Animal Crossing indoctrinate gamers

just saw the sales chart for Japan on Nov 2012 and boy, was I surprised! I can't believe that such a crappy game became a system seller. It even got a 16m worldwide sales. I'm starting to think Animal Crossing fans are indoctrinated or something (scary...).

I tried the game (AC: Wild world) out on my DS to see what is all the hype about. Guess what, the game just makes you move into a village and talk to a bunch of animals. Then you fish, catch bugs, plant flowers, and grow trees, and you can buy furniture and design your house. You can even design clothes. For heaven's sake if I wanted to do those things, I would've just done it in real life. It not only helps me get a fresh air; I also get to contribute something for our beautiful earth. Games exist to give us the ability to do something that we can't or shouldn't do IRL. If there is one game that can make the players brain dead, I sure think this is the one

Animal Crossing fans, please get some help. I'm not trying to incite a flame war here. Just stating the hard facts.

Well, what can I say? There are more casual gamers than hardcore. Sad, but true.

I don't see the hard facts about opinions. AC:WW is just a charming casual game to play and relax, much like Harvest Moon. If there's anything games should do is help you relax and get away from the real world. For some that may be living a small virtual life in a small virtual world that could very well be drastically different than what they can experience IRL.

Besides, I'm pretty sure you can't interact with always charming animal neighbors in real life.

Believe me I tried to like it. I gave the game to my younger cousin and he seemed to also like it. Maybe Nintendo aimed it to appeal on children; Adults got addicted to it instead.

If AC franchise was aimed to relax its players, it wouldn't force you to do the same boring chore over and over again. When I played it, the first couple of hours seems to be fun but I realized that I would be doing the same thing with no end game (much like THE SIMS, which AC seems to base its core gameplay).

@FinalBoss: True, casual gamers increases in an astonishing rate. That's why dedicated handheld industry is suffering a huge beating against smartphones. I only have 1-2 hours of free time everyday but I still give full pledged games a corner of my time.

Well, another good thing to note is that not everyone shares your views on games, what they enjoy, call fun, etc. If you don't enjoy it then there's no need to pan those who do.

Also, if a game like AC is truly selling like there's no tomorrow, you should be happy that the 3DS is garnering tons of attention and getting into more hands to gain more developers. As for the PSVita, Sony's just stupid and I can't say much in favor of that (which sucks when all I really have worth any time is P4G and djmax technika tune).

>I don't like this game
>A lot of people do
>Nintendo's up to something


Yeah no.

It's the same case going on with Angry Birds, lots of Casual can get in the game easy and they enjoy it.
My Father who usually never plays any game finished Angry Birds like a WoW Player... lol And I never finished the game.

I've never played Animal Crossing but to me it just sounds like a SIMS game but with animals if put bluntly.

Casual gamers have always been the majority and games designed for casual gamers have always dominated the market, case in point take a look at Zelda, Sonic the Hedgehog, Final Fantasy, Super Mario Brothers and Pokemon. These are household names across the world and yet not one of the titles in each respective series can be considered designed for a hardcore audience.

If anything the competitive gaming industry is seeing a dramatic increase in size every year. It was still relatively unknown until the likes of Counter-strike, Warcraft III (DotA), Quake III and Starcraft hit shelves, even then it took years for competitive gaming organizations like the Electronic Sports League to become a relatively well known name.

Before you start bashing casual games and gamers, think twice about why the competitive gaming industry exists in the first place. Without Zelda, Mario, Pokemon, Final Fantasy and so on we wouldn't have what we do today, be happy that the same mechanics and game-play that won the world's hearts back in the 80's are still just as popular in 2013.

This guy just called Animal Crossing a crappy game.

Talk about having SHIT taste.

Also what's sad about more casual gamers than hardcore? People enjoying themselves with a game? Heavens forbid games be for fun and relaxing and need to be hardcore.