Mayor. But you still buy your home upgrades from him, you just pay upfront this time...so yeah your still totally right.

Prick.

Isn't Madden the new Sonic?

Oh, man, they're still using that same fossil model, aren't they? I also love the idea that a sleepy little out-of-the-way country burb has a bangin' nightclub.

I at least think that I'd really like to play another Animal Crossing, but after the original, the Wii game was the only one I had the hardware for. And that's like two editions out of date at this point. Even if they bring it back to main-line consoles, I'm not at all convinced about buying a Wii U this generation. It's a bummer outlook all around.

Plus, these games will never be what they were until Nintendo puts the awesome load of collectible NES ROMs back in. Seriously, what sort of monster takes that away from the players?

I played the one on DS. I enjoyed it for a time, but I feel like I'm pretty much good on Animal Crossing forever.

Wild World for the DS is still my favorite.

3DS is really appealing to me right now

It's nice to see they haven't changed a thing since the N64/Gamecube game. Even the texture on the fossils is the same as the N64 game.

I hate everything about this, but I'll probably sink a ton of time into it. The North America release of Animal Crossing on the Gamecube is the only game I've ever called in sick to work to play... *cough *cough *(three days in a row).

This game coming out is bad... very bad. I have kids now though and this game is perfect for kids because it's impossible to die. Maybe my daughter will find some sweet stuff to send to my town!

Oh and I ripped my Gamecube disc for this one and it's something along the lines of 16MB... how much awesome will they squeeze into the no doubt 64MB that this game is!

...they are similar in no way.