How many people play "how the game is intended"?

[Rabirin]

In a way I kind of play how the game is intended, for example I don't time travel however I do plot reset. I just wouldn't be able to stand it if one of my dream villagers moved into a spot I really disliked because I really wouldn't be able to stand it even if I tried to work around it I probably would end up deleting my town. The only case where i've time traveled is when I had to insert my game cartridge into my sisters 3DS and since her 3DS was on the wrong date it time traveled my town backwards so I had to forward it which involved a lot of time traveling. I felt bad for it, but I had to do what I had to do.

Speaking of events I never time travel for events or use guides. On April fool's I did guess work for most of my villagers and since I was looking through the list before I got them, I just did it on information that I believed to be correct from memory. It just makes it more fun that way although I was salty about Miranda.

 

[SlipStitch626]

In my main town I don't time travel or plot reset but use guides and have gotten items from TBT users. I do quit without saving if a moving villager decides not to move though. In my cycling town I obviously time travel a lot.

 

[erikaeliseh]

In a way I kind of play how the game is intended, for example I don't time travel however I do plot reset. I just wouldn't be able to stand it if one of my dream villagers moved into a spot I really disliked because I really wouldn't be able to stand it even if I tried to work around it I probably would end up deleting my town. The only case where i've time traveled is when I had to insert my game cartridge into my sisters 3DS and since her 3DS was on the wrong date it time traveled my town backwards so I had to forward it which involved a lot of time traveling. I felt bad for it, but I had to do what I had to do.

Speaking of events I never time travel for events or use guides. On April fool's I did guess work for most of my villagers and since I was looking through the list before I got them, I just did it on information that I believed to be correct from memory. It just makes it more fun that way although I was salty about Miranda.

I wish i never looked at guides! I wish i could have just discovered things as they come. When i first started, everything seemed so big and ominous and out of my control, but now i feel like i control everything, which is satisfying but definitely ruined the magic a little.

 

[toadsworthy]

I plot reset a lot up until I get my villagers then play normally!

 

[Locket]

Sometimes I do, but give up

I made a new town, and said: "I'm not gonna time travel!"

That failed because of FRITA. I hate her she needs to be discontinued in the next game.

And now I'm TTing to no end trying to get her ugly butt outta my town

 

[Rabirin]

I wish i never looked at guides! I wish i could have just discovered things as they come. When i first started, everything seemed so big and ominous and out of my control, but now i feel like i control everything, which is satisfying but definitely ruined the magic a little.

I agree! before I would've used guides but now I just prefer to play the game slowly. That way I never run out of things to do or things to discover. It does make the game worthwhile in a sense, but it's also nice to be in control.

- - - Post Merge - - -

Sometimes I do, but give up

I made a new town, and said: "I'm not gonna time travel!"

That failed because of FRITA. I hate her she needs to be discontinued in the next game.

And now I'm TTing to no end trying to get her ugly butt outta my town

Something tells me Nintendo will probably add her into the next game. It seems like all the villagers people consider ugly are the first to be considered for the next game. There's so many cute gamecube villagers that weren't included.

 

[apharel]

I do. ._.

I even limit my online item trading to items that I really, really want and even opt to make my own hybrids, collect bushes and starters instead of trading for them. xD

 

[piske]

I haven't in every single town except for the one I have now. I just play this one casually so I don't feel the need to time travel or plot reset.

 

[Blue Cup]

I will always play these games as intended. Always have and always will.

 

[Rasha]

I was thinking about this today actually. while I think it's kind of too late for me to fix my time traveling habit in new leaf I might try to play it the way it should be played with the next installment.
I played it that way when I first bought the game for 2 weeks before I discovered time traveling, good times.

 

[Mellyjan3]

I mostly play my town "how it was intended" I don't time travel or plot reset. I do use guides though, like for April Fool's Day and fashion checks, etc.

I have a very simple path in my town so I can redo it around a villagers house no matter where they place it. And I don't have any dreamies, I just let everyone move when they ask and look forward to meeting a new villager soon!

This is how I enjoy playing most, but I think I'm maybe in the minority?

I honestly am doing the same lately.
I never really wanted to time travel i just did it to fill my orderable catalog really.
Until i started playing online i didn't even know about half of the holidays and all the dlc's and island furniture and after i did know i went TT crazy. I didn't even have villagers i specifically wanted besides chester the panda haha

 

[Xylia]

I timetravel alot to breed hybrids and check whats in store.. I buy stuff I can't get myself off ppl..
I don't really plot reset because I fail at it...
So I don't play it like how its intended.

 

[MirraJade]

I could never time travel I just feel like it would destroy the fun for me also it makes the holidays more special but I don't mind those who do whatever makes the game fun

 

[LambdaDelta]

the game is intended to be played a specific way?

since when?

 

[Blue Cup]

Well, obviously since the very beginning since they specifically warn you against time traveling.

 

[FleuraBelle]

Nope lol! I admit I cheat! Though the first 2 months of getting the game I played the game as it was intended to be played. :3
Though I love when things are perfect, so thats why I TT and plot reset. One thing I don't do is duplicate objects.

 

[Last_bus_home]

I'm weird about the whole thing, I get really down if someone I don't like moves in, it was like the fly in the ointment, so I decided to TT between two days cycling villagers out until I only had villager I liked. They're not my 'dreamies', not all of them anyway, but I'm happt with who I've got and where their houses are now. However, while I was TTing I wouldn't check shops, dig stuff up, start public works projects, build relationships with villagers or upgrade stores, and of course since I was only moving forward and back there were no events or opportunities to catch out of season fish and bugs. It all would have felt like cheating if I did that!! So I play at the game's normal pace, a day at a time again now! I also have a cycling town where I do TT, but again, only between the same stretch of days and I never complete anything I haven't reached in my main town yet, because... Spoilers.

 

[MillySoSilly]

My first town I TT and plot reset. Same goes for my second town but I want to play the game "as intended" just to see where it takes me. I figured that would be for my third copy once I'm done doing what I want with my first town.

 

[Araie]

There really is no right or wrong way to play Animal Crossing. People just play it as they may like it, and for some people it's just TTing and plot resetting. There's nothing wrong with that.

 

[romancement]

I did for AGES, until I'd played up to a certain point (lots of PWPs, bugs, badges) and I started to get bored of the game. Then I found out all this stuff you could do: time travel, plot resetting, buying stuff on the forum, and it actually made me LOVE the game so much more *_*