Deal with it ---> We do not need new villagers in New Horizons

[peppy villager]

personally I think adding new villagers would be a welcome addition, and it would be exciting to get to discover all of them.

even if we operate under the assumption that some current villagers wouldn't make the cut because of adding new villagers, I think thats alright. it's always possible to go back to old games and see them and maybe it would end up that the new villagers are our new favorites!

 

[Pellie]

Hey this is completely not a biased comment, but wouldn't a king dedede villager be awesome? They have the model, just re-texture it and bam! kirby reference.

Give me that King Dedede villager and also add a pink hamster with little red feet and "poyo" as his
catchphrase.

 

[LambdaDelta]

lol this rant

bring back all the older villagers that still haven't made a return along with all the non-crossover ones at minimum tbh

 

[KnoxUK]

Give me that King Dedede villager and also add a pink hamster with little red feet and "poyo" as his
catchphrase.

The pink hamster would have the kiki & lala set and bam! Dream land.

 

[FlimsyAxe]

So if nintendo has one team for character diologue and one team for character design (which is certainly true), how will that take more time? They work independently. That?s like saying that if i draw a comic my mom has less time to do the dishes in another city.

Correct me if I?m wrong but the way it works now is that the writers come up with dialogue for each personality type, not each villager. If OP is saying that they want complex characters, that would mean that the writers would have to give each of those 500 villagers plus the newer ones exclusive dialogue. It might not be much for the department that handles character design, but the writers will be doing more work.

Says who?
You?re building your argument off of an assumption right there.

I?m not saying that both (or either really) will be in the game, but there?s no reason to assume they won?t or can?t make time for both. Doing anything?adding any feature?costs development time. Going by your logic, they should also choose between bug hunting and fishing, or leave out bushes because they made trees.

We?re all building off speculations here because the game isn?t out yet. I might have misstated my main point earlier. What I?m saying is that even if they can make time to do both (and they can), some aspects of the game will be given priority more than the others because they have a deadline to meet. If the developers decided that improving villagers is more important, they?ll put more time in that. We can still expect new villagers, just not as much as we would have wanted. And vice versa.

 

[Fey]

We?re all building off speculations here because the game isn?t out yet. I might have misstated my main point earlier. What I?m saying is that even if they can make time to do both (and they can), some aspects of the game will be given priority more than the others because they have a deadline to meet. If the developers decided that improving villagers is more important, they?ll put more time in that. We can still expect new villagers, just not as much as we would have wanted. And vice versa.

I still don?t see the two (Animal quantity vs. quality) being inherently linked in any way, but you?re right about prioritization in general of course.

If I had to choose, I?d prefer better developed villagers to new ones as well btw.
However, I?d also prefer some new ones, even if it?s at the expense of older ones.

 

[Licorice]

I'd rather them bring back old villagers. I already have too many favorites to choose from tho.

 

[Mink777]

The fact that they were able to make NL with adding all the villagers back from CF except one who was upgraded to a special character all while adding a bunch of new villagers, means New Horizons should have no problems whatsoever adding new villagers and villagers from the GC game all while keeping every villager from NL.

It absolutely blows my mind that some people here still think villagers from NL may not make it into the game.

 

[MasterM64]

I agree with your position on not adding any more villagers, we got plenty as is and I would rather see more depth in the villagers instead. I miss how the GameCube villagers have more depth and variance in their conversations compared to the other games, it would be really cool if Nintendo actually took the time to bring villagers back to that point and go up an additional level or 2. When it comes to which villagers should be the game, I think they should include every villager ever including the Amiibo-exclusive ones so we can experience our old favorites again and be introduced to villagers that only got a Japanese exclusive release (like the ones only in Doubustu no Mori e+).

 

[Fiain]

I hope there are new villagers, but I'll be honest - I can't say I could name even half of what we have, so I wouldnt necessarily notice any difference. I'd prefer quality over more if I had to choose, so itll be interesting to see what the devs do!

 

[Mink777]

Developing new villagers isn't going to stop them from implementing more complex interactions with villagers. Like, there are completely different people working on those things - artists to design the characters, both villagers and NPCs, and programmers to code it all.

Plus, I'd like to see new villagers, even at the cost of old villagers. For one, I'm bored with knowing everyone already, and I also think it'd be good if they left a few villagers behind. If you want to visit them, you can always load up your NL town.

It would not be good to leave a single villager from New Leaf behind. Just because you can name off a couple villagers you don't care about, doesn't mean there are people out there who don't have those same villagers as their all time favorites.

 

[FlimsyAxe]

I hope there are new villagers, but I'll be honest - I can't say I could name even half of what we have, so I wouldnt necessarily notice any difference. I'd prefer quality over more if I had to choose, so itll be interesting to see what the devs do!

Same. ACNL is my first game in the series and after hundreds of hours played, I can probably recognize just about 20% out of all of them. I'm not the type to cycle through villagers a lot and I don't really like googling for the entire list just because I like the element of surprise whenever I visit the tent and it's always someone new.

 

[Bcat]

I mean we might not need them per say, but it’s always nice to have some. Every other iteration has always had new friends to meet so I don’t see why this one shouldn’t. Especially since there are confirmed no new personalities.

They definitely need more variety in their interactions however.

- - - Post Merge - - -

ALSO: if they cut Tutu imma be pissed. She was my bestie in city folk

 

[Nunnafinga]

I don't think a handful of new villagers would hurt the game.I'd like it if Nintendo would fill in some of the personality gaps....give us a smug cat,peppy and lazy wolves,cranky and uchi ducks and a snooty bear.I won't mind if they don't roll out any new species.

 

[Kirbyz]

As long as they don’t make any NPC animal villagers, I’m fine with having new ones. Like please, I want the NPC’s to be unique, I don’t wanna see raccoons, skunks, alpacas, foxes, etc as villagers because that just won’t feel right imo. Some of the new ideas are actually quite nice, though I’m actually wondering how they’ll turn it into a cartoonish villager. I keep trying to imagine bats as villagers but seriously how would they draw that? Well, people at Nintendo are geniuses so I’m sure they’ll find a way (IF new villagers are even going to be a thing at all) also please no spiders, bee’s, etc villagers because those are bugs we catch in the game and it would be so weird having them as villagers (I know there’s octopi but imo spider and bee villagers will look weird, like no bugs please lmao) and yeah we have hamster villagers and there’s still a hamster cage as an item?? But anyways new villagers are nice idea, I don’t necessarily want them that bad but it would be cool if there were some in New Horizons.

 

[Fey]

I'd like it if Nintendo would fill in some of the personality gaps....give us a smug cat,peppy and lazy wolves,cranky and uchi ducks and a snooty bear.

No smug cats definitely feels like an oversight—isn’t that the feline default? xD

 

[Dim]

I’m fine with the ones we have now. We have so many as of now anyways.

 

[Stevey Queen]

I don't think we've reached that point yet. This could be discussion in 8 years when animal crossing VR is coming.

If a 3ds pokemon game can have 800+ pokemon, than we can have 400-500 villagers. (The switch pokemon game not being able to have all 800-1000 so pokemon is just rushed deadlines and laziness on game freaks part)

Plus the villagers all share the same basic template between species. That makes developing the villagers significantly easier which is why I don't think we need to worry about villagers being cut.

 

[Dim]

I don’t have a problem with it but I don’t really think it’s necessary.

 

[Pellie]

The pink hamster would have the kiki & lala set and bam! Dream land.

Omg, this is brilliant. Make that happen Nintendo!