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Re: Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

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Post by DarthCthulhu »

sturmeh wrote: post #108
Pfhreak wrote: post #75

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> Don't cheat, it's a nice game. Cheat if you want to, or need to, or whatever. If it makes the game more enjoyable for you or if you need an accessbility assist for any reason or just because you like to see content that might be locked behind arbitrary gates. Not everyone approaches games with the same intent, and not everyone can approach games with the same abilities. Cheating is a way to both experience games di…

Cool, just stay offline if you do though. I don't want people dropping hacked in items on my island, it kind of defeats the purpose of progression for those who aren't cheating.

You think these people just go around to strangers' islands and drop hacked items all over the place? Sick prank.

Re: Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

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Post by kop316 »

brylie wrote: post #119
sturmeh wrote: post #108

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Cool, just stay offline if you do though. I don't want people dropping hacked in items on my island, it kind of defeats the purpose of progression for those who aren't cheating.

By the way, how can we visit other players' islands? We don't have any friends with a Switch with whom to exchange invitation codes.

There is no way to arbietrarily visit someone else's island, you have to be invited somehow.

If you don't have friends with a Switch, you can visit someone's islands with a "Dodo code" (i.e. a unique-ID for that island). As someone mentioned, some folks have gone via Twitter and I magine Reddit has a subreddit for it too.

One good thing is unless you are "best friends" on the game (this is a an additional step to being Switch friends), they cannot do many things on the island (chop down trees is the main thing I noticed).

Re: Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

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Post by Noxmiles »

modsWork4appl wrote: post #40
echelon wrote: post #30

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Quite the opposite. So enthralling one obsesses over it and incorporates it into their own dreams and fantasy. Nintendo is quite special. The Studio Ghibli of gaming.

I'm pretty objective since I've beaten every Zelda and I can't agree. Their games just aren't at the same level as anything modern. They use a big marketing budget to push their otherwise medicore platform. Although I think n64 was decent.

"I'm pretty objective" - the beginning of a pretty subjective comment ...

Re: Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

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Post by modsWork4appl »

asiachick wrote: post #115
modsWork4appl wrote: post #40

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I'm pretty objective since I've beaten every Zelda and I can't agree. Their games just aren't at the same level as anything modern. They use a big marketing budget to push their otherwise medicore platform. Although I think n64 was decent.

7 of the top 25 highest rated games are Nintendo. Of course whether or not you like a game is personal and subjective but only pointing out lots of people disagree with your assessment https://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/all/... For me BotW is my favorite game ever. Not saying it's a perfect game or that you should like it but for me personally I got 120 hours of pure joy from that game. Where as…

I thought Skyrim sucked. But botw your favorite game ever?

That game is unpolished af.

Re: Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

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Post by drewzero1 »

exikyut wrote: post #113
drewzero1 wrote: post #18

Ooh, it looks like the black MacBook from 2007! Definitely my favorite Apple laptop I've ever used. Less plasticky feeling than the iBook it replaced, more comfortable to use than the metal unibody machines that replaced it. I had the plain old white version and stuck a bunch of blackbook replacement parts on it to make it look kind of like an oreo.

That sounds like it'd look awesome, do you have any photos of it? :>

I'll check when I get home-- I probably still have most of that computer. It's similar to this[1] but the non-letter keys are also swapped for black keys like this[2]. I was super into chessboard pattern at the time so I wanted everything to be black and white.

[1] https://osxdaily.com/2010/10/30/mac-setups-oreo-macbook/ [2] https://www.blogger.com/profile/01006273801333641372

Re: Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

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Post by modsWork4appl »

Razengan wrote: post #103
modsWork4appl wrote: post #83

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Ac,- Multiplayer is unpolished, and you can only have 1 main player. Also https://www.wired.com/story/animal-crossing-i-am-not-relaxed... Botw is empty. Yes, large maps are common in 2020. Elder scrolls, assassin's Creed, and GTA come to mind as full but large worlds. Instead of walking to a destination, you'd often run into side quests. I'm wondering if you've only Nintendo gamed and are just unaware.

> Elder Scrolls The sheer seriousness with which that series takes itself and how ridiculously cringey it ends up being, due to broken AI and a host of other problems, is something of a hilarious meme: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcybVOrBgpzUxm-mlBT0WTA/vid... If that's your idea of "anything modern" then yikes, pass.

Does Zelda even have AI?

Re: Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

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Post by blankface »

geoah wrote: post #29

You can actually get this as an item in the game and customizing it will give you the option to chose one of those backgrounds. I'm not sure how you can acquire it by normal/elgit means, but if you are able to extract your save file from Animal Crossing New Horizons you can use a save editor (google kwsch/NHSE) to add this item to your inventory. ps. Don't cheat, it's a nice game.

I just bought this game for the family.

When I was younger, there was a game called Animal Crossing Wild World for the Nintendo DS that is still one of my favorite games of all time. For all of the things that Nintendo gets wrong, Animal Crossing Wild World was very advanced for a game that came out in 2005.

You mentioned extracting save data from Animal Crossing for Switch and a smirk ran across my face. I have a very intimate and detailed history about the online community surrounding this game, script kiddies, Action Replay, and damaged game carts.

Does anyone remember Carlos and Nintendo-Play.com?

https://www.google.com/search?&q=acww+brick+seed

Re: Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

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Post by Agentlien »

DarthCthulhu wrote: post #121
sturmeh wrote: post #108

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Cool, just stay offline if you do though. I don't want people dropping hacked in items on my island, it kind of defeats the purpose of progression for those who aren't cheating.

You think these people just go around to strangers' islands and drop hacked items all over the place? Sick prank.

This reminds me of the original Dungeon Siege. My friends and I always played on password protected servers hosted by one of us because there were so many cheaters out there and we wanted to feel like we'd earned our levels and equipment.

Sometimes we forgot to set a password and invariably some max level character would join and kill absolutely everything, then offer us cool items with impossible stats they'd "found". I never understood the appeal.

I actually had printed out a big stack of papers describing all the prefixes and suffixes in the game along with on which item types they could appear without cheating. Most of the time I didn't need to consult it since most cheaters would offer you the same item: "of Agony Ring of Agony".

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