@HobbitGamer - All right, I give up. I have no idea how to get to your island. I tried last night. I had a gnome for you and everything. I went to a random deserted island instead and got coconut trees.
@ThanosReXXX - You might say he’s practicing an extreme form of social distancing!
@NintendoByNature - Haha, yep, that’ll be you, or some version of it. This game has sucked me in so hard that I can’t imagine not playing it at minimum an hour a day. I’m not sure what I’ll do when we get back to some semblance of the new normal.
@bimmy-lee for sure. I just went thru the island party and woke up to the "first day." Crafted the most important tool, the fishing rod. All i did for 20 minutes was search for fish. Ended up catching a tin can 😂. My daughter can a few nice ones tho. I really haven't been able to dive in since my kids got a hold of it, but I will tonight.
@ThanosReXXX I can neither confirm nor deny that my character wears a surgical mask....or that I sent one in the mail to each of my neighbors, or that I wrote on my billboard to stay six feet away...
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@Eel Same, I haven't left the house in a few weeks, been just chilling, watching anime, browsing the web and playing vidya gaymz which I guess I kinda did already before this stuff. Also Animal Crossing, that game has consumed me, haha.
OMG this staying at home and not being able to go to work has screwed up my sleep schedule not to mention caused my insomnia to be alot worst.
I'm very happy that I'm fortunate enough to be working if not I would go insane inside my home. I'm not used to being inside my house doing nothing. I can read books, play games, etc, etc. But I'm used to doing that on a Sunday.
I had so much fun with Metal Gear Rising last year. There's no game like it (at least none that I know of).
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@Tyranexx Hey, congrats on the new family additions. I hope they will remain safe, even in these rather harrowing times, and what with both being born too early and all.
"They won't be spoiled. At all"
As if any of us would have believed that, even for a second. Smiley wasn't even needed...
@NintendoByNature I see you're really getting the hang of the whole "purpose" of Animal Crossing, aka doing nothing what so f-ing ever, and just "being" in the game, chugging along, performing all kinds of menial things, and not even being annoyed in the slightest that there isn't any real goals to achieve or high scores to reach, let alone improve...
Either way, glad you're enjoying it, or at least: your kids are enjoying it, for now...
@Vinny You should try that new Animal Crossing game. I keep hearing great things about it, and you can even scare the crap out of your neighbors by placing realistic looking skeletons near their houses...
All kidding aside, though, you might want to look into Vanquish, which although not entirely the same as Metal Gear Rising, is definitely a very cool and stylish game.
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@ThanosReXXX oh were all enjoying it. And thank you. I put in a good 3 hours today. Glad I got my own crafting table in my tent. Got my house being built tomorrow. Have a smoker, a hammock, a nice bonfire pit and some other good stuff. It's nice not having an agenda. Coming off of Owlboy( which i beat today), and final fantasy 7, it's great to just kick back and catch all sorts of fish lol.
@NintendoByNature Well, glad you're enjoying it. I would have hated the thought that we all tried to convince you how enjoyable Animal Crossing can be, only to find out that it isn't your kind of thing at all. Can't speak for the others, obviously, but I really don't like making bad recommendations.
@NotTelevision Here, let me help you with that:
For future reference: you need to use the "Direct Link" that's generated from the uploaded picture, and then use the "img" command to post it here in a manner that we can all instantly see it, like I just did.
@ThanosReXXX Thanks! To my knowledge, everyone is doing well. Those two are both miracles in their own ways. Needless to say we're all pretty thrilled! The little guy was pretty much at his due date, while the little girl is here a couple weeks early.
Yes, they'll definitely be spoiled. The baby girl is the first kid, so both her parents and extended family are thrilled; she's been a long time in coming. The little boy is kid #2. He has a sister a few years older than he is, and it appears as though she dotes on him already. Though I wonder how things will be once she realizes she has to share mom and dad with someone....
@NintendoByNature That's actually also what I like about a community of gamers in general: we all have our own favorites and/or hidden gems to share, so there's always a good chance that you get to play something new that you never even looked at or had considered before, let alone known about, in the case of hidden gems.
There's actually quite a lot of people that don't like (or "get") Animal Crossing, simply because they can't really wrap their head around the purpose of it. In their minds, a voice is probably shouting "but WHAT is the goal?" or "what the HELL am I supposed to do to win this game?" and it echoes along in their skull, because there's no fitting answer, or at least not one that pleases or comforts them.
And as such, they simply disregard the game altogether, because they don't see the use of playing it, nor do they see the entertainment value of it. But the fact that the games are still so popular, just goes to show you that a game really doesn't NEED to have a specific purpose or goal, to still be a rather enjoyable experience. If anything, I'd say that having an enjoyable time actually IS the purpose of this game, and it succeeds in doing so rather well. Almost ever player that I know in real life and on here can relate to having lost multiple hours in the game, basically doing nothing much, which is definite proof of the game's attraction (and retention) value.
@ThanosReXXX
I think some peoples never understood the appeal of Animal Crossing or any kind of Life Sim games because they measured with wrong objection. They measured the game with Competitive standard which the game must have Win or Lose situation while Animal Crossing itself is NOT a Competitive game. Just like wanting a juicy beefsteak from a vegan restaurant.
Peoples who oftenly play Competitive type games will have very hard time to like NON competitive games since they want a clear goal / Win or Lose situation. The goal of AC is manage your daily activities freely, without being pressured by some circumstances. The mistake from some players when playing Animal Crossing is they expect the game must have ending after all the goal have been done but Animal Crossing itself is an Open Ending game which mean there is NO ending nor Game Over nor The End. Some gamers with tendency like that oftenly sold their games after they beat the game. They have finished the game and done, no more continue the optional things or replay again.
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Also, some mistakes from the players are they compared Animal Crossing with other games they expect where the games itself have NO corelation with Animal Crossing. For example, compared Animal Crossing with Minecraft. If there is NO building with blocks, Not interesting. Or compared Animal Crossing with something absurd like shooter games, if cannot do violences with the animals = Not interesting.
@ThanosReXXX I'm usually one of those gamers that needs a purpose. I like an end goal, especially when playing games. But for whatever reason I wanted to take a shot, probably because all of the stuff going around these days. It really hit the spot too. I'm really getting alot done too. Museum is nearly up and running, I need like 20 iron (whatever's) to complete the store. Crafted lots and lots of goodies and my Lord. I caught a whopper oar fish a little bit ago. Put an easy 3 hours in this afternoon and didn't think twice.
I gotta say, even while world news continues to scare me more and more each day...
I had a pretty good weekend personally. Made lots of progress in Animal Crossing. Including like half a million bells selling hanging terrariums because they were my hot item and only took weeds and iron to make. Also my friend hooked me up with the remaining fruit I needed, so now I've got my orchard laid out. It was nice trying out multi-player with my friend (and someone from this site who showed up randomly) but some of the limitations placed on you during multiplayer kind of annoyed me. Since there are no mini games to play with someone (that I know of) multi player just seems like a way to trade items and sell your native fruit for more money - which is great - but kinda limited.
I really enjoyed my weekly anime too. The Director's cut of Re:Zero is basically finished up and was an astounding re-edit of the first season. The 50 minute episodes are so so so much better than the usual 24 minutes that most anime are these days. Somali and the Forest Spirit also finished and my goodness was the best new show this season! Anime like that just don't come around often! I wont lie, I cried at least three times throughout the show! Which is a record for me and the vast majority of fiction usually doesn't make me emotional like that.
Then last night, I just had a feeling, I thought "I should do some Pokemon raids tonight, I got a good feeling about it!" and I must be a Jedi because I was right! I nabbed not one but two shiny Pokemon in less than 2 hours! A shiny Chandelure - which I'm giving to my friend because I actually bred one already, and a shiny G-max Machamp! Oh and the other day I hit Master Ball tier in doubles with my new sun team.
All and all, a wonderful distraction. Now back to work and hoping Japan sees sense and extends the cancelled classes. I get that my coworkers want to get back on track but though the overall numbers in Japan remain low, the rate of infection has still been slowly but steadily increasing...
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@Heavyarms55 Hey, sounds like a good media haul for the weekend! I did a lot of physical work and chore things, but I’m about to try and sneak in a few hours of AC. Gotta remember to open my gates...
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@HobbitGamer One of the benefits of living in a small studio apartment is that there are not many chores. I did laundry, washed the dishes and took out the trash, but that's really all I needed to do.
Though I do have a pile of cardboard boxes from Amazon deliveries that I need to cut up and shovel into the dumpster still...
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