Should I buy Animal Crossing?

I will answer that question in the end. For now, I will ask another: Is Animal Crossing obsolete? Is there a better game with similar game mechanics?

Yes, Minecraft.

Hear me out. Minecraft has caused Animal Crossing to become obsolete.

Why?

On the surface, these two games seem like they are very different. However, that’s not the case. There’s no real purpose to Animal Crossing, and, you know what? There’s no real purpose to Minecraft.

They both put you out there with nothing in your pockets and no goals more intricate than simply: gather stuff. They both allow you to do as you wish. You can choose where you want to go and how you want to spend your time. You can move into a house, upgrade it, add stuff to it, and live out a virtual life.

But Minecraft does everything better. Hit the jump for the full article!

First I want to talk customization. In Animal Crossing, you can color clothing, flags, roofs, umbrellas, and wallpaper. You can change your hairstyle and add a Mii head onto your body. You can choose the arrangement of furniture inside of your house. However, that’s the extent of customization. That’s all you’ve got!

Minecraft offers so much more. As far as hair color or clothing, well, you can create or download any look you want. You can be completely naked or fully cloaked. You can be Cookie Monster or Nyan Cat. It’s up to you. When it comes to the “stuff,” with the blocks in Minecraft, you can build anything you can imagine. So, you can change the color of the flags you create to any one of the 100 different blocks there are. You can build walls with any color. You can do the same with floors, ceilings, roofs, garages, doghouses, treehouses, and anything else you think of to build. You can’t even own garages, doghouses, or treehouses in Animal Crossing, much less color them. A Minecraft block can become anything you can think to create. You can’t create things in Animal Crossing, beyond color patterns used for a small amount of objects. In Minecraft, if you hate the colors of the world, you can swap out texture packs for anything. You can’t swap out the colors of a tree in Animal Crossing. You can even download an Animal Crossing-themed texture pack for Minecraft, if you like that style.

In Animal Crossing, you can upgrade your house with several pre-determined additional rooms and spaces. The town is a certain size, and you can’t explore beyond the small area. In Minecraft, you can make your house as big as you want. Once you’ve gotten all the house upgrades in Animal Crossing, you’re done. In Minecraft, there is no limit. You could make your house the size of the Earth, if you wanted to, because the map of Minecraft feels infinitely big. You can explore for months and not find any end. I’ve been playing for a year, and I’ve never found an edge to the map.

Hundreds of real people have come and gone from my world, which is hosted on a server, leaving projects and houses and towns for me to discover when I log on. I know about 50 players who have regularly played on the server. There are many towns, shops, statues, sculptures, dungeons, cities, castles, rollercoasters, games, mazes, and more constructs on this one world.

Animal Crossing is one small town at a time. The Wii version included a city to visit, but the city was extremely small and the only things to find there were shops and places that used to be stored in the regular townspace on the previous versions. Minecraft is limitless. Endlessly big. Players can own shops and townhall and anything.

New versions of Animal Crossing cost the retail price, and seemed only an incremental upgrade from the previous title. The Wii version did allow for DLC, but all they really gave out were a few new pieces of furniture. 

Minecraft, on the other hand, has updated with new FREE patches very regularly, and, each new patch has offered game-changing new items or even entire new dimensions to explore. Also, Minecraft costs a third of the price of Animal Crossing on Wii, and you only have to buy it once for the new patches!

Also, Minecraft allows for modders to create enhancements and add new features to the game, including adding new creatures, new items to find and use, and new game modes. Animal Crossing provides no support for modding.

Some Minecraft servers support hundreds of players at once, rather than Animal Crossing’s maximum of 4 players. You can only own one house per profile, and online friends cannot own a house in your town. In Minecraft, you can build an entire town, finish it, and then start a new one. Animal Crossing does have quirky NPCs to talk to, but Minecraft doesn’t need its NPCs to talk, because there are real people living in your town to talk to. I would like to add that there are mods for Minecraft that can give you talking NPCs if that is your thing. In Minecraft, you can work with other players to build houses and decorate them together. In Animal Crossing, you’re alone; only one player may move things around in a specific house.

Also, and maybe this just irks me, but in Animal Crossing, you can’t place furniture outside. Furniture is always to stay indoors. In Minecraft, you can make furniture go anywhere you want.

So, if you’re interested in trying Animal Crossing, I would really recommend buying Minecraft. It provides the same experience with more customization, better community, and FREE updates and mods that keep the game fresh.

Thanks for stopping by my blog!
UNRAVELSPACE UNRAVELTIME