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The ACNH Rant Thread
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There were no paving options built into the previous Animal Crossing games. New Horizons is the first to introduce them. Prior to New Horizons, custom paths were the only option available.
This. I'm currently changing my island and I HATE having to dig up all the flowers just to move them somewhere else where they'll get moved from again when I change up that area of the island.
I wish we could buy a storage chest or something from Leif that only lets you store plants, bushes and trees, maybe 100 slots or something?
I love changing the flowers for the seasons and events but don't want to just have them in a corner or the beach when I'm not using them!
Also not being able to put cliffs right up the edge of the island, the gap around the edge looks so stupid. And not being able to plant trees on the edges of cliffs too.
In my opinion it make sense to have us keep having to make tools since there is a crafting mechanic but when even the golden tools break... that's just too much
yeah i'm surprised there hasn't been a patch to make gold tools unbreakable or at least last longer than the tools from Nook's. they hardly feel like a reward any more
JKDOS
Senior Member
Considering you have to help Gulliver 30 times, and that he is guaranteed a minimum of once every 2 weeks, it will take a maximum of 60 weeks to unlock the shovel, which is about 14 months.
RoxasFan25
Senior Member
I agree this is by far the WORST decision they ever made. We worked so hard to get the Golden Tools only to have them break again. I stopped using them because it just got so annoying. I found out a trick where if you have any tool thats customizable you can change the color and restart the durability on the tools. Thats why I always have Customization Kits in my pockets and have workbenches nearby on my island where I use my tools. Its annoying but thats what I've been doing most of the times. They should've NEVER let Gold Tools break.
I agree with the tools, it's horrible. I don't understand the thought process of putting something like this in the game, especially since it makes the gold tools completely pointless and a waste of gold ore. How many players genuinely enjoy constantly having to rebuild their tools for eternity when that wasn't a thing in the old games? Maybe some like it but it's making me avoid activities just because I'm so tired of watching them explode and rebuilding them and replacing them in my pockets and tool wheel. I have enough repetetive things to do in this game, things that actually move me towards a goal, unlike this which is just an annoying interruption.
Also the fact you STILL have to craft the flimsy version first, that I haven't used since the very beginning of my game seems ridiculous to me. Really who thought this was a good idea...
Also the fact you STILL have to craft the flimsy version first, that I haven't used since the very beginning of my game seems ridiculous to me. Really who thought this was a good idea...
Shellzilla_515
F1 fan who loves onions
I can't help but feel a little down that the main focus of the game is all about making stuff beautiful on your island. What about us people that just don't care about that and want to focus on the social aspect with our villagers and minigames? Also, the majority of the dream islands I've visited so far have at least 50% of the same villagers every time. Wolves are awesome, but I have a limit. What happened to the variety?
Moonlight.
𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘴
for a game that leans heavily towards natural designs + cottagecore, it's kinda crazy to me that there's no windmill.
yeah there are wind turbines but they don't look as good imo
pls come back im begging
yeah there are wind turbines but they don't look as good imo
pls come back im begging
nightglow
Little can stop the sun and moon from thier dance.
I wonder if they are going to be diys later? I'm still not sure if that has been confirmed... It would be weird if they weren't considering other holiday items are. I hope they are simply because I don't want to time travel a bunch just so I could have multiple of the same item.
6iixx
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i would absolutely love a windmillfor a game that leans heavily towards natural designs + cottagecore, it's kinda crazy to me that there's no windmill.
yeah there are wind turbines but they don't look as good imo
pls come back im begging
or anything else that's kind of 'off the grid'-y and would support sustainable life on an island.
JKDOS
Senior Member
Sending letters.
I will give New Horizons credit for being the first in the franchise to let us mail letters to our friends through the internet. However, I cannot ignore the fact that sending mail in New Horizons is the absolute most clunkiest by far.
The past games allowed us to write multiple letters at once from anywhere, and easily drop gifts in the letters. We were then able to go to the postal service and mail up to about 10 letters at a time.
Currently, we have to go to the letter stand, go through pointless dialog (Yes, I want to send a letter. I didn't click on this for no reason), pick out a stationary, write the letter, attach a gift, agree that YES you absolutely want to send the letter. Send it, and then repeat for each and every letter you wish to send.
I will give New Horizons credit for being the first in the franchise to let us mail letters to our friends through the internet. However, I cannot ignore the fact that sending mail in New Horizons is the absolute most clunkiest by far.
The past games allowed us to write multiple letters at once from anywhere, and easily drop gifts in the letters. We were then able to go to the postal service and mail up to about 10 letters at a time.
Currently, we have to go to the letter stand, go through pointless dialog (Yes, I want to send a letter. I didn't click on this for no reason), pick out a stationary, write the letter, attach a gift, agree that YES you absolutely want to send the letter. Send it, and then repeat for each and every letter you wish to send.
Hsn97
Inexperienced Person
I’ve unlocked most of the golden tools but I’ve never actually crafted one because of this. What’s the point in wasting an already rare materiel like gold ore to make a tool that lasts only slightly longer than the regular ones? Sort yourselves out Nintendo!
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Unfortunately it feels like there was a massive shift in what fans wanted after New Leaf.
New Leaf sparked this idea of being able to make your town pretty - something that we never really thought about in previous games because the option simply wasn’t there. The only stuff we could do was the daily sim and the social aspects.
New Leaf introduced lots of new and cool game mechanics and lot of people were really excited to see them taken further. Heck, I was one of those people.
But I feel like Nintendo tried so hard to improve these new mechanics and follow this direction of decorating and making a beautiful town that they forgot what made the series great in the first place. And that sucks so much and is still the biggest issue I have with NH. This game is nothing more than a shallow decorating sim.
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skogkyst
So-Called Problem Solver
I enjoy this game *immensely*, as I have with essentially every Animal Crossing title. Don't get me wrong - this is one of my most-played games ever, and I've played it for a longer period of time than I did any other time (less hours than New Leaf, though). However, I find it infinitely annoying mostly because it has so much potential but at the same time fails to deliver on that potential. And I think the flaws of the game are becoming more and more obvious and annoying over time. Most of these flaws are just the game feeling soulless.
Villagers are soulless in this game, easily the dialogue is the worst in the series (so repetitious and bland). There are only eight new villagers, personally I would've rather had them cut some older villagers if it meant more newer villagers and especially more species. But the villagers in this game don't seem to matter that much, I mean talking to them is more of a chore than anything. I enjoyed doing things for them in past games, or having them visit, or visiting them - these activities made me emotionally invested in them and therefore the game.
The furniture is pretty nice, actually, and that's an unpopular opinion I think, but there just isn't enough of it or the random generation for the store is wayyyyy messed up. Every day I check the Nook shop and the Kiosk, and it's the same 100-ish items on rotation. It's hard for me to find furniture, the rotation is just so weak. Even worse is the rotation for the DIYs, where I get the same DIYs over and over despite missing a full third of them.
Crafting is cool, but it's cumbersome. The amount of dialogue to go through is intense and makes some of the other newer features, like selling hot items that have been crafted or making fish bait, a pain to go through. Speaking of slow, traveling has been cumbersome in every Animal Crossing installment, but it's especially so in this version. Letter-sending as well. Making bells, too.
This game just seems strangely full, but empty. I poured more hours into New Leaf and never found it bland, but this one I have to take a lot slower because I just can't manage to spend more than half an half on it at a time. And I know I'm not the only one with this opinion, because the online economy and communities have slowed down much faster than New Leaf even though this game has almost tripled its sales in only a year. I'd just say this game seems weaker as time goes on. Still pretty great though, there's a lot nice to say about it, but this is the rant thread so...
Villagers are soulless in this game, easily the dialogue is the worst in the series (so repetitious and bland). There are only eight new villagers, personally I would've rather had them cut some older villagers if it meant more newer villagers and especially more species. But the villagers in this game don't seem to matter that much, I mean talking to them is more of a chore than anything. I enjoyed doing things for them in past games, or having them visit, or visiting them - these activities made me emotionally invested in them and therefore the game.
The furniture is pretty nice, actually, and that's an unpopular opinion I think, but there just isn't enough of it or the random generation for the store is wayyyyy messed up. Every day I check the Nook shop and the Kiosk, and it's the same 100-ish items on rotation. It's hard for me to find furniture, the rotation is just so weak. Even worse is the rotation for the DIYs, where I get the same DIYs over and over despite missing a full third of them.
Crafting is cool, but it's cumbersome. The amount of dialogue to go through is intense and makes some of the other newer features, like selling hot items that have been crafted or making fish bait, a pain to go through. Speaking of slow, traveling has been cumbersome in every Animal Crossing installment, but it's especially so in this version. Letter-sending as well. Making bells, too.
This game just seems strangely full, but empty. I poured more hours into New Leaf and never found it bland, but this one I have to take a lot slower because I just can't manage to spend more than half an half on it at a time. And I know I'm not the only one with this opinion, because the online economy and communities have slowed down much faster than New Leaf even though this game has almost tripled its sales in only a year. I'd just say this game seems weaker as time goes on. Still pretty great though, there's a lot nice to say about it, but this is the rant thread so...
I mailed maybe one or two letters tops. They made something that was enjoyable before pure torture. It's almost like they're trying to redirect our attention away from interacting with villagers.
Yeah but you kind of have to know when to go and customize it or you'll still wind up breaking your tool if you wait too long. So either you are just good at counting and keeping track of it or you just chance it and customize whenever you think it's going to break and you could have like 10-15 swings left that you end up wasting. Even if all tools break, there is no excuse why they couldn't have made a durability meter. The axe in NL had that. So what is their excuse here?
The thing is, you could make your ordinance in NL be Beautiful town and you wouldn't have to water any flowers because they never died. So I just enacted that ordinance and the excess flowers I would just store away. And flowers didn't breed like rabbits like they do in NH. I feel like I can skip a few days and be overrun by flowers, weeds, and sticks. I never had that issue with NL. If I stopped playing for months I came back to a town scattered in weeds. I can stop playing NH for a week and it's overrun by weeds/sticks. The % rate is just too much and needs to be nerfed.
I thought about that earlier to. This game is pretty much a designer simulator. While NL gave the option to design your town and it wasn't perfect, it didn't dominate the other core values of the game. I feel like they steered too far into the desiginig aspect now and this feels more like a spin-off. Like Happy Home Designer, but outside this time.Unfortunately it feels like there was a massive shift in what fans wanted after New Leaf.
New Leaf sparked this idea of being able to make your town pretty - something that we never really thought about in previous games because the option simply wasn’t there. The only stuff we could do was the daily sim and the social aspects.
New Leaf introduced lots of new and cool game mechanics and lot of people were really excited to see them taken further. Heck, I was one of those people.
But I feel like Nintendo tried so hard to improve these new mechanics and follow this direction of decorating and making a beautiful town that they forgot what made the series great in the first place. And that sucks so much and is still the biggest issue I have with NH. This game is nothing more than a shallow decorating sim.
SlEEPYTEARRS
bogos binted? 👽
one of my big issues is that there is just so much island to decorate, it overwhelms me
and i dont want to be one of those islands that has stuff absolutely everywhere, i hate the crowded look, but i dont think there is a good variety of outdoor furniture for what i want. like i think what we have is good, just not enough (and i get that we'll probably get more, excited for that)
but i started playing new leaf and i like the smaller map + filling it with public works projects. i would love it if they had also brought back those projects to build things on a grander scale, thatd be cool
but it would be like optional, after kk has visited
and i dont want to be one of those islands that has stuff absolutely everywhere, i hate the crowded look, but i dont think there is a good variety of outdoor furniture for what i want. like i think what we have is good, just not enough (and i get that we'll probably get more, excited for that)
but i started playing new leaf and i like the smaller map + filling it with public works projects. i would love it if they had also brought back those projects to build things on a grander scale, thatd be cool
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but it would be like optional, after kk has visited
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