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[Milano]

I'm enjoying the game and now that a lot of my irl friends have been able to get their hands on a switch, I have been enjoying showering them with gifts lol. I'll eventually stop playing but I'm not sure when that will be. I've never been one to play a game (whether it be AC, Pokemon, etc etc) for more than maybe a year. Over time I just complete things and get too busy irl to feel the need to complete dailys/talk to villagers etc. But that isn't a fault of the game

 

[-Blue-]

Most times a game selling well is an indication of how great of a game it is. I am not saying New Horizon isn't a good game. I enjoy it a lot, but I don't think it's fair to judge when this game came out during a very strange time. Almost everyone is out of work, out of school, and has a lot of time and not much to do because they're not allowed to go outside unless it's an emergency/essential.

And it's clear that the game has grabbed the interest of people who would had never picked up this game had it been released during a normal time.

 

[TrippyKitten]

I still log in every day to check shops and get my recipes. But my hours of play has dropped to about 20 to 40 minutes. I completed the fossils, I don't even bother to dig them up now...really miss gyroids, that would give me a new reason to dig again. Though I'm not caught up on the fish available, I have time to catch what I'm missing so I don't go out of my way to fish. I have millions in the ABD, I'm not bothered to make bells. I have over 90k nook miles, I'm not bothered to complete tasks. I have most things in the shop or just don't care enough at this point to buy them for the catalogue. I can't be bothered to shake trees anymore. I fiddle around with decorating when I see something inspirational or get an idea I want to implement, but I know most of my aesthetic relies on items in fall and I don't time travel. Villager dialogue leaves me with little interest in talking to villagers more than once a day, sometimes I can't even be bothered to do that. And terraforming? Meh. I like a more simple layout. So I completed all the terraforming I had an interest in on the first day I got it. I don't really care about getting 5 stars.

Until a major update happens or once I get to fall and have access to items I want to decorate with...I don't see myself really playing much more than the 20 to 40 minutes a day. I've been busy with modded Minecraft, the new Terraria update and Divinity 2.

I did recently get my mom a Switch and ACNH for mother's day, so it's been really nice to see her play and how she takes everything so slow instead of rushing through all the beginning stuff like I did. Haha And I look forward to playing with her online once I move out of the country.

 

[Celes]

I've only played NL and NH, but I much prefer NH over NL. Terraforming is a game-changer, and the QOL improvements over NL (plot resetting is a hell I never want to return to lol) make NH the better game imo. However, I can see why fans of past entries dislike NH. NH is way more of a design sim compared to past games. NL had a lot of incentives to keep the player interested for months with many unlockable shops, upgrades, etc that served as end-goals. NH doesn't really have these end-goals as it takes one month w/o time traveling max to get the upgraded shop and finish the "main story". Sure there's still the museum and completing the catalog, but many players aren't interested in those, and it's an incredibly long process w/o time traveling. To really enjoy NH, you basically have to enjoy the design sim aspects as there's not really much to do outside of that after the "main story". As it is now without the updates, the end-goals in NH require self-motivation on behalf of the player to design their perfect town. AC was never meant to just be a design sim, but NH really pushes the design elements more than the other aspects of AC that some people may prefer more.

Personally, the biggest lost imo was Tortimer's Island. I have a lot of fond memories of playing with friends there. In NH, there's honestly not much to do with friends other than run around and explore their town. I've seen people create their own minigames, but it's not really the same. I really hope it comes back soon in a future update.

 

[Merritt]

I try and at least complete my dailies every day. I still have a lot to do on my island: get more of my dreamies, get more DIYs, finish off all my loans, terraform, etc. Perhaps it's because I don't often play for hours on end, but I definitely can't see myself stopping anytime soon.

 

[helloxcutiee]

The game has only been out for two months and you already stopped playing? Anyways, I still play every single day I haven't even started landscaping my island yet.

 

[John Wick]

It should improve a bit. I had this complaint too, but as you reach higher friendship tiers with your villagers, they do say cooler stuff. The problem is that the game has poor logic (imo) for determining what to say. I often have to speak to them over and over to get them to talk to me about anything other than my tools/who just came to my village/my secondary visitor. And there's only one or two lines for those things. Anyway, don't give up hope, if you keep raising friendship with your villagers and/or encounter them in new situations, they'll become more interesting. But I agree that this is a problem with the game.

I've been playing since the GCN AC, and back then there weren't so many customisation functions... so the hook was just the social sim, so when it's lacking, I really feel it. I do agree with these complaints a lot and it does make the game weaker for me. The dialogue is mostly well-written, at least.

Wolfgang said something that made me laugh last night.

I'm typing what's on my screenshots!

Wolfgang: "I was at my pal's house, and he told me to boot up the computer. So I get ready to drop-kick the thing, and he looks at me funny.
He starts talkin' about hard drive and I'm like, "Buddy, I walked here!"

LOL

 

[jumpluff]

Wolfgang said something that made me laugh last night.

I'm typing what's on my screenshots!

Wolfgang: "I was at my pal's house, and he told me to boot up the computer. So I get ready to drop-kick the thing, and he looks at me funny.
He starts talkin' about hard drive and I'm like, "Buddy, I walked here!"

LOL

The Cranky personalities are really all-stars in this game LOL. They have that signature AC idiosyncrasy, while still feeling very real and relatable (and everyone loves a gruff softie). I haven't seen that line yet, thank you for sharing! It's hilarious.

 

[John Wick]

The Cranky personalities are really all-stars in this game LOL. They have that signature AC idiosyncrasy, while still feeling very real and relatable (and everyone loves a gruff softie). I haven't seen that line yet, thank you for sharing! It's hilarious.

Hehe, gotta love Wolfgang.

He's one in a million.

 

[Cethosia]

There sure has been a lot of negativity in this thread. This seems to be happening a lot when people start talking about something like this, or the flaws NH has compared to NL (I personally never liked NL, so I can't relate)

Anyway, I still play ACNH, but I have been playing it less than in the beginning. I started playing some other games and have been splitting my time between them.

 

[Spooky.]

I was playing a very limited amount this week, mainly popping on to check my shops and see how anything new like a bridge looks but I didn't do much. I was starting to feel bored with it and I was worried I'd want to stop playing, but instead of giving up I decided to finally start building new areas or re-doing areas I made before to make things more fresh.

 

[Bunlily]

I have... I don't know why honestly. I tell myself every day that I will boot up the game that day and play but I end up playing or doing something else. I'm starting to believe it is because I burned myself out on the game too quickly lol. That and I'm swamped with school work right now. I do plan on playing it later on tonight or tomorrow. Hopefully, I'll get my inspiration back soon to play it every day!!

 

[Dwayne Johnson]

i've been playing a lot less now since i've been bingeing a very long anime but i still try to check in daily, but i don't sit and play for hours like i did in april, still enjoying the game tho

 

[Hirisa]

I’m still playing the game every day and liking it a lot. I am glad there is a natural limit to what one can do in a day because if there wasn’t, working from home would be a lot harder for me! As it is, I wake up at 5 AM to get some playtime before work, and that routine has been really good for me, mentally. Something about the gentle music and the luminous 5 AM light, walking along the beach in search of messages in bottles, walking through my gardens in search of new buds provides a hopeful counterpoint to my lived reality and reminds me that all things are temporary.

“And remember that bad times are just times that are bad” and all that.

Anyway, I’m still appreciating what ACNH is and not paying much attention to what it is not, and as long as I stay in that mindset, I can see playing for a long, long time.

 

[Zane]

It takes me years to stop playing an AC game so no.

 

[Cheallaigh]

I’m still playing the game every day and liking it a lot. I am glad there is a natural limit to what one can do in a day because if there wasn’t, working from home would be a lot harder for me! As it is, I wake up at 5 AM to get some playtime before work, and that routine has been really good for me, mentally. Something about the gentle music and the luminous 5 AM light, walking along the beach in search of messages in bottles, walking through my gardens in search of new buds provides a hopeful counterpoint to my lived reality and reminds me that all things are temporary.

“And remember that bad times are just times that are bad” and all that.

Anyway, I’m still appreciating what ACNH is and not paying much attention to what it is not, and as long as I stay in that mindset, I can see playing for a long, long time.

lol bet my hubby wishes he could work from home, but he just had to be a mechanic... we're both up by 5:30 pretty much every day, has a set routine of shaking trees, getting fossils etc before he goes off to our garage. normally i'm our parts pick up and customer pick up/drop off(we're rural, no buses or taxis)/banker/phone answerer etc, but with where we live(cottage country) that's a risk now with sooo many citidiots coming up from toronto/airports/border(before they closed, i'm on part of the great lake huron) and ignoring social distancing/quarantine rules. i still go for parts, and they're prepaid for placed where i can get them with no interactions but that's only a few times a week... so i end up doing the turnip price checks on our islands at 8 and noon, since i'm no longer being the garage taxi and with no where to go... i have way too much time on my hands to play and the switch is so handy...

 

[Rize]

I agree it's becoming more slow but I still find myself going online every day.

 

[Gaz]

I’m pretty bored of it already, so I’m just playin fluke for half an hour a day, harvesting and saying this to the islanders. I figure at some point they’ll make some improvements that make the game worth playing, hopefully.

 

[LilBabyDelirium]

May I just say that the thing I LOVE about this game is that it's meant to be fun, friendly, and community-building. I think that TBT is a wonderful place for us to connect and share our thoughts, opinions, and items for sale or trade.

Let's try to remember the spirit of the game before hopping down someone's throat assuming they meant you when they said "most people".

Times right now are tough; many of us are stuck at home and want some normalcy and ACNH has been giving many of us just that. It allows me an escape after many, many hours a week working in healthcare with our country's most vulnerable citizens.

Thank you all for helping to improve my escape, my happy place.

 

[alpacalypse]

i've played every day since launch, and with the whole quarantine situation i've already racked up a few hundred hours in the game—even then, i feel like my play time would be a lot higher if i weren't actively trying to play less every day c': the game is really fun to me! while i've completed several things (77/80 fish, 65/80 bugs, full fossil collection, nearly all kk songs), i find a lot of enjoyment in terraforming, working on indoor/outdoor decoration, collecting seasonal materials like mushrooms and maple leaves, and building a stock of nmt for island-hopping—i don't time travel, so i've still planning to move half of my residents out! it helps that i have lots of friends who play, too, since we can share fossils/kk songs/art/celeste/villager crafting recipes. i find myself getting a new piece of art and a new celeste recipe nearly every other day ^^

i feel that this may be an unpopular opinion, but i actually like that updates are being rolled out one at a time! it gives both time travelers and non-time travelers things to experience simultaneously, if that makes sense? my biggest complaint is probably the lack of furniture (i really miss the princess set and the rococo set!), but i'm hoping that it'll be included in a later update. in the meantime, i have plenty of things to keep me busy~