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I recently imported Animal Crossing on the players choice thing...cost me about £18 !

So I get i load it up and found myself hooked all last weekend, but I can`t work out why.

Just what is it about this game that draws you in ?

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ianinthefuture

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You can always trade items online, or get your friends to start houses in your town.

None of my friends would care enough to play the game, I'm 99% sure.

So disregarding any 'real' friends at all - is it worth a purchase?

I've been looking into it for a while, but I'm not sure if it'd be worth it. Plus I know you crazy kids can help! :unsure:

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None of my friends would care enough to play the game, I'm 99% sure.

So disregarding any 'real' friends at all - is it worth a purchase?

I've been looking into it for a while, but I'm not sure if it'd be worth it. Plus I know you crazy kids can help! :unsure:

It's good the trading with people just allows you to get items you don't find in your town.

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Mr Spew

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None of my friends would care enough to play the game, I'm 99% sure.

So disregarding any 'real' friends at all - is it worth a purchase?

I've been looking into it for a while, but I'm not sure if it'd be worth it. Plus I know you crazy kids can help! :unsure:

Get it! It's great. Subtle. And just brilliant.

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'dave'

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HAHAHAHAHA!

You fool!

They don't even go for that as PAL on eBay!

Sorry, but I have to mock you, they've been less than £20 for months! Haha!

Grrr...

Still, at least I got a free controller with mine. AND a stylish Nintendo Gamecube branded t-shirt that's too big for me. Easily worth the extra £20 if you ask me.

And Ianos: I'd still reccommend buying the game. Although I know 1 other person who has it, I haven't got round to swapping memory cards or anything yet, and after a couple of weeks of playing it every day, I'm still not bored with Animal Crossing. And seeing as you can apparently get it so cheap, I see no reason not to give it a try...

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Rocko

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None of my friends would care enough to play the game, I'm 99% sure.

So disregarding any 'real' friends at all - is it worth a purchase?

I've been looking into it for a while, but I'm not sure if it'd be worth it. Plus I know you crazy kids can help! ;)

I think so, yes. I've never bothered trading online, and although my g'f ran her own village on a different memory card, I rarely visited it. I would guess that for about four or five months, AC was definitely the most played game in this house.

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Yewone

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Is it worth buying if you have no Gamecube/Animal Crossing owning friends?

As I have none. ;)

I wouldnt worry to much about it,

I soon stopped visiting friends villages when all my best villagers started leaving town. Once you have a visit from someone they just kept banging on about how much better they are and how theyre thinking of leaving.

The ungrateful Bastards!

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The Sheriff of Nottingham

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It's definitely worth playing even if you don't know anyone else in the so-called real world that's got it. You can always trade online (here for example) using codes as described above.

The best advice I read about the game, which someone posted here a while ago (forgot who though sorry), is to take your time. Don't break your neck trying to pay off your ever spiralling mortgages. Just go with the flow. Talk to the animals, do them favours now and then, write letters, dig fossils, catch fish, chase butterflies, draw pictures, decorate your house. It's a great feelgood chillout game.

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I didn't get on with this game at all. I was very bored with it in no time at all, collecting furniture just doesn't scream "play me" to me. Same as DOAX bored the me senseless too.

The game in my opinion fell somewhere between a chore and a bore, I never have been able to fathom why it's so popular round these parts.

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emjay2kay

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The best advice I read about the game, which someone posted here a while ago (forgot who though sorry), is to take your time. Don't break your neck trying to pay off your ever spiralling mortgages. Just go with the flow. Talk to the animals, do them favours now and then, write letters, dig fossils, catch fish, chase butterflies, draw pictures, decorate your house. It's a great feelgood chillout game.

That's the advice I usually try to give people. It's the advice I gave to a friend who recently got it, as he can be very competitive at times.

Friend: "How far are you in Zelda?"

Me: "Only up to the first dungeon."

Friend: "Yeah, me too."

Next Day.

Friend: "I finished it, did everything."

Me: "Well done. I'm only on the second dungeon."

Friend: "Ha, can't you do it? Is it too hard for you? I've finished it mate. 7 hours, all done."

I told him not to rush through Animal Crossing in the same way he spends hours upon hours continuously on other games, but he didn't listen. In only about 6 weeks, he's finished the fossils in the museum, had a perfect town, and only needs to pay off the last part of his mortgage. (He might have already done it, as he was talking about the statue you get the other day)

It's really a sad way to play the game in my opinion, lookign up everything on gamefaqs to find out what's what and then rushing out to do it all. Really goes against the ethos of the game if you ask me.

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Hmm yeah, especially since AC isn't exactly the sort of game that you can 'complete' as such. Sure, you can fill the museum, collect all the furniture etc, but most of the fun is in just mooching around, doing your own thing :D

lancashirebambaata, I don't know if the PAL version of AC has been released as a budget title yet. You could get it from www.cd-wow.com for about £35 last time I checked, but I got my US copy for £16 from www.dvdsoon.com - you should then be able to pick up a freeloader for around a tenner or less (cd-wow even have the Action Replay for £18ish).

I was lucky - I had an AC-only freeloader I got free with Cube magazine ages ago, never thought I'd use it but I'm glad I kept it now :angry:

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Muttnicks

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Grrr...

Still, at least I got a free controller with mine. AND a stylish Nintendo Gamecube branded t-shirt that's too big for me. Easily worth the extra £20 if you ask me.

And Ianos: I'd still reccommend buying the game. Although I know 1 other person who has it, I haven't got round to swapping memory cards or anything yet, and after a couple of weeks of playing it every day, I'm still not bored with Animal Crossing. And seeing as you can apparently get it so cheap, I see no reason not to give it a try...

is yours the pal version then? as that is still 440 odd, it does sell for over £40 on ebay as one went a couple of days ago for £44 ish

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is yours the pal version then? as that is still 440 odd, it does sell for over £40 on ebay as one went a couple of days ago for £44 ish

Yeeeeeeeees. I got it from dvdcrave.com. If they're still running the offer, you have to buy 2 full-price games to get all the free gubbins, though.

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Juria

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I noticed that when I bought something at the local indie the guy behind the counter said 'thanks much' as he took the game from me to put through the till. Do people say that phrase normally or was he being a sad prick? (sorry for all the unladylike swearing in my posts tonight but I swear blue past midnight :rolleyes: )

actually, if AC makes it over here, if you work in a games shop and you sell a copy of AC say 'thanks much' when someone buys it, maybe they will remember and it will creep them out when they play it later and tom nook says it

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