Topic: Has anyone lost interest in ACNL?

I play it every day, but all I really do is chat with my villagers and keep them sweet.

I'm actually playing it right now. I was out and about with my 3DS on Tuesday, and so today is the day I work my way through my streetpasses. Easily the most tedious thing about my experience with the game. I'm also hoarding the town codes of the people I streetpass so that one day, I might visit their town in my dreams, but I never really have the time to do any of that, so the list keeps growing.

I've got things I could be doing in Animaml Crossing - most of the rooms in my house aren't finished yet, and I'm planning to develop some of the museum rooms, but again, I just don't have the time or motivation to do anything about it.

@Barbiegurl777

Sweet! I added you back (although it says you are a 'provisionally registered friend).

Nice badge collection, btw~

I can't visit you atm, (ssssshhhh, don't tell anyone but I'm at work at the moment, lol). I might can visit in an hour????

I might be mistaken, but it looks like you're missing the Streetpass badge.

I had to get rid of it... Too many angry neighbors just because I went on VaCa and didn't play.... Stressful.

Recently, I still play it daily, yet my interest ranges between low and moderate. The pacing for the first two months of my gameplay is what truly got me hooked up, but then it started to gradually drop as the next unlockables and events are taking a longer while for them to come. The fact that I actually own the Japanese version of the game since November 2012 didn't help on that matter, but hey they at least got my eyes glued on the screens for quite some time!

Hey, sorry...I just now found the time to play some ACNL. I'll look for you tonight!!!

@Barbiegurl777 iirc you could just right click on any picture on MiiVerse and click copy, which should copy the link.

Here's one such picture I used that method on just now.

...unless you're computer is a lot different from mine, this should be a lot easier for you

Can I just say that I envy your luck? I never got a bingo on my card that quickly....

Haha, yeah, I did pretty well with that card.

The only badge I did get for that game was the Streetpass one.

For the most part, although I go back and check in on things every once in a while. I'll probably never be totally done playing it.

I also hit up those street pass relay stations (mainly McDonald's, Home Depot, and Barnes & Noble) but I've yet to get an AC hit. I get other Street Pass hits from these relay stations. Mainly Etrian Odyssey IV, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, and Mario Kart 7. I've only received one SP for ACNL and it was from a person in a video game store last week. It's strange though, it still shows up as zero Data Transmissions.

Also.......

Yeah, I only have 90 hours on it. I love the game but it got a little repetitive to me.

Yeah kinda. It's more accurate to say that between my annoyance at what will have happened to my town after not playing for a bit + being way behind on other games has killed my interest more than the game itself did (though ironically, I haven't been a huge Animal Crossing fan outside of when I played the original).

Post-commentary: LONG POST IS LONG

Kinda the opposite. Actually getting more into it - been playing daily in my current town since 5th Jan (60 days). My playstyle seems to be working really well for me, so I'll share a few tips:

• Avoid time-consuming routine. What killed the game for me in my original town was having a ton of non-native / perfect fruit trees and methodologically harvesting all of them every day, which took up to an hour before I even got started on other stuff. This got really boring. In my current town, I have maybe 10 non-native fruit trees that I harvest very rarely - pretty much only when I'm really cash-strapped, or a villager requests something.
• Use the island to harvest money... when you actually feel like it - The island is an excellent source of cash. One trip can easily net 250,000 Bells upwards. Some say this makes the game too easy. It does... if you do it tons. Sure, if I'd spammed the island a ton, I could have the biggest house, every available Public Works Project built, and millions in the bank by now. I'd also have stopped playing weeks ago. So I hit the island when I actually want to pay something off. Which is maybe once a week, if that. My house only has 2 rooms and my village has around 9 PWPs. I have a big backlog of stuff I want to do. That's important. That's what keeps Animal Crossing fun.
• Spread your fish / bug catching out over the month - Every month, you've got a new quota of fish and bugs to catch. Don't religiously attempt to capture the lot in the first day - you're gonna be frustrated trying to grab the rarer ones and then bored for the entire rest of the month. Like everything else, do your catching when you actually feel like it. Check to see if you're still missing anything towards the end of the month, sure, but there's no reason to sweat it at all when it's not even the 20th yet.
• Don't oversize early - Our videogame-trained brains see those loans from Nook and tells us to pay it off as quickly as possible. Getting the biggest house is The End Goal, right? And getting there means you've Cleared The Game, which is what you've gotta try to do. Yeah? Well... not really. As above, if I'd focused on grinding cash I could have paid off my entire house months ago. But what would I do with it? What would I fill it with? A single room's furniture can take a long time to fill up. So only expand when you actually need more room. Really consider what you want to put in your rooms to make them look great. Come up with something cool and interesting. _{Mario furniture doesn't count as interesting any more by the way, literally every single player's house has that room.}
• Throw it out, start again - What do you do when you've finished a room? It stays in tact, looking awesome, forever. Problem is, once you've furnished all your rooms, what do you do? It's difficult to bring yourself to throw all that hard work out, but do it anyway. Not all the time, just when you feel like it. If your house isn't full-sized yet, consider completely redoing an existing room rather than adding a new one. My main room started out with a natural theme - green and wooden furniture and a ton of plants. After about a month, I replaced the entire room with customized black-and-red Astro furniture. And this week all that's been sold off and replaced with Pavé furniture. Towards the end of March, I plan to sell it off again and go for a Sleek furniture set.
• Give yourself extra projects - I don't mean PWPs. I mean find creative ways to fill your museum 2F exhibits. I mean dedicate a portion of your village to growing a bamboo forest, or a flower garden, or a park. I mean find something really awesome to do with your basement other than storage. Give yourself things to do that aren't things the game has told you to do. Work on them for weeks. They're well worth it. I spent a week or so turning my first museum exhibit into an art gallery with cool checkerboard seating. I turned another into a flower garden, and the third into an ocean floor exhibit - presenting my music boxes amongst other shells collected from the beach. It takes time to come up with ideas, and longer to make them a reality, but that's exactly what keeps Animal Crossing interesting.
• Priority number 1: Befriend your villagers - I'm sure I'm not the only one who's found in the past that over time I interact less and less with my villagers and start finding them to be little more than distractions from The Real Goal of harvesting cash. Don't fall into that trap. Keep talking to your villagers every day. You'll grow to like them, or find certain ones to be jerks. They might share a limited pool of set personalities, but our minds are great at creating distinctions between characters even when there isn't one. It sounds a bit crazy but it is a psychologically recognized thing (the name of which I forget). Your villagers are the life and soul of your village, so keep chatting to them, doing their inane tasks, writing them daft letters, etc. When you're genuinely disappointed, 2 months in, about a villager planning to leave, then you're doing it right.

The super tl;dr version: DO ALL THE THINGS. And do even more things. At no faster than your own pace. That's how to make Animal Crossing rock.

The game goes a long way when you spread out your play time. Play a few minutes a day or maybe 1-2 hours twice a week and you won't get bored of it. It is difficult to maintain that flow when stuff like Pokemon or Zelda comes out though...

What @Raylax said, because I don't want to quote that long (but extremely valid) post.

I really want to hit hard on befriending villagers. They seem to be a tad cut and dry at first, but the more you become friends with them, the better your conversations with them. One of my villagers, Apollo, has a cranky personality, but I can't believe how different he acts around me now. He's so nice, but he still gets into tussles with lazy villagers.

@Raylax Nice post! I especially like your point about coming up with creative things to do in the game. Anyone who has visited your museum knows that creativity plays a huge part in the awesomeness that is AC. There's so much to do and create that it's ridiuculous. If anyone is bored with this game, try being a little creative and think outside the box.

Definitely this. Your home can feel a little creatively restrictive since everything is scored by the HHA which has certain rules. So use your museum space to realize the really awesome ideas that doesn't work out at home. I've seen people make rainbows out of a line of customized beds, complete giant chess boards, all sorts of neat things.

The reverse can be true too. For eg, I've found that the underwater room I mentioned above hasn't really worked out as well as hoped as a museum exhibit because I can't do anything about the background music, which makes the music boxes difficult to hear. I still like the concept though, so I plan to move it into the basement of my house (which is almost like a 5th exhibition room as it isn't scored by the HHA). Which means I now have a good enough reason to pay off my home loan and expand my basement, which I'll probably get on with doing some time over the next week.