{DSG}DarkRaven
12-13-2006, 12:40 PM
...that I just sold my soul to Nintendo.
By this, I mean that I bought Animal Crossing the other day. I had made some extra bucks helping this lady I know setup and run an e-bay account, and I was already out christmas shopping, so I figured that getting a game and a memory card for twenty bucks wasn't a half-bad deal. Especially considering that the DS version cost more, and I've got nobody local to play with and no broadband access to go online with.
The downside is, the game sort of takes up the whole memory card from the get go. It's essential to selling the game, in the way that Duck Hunt requires the NES Zapper. Still, if I ever choose to wipe the game from existence in my life, I'll have an extra fifty-nine blocks to use for other stuff. Woo.
Anyone else here have the game, or worse, still play it? It's fun and charming, in an unusual way. It takes up your time just as easily as any RPG or MMO these days, save for one unique feature: the time system. Now, it's entirely possible to play at night without cheating (i.e. messing with the GC system clock). That being said, since everything functions in real time, when the animals in your town go to bed, there's not a whole lot to be done. Selling things, for instance, one of the most important aspects of the game, is impossible after ten PM and before nine AM. Like the resting system that Blizzard temporarily implemented back in the WoW betas, the game almost forces you to stop playing after a while.
I'm rambling, because as I said at the beginning of this post, Nintendo now owns my immortal essence. Don't cry for me.
By this, I mean that I bought Animal Crossing the other day. I had made some extra bucks helping this lady I know setup and run an e-bay account, and I was already out christmas shopping, so I figured that getting a game and a memory card for twenty bucks wasn't a half-bad deal. Especially considering that the DS version cost more, and I've got nobody local to play with and no broadband access to go online with.
The downside is, the game sort of takes up the whole memory card from the get go. It's essential to selling the game, in the way that Duck Hunt requires the NES Zapper. Still, if I ever choose to wipe the game from existence in my life, I'll have an extra fifty-nine blocks to use for other stuff. Woo.
Anyone else here have the game, or worse, still play it? It's fun and charming, in an unusual way. It takes up your time just as easily as any RPG or MMO these days, save for one unique feature: the time system. Now, it's entirely possible to play at night without cheating (i.e. messing with the GC system clock). That being said, since everything functions in real time, when the animals in your town go to bed, there's not a whole lot to be done. Selling things, for instance, one of the most important aspects of the game, is impossible after ten PM and before nine AM. Like the resting system that Blizzard temporarily implemented back in the WoW betas, the game almost forces you to stop playing after a while.
I'm rambling, because as I said at the beginning of this post, Nintendo now owns my immortal essence. Don't cry for me.