Searching on the internet looking for some Animal Crossing Switch information, I bumped into this: http://boards.4channel.org/v/thread/444912794/animal-crossing-leaks
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Obviously, we must be careful while reading this. It might be true, but, like most leaks, there are strong possibilities this is all false.
Personally, when I got to the part where it says "Villagers still remain a little neutered personality wise" and then "Their dialogue is also much more varied and interesting." I started wondering about the truthfulness of the leak. Apart from the uncertain meaning of "neutered personality", if that means that villagers' personalities will be a bit static, then how can dialogues be "more varied and interesting"?! Maybe I just didn't understand that, but also the whole online multiplayer thing is not so credible, in my mind.
On the other hand, I think the information about the development and the releasing date might be true.
What do you think about it?
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I know how excited everyone is for the upcoming game and I wanted to give you all some info about Animal Crossing 2019.
Just to give you some background: Development began in 2016 with an intended release year of 2019. It was being worked on concurrently with Splatoon 2 and development really ramped up when that game shipped.
Animal Crossing was actually not supposed to be announced in the September Direct. Nintendo was preparing to make promo material for Isabelle?s reveal as a challenger in Smash Bros but they realised that her appearance without any mention of a mainline AC game coming to Switch would receive massive backlash from the AC community. So they contracted the same contractor who made Isabelle?s Smash trailer to also make a quick CGI trailer using existing assets. I believe the intended reveal date was January.
Now onto the meat of the leak? Animal Crossing 2019 will be entitled Animal Crossing: Welcome Home and is targeting a release date of March 2019. I?m not sure about the exact date as plans are in flux dependent on whether or not Nintendo feels they are able to hit their self-imposed target of 20 mil Switches. I don?t really understand how it can come out so soon but that is the date I?m hearing.
Finally, I have seen gameplay footage of the game and it is something to be excited about. They have made great strides in the graphics of the game and it is exactly what you would expect from a Switch game: dynamic lighting and shadows across the board, embrace of physically based rendering and no dynamic resolution!
Isabelle will be back in AC:WH so you all can rest easy. They have made so many nice QOL changes and big gameplay changes across the board. Villagers still remain a little neutered personality wise but they participate in town management much more actively this time. They?ll do stuff like contribute significantly to public works project and pick up weeds. Their dialogue is also much more varied and interesting.
In terms of online multiplayer: There won?t be like a huge online hub but there will be an Animal Crossing Plaza clone where you can post drawings like in Splatoon 2. Dream towns will make a return so I eagerly await to see people coming with cool stuff like Aika town. The game will use the Nintendo Switch Online app for voice chat and will have a Splatnet 2 esque interface to let mayors easily share stuff like patterns and such. There will also be a calendar to let players keep track of in game events as well as to create play appointments with players over the internet.
Just to give you some background: Development began in 2016 with an intended release year of 2019. It was being worked on concurrently with Splatoon 2 and development really ramped up when that game shipped.
Animal Crossing was actually not supposed to be announced in the September Direct. Nintendo was preparing to make promo material for Isabelle?s reveal as a challenger in Smash Bros but they realised that her appearance without any mention of a mainline AC game coming to Switch would receive massive backlash from the AC community. So they contracted the same contractor who made Isabelle?s Smash trailer to also make a quick CGI trailer using existing assets. I believe the intended reveal date was January.
Now onto the meat of the leak? Animal Crossing 2019 will be entitled Animal Crossing: Welcome Home and is targeting a release date of March 2019. I?m not sure about the exact date as plans are in flux dependent on whether or not Nintendo feels they are able to hit their self-imposed target of 20 mil Switches. I don?t really understand how it can come out so soon but that is the date I?m hearing.
Finally, I have seen gameplay footage of the game and it is something to be excited about. They have made great strides in the graphics of the game and it is exactly what you would expect from a Switch game: dynamic lighting and shadows across the board, embrace of physically based rendering and no dynamic resolution!
Isabelle will be back in AC:WH so you all can rest easy. They have made so many nice QOL changes and big gameplay changes across the board. Villagers still remain a little neutered personality wise but they participate in town management much more actively this time. They?ll do stuff like contribute significantly to public works project and pick up weeds. Their dialogue is also much more varied and interesting.
In terms of online multiplayer: There won?t be like a huge online hub but there will be an Animal Crossing Plaza clone where you can post drawings like in Splatoon 2. Dream towns will make a return so I eagerly await to see people coming with cool stuff like Aika town. The game will use the Nintendo Switch Online app for voice chat and will have a Splatnet 2 esque interface to let mayors easily share stuff like patterns and such. There will also be a calendar to let players keep track of in game events as well as to create play appointments with players over the internet.
Obviously, we must be careful while reading this. It might be true, but, like most leaks, there are strong possibilities this is all false.
Personally, when I got to the part where it says "Villagers still remain a little neutered personality wise" and then "Their dialogue is also much more varied and interesting." I started wondering about the truthfulness of the leak. Apart from the uncertain meaning of "neutered personality", if that means that villagers' personalities will be a bit static, then how can dialogues be "more varied and interesting"?! Maybe I just didn't understand that, but also the whole online multiplayer thing is not so credible, in my mind.
On the other hand, I think the information about the development and the releasing date might be true.
What do you think about it?
When it comes to that confusion you pointed out about villagers, I think it could be referring that the same personality system is set in stone, but how the villagers talk will vary a lot more (I hope the new game will have dialogue just as rich or richer than the Gamecube AC!).
