this is about to be a dramatic retelling of archaic events i no longer have true memories of, but only the feelings i had from said forgotten memories.
i arrived a lil fashionably to the animal crossing scene i think. i started with acnl but then got accf and for both of those games i kinda just chilled out and did what i wanted to do. i only used the wikia (do ppl still call that wikia or do we call it fandom now?? i like wikia more tbh) to find info for both games. i eventually lost interest in cf, and then the same happened with acnl. Then, I found Youtube and tumblr, a mistake that continues to haunt me, for good or bad i cannot tell.
finding out about social media sites where i can see how other ppl play animal crossing rly changed my view on the game and how i play it. at first i was just trying to make money, upgrade my house, and get cute villagers but now???? NOW i became obsessed with making a civilization of my own creation. a god amongst virtual animals, but not in an overbearing dictator way but a "things must look the way i want them to" way. learning about having a list of dreamies & sought after villagers, clothing and furniture was the best thing i could have ever learned i thought. i returned to acnl with a vengeance and vision but attempt after attempt of trying to make something i thought ppl would think looked nice and i thought looked nice left me stressed and frustrated. i eventually just kinda stopped playing acnl, but i couldnt stop thinking about the game. this started a habit of enjoying watching other ppl play games thru screenshots or videos that still persists to this day.
my hiatus from animal crossing lasted a long while. last year, around the time when we learned that acnh was most likely going to come out later that year or in 2020 (i think thats how it went?? ive Forgotten) i tried to get back into acnl but it just wasnt the same. when acnh first came out, my mindset of being obsessed with creating the perfect screenshottable (ironic bc i dont post screenshots) island was still there and looking back on it, i think that obsession is the main reason ive reset so much and was unhappy with what i got. since seeing ppl ik irl play the game, and finding ppl who play the game similarly to how i would like to, ive become much more content with doing things at my own pace and not rly worrying so much about more superficial things. i reset my island recently, and ive become much happier with the progress i do and don't make. like u said, im actually looking forward to events in this game, like celebrating my b-day and seeing holidays. this game still feels a bit more shallow than previous games, but im still happy to play it.
i arrived a lil fashionably to the animal crossing scene i think. i started with acnl but then got accf and for both of those games i kinda just chilled out and did what i wanted to do. i only used the wikia (do ppl still call that wikia or do we call it fandom now?? i like wikia more tbh) to find info for both games. i eventually lost interest in cf, and then the same happened with acnl. Then, I found Youtube and tumblr, a mistake that continues to haunt me, for good or bad i cannot tell.
finding out about social media sites where i can see how other ppl play animal crossing rly changed my view on the game and how i play it. at first i was just trying to make money, upgrade my house, and get cute villagers but now???? NOW i became obsessed with making a civilization of my own creation. a god amongst virtual animals, but not in an overbearing dictator way but a "things must look the way i want them to" way. learning about having a list of dreamies & sought after villagers, clothing and furniture was the best thing i could have ever learned i thought. i returned to acnl with a vengeance and vision but attempt after attempt of trying to make something i thought ppl would think looked nice and i thought looked nice left me stressed and frustrated. i eventually just kinda stopped playing acnl, but i couldnt stop thinking about the game. this started a habit of enjoying watching other ppl play games thru screenshots or videos that still persists to this day.
my hiatus from animal crossing lasted a long while. last year, around the time when we learned that acnh was most likely going to come out later that year or in 2020 (i think thats how it went?? ive Forgotten) i tried to get back into acnl but it just wasnt the same. when acnh first came out, my mindset of being obsessed with creating the perfect screenshottable (ironic bc i dont post screenshots) island was still there and looking back on it, i think that obsession is the main reason ive reset so much and was unhappy with what i got. since seeing ppl ik irl play the game, and finding ppl who play the game similarly to how i would like to, ive become much more content with doing things at my own pace and not rly worrying so much about more superficial things. i reset my island recently, and ive become much happier with the progress i do and don't make. like u said, im actually looking forward to events in this game, like celebrating my b-day and seeing holidays. this game still feels a bit more shallow than previous games, but im still happy to play it.
