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The ACNH Rant Thread

I'm wholeheartedly enjoying this edition of Animal Crossing. However, I have a few gripes:

1) I see "natural/afro-textured" hair for "male" characters, but not any for "female characters." I would love to see a longer "twist out" or braid out style. Maybe even an afro-puff.
2) I really miss collecting Art.
3) Where are all the Furniture Sets?
4) There definitely needs to be some quality of life updates, such as stacking flowers.
5) I've been watching plenty of island tours on Youtube. And while all of them are amazing, so many of them look the same due to the lack of variety in outdoor furniture.
 
Start of the game feels way less magical than New Leaf. I'm also currently dealing with one of the amiibo glitches and it's killing my motivation to play the game, I just want to see my new villager safe on my island so I can feel safe putting down more plots.
 
Well, it's happening. I'm starting to get bored with the game. And I think I know why.

So first of all, I don't TT. I started playing on the 19th of March because I got my game a day early due to stores closing. So I've been playing for around 20 days. And I've already unlocked everything (except for the Nook's upgrade).
So basically, all that's left for me to do is upgrade my town. Now don't get me wrong, the new features surrounding upgrading your house and town (such as crafting and the island designer app) are great. I like it.

But for me, decorating my house and town was always something that I got to do because of the other stuff I was doing. In older games, I checked the shops and then went around town to do whatever. I fetched stuff for villagers, I received stuff from villagers, I dug up fossils for the museum, I started fishing and catching bugs for the villagers. Of course, I sometimes visited Redd's or Katrina's. I gave some food to Lyle, looked at whatever Nook was selling for my home, I took the boat to Tortimer's Island and played some mini games, I went deep-sea diving, worked at the cafe, filled up my museum exhibits with gyroids...

Now it's just.. visit the shops, run to the beach for the DIY bottle, see which villager is home for the DIY.. And decorate the town with that. The villagers don't request anything. I've played for 60h and according to my Nook Miles, I've only completed (and also received) 3 !!! requests so far. What's the deal with that? They also rarely give any gifts or send any mail. I just gave three of my villagers gifts, and two gave me bells in return and one just gave me nothing.. why? Why are they giving me bells :| I just want some fun stuff.

I just need some more gameplay that isn't focused on decorating the town. I really hope they're going to add in more features. I'm not really a person for mining resources and nook miles tickets all day, I just want to do some fun stuff.
 
The dialogue is super lacking and repetitive. I don't feel like I'm making much of a connection with them as it seems they get tired of having a conversation quickly and they rarely ask for favors. Also I wish the cranky villagers were crankier and the snooty villagers were snootier. I miss the sass.
 
Myrthella said:
Well, it's happening. I'm starting to get bored with the game. And I think I know why.

So first of all, I don't TT. I started playing on the 19th of March because I got my game a day early due to stores closing. So I've been playing for around 20 days. And I've already unlocked everything (except for the Nook's upgrade).
So basically, all that's left for me to do is upgrade my town. Now don't get me wrong, the new features surrounding upgrading your house and town (such as crafting and the island designer app) are great. I like it.

But for me, decorating my house and town was always something that I got to do because of the other stuff I was doing. In older games, I checked the shops and then went around town to do whatever. I fetched stuff for villagers, I received stuff from villagers, I dug up fossils for the museum, I started fishing and catching bugs for the villagers. Of course, I sometimes visited Redd's or Katrina's. I gave some food to Lyle, looked at whatever Nook was selling for my home, I took the boat to Tortimer's Island and played some mini games, I went deep-sea diving, worked at the cafe, filled up my museum exhibits with gyroids...

Now it's just.. visit the shops, run to the beach for the DIY bottle, see which villager is home for the DIY.. And decorate the town with that. The villagers don't request anything. I've played for 60h and according to my Nook Miles, I've only completed (and also received) 3 !!! requests so far. What's the deal with that? They also rarely give any gifts or send any mail. I just gave three of my villagers gifts, and two gave me bells in return and one just gave me nothing.. why? Why are they giving me bells :| I just want some fun stuff.

I just need some more gameplay that isn't focused on decorating the town. I really hope they're going to add in more features. I'm not really a person for mining resources and nook miles tickets all day, I just want to do some fun stuff.
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I agree 100%. I was looking forward to the game. People are being optimistic like myself and saying: “There will be updates.” But even still, we don’t know what Nintendo plans to do, nor do we know if it’s going to be any good.

After I unlock the Island Designer app and place some things around the island I’m going to take a break for at least a month. After that, I’ll decide if I want to come back at that point in time or not. I’m feeling burnt-out, but it could also be due to the fact that there just doesn’t seem to be much to do in general compared to previous games. At least in my eyes. I don’t dislike the game, just my opinion. :)
 
JKDOS said:
After spamming over 300 flowers around my town for both the Nook Miles achievement, and 3-star town, digging up all 300 for both cleanup and terraforming has become a huge nightmare. And there is nowhere to store them, so I am forced to sell them.
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I've been carrying a trash can around with me while Terraforming to just throw them away.

There's no real way to destroy flowers like in previous games. Running over them just reverts them to their budding phase. You could also use your shovel to destroy them in the past.

All in all flowers are more annoying than weeds. 😂
 
The online experience is really bad. First, you’ve got to talk to the bird for 10 minutes just to enter a dodo code, then it interrupts everyone for a really long loading screen once you’ve arrived. Why do we have to watch everyone come and go? Why do we have to exit out of chat bubbles for someone to leave? It’s literally slower than New Leaf’s multiplayer. The dialogue at the dodo airport is so long for no reason. ugh
 
Keepitcosmic said:
The online experience is really bad. First, you’ve got to talk to the bird for 10 minutes just to enter a dodo code, then it interrupts everyone for a really long loading screen once you’ve arrived. Why do we have to watch everyone come and go? Why do we have to exit out of chat bubbles for someone to leave? It’s literally slower than New Leaf’s multiplayer. The dialogue at the dodo airport is so long for no reason. ugh
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Every. Animal Crossing. Game. Ever.

Seriously, you'd think they'd take some time to update their multiplayer game engine. It feels like it's still running on the same engine Wild World used.

As for the Dodo dialogue, they really need to streamline it better.
 
This isn't exactly NH specific, but I kinda don't like how the QR codes and new pattern code system work. Like, I get it, it's nice that the original creator gets credit, but then I can't hang up that design for my neighbors to wear. And people don't post just the grid anymore. I remember the GC through CF days when I'd go to the old Bell tree forums and there was a spot for designs and you would look at the sheet and make it yourself. Like I just wanted a simple apple design but I didn't want to have to download someone else's. But nobody posts anything to recreate designs yourself anymore.
 
I don't hate the game by any means, but I really wish that villager interactions were more interesting. I've had only one request so far and that was to deliver a package. No house invites, no fetch quests, nada. The bar for "oh we've talked a lot today" is way too low for my liking, and they won't stop talking about... *shivers* eggs. I get that it's Bunny Day season, but holy cow I've had days that all my interactions were Bunny Day related. I hope they fixed this in the update...?
 
It just seems like a lot, I feel like I have so much to do when I play that I'm barely keeping up. But I forgot about the monthly schedule. :blush:
 
I've read about 20 pages on this trade and I agree with the most common rants.


But omg can we talk about the sending letters system ?! 🤪

First of all it's so loooooong to pass Orville dialogue. It's not "user friendly" at all to choose the adressee through all those menus, plus we have to repeat that multiple times if we want to send multiple letters 😵

They complicated the whole thing. Now that we cannot send multiple letters at once I stay away from this postcard stand, unless I have to send something to a friend...


And what about the price ?! 😐 200 bells for just one letter while we could wrote four with only 160 bells in previous games.

In WW I was used to buy two stationery batches (for 320 bells !) in order to send letters to all my villagers at the same time.

But now in NH I had so much pain to write letters to my first villagers (and I lost so much time) that I really don't want to do it again 😣 (And if I send 10 letters to my villagers at the same time I would spent 2000 bells ! That's not worth it 😅).
 
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Villagers giving me leggings. I'm a guy, I don't want to wear leggings.
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Oh, something else too.
Whenever you send a gift through Nook Shopping to a friend and have to line-by-line erase the cringe 'I appreciate all that you do for me which is why I have sent you.. (insert item here). Jeez, just let me write the damn letter.
 
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