Animal Crossing is GTA3

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13 Sep 2002, 10:20 PM
Master

Animal Crossing is GTA3

First, let me just say that I rented Animal Crossing today, and I love it. Great game.

Now, here is the list of reasons why GTA3 and Animal Crossing are similar in their rudamentary gameplay (not including the connectivity features of Animal Crossing)...

1) You have to do errands for the locals to gain respect and trust.
2) You can do anything you want and don't have to follow the storyline.
3) Many events are time dependant.
4) Realtime weather, time of day, and lighting.
5) There's many more but none come to mind now.

These games are definitely in the same genre, even though Animal Crossing has more "the Sims" elements in it.

Thoughts?

PS: Yes, they are both like Shenmue also...
13 Sep 2002, 10:43 PM
icarusfall

I thought this little bastard didn't come out till Tuesday?
13 Sep 2002, 10:46 PM
Tones

It's been available for rent for a week or so now. I guess Nintendo worked out a deal with Blockbuster.
13 Sep 2002, 10:53 PM
icarusfall

Ahh, I refuse to set foot in a BlockBuster, so that would explain it...
13 Sep 2002, 11:01 PM
Jay

I will have to wait until I can buy the game, damn lack of space on my memory card.
13 Sep 2002, 11:34 PM
lithium

And if you could bludgeon your local animal neighbors to death, sell them heroin or pick up a little animal prostitute, then Animal Crossing would sell well too :)
13 Sep 2002, 11:37 PM
Doc Hastur

...But can you get the chicks to blow you?....sorry about that, you don't have to answer. :(
14 Sep 2002, 12:03 AM
Master

Yeah. I can. Just not in Animal Crossing...
14 Sep 2002, 12:10 AM
Doc Hastur

That's why you're the Master..
14 Sep 2002, 12:16 AM
MVS

yes yes yes...but can you bang whores and then kill them? I mean, that's GTA3 is anyways.
14 Sep 2002, 12:24 AM
burgundy

Well, I send my sexy neighborbood cat Olivia dirty letters along with advance payments, and when she doesn't deliver, I chase her with an axe.
14 Sep 2002, 08:25 AM
Master

By the way. Its so annoying how prudish my residents are. I send Bunnie a letter that says:

"Dear Bunnie,

I want to have sex with you.

Is you in or is you out?

Love Master"

And she sends me a letter back that says she couldn't make any sense of my letter.

Burg, have you been able to write a letter that they CAN understand? What did it say? I keep trying to write a letter they understand and they keep getting confused...

*looks at Burgundy impatiently as if he is the Nintendo Power Hint Line*
14 Sep 2002, 09:28 AM
Korly

Yeah, I'm thinking everyone in my town is half-retarded.

No, seriously, they can't understand ANYTHING I write.
14 Sep 2002, 10:06 AM
Yoshi

Oh, good. Since they're the same game, I'll pass on AC and get Vice City instead. :p
14 Sep 2002, 10:10 AM
Jay

You crafty dino...
14 Sep 2002, 01:20 PM
CorruptedOldGnom(sic)

Quote:

Originally posted by Yoshi
Oh, good. Since they're the same game, I'll pass on AC and get Vice City instead. :p

I second this in reverse; I'll pass on Vice City and get Animal Crossing.
14 Sep 2002, 01:44 PM
Mzo

I just took my town to my friend's house, and we swapped neighbors...

Gwen went to his town, and I got Peanut.
I promised him to hit Peanut on the head with the net as often as I could.
14 Sep 2002, 01:49 PM
burgundy

Yoshi: Since you never like anything anyway, that would spare us all from hearing what a disappointment AC is. ;)

Master: Long letters, short, simple sentences, proper grammar, talk about simple things like the weather, and always give a present.
14 Sep 2002, 02:08 PM
Yoshi

Quote:

Originally posted by burgundy
Yoshi: Since you never like anything anyway, that would spare us all from hearing what a disappointment AC is. ;)

Bah humbug. :mad:
14 Sep 2002, 02:22 PM
Omni

So, does this game end like a traditional game does, or does it keep going and going and going?
14 Sep 2002, 03:22 PM
Master

Keeps going forever
14 Sep 2002, 04:08 PM
burgundy

Supposedly, the calendar stops somewhere around 2030.
14 Sep 2002, 04:15 PM
EThugg

Based on the screens, previews, reviews, and this thread, AC sounds like the stupidest fucking game ever. I think I'll get VC with Yoshi.... well... when I get a PS2...
14 Sep 2002, 04:30 PM
Hero

Hate everything, love nothing - the true hardcore gamer.
14 Sep 2002, 04:45 PM
EThugg

I love a *lot* of games. I just find NOTHING appealing about the character design, world, or from the sound of it, anything you do. I can play NES games on NES (or DC, XB, etc), I don't need to waste money on AC to do it. And that sounds like the only sorta fun thing in the game, playing NES. Sorry G, it's not for me.
14 Sep 2002, 04:50 PM
Hero

it's probably not for me either (I still don't know if I'd like it), but it seems like there's a lot of love for hate around here these days.
14 Sep 2002, 07:08 PM
Korly

Don't hate the playa, hate ALL the games. (TNL Slogan)
14 Sep 2002, 08:21 PM
Saint of Killers

Edit: Well this is completely worthless now.
14 Sep 2002, 11:44 PM
Chojin

Sounds like Morrowind as well. Ah, MMORPGS without the MMO aspect.
15 Sep 2002, 12:18 AM
Tones

I rented it, and I love it. So each save has different characters around town? Interesting...
15 Sep 2002, 01:02 AM
Mzo

The official Animal Crossing website is set up like a newspaper, and offers different tips every week or so. It's pretty cool if you're playing the game already. You can find it at:

www.animal-crossing.com

Yeah. That's about it.
15 Sep 2002, 05:41 AM
burgundy

Quote:

Originally posted by EThugg
Based on the screens, previews, reviews, and this thread, AC sounds like the stupidest fucking game ever. I think I'll get VC with Yoshi.... well... when I get a PS2...

See, guys? If EThugg doesn't like it, it *has* to be good.
15 Sep 2002, 07:02 AM
Arc

Thanks E-Thugg! I picked up my copy of Animal Crossing, just for you.

Pimpin' Aint Easy On This Island.
15 Sep 2002, 11:02 AM
Master

*starting to get down on the fact that I have to leave my town to create a new one on Wednesday...
15 Sep 2002, 11:25 AM
Korly

Why?

All you have to do is start a new town with the memory card that comes with the game, take whatever special item came on the mem card, put it in the gyroid in that town, visit that town with your current character, and pick up that item. THEN, you can go back to your town, and never look at that OTHER town again.
15 Sep 2002, 11:31 AM
wEEman33

Quote:

Originally posted by Jay
I will have to wait until I can buy the game, damn lack of space on my memory card.

You do know that AC comes with a free Memory Card 59??
15 Sep 2002, 12:36 PM
Korly

I think he meant, that renting wasn't an option for him, because he has no space on his current mem card.
15 Sep 2002, 02:12 PM
Master

Just in case people are interested there are some great AC sites out there.

I love the forum on this site, and I have seen Korly there often:
www.the-animal-crossing.com

Great site, good trading going on there too. You can even get NES games for normal items. We need an AC board! :)
15 Sep 2002, 03:06 PM
SearchManX

The fact that Yoshi and Ethugg don't like this game makes me confident buying AC. :D :) ;)

So is there a lot of trading going on already?
15 Sep 2002, 03:54 PM
JM

You can count me in when it comes out! I can't wait!

JM
15 Sep 2002, 05:24 PM
EThugg

I don't like Shrek either.... go get it quick!
15 Sep 2002, 06:03 PM
Ragnarok the Red

Must be the other side of the GTA3 coin then. When I can get my little Animal Crossing automobile and run down my little Animal Crossing neighbors, then I'll gladly draw more realistic comparisons to GTA3 :lol:
15 Sep 2002, 06:41 PM
Korly

Ha! I was JUST gonna post that!

The forums are here...

http://www.forums.the-animal-crossing.com/index.php?s=

Is your name Master there also?
15 Sep 2002, 08:39 PM
burgundy

animalxing.com is another good site. Although the people there tend to be a bit anally stingy.
16 Sep 2002, 12:20 AM
Korly

http://www.animalxing.com/textures.shtml#98

go there to get some kick ass textures for your clothes, wall, flag, umbrella, door, etc.

EDIT - this thread should definately be closed and/or merged with the official thread.

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