My question is this: How is Nintendo going to treat this release? Are they gonna pull the same bullshit they pulled with Fire Emblem Awakening and ship enough copies of the game to maybe fill half the pre-orders that are made in a shallow attempt to push their digital game? The irony is this is one of very few games I'd be willing to buy digital, since this is a great game to just pick up and play anytime, pour hundreds of hours into, and has infinite replayability, as opposed to something like SM3DL or OoT. Besides SSBB, Metroid Prime Trilogy, and Mario Kart Wii, City Folk was the only Wii game I played enough to break the 100 hour mark, I think I topped out around 300 hours or so, and paying full price to alleviate the very minor inconvience of keeping the cart with my 3DS might actually be worth considering.. But between Nintendo's dick move with Fire Emblem Awakening, and the fact that they refuse to put an account system on 3DS, I don't see myself supporting the eshop for a long time to come. Funny how that works out....
[quote name='malethief']I know what you mean as they definitely half assed both animal crossing games that came out after the game cube buy removing events/content and watering down the game. Do remember the game cube version was the first of it's kind so the charm and novelty was hard to replicate.
I will get this one on the 3DS as they've gotten rid of you paying Tom Nook's outrageous amount of debt from the get and you start off as mayor early on to bring the town to life. I haven't seen the events or mini games yet however on YouTube I was watching a video diary of a guy playing the game with commentary and the fact you can visit other people's without the need for friend codes is already a selling point to me. Plus the 3DS has spot pass and street pass action going on so I'm only sure there will be lots of things to add to your catalog in the months to come after it's initial release. I miss collecting the silly NES retro games lol.
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Who uses streetpass? Seriously? I maybe get 3 streetpasses a month, if that, and aside from the occasional Mario Kart ghost data nobody I streetpass has any games. I couldn't care less about puzzle pieces or Find Mii too. It's hardly a selling point. Spotpass isn't much better given Nintendo's history; IIRC spotpass support for KI:U is ending this month. Didn't that game launch less than a year ago? What makes anybody think they'll treat Animal Crossing any differently?
I'm certain I am in the minority but I am not happy to hear about Tom Nook's servitude being removed. I get that a lot of people didn't like it, but it gave you something to work towards in the game. With that gone, you will truely lack any hard goals in the game aside from maybe filling the museum. It gave me a purpose to work for, and a reason to actually save all those bells.
Visiting other people's towns without friendcodes is a cool feature though assuming you have some protection from the seeders who could literally break your game in WW, and the assholes who steal all your flowers and cut down your trees. If not, I don't see this feature getting any use for a lot of people either.
Do we know if holidays are back in this game? Xmas/Halloween/ect?
And is there any chance at all that we'll be able to bring over our designs/items from City Folk, the way we did for Wild World? I'm sure there probably isn't, but I've got some amazing DBZ and Star Trek designs that I'd love to import so that I don't have to take the time to redo them.