I always go through cycles with wanting to play this game

[Ojo46]

I always feel like I go through periods of time where I?m intensely playing AC then lose interest for months, and I feel mad at myself for doing that since I should at least check in on my town more often. I?ve had mine since 2013 but I probably should have more stuff than I currently do.

Anyone else feel this way? It?s probably not just me!

 

[ChillN'Play]

I'm the same. I just recently got back into playing AC after not playing for months, years? I'm not even sure how long. It is a great game, but I find myself not having much to do after playing for too long. After coming back from a long break, I always get a little scared that my villagers have moved. Maybe if my town looked a little better, then I wouldn't leave it for so long I guess.

 

[HistoryH22]

I feel the same way. I'm, admittedly, a bit burned out playing right now. I just recently agreed to a villager leaving so I can take a bit of a break from the game without worrying about a villager I love moving away.

 

[moonbyu]

I know that feeling!

 

[MapleSilver]

My play tends to be like this as well. I will become very interested in a single game for about a week, then get bored of it and move onto another game. This is fine for most games, but in a game like Animal Crossing it has resulted in a lot of villagers moving. Lately I have gotten a lot better about it, as I make an effort to check my town for movers at least every week.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

Yeah I usually spend about a month or so playing a game and then I get bored with it. But this happens with pretty much every game I play, not just Animal Crossing games.


Of course the only game I can never get tired of playing is SM64

 

[Khaelis]

I'm sort of the same. I can play this game daily for months in a row, then suddenly my motivation to play will just vanish for a couple months before I even look at my copy of ACNL. And the thing sits on my desk every day! I've actually recently wanted to play again, granted I *did* misplace my 3DS while ACNL was inserted in it and I only recently found it.

Can you believe I left it in my closet on the shelf?! No clue why I put it there..

 

[cfs317]

I'm exactly the same way. I notice that I tend to play it when it's not the beginning or end of a semester of school the most. I can honestly say that I don't think I've ever played through April or November but I've had the game since it came out. I think I just have an attention problem where I can't focus on the same thing for such a long time. I love New Leaf, don't get me wrong haha. It's just my awful attention span. And that being said, I almost have my museum complete, I have the gold tools, I've HAD my debt paid off..

 

[Roobi]

It really is one of those games. I only started my town in January, so at the moment I play daily, working on the look of my town amd collecting items. But I'm pretty sure that I will play less and less once I'm satisfied with my town. I remember the same happening with Wild World and at one point I really had to remind myself to check my town at least every other day because of villagers moving. I'm glad New Leaf has a ten day timespan for movers so it's less of a must to play all the time. Also I don't think it would bother me that much now if someone moved out while I'm not playing. I don't really have any dreamies and there's plenty of likeable villagers.
I'll always find AC a very nice, relaxing game to come back to once in a while

 

[Keystone]

Sameee lol I’ll play for awhile and be really into it. Like play it more than anything but then I lose interest and when I come back I feel like I messed things up I actually just came back to it after months. This time I’m trying to make sure I don’t get burned out quickly and enjoy this town, before animal crossing for the switch comes out. I’ve had mine since 2013 as well and if I played consistently and not burned myself out my town would probably be complete by now

 

[drowningfairies]

This is how I am with AC and games alike it.
I binge on AC for a long time, then go months without playing it.

 

[youlivingflop]

this is exactly the way i am with acnl. when i first got the game i played it non stop but gradually started to lose interest and now i wouldnt say i play it 'non stop' but i am enjoying playing it a lot more now :')

 

[Snowesque]

What helps is evening it out and not trying to do so much at once, doing anything else typically results in me not wanting to play.

I know this is really obvious, but only playing when you really want to helps as well to play semi-consistent. All the time I would be thinking "Guess I have to do my dailies, figure out something progress-wise for my town, and see who is moving", but really, there is things to negate that such as getting a ping before you take a break, or you may just start up back on the date where you left off.

 

[tifachu]

BIG same... I started playing the day the game was released. The other year I was on this site and playing constantly >.<
I haven't touched my game in about a year now... but being back on this forum is making me want to.

 

[Stella-Io]

This happened to me early in the days of ACNL when it first came out. I was bored of New Town and I think I had got a new game so I played that one alot. After a while I was only playing that game. Then over time I was scared that my villagers would move away, but oddly enough it made me not want to play BECAUSE I didn't want to see who moved out.

I've gotten alot better at not abondoning my towns now, esp with Moriyo Village which is highly developed and has half of my dreamies, and Treehut which is like 40% developed. Secret just needs to be TT back so 2 animals that I've been going for my sister forever don't move out, and Luminosa can go a few days without being touched.

 

[Wickel]

I am like that as well. I think a lot of people are. I played it like a crazywoman when I just got it because ooh-shiny-game-new-fun-cute-animals-sparklesparkle-townbuilding. Then I find something new which I like as well and forget about NL, only to dig it up again later.

 

[Phawnix]

I thought about getting this game again the other day, but I'm just too addicted to Pocket Camp atm ._.

 

[Euphy]

I use acnl during stressful exam preparation periods for relaxation. Started my town when I was preparing for entrance exams, still doing that at times now in university. I prefer to do nothing that'll distract me in long term, since I still don't exactly know how to study, have adhd blahbla. And this game fits the bill just right; there are not too many things that achieved such thing for me. So yeah, I also go through cycles and have super long hiatus times

 

[Bilaz]

I've always played like this ever since 2013, but it doesn't matter to me because I'm satisfied with my town, I just use the villager rumor dialogue to make sure nobody is moving whenever I put the game down for another 6 month hiatus.

 

[2kimi2furious]

I am like this with literally every game I play. I will play it really intensely for a number of months and then abandon it for a new game and repeat the cycle. I am not good at playing two games at once. I just got off a really long stretch of Stardew Valley before I got my 3DS fixed and picked this game up again. And before that, I was playing Skyrim again.