highkey disagree honestly, we are able to customise and design our islands from the ground up now, the amount we have now isn't much considering many of us want a more customised and unique island and are not using most of nintendo's small variety of paths.
I wouldn't neccesarily call it "dumb" but I can see where you're coming from. In my opinion, we should definitely be grateful for the 50 slots we have. But, some more would really be nice. With new customization options it feels like it 50 is a little small when you really want your island to stick out. Sometimes I find it surreal that NL only had 10.
'Before any of you yelling at me for disagreeing, I never played New Horizons and I mostly play older games (PG, WW, and NL).'
I'mma need you to stop right there! as a longtime fan playing several of the older titles, New Horizons is a completely different ball game. For starters, you can literally teraform which instantly makes designing your island on a completely different level, in addition you can actually place items outside! and not have to rely on 'Public Work Projects' which were random events and super limited. The game has completely evolved and players can use their creativity to create complete visions of their islands, so should the amount of custom design slots.
'And in New Horizons - each human islander is given 50 custom design slots. That is five times the custom design slots you could only have in New Leaf.'
Wrong! If you're gonna bait, come with the facts. In New Leaf each character had 10 slots each! whereas in New Horizons 50 design slots are shared amongst all of the characters... if we had 50 per character, you wouldn't hear us complain! So in conclusion, there really hasn't been an improvement in this area.
I think we're in a different era now. Especially with the widespread ability to seek inspiration from elsewhere on the Internet, the ability to customize now has a lot of value, especially in what I feel is a game that is meant to be a creative outlet. Personally, even though I'm fine with the limitation of the number of custom design slots we already have, I can see why a lot of players would like to see more slots being made available to us.
Wrong! If you're gonna bait, come with the facts. In New Leaf each character had 10 slots each! whereas in New Horizons 50 design slots are shared amongst all of the characters... if we had 50 per character, you wouldn't hear us complain! So in conclusion, there really hasn't been an improvement in this area.
Exactly this. Let's say you're part of a large family and 8 of you want to play ACNH. That would leave each of you with a measly 6-7 slots in each tab (Custom/Pro). That is way too little if you ask me.
OP, the older games had 8 slots because back then the expectations for games was nothing like what we have today. We're in a completely different era when it comes to hardware, it's gotten to the point where expectations for game design are so, SO much higher than they were 15 years ago when Wild World was released. I believe it's completely reasonable for people to be at least a bit upset at this.
to be fair, in NL you needed customs to do more things: pathing, dividing, etc. In NH we have built-in paths! and we get furniture outside so that we aren't completely reliant on trees/bushes/etc.
However, NH emphasizes decoration and island customization more than any previous game in the series. Period. There's no doubt that NH is almost entirely island designer and not so much traditional "animal crossing". We're also working with a bigger game, on a bigger console. No less, the fact that you must pay for a nintendo switch online membership to gain access to other people's custom designs (short, of course, of you copying the design pixel by pixel).
It's reasonable for expectations to be higher. Why specifically 50? Is it a memory issue? Is it too difficult to add because of how storage is partitioned? It shouldn't be.
Ok? You don't play NH and don't want extra slots, cool story bro. There's no need to call someone else's playing style "completely dumb".
I personally think the amount of slots we have now is generous and haven't hit the limit but I haven't been playing for as long as some. I can see why this might be a bigger issue in NH because it's a different game. It's a lot more focused on decorating your whole island/home and that greater emphasis means people are more likely to use more patterns. It even has a whole feature so people can share designs online with each other. Not to mention that the steps for creating an extra character to hold more patterns are different.
The way we play New Horizons, on top of all the terraforming, is way different from previous games, hence the actual need for more custom designs slots.
For me personally, I only have enough custom design slots for a single dirt path on top of everything else (each part of this path taking up several slots). This is limiting for me since I also have a beach resort, which would benefit from different pathing options. I can't recycle a dirt path for a sand resort and call it even.
Like everyone said here, New Horizons is inherently more creative -- therefore, we would all benefit from more options to make the most of the gameplay.
The audacity of OP to say "before anyone yells at me", despite saying "it's dumb" and "be grateful" in a patronising manner and having never played New Horizons is hilarious.
The audacity of OP to say "before anyone yells at me", despite saying "it's dumb" and "be grateful" in a patronising manner and having never played New Horizons is hilarious.
My question to OP, then, is why are you concerned about what other people think about a game you never played? It'd be one thing if you played New Horizons, but since you haven't, you don't have the experience to claim that we do or do not have enough custom design slots.
I am glad I was able to find this thread because the lack of slots has been a personal concern to me. Plus it's interesting just how much discourse this topic can bring!
Well, wasn't expecting for this thread to get revived, but I'll throw my two cents in anyway:
I'd like at least 20 more. THE path and other paths take up half of all the design slots. People keep suggesting infinite design slots, but that wouldn't make sense. At least 20-30! Frankly, I think it's a little odd that the OP is against this when they haven't played New Horizons. If they did, they would probably understand the annoyance of all these paths that take up all these slots.
Having said that, they were very nice to give us all these slots, but I'd like a few more! I don't want to be demand-y, but please, Nintendo, please
Well, wasn't expecting for this thread to get revived, but I'll throw my two cents in anyway:
I'd like at least 20 more. THE path and other paths take up half of all the design slots. People keep suggesting infinite design slots, but that wouldn't make sense. At least 20-30! Frankly, I think it's a little odd that the OP is against this when they haven't played New Horizons. If they did, they would probably understand the annoyance of all these paths that take up all these slots.
Having said that, they were very nice to give us all these slots, but I'd like a few more! I don't want to be demand-y, but please, Nintendo, please
I personally wouldn't mind more design slots myself. NH is so custom design heavy feeling in general because of all of the power they give us to customize our towns.
That being said, there's a lot of quality of life things I'd rather them put priority on first.
There are many, many more uses in New Horizons for custom designs. That's why people want more of them. I don't think you would fully understand how useful they can be until you try New Horizons. New Horizons has terraforming and allows you to decorate your island in a way that prior games don't come remotely close to doing. it is really a whole new aspect of the game. The sky is the limit with what you can find to design your island with the right custom designs, but at some point you'll run out of slots and that will mean you can't make every idea you think of for your island work after a certain point.
I have designs of turtles that I put shell stools on to create a turtle sanctuary on my beach, stall designs to create restaurants and menus for chinese food and an icecream parlor, designs on simple panels to create a horse barn complete with a realistic horse sticking its head outside the stall, pictures of my villagers put on signs outside of their houses, a host of design types to create a country fair, hopscotch designs on either side of rivers to mark places where you can hop over the water, designs of fireworks to shoot into the sky in August, and more. Paths are only the beginning of what you can do with custom designs.
I want more design slots... because mine are all used up. I obviously don't want unlimited ones (that is, admittedly, absurd), but I don't see the harm in asking for more? I mean, congrats if you don't need them (or don't even play the game) but some people do... and would definitely appreciate them.
I mean, I'm not letting it kill my enjoyment of the game, but I definitely could use more.
I personally wouldn't mind more design slots myself. NH is so custom design heavy feeling in general because of all of the power they give us to customize our towns.
That being said, there's a lot of quality of life things I'd rather them put priority on first.
That's where I am. There are other things I want more, but this is definitely on my figurative list. This game is so focused on island improvement and customization that OF COURSE you're going to want more than ever before.
Most importantly, though, I don't get... apparently getting offended that people want more? Like, if you don't, cool. No need to berate those who do.
I want more design slots... because mine are all used up. I obviously don't want unlimited ones (that is, admittedly, absurd), but I don't see the harm in asking for more? I mean, congrats if you don't need them (or don't even play the game) but some people do... and would definitely appreciate them.
I mean, I'm not letting it kill my enjoyment of the game, but I definitely could use more.
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That's where I am. There are other things I want more, but this is definitely on my figurative list. This game is so focused on island improvement and customization that OF COURSE you're going to want more than ever before.
Most importantly, though, I don't get... apparently getting offended that people want more? Like, if you don't, cool. No need to berate those who do.
Yah, that just seems to make it even more absurd to apparently get upset... Like, seriously, why do you care if people want more? Just play your other games and ignore it.
I'm surprise this got revived as others lol
When I first saw this I really bugged me, given the OP never played and had such a strong opinion based on nothing
