The ACNH Rant Thread

[John Wick]

It really does feel like NH placed everything that was unique to AC on the backburner for the sake of terraforming. And it's an awesome innovative idea, but it shouldn't take over the staple of the game. I'm one of those people who likes the idea and will use it, but it's not where I would like to put 80% of my gameplay and right now with all the stuff that has yet to be updated (or removed indefinitely) I haven't gotten much use out of the game where I intended.

I'd give up terraforming just to have the NL food items back.

What's the point of terraforming, when we have barely any items to decorate with, except wooden, iron, and bamboo.

I'm in such a slump, as the game has become boring now.

In NL, I was never bored because there were so many fantastic items, I themed an entire town.

I can't theme a thing in NH.

And there were places to go like Tortimer island with the tours.
Main Street.

 

[DaviddivaD]

The gallant statue takes way too much space (and it’s a lot taller than I was expecting it to be).

I should be able to stand right by the feet on any side, but instead there is an empty space right in front of me that’s part of the statue. This really messes up my design plans and trying to make my areas easier to move around.
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I think there's a reason for this. They don't want you right up next to its "manhood" . So they made it tall and added an invisible space around it.

Although in New Leaf the statue was shorter and you could be right up next to David's manhood. So...

The valiant statue, Nike(the one with wings and no head) was the one that took up a lot of space in New Leaf.

 

[Summ3rain]

Why have Nintendo added new clouds on the horizon I much prefer the previous clean look.

 

[Lightspring]

I mentioned this in the hairstyle thread but I can't stop wondering why they removed the light brown hair option and replaced it with a less common darker colour. I mean... there are just so many decisions the devs made that I just can't wrap my head around. That's one of the weirdest since it wouldn't have been hard to leave in.

This. I swear, when I first loaded the game, I found it strange that there was no light brown hair for the hair color options. I spent several thousand Nook Miles on getting the other two unlockable sets of hair color, with still no light brown. I hope that they bring it back in the future, along with white (not the ashy one), light green, and dark blue. It would be so cool if they could have rainbow or bicolor hair or ombré, it just seems like a missed opportunity.

 

[Starboard]

This. I swear, when I first loaded the game, I found it strange that there was no light brown hair for the hair color options. I spent several thousand Nook Miles on getting the other two unlockable sets of hair color, with still no light brown. I hope that they bring it back in the future, along with white (not the ashy one), light green, and dark blue. It would be so cool if they could have rainbow or bicolor hair or ombré, it just seems like a missed opportunity.

Omg, I didn't even consider the other unlockable colours, I thought it was weird enough that it wasn't in the original set! How is light brown not even in the unlockable colours???

 

[Lightspring]

Omg, I didn't even consider the other unlockable colours, I thought it was weird enough that it wasn't in the original set! How is light brown not even in the unlockable colours???

No clue. It’s really absurd to me that light brown didn’t make it to the game. It was in previous games except for this one. Heck, even Pocket Camp has the light brown. The lightest shade of brown we have is this reddish auburn one, and anything lighter is like a blonde color. I hope if Harriet comes to the game she can bring more hair colors too.

 

[FRANS_PLAYER]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE create bulk crafting! I'm so tired of crafting 20 fish bait in singles. I'm not asking for much :/

 

[k e r f u f f l e]

I haven't been playing the game long, but here are my biggest issues with NH so far.

1. Terraforming is a bit of an overkill at times
2. Tools break
3. Lack of hairstyles/colors
4. Missing NPCs
5. Lack of 'Animal Crossing vibes'
6. Lack of good hourly music
7. Villager dialogue
8. Nook Mile Tickets becoming tedious to collect

Overall, I still absolutely love the game. But after playing Animal Crossing for so many years, it's hard not to nitpick when Nintendo throws curveballs.

 

[Sharksheep]

I wish I can move more than one house at once or at least queue them up. It's petty thing to whine around considering how you can't move houses in previous games but I don't want the mental load.

I'm also salty that I'm about to redo an area I'm happy about to try to fit in one more villager house so I have to move everyone off and back on again. I don't even know if it'll look nice. Like I know I can redo or plot it on happy island designer to see but I need to see it in the game to know if it even looks good.

 

[Starboard]

I wish I can move more than one house at once or at least queue them up. It's petty thing to whine around considering how you can't move houses in previous games but I don't want the mental load.

I'm also salty that I'm about to redo an area I'm happy about to try to fit in one more villager house so I have to move everyone off and back on again. I don't even know if it'll look nice. Like I know I can redo or plot it on happy island designer to see but I need to see it in the game to know if it even looks good.

Yeah, I know the feeling. I don't want to sound ungrateful but in a game where one of the selling points was decorating your island they maybe could have made it easier to plan it out/actually move around the buildings without having to wait a day and pay 50k. Or if you just want to move it a smidge over it'll take 2 days and 100k I mean, what were they even thinking with that lol.

 

[John Wick]

Why have Nintendo added new clouds on the horizon I much prefer the previous clean look.

They have absolutely ruined the clouds.

It has put me right off.

Flat, one dimensional, static clouds that looks like paper cutouts just stuck up there.

NL had better clouds that were billowy and moved.

 

[Sharksheep]

I wish I can move more than one house at once or at least queue them up. It's petty thing to whine around considering how you can't move houses in previous games but I don't want the mental load.

I'm also salty that I'm about to redo an area I'm happy about to try to fit in one more villager house so I have to move everyone off and back on again. I don't even know if it'll look nice. Like I know I can redo or plot it on happy island designer to see but I need to see it in the game to know if it even looks good.

Well I redid the area and I don't like it. So I'm reverting everything back and modifying the original to fit another house. Good bye 300k igb.

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

I wish I could wrap plantable hybrids so that I could give them away on my island without having to add people as a best friend

 

[Sharksheep]

I wish I could wrap plantable hybrids so that I could give them away on my island without having to add people as a best friend

It annoying you can't store them either. But you can also just drop them off. It's not the same but it's an option

 

[Marridia]

I wish the old hair styles were back

 

[Coco63]

My boyfriend and I share an island and I hate that we can’t both play for certain things. We can’t do anything that requires going online (opening our island, going to other islands (even mystery islands), using the design thing at Able’s). More recently discovered that we can’t even get Pascal. It’s just really frustrating that one of us will have to log off to let the other play solo in order to do any of these things.
We made a really cute wedding area and I’m sad that our friends can’t come to our virtual fake wedding

Another thing, I am really annoyed with only being able to order 5 things from the catalog in a day. Like I guess I get why they do that, but it definitely is frustrating when trying to complete an area and it takes days to get the stuff needed for it.

I don’t like how other villagers will start using a catchphrase you gave to one villager. I like the themed catchphrases and try to keep them themed if I change them. They will not suit other villagers and it’s annoying to have to talk to Isabelle every day.

I’m upset that villagers display clothes in their homes in place of furniture. Apple had a really cute Apple TV but replaced it with clothing items. I finally obtained another Apple TV to give her and she put it in the wrong spot facing the wall - very frustrating. I resorted to giving her an outdoor tv area lol.

I could definitely think of more but I’ll leave it at that for now.

 

[JunoHorizon]

This is a pretty minor rant but I really wish your villagers watering flowers didn't actually water them. I don't have enough spare custom designs to stick transparent tiles down to stop the spread and Beau has gone on an absolute mission and seems to have watered half the island. I have enough flowers as is, really don't want to have to dig up all the buds next time I play.

 

[Lavamaize]

1. Selecting Dreams in the Dreamsuite - I wish It would be like NL where I could select a random dream, or look up a dream by island name, player name, or region, as I don't always have a dream address on me, and I find it a bit annoying having to put in a address for every
dream.

2. Dreams in the Dreamsuite - Why can't we barrow tools anymore while in dreams.

3. Waterfalls - They are way to loud in my opinion. I want a more peaceful sounding waterfall opposed to loud obnoxious crashing water sounds.

4. Hourly Music - Does not captivate me, and I don't like it very much. The hourly music should of been like New Leaf.

5. Tree Placement - I wish I could place trees right next to cliffs or water. It is really annoying to have 9 spaces (3x3) with no water or cliffs in it and it messes up some of my design ideas.

 

[MoogleKupo]

-Why am I only allowed to buy 5 items at a time in my catalogue or nook miles??
I want to know who suggested we go back to the Gamecube version and only get five a day. I apologize but that makes me flustered when I'm trying to make my island look pretty and need lots of my antique chairs and tables. But no, I don't get it. Sadness consumes.

-Villager dialogue. It is so bland. It truly is, villagers say the same thing over and over again. I find myself getting annoyed of even my dreamies! It just feels off how they don't say a lot like they used to. The rudeness of GC was definitely appreciated but hurtful, but I'd take a little spunk from these guys.

-Sea bass pun has got to leave the chat please.

-Terraforming is burning me out I'll be honest. There's stuff I want to do but am so limited believe it or not. There just doesn't seem to be a whole lot to do once you unlock terraforming. I mean, that's the point we all want right? It becomes so mundane after a while it's boring and not much to do.

-Not much to do in multiplayer. We can't go to islands like New Leaf, we can't decorate the island while someone is over. It isn't considered rude Nintendo to decorate the island, show off an item, or anything like that. I'd be so fun of you and your friend could work on an island at the same time.

-Limited hair choices. Even with the extra hair options later in nook miles, I wish there were more. Even colors too. I stick with brown personally.

-BULK. CRAFTING. My goodness me, the only thing in bulk is the fencing, why can't I have many fences too!

-Buying items from Timmy and Tommy or Leif. I hate the 5 limit. I wish I was able to pick my own amount similar to Harvest Moon when buying seeds, or Daisy Mae when buying turnips. You're allowed to pick the amount of your choice. Not just 1 or 5. Seems odd and irritating

-Stop patching my ability to get money easily. The game is already realistic as it is, realism isn't always fun in games.
They patched the ability to jump from 2000-2060 for 99,999 bells in game, down all the way to 9,999. Like why? What am I hurting? Myself? No I'm good. My console? No it isn't overheating, it hasn't been glitched, I don't hack. My island? Villagers don't even remember that you left if you don't talk to them and come back around the same time.

 

[HappyTails]

Oh god the mosquiTOS!!!

I am trying to terraform and landscape and they keep appearing! Seriously considering not playing this game at night until they leave.