Random thoughts thread. (New Horizons)

[Xara]

Not me spending two hours trying to dive for seaweed.

And, no, I still don't have seaweed.

man, i feel like all i catch when i go diving is seaweed. hope you were able to catch some eventually!

I always think that I can sit on the rocks just like we can sit in the stumps, and I’m always disappointed…because I forget each time. I also have bad memory, so I’m not sure if it was even possible before…but I have a feeling it was.

same (kinda), except i don’t necessarily forget, i just try to sit on a rock every few months just to make sure we still can’t and the feature wasn’t sneakily added in or something lol. the new leaf WA update let us sit on rocks. sucks the feature didn’t make it to new horizons. but i guess a lot of tiny features/details like that were cut.

 

[-Blue-]

Yeah I'm still disappointed that we can't sit on the palm tree stumps. I made a cute little stump gathering in the beach in NL and I wanted to recreate it. I ended up using the wooden stump stool DIY, but it's not the same.

@Bluebellie Like Xara said, sitting on a rock was only for NL after the Welcome Amiibo update. Who knows, we never expected an update for NL so there's always a small inkling that we could get something. Although I doubt it.

@smug villager It's kind of weird how they did the dialogue for villager's. Especially the second time you talk to them. It doesn't matter if it's 1 second after you last talked to them or 12 hours later. They'll still act like you're talking to them too much. It's really stupid and I feel like it's a translation error. I really want to see the true Japanese translation.

It comes off as less of them being rude and more that the dev team, this time, forgot why we played this game in the first place. To chill with your cool/cute animal villagers.

 

[Bluebellie]

Yeah I'm still disappointed that we can't sit on the palm tree stumps. I made a cute little stump gathering in the beach in NL and I wanted to recreate it. I ended up using the wooden stump stool DIY, but it's not the same.

@Bluebellie Like Xara said, sitting on a rock was only for NL after the Welcome Amiibo update. Who knows, we never expected an update for NL so there's always a small inkling that we could get something. Although I doubt it.

@smug villager It's kind of weird how they did the dialogue for villager's. Especially the second time you talk to them. It doesn't matter if it's 1 second after you last talked to them or 12 hours later. They'll still act like you're talking to them too much. It's really stupid and I feel like it's a translation error. I really want to see the true Japanese translation.

It comes off as less of them being rude and more that the dev team, this time, forgot why we played this game in the first place. To chill with your cool/cute animal villagers.

man, i feel like all i catch when i go diving is seaweed. hope you were able to catch some eventually!



same (kinda), except i don’t necessarily forget, i just try to sit on a rock every few months just to make sure we still can’t and the feature wasn’t sneakily added in or something lol. the new leaf WA update let us sit on rocks. sucks the feature didn’t make it to new horizons. but i guess a lot of tiny features/details like that were cut.

I’m hoping they add it. I know there’s a small insignificant chance there will be more updates…but I’m still wishful.

Yesterday I saw there was a small update in the game…and I’m still trying to figure out what’s new.

 

[-Blue-]

I’m hoping they add it. I know there’s a small insignificant chance there will be more updates…but I’m still wishful.

Yesterday I saw there was a small update in the game…and I’m still trying to figure out what’s new.

Yeah I noticed that when I booted the game up it needed to update. But I'm not sure if that was for a Switch update or for the game itself.

 

[kyle on saturn]

ive had the game for 2 and a half years and only a small part of my island is decorated, i find it so hard to get the motivation to play a lot of the time

 

[daisyflowers]

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[Bluelady]

I need to accept the fact that I have to delete my terra cotta border qr codes. There’s not enough slots for shrine qr codes.

 

[Mairmalade]

I like the little detail of contrails way too much.

 

[Beanz]

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[FrostyAlmonds]

The multiplayer mode (the one where you're playing on the same switch at the same time) is so unintuitive and downright awful. I was babysitting last night and let the kids start an island with my game on their switch and only one player can actually play the game at a time? I figured it would be a split screen and they can both run around and do their own thing (like local/online multiplayer) but...nope, doesn't seem to encourage the family fun Nintendo mentality at all, just a lot of policing taking turns. u_u Makes the whole one island per switch even less appealing because you can't even play together.

 

[daisyflowers]

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[QueenCobra]

Cyrus and Reese are like an adorable anime couple. Love those two!

 

[nightglow]

Diva is on my island, and she is actually pretty cool. I mean I wouldn't choose her, but she's cool. Her eyes creep me out still. I like her vibe though.
Zucker is moving in tomorrow, for some reason he often spawns for my lazy plot random move in. (I wanted to save my miles). Bluebear moves in next, so I'll see if she is really that interesting or overrated.

 

[zarf]

I haven't played in a while because I'm not a big fan of autumn... but I'm stubborn and also don't want to time travel back to summer. I might just focus on HHP and completely ignore my island until the grass turns green again

 

[JKDOS]

Does Harriet give haircuts to the animal villagers? I'm wondering how she stayed in business when it seems like only the humans got haircuts.

The multiplayer mode (the one where you're playing on the same switch at the same time) is so unintuitive and downright awful. I was babysitting last night and let the kids start an island with my game on their switch and only one player can actually play the game at a time? I figured it would be a split screen and they can both run around and do their own thing (like local/online multiplayer) but...nope, doesn't seem to encourage the family fun Nintendo mentality at all, just a lot of policing taking turns. u_u Makes the whole one island per switch even less appealing because you can't even play together.

The Switch struggles to run the game so much as is, that if it had to split the screen and allow 2 or more players to wander the town freely, there's probably no way the Switch could handle it. And if one player was allowed inside and one outside, you'd potentially have 2 music tracks playing at once. That multiplayer option does feel like an afterthought that they tried to implement, and gave up on halfway though. It was a useful for demoing the game before release though at PAX. On a new system with the next Animal Crossing game, it will likely be tremendously better, if they keep such a feature.

On the plus side, if playing by yourself, the shared-multiplayer thing can be used to your advantage. Anything a secondary player picks up goes straight to recycling. So if cleaning up your town, such as removing flowers, they can dig them up straight to recycling. You can also use this to quickly change characters you're playing as. Rather than close and restart the game under a different profile, you just summon that character in, give them control, and drop out of the character you're done playing as. Now without reloading the game, you're playing as the other player

 

[Croconaw]

I don’t know how I feel about the round noses on Animal Crossing human characters. I always preferred the triangular ones but I rarely ever see someone else with that nose. I guess the rounder ones remind me of clowns with the red rubber noses. Nothing against the round noses but they just look off…

 

[daisyflowers]

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[HappyTails]

I have lost all interest in thiss game. The reason: Planet Coaster. I bought Planet Coaster and all my other games were all forgotten. I feel bad for my villagers.

 

[LuchaSloth]

Flowers are more annoying than weeds.

At least I can pick up all the weeds in a couple minutes by pressing a single button (or pay Leif for the weed service). Those darn flowers, though...they grow like crazy, and they all require the painfully slow shovel animation to dig them up, then filling in the hole. Then selling them all to actually get rid of them.

I'm going through the process of finally getting rid of all the flowers that I don't want around my island. And it is just...ugh. Such an unnecessary chore. Surely they could have made it all much easier.

If I ever plant flowers in the future, I am going to make sure they are "caged" in so they can't just spready like wildfire.

 

[NookSchnook]

I don't know why but collecting villager photos and posters has been fun that gives me motivation to keep inviting different villagers.

I still need two such photos from two veteran villagers (Kiki, Diana) and one newbie (Pekoe).

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Flowers are more annoying than weeds.

At least I can pick up all the weeds in a couple minutes by pressing a single button (or pay Leif for the weed service). Those darn flowers, though...they grow like crazy, and they all require the painfully slow shovel animation to dig them up, then filling in the hole. Then selling them all to actually get rid of them.

I love flowers but not when they metastasise en masse!

I'm going through the process of finally getting rid of all the flowers that I don't want around my island. And it is just...ugh. Such an unnecessary chore. Surely they could have made it all much easier.

If I ever plant flowers in the future, I am going to make sure they are "caged" in so they can't just spready like wildfire.

This is why there are bushes and the stone wall/fence recipes! I began using all those and it's working wonders.