Feels like there's so little to do in Animal Crossing: NL?

[Detilate]

My basic routine is...
Wake up, sell the bugs from the island I caught last night (if I did), check the stores and buy stuff so they can get upgraded, dig for fossils and rocks to get gem/money and then I basically run out of things to do.
At night I go to the island and catch bugs and repeat.

What else can I do?

 

[Byngo]

Oh my god. You must not have played previous versions, because there was so much less in the older games.

One thing I'll add that you can do is find friendly people online and play with them. It makes things more exciting~

 

[Detilate]

Oh my god. You must not have played previous versions, because there was so much less in the older games.

One thing I'll add that you can do is find friendly people online and play with them. It makes things more exciting~

I played Animal Crossing: Wild World on Nintendo DS Lite.
Idk, the game just feels so small to me.

I have added a lot of people in this forum and go to their world but it gets boring after a while.
What could I do?

 

[LemyLekySama]

I feel like they could have made the game, like, bigger with more to do on a daily basis, too.

 

[Wish]

I kind of know what you mean, although new leaf is a brand new game there's not really many new upgrades

 

[Byngo]

Hmm... AC:NL's fun is lasting a heck of a lot longer than any other AC games. Surely you felt the same of Wild World?

 

[Mint]

I sometimes feel this way too. :c I made money from turnips and don't even bother with the island anymore.
I pretty much just buy from the shops, decorate my town a little bit and that's about it for the day.

I found WW to be worse. I only played it for about two months before I got bored. I also had no one to wifi with in WW though.

 

[burnside]

This worries me.

 

[majnin]

I see no problem with NL. In WW I never ran out of things to do for ages but I had cousins that I played and traded with to keep it interesting. I suppose if you never talk or meet up with people, it can get quite boring. But NL is just a giant expansion. Everywhere I turn there's something new to explore! I love it.

 

[Solar]

This worries me.

Same. I can already feel the effects of it :/

 

[ben_nyc]

This worries me.

Here's a brown paper bag- blow into it buddy. *pats back*

@Detil- Mhuhahahahah, you forgot to shake the trees for 2x pieces of furniture a day (lots of coins too)! I guess that means your schedule must be ALTERED, eh? ^o^

IMO, I don't mind. I spend more time on Tours w/ Friends & visiting + hosting visitors. You could also run paths & try designing patterns for garments- the fanfair there is VAST.

 

[Superpenguin]

I don't know, I've never been at a loss as to what to do in the game.

I usually wake up before any shops open, so I go around finding my fossils(they've been very tough to find lately. -_-), watering my flowers, looking for any hybrids, talking to villagers, looking for the money/gem rock, and shaking trees. Then I go shopping, start recreating more furniture. Then, I usually open my gate or I will look for another town that's open, and if nothing's going on, I usually just get off and go back on later.

Then of course events that I don't do on a daily basis whether it's because I simply can't, or because I don't feel like it include Dream Suite, Island, visiting a special NPC, camping games, fishing, bug catching.

 

[Datsu]

I almost find the opposite problem, I wish I had more time to play this. Then again, I'm taking a bunch of business classes right now that demand a lot of my attention. But still, I play it for over an hour a day, and I don't think I'll ever run out of things to do. I've only played online a couple times, but I still think this game has insane replay value. I talk to the villagers (for some reason I've always found that to be a blast), I run around and make my town look nice, I breed flowers, I try to catch any fish that I can, and I work on my orchard. Then again, I don't go to the island every day to farm beetles like a lot of people, so things like river fishing and catching bugs are still fun for me.

 

[Gizmodo]

Theres definitely way more to do than previous installments imo..
if i do restart my game, hm, it wil revitalise it even more

 

[Attribule]

From a stand-alone perspective it's almost without content, previous titles aside.

There isn't much to do whatsoever, and it clearly isn't designed to be played for longer periods of time a day like other games. The entire franchise is based on just doing your daily routines and nothing more.

You could get maybe 2~3hours tops per day of normal gameplay. Don't even attempt to push it further than that unless you really enjoy repeating those tiny routines for longer as some do.

 

[Kat]

I also have the opposite problem! I feel like I never have enough time to play! There is so much to do - I sometimes don't even have enough time to do the daily routine you were describing, but above and beyond that I wish I had more time so that I can send letters to my villagers every day, talk to each one every day, decorate my house, try different outfits on, and do landscaping on my town!

 

[Littlemyuu]

I still got lots to do, even with all the shops unlocked,
I put my little flowers all nice, breed more flowers, write my villagers a message each day.
Even if I got nothing to do ( mostly midnight ) I just sit in my room and watch the tv static haha.

 

[Kaiaa]

Animal Crossing is not meant to be played for more than about an hour or so a day. Try spacing out your activities throughout the day and adding fishing and landscaping. Talk to your villagers more and do some errands for them when they ask!

 

[Sena]

Animal Crossing is not meant to be played for more than about an hour or so a day.

I disagree, but it's pointless to really debate it. It's just kind of silly to say there's only one right way to play a sandbox game.

 

[Lin]

Maybe you're just getting older so the simplicity bores you. .-.