The ACNH Rant Thread

[tajikey]

Super unpopular rant and I really don't mean to be mean or sound like I'm dumping on TTs (because TT is a perfectly valid way to play the game, yadda yadda). With the ability to TT it means that people are finishing the update in one day. If there are a lot of complaints about there being nothing to do, then wouldn't it be their fault for rushing the game since it is designed to be played in real-time?

I guess I'm just excited for the update, but a little disappointed seeing it being completed in just a few hours since the release. I know that there are going to be people complaining about how it didn't bring enough stuff to do (not on here, but on other places around the web). You can say all you want that "it doesn't affect your playstyle" and "what other people do on a single-player game doesn't matter on your island". But it is still a bit disappointing to see all the fantastic hype and chatter and know that in a few days people are going to be back and complaining about a lack of content.

Semi-sorry for the ramble. Again, I really don't care if you TT or not. It is your game and you play it how you love to play it. I just had to get this off my chest in a community that will get it and not just my husband who plays the game super casually. ❤

You hit the nail square on the head, and drove it all the way in with one swing of the hammer. It would be easy to take what you said one step further and say that without this global pandemic, nobody would be as "far" in the game as they are, which has led to complaints of there being nothing left to do.

 

[John Wick]

Really missing the halloween masks from NL.

No werewolf hoodie.

 

[Tinkeringbell]

To the person that decided '5' equals buying in bulk... You've never really gone shopping for garden plants, have you?

I'm buying pumpkin starts right now and I need A LOT of em. At the garden center I used to work, 5 plants (especially starts) is not 'buying bulk'!

 

[Starboard]

I know this has been ranted to DEATH but I just need to vent about the breakable tools. I almost never used the watering can since I already can't stand all my other tools breaking and having to craft twice to continue what I was doing. But if you want lots of pumpkins it's required so I just sucked it up. Within 2 waters the watering can broke. I rarely ever used it before and I had to go all the way up to my house to get softwood to make the flimsy can first. I had already recrafted broken tools twice that day so the whole thing just annoyed me. How exactly does a watering can made of both wood and iron break so fast!??? Why won't Nintendo do anything to make it more reasonable?

Also I have a pumpkin sprout that I can't store and it won't fit in my pumpkin patch so that's great.

 

[Hsn97]

I know this has been ranted to DEATH but I just need to vent about the breakable tools. I almost never used the watering can since I already can't stand all my other tools breaking and having to craft twice to continue what I was doing. But if you want lots of pumpkins it's required so I just sucked it up. Within 2 waters the watering can broke. I rarely ever used it before and I had to go all the way up to my house to get softwood to make the flimsy can first. I had already recrafted broken tools twice that day so the whole thing just annoyed me. How exactly does a watering can made of both wood and iron break so fast!??? Why won't Nintendo do anything to make it more reasonable?

Also I have a pumpkin sprout that I can't store and it won't fit in my pumpkin patch so that's great.

I 100% agree with you on took breaking. I don’t feel like it belongs in an AC game and it’s honestly the thing I hate most about the game. Like I full on regret spending £350 for the switch and game because I can’t fish and bug catch or do anything in peace without my stupid tools breaking every 5 god damn minutes!

One thing I’ve tried to do to make playing the game a little less painful is buying a couple of extra watering can from Nooks and placing them in areas where I’m going to be doing a lot of watering. It adds decoration and it also means that when my can breaks I don’t have to faff around crafting or buying a new one, I just pick another one up.

 

[Starboard]

I 100% agree with you on took breaking. I don’t feel like it belongs in an AC game and it’s honestly the thing I hate most about the game. Like I full on regret spending £350 for the switch and game because I can’t fish and bug catch or do anything in peace without my stupid tools breaking every 5 god damn minutes!

One thing I’ve tried to do to make playing the game a little less painful is buying a couple of extra watering can from Nooks and placing them in areas where I’m going to be doing a lot of watering. It adds decoration and it also means that when my can breaks I don’t have to faff around crafting or buying a new one, I just pick another one up.

I totally agree, I don't think it belongs in AC either. It's the kind of mechanic you find in games where you have to survive or use strategy, not a cute relaxing village simulator. No real life tools break anywhere near as quickly and the landscaping tools never break so there's no excuse really, it's just dumb. And don't even get me started on the completely pointless gold tools.

And that's a good way to go about it, I've been crafting extras in my free time and keeping them in my pockets so I don't have to do it while I'm in the middle of something.

I also feel you on the regret thing. I love a lot about NH so I don't fully regret buying it, but this mechanic plus the other weird grievances Nintendo for some reason won't tweak, plus the fact that I can't even access most of the furniture without having to pay some more to go ask people for them also makes me feel bitter about all the money I spent since it's a lot of money to me. And I'm a solo player too so I feel kind of shafted. With how beautiful this game is and with all the improvements over the previous entries it's a shame it had to take such giant leaps backwards.

 

[meggiewes]

You hit the nail square on the head, and drove it all the way in with one swing of the hammer. It would be easy to take what you said one step further and say that without this global pandemic, nobody would be as "far" in the game as they are, which has led to complaints of there being nothing left to do.

That is really true! Comparing how I play now vs how I played when it first came out, I would have been much farther back in my progress.

 

[Zane]

The way flowers work in this game just saps the joy out of landscaping. Any time I start trying to work on my island I get as far as moving all the freakin flowers and then I’m just done with it.

 

[Le Ham]

My island is mostly lag-free...
except for when it's windy

 

[Lightspring]

I feel that I’m the only person who is ranting about this but personally, I love that the game now has different skin colors and eye colors. The only thing that I have a problem with is still the lack of hair colors and styles. It’s just absurd to me that we can have blue skin and golden eyes (not that that’s a problem of course) yet no other hair colors out yet. Perhaps I need to be patient but there were so many iconic hairstyles in the previous games. There’s also no light brown hair or white yet, which I find to be strange.

 

[maria110]

The Cherry Blossom present balloons are too hard to get. For northern hemisphere, Bunny Day was in the way, and now for southern hemisphere, they just aren't appearing very frequently. You chase one down only to find ... a diner mini table. Ugh.

 

[Bluebellie]

Why can’t we build on 4 level tiers
I want to.

 

[Envy]

Waiting the five days after the announcement for the update. Only to find out that the updates don't actually have an effect on the what the game offers until October 1st. Only to find out on October 1st that I have to wait for the pumpkins to grow. The latter I expected, but still... Would have been nice if we could have gotten our pumpkin starts yesterday.

 

[John Wick]

The halloween stuff was ok at first, but where is the furniture?
The NL stuff and PC items are still superior to NH.

No masks?
No actual furniture?
No creepy bat stone, headstone, coffin, statue, etc.

Just a bunch of plastic pumpkin lanterns!

I want all of NL items and furniture back or I'm done.

 

[MidnightAura]

The halloween stuff was ok at first, but where is the furniture?
The NL stuff and PC items are still superior to NH.

No masks?
No actual furniture?
No creepy bat stone, headstone, coffin, statue, etc.

Just a bunch of plastic pumpkin lanterns!

I want all of NL items and furniture back or I'm done.

I agree with this. The furniture is really poor compared to New Leaf.

 

[k e r f u f f l e]

Every single time my tools explode in my hand I beat Al to release the rage.

Just kidding, he's a great guy.

 

[BluebearL]

Yet another flower rant from someone here but I just gotta it's so annoying:

I am seriously considering resetting so that I can remove all starter flowers and not plant them so that I don't have to move so many of them just to lay down one square of path or make any sort of progress. Terraforming is already chore like for me, the flowers just make it ten times worse. Imagine an island without flowers... now that would be paradise!

 

[Mick]

Yet another flower rant from someone here but I just gotta it's so annoying:

I am seriously considering resetting so that I can remove all starter flowers and not plant them so that I don't have to move so many of them just to lay down one square of path or make any sort of progress. Terraforming is already chore like for me, the flowers just make it ten times worse. Imagine an island without flowers... now that would be paradise!

Fully agree on the flowers, I had several areas entirely overrun with them because they spread worse than weeds. Rainy day? Congratulations on your 30 new flowers!

I spent like 2 weeks clearing out small areas at a time, tossing inventories full of flowers in the thrash (felt good, man) and I put a lot of effort into preventing flower spread with fences, furniture, and (invisible) patterns. I definitely recommend that. It has saved my sanity on rainy days!

(there are a few areas where my flowers are spreading again... )

 

[meggiewes]

Yet another flower rant from someone here but I just gotta it's so annoying:

I am seriously considering resetting so that I can remove all starter flowers and not plant them so that I don't have to move so many of them just to lay down one square of path or make any sort of progress. Terraforming is already chore like for me, the flowers just make it ten times worse. Imagine an island without flowers... now that would be paradise!

If you are dreaming of an island without flowers, then you would love mine right now! Isabelle keeps complaining because I'm not ready to plant more flowers. I finally put some on the third level to grow wild, but the rest are either in a fence or in between waterfalls. But most of my island is just bare!

 

[Sharksheep]

Yet another flower rant from someone here but I just gotta it's so annoying:

I am seriously considering resetting so that I can remove all starter flowers and not plant them so that I don't have to move so many of them just to lay down one square of path or make any sort of progress. Terraforming is already chore like for me, the flowers just make it ten times worse. Imagine an island without flowers... now that would be paradise!

I'm about to redo my entrance that was my flower storaging area because it was contained. I only kept a few of each hybrid for easy cloning but they still got out of control. Going to be smarter about flower blocking this time. I rather spend time to place down a stone path now and deal with removing it later than have the flowers go out of control again from the rain