Nintendo newsletter mentions New Horizons (plus re-released screens)

[returnofsaturn]

on one hand I understand where you coming from but the phone is only as big in the game as the previous menus were in other games only it makes more sense in regards to how someone could carry designs, encyclopedias, a map, and all their other items at one time. Its just a new design for the UI. In pocket camp we were also given a phone and it's not really that big of a difference.

The crafting, to my understanding, is also pretty optional after a certain point. I'm sure it'll mostly be used just to make equipment and certain furniture before unlocking shops. The tools also have always looked pretty low tech I mean the fishing rod just looks like a stick, the axe breaks easily, and the sling shot is wooden/pretty low quality.

The crafting is a new way for people to experience the game, not the only given option to create items. If it were the only option I would understand but I'm pretty sure crafting tools will be more of a beginning stage of the game and maybe be required for certain items but there will still be shops and other ways to obtain items. I would feel more inclined to agree with you otherwise and enjoy working up to having a phone if this were a purely crafting game but it is not. Just a new way to play the game not the only way.

New horizons looks like it will be a game of choices, not crafting. What you choose to do influences the type of growth the island has and if you don't want to craft you don't have to. The island isn't really primitive just uninhabited and you're able to use resources available to try and improve the town that wouldn't require you to spend bells and would actually make play time longer than in previous games due to an increase in tasks you could perform daily such as working towards making a certain item or finding a new recipe.

If you dont want people to mistake what you mean then chose your wording better because it sounds like you're just mad a video game has technology in it.

I second all of this lol

 

[John Wick]

C'mon man, don't take my words so literally.

I don't mean there is a complete and utter lack of technology in the past games. Obviously there were tech furniture items and an old fashioned phone. And I'm definitely not regarding the design of a frog villager as technology being a huge aspect of the game.

Also, I am very aware that it's possible to bring anything one would want to the island. That's not why I have a problem with it.

I simply don't like how it's such a large aspect of New Horizons. It's not just a villager or a furniture set, it's a big part of the game. And it doesn't clash with the island vibe because it's an island, it's because of the feel the crafting system gives. The idea of crafting primitive tools alongside carrying a phone everywhere you go doesn't mesh well.

I agree with you, 100%.

I know what you're saying.
I despise the Nook Phone.

I don't own a PC (haven't since 2009), and have had nothing but a mobile phone for the last decade, and frankly, I'm sick of it. The google apps, the bloatware, the useless crap a phone doesn't need.

So I buy Animal Crossing to escape this world and it's technological overload, and suddenly, Tom Nook hands me a freaking mobile phone.

No. Just, no.

My personal opinion only.

 

[SheepMareep]

I agree with you, 100%.

I know what you're saying.
I despise the Nook Phone.

I don't own a PC (haven't since 2009), and have had nothing but a mobile phone for the last decade, and frankly, I'm sick of it. The google apps, the bloatware, the useless crap a phone doesn't need.

So I buy Animal Crossing to escape this world and it's technological overload, and suddenly, Tom Nook hands me a freaking mobile phone.

No. Just, no.

My personal opinion only.

If you are going to a video game to avoid technological overload i... Don't know what to tell you because animal crossing is a video game and very much technological.

 

[Sweetley]

So I buy Animal Crossing to escape this world and it's technological overload, and suddenly, Tom Nook hands me a freaking mobile phone.

You do realize that Animal Crossing exist because of the world's technological overload, right? It's basically part of it. Besides, it's just a phone, something you use IRL too. It's not like that Nook gifts you a whole equipment for a futuristic town and force you and your villagers to become cyborgs. Also, it will probably only pops up if you use your inventory or something like that, pretty sure your character will not holding it the whole time in the hands and becomes a phone addict teenager.

But to each their own I guess...

 

[John Wick]

If you are going to a video game to avoid technological overload i... Don't know what to tell you because animal crossing is a video game and very much technological.

I am aware that it was technology that allowed the game to be created. You are missing a very simple point. Animal Crossing isn't meant to be a game full of, or about technology.

How the game is made has absolutely nothing to do with what it's about.

I'm not going to be pulling apart the console to study the thing, I'm going to be playing a game on it.

It's a relaxing game. A nature game.
Mobile phones put a hideous kink in that.

In MY opinion.

- - - Post Merge - - -

You do realize that Animal Crossing exist because of the world's technological overload, right? It's basically part of it. Besides, it's just a phone, something you use IRL too. It's not like that Nook gifts you a whole equipment for a futuristic town and force you and your villagers to become cyborgs. Also, it will probably only pops up if you use your inventory or something like that, pretty sure your character will not holding it the whole time in the hands and becomes a phone addict teenager.

But to each their own I guess...

Yeah. I know phones exist in RL. I'm on one every day as I don't own a PC, as already stated many, many times. You don't need to state the obvious. You know I'm aware. There is no possible reason for you to ask if I'm aware or 'do I realize'. No need for belabouring at all.

I'm not a caveman. I know the wheel has been invented, and folks have landed on the moon. :-/

I'm an adult. I'm familiar with technology and game mechanics.
I know it took technology to invent the game (Explaining the obvious is tiring. It's Xmas morning I want to spend it with my family), but that isn't what the game is about.

It shouldn't be taking over the menu having a mobile as the access point.

Again. MY opinion.

 

[moo-kun]

It shouldn't be taking over the menu having a mobile as the access point.

Again. MY opinion.

I agree, I'm interested to see how the Nook Phone plays out but it would be nice to see if we are given an option to use no technology if that's how we would prefer to live in our towns.
Having a choice is always nice! ⸜( ? ꒳ ` )⸝

Merry Christmas!!! It's still Christmas Eve where I am ✧︎*｡( ?∩︎?͈ω?͈∩︎` )✧︎*｡

 

[John Wick]

I agree, I'm interested to see how the Nook Phone plays out but it would be nice to see if we are given an option to use no technology if that's how we would prefer to live in our towns.
Having a choice is always nice! ⸜( ? ꒳ ` )⸝

Merry Christmas!!! It's still Christmas Eve where I am ✧︎*｡( ?∩︎•͈ω•͈∩︎` )✧︎*｡

Yes! Having a choice would be nice. ^_^

 

[tanisha23]

Whatever replaces PWPs might have a "wait period" like it did in New Leaf (next day), but that is not like Pocket Camp's crafting system in any way.

Just something I noticed.

The campfire was a PWP in NL, and in the Treehouse for NH, you had the ability to craft that instantaneously so long as you had the materials to do so. Unless they are no longer considering the campfire a PWP, I think the system might just be that you have to unlock the PWP first (maybe through villager recommendation) and then you'll have the ability to craft it.

On the other hand, with NH giving players the choice between crafting and buying, maybe the waiting system may still be a thing for PWPs if you don't want to craft them.

 

[jefflomacy]

The September trailer mentioned Nook Miles giving you access to particular DIY Recipes as well. So it's possible that there would be villager recommendations, Nook Miles achievements that unlock particular recipes, and more. When I was analyzing and putting New Horizons recipes together, I really got a feeling for just how little we know about the crafting system and how it fits into the overall scope of the game. A deep analysis of the trailer only raised more questions...

 

[John Wick]

Just something I noticed.

The campfire was a PWP in NL, and in the Treehouse for NH, you had the ability to craft that instantaneously so long as you had the materials to do so. Unless they are no longer considering the campfire a PWP, I think the system might just be that you have to unlock the PWP first (maybe through villager recommendation) and then you'll have the ability to craft it.

On the other hand, with NH giving players the choice between crafting and buying, maybe the waiting system may still be a thing for PWPs if you don't want to craft them.

There's the log bench and fire pit you craft in PC too.

I do think we'll have to unlock them and craft them.

I hope the waiting isn't days.

If we are gathering materials and crafting everything in NH... it's kinda PC in landscape mode.

I dunno.