New Auto-Save feature, Mr. Resetti has lost his job

[Bcat]

I always saved every now and then myself to avoid this fate.

lol I always double and triple saved because I was so paranoid. I think

 

[Fey]

I'll quote this so more people see it.

The point of Animal Crossing is to play at your own pace and time and not rush things. If you're timetravelling or resetting then you're missing the point of Animal Crossing and shouldn't be playing. Point blank period.

Harsh.
Also, if that?s true then I?ve never had a better time missing the point in my entire life! ^o^

 

[Dim]

I wonder if it’ll suddenly autosave when we’re about to catch a big fish or rare bug. That would suck lol

 

[mnm]

I'll quote this so more people see it.

The point of Animal Crossing is to play at your own pace and time and not rush things. If you're timetravelling or resetting then you're missing the point of Animal Crossing and shouldn't be playing. Point blank period.

What if your own pace and time is fast? What if you're bored and want to progress? What if you're a perfectionist and made a mistake, and playing the game perfectly is what relaxes you? You can't tell people they shouldn't play a certain game because the way they play it is different from your own. That's absolutely ridiculous.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

Auto-save actually sounds pretty nice. At first I was upset, but the more I think about it the better it seems to be.

RIP Resetti yelling at me and telling me to scrub the potatoes behind my ears lmao

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I wonder if it’ll suddenly autosave when we’re about to catch a big fish or rare bug. That would suck lol

Hopefully it does a background auto-save that doesn't affect gameplay. Thats what I figure, at least.

 

[Kirbyz]

What if your own pace and time is fast? What if you're bored and want to progress? What if you're a perfectionist and made a mistake, and playing the game perfectly is what relaxes you? You can't tell people they shouldn't play a certain game because the way they play it is different from your own. That's absolutely ridiculous.

I agree with you. That is ridiculous. First off, they added time travelling in the game for a reason, because they're giving us the option to move forward if we don't want to wait, we're impatient, or just need things done quick. How are you telling everyone that if they time travel they "shouldn't be playing Animal Crossing". That absolutely makes no sense. If they didn't want us to time travel, they would have removed the whole feature from the game. Yet they've added it in every single one of their games as to give us the option. And resetting? There's nothing wrong with resetting if you made a mistake or want something done differently. I've reset when I placed down paths and they looked ugly. It took long and I wasn't going to go around clearing all of them, so I obviously reset. It helps fasten things up and sometimes people make mistakes that they know they're going to regret, so they reset as to not have that happen. Clearly you're ignorant to the fact that Animal Crossing is an open game that leaves the choice up to us. Time travelling? Added the feature for us. Resetting? Added Resetti to tell us not to do it, but didn't block it off from our use. You can't just condemn majority of the people playing the game for time travelling and resetting because you don't do it. If it doesn't work for you, then fine. But don't go tell other people they shouldn't be playing the game for doing that stuff when the game fully gave us the option to do so.

 

[RainbowGrace]

I don't mind either way about autosaving, as long as I can still manually save the game. I'd get so nervous without that ritual.

 

[meo]

I'm a little bummed about this when I saw it in the E3.

For one, the nostalgia and sentimental value of resetti. For two, auto-saving is a time traveler's nightmare. XD So, ehhh..we'll see.

 

[Shellzilla_515]

Can we at least have the option to switch it off though?

 

[Campy]

Imagine you accidentally run through the blue roses to took you 3 months to grow. Imagine your finger slips and you hit 'yes' when your favorite villager asks you if they should move. Imagine you accidentally sell the rare furniture you didn't realize you had in your pockets.

Because I've done all of these things and let me tell you: I DON'T WANT AUTOSAVE. We have always had the freedom to hit the emergency button when things don't go our way and I don't see why they're taking that away.

Yes, all of this! There are plenty of reasons that could make you want to reset. And even if it's for reasons the creators personally feel you should not reset for, I feel that how you want to play the game should still be up to the players! Mr. Resetti was a great way to make you think twice about resetting without making it impossible.

Taking away our resetting-freedom is not cool. I hope they'll elaborate on how the auto-saving works soon!

 

[RisingSun]

I play My Time in Portia. It autosaves, but only when the player "goes to sleep." That happens automatically at a certain game time (one day is about 45 minutes irl). If the autosave is similar, it may happen only once every hour or two, which would allow for the reset you are looking for. I'm not sure this is the case, but the issue to me doesn't seem to be the autosave, but how often the autosave may occur.

 

[SensaiGallade]

I agree with you. That is ridiculous. First off, they added time travelling in the game for a reason, because they're giving us the option to move forward if we don't want to wait, we're impatient, or just need things done quick. How are you telling everyone that if they time travel they "shouldn't be playing Animal Crossing". That absolutely makes no sense. If they didn't want us to time travel, they would have removed the whole feature from the game. Yet they've added it in every single one of their games as to give us the option. And resetting? There's nothing wrong with resetting if you made a mistake or want something done differently. I've reset when I placed down paths and they looked ugly. It took long and I wasn't going to go around clearing all of them, so I obviously reset. It helps fasten things up and sometimes people make mistakes that they know they're going to regret, so they reset as to not have that happen. Clearly you're ignorant to the fact that Animal Crossing is an open game that leaves the choice up to us. Time travelling? Added the feature for us. Resetting? Added Resetti to tell us not to do it, but didn't block it off from our use. You can't just condemn majority of the people playing the game for time travelling and resetting because you don't do it. If it doesn't work for you, then fine. But don't go tell other people they shouldn't be playing the game for doing that stuff when the game fully gave us the option to do so.

I shall just leave this here. From a French interview about Cloud Saves for NH.

With the advent of cloud saves and automatic backup, how will you handle Mr. Resetti's interventions?

HN : New Horizons will not be compatible with cloud backup , to avoid manipulating time, which remains one of the founding concepts of the series.

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https://www.gamekult.com/jeux/animal-crossing-switch-3050879505/test.html

 

[mnm]

I shall just leave this here. From a French interview about Cloud Saves for NH.

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https://www.gamekult.com/jeux/animal-crossing-switch-3050879505/test.html

If it was "one of the founding concepts of the series", there wouldn't be an in-game clock. There wouldn't be the possibility to start a rumor that you're a time-traveler. Let people play the game how they want to play it. Jeez.

 

[SensaiGallade]

If it was "one of the founding concepts of the series", there wouldn't be an in-game clock. There wouldn't be the possibility to start a rumor that you're a time-traveler. Let people play the game how they want to play it. Jeez.

I don't care how you play the game, I'm just stating the facts. It wasn't intended to be used the way it has.

 

[mnm]

I don't care how you play the game, I'm just stating the facts. It wasn't intended to be used the way it has.

You clearly do care, and have legitimately talked down to those who play the game differently from you.

The point of Animal Crossing is to play at your own pace and time and not rush things. If you're timetravelling or resetting then you're missing the point of Animal Crossing and shouldn't be playing. Point blank period.

Even if they're "missing the point", which I completely disagree with, you can't tell an absolutely massive group of players that they shouldn't be playing just because you disagree with the way they are.

 

[SensaiGallade]

You clearly do care, and have legitimately talked down to those who play the game differently from you.



Even if they're "missing the point", which I completely disagree with, you can't tell an absolutely massive group of players that they shouldn't be playing just because you disagree with the way they are.

If you want my true honest opinion, I just don't see how the negatives of autosaves outweigh all the positives of them. And I understand the concern of autosave possibly ruining the opportunity to go back and say, undo a destroyed flower, or stop a villager from moving. There have been plenty of times where I have forgotten to save the game and went off it, ruining an entire days worth of work on my town.

I will say that I was very blunt with my comments and apologise for that and shouldn't have went in that harsh.

Ultimately we can go back and forth and express our concerns but nothing with change the fact that there's too little information right now and we don't know much of how the autosave will work. Will it be like Breath of the Wild? How often does the game autosave? There's nothing much we can do but speculate.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

Imagine you accidentally run through the blue roses to took you 3 months to grow. Imagine your finger slips and you hit 'yes' when your favorite villager asks you if they should move. Imagine you accidentally sell the rare furniture you didn't realize you had in your pockets.

Because I've done all of these things and let me tell you: I DON'T WANT AUTOSAVE. We have always had the freedom to hit the emergency button when things don't go our way and I don't see why they're taking that away.

Exactly this. Whoever said that people who time-travel/reset are missing the point and shouldn't be playing at all are wrong. Play the way you want.

I mean auto-save isn't completely a bad idea, especially if you're like me and forget to save often. But I hope that it has the ability to be toggled on and off.

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the issue to me doesn't seem to be the autosave, but how often the autosave may occur.

True. I would hate if it constantly autosaved like platformer games which save after every major item you collect. If it saved about once every 30-60 min though, it would'nt be as bad.

 

[DJStarstryker]

I really wish this had the original Japanese audio of their answers here. The quality of a translator can be really hit and miss. I'd love to hear what they said with my own ears.

That being said, every AC game has had TTing, in so far as you could change the clock either in the game or on the console. Unless they program in a way to punish us for changing the time on the Switch, they won't be able to prevent TTing. Lack of cloud saves won't prevent TTing. Honestly, the only thing lack of cloud saves can do is, like I said in another thread, make item duplication harder.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

I'll quote this so more people see it.

The point of Animal Crossing is to play at your own pace and time and not rush things. If you're timetravelling or resetting then you're missing the point of Animal Crossing and shouldn't be playing. Point blank period.

It isn't 'point blank' it's your opinion.

Just because some of us may work and have busy lives and need to time travel on occasion, doesn't mean we are missing the point at all.

In fact, I think so many people who may buy or trade for their hard to come by items and blue roses, possibly don't know the feeling of accidently losing something that those of us have worked hard from scratch to grow.

I am not putting down trading or anything like that either. More putting emphasis on the concept of playing Animal Crossing our own way.

That is why we don't want auto save. Because we do get the point. The point is to play at our own pace in our own way, and not to be further hindered by features that prevent us from the peace of mind being able to reset or time travel, gives us.

 

[pumpkinpuppy]

I?m so glad there?s finally an autosave feature. Resetti was the only character I found more annoying than Isabelle during ACNL.