This week if you buy a Nintendo Gamecube, you can send in for $25 off. Another $25 off if you buy a GC game from a list of about 15. Sadly Animal Crossing wasn’t one of them so I had to buy Eternal Darkness as well.
The special price drop was a big enough draw to get me to go buy a GC. I had been eyeing Animal Crossing for a while but couldn’t convince myself to buy it. But I made my way over to Target to take advantage of the offer.
So far so good, I’ve only just been in town for a little while and am still adjusting to life. It’s fairly relaxing and enjoyable right now. The trees are all decorated for Christmas and the snow is on the ground. Being night time made the lights on the trees look even better.
I’m starting to get to know people but the mean panda guy keeps getting upset with me. I haven’t quite perfected speed reading by holding B and then not hitting B with the menu options. Twice I’ve asked for help from Chow the Panda and then refused to help. He doesn’t like that a lot.
What should I expect in the coming days and months? How long does it take until new people start moving in? What are some good hints at the beginning?
I played it for an hour or two a day for a month or so until I finished the basic “goal” of the game. Then I played it for a half hour a day for a few more weeks. Then I missed a couple of days. And now I haven’t touched it since Halloween.
It’s a strange mix between addiction and compulsion, and once the fun and addiction wears off, the requirement that you play every day just becomes a bit much.
Hate to tell you Wolvie but that game rebate is only for $5. It was Up To $25 if you bought 5 of those games.
Animal Crossing is more fun around the holidays, when the unique characters show up. I always make sure to ckech my college rule and find out what the next holiday is so I play on those days and get unique items. If you miss it, just reset your game clock and play it.
Oh and another hint, pay off your debt to Tom Nook fast so he’ll build you a bigger house so you can keep more stuff. Yeah you’ll go into debt even more but collecting is what the game is all about.
And that “Harvest Festival” event was disturbing. All the animals were hanging out around these big buffet tables, with all sorts of side dishes and a big empty platter, and I ran into a turkey hiding behind a tree. Not, like, an “animal” turkey, a “human animal” turkey just like all the other animals. A Goofy turkey, not a Pluto turkey. In a little straw hat. And he was, like, “They invited me to come to the festival, and I should have been smarter - I could see when they asked me to be the “main guest” where “dish” had been erased. Then when I showed up they kept poking and prodding me and snickering!” And he gave me furniture when I smuggled silverware out for him - had to find him every time, the paranoid little bastard. Kept pretending to be a chicken until he recogized me.
Isn’t that a little sick, considering the game’s designed partly for little kids, and because of the real-time nature of it you’d be playing it -on Thanksgiving- naturally? Gah!
Aw man, the turkey guy was hilarious! Nothing like seeing him shriek out a “Cock-a-doodle-doo!!” every time I ran into him <snicker>. Halloween was a bit wierder, everyone wanting candy and tearing up my clothes if I didn’t have any.
Just wait til you have a whole town full of various animals and try to help them…its a giant game of "Oh, that Gameboy? I lent it to Oxford…oh that? No, I think I saw Tangy sneaking out of my pad with it…Ah, you’ll never believe this but Bunnie just TOOK it from me! I had no choice! " . I still play every day, mostly because I’m trying to get the museum model, and I still have one fossil left to get (stego tail! Stego tail o Faraway museum!!!).
Did you notice that the Harvest TV set that Franklin ( the turkey…a verrrrrry subtle joke) gives you is showing a football game? I thought that was a very nice touch considering I spent the better part of my Thanksgiving watching football too.
I’m yet to see this game, but I understand it destroys people. My friend’s roomate in the dorms apparently plays it so long every day that eventually the Cube tells him he can’t play anymore that day, and he has to wait until the next day to start again. I can only imagine how he’ll be doing on finals.
But I guess little changes. When I was in high school, I knew a few kids who played Ultima Online 12 hours a day, and sometimes played from the time they got home from school until they had to leave for school the next day, without sleeping.
Some people need to, like, read a book or something once and awhile.
Well, after a while unless there’s something special going on your Animal Crossing daily time kind of evens out. I mean, your patience and need for repetitive action only goes so far, and eventually remodeling your house gets -expensive-. My basement was cheap, 48,000 or so, but the next enlargement cost me 380,000 and I’ve just begun to pay it off. So it’s not like there’s an easily reached goal just a few fish away - I don’t spend hours running around and fishing like I did to pay off the basement. And now that I’ve got lots more neighbors, I kind of hesitate to do runaround jobs for them, because of the aforementioned “I gave it to Trunk who gave it to Kiki who gave it to Grizzly” effect. So you end up with a maintenance-level addiction instead of those first few days’ life-killing hobby.
And it seems that Sue E. and Tutu are engaged in some sort of lesbian love affair. Yesterday when I ran into them hanging out by the river they were singing songs at each other, but this morning they were mad as hell and not speaking. Trouble in paradise, I assume.
Although they totally deserve each other; Tutu is a complete airhead and Sue E. is such a bitch.
You should like Eternal Darkness, Entertainment Weekly voted it #2 best game to give for the holidays. It’s too bad no one knows about it, it’s awesome.
Eternal Darkness is very cool as well, which is high praise from me considering I hate having to twitch-reflex-fight in games and consider fighting a serious drawback. I actually care about the story, very much so.
Plus the insanity effects are waaaay cool. Gimmicky, but cool.
I also have Pikmin. I covered all my game-buying basics on this one and got three truly excellent games; all Gamecube only, which proves to me again that Nintendo almost always has it in gameplay.
I didn’t get to play Wednesday, but when I started the game Thursday I had a new townsperson. Yeah! It’s been enjoyable but not quite on the addicting level yet. I just like all of the subtle things they throw in that make the world seem so real. The programming that went into this game must be insane.
Oh, and I didn’t really get burned because it’s of the $5 per game up to $25 because I bought Super Mario Sunshine and the Wavebird controller as well. Sure it’s ten bucks less than originally hoped for, but not that bad considering.
I’ve been playing for maybe three weeks now? And I’ve had, um, 6 new people move in, I think. I love how their personalities are all so distinct - Paolo the elephant is kind of sweet and gentle, Curly the pig is a real bastard (but so is Sue E., also a pig - speciesism?) And Bob’s a total pothead.
I may have to curtail my social life to hit a Saturday night with the music guy. I am very tired of what’s on the stereo now, man. And I hate the idea of time travel - seems like cheating, plus I don’t need weeds and cockroaches, thanks so much.
When you talk to KK Slider on Saturday nights, he’ll ask you if you have any requests. You can tell him the name of one of his songs if you want (‘KK Dirge’, ‘KK Calypso’, ‘KK Bayou’, etc.) or just say no, and he’ll play a random song. When he’s done, he’ll give you an ‘aircheck’. Then you go to your music player and say ‘pop in a tune’, and there you go - it adds it to your music library. There are some songs that you can only get by requesting them.
And yeah, KK Love Song does get pretty old, pretty quick
" . I still play every day, mostly because I’m trying to get the museum model, and I still have one fossil left to get (stego tail! Stego tail o Faraway museum!!!).