Are men capable of enjoying games like Animal Crossing ?

[Simulacrum]

Personally, I'm not sure. I think that their brains are too wired to enjoy violent video games such as call of duty and other first person shooters instead. The same thing is likely with more creatively focused games

What do you think ?

[Eskimofo]

Originally posted by Simulacrum:

Personally, I'm not sure. I think that their brains are too wired to enjoy violent video games such as call of duty and other first person shooters instead. The same thing is likely with more creatively focused games

What do you think ?

I think you are definitely single for all the right reasons

[Adversary]

Originally posted by Phirestar:

Originally posted by Adversary:

I have not played it but to be honest, that is probably because I have not gotten around to playing the older installments. I don't own a Switch nor do I have any desire to, so it's not like I will be playing any of the newer ones.

The artwork is cute though, and I did like the Lets Play of the original known as Welcome to Camp. Much like how I enjoyed the story of Lizzie Shinkicker, but Gainax games are another kettle of fish entirely so let's keep the menu to the soft albacore and trout present herein, yes?

I don't know, from the looks of things it seems to be a watered-down version of Harvest Moon/Story of Season that caters more to people who enjoy anthropomorphism as an aesthetic. Which, I can get behind that but there's got to be more meat with the potatoes.

Animal Crossing was a very slow burn type of game. Unlike with games like The Sims and Stardew Valley, where you could sit down and accomplish a fair bit in one play session, AC was designed more to be played over the course of weeks and months.

The main reason was due to how time progressed in those games. Animal Crossing would sync up with your console’s real-world clock, which meant that if you booted the game up at 6 pm, it would be 6 pm in-game. It may have also matched your weather, but I’m not 100% of that. It did match the time of year, though, so it would be winter in-game when it was also winter irl.

Since everything in the game is scripted to occur at certain periods of time, as is the case with other life sims, this obviously means that you can’t do a whole lot in a day. It was the kind of game where you opened it for a little while each day and did a few things, then closed the game until tomorrow. It’s sort of like a tamogachi, but with a point, or a free mobile game, but without the whole forcing you to pay money to have fun.

It was a series focused more on the decoration and social aspects of life sims. You could heavily customize the interior of your house, and had some level of control over the appearance of your town. Villagers would move in and out of your town, and unbeknownst to child-me at the time, there was a gigantic pool of villagers made by the developers that new members of the town could choose from. I imagine it helped make the game very engaging for people, since you had no control over who moved in or out, and there were likely a lot of people that searched up the list of villagers in the game(s) and waited in hopes a specific one would move in for them to meet.

There were some long-term goals to complete, as well. In the original game at least, there were two main ones. The first being paying off your debt to Tom Nook, whom sold you your house when you moved in at the start of the game and offered upgrades that increased the size of the home and his store where you could buy new stuff to decorate your house. And the other was completing the museum collection (which was the same feature that ConcernedApe adopted into Stardew Valley). You had bugs to catch with the net, fish that were caught with the fishing rod, fossils that were dug up with the shovel and sent in the mail to be inspected, and probably a fourth one that I’m forgetting. The time, weather, and seasons all played a role in when you could find all of these things, so you had to play regularly if you wanted to find everything, as there was a degree of luck with each bug or fish or what have you.

I really liked Animal Crossing as a kid. I managed to pay off all my debts and finish all or at least most of the museum collection. It’s one of those games where going back to it today would be hard due to how much more systems and features exist in modern titles, like New Horizons on the Switch. I’ve had a similar experience before with Harvest Moon, where going back to play some of the old GameCube or GBA titles, after experiencing Stardew Valley, makes you realize just how little there content there actually was in the old games. Video games were way more simplistic in their design back then, so it was easier to stomach for people back then because we weren’t accustomed to having games with something new happening each and every single second of gameplay. Just proof of how much better developers have gotten at making games more exciting and interesting to play.

On one hand you've made a decent pitch for me to go back and check out at the very least the initial installment. On the other hand you've also made a decent pitch for me to not do so if I want to, perhaps, play more than one game for the foreseeable future.

Also Stardew Valley, as an aside, legitimately seems like the kind of game that I'd only ever want to play to completion once. Which is the exact amount of times I have as even with mods that game isn't worth revisiting. Such a boring, droll and uninspired game that markets itself as Harvest Moon for PC when there were already a dozen or so games like that, with some dating as far back as the heyday of Don Miguel's RM2K fan translation in the early to mid-2000s. And it doesn't even do a good job of being a faming sim.

It does more of a better job as a social commentary on why corporations and city slickers should ♥♥♥♥ off and why small businesses are based. Sort of like how Harry Potter does a better job at being an allegory about selling out to the establishment and being part of the problem instead of part of the solution.

Voldemort did nothing wrong.

Originally posted by WarHeRo:

Originally posted by Adversary:

Season of Sakura = True Love '95 > Bible Black.

a true man of culture :UDG_Heart:

I mean credit where credit is due, at least it's not Demonophobia.

[Kargor]

Originally posted by Simulacrum:

Are men capable of enjoying games like Animal Crossing ?

This is a Nintendo franchise, so I haven't looked at it, or played it. However: why not?

Sure, given a game with a, let's say, more sexual focus is likely to appeal to only one gender -- but, I don't think Animal Crossing falls into that genre.

[AerSilver ♞]

Originally posted by Simulacrum:

Personally, I'm not sure. I think that their brains are too wired to enjoy violent video games such as call of duty and other first person shooters instead. The same thing is likely with more creatively focused games

What do you think ?

Nah that's nonsense,I played games of the same genre before.
besides there are plenty of guys who enjoy both Doom and Animal Crossing, just look at all the shipping material with Doomguy and Isabelle.

sometimes,we just want to chill from all the bloodshed and enjoy some fishing in a peaceful world.

[WarHeRo]

Originally posted by Adversary:

Originally posted by WarHeRo:

a true man of culture

I mean credit where credit is due, at least it's not Demonophobia.

sounds like an interesting game. finally smth for the likes of me

[Lupa]

Sometimes, after the violent games, I like to sit down with a relaxing game and go "mah boi, this peace is what all true warriors strive for!" then I go back to violence.

[Krypto]

Originally posted by ⛧:

Originally posted by Krypto:

Tried Harvest Moon once. Didn't like it. I highly doubt I would enjoy Animal Crossing either.

Some harvest moon are really bad, some really good.

Like harvest moon 2, and harvest moon save the homeland were so bad. Harvest moon back to nature was so good the remade it severeal times and changed the name. It even made a girl and a guy version

It was the N64 Harvest Moon, one of the best they said. Back then, I was playing ♥♥♥♥ like Perfect Dark and Quake, still do today too.

[AerSilver ♞]

Originally posted by Lupa:

Sometimes, after the violent games, I like to sit down with a relaxing game and go "mah boi, this peace is what all true warriors strive for!" then I go back to violence.

I can't wait to bomb some Dodongos.

[Violeta]

Originally posted by Krypto:

Originally posted by ⛧:

Some harvest moon are really bad, some really good.

Like harvest moon 2, and harvest moon save the homeland were so bad. Harvest moon back to nature was so good the remade it severeal times and changed the name. It even made a girl and a guy version

It was the N64 Harvest Moon, one of the best they said. Back then, I was playing ♥♥♥♥ like Perfect Dark and Quake, still do today too.

n64 was if i remember right, the version that had some stuff people didn't like, like a less like able karen (One of the date-able girls). Where as back to nature was the psx version of it with some changes, like a nicer karen.

[sleeps]

male fantasy

[Krypto]

Originally posted by ⛧:

Originally posted by Krypto:

It was the N64 Harvest Moon, one of the best they said. Back then, I was playing ♥♥♥♥ like Perfect Dark and Quake, still do today too.

n64 was if i remember right, the version that had some stuff people didn't like, like a less like able karen (One of the date-able girls). Where as back to nature was the psx version of it with some changes, like a nicer karen.

In my experience, there is no such thing as a nice woman named "Karen." Lol.

Does the game have guns? I might enjoy it if it had guns.

I know it doesn't have guns.

[gugnihr]

I think that Animal Crossing is a trap. It looks very nice and intriguing but it is in fact very stressful and frustrating. I have played it at least four different times (and the first time for a whole year!!!), I have always promised to myself that I would have never played it again but at some point I let it fool me again.
It is just pointless grind, you cannot actually use most of the things that you collect and the few ones that you can use you can do that in very shallow ways.
And the gameplay loop is very frustrating.
And the fact that every single episode has many interesting exclusive things but also MANY flaws that other episodes don't have does not help either. I feel like that any AC game I could decide to play is the wrong one because every single AC game has some very bad flaws compared to the other ones.
Well, if only you could put your drawings (patterns) inside your home then the GameCube episode would be my favourite... and it is also the less stressaful too on top of that... and it has such a nice and cozy art style... and the train is much better than other transports... and you can evben play NES games!!!! but you cannot do one of the most satisfying and nice things in this franchise!!!
Anyway Animal crossing is just a trap made to ruin people's lives.
In fact I often play Skyrim (but the same could be said about Oblivion too) as an Animal Crossing game... except it is more fun and whenever I want to spice things up with some adventure I can do that too.
And if you ant a creative game then Warioware DIY for the DS is much more creative than Animal Crossing. And being able to copy your minigames on the Wii too was amazing! I had so much fun with that game and it is definitely more creative than Animal Crossing.
Animal Crossing is supposed to be relaxing and cozy but in fact it is the opposite.
Another game that I could recommend rather than Animal Crossing is Go Vacation. You can have a home and decorate it too like in Animal Crossing. Most of the decorations do not look that good, true, but the game overall is much better, much more fun and with many more things to do.
Animal Crossing is just pointless frustration. There are many games that are not violent but are much more satisfying and fun than Animal Crossing.

[Simulacrum]

Originally posted by Eskimofo:

Originally posted by Simulacrum:

Personally, I'm not sure. I think that their brains are too wired to enjoy violent video games such as call of duty and other first person shooters instead. The same thing is likely with more creatively focused games

What do you think ?

I think you are definitely single for all the right reasons

Who said I'm single ?

[Doomerang]

Originally posted by tiny E:

Originally posted by smurfette:

are men capable of anything?

Nothing than women can't do better.

Hahaha …..

[Affronter]

Originally posted by Simulacrum:

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What do you think ?

You OP, are over-generalizing.