Created By stephenjmunn on 05/21/2008
The Animal Crossing franchise has brought open-ended online gaming to Nintendo's platforms, and will arrive at some point on Wii. What do we want from it?
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A persistent online world.
Turn off your game of Animal Crossing and your town lives on. Your townsanimals go about their business, people come and go and shop in your store, write messages on your bulletin board, and more. Next time you play, you're aware that time has passed because your town has been lived in.
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Voice chat.
The text chat system in Animal Crossing: Wild World was neat, but was largely useless due to its limitations. Even if it's limited to friends, why not allow voice chat within the game? It would make the world much more inviting.
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Overhauled animalese.
From the very beginning, Animal Crossing has featured a simplistic text-to-speech engine that makes the animals sound like they're muttering the words they're actually saying. The language is called animalese, and a little tuning could make it much more pleasant to hear.
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A broader range of staffers in town.
Tom Nook runs every store. Copper and Booker are the police. Mabel and Sable are the tailors. It doesn't make a lot of sense to have the same animals running each town with an online game. Perhaps a larger pool of possible animals is in order, perhaps even randomly generated ones, and any of them could be the mayor, instead of just Tortimer?
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A gardener.
Stay away from your game of Animal Crossing for a week or two and you'll be faced with an hour of weeding when you return. Action Replays and random ghostly quests aside, there is no better way to clear your town. Maybe it's time we could hire a goat to eat the long grass.
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Current generation graphics.
While the DS version of the game pushed some boundaries graphically in a lot of ways, the other versions of the game have been very behind the times. Full-resolution textures would be a nice start, more polygons should be a foregone conclusion.
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Duets with Totakeke.
KK Slider may be the most recognizable and charming character in the Animal Crossing world. He's the singing dog with the acoustic guitar who appears at the train station in Animal Crossing and in the coffee shop in Wild World. How about a minigame where we can play or sing along with him?
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A DS-based texture designer.
The ability to make your own content has been nice in these games, but being able to draw textures on the DS in Wild World was the best of all. Tune up this designer and let us use it in the Wii version via the wireless connection to the DS for an ideal system.
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A web-based online community.
Nintendo produced the Crossing Guardian, a website for the Gamecube Animal Crossing when that game launched. It has not been updated since. I'd like to see Nintendo run an online community site that interacts with players directly in their game, something like Majesco is doing with Blast Works.
Current Rank: 9.00
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A retuned fishing system.
Fishing in Animal Crossing is fun for the first few hours, and then impossibly boring. Dressing up the system and its motivations a bit might help. Fishing tournaments helped in Wild World, but they were too hard to catch if you had a job in real life.
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