ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESl8gJahyBA

Discuss your sweaty enthusiasm for this

tom nook is a scab

http://bogost.com/writing/consumption_and_naturalism_in_/

Worth reposting this for anyone who’s going to be coming to AC for the first time, this time round.

really feel like this thread will have some Top Josh Content

:D

dammit, i didn't see the thread til now and didn't even realize tim rogers had already prereviewed it. hopefully he gave it at least 5 bags of popcorn

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yes, this is going to be a contender for best video game writing of 2020

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thank you very much for that link, JimD. i am having a blast reading it to my partner while she works on a puzzle

Tune in on February 20 at 6 a.m. PT / 9 a.m ET for a roughly 25-minute livestreamed #AnimalCrossing: New Horizons Direct, featuring an in-depth look at Nook Inc.’s Deserted Island Getaway Package! pic.twitter.com/3j4EaUw8Pl

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) February 18, 2020

This comes out a few days after my birthday. I better get gifted this or someone in my house is losing a limb.

My daughter was mostly into this this morning, but she also thought the game looked like more work than previous iterations.

this comes out ON my birthday and getting ever deeper into debt with tom nook and his growing family of goons and usurers is my fondest bday wish

more work

ever deeper into debt

i see that i have chosen the perfect time of my life to finally get into animal crossing

does the game have some sort of lofty goal that seems attainable at first but becomes more and more impossible as the game progresses? if so, SOLD

i think your debt payments get progressively larger if that counts

:D oh yes, that counts

all dumb adult jokes aside, i am pretty excited to try it out. regardless of what the longtime fans think of this new entry, i'm pretty sure i'll be very happy with whatever they came up with.

36 notes on shopto for the digital code for any britishers reading

I think my fave part of this game - heck, of a lot of nintendo games now I think on it - is the fishing. I fuckin hate fishing IRL but in games it is nice and peaceful.

(Was so bummed they had no fishing in BOTW even though fish were an integral part of the recipes)

You could catch fish with your bare hands! Or blow them out of the water.

JRPG needs fishing. https://t.co/jKDNRzesIj

— yokotaro (@yokotaro) June 26, 2017

I usually electrocuted them with a few shock arrows and waded in and collected the corpses.

That's how I do it in real life.

(I just googled "fishing with lighting" and got some hits of a fishing boat struck by lighting and the like. Reminds me of one of my kids years ago asking, as kids are wont to do, if a tornado had ever hit a train. I googled that, too, and what do you know, found an incredible video of a mounted train camera catching the train getting hit and then derailed by a tornado. The internet is terrible, but it is also awesome.)

Yike!

what you naming your island

really feel like this thread will have some Top Josh Content
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yes, this is going to be a contender for best video game writing of 2020
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Sunday, February 9, 2020 12:47 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

KM otm

basketball island

no more new videogames for me, for a while. :(

but that's ok, maybe i can revisit one of literally dozens (hundreds?) of games where i got about 30 hours in and quit

like, my witcher dude is still currently new to the region of novigrad, i think

i have a lot of expectations for this. how many players can make characters? i have 4 potential players in this house and foresee many many months of gameplay ahead.

every account on your switch gets their own character, i think theres a max of 8 accounts. you share an island if you're on the same system

This game is going to occupy my younger daughter so much that she won't even know that the epidemic has ended.

i think that is the plan for many people in the world

if I could somehow arrange to do my actual job from within Animal Crossing that'd be ideal

I have two switches in my house. I bought one digital copy of AC. How does that work?

you can install it on both but you can only play it on one switch at a time

and your save is tied to the console so you'll have a different island on each afaik

Popped into the local JB Hifi to pick up a copy this morning and the place had a small knot of nerds hovering at thr doors til they opened who all dashed in and grabbed their preorders.

...I felt so old!

Day one: need to drag my daughter away from the game for lunch. She loves it so far, though.

i've finished the tutorial stuff but haven't figured out what i want to do next

this is wholesome
https://www.polygon.com/2020/3/20/21188106/animal-crossing-new-leaf-new-horizons-nintendo-switch-3ds-goodbye

why the fuck would i be interested in a getting-stung-by-wasps simulator

We started my wife’s island using my account and now I feel very dumb.

this is so chill

tom nook handing out the reskinned SEs. surprised he did not go down the escobar route, reskinning a samsung fold

I invite you all to the island of genauso

enjoying this, but in little doses! never played an AC game before :)

little doses is correct

It’s fun to talk to folks after you’ve been stung by wasps

Huh, the otter didn't show up today when I got a scallop. Weird.

I've got some seasonal Starry-sands flooring if anyone wants it

if you pick up the scallop when your pockets are full (so you drop something else first to pick it up) or if you're too close to the fence we've noticed it doesn't trigger pascal

oh ok, i think that's it. i was right up against the east border

Pascal has not given me a single bloody DIY. Just pearls. I mean I dont really like the look of the mermaid set anyway but geez.

Sometimes you need to catch two scallops and he shows up on the second. I’ve got three mermaid diys, the dress, and pearls so far.

anyone have decent turnip prices?

Nope, suggest using one of the apps. Might have to queue but worth it if you’ve got a lot to sell before tomorrow

I got 144 if you're interested. Plus Bug-off!

Trayce and everyone else itt I’m friends with - gate is open for about an hour. Trayce I still have those diys for you!

fireworks and dreaming in the next update

Omg.

gyac did you ever send me a frend req? I havent had any new ones in ages

Yes, we are friends on friend code but I don’t know if I’ve added you on best friends, but I’m guessing not since you don’t show online. How should I nudge you the next time I see you online?

trayce, you on the slack? that might be easiest

Nah i dont use slack. Dont rly have time for slack/dischord chat stuff with the WFH and all.

4 fakes at Redd's today :(

Trayce if you see this! We are online at the same time, my gate is open, come visit!

https://i.postimg.cc/MHX4K4Qn/8-FA415-CE-53-B8-47-DF-926-F-CA1945921305.jpg fireworks show is cute 🎑

Argh sorry I didnt see it! I was trying to half assedly enjoy the fireworks while my other half insisted we watch the Sopranos :(

Finally saw a shooting star tonight - wow they go by fast. Still trying to Meteonook my way to a better life but damn, feels like such a random mechanic

MN4TK

Turnips at 524 for a few more hours!
Stitches is also boxing up, if you want a cute, re-animated teddy bear as your neighbor.
Any DIY stuff or dropped beach items are free for the taking.

oh sweet, we love stitches. is it cool if my wife visits? the online account is hers.

Anyone can come

aw, got an error trying to use your code.

Oh whoops. Console went into sleep mode. Let me try that again

940TB

K I could connected it to my TV and changed the sleep setting to 3 hours, so should be good to go now

Might come over?

thanks! we sold a lot of bells and convinced a weird bear to move to our 10th spot. much appreciated!

Love Stitches, but it was time for him to move on. Glad he's going going to a good home!
I'll keep gates open at least for another hour, as long as Nook's is available for tonight.

i have mixed feelings about having two lazy villagers, but he and wade the penguin can coexist

Closed. Thanks for the tips!

On the offchance anyone around and wants to visit, my island is open for about an hour and a half (woke up early for bins and it’s already too hot to do anything else). My nooks isn’t open for another hour, but I have free DIYS and am always happy to give away clothes or furniture and flowers!

Dodo code is 9WF45

Oh also I have Annelise (an anteater) in boxes if anyone wants a new villager.

Trayce if you see this, my island is open for the next while before I go to bed, come visit!

Anyone I’m friends with can drop in, I have a fireworks show on and you can play the raffle or catch things, whatever.

Gah sorry I keep missing - time diff screws with me.

Inspirational stuff. Need to work out how to compose a suitable tune.

https://youtu.be/CFkGP773X80 i of course meant to post this

haha nice ending with the "body bag"

OMG I havent played this in like a month, Ive missed almost all of the firework nights, and had to TT backwards to catch up. My villagers are all cranky with me and there are FLOWERS EVERYWHERE.

In my defence Ive become addicted to learning chess on chess.com so Ive been distracted :(

Gate’s open from an hour from now if anyone wants to come and visit

*for, ffs

AAAAAAAAAA pic.twitter.com/FUSRPYvq17

— Lex Loser (@aeonfluxed) December 1, 2020

Am I still the only person playing this

my partner still plays it for about eight hours a week and stops by my house to kill the cockroaches once a month

lol. i bowed out in August. tempted to go back whenever there's a new content update though

i quit when my partner and i broke up and the thought of seeing her mailbox blinking and the villagers asking me where she's been lately was too much

oof

been away so long I'm afraid to go back, don't wanna get guilt-tripped by the game

https://i.imgur.com/yOH4vTn.mp4