Oh, For The Love Of Furries…
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November 26th, 2007
Can someone explain this to me, please?
Edge magazine is reporting that Nintendo’s Wii iteration of its hugely popular Animal Crossing franchise is taking a massively multiplayer online direction.
While we’re still waiting for Nintendo to officially confirm anything about a Wii version of Animal Crossing (apart from the fact that it’s coming), Edge’s latest issue opens with the news lead: “Animal Crossing goes MMO”.
Five bucks says the doggie is playing the theme from “Deliverance”.For those of you scoring at home, if this turns out to be true, it brings us up to two console MMORPGs on the horizon. The first one (which I wrote about last week) is Angel Love Online for the PS3.
So let me get this straight. With the expansive intellectual properties at their command, two of the largest console makers choose a game where you can live in FurryLand and a world where you get to protect angels so stupid they can’t look after themselves?
I’m sure that one (or against all odds, both) will be fun to play, and hook their target audiences like free ice cream at a fat camp, but I just expected something different from the “console MMORevolution”.
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November 26th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
I had to laugh at this one..the theme from deliverance..often plays in my cube when I make a mistake..my boss said..you turn into a different person! Sort of a standing joke here..
November 26th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Please PLEASE tell me your boss doesn’t look like Ned Beatty.
November 28th, 2007 at 4:32 am
Animal Crossing is way not furry.
I base that statement on having bought a gamecube just to play it, never ever making the furry connection before reading this post, and otherwise just No! Bad Inhibitor! Bad!
It was a better MMO than most even without being online, then on the DS was an MMO without anyone realizing it.
It’s the sort of game you’d play for a bit, judge fondly, and quit with no hard feelings (like you hope for so many other games).
But then you realize your grandparents or the like are playing it.
The kind of people who not only don’t play games, but just do not play, period. Not anything, not ever.
And six months later, you’re shocked to discover they are still playing it.
Years later, still unable to understand it really, but maybe you’ll settle into a sort of casual acceptance that playing Animal Crossing is just what they do.
Animal Crossing Online has been my favorite pick to be the first console MMO successful on a console game scale - which is to say, so incredibly massive that making MMOs for PCs seems like a dumb idea afterward, ’til hundreds of millions of dollars later.
There’s a down-side to that, of course, for MMO gamers.
‘Cause Animal Crossing is really different from an MMO gamer’s MMO, and it’s going to confuse and frighten an awful lot of people.
That is, unless they misstep by try to make it more like an MMO. If they do that, then all bets are off, ’cause the only two sure things in that case are that it will not be Animal Crossing, online, and won’t be much like an MMO either.
November 28th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
‘Cause Animal Crossing is really different from an MMO gamer’s MMO, and it’s going to confuse and frighten an awful lot of people.
That is, unless they misstep by try to make it more like an MMO. If they do that, then all bets are off, ’cause the only two sure things in that case are that it will not be Animal Crossing, online, and won’t be much like an MMO either.
And that’s why I wish this weren’t one of the two games leading the way.
Don’t get me wrong…I have a feeling an Animal Crossing MMO will be wildly successful (if done correctly), but…if the console folks get their introduction to the MMO genre’ through AC, then that’s what they’ll expect. And if your supposition about an AC MMO becoming successful beyond the current definition of “success”…
Let’s just say I don’t look forward to everyone jumping on the “Animal Crossing Bandwagon” as some have tried to do with WoW.
A poorly-done AC clone would…well, I’ll let your imagination do the rest.
November 30th, 2007 at 3:45 am
I think it’s worth the risk of it being taken for “the only kind of MMO that an MMO can be”, for the chance of it being taken as an example that WoW/EQ/everything is not.
December 10th, 2007 at 7:58 am
I’m guilty of loving Animal Crossing and I even reeled in my macho husband back in the day - it’s strangely addicting. I would definitely play this MMO Animal Crossing. Sorry, but I would.
As for the furry connection, I never considered it before. *shivers*
December 10th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Why am I starting to get the feeling that I’ve injected a creepy note into a beloved game?
It’s like being a homewrecker without the trial date.