Are you losing interest in New Leaf?

[Mookie]

I have lost interest in some parts of the game, and play about the same amount of time but in a different way. I no longer shake every tree, dig fossils, water every flower, dive for scallops, hop multiple islands, and a few other things. I do reset a dozen or so times with a new character to check the campers before each "real" session, since my main goal right now is a good tenth villager. I may destroy a PWP or path and move it over a space or two. I pick flowers to allow spacing for hybrids, and rearrange them by color. I talk to every villager at least once a day to check for movers. Mostly fine turning type stuff, since all the major work is done.

 

[Emily]

No way am I loosing interest; If anything, I'm gaining interest! But I do admit after school started I think many people have put their 3ds' down, or are playing other games *cough* Pokemon *cough*

 

[clovetic]

Yes, which is why I'm intentionally not playing it for days at a time. But I really don't see Pokemon as a replacement for AC, just looks kind of meh to me.

 

[Ichigo Senpai]

I still play A LOT on the weekends, but because of school on weekdays, i play less Monday through Friday....sadly. But either way, i'm definitely not losing interest, at least right now, even though i neglect to play on weekdays. Haha

 

[autumnleavesxo]

Maybe slightly - when I first got it, I had the whole "omg, new game, must play every second I get" attitude, but now I've calmed down on it a bit and play it less, but I haven't lost interest - I still play every day and chat to my villagers/do stuff every day on there for at least 30 minutes

 

[gabriursa]

Yep. I feel like I've accomplished everything I've needed to on the game, I have 77m in the bank, a fully completed house with themes and a HHA rating of 1,125,000. I have the T&T Emporium, all shops, all PWP that are necessary and a perfectly laid out town with paths and everything. If I ever go on, it's to harvest perfect fruits and check turnip prices, and that's gotten boring for me. I've done everything I can to take everything I can out of this game. Not played since last Monday when I started Pokemon Y properly.

 

[cannedcommunism]

No, I'm still trying to get all my dreamies!

 

[LinDUNguin]

Nah, not really. I was uninterested for a little while when my town was underdeveloped and filled with villagers I hated (they even followed me from previous AC games). I ended up getting all my dreamies about a week ago, so now it's a matter of developing my town, perfecting my neighbor's houses, catchphrases, etc. and developing my own house I don't plan to get bored with AC for a while. It's still fun playing with friends and getting badges too. If you play it like you would most games, then I could understand getting bored with it, especially if you time travel to complete all the events over and over again. That's how I got bored in the previous AC games.

 

[ACVillager]

I've played AC games for years, and this has happened to me, even with previous versions but it's only ever a small phase, and then out of nowhere i get really interested again, and it's back and forth. When AC seems boring, try designing your town, if it's already designed, then change the layout of things, change up your path pattern etc. It's the most fun part. I often get a bit too caught up in my town and i forget about my house and enjoying the simple pleasures of the game e.g. fishing, talking to villagers, harassing the ones i hate. I also love the dream suite, because you can get a breath of freshair from your own town, and get inspiration from others. I also like going to Club Tortimer just to chat with randomers.

 

[Diableos]

Unfortunately, yes. The thing that gets me with it is that the game wants you to be playing every day. It wants you to play on one day, but then wait for the next day for a lot of things. The chores don't seem like it at first, but eventually it just becomes a drag to be doing the same thing day in, day out. At the start of the game, NL just keeps making you wait. During the mid-game, you're waiting but you're also doing set things each day. Towards the end-game, you're running out of things you "need" to do, and if you stop playing as much, your villagers really make you feel guilty about it. It gets on my nerves sometimes. If the game wanted me to play every few days, that would at least be acceptable. Sometimes I just don't want to play, maybe I'm too busy, or I just want to play other games. If you don't play the game for a week or so, it's entirely possible that you'll be punished for it by losing your favourite villager because for whatever reason, no one else but you can convince them to stay.

I love the game, I really do. The beautiful town ordinance really takes the stress of watering your flowers away, especially once your town is covered in them. Eventually you'll pay off all of your home loans and you'll be pretty much set with how your PWPs are, taking away the need for a lot of money. You won't need to make it as often, and you'll probably just play each day to talk to your villagers and check the shops in the end. You'll donate every single fossil and you just won't need to dig up any new ones or hunt for the money rock. The gem rock is the only thing you'll be interested in if you still want the gems. The same thing goes for harvesting your perfect fruits - once you've paid off everything that you want to, you won't even need to harvest them anymore and they simply become decorations.

It's still fun to me and I enjoy it when I do play it... but I don't want to play it because I feel like I have to. I want to start the game up and play it because I chose to, not because I feel obligated to. If there is an AC game on the Wii U, I really hope there's some kind of system that will let you be able to take a break from the game or something. I honestly don't believe that the town cannot function without you, especially considering the only thing you're even needed for is the final say-so in the building of projects and setting of ordinances. You have no say on villagers moving in or where they move in, and you're still the one that has to get your hands dirty.

I'm still going to have fond memories of the game. I played it every chance I could when I first got it, but now that the initial excitement and hype has worn off, I just want to play it when I feel like it. :/

 

[Sabs]

No, I plan to expand! I am thinking about getting another game modul to start a third city!
I have so many ideas for towns that I can't realize in one game only.
WW held my attention for almost two years, too!

 

[Cazqui]

A little bit, there's just more to do that's exciting in pokemon X

 

[Unidentified Floor Orange]

Spoiler

Unfortunately, yes. The thing that gets me with it is that the game wants you to be playing every day. It wants you to play on one day, but then wait for the next day for a lot of things. The chores don't seem like it at first, but eventually it just becomes a drag to be doing the same thing day in, day out. At the start of the game, NL just keeps making you wait. During the mid-game, you're waiting but you're also doing set things each day. Towards the end-game, you're running out of things you "need" to do, and if you stop playing as much, your villagers really make you feel guilty about it. It gets on my nerves sometimes. If the game wanted me to play every few days, that would at least be acceptable. Sometimes I just don't want to play, maybe I'm too busy, or I just want to play other games. If you don't play the game for a week or so, it's entirely possible that you'll be punished for it by losing your favourite villager because for whatever reason, no one else but you can convince them to stay.

I love the game, I really do. The beautiful town ordinance really takes the stress of watering your flowers away, especially once your town is covered in them. Eventually you'll pay off all of your home loans and you'll be pretty much set with how your PWPs are, taking away the need for a lot of money. You won't need to make it as often, and you'll probably just play each day to talk to your villagers and check the shops in the end. You'll donate every single fossil and you just won't need to dig up any new ones or hunt for the money rock. The gem rock is the only thing you'll be interested in if you still want the gems. The same thing goes for harvesting your perfect fruits - once you've paid off everything that you want to, you won't even need to harvest them anymore and they simply become decorations.

It's still fun to me and I enjoy it when I do play it... but I don't want to play it because I feel like I have to. I want to start the game up and play it because I chose to, not because I feel obligated to. If there is an AC game on the Wii U, I really hope there's some kind of system that will let you be able to take a break from the game or something. I honestly don't believe that the town cannot function without you, especially considering the only thing you're even needed for is the final say-so in the building of projects and setting of ordinances. You have no say on villagers moving in or where they move in, and you're still the one that has to get your hands dirty.

I'm still going to have fond memories of the game. I played it every chance I could when I first got it, but now that the initial excitement and hype has worn off, I just want to play it when I feel like it. :/

^This (just put in a spoiler tag to make my post not be gigantic)

I realized something was very wrong when stuff like shaking trees/digging fossils/checking shops/talking to villagers ended up on my mental To Do list for the day, along with things like work on homework/do laundry/pay bills/etc. It is one of the reasons I threw my cartridge in the trash (I knew I would procrastinate about selling it or trading it in and probably change my mind multiple times), the other being the chronic resetting I was experiencing.

It's a great game, don't get me wrong. But the combo of me + game was unhealthy lol.

I think there's many things that could be tweaked to make the game more friendly for people who don't want to or can't play everyday. This is just a small example, but maybe have fossils build up like weeds? I mean, it's not like they can sprout legs and walk out of town.

 

[Wish]

I think its a very unique game, it's my favorite game
I will never get bored of the concept of it but the game itself is a bit repetitive

I play it as much as I can

 

[ThatACfan]

Not at all.

 

[Cloud Arcanine]

Yes sadly

 

[Souji]

Sometimes yes, if I'm having an off-day everything will taste like wood and I'm not really enjoying New Leaf as much as on normal days. This is my one of my favorite games but if there's nothing else to do than chores, I will just do them in 10 minutes and then maybe touch the game on the next day.

 

[puppy]

i havent played it since even before XY was released.
it was fun while it lasted but... i dont see the appeal in playing it anymore

i didn't take the game very seriously to begin with, and its so weird to me that other people do
i time traveled all the time
treated almost all my villagers like crap
i even duped because i just didnt care enough not to
and these things werent what made me tired of animal crossing. i got tired of the redundancy of it; the recycled conversations, the single little map, the lack of an actual plot... all turn offs for me

 

[JCnator]

I definitely lost quite a lot of interest in New Leaf, almost after a year of playing the game. Once a couple of months went in, the game tends to gravitate towards the chore-fest. 80% of my time consists on doing daily grind (pulling weeds out, talking to villagers, etc...). Therefore, it has lost its lusters on me. I wish there are much more varied events (they don't necessarily need to be related to real life at all).
Also, gameplay flaws such as clunky interface and questionable online assets (they're still re-using the outdated Wild World/City Folk assets in there!!) made the game more unbearable than it should be.

I'm still playing it every few days, but don't expect me to last after June 2014. Other video games and my real life will be calling me sooner or later, even if I don't know when this will happen.

 

[Sun]

I stopped playing around the end of August/beginning of September.

I agree with posts above that said it started getting chore-like and repetitive/redundant.

I also wish I didn't feel obligated to log in everyday. That was a real turn-off for me. So, I put it in stasis and will just change the date on my DS to the day I stopped playing so my villagers stay where they are haha.

I'm really enjoying Pokemon X now. It kind of feels like a hybrid of the original Pokemon games & AC to me--what with the new character customization options and unlocking shop/character functions and all