The joke is Pokemon comes out in October
June 27, 2013
2:32 pm
In case you live in a world void of social media, Animal Crossing New Leaf is a criminally boring game for the Nintendo 3DS that I play because I don’t know but it probably had something to do with peer pressure and now I can’t stop. It’s kind of like cigarettes. It has quite literally and without exaggeration bored me to sleep at least twice in the time I’ve owned it, but then I just wake up and keep playing.
If you are also in the business of playing this ludicrously boring game then YOU ARE IN LUCK because I went out of my way to design for you a set of MGDMT outfits!
Or if you want to just be a beefy dude I got you covered on that front too
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Yesss animal crossing!@!!
I WANT THAT DS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love pikachu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I ALSO LOVE ANIMAL CROSSING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPSSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got one when they came out a couple months back, sadly it was a limited run so the secondary market jacked the prices way up.
Now that Jared has a xbox over there, has he ever thought of going back to Kanto?
I don’t think Jared is that bright.
^LOLs XD But he’s not totally dumb. You see, he managed to evolved Mr.Fish! That’s totally wicked awesome!
Yes he did. He did it by using Mr Fish as a club to assault other pokemon.
Which is an awesome way to beat the crap outta pomekon
Well It’s not bright to wrap Mr. Fish in magnemites.
He DID make it through the Aperture Science Portal-Maze.
The only reason he wanted to go back in the first place was to get his X-box. Unless he somehow gets another trainer license I don’t think he will want to visit any region of the world where the entire economy revolves around organized pokémon fights.
That brings to mind a question in and of itself. Previous comics has suggested that Jared does, in fact, miss being a trainer. (His impulsive collecting on beanie animals and living in a secret base.) Has Jared ever thought of, or actually tried to, renew his traner’s license?
Secondary question: How many badges did Jared manage to get before he the unceremonious boot?
Given his general incompetence at everything, I am betting he never earn a single badge.
Given he has a Gyarados willing to eat the other Pokemon, I am betting he almost had them all and that’s why they kicked him out. Wouldn’t want the other trainers realizing how effective killing the other Pokemon is.
See, i think he did have Mr Fish kill/eat a lot of trainer’s pokemon (what is the plural?), but he never could find a gym, or fight a leader. Maybe he had trouble with a map, maybe he was just distracted by something else. The point is, I think incompetence is so core to his character he never saw badge one, and never caught a second pokemon. That is just what I think, would love to know the official version.
“pokemon (what is the plural?)”
Pokeymans.
Actually even if he did have a gym battle, he probably would have been disqualified for killing if he won. So no badge.
^Your guess is good as mine. Pretty much.
Reason for that is that even though it’s been pointed out to him that he shouldn’t allow Mr Fish to eat his opponents, Jared has expressed that he couldn’t seem to get Mr Fish to stop and doesn’t see why he should.
That and I’m sure that after the murder of a certain amount of pokemon, not to mention the methods used to train Mr Fish in the 1st place, sorta proved he’s a hopeless and dangerous case. I doubt that even if he truly wanted to return to it that they’d allow him his trainer’s license back.
Except that Jared didn’t collect Pokémon, he only ever had Mr. Fish, and even that was because he was kicked out of the house and forced to go on a Pokémon journey. Dude just likes beanie babies.
I will remember this the next time I’m tempted to try AC just to see what the fuss is about.
Animal Crossing: Not Even Once.
Well if I should believe the words of MumboJumbo they’ve at least have a nice recycling bin.
Mr. Fish needs to eat him…Alot.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com.au/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html
That is all.
I like this Alot. In general, this page is wonderful. c:
This segment of comments is making my eyes bleed. Its spelled a lot.
Ok, I probably should have looked at the link. Oops.
There is a point where a video games become a full time job.
^IF you were paid real good.
And this is exactly why I didn’t bother playing the first game either.
Poor mr. fish, he needs a mrs. fish to keep him company while jared is making bad choices on his 3DS
“Poor mr. fish, he needs a mrs. fish to keep him company”
Or even a Ditto?
No see this is A POKEMON we’re talking about here: Jared needs to store Mr. Fish on the PC network to prevent a starving Mr. Fish from going on an eating rampage and devouring half the town.
See, the reason a Mrs. Fish or a Ditto would be a bad idea to keep him company is because then suddenly Jared would have an eggsplosion of Magikarp on his hands. Then, y’know, they’d hatch and find their way into the streams and sewers, and eventually lakes and rivers, and then SUDDENLY there’s a Fisherman on every corner wanting to battle you with the most generally useless Pokemon ever.
SIX of them, no less!
Jared can’t store Mr. Fish in a PC since, technically, Mr. Fish is still a wild pokemon. Jared apparently skipped the part of his ‘training’ where he learned how to capture pokemon in pokeballs so he spent his entire journey with Mr. Fish strapped to his back up until the point where he evolved.
does that mean that technically someone can capture and take Mr. Fish away from Jared?
Sounds like it… Oh the uses of the Stockholm Ball.
Perhaps in another decade or so people might actually pay attention to the games they criticise and notice Pokémon WANT to get caught. The ball doesn’t enslave anything, they just wanted you to prove you were worth obeying. That’s why you have to collect badges, to continue to prove your worth so your Pokémon know you’re worth listening to. Lose their respect and they stop.
And perhaps one of these days you will pay attention to the show and learn that the majority of pokemon hate being inside of a pokeball, if even for an instant. That’s why Pikachu always followed Ash around, or was carried in the case of him being injured. And if you want to try arguing that we’re going by video game rules instead of anime rules, Pokemon Yellow even pointed out that many pokemon hated being inside of a pokeball and that’s why the Pikachu in the game followed you around.
It’s not the majority, it’s a minority of Pokémon that hate being in Pokeballs, enough that people have taken notice but not enough to warrant changing the system for. Pokémon Yellow is non-cannon to the rest of the games and was created to reflect the television show.
And regardless nothing you said remotely invalidates my point, the ball doesn’t brainwash Pokémon, they’re never under any obligation to listen. The show even backs that point up further since even if you have the right number of badges the Pokémon can still decide you’re not worth listening to.
I was arguing the point of them being forced to stay inside the pokeballs. I actually agree with you that the ‘balls don’t do anything about the pokemon’s mental state. The prime example would be Ash’s Charizard. Hell, even earlier than that. It started ignoring Ash shortly after becoming a Charmeleon and didn’t start listening to him again until he was about halfway through the Orange League. I forget exactly what happened for Ash to earn Charizard’s respect back. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen the Orange League episodes. I think Charizard was sick and Ash went through hell and back to help him? Like when he was a Charmander? I don’t know. My point is, I contest your claim that pokemon like being inside of a pokeball, but I support your claim that all the balls do is act as a storage device, and that any respect/obedience that pokemon show to their trainers is because of the trainer’s ability.
Charizard fought a Poliwrath, ignored Ash’s orders and lost, badly. In a life threatening way, powerful icebeam chilling Charizard to the point his body temperature was way too low and his tail flame almost went out. Ash spent the night furiously working to warm Charizard back up. When Charizard recovered enough to be conscious Ash talked to him a bit and talked about how they used to be really close and how he knows he screws up a lot but he just wants to be good enough for Charizard so they could battle together as buds like they used to. That coupled with the life saving work won Charizard over and he regained his old fondness for Ash.
The anime does back up my point that most Pokémon like the balls. They’re shown to be able to come out whenever they want (Psyduck, Wobbufett, all Ash’s Pokémon at various points especially that one episode they were trapped in a blizzard) or even not return to the ball at all (Gyrados in the episode Misty takes over the Gym) and many have just decided to ignore their trainer and go into the ball voluntarily (Caterpi when Misty hurt it’s feelings, Psyduck catching itself all the Pokémon in the Diglett episode). Pikachu is an exception, not the norm.
And May’s Skitty kept jumping out of the pokeball.
What’s that pokeball named after Swedens capital?
He’s talking about Stockholm Syndrome, numbnut.
The Wii one does the same to mii.
But how will Jared participate in X and Y properly when he’s only an ocean away with Mr. Fish? He needs to get his trainer’s license back.
It’s sad when Mr. Fish is so depressed, his eyes nearly point in the same direction.
Speaking of games, have you ever played Champions Online?
Mr. Fish is back! And as sexy as ever. Jared just needs to realize that Mr. Fish is and always will be better than that boring game.
And no, that wasn’t an opening for a flame war. Sorry, but I just have an opinion that others may not share.
Is That to say, “Mr. Fish is alot better?”
I can imagine Mr. Fish in Law Vegas, putting down alots as his bets…
I don’t know . . . Mr. Fish would probably just wrestle with the alots until he got bored. And then he would eat them . . . alot.
How is a M. Fish is awesome comment in any way an attempt to start a flame war? Just saying it’s not with so much emphasis seems like you want it to be.
I was being cautious, because I did mention that I think Animal Crossing is boring. I’ve (sadly) seen flame wars started over less. Like punctuation.
Well, thanks to you, I will always be the beefcake mayor of Guacamol! I will strud around and get bored of it by next month or so and will never beat this silly game just like the 3 versions before …this is just sad …
It’ll be fine when Pokemon comes out and he can go back to running back and forth in the same patch of grass looking for a Pokemon with a 1% spawn rate.
I had a point where I realized that every game I was looking forward to purchasing in the upcoming year is 100% monotonous tedium.
I sorta have a similar problem with Monster Hunter, though the tedium is less the gameplay itself and more the grinding monsters several times over just to get an item you know has a 57% drop rate but you just need one more to finish that weapon you were making but the game knows that and refuses to give any of said item to you.
meanwhile you just got your fifth 3% drop rate rare item that you have absolutely no use for at the moment but you know you will need later and are happy you aren’t actively grinding for it.
So yeah, it’s not that MH is boring; it’s fun as heck, but the RNG hates you.
Desire sensor’s a bitch ain’t it? I know the feeling very well.
EVERY game? Though to be honest I can’t say I’m too excited about most things these days.
The only upcoming releases I was thinking about getting besides ACNL are the new Rune Factory and Pokemon. I’ll probably get a PS4 but, eh, I dunno what the gamescape for that is gonna amount to yet.
On the upcoming releases note: I live (happily) several generations behind everyone else – and I’m only ever bored by choice – but I’m seriously considering catching up just to play Sonic Lost World and Smash Bros. U if I can justify the expense.
It’s seriously unfortunate those are both Nintendo-exclusives.
I wonder what ever happened to the good old days in gaming, where it took a willingness not to be bored with repetition, but also a genuine increase in skill just to keep playing a game that literally has no “winning conditions.” It would just keep getting harder & harder with each new level, more enemies, stronger enemies & faster gameplay…Until you just reach the maximum of your skill performance just to lose.
You’ve never played Dwarf Fortress, have you?
Hahaha, I do not have a 3DS yet but the games on my list for when I do (getting one in October) are the new Animal Crossing, Harvest Moon, Rune Factory, Pokemon, and maybe Style Savvy, so yeah, I am completely the same there.
IDK though, I never really got bored playing Animal Crossing in the past. I mostly use the ds to kill time in waiting rooms or to play while also hanging with my pals who are like playing fighting games against each other or something like that, so those types of games suit me really well.
I don’t know about New Leaf but as for Animal Crossing in general…
I think you might not be viewing the game in the correct light.
I’ll just leave this here then.
http://lparchive.org/Animal-Crossing/Update%201/
Ohholyjesus, man, that was… That was a scary, scary thing to read… Never playing Animal Crossing AGAIN.
That LP is pretty awesome… Damn you for forcing me to read it all!
For those of you that didn’t listen to this, you totally should. And if you read it instead, I guess that’s fine.
FUCK.
FUCK. YOU.
I JUST READ THAT WHOLT THING. RIGHT BEFORE SLEEP.
AND THE CATS ARE RUSTLING AROUND IN STUFF JUST OUTSIDE OF MY VISION.
YOUR. FAULT. CERTAINLY NOT MINE.
*huddles in the corner*
:D Oh I love this story! Read it to me again, Grandpa!
This was awesome, thanks for sharing it.
Grind is the new fun.
I don’t see nothin’ wrong….with a little bump n’ grind….
Never play Animal Crossing. A good friend of mine did, and he became rather obsessed with it. To the point that we had to sit in the very back of a movie so he could play it during the movie without the light bothering other people. It was the DS version, wondering if he will pick up the 3ds version or not.
I knew a lot of people who would fall asleep during World of Warcraft and then start playing again when they woke up. Yeah, a bit much. I remember loving Animal Crossing on the Gamecube but I also had a lot more free time then.
Let’s see here other games that this can apply to: anything with lvl 9999 in it, most MMOs, ludicrous trophy collections, and towers of text.
HELL YES!
I’m SO gonna get Jared’s clothes, I love you!
YES!
I FEEL YOUR PAIIIIN.
Animal Crossing ruins my life for a good couple of months every time they bring a new one out. It is possibly THE most boring game I have ever played and yet I can’t not play it. I don’t know what it is about the game that makes it impossible to ignore but I swear, there has to be some Jedi mind tricks or Derren Brown hypnotism in it somewhere. It just makes no sense!
Subliminals…Look it up. Brainwashing without all of the fuss.
I wonder how Mr Fish see’s Jared, especially at a time like this. Does he see him as a loveable doofus, just the hand that feeds him, or, from the blunt force trauma, does he just stare on at nothing with those lifeless eyes, like a doll’s eyes.
I can’t stand Tom Nook. I played an Animal Crossing game once. It was something new to me (it had been around a few years) and I thought it was worth giving a shot. Every time I payed off my loan, Tom Nook renovated my house (without permission) and shafted me with debt I did not want, nor was I ready for. I stopped playing and never, ever, want to return. That might seem inconsequential to some, but to me it was a violation I could not tolerate: choose between being a bum who can’t take care of his responsibilities or being somebody who endlessly toiled purely for another’s benefit.
I might be persuaded to play again if they introduced a mechanic for suing the pants off of that charlatan and sending him to jail for a few years for forgery, fraudulent banking practices, trespassing, vandalism, and just generally being an excretory golem.
Well, now he doesn’t upgrade your house unless you ask him to. And you can pay off his loan in like an hour. And honestly quitting because you always have debt to pay off to upgrade your house is like quitting a game because every level has another level right after it and it just doesn’t stop until all the levels are over.
I think the problem is that the game is telling you “This is an open-world game, but we are forcing upgrades on you anyways”
Also, I suppose there’s a level of personal feeling involved: You manage to.pay off your debts only to find out you suddenly have MORE debts to pay. It’s not the same thing as “there’s another level after this one.” It’s more of “There is even more frustration after you manage to stop being frustrated”
I kind of hope OP here is joking about feeling violated by a game giving you an in-game debt to a character, but anyway…
It kind of IS the same as ‘there’s another level after this one’ because to be fair, you don’t HAVE to pay off the debt. Nothing happens to you if you don’t. You can keep your bells and Tom Nook won’t even bring it up really, you just won’t get the next upgrade for your house if you don’t keep paying.
I’ve actually played the game for over a year without finishing the debt and it detracted nothing. The upgrades only give you more rooms to stuff furniture and arrange with feng shui, I don’t see how it’s a problem.
That’s capitalism for you. How about starting a revolution, burning down half the town, dividing the remaining stuff between survivors and forcing them to work on a collective farm? :p
Sounds like a plan to me. But you must remember to write “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” in big white letters on the side of the barn.
Given the way that capitalism is increasingly failing people, creating a permanent underclass and a permanent overclass (your chances of getting rich if you aren’t already and live in the U.S. are at an all-time low), that would probably be an improvement.
At least on the collective farm, you’d get a chance to reap the benefits of your own work, and we already have some animals who are “more equal than others”.
You guys do realize that you CAN actually finish all the renos? In all the games? You get a statue made of gold in your honor for getting the last expansion, the second floor, and the basement all paid off. Not actually that hard…..Then again….I enjoyed fishing in those games. So I made but-loads of money. And I did that while holding down a job IRL, and raised a kid….I only played a hour a day….Two on my days off….Normally when the kid was asleep.
Well crap, the outfits make me want to play Animal Crossing.
…What have you done to me?
This looks familiar…. Started up a second job and I keep passing out when I get home, often while playing New Leaf. Also, why didn’t I think pf making patterns of the Commander’s jacket?! Freaking AWESOME!
I have the qr reader, I have to get that jacket. I made the 10th Doctor’s pinstriped jacket with shirt and tie, because I found 3D glasses. It took me so long…
and that buffbody! The only time I’ve caught a coelacanth was in an island game D: i get mad at fishing, I keep catching sea bass, or horse mackerels.
And we all sit and wait for Pokémon X and Y to come out…
*whistles and twiddles thumbs*
LOL :D I Love this comic.
Though I have to say. While yes, there are parts of Animal Crossing that can be ridiculously boring (like trying to find a certain fish or whatnot) , much of it at least to me, is quite fun :) It’s fun for me to dig things up and find stuffs by shaking trees and renovate and redecorate my character and house.
I do fully admit that it’s definitely a game that could encompass your life if you don’t have restraint and have the idea of being a completionist so you MUST. FIND. EVERYTHING. hehe ;)
I like the skins, but the buff dude scares me a little because of the shape. Like if you peeled the skin and muscles off the top half of bodybuilder and made a babydoll dress out of it, it would look like that.
I was asking around on what game I should play on my new 3DS while I wait for X and Y. A lot of people suggested Animal Crossing. I Googled it and was like, “no!” Good decision me, good decision!
OMG I am so getting the commander’s jacket.
Wait, Ables’ is closed at the moment. *deep breath*
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
All I can say is I can finally update my zip up hoodie pro design to finally have a hood after seeing your Jared hoodie design. Awesome!
Is there something different about how you’ve drawn/coloured this? It kind of seems… glossier? It might just be that the last few have had darker colours.
I missed Mr Fish.
I am now wearing the Commander’s coat.
Mr. FISH learned FRUSTRATION!
Grumpy Mr. Fish…looks grumpy.
Man, why every body finds animal crossing so interesting?
No, seriously, i don’t know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAhFj4YzA0U
Oh hey, that’s my buddy Matt.
I wasn’t too interested in Animal Crossing, but now that I know I can dress up as the Commander I really want that game!
I was never interested in Animal Crossing even when I had a Gamecube and DS. My method of time wasting is playing any and all variations of Monster Hunter.
You made a clothing line for a game that’s super boring? Sounds legit.
This one is hysterical to me. Good job!
Also, I can’t tell if Mr. Fish has just a hint of sadness in his gaze, or if he has the same expression as always and I’m just reading into it.
Anyone else want to volunteer to fish-sit?
Not me…If Jared continues to neglect the care & (especially) feeding of his pet, a job of fish-sitting could well turn into becoming fish-shit.
The real kicker is that he’ll fall asleep on it, the battery will die, he’ll lose EVERYTHING he accomplished for that day, AND get chewed out by a pissed off mole for doing it.
HOLY CRAP MY FIANCEE AND I WERE PLAYING ANIMAL CROSSING DOING THIS EXACT SAME THING JUST NOW AND I JUST CAUGHT A COELACANTH IT WAS FATE
They only come out when it’s raining……And thier shadow is about the same size as that silly Sea Bass.
It’s not that my world is void of social media…it’s that my social media is void of anyone who would care about Animal Crossing.
Hey! I got that 3DS! And that game! I just haven’t played it since I got it at all. Too bad I opened it. (I reeeaaally needed those coins though.)
So…it’s that boring?
Eat it Mr. Fish, EAT IT!!!!!!!
awww– poor mr. fish! reminds me of how people can get busy with “other stuff” and just throw their goldfish in a bowl with nothing in it and the crazy bored little thing just swims around and around…
Except that Mr. Fish’s bowl is the world, and he can go around destroying it!
Totally just caught a Coelacanth last night, but it was in City Folk
I’d say the big draw for Animal Crossing is the same as Pokemon. Collecting stuff is fun. When you’re specifically looking for something, when you find it, it’s fantastic!
I just re-read this from the start and now I’m sad I’ll have to wait ages for there to be a bunch more. Curse my webcomic binges!
Grinding in games is something that should have died out decades ago. Does anyone play games for the grinding? No. It’s why I never play JRPGs
I already have the Coelacanth, cause I was lucky enough for it to rain not not after I got the game. It only took me maybe 10 minutes of fishing too.
Arg… Stupid typo. I meant ‘lucky enough for it to rain not long after I got the game’…
Maybe I should get a 3DS and this game so I can finally get some damn sleep.
So lovin’ Jonesy’s Jacket. And on a side note don’t forget to get the free DLC from BestBuy. This month its a cat tower. Unless you’er in Europe and I think its a lamp in the shape of a sundae.
Commander’s mislabeling of the 3DS system has me flashing back to the many times my parents have done the same.
Poor Mr. Fish is looking forlorn.
The only reason I’ve ever fallen asleep while playing Animal Crossing is because I was up for more than a day beforehand. XD
What? No Canadian Guy comic for Canada Day?
Mr Fish looks so dejected :<
I do indeed play Animal Crossing….I just got New Leaf. If anyone wants I can give my friend code. 2148-8998-4520
I have not fallen asleep while playing….But I have gotten tired….I tend to close my eyes & listen to the fish biting rather than watching the bobber….My reaction time is better for some reason….I still don’t know why.
Wait, since when has Mr Fish had a nose?
Since always
Unlocked the AR machine today just for this. Now my guy is wearing Commander’s jacket with Link’s hat. Awww yeah XD
That Jonesy coat makes me want to buy a DS and play this game. Which is the opposite reaction I should have to being told how awfully boring it is. Is it really that bad? I quite loved the gamepube original.
Anyone notice that Mr.Fish seems to fit everywhere? Through doorways and stuff. How does he turn around? Just was thinkin.
Aw c’mon. It doesn’t bore you to sleep. It’s just that when you play at night, the sea is rushing next to you and the music is all soothing… of course you might fall asleep c: I haven’t actually fallen asleep but I’ve had to go “okay now I’m tired I have to save and quit.”
commander calling it a gameboy instead of DS… just so true.