What is keeping you from going insane waiting for this game?

[Yonk Raccoon]

Like Jumpman, I also have a backlog of story-driven single-player games, but, like most people who are on a forum in 2020 for Animal Crossing, the series kind of raised me. Heck-- the soundtrack is what taught me Maj7 chords and eventually led me to studying as a VGM composer. So, in short, I miss living with the music almost every day and can't WAIT to know what it feels like. Also, this is the kind of game where there isn't a substitute for within another. If I can say a third main reason, designing content for other players (even if no one used them or told me they did) filled a hole in my soul that only New Leaf did. I wonder what the clothes creation looks like! The Able Sister's theme loops in my brain with such a creative, problem-solving energy.

 

[pinkfawn]

I'm still working on my Pokedex in Shield, the announcement of the DLC got me excited for the games again and I wanted to finish the National Dex and get the shiny charm to go shiny hunting.

Lately I've been watching my boyfriend play Twilight Princess on the Wii U, neither of us have played it before so its pretty interesting. I really do find myself thinking a lot about New Horizons though, waiting is getting really, really hard but we're so close now. I'll probably post again this time next month with what I'm doing to pass the time then. We're also looking into buying a house so a lot of our time now is spent looking at houses. It's a little stressful but I'm hoping not to worry about it too much.

 

[Romaki]

Eh, dreaming about the days were waiting for a game was the most annoying thing in my life. Seriously though, it's kinda sad that this time around I'll get an Animal Crossing title where I can't just relax with it for a couple of weeks. At least I can always occupy my mind with all the Switch games I've yet to finish.

 

[LeAckerman]

I kinda stop looking at all the analysis videos about the game and sorta put the game in the back of my mind. I just waste my time by playing some Splatoon 2 and eventually I plan to get an Xbox for reasons, so that'll keep me busy for a while until release : )

But then I see some minor news about the game and suddenly time goes by so slow reee ;-;

 

[poweradeex]

The memes and discussion on here and reddit.

 

[MissShema]

I'm putting myself in a cryosleep till march 20th

 

[sierra]

In 2019, when I heard it was coming out I was happy, not too overwhelmed. I didn’t even watch the Nintendo trailer. Now that it’s a month away I’m gnawing at the bit. I’ve watch the trailer 50 times, analysis videos everyday, brainstorming town names. I have no chill. Chill has been compromised.

 

[sauceisis]

I'm dying on the inside honestly, but just reading about the information we know so far and stalking the forums and reddit has kept me going everyday. I know my fiance is getting tired of me bombarding him with animal crossing stuff haha

 

[Antonio]

I'm already insane so I can't go any further.

 

[Feraligator]

Shameless self advertising, but I like to produce music in the style of Animal Crossing.

I've been working on it since 2017, but now I'm waiting for the new songs so I can remix them.

 

[Xara]

i?ve honestly been playing gameplay videos on youtube; it makes me a bit more but it?s keeping me sane lol

 

[satine]

Honestly? The insanity of my schedule at the moment. This is the busiest I've ever been school wise, work wise and personally in my whole life. I've actually had to use my iCalendar on my desktop to keep track of things -- and I'd never used a calendar/day planner before. It's kind of overwhelming to look at it and see pretty much every hour of my day, every day blocked off. :,) But! It does make it go by a tiiiiny bit faster! So I appreciate that. During my free time around Christmas last year, I was very very antsy about it! I couldn't stop thinking about it! So this helps a ton.

 

[Sanaki]

School and other priorities.

 

[John Wick]

Playing Airport Mania on my phone. >..<

 

[band]

I don't get HOW y'all are so patient, I can't wait!!!! I look on YouTube every day for a new video about animal crossing, even if already know about the information they talk about LOL. I'm a huge fanatic of the game and am so excited for it, release day can't come soon enough!

My work schedule has time moving pretty quickly though, unfortunately I'll have to put on a concert 5 days after release so I can't really relax with the game until after that's over. :-(

 

[RETSAMDET]

Mostly, I'm just trying to keep up with other daily concerns. I do think I'm checking for ACNH news more frequently than I should, but it's mostly in the evenings plus the occasional break during the day. Life is fairly busy, so I don't have a ton of time to dwell on the upcoming ACNH release. My preorder is in, and it will get here when it gets here.

If anything, I've become a little stuck regarding what to do next in my ACNL town (I still have some landscaping I want to do, but I can't quite figure out what approach to take), which is perhaps dampening my enthusiasm a bit. I think I'll feel better once I figure out what my next goal should be. Still, starting a new ACNL town last spring has helped tide me over until ACNH's release.

Aside from that on the games front, I built up quite the backlog during the fall (and I already had a lot of games I wanted to play before that), so I'm playing some titles across a variety of genres. This year has been really slow for me for new game purchases so far, but I'm also thinking of trying Rune Factory 4 Special at the end of February (never played the original), and then I'm excited for the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon remake in early March. Between those, existing games, real life, and various other plans (I'm trying to plan a weekend trip sometime later this month), I have enough to keep me occupied.

I do really want more news, though. I feel like we know next to nothing about these games. I also really want to know whether I can use my Amiibo cards to import my favorite villagers again.

 

[Ghoste]

Sleep and Pokemon!

 

[KeatAlex]

Broke my ankle, so dealing with that mostly.

 

[Aubrey895]

I try not to think about it much. But when each little trailer comes out I spend like 3 days obsessing over it lol. But playing Pok?mon and planet zoo helps.

 

[wrenbow]

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