Controversial opinion, but I think people are severely underrating the dialogue in this game

[Jas]

Yes! I love that if you see them come away from a conversation angry, they'll tell you what the other one did to set them off! I've wanted that since the first game, but instead they used to just act angry at you

i like that you can also comfort them after a few rounds of talking and then they stop being angry! it's so handy for when you really want to give them a gift but they're so mad LOL

 

[ForgottenT]

I'm getting the same 3 dialouges from all the different personalities, Wendy have told me 10 times the last couple days that her voice is gone because she tried to do heavy metal or something, every day it's the first thing she says, and even more times after. Same with everyone else, it's just the same dialouge again and again and again, I barely speak to them anymore.
There's also a huge lack of player input in conversations, leading to the recycle dialouge being even worse.
Ruby just told me 3 times in a row how the moon is x x and x blah blah.
The dialouge is awful, I don't see the supposedly good interactions you're having.

 

[Rosewater]

It's a huge step up from New Leaf and I'm incredibly grateful for that. The villagers do give a lot of one liners but at least the whole town isn't saying the same thing and constantly repeating themselves!

 

[Lazaros]

i honestly don't see why everyone is getting so mad about the dialogue being "bad", when i'm playing the GC version alongside it and despite some differences in tone (which is basically villagers just being awfully unfriendly) both wolfgang and fang talk about the same repetitive stuff after 3-4 times talking to them as well.

i'm not a fan of peppy villager dialogue in the new game, i need to change my island up to at least incooperate one of each personality type and i'm not saying it's awful dialogue. i'd say it's the same as always - gets repetitive after a good chunk of time, and that's how it is. for any of the AC games.

 

[Envy]

The dialogue variety improved once Bunny Day was over (god, that was awful), but it is still *very* repetitive. I've certainly seen some fun dialogue here and there, and I like how all of the villagers (even the super nice Normal ones) try to sell you items for super inflated prices. That's a little mean, but not too mean (which, unpopular opinion, I think GCN was).

One way they could improve everything is returning the GCN feature of being able to ask for errands. I haven't the slightest clue why this never returned and it has frustrated me ever since. But hey, at least we've come a long way from City Folk where there were no options when talking to villagers and they were extremely repetitive. CF was so bad.

 

[Edge]

My villagers (especially my smug ones) are very chatty with each other, and I like how there will be a big speech bubble pop up on the screen when they are yelling near by to you. Either Reneigh or Skye yelled something like “just leave me alone!”. When I walked over to them Skye was stomping her feet angrily, I initiated conversation and she started to vent about how Reneigh had made her so angry. It was neat how if you keep talking to an angry village you can help them to think through their troubles.

 

[ForgottenT]

I'm getting the same 3 dialouges from all the different personalities, Wendy have told me 10 times the last couple days that her voice is gone because she tried to do heavy metal or something, every day it's the first thing she says, and even more times after. Same with everyone else, it's just the same dialouge again and again and again, I barely speak to them anymore.
There's also a huge lack of player input in conversations, leading to the recycle dialouge being even worse.
Ruby just told me 3 times in a row how the moon is x x and x blah blah.
The dialouge is awful, I don't see the supposedly good interactions you're having.

Just talked to Tangy for the first time today, guess what she said...

 

[thelonewanderer]

One thing that I've read over and over is that the villagers are blander than they've ever been and that there's less dialogue than ever.

I really really disagree with this. I think this game takes a huge step back in the right direction after New Leaf. I laugh at the dialogue way more than before, and am still finding new conversations a month in. Is there repetition? Of course. But I haven't been told a thousand times that I'm looking cool as a fair number of cucumbers, or felt like I'm a God the villagers can't stop adoring the second they met me, trapped in some weird hero worship relationship. New Leaf had a lot going for it but dialogue was so generic.

Its not the peak dialogue in the series, I suspect that will always be the GameCube game, whether legitimately or due to nostalgia. But I'm 150 hours in and still enjoy talking to everyone... I was over New Leaf's dialogue in a week.

Not just blindly praising the game. I see lots of room for improvement. Crafting can be streamlined, NPCs and items need to be added, some special NPC dialogue menus need significantly trimmed down (looking at you Orville and Fishing Tourney CJ)... But I vehemently disagree that this is the lowest point, and feel like I'm playing a completely different game from the people who complain about it?

It had to be better than New Leaf, the dialogue in that game is an embarrassment, and reason why I don't consider New Leaf a true AC game.

I mean the bar was set at 0 with New Leaf personalities so if it was worst than New Leaf, might as well just end the franchise.

New Horizon is still no where close to Gamecube version and is still far inferior to Wild World. So until we get back to those peak, the developers get no praise from me. None at all. None, Zip, Nada, No No, Nil, No Boss

 

[tokkio]

im curious, do the villagers still keep giving out "tutorial" dialogue even after playing for a while?

in new leaf, even after being mayor for years, some of the villagers still say tutorial stuff like "hey did you know there's a shortcut to switch tools etc etc" and it was just so annoying lol

 

[xSuperMario64x]

I think the reason why the dialogue was better before is because it seems like now they say just one line and then all of a sudden the conversation is over. At least on AC:GCN they would say quite a few lines of text as if you're actually having a conversation with them. In NH it just seems like a bunch of boring small talk.

 

[Mairmalade]

The Lazy dialogue is my favorite. Their letters and comments are a cross between hilarious and accidentally heartwarming.

I also appreciate that Blathers brought back his quick facts.

 

[Venusian31]

I see so many people saying they don't talk to their villagers much because the conversation is boring, but that's exactly WHY it's staying boring. You have to keep talking to your villagers, even if they seem annoyed by it at first, because that's how your relationship improves and the better the relationship gets, the more developed and interesting the conversations get. I talk to my villagers multiple times a day every day and it never gets old. They're always saying something new and only rarely have repetition and they even tell me stories about their lives before living on the island. Maybe I'm just lucky and have great villagers, but I love talking to them. They keep me laughing all the time.

 

[Capablanca]

Anyone else find it hilarious how Wilbur always mentions bellbottoms when you leave a nook mile island?

 

[Figment]

As annoying and repetitive as the bunny day dialogue was, I'm kind of excited at the thought of potential DLC dialogue updates. It seems like the type of thing that would be easy enough to do and has been done already anyway. Hopefully future updates would be more varied than Bunny Day, and these kind of dialogue additions wouldn't be limited to holidays only.

In any case, I think the conversations in this game are adorable! I love villager interactions.

 

[Fridaynightcatlady]

I totally agree. In fact, I made a thread about this not long ago.

I think those who complain about it just don’t remember the quality of the dialogue in NL. It was, imo, 90% of the time villagers asking you stuff (“catch me this” “fetch me that” “get me some furniture” “sell me this”) and like 10% interesting dialogue that got repetitive. Even NPC dialogue in NL was awful. They butchered all NPCs (so much for having soo many NPC’s lol)

As for previous games. I love WW and GCN dialogue. However, if you do look back on those games, the dialogue isn’t as different to what we have now. I think NH is on par with WW, tbh. Even GCN and WW had repetitive lines and GCN had loooots of those “connect your GBA” dialogue. I believe we look back at the dialogue in GCN more fondly also because of nostalgia. I do think it’s great, though, and the best in the series. But people are crazy to think NH is so far from that. Sure, villagers aren’t mean (which was taken off bc of complains, so there you have it).

If anything, and if you’re one of the people claiming NH dialogue sucks compared to previous entries, at least show some evidence about it.

 

[N a t]

I love this game's dialogue and there are so many dialogue options that it makes me feel like there are more than just 10 personalities! I have two lazy villagers who are still totally different! One if very childish and food driven while the other actually does yoga often, leave the house a lot, and talks about playing hard all day long! They still have common lazy traits but for a lazy Bones comes of almost jock at times!

 

[Romaki]

There's a lot of diverse dialogue for each item and event, but the day-to-day dialogue is pretty lacking from my experience so far. I just got the same dialogue greeting from a villager twice.

 

[Feraligator]

I love the dialogue, I also see it as an improvement to NL. It's not as good as GC/WW but it's an improvement from the last two games at least.

One thing I've noticed is that a lot of the time, when you first speak to one of your villagers for the first time in a new day it'll be really short and probably one of the generic ones like "I've been basking in it" or "fools plan" or whatever. If you speak to them again throughout the day there seems to be a lot of stuff they like to talk about.

 

[ForgottenT]

I think those who complain about it just don’t remember the quality of the dialogue in NL. It was, imo, 90% of the time villagers asking you stuff (“catch me this” “fetch me that” “get me some furniture” “sell me this”) and like 10% interesting dialogue that got repetitive.

That's one of the biggest things the villagers lack now, no interaction, you don't get invited to their house, or invite them, they barely ask for anything, now it's just dry text that's the same over and over again.

 

[Fridaynightcatlady]

That's one of the biggest things the villagers lack now, no interaction, you don't get invited to their house, or invite them, they barely ask for anything, now it's just dry text that's the same over and over again.

Lol but they do ask for things / have things returned / gift you things or try to buy from you. It’s just slower this time around (much like how GCN was). And we don’t know if they can get invited to your home yet, right?