I feel like Animal Crossing!

[SOLDIER #819]

I would fire up my GameCube version and play it, but I have lost the town of Elysium and all of my accomplishments.

Where does the name Elysium come from?

I liked the black cat (KIKI, THAT'S HER NAME) the most. Since I tend to talk to my animals a lot, I like what I'm reading to feel nice, haha. The people who snobby personalities sort of annoy me. What annoys me more is when I have to deliver something to an animal, but for some reason they get really depressed or angry and don't let me deliver the damn package. Gaaaah!

I would like a lot of stuff for the next console installment of AC. I was actually hoping they would allow for 24 hour user-hosted towns so that friends could collect in a single village. Maybe a limit of 5 animals per character (with a minimum of 2 players, and a limit of 20 animals). It's a pipe dream, but it could be pulled off if they released a harddrive. I would also like A LOT more personalities, Mii integration, ALL THOSE LOVELY EVENTS, and online multiplayer minigames. Maybe AC soccer or something.

I would also like a lot more online updates, another reason for the harddrive. More furniture, personalities, animals, etc., etc. But if there's one thing Nintendo lacks now, it's making a system that allows games to last well after purchase. =( Their stuff is forced to become outdated and abandoned due to lack of online upgrades.

On a side note, I'd like to be able to "trade" animal villages easier.

[Incognitus]

Where does the name Elysium come from?

Elysium is basically a paradise or solace in which all bad things fade off into nothingness, all of the evils in the world are vanquished, Aeris lives, Jar-Jar dies, Worf is a merry man, Conan O'Brien becomes President, the 2004 World Series did not end in a losing sweep, and Resetti comes equipped with a fast forward option. It is what it is.

Here's my list of things I would like to see in the next Animal Crossing:

• a ****ing WEED EATER
• The inclusion of sharps and flats in the town tune options, as well as tempo adjustment and possibly eighth notes. My god that would make my day.
• A more accurate way to place your house, and not vague questions hinting at a close proximity
• More multiplayer game activities (i.e. some sort of way that visiting players can actually do stuff other than fish, shop, and run around looking like an idiot). Some game involving a ball, perhaps? Battleship? Tic Tac Toe? I don't care, as long as it's interactive.
• Keyboard functionality.
• A 'Survivor' game of Vote [animal] Out of Village
• a bicycle would be cool
• The return of the "Woo-woo, woo-woo!" sound effect when you dug up something/caught something on the GameCube version
• NES games included (will never happen with Virtual Console existing though)
• the inclusion of some other sort of shop/hang out joint, like an arcade (a dying breed)
• some sort of Mii integration, as S has already stated
• more personalities for the animals

[Taco-Calamitous]

Here's my list of things I would like to see in the next Animal Crossing:

• a ****ing WEED EATER

• For after those long vacations away from the town where no one but you does any work? Heh.
  

• The inclusion of sharps and flats in the town tune options, as well as tempo adjustment and possibly eighth notes. My god that would make my day.
• A more accurate way to place your house, and not vague questions hinting at a close proximity

[Incognitus]

I would definitely appreciate both. I hadn't realized there was much in the way of placing your house. That must be more to do with the DS version, eh? But making your town toon an exact science would be very spiffy.

Oh, yeah I should have specified. The DS version of Animal Crossing gives you a brief questionnaire at the beginning that determines an approximate house location. You can locate yourself by the beach, by Nook's, by the town gate, and some other location (museum, maybe), and it would use that data to sort of grant your request. By what I meant, I mean physically placing your house somewhere like placing a house in The Sims or the Dark Cloud series, rather than answering some question to do it. It may not be possible due to the plots of land allocated to villagers, but I would like to see a little more control over it.

[Chickenballz]

How easily could I screw around with AC? Because I remember playing the DS version for like, a few days and getting completely bored. And I was all online and jazzum too. But then I'm all like, "Man, chores suck ass yo." I don't want to deal with the denizens of AC, I want to make surreal shit that makes you question your zodiac sign.

[SOLDIER #819]

A more accurate way to place your house, and not vague questions hinting at a close proximity

Maybe they should just ask more questions. The problem is that the map is randomly generated, probably after you answer your questions. Perhaps they should ask things like, "What do you enjoy more? Sunrise / Sunset?" for being on the east or west side of the town, and various other things. I never really had a problem with town placement...I just hated having to run back and forth between store and river when fishing. Inventory was too small, and Nook's was so far away.

Which is why I want either a question which more or less asks me where Nook's should be (What's your favorite hobby?), or specialized sacks you can put in your inventory to carry more of a certain type of item. Like a fish net, or a bug jar.

More multiplayer game activities (i.e. some sort of way that visiting players can actually do stuff other than fish, shop, and run around looking like an idiot). Some game involving a ball, perhaps? Battleship? Tic Tac Toe? I don't care, as long as it's interactive.

If only they took from what they did with Wind Waker. Those games were so fun. I would also like an animal game operator that uses cardboard masks and weird sounds.

A 'Survivor' game of Vote [animal] Out of Village

I just wish pissing off animals had something to do with them leaving. You can send them garbage, run over their flowers, hit them with shovels, etc., but it does nothing. =( Though I think it would be hilarious if some of the (NEW) animal personality types were stubborn people (snobs, old people, etc.) who would react by refusing to move. Perhaps make you do different things to get them to leave.

Which brings up a whole issue about me wishing that they would give you a lot more communication choices with animals, and that the personalities would be a bit more defined so that one thing one animal likes would not fly with another.

a bicycle would be cool

I can see myself crashing into trees. Something to speed you up would be nice though, like running boots (or golden winged boots if you get the special version of the item). If they expanded the map, a bike would be awesome too. Golden bikes.

The return of the "Woo-woo, woo-woo!" sound effect when you dug up something/caught something on the GameCube version

Didn't they use to have a Gyroid outside your house, too? It would be cool if you could replace that one with others you find.

the inclusion of some other sort of shop/hang out joint, like an arcade (a dying breed)

What would they have in the arcade sort of thing? Besides NES games that cannot be. Would some hipped out twin brother of Brewster be there? Blendster? Bakester? Grillster? Georgeforemanster?

They really should do more with the coffee shop, too. I liked the music. OH, and the museum too. Not just in the way of collecting (it gets so frustrating). I would like to see them do extra things with the observatory, too. Maybe make your constellations have effects other than looking pretty.

And for the love of God, they need to get rid of that Nook duo that follows you around the second floor of Nookington's.

How easily could I screw around with AC? Because I remember playing the DS version for like, a few days and getting completely bored. And I was all online and jazzum too. But then I'm all like, "Man, chores suck ass yo." I don't want to deal with the denizens of AC, I want to make surreal shit that makes you question your zodiac sign.

Somewhere deep within your twisted soul, there is a love for innocent sim games bubbling within a locked box. They could have a wizard animal, or witch animal (that is not that psychic), who can screw around with YOUR zodiac sign. Or starsign. Or stars.

You will play Animal Crossing regardless. Join us. Join us. Join ussss!