The ACNH Rant Thread

[FelixFraldarius]

UUUUUUUUGH
thank you but
UUUUUUUUGH

so that means im gonna have to customize my current tools which feels like a big old waste to me with how quickly they break...im not surprised gold tools break but how quickly though?

They last a good little while, My golden shovel broke today after a week of use... but the fact that you have to craft basic tools to make them, and a gold ore is the rarest crafting material in the game it's a pain. I just stick with the star nets and flower shovel and buy like 5 of each just so I have them.​

 

[SmoochsPLH]

They last a good little while, My golden shovel broke today after a week of use... but the fact that you have to craft basic tools to make them, and a gold ore is the rarest crafting material in the game it's a pain. I just stick with the star nets and flower shovel and buy like 5 of each just so I have them.​

Not meaning to spam this thread sorry.

Oh that's a good point about making multiples. I'll have to do that. I really hope nintendo fixes the issues this game has in future updates. They're small things, but can be a big pain.

 

[RomanRichter]

Also: the villagers, they're bland. af.
I had seen a lot of memes in the past and I started remembering that in wild world, the snooty villagers were snooty. They were mean until you befriended them.

I have a villager (Lucha) which I thought was a smug. But now I'm confused if he is a jock.
Uchi fuses with normal so hard. Even with Snooty. Seriously.

This will be major when the dialogues get old like they did in NL.

Don't want to sound like a broken record, but there is only couple dozen people who noticed that.

Buuut, most of "current" players and new fans don't give a damn about them, they wanna play digital diorama and glorified habbo hotel. They wanna post cute photos of their Islands with cute animals as background.

And because there are many of them, we can easily get next game without animals at all!

 

[Breath Mint]

I hate that you can't preview wallpaper and flooring in the store before you buy it anymore. Now I can't get a good look at it to decide if I want to buy it or not, I just have to buy it and hope I don't regret it.

 

[RomanRichter]

Also I'm still burning because you get downvoted and ostracized if you mention ANY bad thing about game, no mater of what this is

 

[owltome]

just my own personal pain. trying to get the cafe wall from saharah has been an awful experience. keep on getting the dig site wall, rice paddy wall and the construction site wall. like cmon can i get the wall that ive been looking for? please?

other than that, i absolutely despise how you're locked to one color of a set. i've been cursed with so many pink items and the natural antique set that i have to trade for every item that id like in my home...just let us change it with the customization kits dang it )-:<

 

[pumpkinpuppy]

I just don't really like this game.

- It feels empty
- The FOMO-esque PC-style events are really, really grating.
- Bunny Day is god-awful even with the reduced spawning rate.
- Villager dialogue sucks.
- No multiple crafting.
- Quick-breaking tools.

It's been three weeks of this game and it just feels like Minecraft meets Pocket Camp, and that's not a good look. Can see myself deleting it from my console to make space for the Pokemon SwSh. DLC in a few months. I really don't understand why people are so bowled over by it; it looks much prettier but that's like... it?

 

[RomanRichter]

I just don't really like this game.

- It feels empty
- The FOMO-esque PC-style events are really, really grating.
- Bunny Day is god-awful even with the reduced spawning rate.
- Villager dialogue sucks.
- No multiple crafting.
- Quick-breaking tools.

It's been three weeks of this game and it just feels like Minecraft meets Pocket Camp, and that's not a good look. Can see myself deleting it from my console to make space for the Pokemon SwSh. DLC in a few months. I really don't understand why people are so bowled over by it; it looks much prettier but that's like... it?

Yeap, it just cute diortama with cute little lobotomites

 

[Sanaki]

Saharah gives me the worst rugs I’ve ever seen in my life. Such a waste.

 

[pumpkinpuppy]

Yeap, it just cute diortama with cute little lobotomites

I know this is a rant thread but you need to calm down dude, it's not that deep. It's always basically been dollhouse simulator, it's just got an irritating tutorial, less features and less interaction this time round.

 

[RomanRichter]

I know this is a rant thread but you need to calm down dude, it's not that deep. It's always basically been dollhouse simulator, it's just got an irritating tutorial, less features and less interaction this time round.

I understand that, but at least this can me more to this (well, ok, at this current moment, empty game) if they added some more character or more interactions to animals

 

[Hsn97]

I’m feeling really sad at the moment. I’ve tried and tried to give this game the chance it deserves but the more I play it the more I release that it’s no New Leaf. I paid £60 for a game that at most is worth £30. It’s more like Happy Homes than a proper AC title.

It’s a decorating sim. That’s it. Any content that would have made it a vibrant and interesting world with interesting characters just isn’t there. It’s a beautiful game but there’s nothing under the surface.

The crafting system, whilst I don’t hate, is constantly in your face. It’s the main goal of the game and after a while it just gets annoying.

And my god, there is nothing to do! I would spend literally hours on New Leaf (and that game didn’t have particularly interesting characters) but you could play mini game’s with your villagers, visits each other’s houses, go to the shops, visit the dream suite, go to tortimors island and play the mini games there along with the basic bug and fish catching.
But in New Horizons you just bugs and fish and collecting resources. I’ve not had a single villager visit my house or ask me to visit theirs. I’ve not had a single villager ask me to play a mini game with them or deliver a gift to some or bury a time capsule. And of course tortimors island isn’t a thing.

The lack of content in this game is really starting to get to me. I want to like it. But every time I boot it up I realise that I could be having a better time in New Leaf. And I’m so bummed cause I was so excited for this game.

I’m sorry for the rant. I just needed to get it off my chest.

 

[MidnightAura]

I’m feeling really sad at the moment. I’ve tried and tried to give this game the chance it deserves but the more I play it the more I release that it’s no New Leaf. I paid £60 for a game that at most is worth £30. It’s more like Happy Homes than a proper AC title.

It’s a decorating sim. That’s it. Any content that would have made it a vibrant and interesting world with interesting characters just isn’t there. It’s a beautiful game but there’s nothing under the surface.

The crafting system, whilst I don’t hate, is constantly in your face. It’s the main goal of the game and after a while it just gets annoying.

And my god, there is nothing to do! I would spend literally hours on New Leaf (and that game didn’t have particularly interesting characters) but you could play mini game’s with your villagers, visits each other’s houses, go to the shops, visit the dream suite, go to tortimors island and play the mini games there along with the basic bug and fish catching.
But in New Horizons you just bugs and fish and collecting resources. I’ve not had a single villager visit my house or ask me to visit theirs. I’ve not had a single villager ask me to play a mini game with them or deliver a gift to some or bury a time capsule. And of course tortimors island isn’t a thing.

The lack of content in this game is really starting to get to me. I want to like it. But every time I boot it up I realise that I could be having a better time in New Leaf. And I’m so bummed cause I was so excited for this game.

I’m sorry for the rant. I just needed to get it off my chest.

I understand completely!
Even though I’ve had one treasure hunt game and one favor. Both of which I had to force by spamming chat with the villager. I hit Fauna by accident with a shovel and instead of stomping off as I would expect when the game made me apologize she walked off singing. Maybe it’s because I play all the older animal crossing games that is colouring my view? The villagers just feel so blah In this game.

And I agree about the decorating. It truely feels that decorating and maintaining a perfect island is the focus, with everything else secondary.

 

[starlightsong]

I was actually looking into this last night and yea they're missing a LOT of the previous furniture sets and the ones that are there, all had name changes and a lot of the furniture was altered and some pieces are missing now. Like it seems Cabana is now Rattan, but it's missing the little bookshelf and the screen! The screen would have looked great in this game! And the low table no longer has the glass middle. Classic Series is the Antique Set, which mostly looks the same, but the loveseat is gone completely. The Lovely Series seems to be replaced by the Cute Set...but that's a little bit of a stretch considering how different the items look, it just has the heart theme about it, but the pinks were dulled a lot. I think it's a pretty set, but it's vastly different from the Lovely Series. And I mean, none of the original Series of furniture is really in the game by name, just a bunch of stuff that seems it was more inspired by the originals. It's really bizarre they took that turn in the game. Out of the 37 furniture series we had in NL only 12ish sets really seem to even somewhat be in the game and that's a huge stretch because I was counting the Wooden Set you craft as a replacement for the Green and Blue Series and that's only because you can paint them blue or green.

Sorry that was a bit long, but I've been trying to see what's going on and I'm really sad so much OG furniture was just canned completely and what does seem to be in the game seems to be more from inspiration than those sets actually being back. I'm just really hoping stuff comes back in the form of updates.

The wooden block set can also be customized to one color that looks like the classic kiddie set and another that looks like the pastel kiddie set, but yeah it's just... not the same. I want my cabana bookshelf back and my mermaid stuff lol, god I would LOVE to be able to pair the shell/mermaid/rattan stuff together and also have a cute little rattan bookshelf in the style of the old cabana one, it would be so cute. My island is literally just like... island-themed, I wanna make it very tropical resort-y but so much has been removed I can't even make a volleyball field, I have to put a volleyball next to a soccer net and pretend it's for volleyball instead even though that doesn't make sense. I can't even have banana trees! On an island! Ugh. I hope they do a big summer update.

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Yeah I do agree with you there. Maybe it’s just seemed more open because I haven’t seen as many interiors yet.

The sets felt very restrictive to me—especially because the HHA rewarded you for using them in the same room. That said, I do wish they were included again, since I did like a lot of the furniture individually.

I get your point to an extent but tbh if the HHA thing is your problem then NH didn't fix it lol, they still keep sending me letters saying I'll get more points if I use a lot of furniture from the same series... except now there are significantly less to choose from if I decided to do that. Idk I just wish I could combine the mermaid and shell sets because it'd be perfect for what I wanted to do with my island but the mermaid set among a lot of other things being taken out puts a huge wrench in my plans, even if it was boring to sometimes see people just have the entire mermaid set in one room--which, to be fair, a lot of people are doing with the cute set now anyway.

 

[TrippyKitten]

I’m feeling really sad at the moment. I’ve tried and tried to give this game the chance it deserves but the more I play it the more I release that it’s no New Leaf. I paid £60 for a game that at most is worth £30. It’s more like Happy Homes than a proper AC title.

It’s a decorating sim. That’s it. Any content that would have made it a vibrant and interesting world with interesting characters just isn’t there. It’s a beautiful game but there’s nothing under the surface.

The bad thing is, is that it's not even a good decorating sim...they took out SO much furniture series and sets compared to New Leaf and HHD that every island I see on Reddit just looks the same.

And yea, the lack of character is upsetting...it's just gone downhill more and more since PG. I miss Snooty and Cranky being actually Snooty and Cranky. I think every personality should have maybe a few sub-personalities or something to them? I mean with 400 villagers and only 8 personalities dialogue is bound to get bland, but they managed to make the animals so unique and interesting in PG with fewer personalities, so I don't know why they watered the personalities down so much. But you're right, I think even just adding hide and seek, visiting the player house, asking you to visit them, more requests to help them, etc. would help make things more interesting.

 

[DJStarstryker]

other than that, i absolutely despise how you're locked to one color of a set. i've been cursed with so many pink items and the natural antique set that i have to trade for every item that id like in my home...just let us change it with the customization kits dang it )-:<

You're not though. I've gotten multiple colors of furniture from Nook's Cranny (and the Nook Stop machine). For example, I got both the pink and blue record boxes from Nook's Cranny.

 

[alitwick]

other than that, i absolutely despise how you're locked to one color of a set. i've been cursed with so many pink items and the natural antique set that i have to trade for every item that id like in my home...just let us change it with the customization kits dang it )-:<

Same here. I find myself getting a lot of pink items at Nook’s when I want other colors. It’s odd that you can customize the colors of some things, but not others!

This is more of a theory of mine than anything else, but I think the reason items sold at Nook’s Cranny aren’t customizable is due to populating the items catalogue to make up for the significant cuts in furniture sets. Changing the color of an already created asset is easy to do compared to creating a whole new model for furniture in the previous games.

 

[Alolan_Apples]

I’m disappointed by the new shop upgrade. I miss the old Nook shop upgrades from previous games.

 

[pawpatrolbab]

Saharah gives me the worst rugs I’ve ever seen in my life. Such a waste.

Agreed, I used to be excited to get her in my town but after buying from her a few times I just ignore her now. It's not worth the bells even when you're getting Sahara tickets for free

 

[nearthy]

This is turning out like the Sims series (my other all time favorite game). The Sims 2 was the peak for the game. Sims 3 blew up the boundaries but had blander social interactions. Sims 4 is the prettiest but shallowest of the games and it's more of a sequal to the Sims 2.

I'm not gonna say WW or CF are the peak of AC. But NH feel more similar to the old games, except for being watered down, and WAY more prettier. (the Sims and AC aren't completely parallel, but those who were introduced years ago to the AC games can maybe see the point I'm making).

And if the communities are alike. A handful of us will be able to see past the shallow features like just decorating, and will be very frustrating.
THEN, there will be the rest of the community, that will just eat up everything in the game and Nintendo will probably just cater to them.

I've been playing both games for over 12 years. It sucks.