The Quiet Revolution of Animal Crossing

Post by wincy » Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 4:59 AM UTC

kosievdmerwe wrote: post #64

OK I skimmed through the article and I can't say I much care for it. To me Animal Crossing is a game that you play over many months to sometimes relax doing something mindless or over the longer term to have an island and house that you slowly build up in your own way. With that in mind there are a lot of great things in animal crossing. A lot of the furniture has interesting interactions and the museum is just a bea…

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 5:09 AM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #9

It's interesting how New Horizons adds many quality-of-life features to streamline gameplay...but still deliberately keeps some of the monotony present in the game design two decades ago on the GameCube. Adding a "weight" to repetitive actions has been a controversial game design principle. It implicitly makes good/efficient actions more rewarding, but there has to be a balance.

Post by wincy » Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 5:11 AM UTC

aspenmayer wrote: post #25

pasquinelli wrote: post #18

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stardew valley is one guy's attempt to make the best possible harvest moon, which is a game, i would say, of the same genre as animal crossing, broadly speaking, in the same way as -- i don't know -- mechwarrior and virtual on. the way i think of animal crossing is: take a few microgames from warioware, set it in a jrpg town, and give the player their own doll house. it isn't deep, but that's an observation, not nece…

Virtual On! I forgot I remembered that until you reminded me, which then brought to mind Zone of the Enders and Front Mission. There was one other one which eludes me. Oh yeah, Armored Core. I know there are many others but these were most memorable to me. I think of all of those I love Front Mission series best. It’s kind of an oddball since the others are action games but FM is tactical RPG closer to X-COM series.…

Post by bschwindHN » Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 5:18 AM UTC

kosievdmerwe wrote: post #64

OK I skimmed through the article and I can't say I much care for it. To me Animal Crossing is a game that you play over many months to sometimes relax doing something mindless or over the longer term to have an island and house that you slowly build up in your own way. With that in mind there are a lot of great things in animal crossing. A lot of the furniture has interesting interactions and the museum is just a bea…

Post by dpeck » Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 5:32 AM UTC

kibwen wrote: post #62

dpeck wrote: post #33

I know it sound silly, but I find that it goes really well with an audio book. It's a nice way to chill out at the end of the day if I don't have the energy to hack away on anything. Having something to do with my hands while listening helps my thoughts not to wander as much, even if I'm just going around fishing and harvesting fruit so my son can sell them and build/buy whatever he wants the next day. I wouldn't hav…

I was having a rough time of it in the first few weeks of distancing, and on one of my first nights in Animal Crossing I just walked out onto the beach on a stormy night and listened to the sound of rain and surf as I drifted off to sleep. It's been an immense comfort to have a peaceful mini-routine that I can spend half an hour on at lunchtime each day.