The ACNH Rant Thread

[Neechan]

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Looking at clothes, there’s an item called the starry tank top, but it’s only available in summer months, it’s close to what she wore in nl

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Also, am I the only on that’s bothered at the fact they use gender neutral pronouns? Nothing against it, but It’s real bothersome when a villager of mine mentions my sister and are using they/them and not she/her (or he/him)

Ex from a cranky ”That remind me... You heard the latest about <person>? I heard they were shaking trees all over the island, so I did my best to keep my distance, <catchphrase>. Didnt want to be anywhere nearby when they shook loose a wasp nest...“ or “Oh—I saw <person> today. Dunno what they were up to exactly, but they were doin’ it with a lotta pep in their step, <catchphrase>.“

again, not looking for a debate, just curious

 

[Wolfie]

Hello all! I was inactive for a long while but I have returned since I just recently started playing New Horizons about two weeks ago. I like it but I have some complaints so far. It just feels so lackluster compared to New Leaf. I know it's still pretty new but so many features were removed that did not need to be, and some features were added that did not need to be.

For starters, I LOVE Isabelle. She is adorable and my favorite NPC, but her presence in this game feels kinda pointless. Meanwhile, some NPCs that could have had a purpose in the game, such as Gracie, Reese, Cyrus, Cooper, Booker etc. are no where to be seen.

I don't mind the DIYs, but the breaking of tools is so annoying and pointless. I know that has been mentioned a lot already but I hate it.

Speaking of pointless, don't even get me started on the mystery islands. The only good thing about the islands is that I will occasionally get foreign fruit or fish that I don't have on my main island, but for the most part they are so pointless and not worth the tickets. The fact that there are no lockers and you have to depend on your limited pocket space doesn't help. I am paying 2000 Nook Miles to obtain items that are worth about the same, if not less, than the items I get on own island. At least in the islands in ACNL you could get a bunch of rare bugs and sharks, and you had a lot of space to get as many as you wanted. The islands in ACNL were also much cheaper than what you are paying to go to the islands in ACNH. I also miss Tortimer's mini games, and if they want to charge us to go to these islands, they should at least have mini games.

Nook Miles also feel pointless. Why not just keep bells as a main currency?

I hate that you have to pay real money to play online and let people into your town. So far I only have had one visitor, and that was because I won a giveaway on Twitter for a few items, yet I still had to pay for a subscription for online play to let them in. Meanwhile in ACNL I had tons of visitors for free. I know the paying for online play thing is for all Switch games and not just for ACNH, but it's still annoying.

My game also sometimes doesn't save at all even if it autosaved or I saved it myself. I don't know if it is an issue with my game or my Switch.

I'm sure that there is more I have, but that's all I can think of for now. Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of things about the game, like I actually like the DIY projects, the designs of the game, and how much easier it is to change your look. I am satisfied with most of my villagers so far, too. I managed to have Rosie, one of my favorites from ACNL, spawn in my village. I also had Ellie (one of my official new favorites as you can see) and Leonardo spawn, and they grew on me fast. I have found, however, that I still like ACNL more than ACNH.

I don't know if it's just me, but ever since I've gotten my Switch I have found that I dislike a lot of Switch games where their predecessor was a 3DS game. I feel like ACNH, Smash Ultimate, Pokemon S&S etc. were huge downgrades from the 3DS games that came before.

 

[Neechan]

Hmm... I think you might be right! I've heard other things from New Leaf were removed in New Horizons (such as being able to sell forged art)...I don't know why they'd go backward for New Horizons other than to keep players playing, as you said. They really need to make it possible to change color schemes. I kinda feel bad for those that can't go online so they have to rely almost entirely on random drops from trees, balloons, and animal villager gifts...

you could ‘sell’ art but, Reese clarified it as trash and required a disposal fee, so you actual lost money

I actually hope Reese and Cyrus are here for more when just ‘wedding season’ and things that have color variations can be done by Cyrus (like before) since he’s more experienced.

 

[starlightsong]

Looking at clothes, there’s an item called the starry tank top, but it’s only available in summer months, it’s close to what she wore in nl

Spoiler

Also, am I the only on that’s bothered at the fact they use gender neutral pronouns? Nothing against it, but It’s real bothersome when a villager of mine mentions my sister and are using they/them and not she/her (or he/him)

Ex from a cranky ”That remind me... You heard the latest about <person>? I heard they were shaking trees all over the island, so I did my best to keep my distance, <catchphrase>. Didnt want to be anywhere nearby when they shook loose a wasp nest...“ or “Oh—I saw <person> today. Dunno what they were up to exactly, but they were doin’ it with a lotta pep in their step, <catchphrase>.“

again, not looking for a debate, just curious

Spoiler

(not sure why you put this in a spoiler haha but I’ll do the same with my response just in case)
I’ll be totally honest, I’m nonbinary so it’s actually validating to me and I think having the acknowledgement that some people do use those pronouns is amazing. It feels really nice to me that you don’t have to truly pick a gender as it’s labeled as style, can be changed whenever, and doesn’t even show up on your passport or affect anything. But it does bug me when people talk about villagers using they/them for everyone as the best thing ever and a huge step up for trans rights or something while ignoring that for many trans men and women, they’ll actually feel invalidated and uncomfortable if they’ve told you to use she/her or he/him and you keep using they/them. And in the same manner, it’s just as validating for them to hear the correct pronouns used as it is for me. I think the devs were trying to make absolutely everything possible gender neutral in order to be more inclusive, which I’m mostly grateful for, but didn’t consider this aspect of it with the pronouns.
I know you probably weren’t even talking about being trans at all, just that not having the right pronouns used is bothersome, but I brought it up because these two issues are definitely related and I do agree with you! I wish there was some way to choose from a set list of pronouns or something. It wouldn’t be that hard to have just had Timmy and Tommy ask what pronouns you use, although I imagine it would’ve made a certain set of people angry lol.

 

[-Blue-]

999 bells turnip price? What? Were people actually able to /hackdo this? First, I thought those star trees was just a jk but then people posted about them here in the forum wow.

Yes, it's real. You'll often find turnip postings for prices higher than the game legitimately can do. I've seen people posting it on twitter and people would call them out with it being a PS, but they post a vid of the whole thing.

 

[Neechan]

Spoiler

(not sure why you put this in a spoiler haha but I’ll do the same with my response just in case)
I’ll be totally honest, I’m nonbinary so it’s actually validating to me and I think having the acknowledgement that some people do use those pronouns is amazing. It feels really nice to me that you don’t have to truly pick a gender as it’s labeled as style, can be changed whenever, and doesn’t even show up on your passport or affect anything. But it does bug me when people talk about villagers using they/them for everyone as the best thing ever and a huge step up for trans rights or something while ignoring that for many trans men and women, they’ll actually feel invalidated and uncomfortable if they’ve told you to use she/her or he/him and you keep using they/them. And in the same manner, it’s just as validating for them to hear the correct pronouns used as it is for me. I think the devs were trying to make absolutely everything possible gender neutral in order to be more inclusive, which I’m mostly grateful for, but didn’t consider this aspect of it with the pronouns.
I know you probably weren’t even talking about being trans at all, just that not having the right pronouns used is bothersome, but I brought it up because these two issues are definitely related and I do agree with you! I wish there was some way to choose from a set list of pronouns or something. It wouldn’t be that hard to have just had Timmy and Tommy ask what pronouns you use, although I imagine it would’ve made a certain set of people angry lol.

Spoiler

not a problem, it’s just something that I noticed a while back when I was changing my hair and noticed those male/female icons in the face paint section with no indicator of what they do (I thought they were filters that organized masculine/feminine features)

And perhaps because the pronouns were actually male or female in the selection when you start out, but it was changed to style as you know in the English release

 

[starlightsong]

Spoiler

not a problem, it’s just something that I noticed a while back when I was changing my hair and noticed those male/female icons in the face paint section with no indicator of what they do (I thought they were filters that organized masculine/feminine features)

And perhaps because the pronouns were actually male or female in the selection when you start out, but it was changed to style as you know in the English release

Spoiler

yeah i had actually figured as much, because a lot of languages are heavily gendered to the point that it’d be incredibly difficult to localize something like making all the pronouns gender neutral, which is why i was really surprised when people who played the game ahead of time such as reviewers were saying you didn’t have to pick a gender. ever since then i figured it was originally an actual gender selector because it’d be needed for the purpose of selecting pronouns, but then changed to do nothing in english as a form of somewhat sloppy inclusivity. and i actually have been annoyed by it myself despite liking to be called they/them, as i have another character on my island who’s meant to be a character from another game and i wish i could get the villagers to use she/her for her!

 

[astoria]

It’s really annoying how you can’t constructively criticize the game without people using the quarantine or time traveling as an excuse. It’s like news flash, not everyone is stuck inside. Some people like me have been working ever since this started and I still managed to get bored of the game for lack of content/quality of life issues missing.

 

[Candy83]

I think this is mostly because New Leaf was a finished game by the time it was released. New Horizons is not....

I read your response. Very good points. And I want to add the following:

Due to “New Horizons” needing more content—something I wasn’t absorbing within the first few weeks—I realize it would be good for me to take a day off here and there. Or, if I play it for any consecutive days, it may be wise for me to limit myself to each character (I have two) being active on a given game date of no more than 30 minutes. (The time goes by fast. 30 minutes can feel like it was only 15 minutes.)

Content that I want includes food items. For example: With decorating a kitchen, and I make sure my houses have a kitchen, I want to put more on the table than cups for coffee and the crafted fruit basket. (I have not reached a point of acquiring anything more with crafted food items. And I did not play “Pocket Camp” to any extent in which I would bring over what I had from that particular game. I loved the “Welcome amiibo” update, in “New Leaf,” of food items like desserts and entrees.)

More and more content is likely coming. That they get deployed through updates via the Internet. More buildings. More events. Perhaps more than I may anticipate. That’s fine. In the meantime, I can personally tell I am less thrilled and am wanting more from “New Horizons.” Being creative, like with tweaking the overall design of the island, is fine. But being limited to how I can design the interior of the house has personally become a problem for me.



I do want to address something else: For a while, I watched those YouTube-published videos, by content creators, of their visits to people’s islands. I applaud their creativity. But, at the same time, I don’t feel like I want to emulate what I see in some of those videos other than possibly with some of the terraforming. When it comes to what to put outside, some things some people did struck me as overkill. It also dawns on me that, within 30 days or so, they were excessively achieved. What I mean is: They time-traveled and grinded excessively to be able to attain some of what they now have. I don’t object to that. It’s their game to play. I just recognize it. And the more of that I was able to see, from those videos, the more I realized it seemed rather silly—well, silly at this still-early-enough point. A lot of that came across as if they are supposedly completed islands. Well, if we have more buildings on the way…then those islands are not completed. They just look that way, at this point in time, and with consideration of the limitations of “New Horizons.”

 

[aetherene]

UGHHHHH I SUCK.

I was wrapping some iron wall lamps for my villagers and in the process, i was confused as to why I no longer had the chessboard I just bought in my invo. I thought I sold it to Nooks so I took out another 100k from my ABD and rebought it. I give Diana a wrapped gift and lo and behold, it was the chessboard I didn't know I wrapped.

At least it will look nice in her house BUT STILL. How annoying that I rebought it lol

 

[thatawkwardkid]

Spoiler: Ugh...

I hate that patch of grass underneath my house that I can't get rid of or hide. It looks really bad...

 

[maaango]

I wish they could make the POV better when you’re outside the houses. Just being able to look around 360 would be so much better

 

[-Blue-]

I do want to address something else: For a while, I watched those YouTube-published videos, by content creators, of their visits to people’s islands. I applaud their creativity. But, at the same time, I don’t feel like I want to emulate what I see in some of those videos other than possibly with some of the terraforming. When it comes to what to put outside, some things some people did struck me as overkill. It also dawns on me that, within 30 days or so, they were excessively achieved. What I mean is: They time-traveled and grinded excessively to be able to attain some of what they now have. I don’t object to that. It’s their game to play. I just recognize it. And the more of that I was able to see, from those videos, the more I realized it seemed rather silly—well, silly at this still-early-enough point. A lot of that came across as if they are supposedly completed islands. Well, if we have more buildings on the way…then those islands are not completed. They just look that way, at this point in time, and with consideration of the limitations of “New Horizons.”

It's fine if people want to actively make their town perfect and complete so early in the game's life, but I do find it silly that social media sites like twitter have made them become obsessed with it. It got to the point where I stopped using twitter because it was the only thing on my feed.

Granted I got into NL in 2014, I don't remember people being so obsessed with having their town be perfect. It probably was there, but maybe NH, the virus, and how it just garnered so much attention from hype/lockdown from others who normally never bother with the game could factor into it. Because I do realize a lot of people who bought this game that are now done with it because they didn't really know what the game was really about and just burned themselves out trying to compete with others for a perfect island.

Maaango
Yeah you're kind of limited to having everything face the south because the camera can't pan. There's this little patch on my west side for a beach theme that would look great from a side view, but having it work being only able to face south ruins any chances I have of making it look good.

 

[xMartin]

I normally buy turnips and store them upstairs and in the basement. I've come to buy some for this week's flipping and remembered that I stored turnips in my other rooms too... I've now got two rooms worth of spoiled turnips ...

I won't forget again.

 

[l u l u]

I'm getting really pissed at Nintendo. I've been a fangirl defender, but they need to stop taking away features. I'm sure this rant has been done to death in this thread, but I just had to say it. I'm still enjoying the game despite it lacking a lot of the content NL had at launch, but I'm also investing quite a bit of hope on updates.. I hope we don't get burned.

There are many more reasons why this game is extra special and enjoyable, so this isn't me bashing it. I just reaaallllly hope they add more content. Soon.

 

[-Blue-]

My problem is that the updates should be things that are new to the entire game. Not things that were basics in other games. It kind of feels like you're getting shafted when the dlc we're looking forward to are things like the Roost, gyroids, Redd, Leif, and other things that may come back like perfect fruit.

It makes me think back to my times when I used to play Phantasy Star Universe (a Sega game) online. The online slowly drip-fed new content, but the kicker was all the content they slowly added (with the combination of dripping syrup and King Zora moving his butt) was stuff that was available from day 1 offline.

And the extra kicker was that they were never able to add all the features that were on offline mode. But SoJ gave the Japan side all that content and then some.

 

[Candy83]

It's fine if people want to actively make their town perfect and complete so early in the game's life, but I do find it silly that social media sites like twitter have made them become obsessed with it. It got to the point where I stopped using twitter because it was the only thing on my feed.

Granted I got into NL in 2014, I don't remember people being so obsessed with having their town be perfect. It probably was there, but maybe NH, the virus, and how it just garnered so much attention from hype/lockdown from others who normally never bother with the game could factor into it. Because I do realize a lot of people who bought this game that are now done with it because they didn't really know what the game was really about and just burned themselves out trying to compete with others for a perfect island.

I consider the following:

Never mind how people handle playing the game.

This is about promoting and selling the game.

It just so happens, not even a full month following the international release on March 20, 2020 of “Animal Crossing: New Horizons,” are all these social media postings and the YouTube-published videos of game-players with elaborate, completed-looking islands.

It may be that it is not about what those people have achieved; but about selling it to a person who has not yet purchased “Animal Crossing: New Horizons.”

I think you have the right idea: move away from following it on a social-media site like Twitter.

 

[Sefyre]

When you're brand new to AC, it can be a challenge to figure out which items or features are available now, since launch, versus only available through time traveling.

(Or, in some cases, hacking.)

I've now accidentally spoiled myself multiple times about upcoming events and content which I would have rather found out on my own in due time.

I lost half a million bells' worth of turnips from TTing back 30 minutes in a futile attempt to fix an issue, but having so much content spoiled for me is worse.

I guess that's what I get for searching online for some answers and browsing the ACNH hashtag.

 

[Ananas Dragon]

I see many rants about the less furniture there is but can we talk about another issue:

SO MANY of the villagers houses are the same and just reorganized with what? one different item.

Take Rosie and Marina for example, what are the differences? 1 bed 2. TV. 3 wall and floor 5. music
probably more but I'm not in their house so I can't check.

This part is unrelated but can they please pay attention to poor Mira and probably others?
They won't fix her mask, I really want it to be able to come off, Is there not a clothing item that is a mask? Why not give her that if Audie's glasses can come off of her HEAD which I don't think any glasses in the game go on your head.


my points kind of suck dont call me out on it I know
the best point I have is the fact like 1/3 of villager houses are lazily done and not done like the character's past houses

they better fix some villager's houses
*cough cough mira once again is so sad*

 

[sarosephie]

I want bulk crating for the most part, and a more 'common sense' interface