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[DJStarstryker]

The fact is that for how I used to play every other AC game, it feels really bad to stop playing it and take a break because the game is becoming "boring". It is the first time that I feel this way since I started playing AC games (even If I played the same amount of hours in one month in New Leaf).

I know you were replying to someone else, not me, but I wanted you to know that video game burnout is absolutely a thing. I'm 37 years old (3 more years to the big four zero I guess, oh god) and I've been gaming since I was 5. I do face burnout from time to time. Sometimes it's from a specific video game or a video game franchise or genre, but sometimes it has actually been the entire hobby. I was burned out of video games for a good chunk of the early 2000s, and played less then than probably the entire rest of my life. So most of the cool PS2-era video games I haven't actually played.

For a specific example, I used to have this tradition where I would play Final Fantasy VI (one of my all-time favorites) every year around Christmas time. But after enough years of it, one year I found myself being bored. I no longer do this. I do still play it every so often, but it has to be several years inbetween.

The point of this post is just to tell you that it's fine to take a break. You honestly might end up liking it more later when you pick it back up. I am guessing we'll probably get another NH update sometime in mid-end of June. My reasoning is the wedding season event is the last event this particular update covers. When that update comes out, maybe you'll be more excited to play again because there will be more new things.

 

[EquinoxIsland]

Read all the way through and I think all your points are justified. As someone who's only played the original game and City Folk, the added elements (compared to them) of putting things outside, customization, finding villagers, etc. make me love the game, but I'm pretty easy to please tbh. Feeling bored or done with the game is understandable to me though!

I don't have more to add, except that I love that your favorite is potentially the game cube animal crossing! I know people who have played it when they were younger love it most (like me) but I always figured it was a nostalgia thing, but I'm glad that it was a more recent game you played and it still found a way to the top! I think that though it's missing some elements of gameplay, all the other stuff overly makes up for it like NES games, morning stretches, igloos in winter, mean dialogue, villagers scamming you, amount of villagers you could have (16), personality variety, ability to ask for quests unconditionally, etc. Just really gave it that small town home-y feel, idk. Sorry this was kinda off topic haha.

 

[raqball]

It's a video game meant for entertainment and fun. If you no longer find it entertaining or fun then best to play something that you do..

Best wishes..

 

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[sleepydreepy]

I read your post, and I understand what you mean. I'm sorry the game was a bit of a let down for you. I just wanted to say a few things...

When you say, "why they are releasing it incomplete and adding things slowly," I at first felt the same way as you (and kind of still do) but at the same time, I feel like its nice to spread things out. I'm taking this game really slowly. I feel like maybe you were influenced by pressure from other players online to get everything off your wishlist right away and get all your dreamies right now etc, I know I was at first. But now I'm just taking the game one day at a time. I have many unfinished and literally "blank" areas in my town, and I'm ok with that. I also only have 4/10 of my dreamies, and I'm ok with that too! I'm in this for the long haul, and don't expect to have a "finished" island for the next few years. I also find that although I'm in quarantine and playing for hours and hours everyday, there is always something for me to do. I have a rough draft for my island, but I love trying new landscape and design ideas, even if I end up completely redoing the same area a million times. Its just how I work lol. Anyways, I hope you can reflect on your animal crossing experience during your time away from NH, and also take a break from the hectic online ACNH community, and maybe one day you will come back with a new mindset! Or if not, I hope the next animal crossing game will be more to your liking <3

 

[Thyl]

People here have said good points, but there's also one thing I'd wanna mention. Comparing NL and your experience in the game (first AC game ever) is a bit unfair to NH, where you already know the concept. Same thing happened for me with WW personally. Even if it lacks a lot in current point of view, I absolutely loved it and later compared it a lot to NL which was part of ruining my NL experience.

I think getting a bit burnt out from WW was also part of the reason I couldn't get into NL and I still find it incredibly boring and lacking the personality compared to WW. I am curious, how exactly did you manage to spend 8 hours per day in NL?

Anyway, like many other people here I encourage to take a little break. Every time I notice myself comparing my island to other islands, I remind myself that I have all the time in the world to finish it. Also might be that you are just overall burnt out from Animal Crossing's game concept.

 

[meo]

I think they said the game is meant to be played for at least a year because of just that...Animal Crossing has and will alwas be based on real time and real holidays occurring over the span of a year. Most people that play this game aren't going to honestly play it for 6 years like some of us will (cough cough talking about myself cough). Some won't even play for the full year and some will stop after seeing all the holidays have all be experiences (aka first year). The same was said for NL.
I don't think they use this as they think people will only play it for a year because of it's quality or they don't have hopes for it being played for many years. They're releasing content mainly holidays over the span of the year to coincide with the games pace.
I think other features also being introduced over time is also an effort to make the game have more value at it's intended pace as well. Unlocking new shops, exhibits, activities that occur overtime and aren't just thrown at you on day one makes sense imo. To some degree, TTing is always going to skew certain achieves/dates but, in some form, they can help it to a minor amount by releasing things over time. If you had diving and art and everything else, people would just TT through all the seasons to have it all now and get burned out...It happened in NL as well. NL honestly started to get stagnant and the Welcome Amiibo update kind of felt like a pick me up. So, if there's more updates across time for NH then I honestly think it'll be for the better.
In NL, I ran free cycling for a good portion in the beginning because it took next to no time to unlock everything and it stagnated.

I also think you have to realize for many things you may feel like were over so fast...we're kind of in special circumstances. The average person has school, jobs, families to attend to and can't put 3 days of grinding in for an event. Right now, more of us are quarantined so that's opened up a lot of time. However, it doesn't change that they designed an event that wouldn't penalize most people or in normal circumstances if they only had a hour a day or every few days to sit and do. There's quite a lot of people that didn't get to complete event things so far.

I think some of your points are valid though. I ultimately just think you could benefit from a break. I think many people are throwing hardcore hours into the game as if it has all that content unlocked and getting burned out on the other side of things. I do think adjusting expectations and understanding the new perspective for this game will help alleviate the disappointment and a break can help settle some of that. Maybe set a rule when you come back to how much time you'll put in daily/weekly since this type of play affects you. Also plan in other hobbies or other games because honestly AC will never be a main type of game for nonstop content. It's a casual game at best and for that reason is wonderful to fit in around other things.

 

[Romaki]

(Island Designer) I don't understand...

It's just that people obsess with one point of the game, one introduced with New Leaf, that they don't relax with the game and just enjoy the whole experience. Like you're not doing it right if your island isn't "done" and your house doesn't have all the best items yet. Most of us have quarantine burnout now, but the game is just there for you to enjoy your time with and share your experience with others. It's not an island design game. You create a nice habitat for you and your animal fellas while getting to know them better. You bond, you celebrate events with them and you trade items to enhance both of your experience. You have a year full of first experiences, there's just not a goal you have to reach. Enjoy your time and customize your experience.

I don't know, man. You have valid reasons to be frustrated, but you have to think about how the series evolved. It's different because if it wasn't you could just play New Leaf, you know. This is Animal Crossing in 2020. Things are different, so many things are so much better. It's unfair to us, but we can't judge the full experience until March 2021.

 

[Hirisa]

The game series has been around a lot longer than just New Leaf so if you were expecting New Leaf 2.0, sorry. It also sounds like you were expecting the game to make up for some other part of your life, which is something I think we're all dealing with right now, due to the pandemic. It is a good idea for you to step away from the game, practice some expectation management and cultivate some perspective. Then, if you return to the game, you can appreciate it for what it is instead of resenting it for what it is not.

 

[CrankyPirate]

360 hours? Jesus, you do love AC! But like others said, I think you need a break. Come back once the desired updates roll out. I personally enjoy that my island is now almost finished for now and I can just sit back and fish and chill, put in 1-1 hour per day.

 

[fallenchaoskitten]

You are right.
The game is vastly incomplete and those who defend Nintendo saying "no, it's fine! we get it in free updates!" clearly cannot grasp the concept that you have...
10yrs from now you can't just pick up a copy New Horizons to play like you can the game cube version like you should be able to because you won't have events, you won't have holidays, you won't have the ability to get the other fruit, you won't be able to have the fun new items... because they literally are not in the base game. You'll be out of luck, too, if it is later down the line because servers definitely won't still be supported by then. Servers always eventually go down or stop supporting games. Thus, unless you run a rom or hack you won't have an update version to HOPEFULLY have the stuff that literally made Animal Crossing fun.
I have complained about this since day one.
I am very disappointed as someone who has been playing Animal Crossing since game cube when I was a kid.

 

[brangein]

My 2 cents. The game is just out for a month, patches/contents will follow. I read some said they have 200++ hours and feel the game is boring, IMHO if a $60 game gave you over 200 hours, it is game of the year nominee level.

 

[KeatAlex]

here's lot's of good advice from people here. Honestly I agree with them that you were expecting way too much from the game. You let yourself down, not the game. Comparing the game to others is only going to make it worse for you, you'll never be satisfied. If you want to stop playing then fine but it won't change the game at all.
The game was released how it was bc they made us wait longer and to postpone it again would have caused a headache. Just enjoy what you got, man.

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Plus we've only had 1 legit holiday thus far. Only TT are upset about lack of holidays. Servers going down wont be for years (Wiis just went down after about 11 years!) Few people stick around for tht.

 

[Fridaynightcatlady]

You are right.
The game is vastly incomplete and those who defend Nintendo saying "no, it's fine! we get it in free updates!" clearly cannot grasp the concept that you have...
10yrs from now you can't just pick up a copy New Horizons to play like you can the game cube version like you should be able to because you won't have events, you won't have holidays, you won't have the ability to get the other fruit, you won't be able to have the fun new items... because they literally are not in the base game. You'll be out of luck, too, if it is later down the line because servers definitely won't still be supported by then. Servers always eventually go down or stop supporting games. Thus, unless you run a rom or hack you won't have an update version to HOPEFULLY have the stuff that literally made Animal Crossing fun.
I have complained about this since day one.
I am very disappointed as someone who has been playing Animal Crossing since game cube when I was a kid.

To be fair, we don't really know what Nintendo's approach will be when online is no longer supported for the Switch. One would hope, that events will remain in the game despite no further updates. I'll definitely voice my concerns as well if it comes to that, but we'll see. As for fruit, hasn't this been an issue for every AC game? Maybe not GCN because you can still trade your memory cards, but did the other AC games sell all types of fruit? (I genuinly cannot remember).

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd certainly hope that when people buy AC:NH 10-15 years from now, items or builds or features introduced in updates will probably (and most likely) be implemented and available for those people despite online support. It's like buying, say, Sims 4 now as opposed to buying Sims 4 during launch.

 

[moonbox]

I think I might be in the minority and I am about to say a very not popular thing but I hated NL. Being the mayor, what? I bought it when it came out, played a little bit, left it there to collect dust for years and then came back later when the rumours about a new AC game started to go around. But I hated it so much, I only love and always will WW. I still play it sometimes

You're definitely not alone there. I played it a lot and while I'm grateful for Isabelle and the other new characters, I think that's when I realized AC was diverging from its original path into "CUSTOMIZE ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING YOURE NOW THE BOSS!" But I'm okay with it. I think NH is much better. Though I agree with OP on it feeling incomplete and the dialogue is neutered.

But I will echo everyone else's sentiments that playing a ton of hours everyday would make any game feel super boring. We're in a pandemic, stuff is hard.

 

[Dewy]

I'm sorry to hear you're not loving the game. Time for a break!

I actually love this new style of gameplay and the updates over time. I understand a lot of people are annoyed by it, but it seems like people are just frustrated because they were spoiled by New Leaf. From what I've seen, most people who don't like this game are the players who first started their AC journey with New Leaf (not that all of these players dislike it, a lot are huge fans of NH).

The older games were EXTREMELY slow, which you probably noticed when you went back and played them. This, for me, is how AC is supposed to feel. It's not a game that is meant to be played all at once. New Leaf was kind of a shock for me, because an insane amount of new features were added. It didn't really feel like Animal Crossing. Don't get me wrong, I loved New Leaf, but it was kind of overwhelming and definitely unlike any AC game before it. Even with New Horizons out, I still think New Leaf is the most unlike all the other AC games.

I think it's unfair to assume that a game is going to have specific features and then be disappointed when those features aren't in the game. Nintendo worked extremely hard on this game and to me that's very evident. It isn't "incomplete," they just wanted to try something new where they involve the fanbase in updates by listening to feedback, and keep hype built up by moving things slowly and announcing big updates that everyone gets excited about. It's honestly a really smart strategy to keep interest in the game.

I think you just need to take a break and maybe come back when another update is released. You say you're bored because your town is done, but why not change it up? That's the beauty of this game; you can change cliffs and rivers and whatever you want at any point you want. Sometimes we get burnt out on games not because there's nothing to do, but simply because we perceive that there is nothing to do. This game has a huge amount of content with more to come.

Also think about this: If Nintendo had released a game with all the features you hoped for, you would probably still get bored of it. You got bored of New Leaf, you said it yourself. If NH had a ton more content, how long would it last you? Another month? Another three months? It's tough to say. With slow updates however, interest in the game will be up for a long time and likely years as they slowly release content.

 

[Katie1313]

I also feel like the game has gotten stale. For an Animal Crossing game where you can decorate both the inside and outside, there sure is a lack of furniture compared to the previous games. Especially if you don't count DIYs. There's a lack of shops/buildings, only being 4 plus the campsite. Don't even get me started on tools breaking, It's fine in the beginning, but I feel like they incorporate SOME sort of unbreakable tools. Like, they could just make the golden tools unbreakable. And I agree that it definitely feels like they released an unfinished game and just planned on adding things that should've been there from the start later on. It makes it a lot easier to run out of things to do. I find myself constantly redesigning my island both because I can't find anything else to do, and because I realized just how little furniture is in the game.

 

[fallenchaoskitten]

... Only TT are upset about lack of holidays. Servers going down wont be for years (Wiis just went down after about 11 years!) Few people stick around for tht.

No, I am 100% no TT and *obscenities spewing* hate this.
This is not TTers problem.
This is people who enjoy retro games who hate this.
This is people who enjoy playing games for years to come who hate this.
This is people who have anxiety that their system should break after servers go down, they can't just start a new island and have the same things their old one had, who ate this.
This is people who want to show their future kids, nephews, nieces, etc. the games we use to enjoy problem.

Didn't mean for this to come off as harsh, but as someone who doesn't even TT I am a little tired of TTers getting the blame for Nintendo not putting out a complete game...

 

[kikoola]

goodbye.........

do u have any nook tickets or recipes that you aren't going to use???

 

[Fridaynightcatlady]

No, I am 100% no TT and *obscenities spewing* hate this.
This is not TTers problem.
This is people who enjoy retro games who hate this.
This is people who enjoy playing games for years to come who hate this.
This is people who have anxiety that their system should break after servers go down, they can't just start a new island and have the same things their old one had, who ate this.
This is people who want to show their future kids, nephews, nieces, etc. the games we use to enjoy problem.

Didn't mean for this to come off as harsh, but as someone who doesn't even TT I am a little tired of TTers getting the blame for Nintendo not putting out a complete game...

If you don't mind me asking, why do you find this game to be incomplete?