/v/ - Video Games

When mysims came out in 07 i was 8 years old idk why but i had an almost brother like love to pic related his name was Ray and after school i would come home and everyday I would boot up the wii and only hangout with that character. After a few months of doing this my mom felt as if i grew too attached to a fictional character and had to tell me that he wasnt real. So being the dumbass I am, decided to not listen to my moms advice but to continue loving him until i sold the game next year. I often find myself thinking about this and i never really talked about it until now, I'm 19 now and i have no attachment to anything in recent years except my dog.

>>14605444

>mechanics

Life sims are a hard balance when it comes to mechanics. If you make them too real then they can feel overbearing and less fun, If you make them too cozy then the world feels stale and boring. Hunger, thirst, and sleep/energy mechanics are the big three. If Nintendo were to implement these mechanics into Animal Crossing, they would need to focus on rewarding the player for doing them rather than punishing players for not. Maybe give an invisible boost to fishing/bug catching/gardening when doing so just after eating or make the player faster for a short while after drinking coffee. The exception to this rule would be seasonal temperature mechanics. Make it so that wearing thick clothing in the summer can cause a heat stroke that sends the player back to their house and wearing thin clothes in the winter or walking in the rain without an umbrella could give the player a cold that scares away bugs/fish with occasional random sneezing.

>characters

The ability to stay in touch after they move away would be cool, but only if you were good friends before they moved away. I'd also like it if they would visit every once and a while during the holidays.

>settings

It would be nice to invite animals to hangout. Maybe even have the ability to host a house party. I never liked that you just had to have a million random conversations just for the hopes that the animal would bring something up. I want to be able to make the first move.

>things

An anon brought this up last thread, but it would be fun to have the pool tables/dartboards/exc. in your house act as bare-bones mini games that you can play solo, multi, or with an animal CPU.

>>14605934

BUT THAT'S FORBIDDEN LOVE

>>14605918

Babysitting meters in simulations is an absolute buzzkill for me and to any game really. It's not fun to perform a mundane action and keep a meter full. I like your ideas with coffee, not so much with clothes. I'd rather have the character express it and villagers bring it up in conversation. For example a runny nose in winter with little clothing on and sweating in summer with a coat on. I think those are good ideas though if the player would prefer that and add a hardcore management aspect to it. You'd need to be able to turn it on/off though.

>An anon brought this up last thread

If it was the thread that just got deleted, that anon was probably me. I want them to add event planning in some way. Getting villagers together to play soccer, go hiking, baking, swimming, etc. Something that makes the world feel more lively and less empty/stagnant. More varied/unique dialogue would be nice too as well as basic questions or statements like their clothes look nice, what they did today, how they're feeling, favorite things, etc. I get tired of the random conversations too. Being able to stay in touch with them would make a greater use for letters too, and maybe they could send you stuff from their new place / the place they visited.

>>14605934

It's called Animal Crossing for a reason, anon. Plus you can interact with humans in real life.

>>14605981

>Plus you can interact with humans in real life.

>3dpd

>>14605938 Would that make the Player Character an animal?

>>14606024

No way, you guys aren't real.

>>14605991

A customizable animal villager wouldn't be a bad idea, but knowing Nintendo, they'll probably fuck it up in some way.

>>14605986

Play an animu girl dating sim then.

>>14606093

You're right, I could be a shitposting AI for all you know.

>>14606166

>A customizable animal villager wouldn't be a bad idea, but knowing Nintendo, they'll probably fuck it up in some way.

Let's say it together, "Amiibo locked options"!

>>14606582

>>implying we aren't all 2D little girls

facerig doesn't count

By any chance do any of you guys still play New Leaf? Freya is moving today and I wanted to know if any of you wanted her

Also, do any of you have oranges? I need some

>furfag crossing thread

>anons talking about being 2d lolis with large animal dicks

Don't know what I expected

>>14609238

Guess being upfront gives the opposite result.

UPDATE!

The official Animal Crossing website has been updated recently with a bunch of placeholder articles so there might be an announcement in the works. Don't expect anything pre-E3, though.

>>14605981

>I think those are good ideas though if the player would prefer that and add a hardcore management aspect to it. You'd need to be able to turn it on/off though.

Turning it on and off at will would kind of defeat the purpose of having it. But I can see where you're coming from, though. Purely cosmetic cues that the player is too hot or cold would be fun, but if they added a sickness mechanic then it would need to be on all the time and medicine would need to be available in all versions of the nookling's shop instead of just the upgraded versions.

>>14608902

Animal Crossing is a harem game, you never see what happens when you aren't playing.

>>14608912

>Does the switch even have a chip reader?\

Yes, although it's in the right thumbstick for some reason.

>>14609225

I would if I was more invested into Animal Crossing and actually owned New Leaf.

>>14609238

At least it's not porn spam and shitposting this time around. But knowing how 8chan works, it'll probably devolve into that.

>>14609240

>implying they aren't the same

>>14609251

I was going to mention something about Animal Crossing vore even existing, but then I remembered we're on the internet.

>>14609253

People who know to best avoid furries are often furries themselves. :^)

>>14609772

>Turning it on and off at will would kind of defeat the purpose of having it.

Or having a separate save file or town for it, but you get the point. Plus there's no way to die in Animal Crossing and it would be off putting to have that sort of punishment for not filling up meters like the Sims, so those would be mild annoyances at best. Unless they added some sort of poverty system or forced you to move towns because of it.

>>14610365

>Amiibo Festival Deluxe

Dear god no.

>>14610377

I honestly could not imagine something more disgraceful. If that happens I will never let nintendo live it down.

>>14610365

>>14610377

>Amiibo festival tournament edition happens

>NOA pulls the same bullshit did with the last game where japan can download the whole game for free while it's limited to a physical full price release in America

>>14610383

>>14610479

I'd be fine with an Amiibo Festival port that I won't buy in a million years if they just made a traditional Animal Crossing game for the Switch. That or just make Amiibo Festival a mini-game in the Switch game similar to Desert Island Escape and Puzzle League in New Leaf.

>>14610462

http://animal-crossing.com/news/

http://animal-crossing.com/videos/

These are the only two pages that have been changed to host placeholders. The weird part is that the articles contain a passage from The Metamorphosis. Maybe >>14606166 predicted correctly and the new game will include a customizable animal villager. Lets hope he's wrong.

>>14610541

>>14610543

I only found 1 video on the article and news pages being changed, but I'd expect a flood of new videos in the next 24-48 hours since this one is about 2 days old. I'm not on plebbit or social media so I'm not sure how well discussed this is on those platforms, but I'm pretty sure they'll already be aware of this about now so it should be all over (((YouTube))) soon enough.