ACNH unpopular opinions?

[Akkari27]

The villagers have no personality.
The world lacks interaction.
There's nothing to do when you did all of the beginner stuff.
Acnh is a very good game in terms of aesthetics, but is bad in terms of functionality, and almost all fun features the previous games had were cut.
When acnh first came out it hit people by storm (for obvious reasons like the beginning of quarantine and the massive success of the switch), many new people came to animal crossing, but the game itself is just extremely lacking in comparison to it's predecessors. All villagers have the exact same construct, they tell you the same 3 things over and over again, and they just feel lifeless.
You can make the most aesthetically pleasing island on this planet, but having fun with it afterwards just doesn't work, since there is nothing fun you can to anymore.
Multiplayer is even worse than single player, all the fun minigames from new leaf for example were cut completely, and doing stuff with your friends becomes boring quickly.
The game in it's first state without any updates is dramatically incomplete and it's a shame that so much stuff WE ALREADY HAD IN PREVIOUS GAMES just came back in an update in a watered down version -> The roost cafe? Yeah that's great! Loved the mini game were you made coffee for your villagers, I'm glad it came back!-- Oh, they cut the minigame? So where's the fun stuff then??
And even with the newest new horizons updates, the previous games had still so much more in them that you could do! Right out of the box.
The game has/had so much potential, and don't get me wrong, I do like it and I spent lots of time with my friends with it, but it's disappointing honestly.

 

[Galaxite]

THANK YOU. his “” face honestly makes me want to punch him.


100% this!!! i was honestly so sad when it was revealed that the roost would be in the museum again in this game. i mean, i’ve grown to accept it and don’t consider it a big deal, but i still wish the roost had gotten its own building again. i had so many ideas on how i would decorate around it, and i even had a spot saved for it for months. feels bad, man.

also, for the 1,000th time: i wish the part-time job mini-game from new leaf returned, too. it was so relaxing, and i loved not knowing who’d come in for coffee each day.

For real I hate it so much lmao. My friend just got him on her island for the second time and everyone's like "omg yay" and I'm just here like :| lmao.

 

[VanitasFan26]

They should've continue to make major updates to this game instead of saying of being the "last one"

 

[McRibbie]

The villagers have no personality.
The world lacks interaction.
There's nothing to do when you did all of the beginner stuff.
Acnh is a very good game in terms of aesthetics, but is bad in terms of functionality, and almost all fun features the previous games had were cut.
When acnh first came out it hit people by storm (for obvious reasons like the beginning of quarantine and the massive success of the switch), many new people came to animal crossing, but the game itself is just extremely lacking in comparison to it's predecessors. All villagers have the exact same construct, they tell you the same 3 things over and over again, and they just feel lifeless.
You can make the most aesthetically pleasing island on this planet, but having fun with it afterwards just doesn't work, since there is nothing fun you can to anymore.
Multiplayer is even worse than single player, all the fun minigames from new leaf for example were cut completely, and doing stuff with your friends becomes boring quickly.
The game in it's first state without any updates is dramatically incomplete and it's a shame that so much stuff WE ALREADY HAD IN PREVIOUS GAMES just came back in an update in a watered down version -> The roost cafe? Yeah that's great! Loved the mini game were you made coffee for your villagers, I'm glad it came back!-- Oh, they cut the minigame? So where's the fun stuff then??
And even with the newest new horizons updates, the previous games had still so much more in them that you could do! Right out of the box.
The game has/had so much potential, and don't get me wrong, I do like it and I spent lots of time with my friends with it, but it's disappointing honestly.

This is NOT an unpopular opinion tho, it’s the opposite! Everything you’re saying has been said before, plenty of times, in the exact same overblown way (seriously, when will people have an opinion on villager dialogue other than “villager dialogue bad because they don’t have a personality” or “why aren’t the villagers mean anymore, people are too offended nowadays!!!1!”?)

FWIW I don’t disagree with what you’re saying 100% (I think that a lot of the stuff could benefit from villagers actually interacting with it, you’ll end up seeing a lot of repetitive stuff in terms of dialogue)
but it’s ultimately kind of frustrating to see in an unpopular opinions thread, because this is for, y’know, unpopular opinions (positive or negative), not rant thread stuff.

They should've continue to make major updates to this game instead of saying of being the "last one"

This is also not an unpopular opinion, but in a “god, yeah, I agree” way rather than a “don’t use this thread for rants” way. We’ve got 2 options here: either it continues to sell well and they pull a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on us and go “lol, more stuff”, or they make another AC game for the Switch like Splatoon 3. Or both, like the “hey, here’s a couple more Splatfests” from 2020.

still holding out that they’re gonna give us a cake for the second anniversary, but I’m on pure copium here

 

[-Blue-]

They should've continue to make major updates to this game instead of saying of being the "last one"

I don't think that's really unpopular for most of us. I sometimes forget what it was like when the game first released, as well as all of the lulls between the updates (due to how hectic my work/life schedule was due to the pandemic) but there were a lot of comments about how people were excited what would come next for the latest update. How we would patiently wait for the AC updates, you know when they would drop a image at the end of a video with Jack's chibi face for the Halloween update and so forth.

We were speculating so much content, most that never showed up or came back, and each time we were often let down with an inadequate update. Like MayDay/Museum day was so forgettable. Especially the second time when nothing new at all was brought back. It was that 'update' that finally made people snap.

Like does anyone remember when they showed all the vegetables we could now grow and cook and then followed the message with 'and more!' after they had already listed off the entire list of vegetables we can grow. I seriously thought there would be more to grow that they didn't show. It totally felt like they did that to trick us lol.

@McRibbie Most times a lot of the unpopular stuff is not unpopular. Not just here. Anywhere. Like Reddit has one of those and people usually state popular opinions. Don't get so bent out of shape about it. Just ignore them if it really bothers you that much. I'm sure they would appreciate that more than getting a passive aggressive comment.

 

[VanitasFan26]

I don't think that's really unpopular for most of us. I sometimes forget what it was like when the game first released, as well as all of the lulls between the updates (due to how hectic my work/life schedule was due to the pandemic) but there were a lot of comments about how people were excited what would come next for the latest update. How we would patiently wait for the AC updates, you know when they would drop a image at the end of a video with Jack's chibi face for the Halloween update and so forth.

We were speculating so much content, most that never showed up or came back, and each time we were often let down with an inadequate update. Like MayDay/Museum day was so forgettable. Especially the second time when nothing new at all was brought back. It was that 'update' that finally made people snap.

Like does anyone remember when they showed all the vegetables we could now grow and cook and then followed the message with 'and more!' after they had already listed off the entire list of vegetables we can grow. I seriously thought there would be more to grow that they didn't show. It totally felt like they did that to trick us lol.

But do you remember way back in 2020 they say that would continue to support this game for another "3 years" to come. Yes yes I know there is an argument to be made they didn't mention updates, but still that lead me to be believe that the game was originally going be supported longer, but for whatever reason by the time they released the 2.0 update in 2021 they just said it was the "Last Major update" and just stopped. I don't know it just seems weird for them to stop supporting this game.

 

[-Blue-]

@VanitasFan26 I am sure everyone remembers that. I've heard it both ways that it was word for word and that it was also taken out of context. Regardless, the majority of us were trying to be forgiving of the lackluster year 1 patches/updates because we were under the impression of that 'years of updates' Because most of the updates that we got were the holidays that were patched in and then taken out.

I still don't get that. The holidays should had been integrated into the physical copy to begin with. Why they were so behind to have to patch each one in individually still baffles me. What were they doing during all this time lol? Seriously.

It's also the reason why they gave the Mario and Sanrio updates some benefit of doubt, but it all broke loose when MayDay came and went and they wrote it off as an update. And then we didn't get any update of any sort until we got the beefy one in November. NOVEMBER.

 

[VanitasFan26]

@VanitasFan26 I am sure everyone remembers that. I've heard it both ways that it was word for word and that it was also taken out of context. Regardless, the majority of us were trying to be forgiving of the lackluster year 1 patches/updates because we were under the impression of that 'years of updates' Because most of the updates that we got were the holidays that were patched in and then taken out.

I still don't get that. The holidays should had been integrated into the physical copy to begin with. Why they were so behind to have to patch each one in individually still baffles me. What were they doing during all this time lol? Seriously.

It's also the reason why they gave the Mario and Sanrio updates some benefit of doubt, but it all broke loose when MayDay came and went and they wrote it off as an update. And then we didn't get any update of any sort until we got the beefy one in November. NOVEMBER.

Yeah I feel like there was something going on behind the scenes during the development. Maybe because of Covid they had to push back their plans further or probably because the other team was too busy working on Splatoon 3 and they had a small team of developers making small updates during 2021 which probably explains why it was so lackluster up until November like you said.

I know we are approaching the 2 year anniversary of this game being out but who cares at this point. There is really nothing much to hope for with the next update for this game because again Nintendo says they have no plans on making anymore updates and they don't plan on making anymore paid updates. Maybe if they just added one more update maybe the longevity of the game can last, but I am not a developer so I don't know how hard it is to make updates so I am not going to waste time speculating.

Its really sad though that this game could've had more done to it but it just got the same treatment like all the other games like Super Mario Maker 2 and Mario Tennis Aces just to name a few.

 

[-Blue-]

At this point, I think we're just going to have to wait for the next Animal Crossing game, whenever it may be, and hope that they listen like they have done with the previous entries. Nintendo listened to complaints when they created both NL and NH. So there's always hope that they listen to those valid complaints and not just look at the profit of NH being their top seller (during the pandemic)

 

[McRibbie]

@McRibbie Most times a lot of the unpopular stuff is not unpopular. Not just here. Anywhere. Like Reddit has one of those and people usually state popular opinions. Don't get so bent out of shape about it. Just ignore them if it really bothers you that much. I'm sure they would appreciate that more than getting a passive aggressive comment.

True! I do most of the time (because an unpopular opinion thread where half the posts are someone going “this is popular, shh” is horrible) it’s just sometimes it’s just “oh god, this again?” Honestly think I could have worded it nicer in any case because going AAAAA at someone is unconstructive, whatever’s being said… but will hold off on doing this in future

 

[Akkari27]

This is NOT an unpopular opinion tho, it’s the opposite! Everything you’re saying has been said before, plenty of times, in the exact same overblown way (seriously, when will people have an opinion on villager dialogue other than “villager dialogue bad because they don’t have a personality” or “why aren’t the villagers mean anymore, people are too offended nowadays!!!1!”?)

FWIW I don’t disagree with what you’re saying 100% (I think that a lot of the stuff could benefit from villagers actually interacting with it, you’ll end up seeing a lot of repetitive stuff in terms of dialogue)
but it’s ultimately kind of frustrating to see in an unpopular opinions thread, because this is for, y’know, unpopular opinions (positive or negative), not rant thread stuff.


This is also not an unpopular opinion, but in a “god, yeah, I agree” way rather than a “don’t use this thread for rants” way. We’ve got 2 options here: either it continues to sell well and they pull a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on us and go “lol, more stuff”, or they make another AC game for the Switch like Splatoon 3. Or both, like the “hey, here’s a couple more Splatfests” from 2020.

still holding out that they’re gonna give us a cake for the second anniversary, but I’m on pure copium here

Was an unpopular opinion in my mind since many new players love acnh but haven't even experienced the older games

 

[randomforeignguy]

Pietro is ugly

 

[RollingAntony]

Unpopular opinions (which idk what is unpopular or not anymore, there's 30 million of players out there but some of 'em are way louder):

Residents having hobbies, preferences and activities make them much much more alive than any other main entry of the series. They are not simple walking machines that can't do anything by themselves and depend on the player to do everything for them; they can still ask for your help (even if the ping should be more frequent) but they sing, play around, study, cook, etc. Written dialogue is not everything and "mean" is not the only "personality" (nor being "nice" is lesser than being "mean").

There's so much dialogue on the game that anyone saying otherwise must be deliberately missing it or they simply don't have the curiosity to try (or idk). Speaking to them 2 or more times will get you tons of dialogue and thanks to how the game comes together, many of that will be fresh depending on your island and yourself: having Spooky decorations will let them talk about scaring other residents or they'll get hyped at the mere sight of Festivale stuff; you can get comments depending if you're holding an umbrella or a fishing rod, etc.

Bulk crafting has never been needed, everyone can pace themselves and not try to craft 50 silos on one sit. Fish bait is not supposed to be the only way to fish, it's a crutch designed to help and thus, there is no need to craft 100 of them all at once. You can easily craft 5 per day and still have a hefty amount if you want to try for the rarest fish, the magic of AC means you don't need to do everything instantly; you can slowly do something without burning out yourself by doing a repetitive task hundreds of times.

A bit related to the last point, manila clams shouldn't stack, they are treated as a living creature like the butterflies or fish. So either, all should stack (which would be a bit ridiculous) or no one should.

I'm so thankful for the death of most of the cookie-cutter furniture series/sets that were a "staple" of the series. More space for innovation, creativity and a better diversity. NH freed itself form many old shackles, there's no need to have all sets follow the same exact dumb pattern. Sets/series as they exist now are much better, and I hope they carry that philosophy onwards (some of them following the old pattern is good tho, variety is the key)

The Roost having conversations for almost every single NPC on the series >>>>>> a microgame about looking for a guide on Internet. World and character building is more interesting, and I personally dislike how the barista microgame basically made you a god comparable to Brewster, making the pigeon seem like a chump. Of course, like many things, both things co-existing would be the perfect timeline, but that's the way the sablé cookie crumbles.

Being able to store flowers is completely uneeded on a game where cloning exists. You only need to keep a single flower on the big island and you can get as many as you want afterwards.

The sheer amount of content on NH is above and beyond of any other entry and should be celebrated more. However, I don't want (nor expect, I'm not naive), to find the exact same things on a future sequel. Give me new and varied things, not the old stuff I have already played.

Label's friendship thing is better done and much more fulfilling than Brewster, can't believe people sweep her under the rug so easily and elevated Brewster to god-tier level. Well I know why people do that, but yeah.

Lastly, I don't know and I don't really care how people play their own games, but even tho they are a string of code, I'm always weirded out by how some fans revel on bullying/mistreating their residents. I'm aware some have admitted that's one reason they miss "mean" villagers, because that makes it easy to hate someone but that doesn't make it better. It activates a fight or flight response, I don't want to interact with people who like to be nasty. (similar to how I don't want to "earn" a friendship with a villager that insults me, why would I even want to be near to someone who treats me bad? Friendships shouldn't work like that, a complete stranger can still choose to be nice or mean and if they choose the latter, then I'm out lol).

 

[McRibbie]

Was an unpopular opinion in my mind since many new players love acnh but haven't even experienced the older games

Yeah, I think it’s also worthwhile if you’re a newer fan to seek the older games out, because there’s unique things and things they do well (and conversely, things that are badly done) in all of them!

I think that there’s a good 20 million people who are brand new to the franchise who have their own thoughts on the game, whatever they are… but I just can’t say “NH is a game people overall enjoy” after seeing every post on the Animal Crossing Twitter’s replies full of anger and malice (to the point where the game’s director deactivated her account), or seeing the amount of AAAA here over the past couple of years over even the most minor things (sometimes justified, sometimes… not). It’s been hell, frankly. It’s nice to actually see people have calmed down a bit now, even as someone who’s “this is good, but that? Not so much”

PS. sorry for being a bit of a jerk earlier

 

[VanitasFan26]

Was an unpopular opinion in my mind since many new players love acnh but haven't even experienced the older games

Thats the problem. This game attracted many new players to this game that they love it so much, but the older fans who played the fast AC games really didn't like which explains why this caused so much of a divide the first time when it came out. To this day its still more divisive as ever.

 

[Corrie]

I love the fact that they brought back all the NPCs on Harv's Island but my goodness is it annoying to fly back and forth there to shop or customize.

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Yeah I feel like there was something going on behind the scenes during the development. Maybe because of Covid they had to push back their plans further or probably because the other team was too busy working on Splatoon 3 and they had a small team of developers making small updates during 2021 which probably explains why it was so lackluster up until November like you said.

I know we are approaching the 2 year anniversary of this game being out but who cares at this point. There is really nothing much to hope for with the next update for this game because again Nintendo says they have no plans on making anymore updates and they don't plan on making anymore paid updates. Maybe if they just added one more update maybe the longevity of the game can last, but I am not a developer so I don't know how hard it is to make updates so I am not going to waste time speculating.

Its really sad though that this game could've had more done to it but it just got the same treatment like all the other games like Super Mario Maker 2 and Mario Tennis Aces just to name a few.

I still think them being behind in development happened way before covid. There was no way they only got as far as they did from NL Welcome Amiibo to then. That said, who knows when development actually started. Eitherway, it was appalling the beta they released camouflaged as a complete game. I'm glad they fixed it after a year for free, but the update schedule was a disaster. Hope they learned to not do that in the future.

 

[McRibbie]

I love the fact that they brought back all the NPCs on Harv's Island but my goodness is it annoying to fly back and forth there to shop or customize.

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I still think them being behind in development happened way before covid. There was no way they only got as far as they did from NL Welcome Amiibo to then. That said, who knows when development actually started. Eitherway, it was appalling the beta they released camouflaged as a complete game. I'm glad they fixed it after a year for free, but the update schedule was a disaster. Hope they learned to not do that in the future.

I think they started actual development a couple of months after WA came out (so around about early 2017, meaning the game was roughly midway through its development cycle when it was announced), so it had a similar amount of dev time as NL.

The problem is, I think NL benefited immensely from being able to reuse most of LGTTC’s furniture models (a lot of the Nintendo stuff has been remade as well as the kotatsu, but a couple of things like the anniversary cake and the TNPS models don’t make it over, but otherwise it’s visibly all the same stuff), as well as benefiting from HHD’s additional furniture later on down the line, so there’s less to do there as opposed to NH where they’ve got to remake absolutely everything, and in HD on top of that. Nintendo very visibly struggled with developing in HD during the Wii U era to the point of releasing about 5 or 6 games a year for the platform during its lifespan, which I think is one of the reasons why they’ve embraced the update model so much, especially after the comparative success of Splatoon.

(It also partially explains why they use it for sports games, despite sports games being the thing least suited for this update model)

I don’t think using updates is a complete failure, because it suits the real-time model that AC is built around and it’s helped me give up time travelling, but it could definitely have been handled better. It probably will be, next time around: the next AC game’s going to have the same kind of advantage NL had, without having to also redo its outdoor graphics and villager models.

They seemed to have learnt a lesson somewhat, given Splatoon 3’s had a decent amount of time between announcement and release… but then Nintendo Switch Sports also seems to be using it

 

[Corrie]

Am I the only one who doesn't want the museum on my island? It's ugly and I just don't care about it. Minus Brewster. I literally have it shoved in a corner as it takes up space. I don't want it lol.

 

[VanitasFan26]

Am I the only one who doesn't want the museum on my island? It's ugly and I just don't care about it. Minus Brewster. I literally have it shoved in a corner as it takes up space. I don't want it lol.

Its just one of those things that you are forced into having no matter what. I hope the next AC game allows us to choose what we want and don't want in our playstyle.

 

[-Blue-]

Am I the only one who doesn't want the museum on my island? It's ugly and I just don't care about it. Minus Brewster. I literally have it shoved in a corner as it takes up space. I don't want it lol.

I used mine to mimic the market street from NewLeaf. Still trying to get it looking just right since I still need to make a Club LOL (why do I need to do this and go out of my way to make the game better?) and the such. But I do remember hating how nothing lines up perfectly with the museum and I had to undo my entire first layout because of that oversight.

I would've rather had Brewster have his own shop. I'm sure barely any of us go inside the building and it's annoying have to go through two loading screens to get to the coffee shop. Like everything is just so slow in this game.

I can boot up NL easily and I sometimes fall asleep trying to boot up NH between the main menu and Isabelle's announcements. (Mainly because I don't play until way later in the night and am exhausted from work) but good god the loading times suck. Loading for the game or for multiplayer in NL was convenient. Everything is just a slog in NH. It's like they had so much time to develop this game between NL, but didn't have the time to test it out to find this glaring flaws before they shoved it out? Something ain't right about that.