So, which game do you think has more content now? New Leaf or New Horizons?

[Quaint]

NH. NL has a few unique features to it but NH definitely has more stuff overall.

 

[Croconaw]

I’d say it’s about the same, but I tend to prefer the newest game released, in this case, it would be New Horizons. It has less to do with the content of the game though and more to do with the engagement. More people play newer releases. If I’m looking to talk about the game, people automatically assume you mean the newest release and not past iterations.

I enjoy the games for what they are. I enjoyed New Leaf for Tortimer’s Island. They took it out of New Horizons, but it isn’t life or death for me. Yes, it sucks, but I enjoy New Horizons for what it has to offer. If I’m dwelling over things that weren’t added and past features that were removed, I couldn’t fully enjoy the game. In New Horizons, I love that you don’t have to worry about villagers randomly moving away. In the next main series game, if it was back to villagers not asking you first, it’s going to bother me a lot. I would be more stressed having to worry about all of my favorite villagers leaving. I wouldn’t complain about it though because I know that’s not going to change anything.

 

[~ Shannice ~]

Tbh I think it’s around the same but I prefer NH especially since 2.0

 

[nammie]

I love acnl but acnh for sure has more content now, I mean HHD was whole other game and it's basically part of acnh now!

 

[MidnightAura]

This part has made me curious.

Youre comparing what you have done on new horizons to new leaf and say you're done with one and not the other.

In order for this comparison to work in new leafs favour you would have needed to have played new leaf more than new horizons. Current town that is, not past towns.

But main street only takes 10 weeks to get everything apart from katrinas shop.
And that one takes 20 weeks.

And as for museum completion, new leafs museum is much easier to complete, or at least it was before the 2.0 update, as in new leaf there is an island that is always summer meaning that summer bugs and insects can be caught any time of year. And redd shows up each week with 1 piece of genuine art. Compared to new horizons where pre 2.0 it was once every 2 weeks and could bring all fakes.

So im guess I'm just wondering how this holds up, unless you're ignoring most of what new leaf has to offer and are only talking to your villagers when playing.

Because if you have been playing both for the same amount of time, and have been putting the same amount of effort in to both, new leaf should have a complete mainstreet and museum by now.

I have many towns. And I reset sometimes. My oldest town is currently 50 days old. It has the cafe, campsite a few other minor pwps, the third nook shop, shoe shop and salon And club lol. I don’t really grind.
I was very disappointed that by summer of last year I had unlocked almost everything By way of my home. I like knowing I have something to work toward. Currently all i have in NH is the art section which I had forgotten about.

i have played new leaf since launch So my overall time is higher than NH which is about 800 hours playtime

 

[Snek]

NH hands down is the better game. With the HHP Dlc, NH is ten times better than NL. The terraforming and absolute control of outdoor decorating blows NL out of the water. The addition of ceiling furniture, the redesign of gyroids to be cuter, the list goes on and on. I received a creepy skeleton today from the HHP gift shop (one of my fav Halloween decorations in NL)! There is so much furniture now in the game that I'm going to have a complete island makeover. We have enough content to keep us happy until the next AC mainline game. Granted they could give us Gracie as an additional Dlc update, but thats honestly minimal compared to what we got this month.

 

[King koopa]

Honestly, I prefer Both games. It's hard to choose between them when the games basically have mostly the same things. While new horizons 2.0 was definitely a step in the right direction, it sort of lacks the animal crossing charm. Even though there is lots to do now, there still seems to be a little more that could have been done. Now, I'm not saying it's downright BAD, just maybe they could have expanded on a couple of things. Like, expanding the cooking feature a little more? Like maybe have a move where you can experiment with ingredients and create new recipes, like in real life. That would be amazing, and would give eating food more purpose besides only using it to dig up trees and break rocks. As for new leaf, yeah it's definitely not perfect (you can't change your skin tone without using mii makeup from Harriet or tanning yourself, for example), but it doesn't mean that it's automatically bad because it has less features. I mean technically, there is still more to do since you have badges, which you can work to complete, and that feeling when you get a good badge? It feels great, and it makes doing simple things, like shopping or having Cyrus refurbish furniture seem worth it when you get a shiny badge as an achievement. As for happy home paradise? Well I'm probably going to get a lot of people mad, but it's basically happy home designer HD, with a couple of new things added. Sure new leaf didn't have dlc, or as many updates, but that's the thing. New leaf didn't NEED updates. It didn't NEED dlc. Heck, it doesn't even need half of the things in the game. But it's there. Now, it may seem like I hate new horizons, but trust me, I don't. It's just that new leaf to me has done the better job, and new horizons just simply tried to copy that. I'm definitely not trying to be ungrateful just for the heck of it. Nintendo is trying, I know that. It might not seem like it, but even when there was no updates for the longest time, and people were getting really fed up, they cared. That's why they have the update, to try to bring people who were fed up with game back with fresh and new features. As for which game is better? Depends. If you care about interactions and want to have fun in a place where you can do what you want, new leaf is better. In terms of overall things to do and having almost absolute freedom, new horizons is better.

 

[moo_nieu]

new horizons for sure, but new leaf still has fun content too and i prefer the look of some of the sets, especially the sloppy set

 

[Altarium]

New Horizons. But the matter of "quantity" is overrated. I saw people talking about how NL had all this huge amount of items but I honestly didn't use most of them. And I also couldn't store them either, as storage was still too limited for the amount of things available in the game.

I also feel like the item variety also helps incredibly when it comes to make your island unique. It's something I didn't feel back when I played NL: most towns were kinda the same, with the same PWPs and even paths.

This! I feel like people forget how in NL a LOT of items were basically ported over from older entries without being updated. Remember the kiddie pool? That thing literally had 5 polygons, it looked so bad you couldn't even use it.

In NL if you didn't have a fairytale pastel town, you might as well not have a town. And don't forget a bedroom upstairs full of princess furniture.

Terraforming and being able to place furniture outside alone gives me HOURS of playtime that New Leaf just didn't.

And don't even get me started on the incredible QoL features we got. Remember when you couldn't destroy the rocks? When you had to plot reset for hours so a villager would move wherever you wanted? How you couldn't move ANY buildings? How if you placed a streetlamp a square off to the right you had to tear it down and wait two days to build the new one? And how in order to move a tree you either had to wait 3 days or timetravel? I feel like people take all of this for granted.

 

[windloft]

I love New Leaf a lot, but the new update + DLC New Horizons got was such a breath of fresh air. I still have that feeling that some things are missing - mostly clothes, certain furniture sets, Gracie ... - but man, I gotta' say that I agree that NH has that feeling of having a lot more to do and delivering on it. I still go back to NL a lot of times, but NH feels like a full game now. It has a lot more on it's plate and most of it is great.

 

[moon_child]

NH by far. Although debatable and this is my personal opinion, even before the update I still think it had more to offer than NL in terms of a lot of stuff. Just exterior decorating alone elevated the game to new heights. It just got boring after a while because of the slow roll out of updates and probably because people consumed it differently than NL because of the pandemic so most must’ve exhausted and burnt out pretty fast. With the update then no contest it’s NH.

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This! I feel like people forget how in NL a LOT of items were basically ported over from older entries without being updated. Remember the kiddie pool? That thing literally had 5 polygons, it looked so bad you couldn't even use it.

In NL if you didn't have a fairytale pastel town, you might as well not have a town. And don't forget a bedroom upstairs full of princess furniture.

Terraforming and being able to place furniture outside alone gives me HOURS of playtime that New Leaf just didn't.

And don't even get me started on the incredible QoL features we got. Remember when you couldn't destroy the rocks? When you had to plot reset for hours so a villager would move wherever you wanted? How you couldn't move ANY buildings? How if you placed a streetlamp a square off to the right you had to tear it down and wait two days to build the new one? And how in order to move a tree you either had to wait 3 days or timetravel? I feel like people take all of this for granted.

Remember being able to buy ONLY ONE random bush start from Leif every single day? Lollll it would take MONTHS just to create a small little garden area

 

[ForbiddenSecrets]

Since I see Tortimers island brought up as a positive a lot I have to say for me personally I hated that it existed. Not the mini game portion I liked that. The perma summer. All methods of bell gathering were trivial in comparison to catching summer beetles and sharks and I felt pushed into one way of getting them. Sure I could harvest fruit or other things but I always knew that I was spending more time to make less profit.

I liked that NH (outside turnips) doesn’t have one way of bell farming that is so clearly better than everything else that to do anything else seems wasteful.

Of course I’m not saying everyone who misses it is wrong. Not at all! Loving and missing that feature is completely valid.

 

[Jhine7]

This is tough for me to decide. Probably NH but that doesn't mean that the game is perfect. Without upgrades and Gracie like NL had at least. Both games are lots of fun to play and I can only hope that Nintendo learns what the people want from the beginning of their next game and doesn't make everyone wait over a year and a half.

 

[Moritz]

Since I see Tortimers island brought up as a positive a lot I have to say for me personally I hated that it existed. Not the mini game portion I liked that. The perma summer. All methods of bell gathering were trivial in comparison to catching summer beetles and sharks and I felt pushed into one way of getting them. Sure I could harvest fruit or other things but I always knew that I was spending more time to make less profit.

I liked that NH (outside turnips) doesn’t have one way of bell farming that is so clearly better than everything else that to do anything else seems wasteful.

Of course I’m not saying everyone who misses it is wrong. Not at all! Loving and missing that feature is completely valid.

I could not agree more!
And on top of the fact it was by far the best way to make money, it kind of made the season of summer pointless in the game.

The season already didn't have much going on during it, so to take all the bugs and fish and make them available all year round just made the actual season of summer kind of redundant.

 

[MidnightAura]

It's bizarre you actually run out of things faster in NH than in the previous games. Like, what did you do in WW or GCN, even? Those games had incredibly limited content and features compared to NL and NH. I don't see how NH is any different to the other games when it comes to building a community. It's literally the theme of the game. As for NL, you interactions with villagers were always limited: fetch/get me this or sell me that. Yes, you'd get ping'd a lot, but for those same reasons: buy/sell me something or get me bug/fish, lmao.

You can do all the things you mentioned in NH, except the mini game aspect.

Not really, I have a finished museum in NH minus the art, breakable tools bother me to the point where I feel I’m always waiting for it to break. For me AC is meant to be relaxing and your tool breaking a lot is not.
In the early games I fish, I bug catch I dig up fossils and talk to my villagers. Of course I can do those things in NH and I do but it feels different, it’s lacking a charm. My villagers still don’t feel like they have a personality.
I like NH but I have to be in a decorating mood to really enjoy it.

I also don’t spend hours in any AC game per day. I’ve never felt like I finished an AC game until NH.

You are literally building a community in NH but the villagers all adore you right away. There’s no getting to know them phase. New Leaf actually started that trend but it got turned way up in NH. Sometimes I feel New Horizons can be a bit soulless. Like one time I was playing for about 3 hours straight as I was terraforming and I watched so many villagers walk by me and ignore me. That wouldn’t happen in early games.

 

[nightglow]

Since I see Tortimers island brought up as a positive a lot I have to say for me personally I hated that it existed. Not the mini game portion I liked that. The perma summer. All methods of bell gathering were trivial in comparison to catching summer beetles and sharks and I felt pushed into one way of getting them. Sure I could harvest fruit or other things but I always knew that I was spending more time to make less profit.

I liked that NH (outside turnips) doesn’t have one way of bell farming that is so clearly better than everything else that to do anything else seems wasteful.

Of course I’m not saying everyone who misses it is wrong. Not at all! Loving and missing that feature is completely valid.

I agree with you here. But I have to admit, catching beetles is way more fun than the spiders and scorpions for a boost in bells.
I felt like that there was too much emphasis on the spiders and scorpions for bell accumulation.
But at least you can still make pretty pennies through other methods. Especially since we have crops now.