Noelle2028
Senior Member
Sometimes I feel unmotivated but other times I can’t seem to stop.
Have you been feeling unmotivated to play?
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Yusuke_Star
☆An old Animal Crossing player☆
Yes l still play a lot while l'm busy with Monster Hunter games.
I haven't touched it since I got NH. RIP. Honestly I don't think I'll ever really sit down and play anymore. It's sad but I guess that's how it goes. I've been considering selling it to make money to go towards my moving out purchases list but I don't have the heart to go that route.
I think it’s pretty normal to go through phases of playing heaps and others where you just don’t have the energy to put in the effort to maintain your town, trade, keep villagers happy etc and there is nothing wrong with this! I could never be someone who plays every single day but wow it is impressive when people do. I guess it’s why tt is a popular option, it enables people to get more of animal crossing in a shorter period of time. It would be interesting to do a comparison and see if those who tt are more likely to only play for period of time vs those who play only by real time
I kinda retired my new leaf game tbh
it's not that I'm not interested but I just don't enjoy looking for the moving villager all the time
and my game is pretty much complete so
I'd rather play the Gamecube game or wild world
it's not that I'm not interested but I just don't enjoy looking for the moving villager all the time
and my game is pretty much complete so
I'd rather play the Gamecube game or wild world
I tend to binge the game for several days at a time and then shelve it for months. That's how I managed to only rack up 60 hours over the course of 5 years. New Leaf is still a good game, but I find it hard to turn into a regular habit (unlike Horizons).
King koopa
🍦Is that ice cream? 🍦
I play nl and nh equally. However to be honest I think my villager in New leaf is slightly better pwp wise and nh I have the villagers everyone wants.
new leaf:
Bunnie first to give me their pic.
Gayle
Celia(got her pic today
)
Pecan
Pudge have his pic
Hippeux I love him
Curly
Fang
Fuchsia
NEW HORIZONS
Shari
Curly
Flurry
Bangle
Ken
Kabuki
Judy
Julian
Whitney
Ankha
new leaf:
Bunnie first to give me their pic.
Gayle
Celia(got her pic today
)Pecan
Pudge have his pic
Hippeux I love him
Curly
Fang
Fuchsia
NEW HORIZONS
Shari
Curly
Flurry
Bangle
Ken
Kabuki
Judy
Julian
Whitney
Ankha
Mr_Persona
🤍🌌✨🌌🤍
I do now. I been busy and l guess l'm lazy to drop off stuff in my towns.
dragonpisces69
Mayor Marcia of Lumina
Not at all. I still play New Leaf on a daily basis, and the only time in which I didn't happen to play it was back in February 2015, where I was on a weekend away and simply forgot about the fact that I even had the game and thus didn't play it for about 2 days straight 
Even if I'm playing a different game at a certain time, or have a long, busy day for any reason, I still water most of the flowers, greet my neighbours, dig up fossils (and occasionally Gyroids too), shake furniture out of trees, crush 'ore rocks' and slam money out of rocks every day. It's become quite a ritual throughout those 5,5 years of playing.
The only Animal Crossing game that I recently lost motivation in is the GCN version, of which I even deleted the save file after discovering that loss of motivation, but even if it was a tough decision for me to make, I do understand and accept it perfectly. ☺
Even if I'm playing a different game at a certain time, or have a long, busy day for any reason, I still water most of the flowers, greet my neighbours, dig up fossils (and occasionally Gyroids too), shake furniture out of trees, crush 'ore rocks' and slam money out of rocks every day. It's become quite a ritual throughout those 5,5 years of playing.
The only Animal Crossing game that I recently lost motivation in is the GCN version, of which I even deleted the save file after discovering that loss of motivation, but even if it was a tough decision for me to make, I do understand and accept it perfectly. ☺
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mangoseason
drink water
It’s only been two months since I started playing so I’m still reeling from all the things I need to do and all the villagers I want to see! I have calmed down a bit though and it’s nice discovering what works and doesn’t work along the way. But for now I’m quite happy do all my daily chores, breeding my hybrids, welcoming new villagers and helping out other players when I can.
I always go through periods of time where I am playing animal crossing a lot (both New Leaf and New Horizons, sometimes even Wild World) and other long times where I don't play any sort of animal crossing at all except perhaps the occasional check in on pocket camp, it really just depends on irl stuff I guess. Even with it being a life simulator, in the end I don't believe that there is a single game in the world that could keep anyone motivated to play all of the time, that is just the nature of it. In the end there is some repetition, a formula and even a sense of completion for some at some stage. Currently I am unmotivated to play, I do like to check in with my villagers but thats about it. I am more focused on other hobbies rn.
I cycle through hobbies and interests periodically, so I go through lulls where I don't play AC for a while, then randomly get back into it, so rn I'm highly motivated to play NL. I'm enjoying it more than NH tbh, but that might just be because I'm further along in the game and I've unlocked more stuff and have villagers I really like.
I feel that the further along you are in AC the more fun the game is. The beginning can be kind of a chore!
I feel that the further along you are in AC the more fun the game is. The beginning can be kind of a chore!
I haven’t played ACNL in about two months now. I was playing it alongside ACNH, and I really wanted to keep up with both towns, but I’m struggling with time. Once I started to fall behind, the problem only got worse, as I’ve been working on this formal garden that uses hydrangea bushes, and I need to go day by day back through the end of June and early July to find more bush starts and finish and enjoy the garden before the end of hydrangea season.
I also lost a villager I liked who never pinged, and since then, I’ve been feeling more nervous about inadvertently missing movers. Random house placements don’t help, either, and I’m not a fan of plot resetting.
I would really like to get back to my ACNL town, though, as there’s still a bunch I want to work on. I keep saying I’ll do it over a free weekend, but then I’ve been working pretty much every weekend, and I haven’t had enough time during the week.
I also lost a villager I liked who never pinged, and since then, I’ve been feeling more nervous about inadvertently missing movers. Random house placements don’t help, either, and I’m not a fan of plot resetting.
I would really like to get back to my ACNL town, though, as there’s still a bunch I want to work on. I keep saying I’ll do it over a free weekend, but then I’ve been working pretty much every weekend, and I haven’t had enough time during the week.
Mars Adept
Circles and spirals in mind…
Sort of, but that’s what happens when you’ve been playing the same game for 6+ years. Honestly I think it’s surprising I still play it at all. I guess it’s because New Leaf was a big part of my life for so long, and because I tend to be someone who latches on to things of the past, I can’t seem to let it go quite yet. That, and I don’t play any other Animal Crossing games anymore. After the first two months I swore off New Horizons and promised to never play it ever again. Wild World I quit ages ago since at that point I was satisfied with my house and mostly satisfied with my villagers, most of whom I obtained their pictures, and also because the cartridge was wearing out. I finally gave up on City Folk about a year or so ago. I think I want to come back to the GameCube game as I feel like it’d be a lot of fun with the mean villagers, crazy holidays, e-reader card nonsense, and generally dark atmosphere, among other things, but it’d have to be at the right time when I’m feeling very motivated, so I’m not sure when I’ll get to that, if ever.
Back to talking about New Leaf. I don’t have a schedule for when I play it, especially since I’ve almost always been a time travel junkie when it comes to NL. As for what I do when I do get to playing, not much. My current town is actually the longest I’ve ever kept a New Leaf town, at over a year since I’ve started it and counting. I put my all into this town since I knew it would most likely be my final town before New Horizons releases. I fully upgraded my house and also got all golden house exterior parts. I unlocked all buildings including the police station. Initially I would talk to my villagers constantly in an effort to form a friendship with them. I got all post office rewards for storing lots of bells in the ABD. I caught all bugs and completed the bug collection in the museum. I completed the entire snowperson furniture set. I 100% completed Puzzle League and Desert Island Escape. I got all emotions, and the QR code machine. Plus possibly more that I forgot about.
When I did most of the things I wanted to, I slowed down on playing, and lost motivation to talk to my villagers, which is fine. It is what it is. I was so proud of my current town that I didn’t want to delete it and start over like I usually do, so I kept it.
I’ve always stuck around with New Leaf because I loved Club Tortimer, and that’s still the case today. I have all the money I could want, even after spending millions on house upgrades and GracieGrace furniture, so catching beetles isn’t fun like it used to be, but I still enjoy multiplayer tours and talking to random people I come across. In addition, hackers on Club Tortimer have become increasingly common over the years. You don’t encounter them every time you go to the island, but they aren’t incredibly rare like they were in 2016. A few days ago I found one who was doing the Pave dance. That was funny.
It’s also fun to sometimes bring up the elephant in the room, New Horizons. When you ask about it, it’s interesting to see the answers. From what I’ve seen on Club Tortimer and on this forum, the main reason is people simply can’t afford to buy a Switch and NH, but it can also be because they didn’t like NH or got burnt out on it, so they went back to NL( and/or other older Animal Crossing games). I think that shows that the New Leaf community will still be active for a good while longer. : )
As for what I still want to do in New Leaf, typing this post out made me realize that I want to complete the museum. I’ve only ever completed the bug collection a few times and that’s it, so completing the entire museum would be a huge cherry on top of all the other things I did on my current save, and a great send off to playing New Leaf. I only have two sea creatures left blank in my encyclopedia, and I could likely get all the paintings I need by buying them in the Re-Tail section on this forum, which would leave the fish left to be done. It would be difficult, but if I were to do it, it would be something to be very proud of.
Finally, the age old question. When will I quit? A year ago, I thought it would be when New Horizons was released, but that obviously didn’t happen, so I have come to a different conclusion. I love the online features of Animal Crossing games and it has always been why I have come back to play(except for GCN, which is still fun in its own way), so I will quit when Nintendo Network shuts down. We don’t know when that is. It could be in one year, or it could be in five. Either way, I will definitely be having a goodbye party when that moment inevitably arrives.
That’s mostly all I wanted to say. Sorry for the long post. New Leaf means a lot to me and I felt like rambling on today.
Back to talking about New Leaf. I don’t have a schedule for when I play it, especially since I’ve almost always been a time travel junkie when it comes to NL. As for what I do when I do get to playing, not much. My current town is actually the longest I’ve ever kept a New Leaf town, at over a year since I’ve started it and counting. I put my all into this town since I knew it would most likely be my final town before New Horizons releases. I fully upgraded my house and also got all golden house exterior parts. I unlocked all buildings including the police station. Initially I would talk to my villagers constantly in an effort to form a friendship with them. I got all post office rewards for storing lots of bells in the ABD. I caught all bugs and completed the bug collection in the museum. I completed the entire snowperson furniture set. I 100% completed Puzzle League and Desert Island Escape. I got all emotions, and the QR code machine. Plus possibly more that I forgot about.
When I did most of the things I wanted to, I slowed down on playing, and lost motivation to talk to my villagers, which is fine. It is what it is. I was so proud of my current town that I didn’t want to delete it and start over like I usually do, so I kept it.
I’ve always stuck around with New Leaf because I loved Club Tortimer, and that’s still the case today. I have all the money I could want, even after spending millions on house upgrades and GracieGrace furniture, so catching beetles isn’t fun like it used to be, but I still enjoy multiplayer tours and talking to random people I come across. In addition, hackers on Club Tortimer have become increasingly common over the years. You don’t encounter them every time you go to the island, but they aren’t incredibly rare like they were in 2016. A few days ago I found one who was doing the Pave dance. That was funny.
It’s also fun to sometimes bring up the elephant in the room, New Horizons. When you ask about it, it’s interesting to see the answers. From what I’ve seen on Club Tortimer and on this forum, the main reason is people simply can’t afford to buy a Switch and NH, but it can also be because they didn’t like NH or got burnt out on it, so they went back to NL( and/or other older Animal Crossing games). I think that shows that the New Leaf community will still be active for a good while longer. : )
As for what I still want to do in New Leaf, typing this post out made me realize that I want to complete the museum. I’ve only ever completed the bug collection a few times and that’s it, so completing the entire museum would be a huge cherry on top of all the other things I did on my current save, and a great send off to playing New Leaf. I only have two sea creatures left blank in my encyclopedia, and I could likely get all the paintings I need by buying them in the Re-Tail section on this forum, which would leave the fish left to be done. It would be difficult, but if I were to do it, it would be something to be very proud of.
Finally, the age old question. When will I quit? A year ago, I thought it would be when New Horizons was released, but that obviously didn’t happen, so I have come to a different conclusion. I love the online features of Animal Crossing games and it has always been why I have come back to play(except for GCN, which is still fun in its own way), so I will quit when Nintendo Network shuts down. We don’t know when that is. It could be in one year, or it could be in five. Either way, I will definitely be having a goodbye party when that moment inevitably arrives.
That’s mostly all I wanted to say. Sorry for the long post. New Leaf means a lot to me and I felt like rambling on today.
I am afraid to check on my town because I more or less abandoned it when NH came. I briefly checked in on it when a friend got the NL version for her 3DS, but that was months ago. The graphics and interface are not as nice as NH, so it's a bit jarring to be honest. But man do I miss some aspects of that game. I should check in for nostalgia if nothing else.
but to be fair if i had ACNL then i would completely abandon new leaf :/
