thisistian
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For example, visiting your old town in Animal Crossing Wild World? 
Do you feel nostalgic when playing old Animal Crossing games?
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StarUrchin
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I feel nostalgic for a split second when I hear the town tune of my old town. Not a self made one like one you get at the start.
Mars Adept
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Occasionally, yes. It's normal for me to play older Animal Crossing games so usually I don't find it that nostalgic.
NinelivesBobcat
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I don't find it extremely nostalgic since I still play my old towns to this day, but there are parts in towns that do bring back memories of playing the game for the first time (for example, I remember when Mitzi told me to plant flowers around her house. I did that and she rewarded me with furniture. Those flowers are still there even to this day. Every time I see those flowers I get all nostalgic because they remind me of the day I planted them). The music in generation 1 (DnM, DnM+, AC, DnM e+) is also my favourite in the series and makes me think of the easier times when I first played that game.
That's not to say nostalgia is a completely good thing, however. A lot of people who grew up with the older games (specifically GCN and Wild World) have a hatred for the newer games (City Folk and New Leaf) just because they have nostalgia for the old games and have no nostalgia for the new ones. This is what's fueling most of the former-fans who now hate the series, especially Wild World fanboys (are all of my posts now gonna mention Wild World fanboys?). Had they never got into Wild World when they were younger, they'd probably not even like it. Thankfully, I like the series because of how well-made it is and not because of pure nostalgia.
That's not to say nostalgia is a completely good thing, however. A lot of people who grew up with the older games (specifically GCN and Wild World) have a hatred for the newer games (City Folk and New Leaf) just because they have nostalgia for the old games and have no nostalgia for the new ones. This is what's fueling most of the former-fans who now hate the series, especially Wild World fanboys (are all of my posts now gonna mention Wild World fanboys?). Had they never got into Wild World when they were younger, they'd probably not even like it. Thankfully, I like the series because of how well-made it is and not because of pure nostalgia.
thisistian
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yes but more in ww than in the gc
in ww I used to play with a friend locally and one day one of her villagers moved in my town
the villager is still there but I don't see that friend in nine years now
and that villager keeps remarking that by saiyng how much days have passed since he doesn't see her
in ww I used to play with a friend locally and one day one of her villagers moved in my town
the villager is still there but I don't see that friend in nine years now
and that villager keeps remarking that by saiyng how much days have passed since he doesn't see her
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NinelivesBobcat
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yes but more in ww than in the gc
in ww I used to play with a friend locally and one day one of her villagers moved in my town
the villager is still there but I don't see that friend in nine years now
Dang, that must be depressing. The only way to stop him from saying how many days have passed is to move him out and hope that he will soon move back in. Only problem is that it would take forever since plot resetting wasn't a thing in Wild World.
FruityLogic
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I do feel nostalgia when I play my old towns (though I check them everyday)! Sure, they're more limited than NL, but I've had too many great memories to let them go.
Only when I listen to the soundtracks. When I remember how limited everything was and how tedious the whole fossil process was, all of it makes me cringe. ACNL has spoiled me in a way. The only thing I can think of that's even remotely nostalgic is the 30,000 bell code. I had the whole thing memorized.
NinelivesBobcat
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It seems boring, but it's actually not in my opinion. If anything, Wild World would probably kinda get boring due to the lack of holidays such as Halloween and Toy Day.
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Anyway, I remember hearing Animal Crossing GCN's 2AM a while back on a YouTube video and I thought it was from Wild World / City Folk due to the way it sounds. Later I found out that it was actually from the GameCube game since I looked up the OST for Animal Crossing GCN. I never played that early in the morning so I never heard it in-game.
Halloqueen
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I generally don't go back to the GameCube Animal Crossing most of the time since when I feel like playing an Animal Crossing game, I'd rather play some New Leaf. But I have visited it a couple times over the past 5 years and I do tend to feel some nostalgia when I revisit the town. Seeing certain villagers who have been there for years, and seeing Able Sister designs that my friends and I made back when we were kids is kinda nice. That said, despite not revisiting very often, I do look back very fondly on the GameCube game and its unique feel and features compared to New Leaf.
Frostbite2002
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Not as nostalgic as I would have hoped, now whenever I go back to play the older games I am instantly drawn to the absolutely terrible frame rate and graphics as well as the tedious (and honestly sometimes quite boring) processes throughout the game. If I want to feel nostalgic for those days, I much prefer to stick on the soundtrack and listen to some of my favourite themes (mostly the themes from Wild World, I just love them!) I don't know how my past self could stand the frame rate of those older games, but I guess I either didn't know any better or just didn't care! I like to look back at those older games and compare them to New Leaf, I'm so happy to see all the improvements that have been made since back then and I can't wait to see what future instalments have in store for us! Talking about it makes me want to go and play some Wild World, even if it hurts my eyes to look at it! ^_^
NinelivesBobcat
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...And by older games you mean just Wild World since the GameCube game and City Folk didn't have any framerate issues at all. Wild World on the other hand had some serious framerate issues. Also, when I first played New Leaf it too had small framerate issues but now it's gone due to updates. As for the 'tedious (and honestly sometimes quite boring) processes throughout the game', what do you mean by that? What processes? As in mailing the Farway Museum just to identify a fossil? If so then yeah, I kinda agree that some of the processes were more tedious, but a lot of them haven't really changed since.
Frostbite2002
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Yep I definitely was talking about Wild World! (Totally not pointing fingers or anything but honestly the framerate is dire, especially when compared to the GameCube version) It was the first game I played! (I have played the GameCube version recently and it was quite enjoyable!) Wild world had serious framerate issues, I'm glad they improved on it again when they released City Folk! (I always want to call it "let's go to the city" instead of city folk as that was what it was called here in Europe lol!) I was also referring to the mailing of fossils to Farway Museum, I didn't have to deal with that in Wild World at least but it was pretty annoying in the GameCube version >~< I should have been more specific I guess, I'm glad you got what I meant though! (Btw I love your signature XD)
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