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

[Sweetley]

I understand the point that we may already have so many villagers that new ones are not needed.
Then again, to keep a franchise "fresh", they may do adding new characters because new ones are
always more interesting than those you already know. So you may have to deal with the fact that
they do gonna add new villagers in NH too, even if it would means that some existing villagers are
getting cut (with is nothing new and not a big problem for me personally. But who knows, maybe
all, both new and old villagers, having enough space on the Switch).

I hate to be the nerd here, but Octipi cannot survive out of water, so having Octipi villagers just isn't feasible.

Marina, Zucker, Ocatvian and Inkwell would like to talk with you.

 

[Fjoora]

See, I agree and I disagree.
I agree that the villager personalities undoubtedly need to be more complex. Eventually, at one point or another, you'll have heard everything they have to say, so anything they can add to make it more variable and unique is a boon. However, I don't think sticking with the pre-existing 500 we have is the right choice. The game should feel as fresh as possible, and if that means saying farewell to some of our favorites, that's a perfectly acceptable trade-off so that we can experience something new.

 

[Garrett]

I wouldn't mind if they culled some of the d-list villagers to make "room" for new ones. Some of those critters sho' is ugly. Would anyone really miss Barold and Jambette?

 

[kappnfangirl]

Speak for yourself! I want cute bat villagers

 

[Daveyx0]

Judging by the marketing materials so far; I do think we will not see many new villagers and I very much doubt new species. Most people just play with the random bunch of villagers they receive while playing and never even think of the rest of the pool so I do agree that for most people the current amount is satisfactory.

I do hope to see some new faces still though (apart from the essential NPCs ofc); purely from a creativity and fun standpoint. Like, I imagine the AC developers have enough ideas for fun villager designs and I would be surprised if they specifically restricted themselves. But as you said, more villager designs also means more work (mainly textures). So we'll see what they prioritized in this case.

New interactions and making them more complex is also where I would prefer to see the focus. And judging from what I've seen from the previews and a bit from Pocket Camp (although I did not play for too long admittedly), I do think they fleshed that out a bit more.

Anyway, do we NEED more? No. Would people like to see new ones? Yes of course. It's up to Nintendo what they see as public interest and I think they might have used Pocket Camp statistics to partly measure that.

 

[Neechan]

Here’s an interesting thing I noticed with nl and it’s trailers, you didn’t really see anyone new until a week before it’s release when they revealed the final trailer (at least for NOA) and we saw the new hampster villager during the pwp reveal, they might do the same thing again (even though we already see someone new in the full cover art) It’s just something something to think about.

 

[Lavamaize]

I wouldn't be so sure on no new villagers. After all, Nintendo did Delay New Horizons for like 5-6 months for a reason. There is a high chance of new villagers in my opinion, because it would make fans happy, and that they had like 5 extra months to work on the game.

 

[Peace.from.Glitopia]

The next thing you know -- who's Bobby McJojo the duck with a mustachio???

 

[kemdi]

I wouldn't mind if they culled some of the d-list villagers to make "room" for new ones. Some of those critters sho' is ugly. Would anyone really miss Barold and Jambette?

lol, someone's been watching the color purple.
And yeah, I'm sure someone would miss them, if there's one thing I learned from pokemon its that everyone is someone's favorite. Not everyone likes fluffy cuddle-pops villagers like Marshal, etc..and by that, I mean me. Jambette and Barold may not be my favs, but they're someone's favs, so for that I don't want them gone. One of my favs is Katt, and most people consider her an uggo, but she's cute to me.

 

[Corrie]

I disagree. I'd love more villagers and seeing new species!

 

[Lavamaize]

I disagree. I'd love more villagers and seeing new species!

Same! It would be really cool to have new villagers and make new favorites!

 

[Romaki]

Yeah, we don't need them... but we want them! The more the merrier, I say! A new species could be fun, though I also see why people want their old favorite to return oppose to them adding 20 new ones while ignoring old "exclusives". For me, I think a new Animal Crossing game is more fun if I recognize a few faces but also see some fancy new ones. And with all the Amiibo cards I'd highly doubt Nintendo would worry that not getting their favorite easily would drive any player away.

 

[Soot Sprite]

Honestly.. it's been like what, seven or eight years now? They've had plenty of time to make new villagers and flesh out the old ones, and do it well. Part of the appeal is getting to see new villagers, animals make up animal crossing.

Of course new villagers are nice, and so is beefing up the old ones. It doens't have to be one way or the other.

 

[Llama_Unicorn]

Almost didn?t hear you that last time ^o^
...
Also sure, we might not need them. But what if I really, really want them? ◕ᴥ◕

1. It?s not uncalled for to look forward to, or even expect, new Animals in a game called Animal Crossing
2. Adding more Animals and developing the Animals overall are not mutually exclusive
3. Which species are endearing and what makes people happy is very subjective and not yours to decide

I regularly see topics that stem from the desire for new species of villagers to be added to the roster of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. They are invariably based on somewhat unendearing types of animals : sharks, oysters, conchs, bats, octopi, spiders, fish, and so on. To be blunt: there are already more than enough. We have already nearly 500 villagers.

If we don't want Nintendo to cut back on villagers at one point (it could even be your dreamies) because there are too many after incrementally adding more in for far too long, then we should just stop right now. Development resources are not unlimited folks!

Actually, that did happen in the past. Nintendo cut back on the number of villagers in Animal Crossing: Wild World after the first Animal Crossing (GCN). One of my favorites (Olive) was nowhere to be seen up until the Welcome amiibo update for Animal Crossing: New Leaf. The same thing applies for dozens of other villagers. Some are still missing in action as of right now: Aisle, Analog, Belle, Betty, Bow, Carmen, Carrot, Champ, Champagne, Chuck, Clara, Cupcake, Dozer, Elina, Emerald, Flash, Flossie, Megumi, Meow, both Petunia, and so on; the list is way too long.

Besides, we do not need more villagers to be happy. We need those that we already love and cherish to be more complex : to have more profound personalities, to have more complex animations, to see them do tasks, have a routine, do activities like fishing and actually catching bugs and fish and going back home with them, shopping not just wandering around, gathering materials, crafting things, renovating their house, placing stuff on the ground, scratching their back. They need to have an active life that makes it believable for the player to be surrounded by living and thinking villagers, not wandering bots. Go tall, this time around, Nintendo, don't go wide once more.

Let me spell it one more time.
We do not need new villagers.

I can?t even... like seriously?? So many new loveable friends to be discovered!!!

 

[Boccages]

Well. We didn't need new ones. But now we know there are. So this thread is now pointless. Please do not resurrect old threads that are dead.

 

[Llama_Unicorn]

Almost didn’t hear you that last time ^o^
...
Also sure, we might not need them. But what if I really, really want them? ◕ᴥ◕

1. It’s not uncalled for to look forward to, or even expect, new Animals in a game called Animal Crossing
2. Adding more Animals and developing the Animals overall are not mutually exclusive
3. Which species are endearing and what makes people happy is very subjective and not yours to decide

Well. We didn't need new ones. But now we know there are. So this thread is now pointless. Please do not resurrect old threads that are dead.

At the end of the day, we do have new villagers. Deal with it. *whispers* you’re welcome ��

 

[doja cat]

this thread aged like milk

...anyways, of course they were going to add some new villagers and im happy about it, don?t get why it was such an issue

 

[Boccages]

this thread aged like milk

...anyways, of course they were going to add some new villagers and im happy about it, don’t get why it was such an issue

It didn't age well. But I was making the case that before Nintendo thinks adding new characters, it should spend time and make sure to bring back MIA characters from the GameCube and Animal Forest e+ games.

Alas, it seems Nintendo went with new characters and Betty, Flash, Hank, Hector, Sunny, Valise and all the others will stay MIA.

 

[moo-kun]

It didn't age well. But I was making the case that before Nintendo thinks adding new characters, it should spend time and make sure to bring back MIA characters from the GameCube and Animal Forest e+ games.

Alas, it seems Nintendo went with new characters and Betty, Flash, Hank, Hector, Sunny, Valise and all the others will stay MIA.

No they haven't. They said they'd bring characters back!
Old as well as add new villagers.
There are many people in Japan who want their e+ villagers back.
It's easy to bring villagers back as they already have the models (◍︎˃̶ᗜ˂̶◍︎)✩︎

 

[seliph]

No they haven't. They said they'd bring characters back!
Old as well as add new villagers.
There are many people in Japan who want their e+ villagers back.
It's easy to bring villagers back as they already have the models (◍︎˃̶ᗜ˂̶◍︎)✩︎

i have no opinion on whether they'll bring back older non-new leaf villagers or not but i think by "old" they just meant pre-new horizons