ElysiaCrossing
Festive Flower
I briefly played the GC version as a kid. I didn't pick up any other ac games til new leaf came out.
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First AC game you played?
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Tap Dancer
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I see this thread is from 2013, so the poll is already closed. But since someone bumped it up, I'll answer. Wild World was my first games and New Leaf is my second.
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Mayor Snowball
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Gamecube for me. Stopped playing because Resetti scared me lol
Omg that is why my sister stopped playing too! She thought that Resetti was a bully or something and she told me that she was insulted a lot by him and she never wanted to see him again. So i said ''Why do you still play that game then?!'' And she never touched the box of Animal Crossing ever again after i said that! (I was sarcastic though xD)
Praesilith
jean bean
Population growing was my first, my uncle got it for me when I was about 7 or 8 because I asked for the Sims and my mom didn't think I was mature enough to play it, so apparently animal crossing was similar. I was really into it, but then I lost it. I found it about 3 years ago and started playing it and it became my favorite pasttime because I wasn't really enjoying school. I played wild world when I was about 9-10 because my friend had it as well and we wanted to visit each other often. I never played city folk, but I got new leaf the day I got a 3ds lol.
New Leaf.
I had heard about the GameCube version but never really looked into it. I never bought a Wii so never looked at it then either.
When I got my 3DS XL for Christmas 2013 I saw a ton of praise for the game and picked it up for $20.
1400+ hours later and here we are XD
I had heard about the GameCube version but never really looked into it. I never bought a Wii so never looked at it then either.
When I got my 3DS XL for Christmas 2013 I saw a ton of praise for the game and picked it up for $20.
1400+ hours later and here we are XD
Oh lol i know like 5 other people in my region who had the exact same Animal Crossing story xD
I wanted to try Wild World, but didn't have a DS at the time. After I got one to play Pokemon on I couldn't find the game anywhere anymore. I had other stuff going on in my life when City Folk came out, so the next game I heard of was New Leaf and it took me a year to decide to get it and give it a go. I really wish I could have played the previous ones.
Part of the reason I wish I had played these comes from seeing a lot of people have memories with some of the characters. It's interesting to see how much these games meant to many people during their childhood. I think I would have enjoyed them too.
Part of the reason I wish I had played these comes from seeing a lot of people have memories with some of the characters. It's interesting to see how much these games meant to many people during their childhood. I think I would have enjoyed them too.
Yeah i also think that you get to enjoy the games the most when you played them when they got released, when everything was new and perfect, players who started with the GC version still love it but people (like me) who got into Animal Crossing via Let's Go To The City can never enjoy the older games as much as the GC people do.
Lol i was a really bad player in the Wii version, i got my bells by selling peaches (native fruit was pear, i sent a letter to Monique once with "Give me some fruit!" in it and guess what? She sent a letter back containing a peach hahah!) and i hunted all my trees for random bugs, i caught a lot rainbow stags and i thought that they weren't worth much because of that, so i released them everytime XD. But that was my first Animal Crossing game that i got really into, i wanted to stay in my town all day because i wanted to knock down all flying presents! (i was collecting those 8-bit mario things.)
My first Animal Crossing game that i played was Wild World, i could not read or english yet but the DS i played it on belonged to my grandma (She loves the DS xD) and she had an Animal Crossing game set up for me so i didn't have to read. The only thing i remember that i was really shocked about how the world where you walk on rolls like a ball and the first and only thing i could and i thought you only can do was shaking trees and eating apples
I didn't understand the game at that point at all since i was like 5 years old. Hahah such a loooong story, but Let's Go To The City (Or City Folk for American players) was the first game i got the hang of, when i go back to it and check my old house i just feel my childhood coming up xD
I regret not checking the prices earlier for the giant and rainbow stags because I ended up selling them when I started New Leaf.
Maybe you are right in that older games feel different now, I remember how much I loved playing every new Pokemon game, but after each most recent release going back to older ones ended up being a drag. People complain that you can only have 1 save file, but back in the day we had to save every time we wanted to switch between storage boxes on the PC. The amount of times I had to replay yellow because I overwrote my previous save... So I'm guessing New Leaf is a lot more convenient to play than previous installments.
Maybe you are right in that older games feel different now, I remember how much I loved playing every new Pokemon game, but after each most recent release going back to older ones ended up being a drag. People complain that you can only have 1 save file, but back in the day we had to save every time we wanted to switch between storage boxes on the PC. The amount of times I had to replay yellow because I overwrote my previous save... So I'm guessing New Leaf is a lot more convenient to play than previous installments.
Yup! That is exactly what i mean, pok?mon is a good example for that indeed. But every franchise has this.
I absolutely can not play Super Mario Kart or Mario Kart 64, the controls and mechanics are too outdated and off compared to newer installments, making them nearly unplayable for me now, i liked them when they where fairly new but you really can not get back to it in the same glory. Mario Kart 8 plays similar to Mario Kart 7 so i can go back to that game but Mario Kart Wii and Double Dash!! are slowly getting a bit old too in my opinion. Again they were great for its time but their time have passed now.
By the way sure, i still like them but it is hard to get into them again, i still play Sunshine every now and then.
I even got into retro gaming even further lately by purchasing a N64 with Donkey Kong 64 (omg that game must have been really revolutionary for its time, i am impressed by its graphics and content!) Mario 64, Diddy Kong Racing and The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time. I probably won't play that Zelda game for a long time because i am growing tired of it after finishing the GameCube port like 5 times.
I absolutely can not play Super Mario Kart or Mario Kart 64, the controls and mechanics are too outdated and off compared to newer installments, making them nearly unplayable for me now, i liked them when they where fairly new but you really can not get back to it in the same glory. Mario Kart 8 plays similar to Mario Kart 7 so i can go back to that game but Mario Kart Wii and Double Dash!! are slowly getting a bit old too in my opinion. Again they were great for its time but their time have passed now.
By the way sure, i still like them but it is hard to get into them again, i still play Sunshine every now and then.
I even got into retro gaming even further lately by purchasing a N64 with Donkey Kong 64 (omg that game must have been really revolutionary for its time, i am impressed by its graphics and content!) Mario 64, Diddy Kong Racing and The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time. I probably won't play that Zelda game for a long time because i am growing tired of it after finishing the GameCube port like 5 times.
With most of the old console games it isn't so much the mechanics that I find difficult, but my battle with the camera angles. Fighting games don't have this problem, at worst they just look really bad. I would go back to Maria 64, and a lot of NES/SNES games are relatively easy to master. But if Animal Crossing always had things like planting trees, watering flowers, fishing, I can imagine those being influenced a lot by how the controls work.
Animal Crossing for the GC was really different from Wild World, there already was an Island on the GC version and there were some additional holidays. Also more villagers can live in your town (up to 16 if i remember correctly) and your was a LOT larger!
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