The ACNH Rant Thread

[Solio]

Why is it a big deal if gold tools break? They are craftable not unique like in the previous games. We also don't know if there's any benefit using them over regular tools besides the enhanced durability. I imagine they probably last a lot longer than regular tools.

 

[Envy]

Why is it a big deal if gold tools break? They are craftable not unique like in the previous games. We also don't know if there's any benefit using them over regular tools besides the enhanced durability. I imagine they probably last a lot longer than regular tools.

It's because tools breaking is an annoying feature. If it was just reserved for tools you craft in the beginning of the game, that'd be understandable. I have no problem with the tools we build in the very beginning breaking. The beginning of an AC game is naturally not as convenient, and there can be some charm to be found in that. However, when a level of tool that doesn't break to strive for doesn't exist, then it becomes a perpetual annoyance that can no longer be seen as "Oh, well the beginning of the game is inconvenient". Now it's just inconvenient the whole way through.

They could have incentivized crafting lower level tools without making the golden tools break. I mean, like how the level three axe chops down trees on the third chop, whereas the stone and flimsy axes don't, making them much better for farming wood. Of course, it's also annoying to have multiples of the same tool when inventory is so limited... BUT most certainly having even golden tools break is no good.

 

[jiojiop]

He is! My favorite boi <3 It’s not that I dislike his redesign or anything, I’m just confused about it ^^;

You can see the difference best when he makes this face, especially his eyes

I've seen this with another animal, the shifting of color from blue to purple. Lobo the wolf:

You can see the primary change is color, but also you can see it in the eyes and ears.

You're right though. I did notice it in the pic before but was unsure if it was just perspective of the angle. But yeah, it really does seems they've shifted the mouth downward and made the eyes more exaggerated in their U shape. Hm, I wonder if the distance between the mouth and eyes is from the eye change actually, rather than the mouth being shifted. I also wonder if it comes from changing how the expressions are managed across characters. I can't find any pics of Punchy with resting dopey face from NH so I can't really compare his natural mouth placement.

Why is it a big deal if gold tools break? They are craftable not unique like in the previous games. We also don't know if there's any benefit using them over regular tools besides the enhanced durability. I imagine they probably last a lot longer than regular tools.

They require gold nuggies, which are worth 10k and are rare drops. I wouldnt want to waste that on a shovel that breaks. Though I wonder if hitting rocks with a golden shovel might increase your gold nug drop rate...

 

[JKDOS]

Why is it a big deal if gold tools break? They are craftable not unique like in the previous games. We also don't know if there's any benefit using them over regular tools besides the enhanced durability. I imagine they probably last a lot longer than regular tools.

Because

1. Finding gold nuggets isn't easy.
2. Having a tool break unexpectedly is frustrating, irritating, and annoying
3. Not knowing when your tool is going to break is about the same as above.
4. Knowing gold tools break will make some of us hoard the tool rather than actually use it out of fear of losing it.
5. Our inventories will be forever filled with multiple tools just to ensure we have one when it counts.
6. Gold Tools should be the god tools. A reward for putting up with the non-gold tools breaking over how long it takes us.

It makes way more sense to give players a durability system, and them have them earn/work towards a tool that won't break. Past Animal Crossing games pulled this off with the Golden Axe

 

[Hesper]

What in the WORLD are we doing with the watering can that it breaks? I get most of the other tools. I mean, some of them you're banging on a hard tree or rock. But the watering can? What, are we smashing it against the ground to throw the water out? I have only a few fields for hybrid breeding, and it still breaks every day while I'm watering them. I don't mind the others nearly so much as this, but--why does a *watering can* break?!

 

[Alolan_Apples]

Like Pokémon Sword and Shield, the music in ACNH isn’t as good as its 3DS counterparts. Not even the hourly music. I also noticed that the music of Nook’s Cranny, the Able Sisters, and the Museum are more faint as the music in the Resident Services is slower. And the music of Nook’s Cranny and the Able Sisters can never be as good as their GameCube counterparts.

 

[DinoTown]

We get these house sized, bullet proof, rideable spiders on our walls (well they're freaking HUGE) here in Australia, so it's like you go to the game to relax after battling huntsman's on your wall all night, and are faced with house sized, bullet proof, rideable spiders. O_O

This has merely solidified the fact that I am NEVER going to Australia.

 

[Shawna]

Everyone's opinion matters, even if you don't agree with them. Come on people it's just a game.

Now let me rant about said game.
Game, keep raining after 4pm please so I can catch the rainy day fish. The two times it rained on my island, it stopped before 4pm.

I don't know if anyone has said this, but coelacanths can be caught any time of the day now. Caught two this morning.

 

[PajamaCat]

We get these house sized, bullet proof, rideable spiders on our walls (well they're freaking HUGE) here in Australia, so it's like you go to the game to relax after battling huntsman's on your wall all night, and are faced with house sized, bullet proof, rideable spiders. O_O

Noooo, I could not handle that! I would love to visit Australia one day but that's the only thing stopping me. You guys are braver than I'll ever be!

 

[John Wick]

This has merely solidified the fact that I am NEVER going to Australia.

Nah, they're OK. I haven't had many in this place as opposed to some we've lived in.

I dreamed about tarantulas last night!
I was snuggling with one as big as a cat.

 

[Corrie]

Why do tools break?!??!??!!

 

[Airysuit]

I just hope they bring paintings back (im sure they will) and somehow magically the museum info as re-readable tags (new leaf style) will be back too ( maybe if you complete the museum?

 

[idiotdoomspiral]

BRING BACK SLOPPY FURNITURE

 

[bcmii]

Wish there were more than 5 super basic furniture sets. Everyone is saying that they are going to patch in more of the sets, but that's a really stupid thing not have in the game from the get-go.

 

[CovisGod]

Everything just feels a bit empty to me,

You unlock the Museum, Nooks and The Residential Services Upgrade in the first week and other than the Shop upgrade after a month there doesn’t seem a whole load to keep you coming back? Sure the Fish & Bugs but is that really it? Is there really no other Shops or anything going to unlock later in the game?

In New Leaf you had so much that unlocked after weeks and months of playing, I refuse to believe they’ve cut such a huge amount out, of anything I thought there would be a whole lot more than New Leaf?

Did they spend so much time working on a Crafting System that a whole lot of the staple features from the other games fell by the way side?

 

[Corrie]

Why can't we swim on an island?!

 

[Ja.cob]

Idk if this has been mentioned yet but I loved the fortune cookies in new leaf. Pocket camp made them a pay to win product but I was hoping that new horizons would bring them in bigger and better and I have yet to see that...

 

[bcmii]

Everything just feels a bit empty to me,

You unlock the Museum, Nooks and The Residential Services Upgrade in the first week and other than the Shop upgrade after a month there doesn’t seem a whole load to keep you coming back? Sure the Fish & Bugs but is that really it? Is there really no other Shops or anything going to unlock later in the game?

In New Leaf you had so much that unlocked after weeks and months of playing, I refuse to believe they’ve cut such a huge amount out, of anything I thought there would be a whole lot more than New Leaf?

Did they spend so much time working on a Crafting System that a whole lot of the staple features from the other games fell by the way side?

My personal theory is that they spent so much time on the island designer and crafting features that everything else got cut. Everyone is saying that they are adding in the holidays via updates to "stop the TTers," but if I am going to be 100% honest, I think they are only doing that because they couldn't get the holidays and other features added in before it was time to launch, and didn't want another delay. Heaven knows that if there was another delay after that initial nine month one, people would be marching up to the Nintendo Headquarters with pitchforks. That would explain the lack of pretty much everything else (buildings, furniture sets, etc.) - they wasted so much time making the game "customizable," that they couldn't be bothered to include the basic features that should've made it in. So in other words, it is very likely that they gave us a barren and incomplete game for the sake of not having another delay.

 

[Sir Takoya]

Nook miles rewards color lock....and town specific flowers.

Just why.

 

[s i r e n t i c]

I run out of normal wood so fast it’s crazy. I have so many stacks of softwood and hardwood, but somehow the normal wood is super rare for me!

Mostly though I hate that you need a Nintendo online subscription to do online stuff... I mean it makes sense considering most other gaming systems have their own subscription for online things, but I hate that Nintendo has started doing it too :/
I’m just glad it’s not as expensive as other online subscriptions, even if it still sucks

Also, tools breaking! At first it’s kind of quirky and cool, but it gets pretty old fast. I was hoping golden tools would be unbreakable, but it seems like that’s not the case sadly