Would you buy a remake of the Gamecube version of Animal Crossing?

[Amilee]

yes. i would even buy it if they just straight up port it to the switch haha

 

[kayleee]

I probably would, I really enjoyed Animal Crossing on GC as a kid and it would be fun to replay it as an adult.

 

[xlisapisa]

Definitely yes! I doubt they would ever release a remake of this game though; a port of the game is a lot more likely and I’d much rather prefer that over a remake anyways. But I’m not picky, any form of the OG animal crossing would be nice!

 

[Flicky]

Probably not... I'm tired of remakes and remasters, I want new games to play. I think that's why I'm turning to indie developers, it's something fresh.

 

[Ganucci]

I might, but I'd be more interested if they made a new game that more closely followed the mechanics of the first game and expanded upon them. I feel like Animal Crossing had two options with every game that was released. They could either lean into the customization aspect or lean into the life sim aspect. Obviously they leaned into the customization aspect, so I'd love to see a version of the game, even if they call it a spinoff, that explores this less forgiving but still charming route that they could have taken.

I'd want the game to have Mayor Tortimer again and any big projects need to go through him because you are just a townsperson with no special powers (although maybe you could work up to it over time). I'd want villagers being mean or shy and then warming up to you. I want villagers moving out against your will because it's their life. Sure, you can try and persuade them to stay, but it wouldn't always work. I want weeds to grow rapidly if you don't tend to your town and I'd want villagers to decorate their own yards. Time travel should strongly impact your town because if you jump a year, that means you were gone for a whole year! Maybe Tortimer thought you weren't coming back and knocked down your house, maybe your best villager friend got sad and moved out. I just want to feel like I'm really in a town of real "people" with real consequences. The first game explored this, but overtime they took the route of making things easier and more customization focus, which is fine and I love, but that's why I'd also want to see it take this route as well.

 

[daringred_]

a remake? sure, maybe, although i had a hard enough time adjusting to WW's limitations with the inventory. a direct port? no. not to sound like a snob, but the graphics of the original are just too poor for me to play. (yeah, i know, i'm a hypocrite since i revisited WW, but i also Already owned that game and only played for a week.) i don't play a lot of games older than the DS/wii for that reason alone. if it was remade, updated graphics are the only thing i'd want though. i wouldn't want the game babied down or anything in terms of resetti and villager aggression. we have NL and NH for people who don't like that.

 

[-Blue-]

You don't need good graphics to have a good game daring. I'm playing Stardew Valley and it's pretty good despite that its appearance resembles old-school SNES graphics. Still, if they polished the graphics just a tad to keep it clean and the same style of original PG I think it could work well.

As for changing the villagers to be more 'PC' they could easily make two modes. Normal mode and Weenie Hut Jr. lol

 

[LittleMissPanda]

I think I would, yeah. I love the snide, in-your-face comments & remarks the villagers had to say to you in Population Growing. They were not afraid to tell you how it is and they sure did not care to spare your feelings. The things they had to say were infinitely more interesting, fun and witty compared to later installments (i.e. New Leaf and New Horizons) I never really want to go talk to my neighbors anymore because they don't have anything funny to say. In Population Growing and Wild World there was clearly more gossip going around. The villagers in Population Growing, once you started talking to them, they started a FULL BLOWN conversation with you. And you could even pick several responses if prompted to do so, which made it more interesting to go talk to them again. NH does let you pick responses sometimes, yeah, just not as often if not ever.

Basically, I'd buy the game if it kept these things NH introduced such as:

• Villagers no longer randomly moving away​
• Being able to place furniture outdoors​
• 40 pocket inventory​
• Fences​
• Paths​
• Pumpkins​

And it re-introduced things from NL such as:

• Perfect fruit (also bring back bananas, lemons, persimmons, lychees and durians)
• Island tours (we desperately need them back)
• Stumps with patterns on them (Triforce, stars, hearts, etc.)
• The town plaza community tree (God I really miss it, it was nice to see it grow and mature the longer you played the game, and see it change with the seasons)

And omg I'd do anything for the OG soundtrack..... Population Growing has the BEST hourly tracks, right there with New Leaf. Man, that remake would be worth every penny.

 

[McRibbie]

In some ways, the original AC is the best game in the series. So yeah, I'd love to see it remade using NH's graphics engine.
However, I do have some provisions in order to do so:

• My biggest provision is "don't just remake Animal Crossing, remake EVERY VERSION of Animal Crossing". DnM, DnM+, DnMe+, even have some stuff from the iQue version that I only found out about this year. Let Redd sell Gyroids, K.K. airchecks and fruit during the fireworks show in addition to his balloons and fans. Be able to scan in amiibo cards to have one random villager you can't choose move out in favour of Raymond, but with the wrong personality because it's an AC remake with the 6 original personalities. Let me dress in a totally not McDonald's outfit and play the janken on a log minigame, dammit!
• Make the unknown announcer for events (that's assumed to be Pelly because she works in the town hall in WW/LGTTC and therefore does it there) Isabelle. Do it, cowards! Annoy the Isabelle hatedom by having her there!
• Modernise the items in the "can you get my item back?". Make the Game Boy a Switch, the Pokemon Pikachu a Ring-Con and the videotape a DVD.
• As far as QoL changes go, I want them to use a light touch. I don't want there to be the same level of over-QoLing that NH has to make it more design-orientated, or more geared to the type of Animal Crossing player who wants to avoid playing the game for multiple months at a time without any consequence. It's a remake, I want something close to the original dammit! At best, turn the NES into a single console that you can buy multiple cartridges for and give us some actual storage.
• As I've said before, I don't think "mean villagers" has as much to do with being PC as people in the AC fandom think it does, because it's not as if they're spouting racial slurs or being homophobic, which is the actual stuff people get offended by. At worst, there's some stuff calling you mentally ill that's a little ableist, but they rereleased Wild World on the Wii U Virtual Console in 2016 and the only change they appear to have made was getting rid of the friend requirement to unlock Nookington's, so there's no issue with rereleasing older games with this dialogue. It's almost as if it's got something to do with you being in charge of them, the fact that they're trying to localise things quicker, the increase in personalities, and potentially guidelines imposed by CERO/ESRB/PEGI to make sure it's suitable for all ages! However, I support them coming back for the Pure ACGC experience of being utterly shafted.

I also don't think this is going to happen, ever. I'd rather have features come back from it in NH, or an entirely new game, and I honestly don't think the AC devs themselves are interested in doing a remake... and tbh, while I think remakes have a place, there's kind of a problem with companies deciding to remake EVERYTHING, especially if it's not a defunct series that needs the waters around it tested.

Make something new with the same kind of spirit, don't just go "hey, that was good, let's do it again!"

 

[~Kilza~]

I'd buy it instantly if it made people stop calling the original Animal Crossing "Population Growing".

It would depend on what exactly a theoretical remake did, but I'd lean towards the side of no. It feels like it'd be hard for a remake to recapture the spirit of the original Animal Crossing, given how the franchise has evolved since it was released, which would dissuade me from wanting to pick up the remake.

Honestly, I feel like porting it to the Switch if/when Nintendo releases GameCube games for the NSO service would make more sense. Of course, the fact that Animal Island was locked behind the GCN-GBA link and the Train Station usage to visit other towns required other Gamecube memory cards obviously wouldn't work today. That said, given that Wild World's Wii U VC no longer tied unlocking Nookington's to having an online visitor buy/sell something from/to your Nook, they would hopefully be able to change an Animal Crossing port in a similar fashion to make both those places usable in a port, which would be good.

 

[SoftCrowbar]

I would. ACGC is one game I go back to often that I really love.

 

[DJStarstryker]

A remake that's just a graphical remake? No. I bought GC Animal Crossing when it came out back in the day. It honestly couldn't keep me entertained longer than the first few weeks. I'm old enough that I was actually an adult when it came out, so it's not a kid not understanding things thing. I do think I probably was in the wrong time of my life to fully enjoy it, but still... I really wanted to like it, but I just didn't. It wasn't until New Leaf that I finally liked AC.

 

[Boccages]

I don't see the point. Every Animal Crossing game is a remake of the previous one with added features, tweaked interface, added villagers (most of the time), and better graphics. I would not go back to a previous version, even if prettied up.

 

[kiwikenobi]

I personally wouldn't buy a remake or a port of the Gamecube Animal Crossing, because I still have my original copy of the game, and a Gamecube to play it on, and even my old memory card with my very first town on it. And also I don't miss it and don't care about playing it anymore, updated or not. I had my fill of it, and if I ever want to revisit it, I already have it.

If they remade New Leaf on the Switch, on the other hand... Like, exactly the same, just in HD, and with more control over villager house placement/moving like New Horizons... There's a good chance I'd snap that right up. I've been missing New Leaf lately, even while I've been playing New Horizons.

 

[Mutti]

I would love a switch port of the game as the gamecube version has some of the most fun mini events throughout the year such as the lighthouse and Gracie's car

 

[satine]

YES. One hundred percent, I'd LOVE that so much. There are many features in the old GC that would seem like a culture shock compared to what we have today -- graphics included, perhaps -- but there is a certain charm that GC had that this current one doesn't have for me -- the post office, the more authentic and varied villager personalities, the gyroids, et cetera -- that I miss very sorely!

 

[o013 WOLF 130o]

I would. I dont remember much but I do know there was more to do in the original just not as much stuff. I'd like to be able to kick a ball again and have the dump back. I really liked the dump. We have lost and found now and it's nice, but there was just somthing about the dump.

 

[moonshi]

I have never play the GameCube version so I would buy a copy to see what it's all about, but I would rather they spend time coming up with new contents for NH.