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I'm an idiot. A complete and utter idiot.
Why?
Simple, I'm missing a game that I've never played before.
I'm actually upset about Animal Crossing not getting a European release.
It all started back in about August when I claimed Animal Crossing (Or Animal Forest + as it used to be called) for a review I won GAD for. Ever since then I've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of this game. Every preview, NTSC review or just new information about the game I'd read about five times over because I wanted it so, so much, and I still do today.
You see, Animal Crossing was a damn special creation. Forget Mario, dump Zelda and ditch Samus. I didn't care about any of their adventures, I wanted Animal Crossing, I want Animal Crossing. Think I'm mad? Or think that this game has gotta be pretty good to make me want it so much.
What was most promising for me was that the game looked like an old N64 game. As many of you may know, I place Gameplay way above graphics and this seemed to be the embodiment of my perfect game. It seemed to me that Nintendo said: "Forget about graphics, we want this to be the most playable game ever!" For me, this is the kind of game I want. I don't beautiful graphics to tell me a game is good.
But what is strange is that even before I got solid details of the game, only a few screenshots and the fact that you live someone's life, I wanted it bad. Normally I'd look at a game and if it looked good, I see what the gameplay was like, but it looked so simple and somehow more 'solid' than other games. Like it had substance. It wasn't just 'another' game.
I believe I was right to think this.
Now I've got even more information on this game I realise that I was right. This looks like, possibly, the greatest game of all time, and I'm upset because it's not getting a European release, understandable, right?
I still need to play this game though. Whether it's through the magic of freeloader or an American 'Cube, I'll get it.
I want to do so many things I could on other games.
One aspect of Animal Crossing that really made me want to buy my mates GameCube's and copies of Animal Crossing is the fact that you can link up memory cards.
So once you've made you're house all lovely your mate can come and visit you. You can give him a tour of the town, show him local wildlife, show him some nice shops and more, but there's something much better than that.
What's this?
I mean when you visit his village. Muahahaha! This is when the real evil of Animal Crossing shines through. You do not simply come to visit him, oh no. Stealing all of things is what's REALLY fun. SO while you're playing along to the whole: "Oh, thanks for letting me into your village." You can steal his personal belongings and, even better, his best villagers. So if you see someone who you especially like, talk to them and steal them away to your town. Ha!
I may think Laurence Lowelyn Bowen is a complete... not very nice, but that doesn't mean decorating isn't good. Making my house look as good (Or bad) as possible is what I call a game! Just giving my home a personal look seems strangely satisfying.
It got to a point where I'm planning out what I should put where even though it shall never be. A lamp in the corner, the bed near the lamp to give a cosy, welcoming, feel to the place. Everyday I turn into that Laurence bloke everyday thanks to this game that won't even come out here, it's reduced me to a babbling idiot.
But what can't be can't be. All because of Nintendo.
It seems the West increasingly hates us PAL gamers. Yes, we may be getting the hugely generous Ura-Zelda/Ocarina Of Time Extra with the Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, but time and time we've had terrible decisions by them. Zelda is one example: the Wind Waker? What on earth were they thinking, he doesn't play the bagpipes and he doesn't have a fiddle, but his game is called the Wind Waker, it's terrible.
But this is like Nintendo getting a dagger, stabbing me clean in the heart and twisting it around for hours.
Surely Nintendo could have released it over here, one second the PAL version is being tested, the next it's been scrapped. I was so sure I'd play this game on a PAL 'Cube, but it seems not.
If Nintendo want to become more popular, they really do need to think about us PAL gamers, many a time we've been second fiddle to Japan and America. SEGA gave us extras that NTSC gamers didn't get, why can't you, Nintendo?
But I can see why they didn't sell it over here. The fact of the matter is, there are so many Casual Gamers in Europe who look and graphics and judge a game on them alone, it's doesn't matter about the gameplay to them. So Nintendo could have lost a lot of money.
Not really much of an excuse for making us gamers pay, but sadly, this is how industries work, and I hate it.
Well, it seems that I'll have to sit tight until Animal Crossing 2. Although I see problems with this, maybe it's because I hate online games, maybe it's because I don't want Animal Crossing to change.
If I don't get a free AC with AC2, I'll be having words with Nintendo.
Thanks for reading.
RiCkOsS
Why?
Simple, I'm missing a game that I've never played before.
I'm actually upset about Animal Crossing not getting a European release.
It all started back in about August when I claimed Animal Crossing (Or Animal Forest + as it used to be called) for a review I won GAD for. Ever since then I've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of this game. Every preview, NTSC review or just new information about the game I'd read about five times over because I wanted it so, so much, and I still do today.
You see, Animal Crossing was a damn special creation. Forget Mario, dump Zelda and ditch Samus. I didn't care about any of their adventures, I wanted Animal Crossing, I want Animal Crossing. Think I'm mad? Or think that this game has gotta be pretty good to make me want it so much.
What was most promising for me was that the game looked like an old N64 game. As many of you may know, I place Gameplay way above graphics and this seemed to be the embodiment of my perfect game. It seemed to me that Nintendo said: "Forget about graphics, we want this to be the most playable game ever!" For me, this is the kind of game I want. I don't beautiful graphics to tell me a game is good.
But what is strange is that even before I got solid details of the game, only a few screenshots and the fact that you live someone's life, I wanted it bad. Normally I'd look at a game and if it looked good, I see what the gameplay was like, but it looked so simple and somehow more 'solid' than other games. Like it had substance. It wasn't just 'another' game.
I believe I was right to think this.
Now I've got even more information on this game I realise that I was right. This looks like, possibly, the greatest game of all time, and I'm upset because it's not getting a European release, understandable, right?
I still need to play this game though. Whether it's through the magic of freeloader or an American 'Cube, I'll get it.
I want to do so many things I could on other games.
One aspect of Animal Crossing that really made me want to buy my mates GameCube's and copies of Animal Crossing is the fact that you can link up memory cards.
So once you've made you're house all lovely your mate can come and visit you. You can give him a tour of the town, show him local wildlife, show him some nice shops and more, but there's something much better than that.
What's this?
I mean when you visit his village. Muahahaha! This is when the real evil of Animal Crossing shines through. You do not simply come to visit him, oh no. Stealing all of things is what's REALLY fun. SO while you're playing along to the whole: "Oh, thanks for letting me into your village." You can steal his personal belongings and, even better, his best villagers. So if you see someone who you especially like, talk to them and steal them away to your town. Ha!
I may think Laurence Lowelyn Bowen is a complete... not very nice, but that doesn't mean decorating isn't good. Making my house look as good (Or bad) as possible is what I call a game! Just giving my home a personal look seems strangely satisfying.
It got to a point where I'm planning out what I should put where even though it shall never be. A lamp in the corner, the bed near the lamp to give a cosy, welcoming, feel to the place. Everyday I turn into that Laurence bloke everyday thanks to this game that won't even come out here, it's reduced me to a babbling idiot.
But what can't be can't be. All because of Nintendo.
It seems the West increasingly hates us PAL gamers. Yes, we may be getting the hugely generous Ura-Zelda/Ocarina Of Time Extra with the Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, but time and time we've had terrible decisions by them. Zelda is one example: the Wind Waker? What on earth were they thinking, he doesn't play the bagpipes and he doesn't have a fiddle, but his game is called the Wind Waker, it's terrible.
But this is like Nintendo getting a dagger, stabbing me clean in the heart and twisting it around for hours.
Surely Nintendo could have released it over here, one second the PAL version is being tested, the next it's been scrapped. I was so sure I'd play this game on a PAL 'Cube, but it seems not.
If Nintendo want to become more popular, they really do need to think about us PAL gamers, many a time we've been second fiddle to Japan and America. SEGA gave us extras that NTSC gamers didn't get, why can't you, Nintendo?
But I can see why they didn't sell it over here. The fact of the matter is, there are so many Casual Gamers in Europe who look and graphics and judge a game on them alone, it's doesn't matter about the gameplay to them. So Nintendo could have lost a lot of money.
Not really much of an excuse for making us gamers pay, but sadly, this is how industries work, and I hate it.
Well, it seems that I'll have to sit tight until Animal Crossing 2. Although I see problems with this, maybe it's because I hate online games, maybe it's because I don't want Animal Crossing to change.
If I don't get a free AC with AC2, I'll be having words with Nintendo.
Thanks for reading.
RiCkOsS
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Cheers for reading everyone!
But does anyone get the feeling that, after Doshin's bad sales, all of Nintendo's 'homegrown and off the wall' Japanese games won't get European release's?
Although Cubivore (Used to be Animal Leader) is getting released in America, like Animal Crossing, Nintendo won't feel that releasing it in Europe is needed? Like Animal Crossing, NoJ will give Cubivore a release and a 'Graphical Re-Work'.
For me, this would destroy the whole magical feeling of a farse world that doesn't look quite right. As queer as it may sound, simple graphics make Cubivore and Animal Crossing look something special; whether it's just because they stand out from other Next-Gen games or the feeling that it's the gameplay that's Next-Gen, not the graphics, the games look special.
How am I supposed to trust Nintendo again?
Oh me of little faith... ;-)
But does anyone get the feeling that, after Doshin's bad sales, all of Nintendo's 'homegrown and off the wall' Japanese games won't get European release's?
Although Cubivore (Used to be Animal Leader) is getting released in America, like Animal Crossing, Nintendo won't feel that releasing it in Europe is needed? Like Animal Crossing, NoJ will give Cubivore a release and a 'Graphical Re-Work'.
For me, this would destroy the whole magical feeling of a farse world that doesn't look quite right. As queer as it may sound, simple graphics make Cubivore and Animal Crossing look something special; whether it's just because they stand out from other Next-Gen games or the feeling that it's the gameplay that's Next-Gen, not the graphics, the games look special.
How am I supposed to trust Nintendo again?
Oh me of little faith... ;-)
Cubeivore will look nice on my shiny shiny Q...
Whitestripes wrote:
> Cubeivore will look nice on my shiny shiny Q...
*used to enjoy shiny Q dance, now bored*
"Hey, cool, History homework!"
*writes*
Ah well. It's good for some, eh WS? Shiny Q! Lucky beggar.
I really do hope I can convince my Folks to let me import a regular USA Cube. Then the importing can begin!
MWUAHAH!
> Cubeivore will look nice on my shiny shiny Q...
*used to enjoy shiny Q dance, now bored*
"Hey, cool, History homework!"
*writes*
Ah well. It's good for some, eh WS? Shiny Q! Lucky beggar.
I really do hope I can convince my Folks to let me import a regular USA Cube. Then the importing can begin!
MWUAHAH!
pfftt
regular?
amatuer
*does the shiny shiny Q dance* :D
regular?
amatuer
*does the shiny shiny Q dance* :D
Damn this multi-cultural Europe!
DAMN IT!
;)
DAMN IT!
;)
Cyclone wrote:
> Damn this multi-cultural Europe!
>
> DAMN IT!
>
Nick, I agree...
"We beat the German's back in '45, we should have nuked them and got them out the way!"
or at least taught them English.
:D
> Damn this multi-cultural Europe!
>
> DAMN IT!
>
Nick, I agree...
"We beat the German's back in '45, we should have nuked them and got them out the way!"
or at least taught them English.
:D
Trouble with this is, will the PAL NTSC issue ever be breached? It's far, far too expensive and trouble some to convert one reigion to the other. we will probably hav eto put up with this forever.
I know exactly how you felt, I felt the same way, the only game I wanted was Crossing.
And now I have it.
I love my two cubes. Buy a US one from goblin direct. with animal crossing and a link cable and a stepdown convertor. For £150.
And now I have it.
I love my two cubes. Buy a US one from goblin direct. with animal crossing and a link cable and a stepdown convertor. For £150.
Buy a shiny shiny Q, like me and Joby.
Whitestripes wrote:
> Buy a shiny shiny Q
thats too much hassle as you'll need it chipped if you want to play region 2 DVDs
> Buy a shiny shiny Q
thats too much hassle as you'll need it chipped if you want to play region 2 DVDs
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