Animal Crossing City Folk

[Snuka7]

May 30, 2008 11:57:26 GMT -5 Smashchu said:

Also, I like a lot of your ideas Snuka7.

Ahh, Thanks. HANG ON! I ment this.

[Snuka7]

I was thinking of how the beggining of the game would go. First they had a train, then a cab, and what now? I was thinking aeroplane. And you see Rover, Kappn and others. You could do some event in there. I'm not sure.

And I found this guy and ideas, they are cool.

New ways to interact with items and villagers:

Imagine shaking hands with new villagers or the mayor by actually making a hand-shaking motion with the Wii remote! Extremely minor, yes, but it's these little things that really help the game feel more realistic.

And how about item interaction? With the Wii remote, you could actually simulate cranking the handle on a Jack-in-the-box and then mimic pressing the lid shut when he pops out! The great thing is, what motion you have to perform would be up to you to discover! You could have a fancy sword for ages and never know that swiping the Wii remote upwards allows your character to unsheathe the sword! The items that seem uninteresting may actually hide some amazing secrets.

Caves and tunnels in the hillsides:

Remember those cliffs whose only purpose it seemed was to get in your way? Well, what if these cliffs hid secrets, such as caves and tunnels? Every town would come with at least one cave or tunnel, where players could find rare items and maybe even stumble across a fossil or two. There could also be a new holiday centered around the cave, such as a Halloween-type event revolving around a monster rumoured to roam the subterranean corridors. The possibilities for caves is nearly endless, and it'd be amazing if something like this were paired with Nintendo's awesome creativity.


Once boring cliffs could now be dotted with caves and tunnels.

Weather in-game reflecting real-life conditions:

Now, this is an idea EVERYBODY has been pondering ever since the Forecast Channel was announced: What if the weather in the real world were mirrored inside the game? For example, if the Forecast Channel says there's rain, Animal Crossing would pick up on this and turn on the water! This would also be pretty cool when visiting other friends' villages across the Wi-Fi Connection, as your character could be in a Winter wonderland one minute, and in a sunny Summer scene the next!

Temperature could also be worked into things. Say it was snowing like heck on Sunday, then the temperature suddenly shot above freezing on Monday. You'd still see snow, but it would diminish over time. Droplets would roll off roofs and puddles would form. Or what if it were hot and dry for several days? Trees and plants would turn brown, and water levels in the local rivers and ponds would drop slightly. Rampant raining? The riverbanks would fill to bursting, and plants would grow at astonishing rates. No flooding, though, that's just too much.

Of course, if you don't have internet, and thusly no access to the Forecast Channel, the weather would be pre-determined. But who doesn't have internet?

Some ideas are good and some bad. Oh, and I thought I'd give this thread a bump. BUMP! ;D

Oh and Fry, that was an acceptable bump....right?


EDIT:
Crap! He has more that guy:

Custom Music

K.K Slider's music is great and all, but what if we could play our own custom music in Animal Crossing Wii? All we'd have to do is load our favourite tunes onto an SD card, pop it in the Wii, and bam! Instant personalized music. All the player would have to do is go to a musical item in their house and choose the "Custom Music" option from a menu. Then they could cycle through their MP3s in the same fashion to choosing a K.K Slider song.

Oh, what I wouldn't give for a little Weird Al Yankovic or Yakety Sax in my Animal Crossing... And perhaps a bit of Portal goodness in the form of Still Alive? Sounds good to me!

Clubs

If there's one annoying thing I remember about the original Animal Crossing, it's that villagers would occasionally blather on about some amazing new soccer/ballet/swimming/etc. club they just formed, and they'd ask you to join. Of course, it doesn't really matter what you say, because the club doesn't even exist.

But what if it did? These clubs could be created by villagers or players, with themes ranging from treasure hunting to gardening. Every week on a specific day (Say, Saturday, for example), you and your fellow club members would meet, discuss what you're going to do, and head off. The treasure hunting club would revolve around looking for Gyroids, fossils, seashells and whatnot, bringing them back and adding them to a central club collection with everyone else's finds. The gardening club would entail the leader handing out flower seeds and saplings to the members to go around and plant wherever they please, beautifying the village. You could even have flower-watering competitions, with club members fighting to water more flowers than anyone else.

Do you think this is an awesome idea? Join the club, we have imaginary T-shirts.

Tree Houses

Look at all those trees scattered across your village. Other than fruit, furniture and the occasional beehive, those trees really don't do all that much. But what if you could put a tree house in one of them? Like your home away from home, your more elevated house could be placed in any tree anywhere in your village. Players could take some nice old furniture and put it up in their new real estate, giving them a new place to call their own.

To make things fair, the tree on which the tree house is built would be immune to axes. It just wouldn't be fair if some jerk thought it fun to chop down your second home, would it?

Each player would get to have one tree house in their town, and only the player who owns the house would be able to place or remove objects within it. So really, it's like you have an additional room to cram all your stuff. But I don't think it's really intended to be used as storage...

Pattern restrictions

Don't you hate it when someone comes along over Wi-Fi and tears up your meticulously-placed sidewalk? Well, worry no more, because in my vision of Animal Crossing Wii, only the player who placed the pattern can remove it. Also, to avoid the obligatory pornographic patterns you're sure to come across, visitors would be forbidden to place patterns in a foreign town.

A point-and-click control scheme

If you've played Animal Crossing: Wild World, you probably know about the touch screen controls available to be used. Animal Crossing Wii would also take advantage of its home console's unique controls, adding a point-and-click navigation option. In addition to moving around with the analog stick, players would have the choice of simply pointing where they want to go and pressing A.

If a player is playing with the Nunchuk and Wii remote configuration, they could use a combination of the two control schemes, switching between pointer and analog control on the fly. If the player only has a Wii remote on hand, it goes without saying that the point-and-click control scheme would be the only available option. And could some Gamecube and Classic controlling work it's way in? Hey, I wouldn't be opposed. The more options, the merrier!

How much!

[Fryguy64]

It would not be an acceptable bump... if it was a bump. Which it isn't. You're posting new stuff, which means you're just double-posting, which I don't have a major issue with really so long as it's justified.

But don't keep this topic alive if nobody else is interested in posting in it. That's the path to lock and deletion, my friend!

[wanderingshadow]

I just thought of a major decision that has to be made for Animal Crossing Wii: Holidays! I haven't actually played AC:WW, but I don't like what I've heard about the holidays. Apparently, they took out of the real holidays they had in the original and replaced with some shit like Yay Day and La Di Dah Day.

Ideally, the two would mix. In addition to the holidays of the original, I'd like to see the following events from AC:WW added:

*Bright Nights - This is fine, but I'd make this a December holiday.
*Bug-Off - This sounds like a fun activity. A few in the summer months sounds good. This could be made obsolete by a Bug-Catching Club.
*Flea Market - Have this happen occasionally during spring and summer.
*Flower Fest - This sounds fine, but I'd have it as an event for Nature Day. This could be made obsolete by a Town Beautification Club.

Also, I'd like to participate in the Sports Festival. I was so excited that I even made myself a Boy's Uniform, only to discover that I couldn't play.

[Da Robot]

I like the ideas Sunka7 posted, the cave idea sounds very cool, it also reminds me of Miyamoto's adventures into caves as a young boy that helped to inspire TLoZ games and of that "underground" part of Pokemon D&P I'm heard about.

I also like the furniture interaction idea, it sounds a little hard to implement but it would be pretty coll. It sounds like someone really wanted to swing that Master Sword in AC around instead of just letting it sit there in it's pedastel.


@ wanderingshadow

I would not hold out for the holidays in AC to return as they were said to be removed for religous reasons.

[Smashchu]

Jun 4, 2008 7:51:41 GMT -5 Fryguy64 said:

It would not be an acceptable bump... if it was a bump. Which it isn't. You're posting new stuff, which means you're just double-posting, which I don't have a major issue with really so long as it's justified.

But don't keep this topic alive if nobody else is interested in posting in it. That's the path to lock and deletion, my friend!

What would be an acceptable bump?

Also, one concern I have with the forecast channel is the problem in game verses with random weather. See, here in Florida (and the rest of the southern east coast) we are having a big drought. It's only rained once in a long time during our wet session (which is suppose to be REALLY wet). So that would suck in AC. It would never rain. It would always be dry. So it's kind of a let down in that sence. Not to mention Florida has dry winters which means it will never snow.

[Snuka7]

I just thought of something. Since it won't have two screens, there will no need of a slingshot. What could they do to not let it go. Maybe you could click something to look up at the sky. And wen in houses look at the sealing and clean spider webs. HANG ON! If there is no sky.....that means no Observatory!

[Arcadenik]

I'd like to see an underwater village. You would need an air helmet to get underwater at the beach and you get to meet the residents of "Fish Crossing" - anthromorphic fishes, sharks, octopi, crabs, etc. That would be very interesting.

[Smashchu]

Jun 17, 2008 12:08:36 GMT -5 Arcadenik said:

I'd like to see an underwater village. You would need an air helmet to get underwater at the beach and you get to meet the residents of "Fish Crossing" - anthromorphic fishes, sharks, octopi, crabs, etc. That would be very interesting.

Maybe a little much but a cool idea nontheless.

[mallow]

I actually like the underwater idea. I don't think it'll happen though because then they might have to remove fishing from the game.

[Koopaul]

How about sometimes when you dig a hole, an underground cavern is revealed! Hop in it and you may run into the Resetti family inside. You can talk to them like any other villager.

I'd like to see the lake freeze up on cold winter days. You can see animals ice skating. Neat!

Decorate your village like in the E+ version. Only now they serve purposes. Like a street light will attract moths.

[Snuka7]

Jun 18, 2008 1:08:52 GMT -5 Koopaul said:

How about sometimes when you dig a hole, an underground cavern is revealed! Hop in it and you may run into the Resetti family inside. You can talk to them like any other villager.

Yeah...you could do that. It isn't such a bad idea. But this is cool to:

Caves and tunnels in the hillsides:

Remember those cliffs whose only purpose it seemed was to get in your way? Well, what if these cliffs hid secrets, such as caves and tunnels? Every town would come with at least one cave or tunnel, where players could find rare items and maybe even stumble across a fossil or two. There could also be a new holiday centered around the cave, such as a Halloween-type event revolving around a monster rumoured to roam the subterranean corridors. The possibilities for caves is nearly endless, and it'd be amazing if something like this were paired with Nintendo's awesome creativity.


Once boring cliffs could now be dotted with caves and tunnels.

Some guy wrote it not me.

EDIT:
I found this from E3 pre-event news.

It looks like the graphics are coming out pretty cool. They also said it was coming out in October. A little while to go.




It's Fake. Found it on Nsider2. But it looks pretty convincing.

[mallow]

I think the underground cavern is another awesome idea! Wow, there's endless possibilities for this game. October is so far away .

[Snuka7]

Um, Mallow, it was fake.

Jun 18, 2008 1:28:45 GMT -5 Snuka7 said:

It's Fake. Found it on Nsider2. But it looks pretty convincing.

But many people say it is coming out in December. That's because the Nintendo calender has a page with all the Animal Crossing characters in the December section. Since there was a Mario Kart Wii image in the April section. And it did get realesed in April. Here is a image:


More about that here: kotaku.com/378155/club-nintendo-dates-animal-crossing-wii-eh

And on IGN there was a guy that posted this:

Could the next installment of Nintendo's acclaimed series power an online community?

US, October 24, 2007 - Edge Magazine reports that a trusted source has confirmed the next Animal Crossing Wii title to be a massively-multiplayer online game. The publication offers no further details on the project.

Nintendo has in the past confirmed that Animal Crossing for Wii has long been in development and would go online, but it has never offered specifics beyond that.

An MMO-style Animal Crossing game would, of course, make perfect sense, as the franchise has always revolved around community features and functioned on a virtual city.

Sounds okay.

[Da Robot]

Here's a interesting idea that came across, instead having to play the game on the Wii all the time the game could instead be viewed on your DS screen and played from there and multiple people (with DS systems) could do the same thing.

Source.