Dumb things you did in AC when you were new to it

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Title is self-explanatory. Name off some things you did in Animal Crossing when you were new to the series so that we may mock/relate to you. :p

Seeing as how I only started playing these games last December with little to no prior knowledge of anything, I did some severely stupid things that you have permission to chuckle at.

- Couldn't figure out how to pick up things at first. I remember being really frustrated with the game because I had no idea how to pick up fruit. I figured out relatively quickly that it's the Y button, and to this day I have no idea how I didn't try to press that at first.
- Ran around like a maniac. We've all done this at some point, either in CF (guessing because that's the only game in the NA released series that I have yet to play) or in NL. Had no idea it messed up the grass at first. Now I avoid running unless I'm too tired or impatient to care.
- Gave my villagers stupid catchphrases/greetings. Made Bob's greeting a confession of his love for me. That got old pretty fast, even though he's a cutie.
- Diana started wearing this really ugly shirt in one of my old towns so I kept asking Isabelle to change it. Needless to say, it didn't work and I was very confused. To make matters worse she kept saying that her outfit was gaudy! Back then I didn't know that was a common snooty conversation and it really bothered me. Like take my advice and just change!
- I used to hit some of my favorite villagers on the head with my net 'cause I thought it was funny to make them depressed or mad.
- I TT'd recklessly and lost another Diana again in an old town. She was a completely random move in as well.
- Had absolutely no idea how to change the greeting and signature of a letter until a few weeks ago. Randomly found out that you had to use the arrows. In my defense no one tells you about it and when you're looking just at the keyboard you're not really paying attention to the arrows.

This just applies to WW and I find it really funny looking back:
- When I first started it it just happened to be Flea Market Day, and there either wasn't a message saying it was or I simply wasn't paying attention. When I settled in all my neighbors started coming in my house randomly and I just thought it was normal, but when I noticed that all of them just wanted to buy my candle and radio without even saying hello, I got upset and thought the villagers in WW were all just jerks who wanted to use me for my stuff.

LEMONSSSS
:lemon::lemon:LEMONSSSSS!
 
In Animal Crossing GC I would bury trash. I couldn't figure out how to get rid of it without "selling" it to tom nook and it looked pretty ugly. In hind site - the recycle bin was very confusing to begin with.
 
Most of this applies to wild world

- I named my first town 'home' because I was asked where I wanted to go.
- I learnt that every time I TT'd back to my birthday it was the flea market, so whenever I needed to sell my stuff expensive I would TT back to that day. WELL, that was before I learnt that my birthday wasn't a special day and that flea markets happen every first Saturday of each month
- I accidentally hit one of my villagers with a net and thought it was pretty funny so I kept doing it until the villager got mad at me
- Every time they asked for greetings, I changed them to 'Wassup baby' cause I was lame
- During the flower fest, I stole all my villagers flowers so I could win
- Finding villagers to deliver letters and stuff was too difficult so I dug holes around them so I could easily come back to them

As for new leaf, the only thing I really failed to do was pick up things and I used switch tools by going into my pockets and pulling them out.
 
I also didn't know how to pick up when I first played New Leaf. I thought it was the B button because in previous games it has always been the B button.
I picked a face that I ended up hating just because of how bland it was.
 
In new leaf I ate the perfect fruit XD
And I gave a lot of lame catchphrases to the villagers.
Oh, and completely broke Marhal?s "original" state.
 
I used to sit with my gate open all day without adding anyone, waiting for people to come in because I thought you could go to anyones town and anyone could come over.
 
I wasted a bunch of hibiscus starts by planting them right next to my house. I was thoroughly confused when they died, so I looked into it and found out you can't plant bushes willy-nilly like flowers. Disappointed..
 
I still run all the time, ain't got no time for walking slowly. :p

As for me, I obviously wasn't aware of how important the town layout actually is and my first town layout was kind of a mess.
 
In the GameCube version I would shake trees all the time, and get stung by bees, but I don't do it anymore.
 
I ate the perfect fruit
I smacked villagers with nets
I surrounded villagers houses with layers of pitfall seeds
I buried all of the lost items in NL and trash in GC.
In GC, every fruit I picked, I would eat it and wait for my person to poop.

Yeah.... I did some stupid stuff....
 
Most of this applies to wild world

- I named my first town 'home' because I was asked where I wanted to go.
- I learnt that every time I TT'd back to my birthday it was the flea market, so whenever I needed to sell my stuff expensive I would TT back to that day. WELL, that was before I learnt that my birthday wasn't a special day and that flea markets happen every first Saturday of each month
- I accidentally hit one of my villagers with a net and thought it was pretty funny so I kept doing it until the villager got mad at me
- Every time they asked for greetings, I changed them to 'Wassup baby' cause I was lame
- During the flower fest, I stole all my villagers flowers so I could win
- Finding villagers to deliver letters and stuff was too difficult so I dug holes around them so I could easily come back to them

As for new leaf, the only thing I really failed to do was pick up things and I used switch tools by going into my pockets and pulling them out.

LOL I can relate to the "home" mistake. Too funny.
 
When I was younger I thought it was absolutely hysterical to make the catchphrase of my neighbour's, "I'm gay" and this one time, Elvis approached me and he was like, "Conor, I have a secret that I never told anyone... Keep this between you and me, Okay? I'm gay." I died.
 
On that day in WW when you had to tell nice things to your villagers, I made all of them say "I'm very ugly". Man, it was really easy to have fun as an 8 years old... :)
 
i used to write love letters to my villagers in the GC version. no joke. i had a huge crush on admiral.
i think my love for him was passed on to my current best friend, butch.
 
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