Simulation games

Did 2 things.

1. Realized for the first time you can craft a double wide gate. What. Next you'll be telling me you can turn the workbench. (Someone please tell me you can turn the workbench.)

2. Unlocked Ginger Island. I'm a chronic restarter.

After years of playing I just realized...

All NPCs got birthday and wee farms don't get to celebrate each year. Even when we get married, our spouses don't celebrate or greet us on our birthday or we don't get a birthday. -_-

Before I get downvoted into Oblivion, I understand the game is in Alpha, there will be problems and I accept things will be broken but I hope it's somewhat playable. I love playing SC.

However, it seems like clearing the servers of all the stale data/entities can actually make this patch playable. I can't even play SC at the moment, the server is going down every 10 minutes, the replication feature just spins up the server again and repeats, it's unplayable.

I understand the next patch/hotfix might resolve this but can we least have fresh servers while we wait? Surely enough data/metrics has been collected.

Animal Crossing has come so far since its original release but to me there’s still so much untapped potential.

For me I feel like NH went all in on the decorating side of the game, being able to put furniture anywhere and terraform your island however you like is great! To me, apart from a few QoL changes to this system it’s pretty much perfect. What you can do with this mechanic allows for endless creativity.

I feel like the series needs to now push the actually “life” side of this game to max potential. I want there to be loads of unique dialogue, something along the line of Hades where you can play for hundreds of hours before you ever see the same dialogue again, if a small team like the people behind Hades can do it then Nintendo definitely can too! I want to feel like I am forming real friendships with my villagers where I know who they are truly, and I can see how much more I know about them when I compare talking to them for the first time to talking to them for the 100th time. I think the way to do this is to either add more personality types or flesh out existing ones. Make lazy villagers have more to them than liking food etc.

Also I want a system where it feels like my villagers actually have unique relationships with each other. Maybe two of them form a back and forth rivalry or two become best friends. Maybe even some sworn enemies that will make one of them leave unless you can sort it out between them. There’s so much more potential here, even beyond what I’ve said. I’ll admit I don’t know if anything like this will ever be added but that’s my hope.

Some other small things I’d like to see is more connection to the in sync to the real world part of the game. For example in the summer the sun sets later and in the winter the sun sets sooner. Making more dynamic day night cycles and enhancing things like cozy summer evenings where the sun may not set until gone 9pm. Maybe a tide system where there is high tide and low tide on the beaches, where at low tide you could even go rock pooling for new critters. The tide times would fluctuate like realistic tides too and not be the same everyday.

I would like something like Main Street to return, along with the addition of adding some buildings and shops actually in your town like NH. Shops needs to have a lot more chance to upgrade than just once or twice too.

I think putting furniture everywhere and terraforming should remain, with even more features added to that! New flowers and even new tree types so we don’t have the same 3 trees we always have had. Also bring back all the fruit from NL!

These are just some ideas I’d love to see in the next AC game, what are yours?

Just me getting my thoughts out, don’t have to read.

So I started playing animal crossing in 2020 after I got my switch for Christmas. Then about a year or so later, my cousin also gets her switch, animal crossing being one of the first games she bought. After she got her switch, I was the first person she added and we started playing AC every other day/week.

We’d keep each other updated on how our islands were doing, send each other lil gifts in the mail (the glow sticks were our fav bc we were a couple of kpop-heads), help each other detect the real art from the fake, rave when one of us got a new item, share recipes, all that fun shit yk?

Well earlier this year in January, she passed away due to sickle cell complications, and I haven’t been able to pick up the game again since…

Ik for a fact that the main reason behind that is bc it was something we bonded over (among other shit) – AC kinda brought us closer than we already were. And I was hooked on the game for a good lil minute too…Now?

Now I just stare at the shit sitting in my library before either turning my switch back off or playing a completely different game.

Granted I did at least boot up the game once, but couldn’t bring myself to press play – my mind immediately went to the time we spent visiting each other’s islands, impromptu or planned.

I’m deadass fighting back tears typing all this out, but it’s been stewing in my head since the day she passed and I needed to get it out somehow.

Goddamnit I miss you so much Boom…