Does your game feel finished?
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There are so many items I’ve never seen in my shops and I don’t really actively search for items I want to “complete” my town. That really helps in pacing out the game for me, even with how much time I’ve put into the game.
I also don’t fish/catch bugs in southern hemisphere islands because I want to catch all the critters within my hemisphere’s seasons. I also don’t trade for fossils I don’t gave yet (been missing 6 for like 2 weeks now). On top of all that, I also don’t time travel.
Although my town has developed quite nicely in the time I’ve been playing, I feel lije there’s still so much for me to find because of the restraint I’ve committed to. Also, my villagers and balloons keep giving me the same items over and over again...
If you do decide to start over, try pacing yourself more. The development of your town doesn’t have to be a mad dash, lol.
But if you still have some ideas floating around in your head, keep your town and take your time in bringing them to fruition.
I also don’t fish/catch bugs in southern hemisphere islands because I want to catch all the critters within my hemisphere’s seasons. I also don’t trade for fossils I don’t gave yet (been missing 6 for like 2 weeks now). On top of all that, I also don’t time travel.
Although my town has developed quite nicely in the time I’ve been playing, I feel lije there’s still so much for me to find because of the restraint I’ve committed to. Also, my villagers and balloons keep giving me the same items over and over again...
If you do decide to start over, try pacing yourself more. The development of your town doesn’t have to be a mad dash, lol.
But if you still have some ideas floating around in your head, keep your town and take your time in bringing them to fruition.
Paperboy012305
Male Villager for Mario Kart World!
Let me guess, time travel.
But all of that aside, my island is still in the works. It's gone through major developments at least 3 times. I just cannot be happy with it no matter how I design it.
But I of course, will go through with it being good somehow, and maybe like it too. Perhaps I should start from the bottom of my town and work my way up instead of jumping to conclusions and work around in every part of town with you taking up soooo much space up where you could have made something more pretty.
But all of that aside, my island is still in the works. It's gone through major developments at least 3 times. I just cannot be happy with it no matter how I design it.
But I of course, will go through with it being good somehow, and maybe like it too. Perhaps I should start from the bottom of my town and work my way up instead of jumping to conclusions and work around in every part of town with you taking up soooo much space up where you could have made something more pretty.
I have to say no. I woke up today thinking I had 2 tasks to do. Then I decided to design something on a new way and it was better. Then I thought about and tried out different ideas for use of my northern rocks. The game actually gave me more to do as well because my pockets would fill, tools would break, etc.
sleepydreepy
legendary egg
My island is far from finished and I am giving myself at least a year to get it exactly how I want it. I dont TT so building things takes a while, plus I'm in no rush to get all my dreamies at once and actually enjoy inviting cute villagers to my island even if they are not going to be a permanent resident. I've got the basic landscape/terraform foundation down but I'm tweaking it almost everyday.
Try giving yourself limits to the game (playing day by day is a good way to do this bc you have natural time barriers) and this makes you more excited to play the game the next day, even if its hard to wait! Don't rush things, which can be hard to do given online pressure to get everything off your wishlist and dreamies list right now, and I guess ultimately remember there is going to be new content over the course of the next year, so if you get to a stopping point, take a break from the game and then rediscover it with a future update.
Try giving yourself limits to the game (playing day by day is a good way to do this bc you have natural time barriers) and this makes you more excited to play the game the next day, even if its hard to wait! Don't rush things, which can be hard to do given online pressure to get everything off your wishlist and dreamies list right now, and I guess ultimately remember there is going to be new content over the course of the next year, so if you get to a stopping point, take a break from the game and then rediscover it with a future update.
DinoTown
Festive Fossil
Goodness gracious nowhere near finished.
Gotta finish my museum.
I've got to shift all my villager houses around and redo all the gardens with bushes.
Not one single room in my house is finished, I mean the bathroom is nearly done but other than that.
I've still got to finish off my river and lake, which I keep putting off because my hybrid field is in the way of it and I'm not looking forward to the task of moving that all around.
I'm waiting on news on if the cafe is a standalone building or part of the museum to finish off my third level of cliffs since if it's standalone, it will be going up there and I'll need to work around that.
I still have four dreamies to obtain.
And on top of that, once we get out of lockdown, I will be going STRAIGHT to my boyfriend and getting him set up on my Switch so we can play together too.
Gotta finish my museum.
I've got to shift all my villager houses around and redo all the gardens with bushes.
Not one single room in my house is finished, I mean the bathroom is nearly done but other than that.
I've still got to finish off my river and lake, which I keep putting off because my hybrid field is in the way of it and I'm not looking forward to the task of moving that all around.
I'm waiting on news on if the cafe is a standalone building or part of the museum to finish off my third level of cliffs since if it's standalone, it will be going up there and I'll need to work around that.
I still have four dreamies to obtain.
And on top of that, once we get out of lockdown, I will be going STRAIGHT to my boyfriend and getting him set up on my Switch so we can play together too.
Of course not no. I'm in the process of renovating my town and it's taking such a long time to do so. Also I'm not going out of my way to get out of season fish/bugs making the museum last longer for me at least. And I'm not in a mad rush for dreamies. There's some villagers I want yes. But I'm not gonna go out of my way to kick out my current ones and Island hop like crazy to do so.
I feel like there's so much for me to do still. And even when I get finished with that, we're getting more content as the years go on. So really there's so much that can still be done with our islands.
So yeah. Basically it's best to not rush it. Animal Crossing has always been about taking things one day at a time.
I feel like there's so much for me to do still. And even when I get finished with that, we're getting more content as the years go on. So really there's so much that can still be done with our islands.
So yeah. Basically it's best to not rush it. Animal Crossing has always been about taking things one day at a time.
rawstberry
Senior Member
to be honest it's something i've been trying to avoid so i'm taking my time with the island. altrough i did time travel few times and it was mostly to kick out some villagers and to try and grab few seasonal items from fall (i had to get these mushroom lamps k) but i'm trying not to overdo it because i'm pretty sure i'd be bored if i already finished my town. i feel like even if i wanted i wouldn't be able to finish my town by now because not gonna lie i have the attention span of a gold fish so i tend to start one thing, just to move on to something different few minutes later. ;-; i'm guessing that i'll probably finish my town in few months or so.
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N a t
In the name of the Moon, Indeedaroo!
In a way, yes. I don't want a very developed town. I like to keep my island aesthetic but add some flair to make it feel homey. My town still has a lot of trees and that's what I want. I'll always keep playing I'm sure, I'll be excited for new content, and I'll probably always wanna make little changes here and there. My museum isn't done either. But I guess because I don't wanna develop my town a whole lot, I find myself wandering around doing nothing or spending less hours at a time playing now. Even with class and work, I'm still putting a ton of hours into this game somehow, but I'm already running out of things to do, even without time traveling or anything like that. I play day by day now and I've slowed down a lot.
I mean, kind of. The game can feel empty without visible goals. But a big part of the game is just to experience your day-to-day life on the island. There isn't much to do now and honestly the "quests" are far too rare to entertain. But even without new content, my game is far from finished. My friendships aren't maxed out, my island will honestly never be considered "finished" and my house is still pretty much empty.
FireNinja1
inactive: please read "about" tab on profile
I don't really think I've "finished" per se, although I haven't really done a lot to develop my town. I haven't spent any time terraforming, aside from doing the bare minimum to get a stamp. My fish / bug collection is woefully incomplete, and I don't have that many fossils in my museum. I think I'm just getting started, if anything.
I'm not at all bored. I'm only bored when I have visitors over since I can't terraform and balloons don't spawn.
It's fall in SH and so I'm mushroom hunting which is exciting. I have more to terraform, create custom designs and hunt for specific furniture pieces.
Also, I don't have specific villagers I want. There are two I would like but the rest, I like exploring each character design.
It's fall in SH and so I'm mushroom hunting which is exciting. I have more to terraform, create custom designs and hunt for specific furniture pieces.
Also, I don't have specific villagers I want. There are two I would like but the rest, I like exploring each character design.
chainosaur
prince charming
Not even close. I still have so much island to develop, I don't have all of my dreamies, I want more DIYs, my house isn'y fully upgraded and furnished, there's so much to do!
I am not even half done, but that might be because i progress slowely. Some days i don't even work on my island but just log in to talk to my villagers, check the shops, fish, hunt bugs and other fun little things like that.
no, not really. i have all of my dreamies, but there's so many different things i want to add to my island that i feel like it's not even close to being finished, which i don't mind. plus i'm still waiting for the other updates as well so i definitely won't be "finished" for a long, long time.
Noooo way. I change my mind way too much to be done at this point. I was starting to feel a little scared that I'd be closing in on completion cause I finished designing about 40% of my land but ive spent the last week redoing ALL of it because watching island tours made me feel inspired to change the spacing. I don't know if I'll ever be truly satisfied with the work and in a way that keeps me motivated to keep altering and tweaking bits of it.
If I ever say I'm "done" it's because I got lazy and didn't care enough to change it
If I ever say I'm "done" it's because I got lazy and didn't care enough to change it
Definitely nowhere near finished haha. I will say though, I feel like I've hit a dead-end in terms of designing my island. I like to do chunks of it at a time as to not get burnt out so quickly. When I first started terraforming, I went all in and made my map exactly how I envisioned it. But now that I am past that point, I feel like I'm lost almost. Like, I don't exactly know how I want to design the residential neighborhood let alone how I want to arrange the shops. So many possibilities, yet none of them have manifested as of yet. Perhaps I need to move some stuff around to find some inspiration again.
To distract myself from this rut I'm in, I've been trying to get all the DIY recipes (sans seasonal and Celeste DIYs). I feel like there will always be something to do, just depends on what exactly it is that you consider will get you one step closer to "finishing the game."
To distract myself from this rut I'm in, I've been trying to get all the DIY recipes (sans seasonal and Celeste DIYs). I feel like there will always be something to do, just depends on what exactly it is that you consider will get you one step closer to "finishing the game."
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