Do you get emotional over villagers?

[LaFleur]

I have faviroute villagers etc. i find some cute and some awesome, and i find it touching when they send me really cute letters

but i'm not as attached to the villagers as a lot of other people, am i not sensitive enough? lol
for most of the couple of years of playing this game, i've sort of ignored the villagers, i interact etc. but i don't get too hung up on them, i play more for the building up of the town, designing the town, my house, achievements, all those aspects

i feel like i should be more in touch with my villagers to get the full experience though

 

[Chipped-Teacup]

People work in different ways . Personally I am quite attached to the villagers haha, but like this game has got me through some rough stuff, so I guess I'm attached because of that

 

[Bjork]

yes

 

[PaperBag]

No, you shouldn't get attached to them, aside from design, some house set ups, and catch phrases (which most people replace with cuss words anyways) they're all pretty much the same. There's only like, 8 types. I don't know how anyone could get heavily attached to differently textured robots. I make them leave after they've given me their picture so I can put it in my satanic basement.

 

[PeeBraiin]

It just depends on the villager to be honest.

 

[ThatRandomMayor]

Yes. I have ever since I was 5 and I got WW.

I'll tell you all a story. When I was little, I got ACWW for my birthday. I loved that game, and it became my life. All the the villagers I had were nothing special until Bunnie moved it. She was the cutest villager I have ever had at that point, she became my best friend. I didn't play for 3 days because I went to my cousin's birthday, and when I got on the game again I ran straight to her house to say hello to her straight away. Her house wasn't there anymore. I looked through my letters and sure enough, it was her goodbye letter. This tore my 5-year-old heart apart and I cried.

The end.

The moral of the story is to not get too attached to villagers because they will f*** you over andruin you emotionally. Now I can't stand Bunnie because of her design and peppy personality and I grew out of her. Francine is so much better.

 

[Mairen]

Not really. I have characters I enjoy due to their outward appearances, but as PaperBag said, the villagers are all basically the same, all the personalities essentially have the same dialogue. Besides that, there really isn't character development near deep enough that would cause me to become emotionally attached. If someone moved, I'd be disappointed sure, but I sure wouldn't be devastated.

 

[mirukushake]

I'm not very attached to mine at all. Like, I have some I like because they look cute or they might say some funny things but at the end of the day they're just pixels with more or less similar lines, you know? So while they might make me happy or chuckle a bit, I'm not emotionally attached at all.

 

[Sdj4148]

Some villagers I am attached to. For example, if Ankha randomly moved out I would probably quit playing the game for a couple months. Sometimes I get attached for the wrong reasons. Like if Merengue moved, I would be pissed. I paid 250BTB for her and to this day I have never owned more than 200BTB and that was only for a short amount of time. So yeah, I don't want to lose most of my villagers except for one or two (*cough* Bob*cough,cough*)

 

[Serif]

I get attached, but that's just how I have fun with my games. I'm not so overly attached that I'd throw myself into a raging river if Rosie packed up and left tomorrow, but well...

I am a storyteller. I'm a writer. I am the kind of person who loves adding backstories to blank slates, who loves personifying those things which have no soul. I could make you form an emotional attachment to an iron if I wanted to, but I'll spare you the burn (get it? haw). My point is that a lot of my fulfillment and enjoyment comes from forming those attachments because it has become a huge creative outlet.

You're looking at someone who spends more time in the Sims 3 CAS than the actual game. I developed over 50 families and I'm -still- making them. 2-3 generations of each family planned.

Animal Crossing is written so well and yet so vaguely. It's the perfect story fodder and I love making up small stories for all of my cute little villagers. While I definitely know it's just a game and they're just mindless little programmed pixels, the fact remains that somebody out there had to come up with all of that dialogue, with their designs, with their loves and hates and everything. People spent so much time creating each and every one of those characters. Even the characters you don't like are someone's baby.

Not to bring religion into this, but think of it as all of us, being made in a unique image. Lovingly created. I'm not religious by any means, but I can respect the idea that everyone is made special~

So that's how I think of the animals. They were someone's loving craft, someone beautiful idea. They created villagers who, even if they seem ugly, still have fans. And while they act like stereotypes sometimes, or just kind of ditzy, we also need to bear in mind that with a game already so vast and populated, they've really done a beautiful job so far and it can only get better~ Perhaps someday, ever animal can have more uniqueness to them, but for now, I am ok with what we have, and I am ok doing a little work on my own to flesh them out a bit~ It adds to the fun.

...So pardon the essay, but to answer your question, yes, and I always will~

 

[Taj]

I get attached, but that's just how I have fun with my games. I'm not so overly attached that I'd throw myself into a raging river if Rosie packed up and left tomorrow, but well...

I am a storyteller. I'm a writer. I am the kind of person who loves adding backstories to blank slates, who loves personifying those things which have no soul. I could make you form an emotional attachment to an iron if I wanted to, but I'll spare you the burn (get it? haw). My point is that a lot of my fulfillment and enjoyment comes from forming those attachments because it has become a huge creative outlet.

You're looking at someone who spends more time in the Sims 3 CAS than the actual game. I developed over 50 families and I'm -still- making them. 2-3 generations of each family planned.

Animal Crossing is written so well and yet so vaguely. It's the perfect story fodder and I love making up small stories for all of my cute little villagers. While I definitely know it's just a game and they're just mindless little programmed pixels, the fact remains that somebody out there had to come up with all of that dialogue, with their designs, with their loves and hates and everything. People spent so much time creating each and every one of those characters. Even the characters you don't like are someone's baby.

Not to bring religion into this, but think of it as all of us, being made in a unique image. Lovingly created. I'm not religious by any means, but I can respect the idea that everyone is made special~

So that's how I think of the animals. They were someone's loving craft, someone beautiful idea. They created villagers who, even if they seem ugly, still have fans. And while they act like stereotypes sometimes, or just kind of ditzy, we also need to bear in mind that with a game already so vast and populated, they've really done a beautiful job so far and it can only get better~ Perhaps someday, ever animal can have more uniqueness to them, but for now, I am ok with what we have, and I am ok doing a little work on my own to flesh them out a bit~ It adds to the fun.

...So pardon the essay, but to answer your question, yes, and I always will~

You sound like my teacher, ewwww

But I agree to an extent

 

[Serif]

You sound like my teacher, ewwww

But I agree to an extent

I'll school your ass if you don't take back that "ewwww" you noob



Jokes aside, Idk, that's just how I see it lol. I've been like that ever since I was very young and it's just always stuck with me. Probably part of the reasons I write fanfiction for actual storyline and not just shipping...

 

[Taj]

I'll school your ass if you don't take back that "ewwww" you noob

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Jokes aside, Idk, that's just how I see it lol. I've been like that ever since I was very young and it's just always stuck with me. Probably part of the reasons I write fanfiction for actual storyline and not just shipping...

Lol, the jigglypuff though.

I mean, I get attached to my villagers pretty easily, but I can't remember who my starters were. Put it that way

- - - Post Merge - - -

I love to write, but I'm not one for shipping unless I'm in a weird mood.

 

[Bellsprout]

I don't get too emotional over them, but I do find it pretty easy to grow attached to certain villagers over time. Conversely, I also find that other villagers can get more and more on my nerves over time -- almost to the point where I dread talking to them, lol.

 

[TwilightDragon]

I get way too attached. For example, I have Lyman. He's no way one of my dreamies, and I need him out to get all my dreamies, but he was the first one to give me a picture, so it's hard to let him go. Also, it's really hard to let ANYONE go who's given me their picture. It's like: Oh this villager thinks I'm friend worthy... Lets just get rid of them now because I don't really like them... It makes me feel bad *sigh* We need a therapy group for overly attached mayors...

 

[kayleee]

I'm not really attached to them per se but they do make me happy as the game is kinda like an escape so there's that

 

[Toaster]

I'm really attached to my villagers, but some more than others. If Ed or Sparro left my town I'd be so upset. I can't imagine my town without them.

 

[derezzed]

I play ACNL every day, and I talk to at least two of my villagers every day, but while I do love them a lot I'm just not incredibly attached to them and I never will be. No matter what it is (a TV show, game, book, whatever), I can never get too attached to fictional characters, and ACNL villagers are no exception.

Lucky used to be one of my dreamies, and he left me unexpectedly a few months ago. I was super mad at first and I wanted to get someone to hold him for me but then I was like.... "I really don't want to bother with the 16 villager cycle though" and that was it. I was able to get over his depart relatively quickly, and it'd be the same if any other dreamie of mine left. I'd just let them go and get someone else I like to replace them, which really shows how attached I am.

So, conclusion- no, I don't get emotional over villagers, but I do like them and enjoy talking to them. I would rather keep a town roster of dreamies but I wouldn't be THAT devastated if any of them leave.

 

[AkaneDeath]

I get attached. ^^; I move a lot so these little pixels are a good constant in my life. Not only that but when I've encountered some rude people in real life it's such a relief to see my villagers. <3

 

[disneydorky]

I get very attached. I'm at kind of an awkward point in my life where I'm stuck in my hometown for a year, and I don't have any friends here. I actively seek out and talk to all of my villagers daily unless I'm trying to get rid of ones I don't like. Animal crossing on most days is the only "social" interaction I get outside of my parents and my best friend messaging me on facebook. My villagers are my friends. It gives me a little glimpse into having a life right now.