The ACNH Rant Thread

[Bluebellie]

I’m soo upset you can’t drop picked flowers without having them in the vases. I’m talking about indoor room decorating. Same with fossils. I just want it to drop my fossil and make it look like a skeleton, but it won’t let me drop

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

See, to many its not unfinished or empty.
I think its the best in the series by a large margin.
New Leaf had me play for 3 months. This has had me for over a year.

But if that's really how you feel, then yeah I do think its best to accept the game does not capture what you want and move on from it.

We've all bought games we've not liked before. We've all had series go in directions we've not liked before.

But there is no use hanging on to something you don't like just because in the past there was joy.

If youre not happy, don't try to force yourself to be. Find something that does make you happy

To many it is empty.

 

[Cloudandshade]

Why on earth is Redd's art selection not truly random? Is this another thing that's tied to our airport colour, or is everyone always seeing the same ones? Because every time I visit him he ALWAYS has either the jolly, quaint, serene or academic paintings, and often all four at once! I'd say there's at least 50% of the paintings that I've NEVER seen since launch, and I've probably seen less than ten statues in that time. I know they don't want us to rush through, but it would be hard enough to avoid fakes and collect them all even if it was properly randomised, so the fact that it clearly isn't is so frustrating!

 

[Splinter]

Villagers taking down their door wreaths, I just learned it's if you give them a seasonal one, they should just remain up all the time.

 

[Berrymia]

I’m upset by the “anniversary announcement” just being a picture of all the (missing) NPCs from the game. Idk why, but I kinda expected something different lol

 

[Moritz]

I’m upset by the “anniversary announcement” just being a picture of all the (missing) NPCs from the game. Idk why, but I kinda expected something different lol

Its probably because so many people started speculating and saying they expect things to happen, even though there never was a reason to think it.

I really wish people would stop doing that as the more people talk about it, the more realistic it seems.

But its basically people making stuff up.

 

[Berrymia]

Its probably because so many people started speculating and saying they expect things to happen, even though there never was a reason to think it.

I really wish people would stop doing that as the more people talk about it, the more realistic it seems.

But its basically people making stuff up.

I think it just hurt me to see all the NPCs that I’m still missing from previous games. I miss Gracie and Kappn for example.

 

[Moritz]

I think it just hurt me to see all the NPCs that I’m still missing from previous games. I miss Gracie and Kappn for example.

It would be nice if gracie came back.
I have so many bells and her stuff is so expensive.
It would be nice to have to actually try and get some cash again.

 

[azurill]

I really wish we could connect cliffs with a bridge instead of needing to make a river to have a bridge. I don’t want another river.

 

[daringred_]

does anyone else miss when the bulletin board felt a little more... alive? in NH, the thing never gets updated and it almost feels obsolete. it's only used for birthdays and the major holiday/tourney announcements now. i can go months (depending on when birthdays are) without ever seeing anything new on it.

for me, it was at its peak in WW(?) when you would get random poetry or the "messages of the week". NL did tone it down, but at least even in that game you still had weather notices and the nooklings advertising time-specials or spotlight items. now it's just... empty. it's lost its charm. i'd love to see villagers or NPCs leaving random anonymous notes there. maybe an advertisement for daisy-mae's turnips. or, the day before a lost item appears in town, a notice from an unnamed villager asking people to keep an eye out for their book/pouch. or a note from leif mentioning which shrubs are going in/out of season. or one from celeste saying which zodiac frame we're currently in. just little things like that.

idk. it reminds me of how they removed villagers sending birthday invitations and goodbye letters. why? sure, they served no real function, but they made your neighbors feel more alive. keeping them in did no harm but removing them also removed some of that classic AC charm for me. same goes for watering down the bulletin board to the point where it's next to useless and/or i never check it.

 

[VanitasFan26]

does anyone else miss when the bulletin board felt a little more... alive? in NH, the thing never gets updated and it almost feels obsolete. it's only used for birthdays and the major holiday/tourney announcements now. i can go months (depending on when birthdays are) without ever seeing anything new on it.

for me, it was at its peak in WW(?) when you would get random poetry or the "messages of the week". NL did tone it down, but at least even in that game you still had weather notices and the nooklings advertising time-specials or spotlight items. now it's just... empty. it's lost its charm. i'd love to see villagers or NPCs leaving random anonymous notes there. maybe an advertisement for daisy-mae's turnips. or, the day before a lost item appears in town, a notice from an unnamed villager asking people to keep an eye out for their book/pouch. or a note from leif mentioning which shrubs are going in/out of season. or one from celeste saying which zodiac frame we're currently in. just little things like that.

idk. it reminds me of how they removed villagers sending birthday invitations and goodbye letters. why? sure, they served no real function, but they made your neighbors feel more alive. keeping them in did no harm but removing them also removed some of that classic AC charm for me. same goes for watering down the bulletin board to the point where it's next to useless and/or i never check it.

Same here sometimes I wish Tom Nook or Isabelle will at least mention what is coming up soon, but most of times I don't ever see them say anything new. Other than talking about Birthdays, Fishing Journey or Bug Off Events, I haven't seen anything new so far this year.

 

[McRibbie]

does anyone else miss when the bulletin board felt a little more... alive? in NH, the thing never gets updated and it almost feels obsolete. it's only used for birthdays and the major holiday/tourney announcements now. i can go months (depending on when birthdays are) without ever seeing anything new on it.

for me, it was at its peak in WW(?) when you would get random poetry or the "messages of the week". NL did tone it down, but at least even in that game you still had weather notices and the nooklings advertising time-specials or spotlight items. now it's just... empty. it's lost its charm. i'd love to see villagers or NPCs leaving random anonymous notes there. maybe an advertisement for daisy-mae's turnips. or, the day before a lost item appears in town, a notice from an unnamed villager asking people to keep an eye out for their book/pouch. or a note from leif mentioning which shrubs are going in/out of season. or one from celeste saying which zodiac frame we're currently in. just little things like that.

idk. it reminds me of how they removed villagers sending birthday invitations and goodbye letters. why? sure, they served no real function, but they made your neighbors feel more alive. keeping them in did no harm but removing them also removed some of that classic AC charm for me. same goes for watering down the bulletin board to the point where it's next to useless and/or i never check it.

Yup, it kinda sucks in NH (same with the lack of birthday invitations and goodbye letters). Doesn't help that Spotlight Items don't exist in NH, in favour of the Very Expensive Item Slot... but it doesn't explain the lack of "guys, the weather's about to change, get hyped"

I honestly like your suggestions, tho! Very good ideas and with very clear instructions as to what needs to be changed. 10/10 good AC crit

(also, fyi, it got toned down in the wii game along with a load of other stuff. it's a core point in my argument "lgttc isn't the same as wild world, it's a simultaneously better and worse version of the game")

 

[-Blue-]

does anyone else miss when the bulletin board felt a little more... alive? in NH, the thing never gets updated and it almost feels obsolete. it's only used for birthdays and the major holiday/tourney announcements now. i can go months (depending on when birthdays are) without ever seeing anything new on it.

for me, it was at its peak in WW(?) when you would get random poetry or the "messages of the week". NL did tone it down, but at least even in that game you still had weather notices and the nooklings advertising time-specials or spotlight items. now it's just... empty. it's lost its charm. i'd love to see villagers or NPCs leaving random anonymous notes there. maybe an advertisement for daisy-mae's turnips. or, the day before a lost item appears in town, a notice from an unnamed villager asking people to keep an eye out for their book/pouch. or a note from leif mentioning which shrubs are going in/out of season. or one from celeste saying which zodiac frame we're currently in. just little things like that.

idk. it reminds me of how they removed villagers sending birthday invitations and goodbye letters. why? sure, they served no real function, but they made your neighbors feel more alive. keeping them in did no harm but removing them also removed some of that classic AC charm for me. same goes for watering down the bulletin board to the point where it's next to useless and/or i never check it.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has noticed this. The board retains only a certain amount of messages. I still have most of them since I began (if not all) and it's only when someone is having a birthday and when the bug/fishing tourney is going to happen.

Even in NL at least they announced weather patterns and Nook would make annoucments about special items or discounts at certain times of the day/hour. Heck in PG I remember villagers would make messages about 'I buried treasure in acre A-4, it's yours if you find it.' It was just a little extra thing to do which would not hurt NH to add to the game. Like how hard would that be?

The board used to have so much life to it and now it's another thing that was thrown on the backburner.

 

[Airysuit]

Why cant they just make this in that style in a pop up window or something, with the name and a little info about each donation! Would be so freaking cute, i mean honestly. Whyyyyy noottttt

 

[daringred_]

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Why cant they just make this in that style in a pop up window or something, with the name and a little info about each donation! Would be so freaking cute, i mean honestly. Whyyyyy noottttt

honestly this is the one thing about the museum i just do not understand. the art exhibit includes information about each piece on the placards, so why don't the ones in the other three exhibits? even if they didn't want to create stylized pop-ups to match the placard models (in the fish exhibit at least, since they're standard metal ones everywhere else) the transparent box pop-up already exists to tell you the name of the specimen, when it was donated and by who, so why not have the information follow that? if you can't be asked to write something new, just copy the entries over from NL. there's literally no reason for this feature to have been cut.

i know you can ask blathers, but iirc that requires you to have the specimen you want to know about on hand, and it might be out of season or rare, so it's essentially useless. it also detracts from the 'experience' of wandering the museum if you have to run all the way back out of the exhibit just to ask blathers about x donation. i just don't get the logic here.

 

[psiJordan]

honestly this is the one thing about the museum i just do not understand. the art exhibit includes information about each piece on the placards, so why don't the ones in the other three exhibits? even if they didn't want to create stylized pop-ups to match the placard models (in the fish exhibit at least, since they're standard metal ones everywhere else) the transparent box pop-up already exists to tell you the name of the specimen, when it was donated and by who, so why not have the information follow that? if you can't be asked to write something new, just copy the entries over from NL. there's literally no reason for this feature to have been cut.

i know you can ask blathers, but iirc that requires you to have the specimen you want to know about on hand, and it might be out of season or rare, so it's essentially useless. it also detracts from the 'experience' of wandering the museum if you have to run all the way back out of the exhibit just to ask blathers about x donation. i just don't get the logic here.

This is one of the things I would really like an explanation on why it was removed — along with letters from villagers when they move out, some of the games you play with campers (charades was always good), time capsules, and all the minor details like that.

There’s just so many things that were minuscule, but impactful, that were removed from past games like??? It’s genuinely confusing

 

[McRibbie]

I think the museum plaques had their text removed because people complained that having them instead of Blathers blathering on about the subject wasn’t as good and devalued his character a bit... which also explains why there’s a “if you bring something to Blathers, he’ll talk about it to you” feature in the game.

The other stuff, tho? No idea. I know the devs wanted to make the game accessible to newcomers, but idk if that’s the reason for it.

 

[daringred_]

I think the museum plaques had their text removed because people complained that having them instead of Blathers blathering on about the subject wasn’t as good and devalued his character a bit... which also explains why there’s a “if you bring something to Blathers, he’ll talk about it to you” feature in the game.

The other stuff, tho? No idea. I know the devs wanted to make the game accessible to newcomers, but idk if that’s the reason for it.

right, but if this were true, what's the difference with paintings? why do they get information on their plaques and nothing else does? (or vice versa. i can't remember if blathers talks about them or not.) i think the issue was that he stopped "blathering" when you gave him the donation, which they just had to (and did, i think?) make him do again. it didn't require all this additional jumping through hoops. besides, both things -- blathers babbling and the plaques -- can co-exist, so it still doesn't make sense regardless. if you go to the museum months after you donated X, you're going to have forgotten whatever he initially told you, but you can check the plaque for a refresher.

 

[-Blue-]

I just realized that the anniversary cake that we got a month ago wasn't really a furniture piece to celebrate your first year, but just that the game had been out for a year. So you could had literally started the game a week ago and received it. I know that none of the villagers or Nook/Isabelle mention your anniversary or the game's anniversary, but the fact that the cake isn't even an indicator is just another let down.

I don't recall the other games, but I liked how NL celebrated your anniversary of becoming a mayor and starting the town. Yes there wasn't a whole lot to it and the ceremony was quick, but it was something and it made your effort, time, and patience seem to be rewarded rather then going unnoticed. It's a game yeah, but I felt like I was actually part of the community. Now everything feels so disconnected.

 

[VanitasFan26]

I just realized that the anniversary cake that we got a month ago wasn't really a furniture piece to celebrate your first year, but just that the game had been out for a year. So you could had literally started the game a week ago and received it. I know that none of the villagers or Nook/Isabelle mention your anniversary or the game's anniversary, but the fact that the cake isn't even an indicator is just another let down.

I don't recall the other games, but I liked how NL celebrated your anniversary of becoming a mayor and starting the town. Yes there wasn't a whole lot to it and the ceremony was quick, but it was something and it made your effort, time, and patience seem to be rewarded rather then going unnoticed. It's a game yeah, but I felt like I was actually part of the community. Now everything feels so disconnected.

Thats exactly how I felt too. I was just really upset that Tom Nook and Isabelle didn't mention anything about how great I made my island. Isabelle still talked about her personal life again and again. She is really becoming more annoying than ever. None of my villagers don't seem to even care that they felt "glad" for living on this island for so long. Never mentioned anything to me how I was the one who made this island so great.

I expected everyone to be so welcome to me and appreciate how well I made the island, but nobody on my island cared. Of course Tom Nook gave me a cake in the mail. I mean seriously? I deserve better than this! Its really just frustrating when everytime I feel like I am trying evolve it feels like everything has remained the same for the past year and nothing on this island has changed not one bit.