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I never played the GameCube AC and now I really want a bunch of mean people on my island.
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Mar 3, 2020 04:33
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I remember the fun personalities the GC villagers had, and now I'm sad because they're probably still going to be neutered.  But maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised. I miss when they used to walk around with like hearts and flowers and music notes above their heads when they were in a good mood, and also the distinct sounds of a pissed off villager stomping around.
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Mar 3, 2020 04:55
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I can't decide if I'm  or  about only seeing the nicer animal folks in New Leaf
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Mar 3, 2020 04:58
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I wouldn't call them nicer, more like emotionally manipulative. Try not talking to them for a week and they'll start guilt tripping you. Glad I'm leaving their needy asses for a deserted island.  Blathers being able to blather again is a good sign imo.
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Mar 3, 2020 05:07
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This YouTube account has a bunch of old GameCube gameplay videos. Here's a collection of some of the animals sounding off on poor Jeff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rg5cbbeLmY
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Mar 3, 2020 05:28
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One thing that isn't shown in the video is misfortune of being straight up mugged by a peppy villagers.
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Mar 3, 2020 05:37
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I think as an adult its easier to appreciate the diversity of personality the older villagers had, but I'm pretty sure most kids playing the game don't wanna be straight up insulted. Which is what the angry villagers did. because they were pricks.
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Mar 3, 2020 05:54
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Yeah, I'm sure the helicopter moms and dads of 2020 wouldn't be very happy with villagers telling your kid to eat poo poo all the time. man, the early 2000s were the good old days
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Mar 3, 2020 06:08
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I've only played New Leaf but I did get the impression they flattened out villager characterisation, though they did at least add two more personality types. (Smug and what the wikis apparently call Uchi because they can't be arsed figuring out a translation for what's basically 'honorary big sister') Muffy was pretty much the best.
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Mar 3, 2020 06:09
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Jet Jaguar posted:This YouTube account has a bunch of old GameCube gameplay videos. Here's a collection of some of the animals sounding off on poor Jeff: Man those animals are dicks
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Mar 3, 2020 06:19
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phourniner posted:Yeah, I'm sure the helicopter moms and dads of 2020 wouldn't be very happy with villagers telling your kid to eat poo poo all the time. The whole reason the villagers aren't like that anymore is the parents in the 2000s complained you loving goon.
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Mar 3, 2020 06:41
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A Sometimes Food posted:The whole reason the villagers aren't like that anymore is the parents in the 2000s complained you loving goon. And the parents complained because their kids were genuinely upset. Like I said, its real appreciate that kind of writing as an adult. As a kid though? The villagers are just being loving assholes and that's not really what you expect coming into such a cutesy, happy game like AC. I dunno how you would strike a balance.
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Mar 3, 2020 06:47
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Lmao are we really gonna Everyone Gets a Trophy Generation about Animal Crossing?
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Mar 3, 2020 06:49
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Hot take: rear end in a top hat villagers are lame and un-cozy. New Leaf villagers were totally full of personality. I loved grumpy villagers who gave you a hard time but let you know it was okay. They were still gruff and had a hard time delivering a straight compliment. They had their own vibe, totally different from Lazy or Jock or Smug villagers. They just didn't ever say things to make you feel like poo poo out of the blue. And that's good. This is Animal Crossing.
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Mar 3, 2020 06:53
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The long wait is beginning to take its toll in this thread
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Mar 3, 2020 06:54
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Eiba posted:Hot take: rear end in a top hat villagers are lame and un-cozy. My prediction that nerds would complain was 100% accurate. The villagers had plenty of personality. I’m sure there are entire other genres of Japanese games you can play if you want half-animal people to call you names and tell you what a piece of poo poo you are.
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Mar 3, 2020 07:33
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Captain Monkey posted:I’m sure there are entire other genres of [Chinese] games you can play if you want half-animal people to call you names and tell you what a piece of poo poo you are. We welcome you all with open arms in the Arknights thread
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Mar 3, 2020 07:38
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It's kind of important to keep in mind that the video highlights rude interactions and none of the more upbeat ones. Like half of them the player is approaching them when they're pissed or when they're purposely pestering them to make them mad. Villagers are nice to you in the gamecube version, it's just not like New Leaf where everyone is the twitch smile emoji all the time. (For the record I loved New Leaf, the villagers being constantly happy and kinda dull and samey is my only real complaint)
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Mar 3, 2020 07:51
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I specfically remember child me hating all cranky villagers and doing my best to make sure they were never in my town because they made me upset. Some of that might of been self-inflicted, I'll admit. I mailed a lot of garbage to Oxford to try and make him move.
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Mar 3, 2020 08:08
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My Cranky villager was the samurai kangaroo and he was my best friend. Is it too early for a gang tag?
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Mar 3, 2020 09:14
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Electric Phantasm posted:One thing that isn't shown in the video is misfortune of being straight up mugged by a peppy villagers. For me it was a snooty. Mathilda the kangaroo came to me asking if the "school blackboard" she just found was mine. I'd never seen it before, but of course I said yes. She seemed pleased to return it to me, and helped herself to a modest finder's fee to the tune of half the money I had on-hand, something like 100,000 bells. I kicked her out of town as soon as I could, and started keeping spare bell bags in my letters after that.
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Mar 3, 2020 09:22
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Last Visible Dog posted:For me it was a snooty. Mathilda the kangaroo came to me asking if the "school blackboard" she just found was mine. I'd never seen it before, but of course I said yes. She seemed pleased to return it to me, and helped herself to a modest finder's fee to the tune of half the money I had on-hand, something like 100,000 bells. You lied and got what was coming to you, no sympathy
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Mar 3, 2020 09:24
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The only logical course of action here is to offer a day-one optional DLC that allows the animals to swear
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Mar 3, 2020 09:31
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Now in the year 2020 you can just smite villagers you don't like with the amiibo cards I guess. Actually that's a good question does it still force a villager to leave if you scan a card and have them move like in New Leaf? Because in New Leaf the Genie or whomever that was more or less magically convinced the villager you hated to leave so your new friend could come in.
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Mar 3, 2020 09:54
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History Comes Inside! posted:You lied and got what was coming to you, no sympathy Sometimes they wouldn't even take no for an answer in the first iterations of the series. Especially if you had an item that they were trying to buy/trade off of you. Resetting was, in those cases the only form of defense against the villagers of old.
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Mar 3, 2020 10:23
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Animal Crossing where they bring back rear end in a top hat animals and you're the town's union leader.
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Mar 3, 2020 13:57
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This a-little-bit-more-than-two-weeks wait feels crippling right now. At least the new AC switch releasing a week beforehand will be nice to get everything set up and carried over from my current system, versus spending a bunch of time on AC release messing with it.
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Mar 3, 2020 15:42
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I've yet to come up with a good name for my island; this is very distressing.
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Mar 3, 2020 16:20
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Montalvo posted:I've yet to come up with a good name for my island; this is very distressing. Call it Montalvo, it's a good name for an island.
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Mar 3, 2020 16:22
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Call it Pair o' Dice and terraform your island accordingly.
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Mar 3, 2020 16:29
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From the pictures released animals are doing all kinds of stuff around town, so it feels like there will be more depth when talking to them too. What if an animal asks to go fishing with you and you both run around fishing, do you just never put the game down and die at your switch? I'm just realizing that I relied on the little pen a lot with ACNL and will probably need to get a stylus.
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Mar 3, 2020 16:33
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Montalvo posted:I've yet to come up with a good name for my island; this is very distressing. Isla Sorna.
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Mar 3, 2020 16:44
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I know at least for Resetti, in a couple games they actually had to have notes in the manual saying "Hey this guy's gonna yell at you if you don't save and he's kinda mean"
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Mar 3, 2020 16:46
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I think I want to name my island The Doldrums but I have no idea if it will fit.
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Mar 3, 2020 16:47
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vanisher posted:From the pictures released animals are doing all kinds of stuff around town, so it feels like there will be more depth when talking to them too. What if an animal asks to go fishing with you and you both run around fishing, do you just never put the game down and die at your switch? Biggest thing about this is that it might just be cosmetic. Villagers in New Leaf would walk around fruit orchards with fishing equipment just to look busy and would never actually do anything- or stand still in the fishing animation doomed to never leave unless you do a screen transition I see villagers holding stuff in NH but not actually doing anything yet.
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Mar 3, 2020 17:17
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Montalvo posted:I've yet to come up with a good name for my island; this is very distressing. Same. I've had some ideas but I'm suddenly remembering that character limits are a thing and I'm getting worried. I don't suppose we know how long our island names are allowed to be? 
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Mar 3, 2020 17:24
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I was wondering that earlier, eight seems comically short and I was blown away by that when I started up New Leaf again. Hopefully at least a few more than that.
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Mar 3, 2020 17:29
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I am going to name my Island Myst Island and fill it full of puzzles that don’t make sense.
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Mar 3, 2020 17:30
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Mar 3, 2020 17:38
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Alright naming my island Vvardenfell.
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Mar 3, 2020 17:41
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