Okay so here is the Animal Crossing in a nutshell. Its a lot like WoW, what with the endless mindless grinding for in this case cash and work simulator gameplay. But unlike WoW, they won't even go the extra step to disguise the gameplay as lets say killing dragons. Also, all of the social gameplay is pretty much cut out, as shown by Ky-Guy.

I'm gonna keep the spirit of Murdar Machene alive by very rightly calling it a game for fat dumpy idiot losers.

Fernin wrote:

...Yes, clearly AC is a lot like WoW, they must have taken the idea from WoW directly. ...Except for the fact that AC was released in Japan in 2001, whereas WoW was not released until 2004. AC and WoW have about as much in common as a moose and a bumblebee. (No, that doesn't make sense, but neither did RobotGumshoe for even trying to compare AC and WoW in the first place.) AC and WoW are entirely different genres meant to appeal to entirely different subsets of gamers. AC is a game about daily life, not an action game, not an adventure game. If you can't understand that, then fine, fuck off. It doesn't need its gameplay to be 'disguised', because it's not that kind of game. Do you go around killing dragons to earn your paycheck? I'm also really curious what this 'work simulator' gameplay you mention is, aside from the part time job you have at the beginning that functions as the game's tutorial, your character doesn't hold down a job. The social aspect is only slowly growing as Nintendo has yet to realize, Hey, online gameplay is a good thing, we should make it easier for people to connect to each other! If Nintendo had as good of an online setup as Xbox Live is, then the social aspect would be a lot bigger. I had also asked for AC for Christmas, but didn't get it. I plan to get it fairly soon, I'll give you my name and whatnot when I do, Ky-Guy.

Ho-Hum, you missed the point.

WoW and Animal Crossing are work simulators because they are simple repetative games without a real story, competative or co-operative elements, or the need for skill, stratagy, or decision making. They deliver what can only be described as an illusion of real gameplay by exploiting the human need for achievement or progress.

WoW is a profoundly boring game with no skill or brains needed, but has a few things going for it. One, the setting allows for a more satisfactory illusion. For example, I don't have to pay fifty bucks to pretend that I have to pay off a morgage. I could very well do that in real life, while on the other hand I couldn't slay an ancient black wyrm in her volcano lair with my mountain shattering dwarven greataxe. WoW also has the raids over it, and while I think they're flawed, its still manages to compensate somewhat for a mindnumbingly bland single player gameplay by having to corral 30 people into working like a well oiled machine. Animal Crossing is sad and lonely in comparision.

Don't waste your time with games that don't show you something new, that don't fill you with feelings other than dulled satiation or oppresive menial duty, that don't ask you to get any better, that don't allow you to create a shared dialogue with someone else through mutual experience.

You've been decieved, and you can do better than that.