Even back in City Folk I wanted cats and wolves. Lucky also seemed really cool. I am lucky nowadays to be close to accomplishing my own ideal (birds, cats, wolves, eagles heck yes).
I looked up all the villagers before getting the game...so I pretty much had all my "wanted" villagers decided before joining any AC sites. Some were from previous games (apollo, bill,...), some were from just seeing their design/species (all the octopi/ankha), and some were from seeing them in the game while running a cycling thread (katt, genji, kabuki, wendy,..), and Punchy was just really because he's like a memento to the black/white kitty I had that passed this year.
I've never played any ac games prior to new leaf, so...no. But then stitches moved in my previous town and I was like "wow he's adorable!". That's when I went online and started searching for all the villagers. Then when I joined this forum and began hunting for dreamies just like everyone else lol
When I first got ACNL, I wasn't entirely sure what dreamies were. I just went with the flow.
I never got any of the popular villagers luckily with my old town.
Then I started to learn about other villagers and googling names.
My first two dreamies were Tiffany and Olivia.. then Merengue then Genji then Snake.
When I first joined around November of last year. I do miss them, honestly.
Nope, I never thought about it. Until I joined TBT, I kinda felt like I needed dreamies @-@ (Although I did want Marshal but he wasn't a dreamie until I joined).
Sorta...
Stitches was my favorite villager back in WW, and I always hoped I'd find him again in New Leaf. I wouldn't say he was my "dreamie," because I had no idea what that even meant. But I wanted to find him and claim him and be his best buddy again. <3 I didn't have high hopes though.
Then I found out about villager trading, and I realized there was actually a chance I could get him! I had hope!
But then I found out how ridiculously popular and expensive he is. So there's no hope now. The hope is gone.
And of course when I joined tbt my dreamie list grew, but I guess he was my first dreamie. c: Forever searching for Stitches... </3
I looked at all the villagers online before I got my ACNL.
While looking I already knew about a few villagers which I REALLY wanted to have in my game (Pietro, Bruce and Coco).
I didn't investigate on all the villager types beforehand, so I didn't know about it too much.
And then when I joined TBT, I saw the VTP and mentions of Julian, the sparkling unicorn, Marshal the cute fluffy marshmallow squirrel, Merengue the shortcake rhino and thus, Dreamies complete now :I
Exactly! I had no idea people sell or auction off villagers. The idea still kind of surprises me. I just hope to get them through the campsite or villagers moving away.