New Animal Crossing DS Details

This is possibly a bit old, but I've not seen it mentioned, so here we go. I'll sum it up.

http://www.n-sider.com/articleview.php?articleid=472

Summary:
- You travel into the game in a car, and travel around in said car.
- The train station is gone, it's now a 'main gate', guarded by the police dogs from the original Animal Crossing (Booker and Copper). Talking to Copper (the one that wanders outside the police station in the original) lets you go to other towns (either via local wireless connection or WiFi), check for lost items, change the flag or get some kind of hint.
- To visit other peoples' towns over WiFi you have to know the name of the destination town. To avoid strangers appearing in random towns, players create a friends list. Friends can be added manually or by clicking an option when using wireless local mode. You can visit the town of anybody on your friends list providing that they are online and their copy of the game uses the same alphabet.
- Real life holidays are now gone and are replaced with Animal Crossing specific ones, to make the game more compatible for online play.
- You cannot leave your town without making sure all guests are gone. You cannot get into towns that do not have their owner in them, and they cannot get into yours while you are offline or visiting another town.
- You can control your character with either the D-Pad or the stylus.
- The top screen is used for the sky to show weather effects, the mail pelican, balloons, stars (which can be connected into your own constellations), etc.
- Players can alter the game time without altering the DS system time. This means you can play the game's days when it is night in real life, for example.
- The menu is split into distinct groups: briefcase (holds up to 15 items and 10 letters and shows your money, you can customise your character's appearance here), drawing board (design your own cap, home, art, shirt, umbrella, rug, or wallpaper), fish table (fish you've caught), insect table (insects you've caught), communication box (communicate with others in real time - a chat program), map (can show town buildings and houses seperately) and escape (goes back to the main game screen).
- Tom Nook's shop may now be on two floors, with a salon upstairs. A point system used to get discounts will also be in place - get 300 points (amassed with multiple purchases) and you become a 'member' and get further discounts.
- The post office and town hall may now be integrated into one.
- The largest house in the demo played had two floors, but it's said to feature much larger houses.
- Multiple characters can enter a single house at the same time.
- Players can now apparently choose where they want their house in the town.
- Four players can play using the same card, living in the same house. As you make your house bigger, you can give players seperate rooms.
- Full camera control is available inside your house.
- A telephone is in the house - perhaps this is used to 'call' other DS' or for communication with the other inhabitants of your town.
- Storage will be easier - fridges, cupboards or other furniture that can store items can hold 90 items (stored in 6 different compartments, 15 items in each).
- A feature where somebody can draw something in Pictochat then send it directly to a bulletin board in somebody's town is being considered.
- Animal Island is most likely omitted, and NES games are definitely out.
- There may be a character who appears that requires that the player draws them a face, such as in the first game. However, this one will be saved and may randomly visit others' (off your friends list?) towns telling them about you.
- Players can interact with each other better than they would with non-playable characters and can kick sand at each other, and perhaps host fishing tournaments, play tag, etc.

Phew. Hope you enjoyed all that. This game is looking so great. I'll be buying it on launch day, but whether that's American launch day or UK launch day remains to be seen.

Sounds awsome, i'll be sure to get this at launch as well.

As will I, ushering in the return of my surprisingly clean "Fuck" umbrella pattern!

Ace!

Can't wait to start wearing penis clothes, penis umbrullas and sticking penis signs all over your towns!

A bit concerned about how they're going to handle the friends list. Is it going to be a global list, for all Nintendo games? Or is it going to be dependant on the games that you're playing. For example, you need a username for Animal Crossing, for Mario Kart, so on and so forth.

Preferablly it would be the first option, though I don't know how feasable that is.

Either way, i'll still hit it.

This game's looking great! I'm a bit dissapointed that you can only go into others towns if they're online, but other then that I can't wait for this game!

I'll get it
I may import, depends if that will affect online, and also depends on the time difference between launches

Yes, yes YES!!!

I can't wait for this game, i'll get it at launch also

- To visit other peoples' towns over WiFi you have to know the name of the destination town. To avoid strangers appearing in random towns, players create a friends list. Friends can be added manually or by clicking an option when using wireless local mode. You can visit the town of anybody on your friends list providing that they are online and their copy of the game uses the same alphabet.

So I won't be able to play with some random person anywhere in the world...what if I want to make new friends?

So I won't be able to play with some random person anywhere in the world...what if I want to make new friends?

Maybe there will be some sort of lobby option?

This doesn't sound great though, as the only guys with Ds's I know are you all...

This doesn't sound great though, as the only guys with Ds's I know are you all...

This doesn't sound great though, as the only guys with Ds's I know are you all...

Same here.

Same, I try to get friends to buy DS's but they just don't budge so I guess I'll have to [try] play with people I meet on the internet. Hopefully a lobby option will be introduced, as with the rest of the games. If they're considering a feature where you can draw on PictoChat and send it to someone elses town surely that means that PictoChat could be Wi-Fi enabled allowing the lobby option.

I can't wait for this. Will definitly be tempted to import, if not will get on launch. Hopefully it will launch all around the world on the same day.

Why's it such a bother to only play with people off here? Really, I can see why they've done it - you don't want some twat pissing up everybody's town just for a laugh one day. If you want to meet some random people, meet them in the chat lobby (there's sure to be one somewhere), failing that just go and post on some forums and get some names.

I think it's probably best that there is a global friends list for all games, but it's unconfirmed...

Ninteno may create a DS online Forum. For chatting to other users and getting their names and towns. Like some proper lobby.

Mason wrote: Four players can play using the same card, living in the same house. As you make your house bigger, you can give players seperate rooms.

Sweet.

Mason wrote: A feature where somebody can draw something in Pictochat then send it directly to a bulletin board in somebody's town is being considered

Everyone will just draw a penis.

I think something we have to consider is that I'd rather not have some stranger come in my town and cut down all my trees and the like. I wouldn't be surprised if there were auction places, and item swaps set up for us to use. Plus a lobby could also work.

I think they'll ban people from cutting down your trees in your town, whether they're on your friends list or not.

Still waiting for them to release Animal Crossing: Chainsaw Massacre though...

.... yeees....

Anyway, I am so going to do everything in my power to put penis's EVERYWHERE!

*Note to self...keep away from any villagers named blizz, blizzard, or something involving...male parts...*

It sounds like a great game! I will definately be getting this. Maybe than can have some sorta "nintendo capital" town that everyone can go to...maybe the capital could have an arcade....

Yeah, after Nintendo's Wi-Fi Connection is released, could it be possible for Nintendo to update ACDS and open up cities or malls(like a swap meet thing) so a lot of people could gather in one place?

fluffycornsnake wrote: Still waiting for them to release Animal Crossing: Chainsaw Massacre though...

Welcome to Cubed3, hope you stay with us.
Enjoy your stay.

Better to visit Epoch in Merrybough villiage than to visit Kewl_Dudez in H@rdc0re_r0xx0rs villiage...

True, though I have met some ace people playing Warcraft 3 and CS, just randomly.

p1n0y wrote: Yeah, after Nintendo's Wi-Fi Connection is released, could it be possible for Nintendo to update ACDS and open up cities or malls(like a swap meet thing) so a lot of people could gather in one place?

Surely Nintendo could make a cartridge that would work like normal AC carts and connect but instead of just being a small town be this massive place where they let elite Nintendo players in, or something along those lines. It's also like surely they could have special Mario Kart tournaments to find the best MKer world over?

TipsyRabbit wroteurely Nintendo could make a cartridge that would work like normal AC carts and connect but instead of just being a small town be this massive place where they let elite Nintendo players in, or something along those lines. It's also like surely they could have special Mario Kart tournaments to find the best MKer world over?

Yeah, and if we have to make a username and stuff, then they could send prizes to champions and have elite tournaments. Besides, didn't nintendo say they would make it so you verse people within your skill class? So it won't be noobs vs hardcore MKers. I think you wqould have to either play a lot of online to verse better people, play a lot of single player and win a lot of races to add to your profile(good strategy to get people to play games all the way through) or just have different rooms and let people pick which skill room to go into(which would lead to people going into rooms that are too much for them, and defeat the purpose of having skill rooms)

[ Edited by p1n0y on 2005/7/3 19:46 ]