What Animal Crossing is the best one out of the following?
>Wild World
>New Leaf
>New Horizons

>>714611178 (OP)
The first one

>>714611753
Wild World?

>>714611753
This, the N64 one was the best.

>>714611178 (OP)
First one for better dialogue AND more of it

>>714611178 (OP)
>What Animal Crossing is the best
Population: Growing

>>714612349
>Population: Growing
Its called Animal Crossing retarded nigger

>>714612471
>Animal Crossing retarded nigger
I dont think a game with that name would be well received

Wild World if you want something close to the GC games. It's basically the original game with new stuff, "sanitized" dialogue and adapted to the technical limitations of the DS (like living in a smaller town with fewer villagers).
Let's Go to the City is just Wild Worlds but at a higher resolution and worse gameplay. The "city" is just a small corridor with buildings that could have been part of the main town without problem, and the sanitized dialogue is more present.
New Leaf is when the main franchise transitioned from comfy town life to chore simulator, but still had enough content available at the beginning to let you chill and take the town's development at a slow pace.
New Horizons is a full town builder simulator that appeals more to people that want to create their own town than to those who want to relax in a comfy place and even feels stressful at times.

>>714612552
K E K

>>714611178 (OP)
With Animal Crossing it's always either the original for single player / local multiplayer, or the newest one for online.

>>714612591
You're letting nostalgia cloud your brain, Wild World was a massive downgrade.

>>714613383
I couldnt play it online because I pirated it. What do you do online?

>>714611178 (OP)
Animal Crossing (2001)
once the decomp + pc port are complete

>>714613795
Nice, I wonder what mods we will get>>714613795

>>714613469
I admit that I didn't play WW as much as the other games. I never owned a DS and only played it when my cousin let me borrow her console during visits, but from what I played it was like a pocket version of the GC game with newer buildings gayer dialogs.

>>714612552

>>714614051
Is the one I played the most

>>714614051
The biggest problem with WW is that the removed all the real world holidays for lame ass fake holidays that aren't even fun. Doing the timed events is a big part of what made the original fun

>>714611178 (OP)
new horizons is absolute fucking dog shit and if you enjoyed playing it even the tiniest bit you should really examine why you have such low self esteem and don't mind being a door mat for others to waste your time with

>>714611178 (OP)
Wild world by every possible metric

>>714614257
There was potential... but having to frequently recreate tools killed my interest. That was such a dogshit addition, nothing fun about it.

>>714611178 (OP)
Wild World easily

>>714613469
>don’t have to load in acres every time you make a screen transition
>most rooms for your house
>flea market
>waving
>much easier to type/change greetings nicknames with touchscreen va using the thumbstick to flip around the keyboard
>ufo and pascal trading quests
>blathers isn’t worthless anymore
>bigger inventory then PG
>dump moved to recycling bin in phyliss’s office PLUS lost and found at police station instead of wasting an acre
WW I’m proved on PG immensely

>>714611178 (OP)
Best graphics: New Horizons
Most content: New Leaf
Best villagers: Wild World

>>714614542
Thank you apple, improved isnt a fucking word I guess

>>714614619
>Best graphics: New Horizons
Wrong, new leaf and new horizons have the worst graphics of the franchise

>>714614356
i refuse to believe this game was play tested

>>714614908
Its a game made by females for females, you are not the target audience anymore.
Females like the sims, men like animal crossing gamecube. Now they turned it into the sims to appeal to foids and troons

>>714614867
What kind of revisionism is this?

>>714614171
How was it? I played the GC and Wii games until I purchased every house upgrade, the 3DS game until the console broke (I didn't enjoy having to manage the town and build/unlock locations) and barely played the Switch game because starting a town from scratch wasn't fun.

>>714614203
>look it up
>it's true
I understand that localizing the game to multiple regions with clashing cultures is a hassle, but the fake holidays they came up with are lame as hell. I guess I didn't miss much by not playing it.

>>714615296
Yes tranny

>>714612552
I would buy it

>>714615296
Some people aren't fond of the toy-like aesthetic of NL and NH and prefer the Wind Waker-like cel-shading looks of the previous games.

>>714616105
I understand that but people used to meme how bad were the graphics of WW

>>714611178 (OP)
Dinkum

>>714616105
I dont think it look like WW. But yes, I dont like that artstylr 3ds has and new horizons colors are too bright

>>714611178 (OP)
Wild World has the most soul. Then the Gamecube original, then probably New Leaf, but to be honest, New Leaf is when the franchise fell into oblivion for me, and became too "service" and features oriented instead of just keeping it basic while focusing on the villager dialogue and adding more story ideas.

My favorite thing about the DS game is that the non-villagers get "down-days" after a few weeks of play, and on specific days in the year, where they'll tell you more about their past, and it felt like there was a bit more of a story to the game at that point.

In games since New Leaf they just use "down-days" as a facade for presenting new game mechanics. It tutorializes the one thing that used to be actual story-writing in the game.

>>714618543
>Wild World has the most s
stopped reading

>>714611178 (OP)
Either the GCN or Wild World.
Wild World took the GCN and improved some things while getting rid of other things. It felt like the trade offs were even.
Coty Folk was Wild World but not portable and a little less soul. I didn't play it so maybe I am wrong. More content but the city feature took away from the aesthetic imo.
New Leaf was a little less soul than City Folk. I will give credit that New Leaf had some neat things, so I don't think it was bad by any stretch. It just wasn't as good as Wild World.
New Horizons was way too barebones and changed the focus too much on the player. It became a game about 'me' instead of 'us'. The map editor is fantastic. The rest of the new features I didn't like. It became too tedious.

>>714617531
New Horizons looks like these collectible toys nips (and my mom) love.

>actually recommending wild world
you people are smoking crack

wild world is beloved exclusively by people who have nostalgia for it as a childhood game. viewed through an objective lens in 2025, it is the worst animal crossing game. yes, worse than city folk, a game that is essentially a port of wild world with better graphics, motion controls, and the worst feature in any animal crossing game (animal tracks). animal crossing is a game about atmosphere, about letting that atmosphere wash away your stress as it shrinks the world down to a little town in the mountains, on the coast, on an island. wild world has no fucking atmosphere. your town in wild world is a flat, barren wasteland that is - for whatever reason - predominately dirt. even emulating it at its native resolution doesn't stop it from looking like shit. it's been 20 years and there are multiple other portable animal crossing games, meaning wild world has little to nothing going for it.

out of the ones OP listed, NL or even NH are preferable to playing barren, shallow WW. NL is good and has a lot of content, but i'm not a huge fan of the aesthetic, the OST, or some of the design decisions (the fucking island). Nintendo's lack of support for NH and the new director's design philosophy are both pretty bad, but it's still a better game than WW for how much customization it offers.

the original game(s, PG or e+) are my favorites.

>>714619390
I wish it looked like that. It looks like soft baby shit made from playdough (without the neat aesthetic of actually being playdough), or maybe almost like a mobile phone game.

Sylvanian families looks amazing.

>>714613645
Host your island, fish or bug catching contest, visit other players and chat with them, it was fun honestly.

>>714620052
I don't think you can say its the worse when New Horizons exists. New Leaf is great, but I think Wild World had a little more charm that New Leaf didn't (and I'm not talking with rose tinted glasses). I got sucked into Wild World and I'm sure if I played it today (after getting rid of all the weeds and roaches), then I could easily be sucked into it too. The dirty thing sucks yes and was a complaint even back during release. The trees, houses, flowers, rivers, etc. did help to make it lively. Could it have used more variety in landscaping? Yeah. I don't think it hurts the game in a remarkable way, at least not enough to say New Horizon is a better game than it because of this. The best parts are interacting with the villagers, and New Horizons neutered that so bad I can't believe that got past testing.

>>714620052
Animal tracks is one of those "features" that makes you wonder how it made it past mulitiple developers and into a game that went gold. Even more surprising is that it took multiple games to go away. At the very least there should've been an easier way of grass regrowth then fucking waiting weeks or months for it grow back.
Maybe I'm a little autistic but unironically dirt paths are a dealbreaker for me

>>714621813
NH is a soulless dollhouse, but it's still a dollhouse with more depth than WW. You can easily milk hundreds of hours out of customizing your island, collecting things, and especially designing houses if you bought the DLC. Are the villagers soulless? Yes. Are there missing items and sets? Yes. But if your interest is in interacting with the villagers, you're better off playing the original game.

>>714622204
I see your point, I agree. Wild World isn't deep, but I kind of like that about it. I'd play it in the evenings for an hour or two, then shut down because I was caught up by then. I personally put most value in the villager interactions, so NH's sin of giving us soulless villagers is too much for me.
>But if your interest is in interacting with the villagers, you're better off playing the original game.
Totally agreed, they got it right in the original. Villagers had more personality, even if they were total assholes sometimes. I felt more attached to them in GCN and WW. Even if the asshole neighbor was moving away I'd be a little sad. NL made them feel a a bit too copy-pasted sometimes, and NH took that to the extreme.

>>714613795
>>714613913
I hope AC Deluxe can be ported without mayor issues.

It still pisses me off that new horizons has a maximum villager count of 10 when even the old games from the older systems had 15. What the fuck are they thinking?

>>714611178 (OP)
City Folk

I liked new leaf a lot but it was the beginning of the end. New animal crossing games went way too crazy with the customization and away from socializing with your villages and friends. People did make crazy towns in wild world but it was much more impressive because they had such a limited toolkit (less so when the world editor tools came out + everyone had a flashcart). I miss enjoying my daily checklist of chores for my town and seeing what my villagers were up to, even the dialogue now is so soulless

>>714624152
I wrote all this but everyone in the thread has already said it, I really don't get why Nintendo would do it if nobody seems to like NH other than dumb chicks who make yt vids of their island. Now the geanie is out of the bottle I doubt theyll ever go back to the core of what made the series good, Nintendo is so scared of making any new game that isn't bland and safe

>>714624421
The problem is that Nintendo corporate is calling the shots on a lot of things more than they used to. You can just tell starting with Breath of the Wild that someone in a boardroom said "Hey, Minecraft?" and they started making all their games based loosely around the most popular kids games. BotW has biomes and green grassy fields with sporadic ambiance music and focus on "creativity", and Animal Crossing has farming and collecting more than usual, so you can craft your own slop, and fully customize your island in a "Creative mode". Both this and Zelda now have breakable items and emphasis on stackable consumables.

That's how you know that this shit is partly made in a boardroom before it is given to the devs themselves.

>>714611178 (OP)
The first and New Leaf.

>>714611178 (OP)
Wild World.
>>714614542
>>don’t have to load in acres every time you make a screen transition
any benefit of that is nullified by the stupid rolling pin
>>most rooms for your house
materialism is what killed this franchise.
>>waving
that was in e+
>>bigger inventory then PG
that's not even true
>>dump moved to recycling bin in phyliss’s office PLUS lost and found at police station instead of wasting an acre
dump and police station are soul. kys
>WW I’m proved on PG immensely
false

>>714611178 (OP)
New Leaf is the best via game mechanics and stylus pen.

But the Game Cube version had the best dialogue. The villagers can be really cruel and shitty which gave them more life.

>>714611178 (OP)
City Folk.