The ACNH Rant Thread

[PerryPerry]

So NH is my first AC game so I don't know how this worked in earlier titles and while I'm to my own surprise incredibly happy and invested with the game.. designing my island stresses me out to no end. I feel incredibly pressured to create a very pretty place after visiting many stunning islands and there's three things that heavily limit me in my designoptions and frustrate me a lot.

1. The limites spaces in the designapp is quite annoying. I'm still working on my layout and terraforming my way towards satisfaction, but I'm already planning ahead and I can already see that I have to compromise a bit here and it sucks.
2. No matter what I do I'm unable to be satisfied with pathways, it's impossible to connect the different pathways somewhat naturally and parts of grass will always, ALWAYS stick out and it just looks kind of ugly, also the edges are so so rough.
3. And this one is the worst. WHY.IS.RESIDENTS SERVICE.NOT.MOVABLE? This is super annoying and inconvinient. I had to adjust my layout plans a gazillion times because it's positioned so damn awful on my island, it takes up a ton of space and due to it's placement it drastically limits my options for the surrounding area as well. I think today I may have finally found a way to build it into the landscape in a somewhat satisfying way but again, I have to compromise tremendously here and as a result, my workload (lol) just tripled and I'll be short on ramps because for some reason the limit is 8. Additionaly (and this is I think is just plain stupid not to have) there's no pathway that could line up with that of the residents services, let alone connect with it. I mean this is supposed to be a central part of the island and you tell me it's supposed to be just.. cut off? dumb.


Other than that I'm absolutely in love with the game, evidently by me actually joining this forum. It's super fun, there's just enough to do daily, with probably more to come and it looks just so, so pretty. But yeah these things should really get fixed.

Rant over.

 

[dragonair]

Tommy, please stop calling me to tell me you put bells in my account. I know how this works it's been 2 months!!!

 

[Le Ham]

A peeve I've quietly held since day 1:

I have medium-brown hair in real life.
I named my islander my own name, planning to make her represent me.
There is no medium-brown hair option in NH like there was in NL, because they replaced it with a second gray/silvery hair color if I'm not mistaken.

So my islander perpetually has turquoise hair because my natural hair color isn't represented. No I'm not Goldilocks, I'm not a redhead and I'm not a brunette either. Really?

Like what was actually wrong with the hair color options from NL and before I don't get it

 

[milraen]

Too many duplicate DIYs. All I want are the DIYs for the benches but I keep getting DIYs for fruit stuff. u_u

It’s funny how when you talk to a crafting villager that you can say no to receiving a DIY which you don’t have but you can’t say no to a duplicate DIY which is going to irritatingly take up your already limited inventory space.

 

[90s_tripverse]

Where are all the furniture options? New Leaf, Happy Home Designer, & Pocket Camp have amazing items; quite a bit of them are customizable & easier to obtain. All the cosmic items in Pocket Camp? The stairwell, the glowing gems, the basket seat, the lights, things that really livened your room? Why aren't any of these items (or items similar) already in the game? Pocket Camp, I believe, was made by a different company, so I could understand that, but New Leaf? They can't rework the models and put them in this game?

This is frustrating; we get more clothing choices than I could ever dream of, but one of the big things Nintendo advertised with this game is customization. The builder app - we get to remake our entire island in the way that we want! There are limitations, but the things people were able to do DESPITE that? No island will ever be the same as the next. Your character - you can have dark skin and choose what you physically look like, not only at the beginning but anytime afterward! Want blue eyes & white hair? Just go to your mirror! Your eye shape not working? No problem - go ahead and give yourself some sparkly eyes!

So, how come the furniture choices suck? How come we can't customize non-DIY items the same way we were able to in New Leaf? I might be the only one who feels this way, but gosh darn it, I want awesome furniture! And I don't want to spend a load of bells just for an item that was typically inexpensive in previous games. Rant over (for now).

 

[Le Ham]

And I don't want to spend a load of bells just for an item that was typically inexpensive in previous games. Rant over (for now).

Ah, yes. Laptop in New Leaf: 2000 bells
Laptop in New Horizons? seventy thousand bells

So far I've spent 60k on a stainless steel fridge and 140k on a sink and oven. Guess we needed more things beyond the house loan to drop fat stacks on, now that PWPs are just bridges and ramps and there's no Gracie furniture?

 

[sprdlx]

The fact that the Kangaroo villagers and their joeys both blink at the exact same time!!! ofc also not being able to mass craft/purchase items!

 

[BubbleBlowinDoubleBaby]

Willow, honey, listen. I know I'm the one who gave you that dress that doesn't match you at all and I'm sorry, but for someone who calls her fashion sense perfection as we know it, you sure do a whole lot of NOT WEARING THE OTHER THINGS I GET YOU THAT DO LOOK GOOD

why.

 

[90s_tripverse]

Ah, yes. Laptop in New Leaf: 2000 bells
Laptop in New Horizons? seventy thousand bells

So far I've spent 60k on a stainless steel fridge and 140k on a sink and oven. Guess we needed more things beyond the house loan to drop fat stacks on, now that PWPs are just bridges and ramps and there's no Gracie furniture?

AND SPEAKING OF HOUSE LOANS. In New Leaf, spending around 2m total gets you not only a full upgraded house, top to bottom, but the rooms are also as big as your main room WITH the inclusion of the basement. Exterior changes are a little pricey, but hey, you aren't really needing much.

New Horizons? 6m (or around it) and you'll get an upgraded house with only 2 rooms expanded. No exceptions. Sure, maybe your other rooms are super small, you can't upgrade them any farther, & you can't choose which room you want to add to begin with, but LOOK - free customization! You get ALL the picks of what kind of exterior look you want despite it being originally priced around 30k. See how much you're saving right now?!

Sorry, I only thought about the lack of furniture items but then you bring up the house loan and here I go again getting heated over a game that I've been wanting to play since last year.

 

[PrincessBetter]

oh... I'm annoyed

1. I will get VERY angry and frustrated if they're planning to add classic NPCs via DLC. I will %$@king hate them if they looked at the Sims 4 model and thought, BRILLIANT. (been playing both franchises for over 10 years). Seriously, if they go down the EA Sims route. Veteran players will be $%ssed.

2. ok, I get that it was meant to be used in dock, but... um, no?! WHY NO TOUCHSCREEN!, I mean, AT LEAST to make patterns. The pro patterns got an update but WHY NO TOUCH SCREEN?! at least for that!?

3. S H O P S , minimum having The Roost as a stand alone, hopefully not as an add on to the museum. Decorating the town was one of the biggest aspects in New Leaf. Why take away shops to decorate the town?

5. No Gyroids

6. Where's the art?!

7. WHY CAN'T WE NOT DECORATE THE OUTSIDE OF OUR HOME?! although, I'm hoping for Reese and Cyrus to make a comeback with this feature. (´-ω-`)

8. The check out my encyclopedia message every time you caught something new.

9. Shared pattern storage for everyone on the island. I was excited when I thought it was huge per player. Super upset to realize it wasn't.

and my biggest complaint:
THE ISLAND IS SO FREAKING SMALL! I seriously thought it was gonna be huge! It feels only a bit bigger than New Leaf. This was so upsetting with the potential to have a huge place to play.

Bonus: add, all the other complains said in this forum.

But more than frustrated, I am afraid that they got greedy with the franchise and will ruin it with DLC that used to be included in the game. I hate it when studios pull a cheap one like that, hopefully, nintendo won't ruin AC.

I'm getting serious Sims 4 vibes as well.. like when sims 4 came out and they cut police and the firemen.. not to mention the TODDLERS, hello?
I started playing NL again last night, and will only play NH once or twice a week until we get more content... Too bad I can't sell it, as it's a digital download :/

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IIRC, dataminers have found no upgrade to the store pre 1.1.

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You've played it for less than a week and are ranting already? Should we not all wait "a few months" before ranting?

This is a rant thread.... Are you lost

 

[Heartcore]

I'm really kinda meh about the exterior housing options in NH. I really miss having unique exteriors like the mermaid exterior or the fairytale one. Also, none of the pink stuff is actually pink, it's like a light red roof or a light red mailbox. NONE of the pinks match and it's super frustrating as someone with a primarily pink town and a black and white house since I hate all the other options. I also really wish that item colors alternated in your town's store. my store is so stale, I rarely ever bother even going in to look at my items for the day.

 

[John Wick]

I'm wondering where on earth the jewel beetles are!
I mean, I play the game in every waking moment, and I've got heaps of trees, and haven't seen a single one.

It says they're around in the northern hemisphere, but I think they've got it wrong.

Low key applies to the rice grasshopper too.

 

[PrincessBetter]

I don't mean to be rude or disregard your feelings, but some of your complaints seem a bit unfounded. Not only have I read tons of comments in the line of "I haven't played much but..." "I know people say this change but...". Are you all actually playing the game? It just seems like you're not giving the game a chance at all and you're also hoping that everything will be presented to you all at once. Animal Crossing has always been a game about patience and things evolving gradually. Dialogue and interactions with villagers certainly evolve over time. I just don't see how people are making the "NH dialogue is worse than NL" statements. Can someone provide actual footage of NL dialogue to prove this? Because, from my recollection, NL dialogue sucked ass. And the reason I think it did, was because the game focused lots more on other features (like being mayor). I just don't see how, in any way, NH dialogue is worse than before if dialogue options are: have more variation and are longer than those in NL. NL dialogue turned repetitive quick and was shorter than what we usually see in NH.

As for NPC absence. I'm also sad to see many of my favorite characters absent. But why are people so keen in thinking that they're definitely cut from the game? Leif is coming back for Earth day and the next update, allegedly, will bring Brewster, café and gyroids back. Even in the Mini Direct today they announced more features INCLUDING the Earth Day event, so we'll definitely see more things coming.

Can you just not? If you see a thread you don't like.. scroll past. Do not reprimand people for having different opinion. If we wanted that, we'd post on Reddit.

 

[Hedgehugs]

Where's the "Reset Interior" option?
And for that matter why can't our starters upgrade to their actual interiors? I feel bad for people who have the new characters like Audie and Reneigh in starter interiors. I'm pressing F for you guys.

I have a lot of rants that I’ll probably write about someday but right now I want to say that this game shouldn’t have been $60. For so little content in the base game that they’re just gonna add in with updates it should have at least been $40.

Me and my friends joke and call this game "Splatoon Crossing" for this reason alone.

 

[Wolfycheeks]

Stop. giving. me. ugly. MONKEYS. (Looking at you Al and the other huge gorillas) fdsjhfl;g

AND ALSO. Where are the villager requests like in ACNL? I've only ONCE had to go out of my way to find someone medicine, ONCE. I miss getting quests to deliver secret letters, catch certain bugs or fish, stuff like that. I never get that sort of requests.

 

[Adlehyde]

I would not be the first to say that I'm very displeased with the overall quality check of this game and the sheer number of glitches that keep cropping up.

I can recognize that the team behind ACNH put a tremendous amount of detail into the development of this title (even though yes, it does still feel lacking in many other areas; I especially miss the old furniture series and themes from previous games). And I do commend the devs for being very on top of things back when the first villager plot glitch was reported. But although they were quick to fix those, it seems like whenever they fix one bug, another three pops up to take its place.

When they fixed the initial villager plot glitch, another one soon appeared. Today I was reading how a brand new item duplication glitch was discovered. I find this to be incredibly frustrating and it does not instill me with good faith over the quality of this game. My biggest fear right now is the save corruption glitch that occurs over online multiplayer. But even when/if they fix that, there's that part of me that wonders if it would even be the last of it.

There is no doubt in my mind that this game has a lot effort in it. But with how prone ACNH has been to breaking, it really dampens my view of it and makes me hesitant to even want to play the game at all.

Honestly, if I knew at the time before purchase that ACNH would come with a lot of troublesome, even game-breaking glitches as it has so far, I wouldn't have bought it. At least not in the current state it is in.

 

[PrincessBetter]

I have a love/hate relationship with ACNH in it's current state.
- Why are there only 2 shops? And why is Nooks so small?
- The sound effects bother me.. I feel like NL had much more immersive bug/fish catching sounds and door entry/exit etc

- The new NPCs look like they were designed purposely to be more mainstream/popular. Plus, Flick and Chip just stand around looking stupid. There is no big announcement for the fishing tourney, no HYPE.
No real rewards. They don't even have a station in the town hall area like Kicks and Labelle/Label whatever her name is.

- Gulliver comes to my island every other day... Why?
- Why were Phyllis, Pelly and Pete replaced by two ugly yellow birds? There could have been an upstairs to the post office, where you could go to leave the island.. or better yet.. a boardwalk with important buildings. After all, this is a beach right?

- The camping stuff in general. Why is the dev team so obsessed with camping? Have they ever been camping? It sucks, and it's boring. And pigeonholing the entire game around camping/deserted island.. really cramps my style. I wanted a fairytale, whimsical island..

- The hourly music is so hokey, that I listen to NL, CF or WW tracks while playing.

- The villagers act like they've been lobotomized. Yeah, they weren't great in NL, but they were better than NH by farrr. Last night while playing NL, Chai barged in my house and told me that too bad, she wanted to visit. Then she gave me a present for letting her stay. NH villagers are cute, and do adorable things, but they never say anything even a little uncouth or slightly rude. In WW and ACGC, they would straight insult you for acting stupid. I loved that.

- Where is all the furniture? And why have all the sets been stripped? I have found TWO tables that I don't have to craft. Literally two.

- Why is the game centered around Tom Nook? Why wouldn't Reese and Cyrus be in charge and Nook be a supporting character? Reese and Cyrus could have even had a couple kiddos running around! And all the Nook themed stuff just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

- The terraforming tools are so unintuitive and annoying that I dread even making changes to rivers... It's so bad.

- Custom designs, lack of storage space, too many crafting components taking up every spare inch of everything... It's maddening.

- Why are the same 3 bugs and fish invading my town?
- Why do my tools break so easily with no option to craft indestructible tools?
- Why can't I pick what I want to upgrade on my house? Why can't we make the rooms bigger?? Why.

Okay.. it's out of my system now. I probably sound ridiculous, but I had such high hopes for this game. I even bought a NH switch off a scalper for $450... I bought my mom her own switch and copy to play.. I was thinking this game was going to be so freaking amazing.
I do like the graphics.. I do like that the villagers can move stuff around in their houses..
I just feel like this entry should be called... Animal Crossing Why.

 

[eggbae]

I'm wondering where on earth the jewel beetles are!
I mean, I play the game in every waking moment, and I've got heaps of trees, and haven't seen a single one.

It says they're around in the northern hemisphere, but I think they've got it wrong.

Low key applies to the rice grasshopper too.

jewel beetles spawn on cut tree stumps, sounds like it's time to do a bit of deforestation lol. but yes, I also haven't seen any rice grasshoppers either, just long locusts

 

[PrincessBetter]

Because

1. Finding gold nuggets isn't easy.
2. Having a tool break unexpectedly is frustrating, irritating, and annoying
3. Not knowing when your tool is going to break is about the same as above.
4. Knowing gold tools break will make some of us hoard the tool rather than actually use it out of fear of losing it.
5. Our inventories will be forever filled with multiple tools just to ensure we have one when it counts.
6. Gold Tools should be the god tools. A reward for putting up with the non-gold tools breaking over how long it takes us.

It makes way more sense to give players a durability system, and them have them earn/work towards a tool that won't break. Past Animal Crossing games pulled this off with the Golden Axe

Yeah I love how people said they wanted more inventory.. now we have more inventory, and it's taken up by asinine tools and mats.

 

[kawaiikat]

Not being able to plant trees right next to cliffs. Just started teraforming and all my plans have to be changed because I can't fill spaces with trees!

Also getting duplicate DIY recipes. Why?! You shouldn't be able to get duplicates until you have all of the recipes. Also getting DIYs that require another DIY to make.