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[Allure]

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[DaisyFan]

You're not the only one! I dislike the villagers who are mean and I've seen some screenshots and videos of those before. So, I like villager who are nice. :')

 

[Moritz]

I'm with ya
The last thing I need from my escapism is to be called all the worst things I think about myself.

I really don't get the appeal of that.

I can understand wanting villagers to not act like your best friend the moment you meet them, but that's not the same as being treated like garbage.

 

[meggiewes]

I don't want that level of meanness either. I understand wanting more villager dialogue, but I wouldn't like it too much if they just started insulting me for no reason. If it was silly names or just a bit of coldness before gaining more friendship, that would be better.

 

[Envy]

You're not the only one. I always feel sad when I see people tie it to the more interesting and varied dialogue of older AC games, as if we can't have one without the other. The problem with the villagers in recent games is not that they're too nice, it's that they have so little dialogue, so little options when talking to them, and they rarely ever give us anything to do.

GCN villagers were a winner not because they were rude, but because we could always ask for errands and they had more varied dialogue.

(Besides, I recall some rather passive aggressive dialogue from villagers in NH, particularly when you talk to them more than once they're like "Don't you have a life or anything?")

 

[-Blue-]

I don't want them to be mean like they were in PG, but we definitely need middle ground. While PG was far too rude. NH and NL are way too nice.

 

[VanitasFan26]

This is complicated. While it is true that villagers in the original game were a lot meaner, I think if they were always mean and barely say anything nice it would get old really fast. Then again people complained about the villagers being too nice. There needs to be a balance between nice and mean villagers.

 

[-Blue-]

(Besides, I recall some rather passive aggressive dialogue from villagers in NH, particularly when you talk to them more than once they're like "Don't you have a life or anything?")

I don't know if I would call this particular part passive aggressive. It just rubs me the wrong way that they all do it. It feels like a translation issue or something. Like I really want to know what the Japanese dialogue for a second chat is.

 

[Silkfawn]

NH is my first AC game, but when I saw some of the screenshots of the older games, I just wonder how the game could be appropriate for children?

With that being said, I'd like some personalities to have more character without being derogative.
Take crankies for example; to me they should be re-labelled as 'fatherly' or 'grampa-y' because there is nothing cranky about them.

I'm hopeful we're gonna get different dialogue with the new update and excited about them visiting our homes.

 

[nageki]

i agree with not wanting them to be straight-up abusive like in some of the old screenshots that get shared, but as someone who's only also played new leaf i gotta say i found it really rewarding when my first cranky villager (camofrog) finally started warming up to me and being nice. i think i cried when he said i was his friend

 

[Miss Misty]

Sometimes in the GCN version it felt like a Comedy Central Roast for no reason with some of the villagers (snooties >_>) even if you'd been playing for months and talked to them every day, and should presumably have been friends. But there's a huge middle ground between 'hating your guts' and 'worshiping the ground you walk on' that could be explored to add some variety.

 

[Maymeows16]

I don't want them aggressive either just for them to have more personality and dialogue instead of the same repeating 3 lines and rarely something different or interesting o~O

 

[Pig-Pen]

I can understand what you are saying and it can be a little distasteful, but it's just silly to me, makes me laugh.

 

[Antonio]

Nah, I need villagers to have no chill and learn verbal explicit words. Be a whole new game then lol

 

[Faux]

I don't want them mean per se, but a little less sugar coating on everything would be fun.
Like, don't call me names, but treating me like an actual stranger you're just awkwardly being polite to would be fine, lol.

 

[S.J.]

I never played the earlier games, and I've heard about the villagers being mean, but I haven't seen any screenshots or experienced it myself, so I'm not really sure how I feel about it!

I once accidentally pushed Rodeo all the way around a cliff (because I couldn't see him behind the cliff) and he got quite upset! I was definitely surprised.

I'm happy with how lovely they are, and I don't feel like they lack dialogue, but I appreciate that other people have played the earlier games and prefer something different! ❤

 

[Serabee]

I feel the same way, lol. I remember getting in fights with villagers in the OG game as a kid and it definitely didn't do anything add to my enjoyment I'm all for more dialogue, but I enjoy the current attitudes of the villagers. Also, while they're not as mean, some can be unsettling at times- which I love. I want to know more about the wall clowns and talking bugs that the lazy villagers talk about!

 

[mintycream]

I used to hate some of the villagers bc of their insults and would alway smack em with the net lol. Definitely don’t like that level of meanness but I don’t want them to be overly nice either. I do want more dialogue to match their personalities, like sometimes I feel like the cranky villagers aren’t cranky enough. I want them to be a bit more indifferent to me and overtime warm up to me, similar to how Sable was in the beginning

 

[Licorice]

I’ve always loved the insults. The gamecube one was my first animal crossing game so it’s super sentimental to me, maybe that’s partly why. If the villagers could curse me out or fight me I’d be happy lol

 

[Croconaw]

Definitely not. I dislike mean villagers. That’s likely why my least favorite personality is snooty. More dialogue would be great, but I don’t want villagers outright insulting you or other villagers. I play Animal Crossing to escape from the real world sometimes. Some people are not nice and I like how sweet the villagers are to you. I started playing the series during my childhood where I was bullied so badly in school, and that is an understatement. The villagers treated me like an actual human being and made me feel real happiness. That was a feeling I’ve never experienced in school. I like when villagers are sweet or neutral towards you, not cold and rude.