Any ideas for the next Animal Crossing?

I would like to see more personalities and dialogue. I noticed most of the villagers of their type say the same things, so they all seem like the same person in a different appearance. Also allow customization of the villagers homes, town hall, etc! It would be nice to have this possible an optional feature. Also would like to not feel stressed about constantly worrying if my villagers are going to move. It'd be nice if there was a more efficient way to detect this, or not make it so if they're in boxes, you can stop them. More texture spaces would be nice. I don't like the idea of making a new character just to have more pathway textures, etc. Minigames would spice up the game a bit too ^^ I wish there could be more ways to interact with your villagers besides talking or hide and seek. I agree with alot of the ideas posted here, they're all really great!!
 
gonna move this as it's a little more appropriate in ac general.
 
- I want it so that when you start the game and Isabelle greets you she says something like: "...Oh and another thing we have a new resident moving in today! However they're a little lost as to where to put their house. Think you could help them out?" Then you meet the new villager at the train station and they follow you around like when you're placing a pwp and you help them place their house. To make it harder they could have criteria like "I wanna live near the beach." "far away from a trash can"

-I want the ponds to freeze over in winter and then you can walk on them or even buy ice skates and go ice skating!

Also ditto to the ski resort.
 
I really want to know what the next Animal Crossing will be like. What do you think will be in it?

I don't want to be overly critical; but, I think the people behind the scenes need to be even sharper.

I want the next "Animal Crossing" to continue with the mayor power but I also want true mayor power.

I want zoning control for the mayor. (This is especially the case for where homes can be built.)

I would like some custom designs and templates for paths. (We're not all artists.)

I want better landscaping; for example, that there is easier access to the getting bushes.

I would like for villagers to have two-floor houses; the first remains in original condition while each villager makes modifications with the appearance of their second floor.

I want The Roost Cafe moved to Main Street and available from Day #01. (This should include some baked goods. Coffee-only has become a bore.)​

I want the people who give us one edition after the next "Animal Crossing" to expand many of the features we now enjoy. I think some of the items one can accumulate has been overkill while there is a lack of opportunity to really maximize the mayoral concept of running a town.
 
Oh, one thing I forgot to add, was I'd like to have the ability to jump! I like to jump alot in games, and I had trouble adjusting to not being able to jump in animal crossing lol.
 
I'm honestly just hoping that it's not going to be on the WiiU.
A larger town/more villagers would be nice.

why? If you bought a Wii U just for AC, then that was a waste of $$, and what else would it be on?
 
I love all of these ideas, really.

My ideas:
• Town Map. Like someone said, design your own town map. This offers total originality, plus causing everyone to have unique maps. We all have a perfect idea on layout, & sometimes we have to constantly start over to get better options that are relevant to our ideas. This will totally help bring out our creativity, & save time.

• No Grass Deterioration. Please. I'm so overly cautious about running. This is a major problem in New Leaf, & I'm even afraid to put down patterns for pathways because it increases grass deterioration. -.- It's extremely upsetting, let alone unpleasant due to it leaving your town looking not-so-nice.

• Part-time Jobs. Or even a full time job. Some of us get bored of just doing the normal things(digging up things, watering plants, etc.), and we need stuff to do. It may even give us more motivation to pick up the game & play(Not trying to influence not being productive, but...why not sit in your room on your bed playing your 3DS while eating junk food?).

• Island Expansion. They should add new things to the island. More fun, possibly longer tours. More attractions. Don't we all go to the island to hang out with our friends? They should give us stuff to make us want to stay there longer. Maybe even let villagers come to the island, & they could possibly even go on the tours with us. Wouldn't it be cool if we could have a little beach house, too? Just like the first Animal Crossing. C'mon people.

• More PWP Projects. Period.

• Villagers. If only they let us select where we want villagers to go. Their unpredictable placement is ridiculous. At least we knew where they were going to go in the past Animal Crossing games. They destroy pathways, too.

• Patterns. I think if we have handmade pathways, they should at least let us put things on top of them. No disappearing items. Maybe even make some pathways PWPs.

• Character. Please give us eyebrows. Lol. I'm so picky about hairstyles due to my lack of eyebrows. Plus it'd be pretty cool to give us more natural features, & like others said, choice of skin color. Not everyone is pale white.

• Miscellaneous. More pattern slots would be nice. Not everyone wants to create a separate character to hold specific patterns. Maybe more options to decorate the exterior of our house with(we should totally be able to have a backyard & a pet or something)..? Adding a Gyroid exhibit to the Museum would give purpose to the Gyroids, too.


You guys can tell me if my ideas are a little too much, haha. It's just that this game lacks so much. I'm sure the future games will be great, but honestly, their audience is children with the exception of a few adults. We children are very imaginative and creative, & I think we need a game that appeals to that. And I feel as if Animal Crossing can do that. I mean, look, they already have talking animals checked off.
 
1. Bigger PWP's that you can stack/merge to the clouds.

2. You can go on the clouds and they can be accessed by climbing huge PWP's or having a flying type pokemon take you there.

3. There can be sleet and the ground will be slippery with ice spots.

4. Extreeme weather like tornadoes, blizzards, floods, and hurricanes can come.

5. You can get a remix of your town tune from KK. Slider and play it on your radio.

6. There are thieves and burglars and the police would have to get them.

7. There can be underwater towns when your town floods or ancient ruins underwater that can have animals like Fish.

8. There can be underwater caves.

9. You can bring your instruments to Club LOL and perform. Also with a band of people.

10. You can travel with more things than just the train. (Lets boycott the train XD). And you can travel with friends.

11. You can have friends living in your town.

12. You can buy more land and expand your town.

13. When you streetpass someone you can get gameboy games and GC games.

14. You can resign from the office and promote/fire Isabelle. You can also hire animals.

15. You can change your face and your town name and your character name by signing papers. You can sign them with touchscreen.

16. There can be more detailed hairstyles and faces. (You can unlock them)

17. You can access the deep ocean with oxygen tanks and explore the deep parts of the ocean with friends too. There can be lost ships and submarines and you can steal lost treasure down there for lots of bells.

18. You can buy bikes and cars from Nook. Bikes can hold 2 people and cars would hold 4 people and you can race with friends.

19. You can make custom carpets and wood flooring and wall paper and customize existing ones.

20. You can follow planes to a military base and spy on them.

21. You can go skydiving from an airplane.

22. You can select certain people on best friend list to send a message to.

23. You can invite villagers to do stuff for you.

24. There can be a grocery store and you can buy fruits and veggies.

25. You can buy food and cook them to make a meal.

26. You can have fans like in GC.

27. You can have a happy bar and you can raise it buy eating meals and much more and when its maxed you can do special stuff. When it's low you frown and you're slower. Doing favors and buying stuff (for villagers also) can raise the happy bar.

28. You can have pets and train them like pokemon and they can unlock special places (like the clouds if its a bird)

29. You can choose your height at the beginning of the game.

30. When there's extreme weather like blizzards or tornadoes, Tom Nook has to repair your house and he has to pay you money so you gain money.

31. You have the option to view in first person view.

32. There can be pools and you can buy one for your house (outside of it).

33. In the winter all pools, ponds, rivers, and the ocean freezes and Ables/ Kicks sell ice skating gear. (When its fall and you're swimming and then it turns to winter you'd be frozen until spring and would become a ghost of the haunted ocean.)

34. There are wind instruments like saxophone, oboe, and flute.

35. Theres an ice cream shop in Main Street.

36. You can customize shoes, socks and gloves.

37. You can play custom melodies instead of random notes. And also play instruments on the bottom screen.

38. You can have water/ice type pokemon in your ocean.

39. You can buy special seeds that can make the grass longer and you can ask Leif to trim them and have villagers trim their own lawns.

40. You can go kayaking or canoeing.

41. You can go on a cruise on a luxury boat. Gulliver drives the cruise ship and you sometimes tip over.

42. You can buy a rocket ship and visit different planets. Once you've visited space a certain amount of time you can dream of the moon and viit aliens.

43. You can rent an apartment.

44. When you're visisting another town you can stay at the town hotel.

45. There can be a park with swings and slides and monkey bars and other stuff you can unlock.

46. There can be amusement park you can unlock that has rides like rollercoasters and stuff and you can unlock more and even make some rides once you've spent a lot there.

47. You can have a laptop or CPU and have an email on it with a password so that your mailbox isn't always full. You can also go on AnimalCrossingCommunity.com and Acbay.com on your laptop/CPU with your real account.

48. You can go ziplining.

49. You can climb trees without cheating.

50. On the cruise, you can unlock more places to go, the more you've visited/spent. Like Antarctica, Hawaii, and much more.

51. In Hawaii there would be volcanoes that would erupt and in Antarctica there would beartics/cubchoo's and seels/dewgongs and stuff.

52. In the summer, you have the option to go to Antarctica and Club Tortimer there. There are also special tours in Antarctica.

53. There can be special villages on clouds. You can go and buy souveniers on the cloud shop and meet cloud people.

54. You can dream with friends and unlock special places to dream (the moon, other planets, lost underground worlds and stuff) and meet people in the dream world.

55. You can unlock more shops (Like a dentist and Bertha would be the owner and a plant center where you can buy a variety of flowers and plants like Leif's and also a mall with lots of different shops)

56. You can record yourself and send them to your friends they can see you on Tv or in real time when you guys are on at the same time and one is filming.

57. You can enter a lottery for prizes like bells and rare stuff.

58. Things would get more expensive so it'd be more challenging (It gets boring pretty quickly).

59. You can have a bigger art selection; crayons, markers, glitter, colored paper and origami and display it.

60. You can make your own furniture and copyright it.

61. You have the option to make it get dark at the same time as it does in real life and have the weather sync like in real life.

62. You can have wider and taller houses like 5 story ones and you can demolish them and combine them together so bigger rooms.

63. You can go surfing with a board or with pokemon/pets.

64. You can eat at the roost and orer deserts. Once you've spent alot of money there, it can expand into a resturaunt.

65. You can visit a jungle which has bug and grass type pokemon.

66. You can buy and wear makeup.

67. You can layer clothes.

68. There can be the soccer balls like in GC.

69. In Antarctica, you'd get pale instead of tan.

70. You can buy stickers and decorate your home.

71. You can buy disco lights for your home.

72. You can make underground railroads and trap villagers and or homes underground.

73. You can record songs and put them on the radio.

74. There can be a national radio channel.

75. If there's alot of snow on the ground, you can go skiing.

76. You can go to school and learn about fun stuff.

77. If you're in space for a long time your skin starts to turn green like at the island if you get a tan.

78. On the clouds, gravity is weaker so you can jump.

79. There's flying type pokemon in the sky/clouds.

80. There are newspapers and magizines.

81. You can customize the shape of your house, like change it completely.

82. More accessories like braceletes, earings, necklaces, bags, and BFF bracelets that you can unlock once you played with someone alot/ visited/ invited them over a lot of times and they have special powers.

83. You can grow more stuff like more flowers, veggies, wheat and stuff and harvest them.

84. You can have more clothing customizations than just sleeves, and you can make skirts, shorts, pants, and hats.

85. You can visit/write back to mom.

86. You can shapeshift into any animal but you have to unlock them by being friends with a certain animal or like PWP's and they wear off a certain time and can be upgraded to more time added for bells.

87. You can start a business on Main Street.

88. You can have an island hut like in GC.

89. You can put a password on your game file so no one can dellete/mess in your town.

90. You can unlock more storage.

91. You can use more notes instead of ABCDEFG in the town tune.

92. You can have a notes section like a to-go diary.

93. You can use voice chat and it'D be HD. Like Skype chat.

94. You can listen to music on an ipod.

95. You can have a phone and use voice chat with your best friends when they're in different towns and invite certain best friends.

96. You can unlock Japanese characters and letters.

97. You can attach pictures and drawings to letters like Swapnote.

98. You can have the camera look behind you while you're outside.

99. You can drink juices/water and buy special cups/mugs.

100. You can download conversations for animals so they're not so repeptitive.

101-114.
Fire type pokemon can be found in deserts while its summer.
Water type pokemon can be found in bodies of water.
Electric types can be found in the sky while it's thunderstorming.
Grass types can be found in towns with lots of grass.
Ice types can be found when its snowing.
Poison types can be found near mushrooms.
Ground/Rock/Steel can be found in mines/underground caves.
Flying types can be found in the sky when its sunny.
Psychic types can be found in dreams or in outer space.
Bug types can be found in towns with alot of flowers.
Ghost/Dark types can be found in nightmares.
Fairy types can be found in peaceful and happy dreams along with Psychic types.
Dragon types can be found as fossils and you can have a special person restore them back to life.
Normal types can be found in the wild (While camping.)

115. Snowflakes can be more detailed (bigger/smaller) and you can put them in your home.

116. You can climb mountains and visit the Grand Canyon.

117. There can be a thing that can tell you what the temperature is.

118. You can go camping in the woods on a special island with friends.

119. You can rotate PWP's.

120. You can unlock bigger PWP's like mountains, lakes, ice skating rinks, a bigger shopping district, a mall (like Mall of America in Minnesota.)

121. There'd be secret passages in the ocean where you swim at (before buoy line) that can bring you to a different world/dimension.

122. You can grow a bean stalk, climb it, and access a secret part of the sky.

123. You can see the stars and other planets with a telescope.

124. You can camp in huge trees and with friends.

125. There can be mermaids in the ocean past the buoy line (deep part) that have powers.

126. Bigger tree's like on in plaza but bigger.

127. There'd be ladders you can climnb on to get on buildings.

128. You can get a plane and travel across the world to different countries.

129. You can go in the photo booth with freinds.

130. You can make treehouses in trees.

131. You can buy candles and light them.

132. You can stack clothes instead of just fruits.

133. More room in your mailbox.

134. As mayor, you should be able to designate spots for animals to move in.

135. You can layer clothes like in Style Savvy.

136. You can have a tool belt to put your tools in to save space.

137. You can go under your bed.

138. You can hide in closets.

139. You can have an ingame SD card to save your NL pics so you can access them quicker and delete them when you're card is full.

140. Animals can be more natural looking by height, more bigger and smaller.

141. Shoes can have high heels.

142. You can stand on tables and chairs.

143. You can jump on beds and couches.

144. You can upgrade your wallet to hold more cash.

145. You can take out your own amount of bells like 29. Doesn't have to be by 100's

146. Nooks homes, Ables and stuff can expand, too.

147. Ables can have a 2nd floor with expensive/rare stuff like GracieGrace.

148. GracieGrace and Able Sisters can be enemies.

149. You can hang clothes in your home. Doesn't always have to be in a mannequin.

150. There can be a library where you can buy books and read and it can also expand.

151. You can call animals to talk on the phone.

152. You can buy board games and play them with friends.

153. You can get a tent and go in sleeping bags.

154. You can make balloons and buy hellium balloons at store.

155. You can buy and play with remote controlled cars and helicopters.

156. You can make balloon animals.

157. You can get longer hair that's past the shoulder length.

158. Your player is taller if you want them to be.

159. Animals can wear pants.

160. You can unlock different kinds of gift wrap instead of just 1.

161. You can make your own coffee with the coffee beans and tools Brewster give you.

162. You can get your ears pierced at the mall for earrings.

163. You can jump.

164. When you're on high places like the clouds or on a tall mountain, you can jump higher and come down slower, so gravity would be weaker.

165. You can type faces like in GC.

166. You can brush your teeth and floss.

167. You can decorate the outside of your house like put a wreath on your door or put up lights.

168. You can buy different kinds of toothpaste.

169. You can put food in your fridge like a closet but for food.

170. You can roast marshmellows when camping.

171. You can buy curtains for your home so no light comes in.

172. You can bring instruments outside and play them without being in a building and have a outdoor concert!

173. You can play sports.

174. You can have a watch and wear it and check the time so it can be more realistic.

175. You can set alarms on your watch.

176. You can have eyebrows!

177. You can have luggage like when you're on a plane.

178. You can ride on helicopters too not just planes.

179. You can have multiple mii masks.

180. You can sculpt furniture.

181. You can go to art classes and learn about art. (Art Academy)

182. You can make origami and there'd be construction paper.

183. You can hang pictures in your home that you've taken in New Leaf from camera.

184. You can make a book and publish it in the library and you Best Friends can read 'em (or normal friends if you choose to)

185. You can make a photo album.

186. You can make energy balls and send them to people so they have good luck.

187. You can play catch.

188. You can dance anywhere.

189. You can have a DVD player and buy/make dvd's and send/receive them from/to friends.

190. You can relocate your house.

191. You'd get sick occasionally and would sneeze sometimes without control.

192. You can go to the movie theaters.

193. You can cook and eat fish.

194. You can splash in the fountain!

195. You can make wood carvings.

196. You can chew on bubblegum and blow bubbles.

197. You can ride on the train with friends.

198. You can go in hollow trees

199. You can decorate your town tree.

200. There'd be lockers in stores than just train station.
 
I really wish they'd let us pick a climate type for the town. Maybe when you're being asked all the initial questions, there could be something about what the climate is like and you could pick an option or let it be randomly selected or the default. I'd really love to see that since it would be great to be able to match the game's seasons to your real-world location or to the location where you imagine your town to be set.

I'd also love to see more skin tones being available for characters and being able to do stuff like rotate patterns easily.

- - - Post Merge - - -

With the popularity of the tropical island setting and the different mini-games you can play there, I think it could be neat to have a snowy lodge and ski resort to the north of the map. You can travel up to the mountain via a ski lift, and there'd be tons of snowy themed mini-games, furniture and prizes. Maybe like the original AC on Gamecube, you can own your own cabin and decorate it.

I'd love a ski lodge, that would be amazing!
 
I'm going to be less ... well, moaning and give over 100 ideas.

- skin tones for characters. Surprised anti-racism organisations haven't had a moan.
- more developed villagers - more variety in what they say, how friendships form
- no more terrifying character designs - the games aimed at kids, not 30-year-old horror fanatics
- friendships can be formed with all 'special characters' eg shopowners
- said special characters have own house and can be seen around town on days shops are closed (say if Able Sisters were closed on Sundays, they can be seen walking around on Sundays)
- work for anyone you want
- gyroids placed in museum
- the Roost to be back in the museum basement
- get your own shop selling whatever random stuff you want
- place villagers where you want
- no meth shacks for villagers
- option to design how you want your town - climate, placement of rivers, buildings etc; your the mayor now, more control. Also for those who want a surprise, still option of randomized designs.
- less people who are on speed posting 100 suggestions in one post :D no offence izzy, just was a bit of a shock seeing so many suggestions
- no pokemon, don't forget its a different developer (game freak) so don't get confused/over excited/disappointed
 
- Ability to change avatar's name and town's name.
- Ability to set parcel placement.
- Ability to set a side character mayor.
- Ponds as pwps.
- Villagers wearing skirts, pants and hats.
- Small cave, mining area, under the town, where all those annoying rocks would be placed.
- A way less unorderable stuff, seriously.
- Pwp rotation.


I can't think of anything else right now.
 
I would like bigger towns, more pwp's, much more interesting dialogue with your furry neighbors, more varied weather, leaves blowing in the wind in fall, more flower species, the feature to ask your neighbors for jobs like in WW, the water in your rivers and ponds to freeze in the winter, the ability to play the game both on your 3DS and your WiiU (like monter huntan tri ultima), more K.K. slider songs, cooler looking clouds (i want to see nimbus, cumulo nimbus, stratus, alto stratus, cirrus, anvil heads), the ability to ride boats or jet skis on the lsiand, more island tours, MORE STORAGE SPACE, more lions, the ability to customize your town layout, the ability to decide where your neighbors move in, more events, dlc, and holiday events (they don't even celebrate the 4th of July in the NA version), I would also like the idea of a northern area as said before in this thread, like a ski resort or mountain town where you can do winter themed tours and receive winter themed items.
 
My main ones are bigger towns, more villagers, more complex dialogue and interaction, path pwps, and an easier way to give money to other players, like a check, or through the abd directly.
 
have digby as a secretary because he looks more awesome than isabelle and is less annoying

oh and tom nook has nunchucks in his pocket
 
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