• Nintendo is making F2P Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing games
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[QUOTE]DeNA, the company behind Nintendo's first five smartphone games, has announced that the next two titles - iOS and Android games based on the Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem franchises - will be free-to-play. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, DeNA chief executive, Isao Moriyasu said "Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing are both free-to-start apps" (using Satoru Iwata's term for the pricing model). It's as good as a confirmation that both games will include micro-transactions.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/11/nintendos-next-two-mobile-games-are-free-to-play"]http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/11/nintendos-next-two-mobile-games-are-free-to-play[/URL]
eh
I wouldn't be surprised if the Fire Emblem game went the Pushmo route of free to play, in which the intro is free, but every campaign after must be purchased.
Buy Naga Tokens to spend on new soldiers!
What if its the face petting thing they canned from Fates?
I've long thought that Animal Crossing would be the perfect phone game.
Will I have to pay for the waifu petting minigame? That's the real dealbreaker right there. Animal Crossing is pretty well-suited for phones, but I wonder how Fire Emblem will work under this model.
[QUOTE=Fangz;50302818]I wouldn't be surprised if the Fire Emblem game went the Pushmo route of free to play, in which the intro is free, but every campaign after must be purchased.[/QUOTE] At that point it's barely even "free to play." It's more like a demo.
If nintendo fucks up animal crossing again I'll never forgive them.
[QUOTE=legolover122;50303011]If nintendo fucks up animal crossing again I'll never forgive them.[/QUOTE] Let's be fair here, they didn't "fuck up" animal crossing- they just made a bad game to use their amiibos for it. I suspect these next phone games won't be on that level of disappointment.
I'd rather just get a DS and buy Animal Crossing so I don't have to deal with a bunch of shitty annoying microtransactions shoved in my face. Speaking of that, what's the best Animal Crossing anyway? I've never played them but I want to at some point and I have no idea where to start.
[QUOTE=Swiket;50302995]At that point it's barely even "free to play." It's more like a demo.[/QUOTE] Agreed, but that is what they advertised Stretchmo as, and they exactly did that.
[QUOTE=Swiket;50302995]At that point it's barely even "free to play." It's more like a demo.[/QUOTE] Well they did say "free to start", not "free to complete". At that point it's more like the Id shareware model without the share part.
I hope they don't ruin Animal Crossing. The game literally taught me to read, and it'd hurt so much if they just turned my beloved series into a cash cow. [editline]11th May 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Mister Sandman;50303039]I'd rather just get a DS and buy Animal Crossing so I don't have to deal with a bunch of shitty annoying microtransactions shoved in my face. Speaking of that, what's the best Animal Crossing anyway? I've never played them but I want to at some point and I have no idea where to start.[/QUOTE] New Leaf.
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;50303039]I'd rather just get a DS and buy Animal Crossing so I don't have to deal with a bunch of shitty annoying microtransactions shoved in my face. Speaking of that, what's the best Animal Crossing anyway? I've never played them but I want to at some point and I have no idea where to start.[/QUOTE] They're all really good and honestly you don't need to start at any specific one. If you have a 3DS then New Leaf makes sense. If you have a DS and a game cube I'd probably recommend the game cube version over the ds one but they are all similar. Just pick the newest one that you have the console for!
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;50303039]I'd rather just get a DS and buy Animal Crossing so I don't have to deal with a bunch of shitty annoying microtransactions shoved in my face. Speaking of that, what's the best Animal Crossing anyway? I've never played them but I want to at some point and I have no idea where to start.[/QUOTE] Get the gamecube one. It even has games inside the game (ingame arcade machine)
What? This is what people wanted, right? "Nintendo should stop making hardware and put their games on mobile" and all that?
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;50303039]I'd rather just get a DS and buy Animal Crossing so I don't have to deal with a bunch of shitty annoying microtransactions shoved in my face. Speaking of that, what's the best Animal Crossing anyway? I've never played them but I want to at some point and I have no idea where to start.[/QUOTE] There's no place to start, it's like asking which Sims game is the best to start with. Unless you want to analyze their evolution in features, in which case start with the GCN game. But to actually get a good grip of their features and all the games got to offer, be prepared to invest a [I]fuck[/I] ton lot of time, because that's four games, each chock full of shit. But! If you just want to check the game out in general, just pick up New Leaf. I recommend Animal Crossing on on portable consoles over home consoles [I]any[/I] day, and New Leaf is an objective upgrade to Wild World. I miss some of the teeny tiny details and some of the music, but New Leaf is just overall [I]better.[/I] tl;dr new leaf
To anyone outside the fanbase, popularity goes (worst to best) Wild World, Let's go to the City/City Folk, Original/64, New Leaf. Animal Crossing was neat because of how it went about things but Wild World was held back by graphics, lack of NES games and friend codes, causing a dark age for the franchise. City Folk probably got flak from people who considers Nintendogs not to be that major of a E3 reveal. New Leaf actually made nice use of 3DS features like spotpass for presents as well as randomly competing against others on the island in minigames, it's basically Fire Emblem Awakening compared to the games after GBA 1/FE7. Probably helps that there's QR code sharing so you could make clothes/pictures, Pixiv is pretty large for that. if Nintendo goes Mobile-only for a mainline-esque Animal Crossing game, the Amiibo they released would pretty much become Pokemon Rumble U figurines at this point, unless N-Stars is something that isn't a Nintendo Party: Amiibo Festival game. Amiibo Festival left a bad taste in everyone's mouth just because it was announced alongside another spinoff and Metroid Prime: Federation Force....wouldn't it be weird if they're using Style Savvy 3 to get people to get Samus/Zero Suit Samus amiibo since they're releasing on the same day? [sp]DMW2/Disney Magical World 2 and Caviar F/Style Savvy 3 only got confirmed today. that still leaves Cadillac/Rhythm Heaven: Megamix and Torte City/Yokai Watch 2. and N-Stars, all the Mario Party games had Stars as the codename[/sp]
For what it's worth, Wild World emulates perfectly on my Android.
Wild World feels like it runs at a blazing 15 fps.
At first I thought "oh yeah man I really enjoyed Animal Crossing, but only owned a DS for like two years of my life, a phone game would be the shit" And then I thought about all of the nasty microtransaction shit they could shove into it and I'm not so excited anymore
Wild world will always be my fave tbh, I recommend it
[QUOTE=Problem;50303312]Wild world will always be my fave tbh, I recommend it[/QUOTE] What does Wild World do that City Folk and New Leaf don't also do, though?
[QUOTE=Katska;50303379]What does Wild World do that City Folk and New Leaf don't also do, though?[/QUOTE] well you wouldnt have to deal with the wii/motion controls with city folk
[QUOTE=Furnost;50303406]well you wouldnt have to deal with the wii/motion controls with city folk[/QUOTE] I don't remember much about City Folk but couldn't you just use a Nunchuck to circumvent those?
Yeah I don't remember City Folk being very motion control heavy
city folk also has shitty grass wear so before you know it your whole town is nothing but dirt everywhere, villagers repeat themselves a lot more i think, in fact i think city folk is when they toned down villager personalities? villagers could be complete assholes in wild world and gamecube, but since wii the more dickish personalities havent been that dickish. portability is also a plus for me, AC has always felt like a mobile console game not a home console game city folk just didnt offer enough over wild world for me to want to deal with not being portable and the toned down villagers. it still sucks that new leaf keeps the changed villagers and everyone feels same-y, but it adds enough that i could deal with it
[QUOTE=VinLAURiA;50303200]What? This is what people wanted, right? "Nintendo should stop making hardware and put their games on mobile" and all that?[/QUOTE] I'd rather pay for a full featured AC game on mobile than one with microtransactions, though I wouldn't mind a F2P port of Happy Home Designer.
having used miitomo, the approach to micro transactions so far has been really basic and non intrusive.
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