Animal Crossing for Wii this Christmas Comments by Robert Purchese
Wii Speak microphone bundled in.
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Muddtallica
25/09/08 @ 10:21
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Whyyyyy? God damn, I was hoping that Europe would escape the godawful name change foisted upon the Australians, but no such luck, it would seem. :( What the hell is wrong with "City Folk"? It's snappy, communicates the point of the game and had a nice ring to it; "Let's Go to the City" is clunky, over-literal and sounds like a game for pre-schoolers. I wouldn't be surprised, in all honesty, if this ends up costing Nintendo at least few sales on the game; it really is that bad.
Nice to hear about the mic, though. Does that mean it's going to be bundled as standard, or will there be a choice? |
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Always hated this series, far too pre-schooley and not much point to it. Why couldn't Wii Speak have come out earlier >:( Front room chatting with another front room is genius - me and my housemate can play our mates in a different city, shouting and chatting as though we were all together :( Would've been amazing for Brawl and Mario Kart.
Ho hum. |
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coach_mcguirk
25/09/08 @ 10:54
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the Wii Speak mic sits on the sensor bar?
There's a recipe for high-quality audio right there. Yikes. |
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Sod the Wii Speak microphone, ship it with a wired headset. I've already got the sensor bar precariously balanced on top of my LCD TV, an extra item on top won't help matters.
Better still, ship it with a mini-keyboard! I heard that the game doesn't recognise USB keyboards, which once again means you have to resort to slowly tap in messages with an on-screen-keyboard and the Wii Remote. Granted, this will be quicker than on the GameCube; but it's still a slow process. As other have said before me, no real progress made in this franchise since the GameCube version. I may give this version a miss. |
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neonemesis
25/09/08 @ 11:43
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Thats a terrible name change, up there with the time when Sonic Wildfire became Sonic and the Secret Rings.
Anyway, I'm probably not going to buy it seeing as how its suited to the DS and not a home console. For example, when you want to play it at night, its easier to just switch the DS on and sit back instead of having to be in front of the TV. Also, I wish it was more different to warrant buying. Not a bad game but it looks mostly the same as AC:WW. |
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Quite why Nintendo are treating this like the Pokemon series I'll never know, it could of been something great but instead they are happy to re-release it every few years with nothing but a few incremental updates.
I've collected all the bones 3 bloody times. I've caught all fish twice. I've already got all the cool furniture sets. Being able to voice chat isn't worth another 2 year wait and a £39.99 (new game) price tag. It's still Animal Forest+ which came out back on the N64 with a few knobs on. It's a real shame to see Nintendo stoop to this kind of low. It seems they can only produce decent games when they have to, then once they are back in the cash they make the same old mistakes.
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neonemesis
25/09/08 @ 12:32
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'Lets go to the city' sounds like a shovelware title for kids ;)
In all seriousness though, its the lack of change that'll obviously be scrutinised more and not the name. What did we expect anyway? This is the territory where Elebits got changed to Eledees. |
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canIdoyabombsforya
25/09/08 @ 14:54
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Can you batter the animals with baseball bats? I wanna play the muscley man.
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I think you guys are missing the point, which is that you can now have Animal Crossing running all the time in your living rooms or bedrooms running in real time. And that people can walk in and you can talk to them, while laying in bed or eating weetabix in your underwear. Or even nude if you like, you can finally talk online and be completely nude without needing to wear a headset.
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