Talk:Animal Crossing (video game)

message: I wouldn't think so, so I'm going to add it in under "House improvements". As in, ...can be customized in a number of ways, including roof color, furniture, the music (if any) that plays when a player enters the house, wallpaper, and flooring. These customizations are judged by the Happy Room Academy (or HRA), on a point scale. While your HRA score does not affect gameplay, some players enjoy getting as high of a score as possible. I'm going to add that in for the moment, and attempt to make it flow with the rest of the section. Theman98 (talk) 17:42, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is adding the HRA against WP:NOT? 

message: I think there should be more info on the places, like tom nooks' shop and the museum and town gate. Goldie (chattin')  —Preceding undated comment added 12:58, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  More info 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:DnM N64 Front.jpg

message: http://animalcrossing.wikia.com
We need people that are experienced with the wiki system to cut and paste parts of the wiki articles over.
--Aeryka the Gnome (talk) 05:36, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help the AC WIKIA! 

message: I noticed that the list of NES games found in Animal Crossing was removed, due to it being "game-guide information". I thought this applied to things such as what items are in the game, fruit, etc. While it is true that the games are obtainable items, they are predominately considered as being complete versions of NES games. Would a full list of NES games be considered game-guide information? I wouldn't think so. Hardcore gamer 48 (talk) 10:18, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  In regards to the NES games... 

message: as you may have seen i have edited the HOUSE IMPROVEMENTS section
the HRA score does effect game play.
feel free to dellete my edit AFTER you have changed that.
--Katana kid (talk) 07:37, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  HRA setion 

message: Two good reliable sources that I'm not seeing in references here are the Offical Animal Crossing Players Guide by Nintendo Power (which is owned by the game makers) and Gamewinners.com. Citing these sources would cover great portions of this article, and there might even be some encylopedic information there that we could use (but we of course must not copy the sources word for word). PCHS-NJROTC (Messages) 23:08, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two good reliable sources that could cover most of the article 

message: The wiki listed in the references seems to be quite out-of-date and doesn't offer much information. Sites like this Animal Crossing wiki or Animal Crossing Community should be featured as references and what-not.
Just a suggestion. ;)
–Jlp09550 (talk) 02:06, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you mean the External Links? Wikis and fansites shouldn't be used as actual references, they aren't considered reliable. Haipa Doragon (talk • contributions) 23:20, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference: Wiki 

message: Although wikis aren't considered for referencing, dedicated Animal Crossing wikis state the release of Dōbutsu no Mori was April 2001, with the + update following in December of the same year. This Wikipedia article says Dōbutsu no Mori was released in 1997, with the + update coming four years later. Neither here or the dedicated wiki has a source, so which is it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.149.100.227 (talk) 12:17, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Release date of Dōbutsu no Mori 

message: The title is wrong, it's supposed to be "Animal Crossing: Population: Growing" you can tell just by looking at the picture, it clearly says "Population: Growing". Please update this, so each game, Wild World, City Folk, New Leaf and Population: Growing are identified, thanks.2602:304:CFD3:2EE0:6D62:3310:B0BA:DA6D (talk) 06:18, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no reliable source that identifies the GameCube Animal Crossing game as "Animal Crossing: Population: Growing." Based on your personal analysis, the full title should actually be "Welcome to Animal Crossing: Population: Growing", given that that subtext also exists in the picture. Even if it is the game's true name, it is certainly not the common name. So no, the title should not be changed. --ThomasO1989 (talk) 17:26, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Look at the picture used in the article *winks* you can't be more wrong about the name, it's IN THE PICTURE USED IN THE ARTICLE!!!2602:304:CFD3:2EE0:CCD4:AF14:1495:DCE8 (talk) 03:58, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it says that, but it's not being shown as a part of the title. Using that logic, the game would be titled Welcome to Animal Crossing: Population: Growing or something. Beyond that, both your suggestion, and my ridiculous one, fail WP:COMMONNAME, the way in which we name articles. (EDIT: Whoa, hadn't read Thomas's response. Pretty much the exact same thing. Oh well, I guess it just shows there's clearly a policy-based rationale against this.) Sergecross73 msg me 15:40, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Animal Crossing: Population: Growing 

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message: I’m wondering why the title of this page is “animal crossing (video game)” and not “animal crossing population growing”? I believe that is the actual title. DaedalusGodOfWisdom (talk) 14:32, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Video game)? 

message: Seems like this article is missing any sort of beefier addition to its development section. The game originated as a dungeon crawler / RPG, but this isn’t mentioned anywhere. Eguchi has done a few interviews talking about the game’s development history. Agree or disagree that we need to add more to this section? TapDatApp (talk) 00:17, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Be bold! soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 12:35, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

text: Speaking as the one who wrote virtually all of 64DD, I would absolutely love additional reliably sourced development history of Animal Forest. So far, I could only state that this game was only made possible by the fundamental enabling tech of the 64DD. In other words, 64DD and Animal Forest are symbiotic, where the 64DD was made just to enable the conception of games like Animal Forest and Cabbage. I haven't found much depth to that, but I singled out Animal Forest a little bit on 64DD. It's the epitome of 64DD especially because it yielded a permanently successful series. Nobody could make games like this before on consoles, and I don't think anybody had made one on PCs. Most of the significance of this is lost to history behind the scenes, and only for the very cheap reason that the 64DD was profoundly delayed, because otherwise the 64DD and Animal Forest absolutely would have been hits together. Lots of industry buzz was about RTC and writability in general. And then in subsequent generations, those features were made permanently generically commonplace overnight. But we're talking about a full generation predating GameCube of a game that was almost a direct port to GameCube. It's not just "oh well, so the game evaded cancellation". I wish we had information about the process of porting the Nintendo 64 game to GameCube, because all I know is that it has a tiny cartridge-sized footprint on the disc and it can get away with simpler graphics due to the game's toylike genre. So TapDatApp can start by listing sources here! — Smuckola(talk) 23:24, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

text: In this translated interview, Eguchi cites the game's original conception as a dungeon crawler / RPG type: http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/feature/42991/iwata-asks-in-commemoration-part-1-nintendo-game-seminar-2008-nintendo-game-seminar-2008-the-road-to-completing-animal-crossing-part-2 He also talks about his original intentions in creating the game to interact with his kids, etc. Tons of great material in this source, note the interview is split into a few parts or pages. This source also states Eguchi was a fan of Diablo specifically. https://www.giantbomb.com/articles/as-nintendo-evolved-so-did-animal-crossing/1100-4902/ --TapDatApp (talk) 02:25, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Superb. — Smuckola(talk) 04:10, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Development background 

message: Before reading this article, I always thought the game was about breeding hybrid animals. In the introduction, it is referred to as a "life simulation", which could also be misunderstood in the same direction. Elias (talk) 11:36, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misconception