VanitasFan26
I'm just a ghost.
I wish there was an option to skip tutorials whenever you create a new resident. Its like once you heard like 10 times it starts to get annoying.
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ACNH Pet Peeves and Petty Complaints Thread
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I didn't realize it until someone mentioned, and this is a very small thing, but in NewLeaf when you take off your footwear your bare feet leave a more distinct bare-foot print on sand and snow. Your feet also make a more distinct clap/smack sound when walking/running opposed to when they're wearing footwear.
I need to boot up my game to see if the sounds are similar, but the footprints are a thing. It doesn't matter if you have footwear or are bare, the print will be the same.
Like I said, I get it, this is a small thing. But at the same time, it made me realize Nintendo and NewLeaf took the time to implement such small and beautiful things into their previous entry and they just cut corners all over with NewHorizion. It really put it into perspective for me. Made me realize what bothers me about NH so much and why despite being an AC game I just can't put the same passion into it.
It reminds me about how people were disappointed with how the bean toss didn't have that distinct sprinkle sound, or how it shook a cluster of flowers, or made a sp-lunk sound when it hit water, or how villager's would react with shock if you hit them with the beans. It's such simple things, but so charming at the same time. And honestly it made the game feel more complete and whole to me. NH just feels so barren at times.
I need to boot up my game to see if the sounds are similar, but the footprints are a thing. It doesn't matter if you have footwear or are bare, the print will be the same.
Like I said, I get it, this is a small thing. But at the same time, it made me realize Nintendo and NewLeaf took the time to implement such small and beautiful things into their previous entry and they just cut corners all over with NewHorizion. It really put it into perspective for me. Made me realize what bothers me about NH so much and why despite being an AC game I just can't put the same passion into it.
It reminds me about how people were disappointed with how the bean toss didn't have that distinct sprinkle sound, or how it shook a cluster of flowers, or made a sp-lunk sound when it hit water, or how villager's would react with shock if you hit them with the beans. It's such simple things, but so charming at the same time. And honestly it made the game feel more complete and whole to me. NH just feels so barren at times.
I loved the bare feet smacking sound! My mayor was constantly in bare feet due to this lol.
McRibbie
Senior Member
From checking both NL and NH, I think the sounds when running barefoot are similar?
But in general, I’m in two minds about stuff like this.
On one hand, it’s definitely a bummer that the footprints look identical, whatever you’re wearing. Same as the zap suits not doing the sting the Robot Hero does anymore, not going “oh my god, what am I wearing, it’s too hot or cold” if you’re wearing the wrong thing at the wrong time of year, or birds flying to the beans if you throw them at Harv’s… these are all things I miss, and the game suffers for them a little.
(I did get my beans out of storage: they make a very quiet sound compared to NL’s “throwing gravel on a pavement” sound, they DO make flowers twitch a little and they do plop into the water, although again subtler than in NL)
But on the other hand, it’s yet more fuel for an argument that’s being argued in binary terms, and has been for the past couple of years: NL perfect, NH awful, even down to the subtlest details.
Whereas it’s more like “I miss this in X game, I think this would be good in Y game, but both X and Y aren’t as good as doing this as U” imo.
There’s subtle details I miss when I go back to NL, too: the wind, the shadows of the clouds, the way things vanish into the haze like they did in WW, the fact villagers actually party at the Harvest Festival, the fact that once the Roost is open they carry little takeaway coffee cups, or little light sticks if you’re watching a K.K. show… or hell, half of the things they do around your island!
To say NH wouldn’t be better without those little things would be lying, but to say that NH has little things of it’s own I wouldn’t miss? I’d also be lying.
That’s what’s a bummer about them going “lol, it’s been 20 months, here’s your big update, bye”, imo.
It's aggravating trying to terraform a small patch and your character under or overshoots the spot. So then I got to undo/redo what I just did and then do it all over again because there's no indicator where I'm about to terraform.
VanitasFan26
I'm just a ghost.
I am so spoiled by Happy Home Paradise's Design Tool that you use for decorating villager vacation homes outside that it makes the terraforming on your island look so dated. I am just asking myself "Why can't they let us use this on our island?" It would save so much more time.
I feel like it'd be too much overkill with the terraforming they gave with the dlc. Like you know if they implemented it, people would then be asking for trees in all stages, ect and it just feels unnatural.
That's just me though. It definitely needs an update, but I don't know if to the length of the dlc is what it needs.
THIS SO MUCH. It would actually make me want to terraform lol. I'm surprised they didn't use this, considering they had it in HHD on 3DS.
VanitasFan26
I'm just a ghost.
Then again there are some things that wasn't taken advantage of. Like we cannot expand our home size inside (In New leaf you were able to do that with Tom Nook) and of course if you try to use the "Room Sketch" App when designing villager homes on your island it won't work. So its like you do all that hard work at HHP only to have limited sources on your own island.
No I get that and it needs to be less restrictive. I just think that like using the terraform app to magically insert trees of any size/stage life would kind of make it seem off.
VanitasFan26
I'm just a ghost.
I get what you're saying about the terraforming, but this game is a "Design simulator" so I don't see why not, but I suppose that would just push the limitations of the Switch that it could not handle it.
KittenNoir
🖤 Senior Member 🖤
I wish you do a 360 camera move around your character while your outside. Just like how you can when you are in your home it would make designing and terraforming your island so much easier being able to look around at your designs and how the item look.
People have done that with hacks, but every other angle is not properly rendered so there are a lot of textures missing and some models are just completely black.
I was watching this video someone dropped for the anniversary of the update and they covered a lot of the issues that hold NH back. (For me at least) and also they featured one of the members of tbt on their video towards the end, which was kind of surprising to see lol. I also watched their follow up of the 1st anniversary of the game last year and rewatched it to see how well it aged.
Both of their videos show valid complaints that still stand at this time that they never addressed. Fair warning the one video I didn't link has a bit of swearing, so only watch if you are ok with that.
VanitasFan26
I'm just a ghost.
I agree with everything that was said in the video. While the 2.0 update improved some elements of the game it still didn't fix some of the major issues people had with the game. It could've done better, but I suppose thats just how it is and Nintendo really should've done a better job with this game. Lets not lie to ourselves this game does have flaws and it really should've improved more things, but I can at least appreciate the 2.0 update for addressing some of the complaints people had. Nintendo sorta listened but even I think they realize that they are going to save those improvements for the next AC Game.
I actually watched a video, which if you are interested I can share (it's quite long though) where the Youtuber stated how when City Folk came out it tanked so hard with sells to the point that Nintendo listened to all the complains that is how New Leaf came to be. From what they mentioned, they took everything from CF and flipped it upside and cleaned the slate.
The problem here though is that NH sold so well that it surpassed all of the games. Even NL (for obvious reasons) So we're just left to wonder if they will listen to the fan/consumer valid complaints or look at the sales/money instead.
too many animations, not enough interactions when villagers come over, villagers aren't mean enough, etc etc. also kind of wish there were more limitations in terms of island customization, to keep you grounded in a sense. it's fun to work around some of the quirks of older titles, and part of me genuinely wishes nintendo kept that aspect of the series
McRibbie
Senior Member
I’d like to see the video!
I’ve read the Iwata Asks for NL and Kyogoku basically said something along the same lines, although it was worded more along the lines of a creative decision rather than a commercial one, and there’s also stuff NH does that’s a direct result as feedback from NL (like villager plots, and terraforming coming from the devs noticing that people plot reset), so there’s ample evidence that the AC devs do listen to feedback on the creative side, regardless of how well something’s sold.
On the other hand, HHD as a stand-alone game sold about the same as LGTTC, which is probably one of the key reasons why it got turned into DLC for NH. There’s no sign on the horizon that we’re getting Amiibo Festival 2: Amiibo Harder either, after it sold even worse than the GameCube game (at least that was the GameCube’s 7th best selling game)
There’s at least something commercial brained about the devs (or at least the higher up ones), and we can’t pin it entirely on the corporate side of Nintendo, to the point where I’m thinking “hmm, maybe this is why they’ve tanked NH fairly early, so they can make another game using NH’s engine as the backbone to come out in a few years time” but this is very cynicbrained of me, and ignores the fact that pretty much every game using the update system I’ve played could have done with more stuff added… but then again, one of them is Splatoon 2, which is getting a sequel this year, and that’s got the same producer as AC.
I just hope, for both our sakes, they listen to the right feedback. I feel NH’s worst instincts come from listening to the wrong feedback… but there’s another part of me that goes “but that’s the more commercially viable feedback”, and that’s worrying.
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For the most part I think a lot of the furniture that’s from older games gets a really nice makeover in NH, but I ended up remaking the living room from one of my other NL houses in Photopia and it made me realise: I don’t like the way the snow globe, palm tree lamp and frozen drink machine look in NH.
The snow globe’s probably the one that bothers me the least, because it’s a fairly minor thing. I think it’s something to do with the proportions of the globe itself being smaller, and the house looking a bit less alpine than the LGTTC/NL version, as well as being a house, singular
The frozen drink machine has three variations, and they’re ultimately nice-looking and suggest brands in the AC universe… but I’d have preferred a fourth variation with the metallic look seen in NL as well.
But the palm tree lamp draws the most ire from me… it’s far too big! Big and spindly! The NL one was really nicely done and I used it a lot, the NH one either got confined to storage or sold.
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Bluebellie
Senior Member
Why didn’t they add the violets (the most beautiful plant), yet they gave us the mossy Azumaya gazebo that has them. Is this a taunt?
cakiepop
don't be a tumbleweed
My gripes are mainly with the villagers :
- Villagers randomly come into my home and I can't do anything with them. It would be fun if I could actually do stuff with them, but they just loiter and read books and immediately ask to leave the minute I open my inventory?
- Your max villager count requires you to have double of one kind of 'personality' It sucks when I visit Yuka and Tipper and they both greet me the same before saying the exact same line of dialogue as their chat for the day because they're both snooty.
- Villagers seem to get annoyed when you want to talk to them more than once. I'll greet a villager and talk to them for the day, and then I'll come back to give them a gift and they'll be all like "Haha let's see how many more times we can bump into each other!" Does it get anymore passive-aggressive than that?
- Villagers randomly come into my home and I can't do anything with them. It would be fun if I could actually do stuff with them, but they just loiter and read books and immediately ask to leave the minute I open my inventory?
- Your max villager count requires you to have double of one kind of 'personality' It sucks when I visit Yuka and Tipper and they both greet me the same before saying the exact same line of dialogue as their chat for the day because they're both snooty.
- Villagers seem to get annoyed when you want to talk to them more than once. I'll greet a villager and talk to them for the day, and then I'll come back to give them a gift and they'll be all like "Haha let's see how many more times we can bump into each other!" Does it get anymore passive-aggressive than that?
