I’m now ready to pack my bags and move into the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Thanks, Nintendo! In fact, I won’t even need to bring much. There’s enough in the Animal Crossing: New Horizons booth to sustain myself for a bit: a tent, a fire, fruit, a waterfall, a fishing rod, and, of course, Tom Nook.
After playing New Leaf for a bit to remind myself how much I enjoy the series and letting my boy loose in my town I think we'll be getting a copy to play between us on the same switch.
It would be nice to have our own islands, but might be equally cool to just have our own characters sharing the same land.
Will buy physical to see if this works out.
Saw a new commercial with a ladder tool for going up/down cliffs. So cool.
Love that there are so many options for traversal, even though there's teraforming now too. This is going to be fun.
I think I need to name my island Misadventure.
10 character limit. Which is better than the old 8.
Found that out from this one twitter account, @ACPocketNews. Been meaning to share that all week. He's doing a great job of putting information together from various sources, previews, commercials, the PAX demo, etc.
Look through the feed, and there have been loads of revelations this week. Hairstyles, facial hair styles, character creator, animated wallpapers, patterns on furniture, so so much more. I can't even remember it all, feels like information overload. But everything I've seen looks like an improvement over previous games.
Sitting at my local Walmart waiting to buy console at midnight. First in line, whee.
I'm not sure I need this new version right now, as am really enjoying getting back into New Leaf. Have played pretty much every day for the last few weeks. Not sure I'd play quite as much on the less portable Switch. It's helping me to appreciate the 3DS again, ability to pop in pocket and grab few minutes of gameplay here and there when able. That's just so well matched to Animal Crossing style of play.
I think we'll be firing up the 3ds this week to check on old patterns and stuff.
The co-op feature will be huge for my wife and I to play the new one. I had next Friday off for March Madness but now it's going to be all day Animal Crossing.
I was messing around in pocket camp and I kept seeing people with face masks. At first I thought this was weird. But since this is a fantasy world I figure it makes a strange kind of sense since you cant get those in the real world currently.
Now I am wondering what impacts this may have on my island when the game drops.
Man, reviews are astoundingly positive and saying this is a BotW reinvention of the series.
My wife is counting down the days.
Oh no, will I need to pick this and a new console up in this time of quarantine?
I have ordered it for my son. He has started counting the days until release even though he never really plays games for long but hey it will be fun for him for awhile.
I've only played one Animal Crossing game before (I don't remember which one), and didn't get very deep into it (upgraded my house a couple of times?)... but suddenly the thought of playing a super-chill mundane game sounds pretty good.
I'm just planning to buy it digitally and use it on the apparently old-fashioned Switch I already have.
Man, reviews are astoundingly positive and saying this is a BotW reinvention of the series.
And there's some confirmation in there that the teraform tool isn't available from the start. So I guess it will matter a little bit which starting 4 island I choose.
Should we add a game column on the Switch sheet? And instead of yes, playing AC people can put their native island fruit on Friday?
Getting trees of every type is one of my primary goals the first weekend.
I wasn’t planning on getting the new Animal Crossing, because although I like the series, with limited gaming time I usually find myself wanting to play something heavier and quit playing after like a month. But all the positive buzz is maybe pulling me in.
I guess I’m a sucker for hype sometimes.
I'm mostly interested in how they've reinvented some of the more annoying bits of the game.
I probably won't be buying the game at launch since I put a bunch of money into moving at the end of next month, but damned if I don't really want to spend a lot of time in a cheery place.
Same and same, garion333.
I really want AC, but I have barely touched Zelda BotW or DQ XI.
And I got Xenoblade Chroincles 2 from the library just before it closed.
Those should eat up a few hundred hours. 
Eurogamer Essential. Can't wait. Getting two copies.
Everyone in my house has been waiting for this game for years. All four of us have our own Switch, so we’ll be getting four copies of the game Friday. Thankfully the girls are grown and working so they are buying their own, just have to cover the other two for my wife and I. With her not working because the schools are closed that will help. Thankfully I have a job where I can work from home indefinitely if need be, so we’ll probably be spending a lot of time on each other’s islands over the next few weeks.
That sounds awesome, family gaming.
Grandmother gets character tribute in New Horizons
Remember Audrey, the Animal Crossing-loving grandmother who clocked up almost 4,000 hours of playtime on Animal Crossing: New Leaf? Well, it would appear that she has been immortalised in Animal Crossing: New Horizons by getting a character named after her.
They made her a wolf, which has all kinds of Red Riding Hood implications.
It's been a long time between AC drinks for me, last played whatever the one on the DS was. I'm not even sure what's changed in all that time. Looking forward to chilling out in this one during my downtime.
I'm lacking in Switch friends so please add me.
Stele wrote:Should we add a game column on the Switch sheet? And instead of yes, playing AC people can put their native island fruit on Friday?
Getting trees of every type is one of my primary goals the first weekend.
I added my friendcode and an AC column to the Switch sheet. Friend me up, fellow islanders!
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