Is Animal Crossing New Leaf still worth buying in 2019?

try that shit on my apple tree

Yes, it's extremely cheap due to the age (at worst $20 for a new copy) and the Switch game is taking a completely different direction, which means New Leaf will still be the newest "classic" Animal Crossing game. If you want to enjoy comfy village life with animals, New Leaf will probably be a better fit than the Switch title, which is more about building and making everything from the ground up.

its a slice of life sim.
customize your house, design clothes, collect bugs, fish, fossils, paintings. make friends with the charming animal villagers. plant trees and flowers to make ur town pretty. stuff like that. there's no fail state or forced objectives, save arguably paying off your debt (but no time limit and no interest)

I actually bought this, played it for like maybe an hour, then quit because it was too slow for me. I had thought that maybe my taste in vidya grew too differently (I had played the GC one a bit and enjoyed it) as I'm mostly into action games and fighting games these days but lately I've been feeling an itch for something more relaxing.

thanks

yeah, it is not something you go into in order to finish and achieve an ending or some adrenaline rush. i mean there are still goals and objective but they are not that consequential. i guess that is what the appeals are and why many people like it

What happens in the game around Christmas time? Does it give your Christmas themed items?

just to be a bit clearer, from their description it might sound a bit like the farming simulation genre of harvest moon and the like but it isn't
it is way more relaxed and use real time instead of crunching day and having to take care of your crops and animals daily so they won't die

absolutely, if you watch the newest trailer you could see snow and other winter activities

just play runescape on your phone

yes, it snows and you can make snowmen which give you snowman themed furniture. there's also a reindeer that comes around and gives christmas themed furniture (I've only played the original and WW, so not sure if they're still in the game).

>Competitive
>Animal Crossing

The funny part is, I legitimately can't tell if you're trolling or not

Should I play this on an emulator or get it for the 3ds?

Your tastes changed for sure, the 3DS game is better than the GC one is basically every way, the sole exception being the GC game came with some NES roms. Nothing wrong with that, but if you're interested in trying it again just play until you feel it's too slow, then skip the 3DS clock forward a day and you'll have plenty to do again.

this sounds fun! i'm going to get it :3

thank you friends

It's honestly just a relaxing game where you get furniture for your house and try to pay off a mortgage. Everytime you pay it off, you get a new upgrade for the house, such as more space or more rooms. You get stuff to sell by helping villagers with errands, fishing, gathering fruit, etc. I hate to use the word comfy, but it exemplifies that feeling precisely because there's no major rush to do anything major, no time limits or forced payments. Just you playing the game at your own pace and building your house how you like it.

Most of my experience comes from the original Gamecube version and City Folk, but both were pretty fun. Never played New Leaf, but I imagine it was also pretty fun since it got regular threads for several months after it got released.

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>>emulator
Is this even playable on emulators properly?

Nah it just sort of devolves into chore simulator after a couple weeks
This game's designed in a way that you can only play it for an hour or two a day before running out of stuff to do, other than farm money, and then you just do the exact same stuff the next day save for special events but even those are pretty soulless compared to older entries

is the real game anything like pocket camp?

God no. It's better in every way

Average Nintendo IQ

Yeah, I didn't know New Leaf was held in such high esteem. But I've been wanting to get into a lifesim now just to try something different. How's Stardew Valley? I'd maybe try New Leaf again but I sold it years ago and don't feel like buying it again.

what do you mean like it?
pocket camp took some elements of the normal games out to make it, so of course they have similarities
but they also add more mobile elements to keep up with the player loop like animal leveling and shit

I'm just saying, I have no idea how you'd play Animal Crossing competitively, the game always struck me as the exact opposite of a competitive game, but I've seen weirder shit, so who knows

/acg/ in /vg/ would like a word with you

Anyone not on the autism spectrum would understand it as a joke meant to mock OP, because it's a single player game that can be played at any time.

I am sorry but you have the stupid in you.

Which is why it's obviously a joke dipshit

I just dislike the fact that you have to spend all the time on a shitty tiny island with nobody farming bugs to make cash fast

the island was a mistake

Man, I just learned fucking Seaman has a competitive scene. Nothing's off the table anymore

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collecathon and home decorator
you are also a mayor but that doesnt really mean much

Stardew Valley is also absolutely amazing, but it is very very different from Animal Crossing.

Animal Crossing is real time, so everything is very slow and relaxing, you can sit on a bench and listen to the music in the background and just take it all in, and when you feel like doing something you can do it. You can go fishing, or catch bugs, or talk to villagers, or rearrange your furniture, or do the daily stuff like shaking trees and digging for fossils, or just make things look good by pulling weeds and such around the town. It's all your own pace, if you want to relax and fish for 3 hours, go right ahead.

Stardew Valley is completely different, not just in content but because it has 1 massively impactful change. A full "day" in Stardew Valley is 12.6 minutes in real life, meaning you wake up in the morning, go do whatever you need to for the day, and then need to walk back home and be in bed before the 12.6 minutes passes. With that being said, you can go fishing, or fight monsters, or talk to villagers, or rearrange your furniture, or do the daily stuff like watering plants or feeding animals, or just make things look good by pulling weeds and such around the farm. It has way more RPG elements, from clear point-based character relationships (including marriage and even kids), to actual (fully optional) combat, to stats you upgrade and small skill trees you can go through branches of.

Animal Crossing is an amazing game to relax, zone out, and find some peace in. Stardew Valley is a life sim that demands you do shit, if you waste the first 9 minutes fishing and then realize "oh shit, today was X's birthday, I forgot to give them a gift and they went to sleep!", well better fucking luck next year, which in Stardew Valley is only 4 months since each season gets a full month on the short calendar instead of about 3 months.

It's also worth mentioning AC is real holidays, while SV is fictional, they have a "spooky fall" holiday, winter gifts, ect.

Doesn't Stardew Valley also have more mature themes and some rather dark shit in there too? I'm kinda drawn to that, not gonna lie.

Yes, there is a black character in Stardew Valley.

Well that's not what I meant.

They call him "Demetrius".
Oh? Well he is married to a white woman. Outside of that, you can fuck his emo son and bear his kids.

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>tfw loved stardew valley and want those comfy feels back but can't bring myself to play it again due to a lack of content for replaying
feels bad

Is he the only one that has a darker subplot?

Are there any mods for the game?

No, but the first game is

I would say so, but if you're looking to get a fresher experience, it's better to just wait for New Horizons.

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>buying any 3DS game in the year of our lord 2019
You have literally no excuse

The prices are going down.

I like it on the 3ds because it's more comfy. For a while I'd play it in bed before going to sleep and it was nice.

Yes, he is the only black character excluding his daughter, who you can also fuck.

Will I like this game if I like Theme Park?

I'm sure buying a flashcart to hack your 3DS with is still cheaper

>he doesn't live in a dystopian society like me where flashcarts are banned
lmao

How much of the Welcome Amiibo features can you use without actually using amiibo?

>Animal Crossing is an amazing game to relax, zone out, and find some peace in.

>try to relax with some Animal Crossing New Leaf
>get reminded that a bunch of content is locked behind (((amiibo)))
>get pissed and stop playing

The hell is wrong with you? They added content through amiibo YEARS after the game came out, it was a 100% full game on release and they just added optional shit literally YEARS later through free dlc that benefitted people without amiibo too.

>buying ANY 3ds game when hacking is so fucking easy
nigga back in 2012, I had to wait hours for the bullshit hacks to run, and I almost bricked my 3ds in the process. now a days you niggas can just insert a few files into the root of the USB and it'll take at least 3 hours.

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Should I just emulate the GC version? Everyone says it's the best one

and then get your account (which is linked to Switch) banned

uh no, nostalgiafags think it's good because they played it as small children when they had no real life worries. New Leaf improved the series in a ton of ways.

There are lots of villagers that you will never see if you don't throw your shekels at amiibo card packs

>holding a turnip instead of crushing tom nooks head with a rock
wasted opportunity

it's boring as fuck

Right, and none of them were in the game's in the past and none of them were needed for the game at launch. What kind of autistic shit is this where optional DLC lowers the value of a complete game for you?

>and the Switch game is taking a completely different direction
h-how?

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Just use Citra
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