What will Animal Crossing for Wii U be like?

[MDofDarkheart]

Try doing an AC game release date order.
Gamecube -
WW -
City folk -
NL - June 9th 2013
Wii u - ?

 

[Prof Gallows]

There isn't any sort of order to it though.

The games tend to have a 4-5 year space in between of them, but that doesn't necessarily mean that's how long it'll be. It could be longer than that, and I feel it will be considering how long it's taken them to release Wii U games already.

Expecting a Wii U game before getting the 3DS one is kinda pushing it anyway. You'll all be waiting a very long time.

 

[MDofDarkheart]

I agree with you Gallows.
It is going to take some time.
I mean the New Leaf Version for 3DS took a long time.

 

[Hey Listen!]

I'd say that 3 years a wait isn't that long of a time. I compulsively started this thread out of my pure excitement for the Wii U a long time ago.

 

[Prof Gallows]

I wasn't putting the subject of the thread on trial or anything. =p


The time in between of City Folk and New Leaf is about four years. Which is about how long I've been on TBT.
That really is a pretty long time for some people. As I've mentioned before, a lot of the newer members don't really understand the difference on how it's been for TBT members waiting for a game than it is from them waiting.

Ever since the game was announced, some of us have come on every single day. In three years alone that is 1095 days. Plus a day for the leap year. lol
It's a very long wait if you spend every day waiting for it like that.

Which is why I said a lot of people will be waiting a pretty long time. Because I don't see an AC Wii U game coming for at least another five or six years.

 

[Hey Listen!]

I was being a little bit sarcastic. Yeah this wait has been painful, but this year has gone by really fast. Hah, I had this thought yesterday that once New Leaf came out we would forget about it and move right on to finding Nintendo conspiracies on when the next game will be out. I get that thought every time I look at this thread.

 

[Prof Gallows]

Yeah, this year has gone by very fast so far. Seems like ever since January hit the days have been flying by.

I'd give it a few months before people start getting serious about a new game, though. There are always a few who play for like, two months and then expect something brand new. lol

 

[Steve Canyon]

What I hope is that they start on the new Animal Crossing soon, now that theyre done with New Leaf. I kind of hope its on the Wii U and doesnt get put off until some even newer system is announced. I will get a Wii U just for Animal Crossing if I dont already have one by then. But I think I will since they are supposed to re-do Wind Waker for it soon. Ill buy any console that they make a Zelda or Animal Crossing for.

I wasnt thrilled that I would be mayor in New Leaf, just the idea of having a job in the game is weird (I hated working for Nook) But I do like the community projects so I hope it is included in the next version even if its through bell donations. I would really like a rotatable view of my town, my favorite games are ones I can get turned around and lost in. And much larger towns! with lost of different areas to travel to besides other player villages. I would keep the short squat characters from the previous ones, make taller trees, and give you a lower perspective on your character so it would feel like you were actually in the forest. I dont care for the city, and I dont care for the tropical theme in New Leaf. I want a more foresty feel, but thats just me. Besides just adding tons of new items, villagers, and customization options, thats all id change.

 

[Superpenguin]

The addition of the element of weight.

 

[Cardbored]

Hopefully with how popular New Leaf is in Japan it'll give them an idea of how to make an AC game for the Wii U without it ending up like City Folk. It'd have to be something new, but not go too far from its roots. What if the geography had a complete makeover? Your town would be ten times bigger than it was in Animal Crossing GC and there'd be a new landscape. Instead of completely flat land we could have hills. Just throwing ideas out.

 

[Officer Berri]

I dunno. I can't imagine hills being very aesthetically pleasing with the point of view we have in the games. Might just get in the way and make it hard to see stuff. Unless you mean hills like the levels in Population Growing and City Folk.

Having a downward slope at the top of the screen instead of moving downward towards the beach could be problematic since objects and maybe villagers would be hidden behind the cliff face below the player. The game designs could probably work around it though and make it work. @_@ But thinking about it makes me feel disoriented for some reason.

 

[Stargirl]

Oh, my Goodness, I can't even think about a possibly AC game for the Wii U until New Leaf comes out. And, even if it does come out for Wii U, I don't think I'll be getting another new system just for AC. (That's what I did with my 3DS. Got it just for AC:NL)

 

[Officer Berri]

Yeah the Wii U has to get a lot of really exciting and worthwhile games for me to ever consider buying it at this point. I bought my Xbox 360 just for Viva Pinata: Trouble in paradise. ...Because of that I never got a PS3 and I missed out on a ton of games that I desperately want to play. ;-; Most of my games I got for Xbox I could have played on PlayStation!

Nintendo, you gotta make it worth it! Plus I love animal crossing in a convenient, take anywhere package.

This one's a shot in the dark and probably will never happen but. LET ME MEET MY MOM. Let it be a random 'holiday' type day where mom/dad npc shows up.

 

[colinx]

Keep things New Leaf has including mayor, community projects ect.
Enhance older features, allow us to further customize our houses. Give us blank canvas roofs ect. and give us a tool set of brushes and let us color and shade in the roof the colors and designs we want.
Let us design the layout of our home.
Give us more places to visit and make the Animal Crossing world feel bigger. Give us a cave where we can go mining, a forest where we can go hunting(kidding!!). Would be cool if there were different islands with different families and we could control and boat or fly a plane around the Animal Crossing world and use the gamepad to steer a plane.
Maybe an arcade where we could play retro games and earn tickets for prizes.
Bring back some quirky things such as aerobics.
One thing that may seem far off, but how about allowing friends via online build homes in your town? Limits of course!!!

Yea, a lot of my ideas seem far off, but I think they're cool.

 

[Officer Berri]

An airplane seems a bit much to me. If you need a plane to travel around I'd say the world is a little TOO big. Places should be near enough that you can ride a bus or get their on foot or something. The point of animal crossing is living in a small town populated by animals, not going all over the world and doing things that aren't in your town. If we could go somewhere like a forest or cave, it should only be for small things like collecting special fossils or rarer insects and flowers.

 

[colinx]

An airplane seems a bit much to me. If you need a plane to travel around I'd say the world is a little TOO big. Places should be near enough that you can ride a bus or get their on foot or something. The point of animal crossing is living in a small town populated by animals, not going all over the world and doing things that aren't in your town. If we could go somewhere like a forest or cave, it should only be for small things like collecting special fossils or rarer insects and flowers.

Well to clarify the idea, I mean't like a propellor plane and I mean fly around as in a small area and land on other islands. Obviously it would never happen, but its food for thought, eh? My other ideas are much more plausible.

 

[Pokeking]

Animal Crossing New Leaf plus the multilevel terrain aspect of the console games.

Also give us the ability to make simple accessories. Like take a circle template such as that used for Blanca's face in the GCN version/the GCN door template to make a mask.

 

[Cardbored]

I dunno. I can't imagine hills being very aesthetically pleasing with the point of view we have in the games. Might just get in the way and make it hard to see stuff. Unless you mean hills like the levels in Population Growing and City Folk.

Having a downward slope at the top of the screen instead of moving downward towards the beach could be problematic since objects and maybe villagers would be hidden behind the cliff face below the player. The game designs could probably work around it though and make it work. @_@ But thinking about it makes me feel disoriented for some reason.

I guess you have a point there. I think I'm just tired of the same 3 cliffs and a beach template, although they sort of fixed that in New Leaf. I'm hoping that the town in the next game is a lot bigger than the GC one. Big enough so that you could spend maybe a good half an hour (or less) exploring it.

 

[oath2order]

I didn't think the GC town was that big...

 

[Officer Berri]

Yeah I think the acre system in Population Growing only gives the illusion the town is huge. Since it takes longer to go from side to side due to all the screen transitions. I never felt it was that much bigger than my Wild World town.