The ACNH Rant Thread

[Aleigh]

Going deeper into the game I find myself getting frustrated at the fact that "you can't change clothes while you're wearing a wand outfit" or whatever. Like c'mon. I just wanted to see what a shirt looked like before I sold it. But you had to make it difficult. You can't even go in the Able's changing room while under this clothing spell like a goddamn force field

okay thanks for coming to my ted talk

 

[RomanRichter]

Some people take this game waaaay too seriously.. I know I shouldn't find this funny but I can't help myself:

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Not at all condoning actual harassment irl but WHAT
how are smug villagers harassing people?? they have cute dialogue?? loool animal crossing really isn't for everybody, especially considering how the villagers have gotten 1000% more tame with the way they talk since gamecube!! you don't even have to talk to a villager if you hate them

Ok boys and girls, change of plans, now i think they will cut animals in next update, due to random snowflakes being harassed by already lobotomised animal.

For all seriousness, I really won't be surprised in something like that!

 

[starlightsong]

You can’t store money or turnips in home storage, making you either store bells on the floor of your home or at the bank, and turnips outside (which by the way villagers won’t complain about)

Furniture items not falling out of the tree when hit with an axe of any kind, prompting 20 minutes of shaking each tree (worse on DAL tours when gathering resources and you don’t know about it, I found it out by accident when I was looking for the one wasp on like my fifth trip, it would have been helpful if wilbur told you about it) nl had items fall from trees

Our storage can’t be accessed outside, but clothing can as long as it’s in storage or in your pocket -you can’t put clothing away-

too many prompts for crafting an item you want to make multiples of (looking at you fishbait) Or buying clothing items from the Abel sisters (yes I want to use the fitting room and I want to buy more outfits, Mabel, just let me do it Dx)

tools not having a visual identifier to tell when it’s about to break, making you lose resources or money rock, nl had it with the axe showing wear and tear

part of tools, but I’d love to make them unbreakable, our ladders and poles don't break, so shouldn’t it be extended to the rest?

make the IDA more easy to use with terraforming water/cliffs, like I’d we hold a for a certain amount of time it would remove cliffs (something like Stardew Valleys grid system)

let us place and plant fully grown trees on edges gosh darn it

grass patterns returning (love triangles as they were my pattern in nl, but I want circles and squares to return as well)

Having too small of Final housing upgrade, in total you get a main room thats 8x8, siderooms that are 6x6, and the top and bottom are 6x10, yet Harvey’s island gets all rooms that are as big in nl, is this just a oversight?

Isabelle not informing you of special events or npcs visiting when you load up the game but villagers will let you know, ex meteor shower, gulliver washed up, Saharah visiting etc...) at this point Nook was more informative-I love Isabelle, but it’s like she got amnesia-

small nitpicks but maybe they’ll be fixed in the future...maybe...

on your point about isabelle, she does mention meteor showers though?? if i open the game during the morning she always tells me the weather report says we're in for a rare treat of shooting stars, and if i open it at night she always tells me the sky above my island is full of shooting stars. i agree with you on literally everything else in this post though, and it's especially strange to me how isabelle doesn't mention gulliver since she does in new leaf!

 

[trashpedia]

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[Aleigh]

Ok boys and girls, change of plans, now i think they will cut animals in next update, due to random snowflakes being harassed by already lobotomised animal.

For all seriousness, I really won't be surprised in something like that!

They better frickin not. They're finally starting to give back the hilarious dialogue that the crankies / smugs / snooties had in gamecube! Ofc course they'll never bring it back up to that level but they're starting to make them mean again and if anyone takes that away I might cry

also....what did the villager say? lmao

 

[Argo]

I wish you could access your nook stop from other islands ):

 

[keishisplayhouse]

I miss Olaf, and I miss having more buildings around.

Where did the Cafe go QAQ

 

[DarkOnyx]

I’m curious to know why you feel NL dialogue is better than NH.

Well, I haven't played New Leaf in several years, but I don't remember villager personalities being this distinct (Distinct not in a good way). Sure, the dialogue was definitely lacking, compared to previous games, but with a little imagination, each villager resembled their own person. Within New Horizons, most of the villagers (Jocks being a perfect example) won't be quiet about their own quirk. Jocks were pretty loud about it already in previous games, but it seems like their characters were a little more 3-dimensional, in a sense. In this game they just seem like walking caricatures of their archetype. Same with lazies, who more often than not only talk about their bug friends.

 

[Pixori]

I'm completely frustrated that I had no idea that I couldn't move residential services. I already have terraforming. I worked hard to get all the Easter bunny event items and I got all the Sakura diys and... then AFTER I got terraforming, I started seeing everywhere on twitter that you can't move your residential service building.

I'm just really upset, esp since I know the bunny won't come back so I couldn't do that over again and if I reset to get the building in a better spot, I'd be letting go of so many things I've built up and gotten attached to in this game. It's so frustrating that they give us all this control but decide that the residential building is the one thing that we'll be forced to just 'deal' with. I'm just so upset about it.

I don't know if they'd patch it and it's kind of hard to just 'work around' it, when it's so off to the side and I'd love if it were centered with my airport I just..

I really don't know what to do. It's literally conflicting me sm but my wife is begging me not to reset bc she loves my island and I've put so much work into it. AAAA

 

[alyssaisrad93]

Let me preface this by saying that I do love the game. I've already put over 150 hours into it, so it's not that the game is bad. I think the villagers and characters look amazing and I love a lot of the small details they've included, like rain hitting windows and villagers doing more around the town.

But they took out so much of what made AC such a unique and fun game. Everyone in this thread has mentioned them all by now, but my question is just why? Take Rover for example. He has been a staple since the GC version and they couldn't even come up with a new role for him? All of the things they removed that people loved, or things they added that people hate really make me question how long this game was in development for. I mean NL came out in 2013, I think 7 years is plenty of time to make a complete game and it's obvious this game isn't complete. I think if Nintendo would just tell people that these things would be added back in then we wouldn't be so frustrated. But Nintendo isn't known to be the most user-friendly company, so for now we're stuck in limbo just hoping that we eventually get everything back.

I had similar issues with BoTW. I know everyone praises it as the best Zelda game, and I liked a lot of the features and design elements, but they changed so much and made the game feel empty, which is the same thing they've done with AC. I love Nintendo, I've been playing since the GB/N64 days, but they've become so much more restrictive over the years and it hasn't helped their games. There's a reason the GC was the last console that had games that people still obsess over and adore. But that's a topic for a different thread lol.

 

[RomanRichter]

Let me preface this by saying that I do love the game. I've already put over 150 hours into it, so it's not that the game is bad. I think the villagers and characters look amazing and I love a lot of the small details they've included, like rain hitting windows and villagers doing more around the town.

But they took out so much of what made AC such a unique and fun game. Everyone in this thread has mentioned them all by now, but my question is just why? Take Rover for example. He has been a staple since the GC version and they couldn't even come up with a new role for him? All of the things they removed that people loved, or things they added that people hate really make me question how long this game was in development for. I mean NL came out in 2013, I think 7 years is plenty of time to make a complete game and it's obvious this game isn't complete. I think if Nintendo would just tell people that these things would be added back in then we wouldn't be so frustrated. But Nintendo isn't known to be the most user-friendly company, so for now we're stuck in limbo just hoping that we eventually get everything back.

I had similar issues with BoTW. I know everyone praises it as the best Zelda game, and I liked a lot of the features and design elements, but they changed so much and made the game feel empty, which is the same thing they've done with AC. I love Nintendo, I've been playing since the GB/N64 days, but they've become so much more restrictive over the years and it hasn't helped their games. There's a reason the GC was the last console that had games that people still obsess over and adore. But that's a topic for a different thread lol.

I believe answer is already in everyone's mind: money.

I stiil stand behind my own idea: ACNH was created as cute digital diorama, that takes many things that people liked in pocket camp. With a pinch of live service model on top.

Yeap, that's simple. We all aready bought it, and millions others, we eat it! Now we can only rant, be vocal and hope for better. Problem is, sales are saying other picture, and SCesque majority are backinup current state of game.

Also,no point in starting message with game appraise, it's not start citizen forum or Twitter, people here still have understanding what AC is supposed to be, we criticize game because we all love this series, and we all want it to be best!

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Also x2, where I can get official ACNH hater title?

 

[kiyyie]

The inflation on the villagers is a joke. I lurk Raymond threads to see the greed unfold. An auction could start at 10 nmt & rise in one comment into the hundreds. More people who play casually will never get their chance with sniping like this. It’s just sad

 

[JKDOS]

This will be an EXTREMELY unpopular opinion, but I miss dirt patches and grass deterioration. I felt like it added character to the town, and I enjoyed making dirt paths.

With path making tool, we still can make dirt paths. It's just more fined tuned now.

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ok I just came here to say how annoying it is when you knock a wasp nest out of a tree and then try to get into a building whilst holding a tool - it almost never lets you in and I get stung everytime Some interactions like that are a bit buggy compared to NL

Just catch the wasp, it's a single button.

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You can’t store money in home storage, making you either store bells on the floor of your home or at the bank,

Oh the humanity

 

[Saah]

Let me preface this by saying that I do love the game. I've already put over 150 hours into it, so it's not that the game is bad. I think the villagers and characters look amazing and I love a lot of the small details they've included, like rain hitting windows and villagers doing more around the town.

But they took out so much of what made AC such a unique and fun game. Everyone in this thread has mentioned them all by now, but my question is just why? Take Rover for example. He has been a staple since the GC version and they couldn't even come up with a new role for him? All of the things they removed that people loved, or things they added that people hate really make me question how long this game was in development for. I mean NL came out in 2013, I think 7 years is plenty of time to make a complete game and it's obvious this game isn't complete. I think if Nintendo would just tell people that these things would be added back in then we wouldn't be so frustrated. But Nintendo isn't known to be the most user-friendly company, so for now we're stuck in limbo just hoping that we eventually get everything back.

I had similar issues with BoTW. I know everyone praises it as the best Zelda game, and I liked a lot of the features and design elements, but they changed so much and made the game feel empty, which is the same thing they've done with AC. I love Nintendo, I've been playing since the GB/N64 days, but they've become so much more restrictive over the years and it hasn't helped their games. There's a reason the GC was the last console that had games that people still obsess over and adore. But that's a topic for a different thread lol.

First of all I disagree with the BoTW part, but that's for another thread. I think the main reason why this is happening is the fact that there will be DLCs. I hope not, but I bet Nintendo is going the EA way, releasing a barebones game only to add all the features that should have been there from the start in paid DLCs. There's no other explanation why they would remove so much content from the game. It's not like they need bad publicity like the Sonic movie did.

 

[Sanaki]

I hate audie’s house exterior. I honestly don’t like those houses with the ponytails or whatever

 

[LittleMissPanda]

First of all I disagree with the BoTW part, but that's for another thread. I think the main reason why this is happening is the fact that there will be DLCs. I hope not, but I bet Nintendo is going the EA way, releasing a barebones game only to add all the features that should have been there from the start in paid DLCs. There's no other explanation why they would remove so much content from the game. It's not like they need bad publicity like the Sonic movie did.

Just like Game Freak with Sword and Shield

 

[JKDOS]

Take Rover for example. He has been a staple since the GC version and they couldn't even come up with a new role for him?

Except that Rover never made it to Wild Word. So the fact he may not be in New Horizons is nothing new.

 

[RomanRichter]

Just like Game Freak with Sword and Shield

This is why I hated SnS defenders and everyone who defends this idiocy from big companies

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Except that Rover never made it to Wild Word. So the fact he may not be in New Horizons is nothing new.

But here we also don't have Kappa

 

[DaviddivaD]

Why can't we use bells that is in the ABD when we buy from the catalog? They both come from the same darn machine.

Also, why don't we have an app on our Nook Phone that works like Apple/Google/Samsung Pay when we buy things from the Nooklings and the tailor shop that takes the bells from the ABD. Or simply give us back the credit card from City Folk.

Also again, why don't we have an app either on the Nook Phone (or on our real smart device via Nook Link in the Switch Online app) that can locate where villagers are? You know, since they removed the megaphone?

 

[Aardbei]

Except that Rover never made it to Wild Word. So the fact he may not be in New Horizons is nothing new.

We could see him at the Roost sometimes