Sorry to interrupt the little orgy in this thread but I couldn't leave this post alone.
City Folk gets bashed for being an updated sequel with some improvements and additions. While I agree that more could've been done technically all sequels offer very little in terms of innovation.
Let's take a look at some sequels:
Gears of War 2: Plays exactly like the first game, save for new scenarios, improvements in graphics, sound and game mechanics and of course, it shows the next part in the story.
Resident Evil 5: From all the trailers it looks to play nearly identical to RE 4, save with some slight improvements, new main character, story and setting. Hell, even the enemies look the same, except they are African now.
GTA IV: Its pretty much a hi-def version of GTA III, except it doesn't completely improve on it and even takes some of the things that made the earlier game beloved, like expanded wardrobe features.
Halo 3: Was praised as the best multiplayer game ever. Yet, the single player campaign mode was shorter than in the previous games.
These games were highly praised sequels but are guilty of not really evolving the core gameplay and ideas. City Folk gets bashed for doing this when in reality is an expanded sequel in which old and new ideas are explored, expanded, polished and presented to the audience and makes the game better than in its earlier iterations.
So if CF gets bashed for doing this why don't any of the games above get their criticism? Is it because they offer improvements in story and graphics? So if CF looked extremely different from the earlier games and offered a deep story would the reviews be better even if the game plays exactly like the older games?
In that case, the Pokemon games are IDENTICAL to each other, yet gets praised for the content. Again, what's up with that?
This is ridiculous. City Folk is bashed for being a LAZY EFFORT by the best developer in the world. Wow 20 million new item skins, one guy could have done all that in a week. All those games, even though I don't like them, have an arse load of new everything, and effort. To compare new gameplay to some new buildings in the city is absolutely PATHETIC. They are NEW GAMES. GTA4 is a COMPLETELY different game to past GTAs.
Even Pokemon changes a LOT, every game has a completely different WORLD (AC fail), incredible new music (AC fail), and gameplay elements (AC fail) that completely change the balance of the game. Most of all it has passion and innovation. The only thing AC City Folk does right that you'd expect is it has nice graphics. This sets a very bad precedent. Look forward to the new Zelda, set in the exact same place as Twilight Princess, with one new dungeon, 5 more heart pieces to find, and new outfits for Link. NEW Zelda! The Legend of Zelda: Newness of New.
City Folk is not GTA4, it's not Gears of War 2, it's Super Mario Advance, it's OoT: Master Quest, it's Chrono Trigger DS. Except UNLIKE those polished ports, this game is a complete random mess. Controls are all over the place, some menus you can scroll up and down with the stick, some you need the pointer, and the store catalogue is RETARDED, not even allowing you to scroll up and down properly. Fishing is now worse, you can't even see 50% of the ocean where fish could be, it's trial and error "oh, nothing there. that was fun" NOT! It also has much more loading, no more Messages in a Bottle, no message of the week, no villager picture frames, no more side rooms in the house, less options and less variety with NPC interaction and also text typing and pattern making is WAY more clumsy than the DS version. Speaking of limits can anybody believe how lame it is that the town board is so limited? It's just friggin text, yet it gets erased after a week or two. They could allow HUNDREDS of message board posts. Also that path erosion crap makes my town look like a friggin battlefield, WTF? It was cool for a day or two but jesus, the game not only had no effort put into it, but no THOUGHT.
In fact i'd go as far to say that City Folk is the WORST version of Animal Crossing. It's the DS version without portability and ease of use and everything I just mentioned, and the GC version without NES games, police station, connectivity island and e-reader fun, and the GC version has a better title screen with a variety of towns displayed at different times, MUCH better music, cool code system (which they could still have, not everyone has online, this is like noline, heaps cool), monthly lotteries and movable save data.
Anyway, I was going to donate my town to the forum and leave my town open and Wii on for a week or so for people to come in and do ANYTHING to it. Cut down every tree, rape the message board, steal fossils, send threats or love letters to my people, throw rotten turnips on the ground, steal my fruit, use my Nook, heck maybe do something imaginative. BUT, looks like my Wii is breaking down now (thanks again Nintendo, even my PS2 still works) so i've gotta send it in to get fixed and knowing NAL it'll be gone for months or they'll break it. Maybe City Folk breaks Wiis, add another impressive new feature to the list, woudn't surprise me given everything else they overlooked.
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