ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS

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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
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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

My daughter has already described it as a once a day sort of game.

i had a great time with it earlier, can't wait to pick it up again tomorrow morning. a house upgrade is coming tomorrow, as well as a new pair of eyeglasses! my island is called Boneyarden.

i also got stung, and sold the wasp nest before realizing i needed it to craft medicine, before realizing i could just buy medicine

because it runs on real time you can't really marathon it any more than you can marathon cooking dinner or whatever

my daughter got the house upgrade today, and the axe and all sorts of other crap. she's a pro

I caught a squid tho

also made myself some dope USA USA face paint

i also made weird face paint

this game rules tbh, i'm not glad i didn't play it before, but i'm glad to have my first time be right now

i will invite people over to my island as soon as i figure out how to do it (unlock it) and spruce the place up a bit

So is that how online works? You make your island, and you can invite internet people over? Does it still work on that follow the leader system, though? Where everyone basically has to do what you do and go where you go and work toward your goals?

Also, what weirdly great timing for the release of this game. Forget the Chinese and the CIA, I'm beginning to think this virus was designed by Nintendo.

the cost of this virus will never drop

the follow the leader system is for local multiplayer where you have one screen. online you can just do whatever on the other players islands, you can't change/destroy/steal their stuff though

one thing i was surprised by: tonight my partner joined my island. i thought she'd see my avatar walking around, but i'm gone! is that normal, or is that just because it's the first night for both of us? it was just kind of weird, like...why would be my tent and possessions be there, but my character is absent from the island?

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