I seem to have lost my passion for New Leaf

[Gameplayer123]

I've had my two copies of Animal Crossing New Leaf since it's US release, June 9 2013. I played my first town for a full year, everyday, nearly did everything and unlocked/upgraded all stores. I mostly had the second town for cycling purposes. Here's my issue now... I deleted my main town due to the dissatisfaction of most of my permanent pwps and my house placement, so I've been resetting for a better town plot, and now that I have it, I seem to not feel the same way about New Leaf anymore... I used to want to catch all fish and bugs around, take my time with paying the house off, talk to the other villagers, etc... just enjoying the overall game. Now I just obsess over making my town look really good, and not enjoying the other smaller objectives of the game...

Sorry this is so much stuff to read, but I really want the passion to enjoy the smaller things of New Leaf, instead of getting jealous of other people's towns and over obsessing about my town's plot. I want to make my town look amazing going at my OWN pace again

Maybe its because I spent 800+ hours in my first game... It could be burn out, but I know I still love and adore this game so the passion is still here just not showing... Any suggestions how I should handle this?

 

[ellabella12345]

I think I've lost my passion as well. I find it really sad too because I only care about making my town look good, causing stress instead of having fun.

 

[Plasticlizards]

I think I've lost my passion as well. I find it really sad too because I only care about making my town look good, causing stress instead of having fun.

I feel the same way about it. And then sometimes I think to myself, who am I trying to impress? I see all these towns that are completely perfect in every single way and then I think of how much time and effort and near-insanity went into them to make them that way.

Then I look at my town & all its imperfections. I'm an imperfect person, and an imperfect town is a great representation of who I am! so now I'm trying really hard not to beat myself up over not having a perfect town, and I'm just taking my time & changing things as I go along. A lot less stressful. I had to stop time traveling so much because it was just screwing everything up. I'm taking it day by day now which can be frustrating too when you want it to look good immediately but I feel better this way!

 

[JCnator]

At this point, I would say that it's inevitable to get bored of Animal Crossing: New Leaf, especially it's been a year and 7 months that you're playing it. It's more than enough time to see pretty much everything the game has to offer.

What I would suggest to do is to begin setting your town's ordinance to "Keep [town name] beautiful" and then casually play for an hour or less daily. That way, you won't end up burning out yourself too much of the game.

No matter what kind of plot you end up with, the important thing to remember is to work around with your town's "difficult-to-get-rid-of-if-not-impossible" imperfections to suit to your plans accordingly.

 

[Zady]

This happens to me too but after some time of not playing regularly I regain my interest in the game.

 

[kittenrobotarmy]

I lost my interest in New Leaf for a long time too, but that's why we have things like the one year challenge (which I'm doing) to help us get back into the game and not focus on making perfect towns with paths and themes and perfect villagers, but to play the game casually and see it develop over a full year.

 

[Candy83]

I posted a new thread today [Thursday, 01.08.2015] regarding my new town. It's one in which I won't have to fuss with the humans' houses.

And I intend to pretty much freeze the date; so, that I make sure no villagers are moving out.

I'm intending to take care a couple other things with my first town, Applewin, which will also have me freezing the game date.

I have four game cartridges. A third is used for Temps, my third town, which I intend to reset. (It doesn't have any impressive potential. And I don't think it's worth more effort.)

What I think I may do is loosely play a new town in which I don't involve myself with paths; I don't organize flowers; and I just do whatever, on a given game date, I shall do. This would be a town for which I would not care to establish a Dream Address; then again, I've come across plenty of those anyway. (So, maybe I should establish one.)



I suggest taking a break from playing "Animal Crossing: New Leaf." It is good to write down last game date, on a small piece of paper, and that should allow you to return to playing (when you are ready) without fear of having lost villagers.

 

[Gameplayer123]

Wow, you guys are awesome. Im just going to take some of you's advice and take a break for a while... And slowly get back into it. I have Pokemon and Smash Bros to hold me over.
And by the way, I have been time traveling in this new town in hopes of "catching up" to my older file that had my first town, and I gotta admit its kinda ruined the expierence for me... It feels like I dont have any stories to remember about this current town... But it has some items from older town that hold value... Should I just delete and start anew?

 

[JCnator]

I don't necessarily recommend wiping out your town, as you'll lose all of your progress that you've made so far. I mean, you did put a lot of effort on getting back to where you were in first place. It would be a shame to lose all of that, even though you weren't as attached to your current town as your previous one did.

 

[Gameplayer123]

True, I already feel bad that my first town had about 10+ gold badges lol

 

[Plasticlizards]

I reset a town that I had for months and had lots of achievements like all dreamies, lots of items cataloged, etc. but when I made a new town I progressed farther on it than ever before. Sometimes it's just the right kick of motivation to make you do bigger and better things. Not always though so think over your decision carefully! I got my new town to where it is now in only half the time it took to build up the first one because I already had a good idea of how the game worked and what to do and avoid.

 

[Gameplayer123]

Okay so as of now,
Town 1( former main town)- Resetarted last night and got the perfect plot with plaza in the center in the map

Town 2( the former cycle town)-
Currently is the town im playing catch up on, and has some of my things from the 1st file. Only thing I gotta say is that it feels very "soulless", like theres no love/ passion put into it, plus I TT'd alot ruining the game.
I think i'll jst delete the 2nd town and start fresh. Its just the thought of trying to get million HRA points again, getting millions of bells and items, getting my dreamies, and obtaining the badges I used to have scared me and makes me feel overwhelmed lol.

- - - Post Merge - - -

Btw, I dont mean to make this sound like a Reset Thread.

 

[Preet]

I do this too, but for some reason I love the "stress".

 

[pika62221]

I think your major passion was lost once you destroyed that town, and all your hard work you put into for nearly 20 months. I don't like where some of my permanent PWP's are, but I chalk it up to learning as I went, and wishing I had planned out a little better. However, I also know after all I've done, there's no way I would destroy it, and start it all over again, so I just try to deal with it the best I can, and learn to live with where I placed them. My house is a good example. I thought I'd be in town hall more than anyplace else. So, I put my house right next to it. However, it's on the southern half of town, and I wish now I had put it near the top, because I'm always going to main street FAR MORE than town hall. Looking back, there are a few PWP's I would have placed in different spots, but at the time, different animals took up different areas, and now that they've moved on, yeah, they had perfect spots for stuff, but it's too late now, the cafe is set, the police station is set, etc. I can easily see how when you started over you lost the passion, but I think putting it away for a while, not thinking about it, focusing on another game, then when you start to really miss it, start up your new town, you may reclaim some of that lost passion.