The ACNH Rant Thread

[Alolan_Apples]

- WHY WAS I SURPRISED WHEN I FOUND OUT WE HAVE TO MAKE THE BUNNY DAY FURNITURE OURSELVES. Like I should not have been surprised at all but here we are. I would rather be rewarded with the furniture, not the DIY to make the furniture. I'm mostly just mad at myself for not expecting this.

I actually like crafting Bunny Day furniture. It’s better than trying to find tickets when all we can find is the not-so-grand prize tickets. What I don’t like is how Tortimer won’t let us look at him from behind, and each time we approach him, he looks at you in all directions.

Yes, Zipper T Bunny is Tortimer in disguise.

 

[deerteeth]

I actually like crafting Bunny Day furniture. It’s better than trying to find tickets when all we can find is the not-so-grand prize tickets. What I don’t like is how Tortimer won’t let us look at him from behind, and each time we approach him, he looks at you in all directions.

Yes, Zipper T Bunny is Tortimer in disguise.

That's fair! I just assumed it would be an egg hunt with the actual furniture item as a reward. The game has been out for a small while and I'm only just now realizing that crafting is the most prominent feature, so my automatic assumption was that we would get a break from it. I am excited to craft Halloween furniture though. Now THAT will be super worth it to me!

 

[JasonAldeanMG]

I hate that this game is very online dependent. I don't have an online membership and it's hard to get all of the fruits, let alone flowers and the cool items.

I hate that I didn't know you needed to buy 5000 bells worth from Mable to get Able Sisters for the shop to be built.


I started playing on March 20 and have yet to see a shooting star. Celeste was here 4 days ago but not a single shooting star.

 

[cicely]

Yes, Zipper T Bunny is Tortimer in disguise.

I don't think Tortimer can be both Cornimer and Zipper. : P And Zipper had been seen at the same time as Tortimer.

 

[JKDOS]

I hate that this game is very online dependent. I don't have an online membership and it's hard to get all of the fruits, let alone flowers and the cool items.

Online is not required for fruits.

Fruits can be gained through villager mail - Not possible in NH. If so, only sister fruit.
Random Island - Only sister fruit
and in-game mother (Mom) - Only sister fruit

 

[Neechan]

I think there's a 30k cap on the trees. I haven't seen proof of uncapped ones yet.

Strange, because I planted 30k in a glowing spot and got 90k from it a few days later (I’m testing a theory if planting 33k gives 99k)

If I had to guess why alohan apples got trolled and only got 30k bags from the tree, you just get what you buried if you planted money in a normal hole, it needs specific requirements like I stated above.

 

[JKDOS]

Strange, because I planted 30k in a glowing spot and got 90k from it a few days later (I’m testing a theory if planting 33k gives 99k)

It was discussed at one point that the trick may have been nerfed in update 1.1.1

 

[starlightsong]

To the people saying there's a 30k cap on bell trees, I've seen many MANY videos on twitter as proof that they are not, as well as my own brother planting 30k and getting 90k back on our island. There's not. It just doesn't always work and planting 10k is the max that's guaranteed to triple, which is super annoying.

 

[Fey]

Due to the eggpocalypse I’ve been struggling to spot regular Balloons—which sucks, because I was really looking forward to the cherry blossom DIY! I’ve not gotten a single one yet, and really hope that’ll change before the season is over.

 

[Alolan_Apples]

I’m getting sick of Genji giving me items I don’t want. If you want to give me something I don’t want, don’t bother grabbing attention from me. I’m just at the point where I want to hit him with a net, but there’s no evil in the character I’m using, so I didn’t.

 

[koopakingg]

The lack of buildings in this game is starting to get it me. I miss the post office and Re-Tail, etc. Why remove the cafe? New Leaf brought in so many new characters while also making sure to give all old characters roles too. And now they are all just gone. I dunno, New Horizons just feels so empty compared to the other games in the series. I’ll hold out hope for future updates, I guess.

 

[uwuzumakii]

New Horizons just doesn't feel finished to me. It seems like 90% of the game-making was "Let's make the game look really good," which they did really well, but everything else was an afterthought. I don't feel compelled to talk to any of the villagers like I did in previous games. I don't like having to wait to have access to basic buildings like the museum or the store or the clothes shop. This feels like a weird mash between New Leaf and Happy Home Designer due to all of the emphasis on making things look pretty instead of just living a daily life like past games. Also just general quality-of-life things, like being able to craft multiple things at once or a durability indicator on the tools that seem so basic due to how much it's emphasized aren't present, making things just tedious and annoying. One thing that really bugs me is that the gold tools, the rewards for completing huge tasks, are breakable. I just don't understand why they would choose to do that. I'm sure most, if not all, of these things will be fixed with future patches but I didn't wait seven years and pay for a full-priced game just to receive what feels like a half-finished game. I still love the game, and I'm very glad that they finally released another one, but these are just the things that bug me.

Edit: Another thing I just thought of was the absolute stupidity on Nintendo's part for not allowing cloud back-ups on the only game I would want cloud back-ups on, just because they're trying to protect against cheating? Which I don't understand how more people would be able to cheat if cloud back-ups were available? If someone knows, please explain it to me. I also don't understand why they're making the events DLC instead of just putting them into the base game. Why is Nintendo so set on making sure people don't time travel? I'm not a fan of time traveling because I think it takes away from the experience, but I can also understand that different people have different play styles. Nintendo is trying to force their players to abide by, in my opinion, such a rigid standard of "fun" that it's just not as fun as it could be. I've loved that Nintendo always seems to be focused on the quality of their games, but my faith in them is really starting to slip and it seems like sooner or later, they'll become like every other video game company focused on nothing but money and sales without any regard to their fans.

 

[bcmii]

Didn't think I'd be coming back here, but all I've got to say now is that the Bunny Day event just ain't it. And 12 days of this? Ugh.

 

[th8827]

Water Eggs make fishing hard...

 

[Taj]

There's enough kitchen furniture items for me to open up a new soup kitchen in downtown Detroit.

I don't need more but it keeps coming

 

[R. Planet]

I really REALLY love that a dollar seventy a month for Nintendo online is an utterly rediculous ask for some people.

 

[starlightsong]

ughhh, i love the new leaf soundtrack so much and some of the new horizons songs are nice (mainly the late night/early morning tracks), but... i have my game set to 2 PM right now and just actually got angry because i'm stressed out and in a bad mood and the music was getting on my nerves so badly. i actually said out loud "ugh, why did they have to ruin the relaxing music?" and now i'm about to play new leaf songs on youtube with the tv muted

 

[Brumbo]

I do! This trickling of content has been an approach Nintendo has taken with a lot of their games on Switch, especially Splatoon 2 (and Splatoon 1)—which was also developed by the same team that did New Horizons. ARMS, Kirby Star Allies, Mario Tennis Aces, Tetris 99, and, of course, Splatoon 2 have all had free content update support for quite a while after release. ARMS, Kirby Star Allies, and Mario Tennis Aces gained a TON of new characters after launch along with new modes and features. To a lesser extent, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate does this, as well, and third-party titles like Crash Team Racing had the majority of its content released after launch.

I could definitely be wrong, but I think the “barebones” nature of New Horizons was a deliberate tactic by the developers to keep players invested for longer periods of time as we receive periodic content updates. Sure, yearly events always have us coming back, but the promise of, say, bushes being added to the game with Leif in April and (hypothetically) the Roost or a post office being available to be built will provide refreshed gameplay for players who may have nothing left to do after “finishing” the main gameplay loop. The narrative of the story is kind of positioned to support this, with Tom Nook “recruiting” people from his past to help out with the island. With each update, I can also see batches of new or returning furniture being added, too.

I don’t think the game is “unfinished” by any means (which I’ve seen some people describe it as)—I just think Nintendo is adopting the same approach they’ve taken with a lot of their recent games. New Horizons as a whole will probably look remarkably different a year from now. Again, I may be wrong, but that’s just my perception based on recent Nintendo gaming trends!

The differences between those games are, that they are online games that can only really be enjoyed while playing online. (Cept for Kirby star allies, but there was a lot of content with that from the start.) Adding new features to heavily online games has been a thing for YEARS. This isn't an online heavy game, at least, I don't think it is.

 

[Stalfos]

The item management in New Horizons is terrible.

 

[Brumbo]

Notice how they keep repeating "the next FREE update" on Twitter? Call me cynical, but this tells me they won't all be free. Sorry, everyone, the box still says there are in-game purchases. Maybe you'll only be able to buy Nook Miles, but I don't see how they'd be financially incentivised to give us THAT much more content for free.

I'm most frustrated right now that there are only, like, 5 furniture sets. All of my villager houses look the same inside, I can't do anything I want to outdoors because I'm missing an essential like a chair or pieces to a bigger recipe, and WHY ARE ITEM COLORS UNIQUE??? I wanted a natural island and my colors are hot pink and black!

Well, I think they HAVE to say it's a FREE update. I know with a lot of other games people get confused for....Some reason.... Not sure about the DLC in game purchases.