The ACNH Rant Thread

[fluttershy300]

What does this have to do with the game???

Nothing, absolutely nothing to do with the game. Sorry...I’ll edit it out.

 

[SirSean]

I know this has probably already been said to death but please let us see tool durablilty. I want to know when I have to apply my customization kit to reset the durability.

 

[Summ3rain]

I really really miss the NL music I play NH with the sound off cos it's so repetitive and slightly irritating... Bit sad that Nintendo let us down on that one.

 

[loveclove]

not a rant about nh itself but just my personal gameplay

i tt-ed and forgot about the open plot in which i planned to reserve for another cat villager to complete my mono-species island, so eugene moved in. he’s been a villager on my island once a while back, i hated him, i kicked him out, and now he’s back.

since i tt kicking out a villager takes less than 15 minutes and kicking out a specific villager takes a little less than 30; but when 90% of my island are villagers i want to keep then that’s a huge factor for when i plan to kick out eugene.

Spoiler: thought-bubble results

1. rosie like i said i want to keep all my villagers except for eugene; it doesn’t help that i love rosie to pieces
2. kid cat
3. lolly
4. bob
5. bob i really like bob and i hope that the bubble doesn’t land on him again
6. olivia
7. rosie
8. punchy
9. punchy
10. katt my favorite villager of all time ):
11. rosie
12. rosie
13. katt
14. olivia
15. kid cat
16. lolly
17. bob it hasn’t been an hour but i feel burnt out

then eugene caught onto the catchphrase i gave rosie, so now it feels as if i’m talking to a pedophile when he says babe at the end of every sentence.

It's really hard to kick out the villager that last moved in Since you don't want to loose any other one, I would consider getting 1 amiibo

 

[Xane_MM]

There is actually a small hack to end the rain. Add a new character to your island. It forces the weather to sunny.

Whoa, that's a neat trick! Why does it work, though? All that new characters do outside is talk to Tom Nook, then get their NookPhone and first bill. It's probably like events, which override the weather, forcing a sunny weather pattern.

When I log on, I want to relax and not have to answer obligatory phone calls from the Nook brothers.

"Hello. This is Timmy/Tommy. We've deposited the ### bells into your bank account." Okay, I get it! I intentionally sometimes avoid selling stuff in the box just to avoid this waste of time when I play the game the next day. It's even worse if multiple characters sell through that box, because then every single one has to get called by those raccoons! (Speaking of that call, it always happens, even if you wait until the next night before playing; It could be 11PM or 1AM; Doesn't matter, they will wake up from their sleep just to call you.

Can't seem to properly line up a brick well with a path. It's always half a square off and it's buggin' me!

It'd be better if the fences aligned to the edges of tiles, like the game would place the straight pieces on the closest tile edge to you instead of the middle. That would give an extra half-tile of space to place furniture, too!

It's lowkey a shame that the process of sending mail was downsized to a little postcard stand on the side of the airport counter.

Yeah...I kinda miss the old letters. I liked how there was only a limited selection of papers daily, so you had to get lucky to get your preferred stationary. Now, all card backgrounds are available at once, which kinda ruins it.

On a similar note, I personally dislike the long-winded automatic message it writes for you when you're ordering something for someone else directly from the catalog. I wish it were optional, I hate having to backspace that loooooong message in order to put something a little more personable.

That pre-written message's the worst."I want to express my appreciation for all you do for me." Uh, no, I don't usually send stuff in the mail for that reason, game. Ask the player if they'd like a pre-written message instead of requiring me to erase it, one letter at a time.

Like, what's the point of that dialogue???? I know what it is, I'm clearly looking at it.

I agree. The way that sequence goes is awkward. Your character feels the need to always react to the card stand like they've never seen one before, then Orville awkwardly goes "Ready to send a letter? Where do you want to send it? Who's receiving it? I've gotta connect to the internet instead of doing that silently in the background!" They really should've made that a menu like the catalog or the NookPhone apps.

Why do I have to go though so much dialogue when I speak to Flick during the Bug-Off?

Yeah, why does Flick always act like it's my first time catching bugs for the Bug Off? "You have bugs in the cage if you want to keep any of them, but here's your score!" "Hey, y'know, you still have bugs in the cage" I KNOW. I could care less about the common bugs I caught, and always sell them anyways, Flick! After a few times, I just looked away from the Switch when these stupid conversations happened again.

 

[LaylaTheMayor]

Nothing, absolutely nothing to do with the game. Sorry...I’ll edit it out.

It's OK dude, dog bless.

I really really miss the NL music I play NH with the sound off cos it's so repetitive and slightly irritating... Bit sad that Nintendo let us down on that one.

It's literally all guitars. Nothing else. Except for 3AM when it hits you with the "WOMP WOMP, WOMP WOMP" because you dared to be awake and now you must hear the trumpets disappointment in you.

 

[Xane_MM]

It's literally all guitars. Nothing else. Except for 3AM when it hits you with the "WOMP WOMP, WOMP WOMP" because you dared to be awake and now you must hear the trumpets disappointment in you.

Well, technically, it's more like guitar chords and synth basically non-stop every hour, very rare piano (especially compared to NL where that instrument bordered on overused), and basically the same drums during most afternoon songs...then WAAAH~ WAAAAH~ at 3AM.

New Horizons needed more variety than this; It would've been nice if they did what NL did and made 5PM another tribute to the original game's coutnerpart...with more awesome-sounding bossa nova. (That song's my favorite in NL's hourly soundtrack for obvious reasons...and lately I've felt urges to give that game a proper chance so I can hear that song with proper context!)

 

[rubyrubert]

Yeah, I've also pretty much stopped talking to my villagers because of all the repeated dialogue. I also really dislike how cookie cutter they are when it comes to their personality types. The only thing that really sets apart villagers of the same type is their appearance and house, which sucks.

Style over substance seems to have been the main focus with NH and my biggest gripe with the game.

Yeah, I’ve never really been super “close” or whatever to a villager because every personality is so cookie-cutter. And I’m not saying that past AC games are good at all with personality, but WW had so much more than NH. All peppy villagers won’t shut up about being a popstar, jock ones don’t have anything else besides talking about their muscles, etc. You pretty much have to use your imagination to give characters distinctive traits because if you have duplicate personalities, they share all of the same dialogue…

Can we at least get personality subtypes? It was so disappointing how they didn’t even add another personality to the series. I’m not asking for brilliant writing or anything, but it would have been nice to add wayyy more dialogue than what we already got. I got repeating dialogue about 20 hours in

 

[LaylaTheMayor]

Well, technically, it's more like guitar chords and synth basically non-stop every hour, very rare piano (especially compared to NL where that instrument bordered on overused), and basically the same drums during most afternoon songs...then WAAAH~ WAAAAH~ at 3AM.

New Horizons needed more variety than this; It would've been nice if they did what NL did and made 5PM another tribute to the original game's coutnerpart...with more awesome-sounding bossa nova. (That song's my favorite in NL's hourly soundtrack for obvious reasons...and lately I've felt urges to give that game a proper chance so I can hear that song with proper context!)

I get that the style of music is, I guess, popular now but NH fails to capture some of the magic of NL; I think NL was absolutely stellar and the music never grew tedious for me (or at least not as much as NH).

I started another save file today in NL and the starting music just made me feel all warm inside, it reminded me of when I first picked up the game in 2012. Taking the day off school for my birthday and becoming the mayor was such a great memory, and that music just brought it all back. Another emotional track is 1AM that is just sheer beauty.

Spoiler: rambling about letters, muh feelings

Why don't letters mean anything anymore? They don't raise friendship so why should I write them? I don't care that the papers you can use are prettier now, if my villagers won't care about it then why should I bother? I feel like that's a problem with NH, a lot of other users have said it but it's definitely style over substance.

Nintendo focused on making a pretty game, which they did pretty well, but they forgot that Animal Crossing is for players who like to socialise with their villagers or even collect things (bugs, fish, etc). It's a lick of paint over the older games, but even then it somehow fails to keep in things from older games that were good.

When I went back and played New Leaf today, I talked to most of my villagers, and Miranda brought up a letter I once wrote. It made me smile because they still mean something to me after leaving them for months, New Leaf has a lot of emotion New Horizons is lacking and it kinda saddens me that Nintendo is taking this route not only with Animal Crossing but games like Pokemon too.

Compare my New Leaf day to my Horizons one:
In New Horizons I:
- bought clothes
- checked out Nook's Cranny
- sold turnips on another island
- connected a river
- spoke to Pudge and Timbra
- turned it off

In New Leaf I:
- bought clothes
- checked out all three levels of Nook's Cranny
- cut down all my trees and collected all my fruit
- spoke to Rolf, Miranda, Paula, Apollo, Axel (even though I don't like him), and Maple
- completed two requests
- turned it off

If seems similar but you can see I spoke to way more villagers, and did more for them. I connected more with them. They're fictional bipedal animals, yes, and maybe it's silly to ask to be able to feel more for them, but they're characters I feel closer with even if they have the same personalities. Even in NL they're different despite personalities. I'm already burned out by New Horizons and I feel like money was wasted on it.

 

[-Blue-]

I just got around to playing the bug off today. And while it was more manageable than the fishing tourney as far as collecting bugs/points go, it still wasn't really fun.

I just did it to get to 300 so I never had to do it again but could get the medals for the catalogue. And also the furniture, but I haven't exchanged the points yet so I don't know what they all look like. (I'm not expecting much with how basic and uninspired CJ's furniture was)

My fear for future events is that they're all going to be grindy and similar. Fishing tourney, bug off, and Bunny day all had that collect and grind forever nonsense. I don't know what Halloween, Christmas, and Thanksgiving will bring, but they took two events that were actually decent and changed them from a real tournament to a rehashed Club Tortimer tour.

NH events so far have felt like they're based off of mobile events/games opposed to the mainline series events. Oh god and Wedding month that was so forgettable that I already forgot it.

 

[Ciary]

I really want a music player on my nookphone
and also the music that plays during the bug-off ^_^ (if you haven't noticed. it's different)

 

[kasane]

me looking at photos of other people's islands and terraforming inspo: wow that's so creative, i'll need to terraform on my island more and add in those neat cliffs/rivers/waterfalls!

me after 2 minutes of terraforming: nah i'm done this looks good

 

[tokkio]

i dislike how the hydrangea bushes look now :c i prefer how they looked in new leaf tbh. they were my fav bushes back then but now they look so weird and i probably wont use them

 

[wanderlust//]

STOP RAINING PLEASE

I swear to god I’m going to riot

 

[JKDOS]

Whoa, that's a neat trick! Why does it work, though? All that new characters do outside is talk to Tom Nook, then get their NookPhone and first bill. It's probably like events, which override the weather, forcing a sunny weather pattern.

I'm not sure why. I'm guessing Nintendo wanted someone to experience sunny weather for their first day in the game.

Post automatically merged: Jun 29, 2020

STOP RAINING PLEASE

I swear to god I’m going to riot

Ahem.

There is actually a small hack to end the rain. Add a new character to your island. It forces the weather to sunny. Then just delete the new character.

 

[Lullabynny]

I feel like Im the only person who actually likes NH's soundtrack. I prefer how much more relaxed and mellow it sounds. Like an anime's soundtrack or something. Everything sounding similar is fine with me cause it seems connected. I was never a fan of most of the music in NL or other animal crossing games to begin with.

Also 3 am isnt bad, more goofy than anything. Its weird how people complain about it but has anyone heard the music in GC or NL? Its just as goofy lol

 

[Mothership]

GRRRRRRR! Redd's finally on my island but that rat has four fakes......AGAIN! Never, EVER going to complete my museum if that keeps happening.

 

[-Blue-]

Nintendo should had never made Redd have all fakes. There should always been one legit piece. Especially because Redd is always fighting all the other rng npc for a spot. Like if Leif and Label could move back to the town there'd be less competition.

 

[Starboard]

Does anyone else have an issue with their tool ring disappearing before you can select something?

Also I'm sad that you now have to subscribe to Nintendo Online to share QR codes. It seems kind of scummy along with the other stuff you need to pay to trade for.

I know it's not a lot of money but I also know there are people that for various reasons just can't pay the subscription (or don't want to for just one game) or whose countries don't have access to the app or in some cases can't even go online and they're missing out on things that they could have done for free in New Leaf :/ It just makes me a little sad.

 

[Xane_MM]

Does anyone else have an issue with their tool ring disappearing before you can select something?

I've had that happen to me. Usually rotating around the wheel or going from one side to the other makes the wheel suddenly close and my current tool is put away. Is there some kind of hidden gesture here that the game doesn't tell players about...?