Oh man, how could I have ever forgotten how amazingly fun AC: Wild World is? Come on guys, clean up those villages and start working for those bells! Or just run around and enjoy all the random shit happening in your place. Either way, GO!

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Posted by Mental on May 08, 2008 at 16:47:34 EST.

Oh man, how could I have ever forgotten how amazingly fun AC: Wild World is? Come on guys, clean up those villages and start working for those bells! Or just run around and enjoy all the random shit happening in your place. Either way, GO!

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What a coincidence! I juts played Wild World for the first time in ages yesterday. However, I decided that it was pretty dumb and didn't need to remain on my flash card anymore. I don't know if my tastes in games have just changed since I first heard about Animal Crossing or if it was always just way cooler in my head than in reality or what, but the Animal Crossing concept has been a big disappointment to me after looking forward to playing it for so long without having the opportunity.

(Sweater Fish Deluxe)

(17:50:18 05/08/08 EST)

...So how long did you play it?

(NeoGutsman)

(01:31:03 05/09/08 EST)

I guess it really does come down to a matter of taste, but I think I know what Guts is trying to say. It's a game I like to play alongside my other games. Turning it on for a while to earn some money, talk to some animals, check on the environment a little, and then turn it off again. Fun, short bursts of playtime. Awesome that way! Also, and this is more of a question than an accusation, don't you ever get tired of commercial games on flashcarts? The reason I stopped using my R4 for commercial games, is because I couldnt enjoy the games anymore. If one wasnt fun enough, I would just go to the next. I never gave a game the chance to get to the "fun" point. Now that Im buying them again, I actually bite through the sometimes boring start, and enjoy the next 20-30 hrs much more. Just my 2 cents.

(Mental)

(10:26:34 05/09/08 EST)

i've had this conversation with others before, and i agree. paying for and actually owning something is incentive to actually give the game a chance and, more often than not, actually see what it has to offer. i've burned a few ps2 games, ones that left great first impressions, but have never booted up more than 5 times max.

(twelvestep)

(14:34:40 05/09/08 EST)

I used to swap blank disks with a friend back in high school for Amiga stuff. There was a lot of great stuff that I got to try out, but the value diminished each time I got a new game copied. I'm not trying to ride a high horse here, but like Mental and twelvestep said, owning the real deal gives a tangibility and value to a game that in my mind can't be replicated with wanton copying and such. I personally think it's fun to talk to people about a game, do the research, and then buy a game based on what you know you like or would like to try. I've gotten stung now and then, but by and large I do like much of what I buy.

(NeoGutsman)

(15:18:37 05/09/08 EST)

Yeah, that's how I've played Animal Crossing whenever I've tried it. Just short bursts. I never would have thought of playing it any other way, not so much because I'm playing on a flash cart, but because that's just how I've always played games since long before I ever had a flash cart or even a DS. I think you and I just play different types of games. The concept of putting 20-30 hours into a game, finishing it, then forgetting about it and moving on to another game has always been totally alien to me and my tastes in games. Every once in a very long while, a game like that catches my interest and I do it, but I could count the number of times in all my history of playing video games on one hand (actually, two). I just don't dig that mindset of gaming or the types of gameplay concepts that lend themselves to it. I guess I'm a bit of an anachronism because I still play games exactly the same way I did 25 years ago on the Atari 2600 and for the most part exactly the same type of games, too. My favorite games on the DS are things like Yoshi's Touch & Go, Geometry Wars, Metroid Prime Pinball and New Super Mario Bros. These are all games that are instantly fun and also infinitely fun. They play exactly the same after 20 minutes as they do after 20 hours or after 2000 hours. When you play games like that, you never know what game you'll want to play, so a flash cart is a necessary accessory for me if I want my DS to actually be portable. I think people who play games the way you do, more often than not pretty much know what game they'll want to play for the next day or two so that's not a problem for them. Plus, my preferences also lead me more towards homebrew and emulated games than the majority of the games coming out on the DS anyway, which are additional reasons for needing a flash card. I never would have bought a DS if there weren't flash cards available because the system would be nearly worthless to me without one.

(Sweater Fish Deluxe)

(16:46:54 05/09/08 EST)

Sounds logical! As long as you're having fun, its all good i guess.

(Mental)

(07:03:16 05/10/08 EST)

Sorry dude, mine is long gone.

(Darius)

(22:08:55 05/10/08 EST)

I never found it very fun - somewhat compelling, but fun wouldn't be the word I'd used. It appealed to some of my collecting nature, but ultimately it had no lasting appeal for me. I don't like a game that gets mad at me for not playing.

(exodus)

(13:34:59 05/11/08 EST)

Haha, the one thing I miss is a counter that tracks how many hours you've logged into it. For some reason I love seeing such counters in games. Also, I put the game on sleep mode in the evening, to open it up in the morning and find out it was frozen. Had to shut down my DS, and of course had an angry Resetti lecture me. Kind of a mood killer right there.

(Mental)

(16:01:23 05/11/08 EST)

i actually kind of enjoy when a game doesn't have a timer. that way i can't see that i've played something for 50 hours and get all "damn that is over two whole days of my life". not that i mind spending time on a game i really enjoy, but it's always a bit of a shock when i see it that way.

(twelvestep)

(18:30:56 05/11/08 EST)

as a side note, i dumped a ton of time into AC on the gamecube. my roomate, two friends, and i all had our own house and we kept that town up and running for nearly two months. i loooooved that game. i'm interested in what the next one will have, but i think animal crossing may have been a "right time, right place" sort of thing for me.

(twelvestep)

(18:38:46 05/11/08 EST)

Yeah. It was fun, but something I never have to do ever again.

(substance J)

(18:44:59 05/11/08 EST)

I played AC GC for about a month or so. Loved it, but I had to move on to other things. When ACWW came out, holy shit, that stole part of my life. The town gates also didn't help things; we here at SNGP would often come home from work and leave our gates open in the evenings. It was just a fantastic blast. Unfortunately, my DS game case got stolen from me, and about 6 months of so much work and care. I eventually bought another copy, but man, I only stuck through it for another couple of months. My heart was with my original copy... :( That being said, if/when AC comes out for the Wii, I'm so there, man.

(NeoGutsman)

(23:51:29 05/11/08 EST)

I hope the one for Wii drops this year.

(Jeurja)

(13:20:53 05/14/08 EST)

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