Ideas for next AC game

[nekosync]

Idea #1

When a villager asks you to come to their house, once you're inside you can sit down together (providing that there is a place to sit down). They might offer you food or a drink. Normal, smug, and uchi villagers are more likely to offer you things, whilst snooty and cranky villagers won't be likely to ask you.

If you're at a villager's house, you can do an activity together that corresponds with their personality (if they offer and if you accept, of course) or a miscellaneous one.

Spoiler: ideas for villager activities

~ jumping jacks with jock villagers
~ talking about people behind their backs with snooty villagers
~ trying on different clothes with uchi and snooty villagers
~ eating with uchi villagers
~ cooking with uchi villagers
~ baking with normal villagers
~ dancing with peppy villagers
~ playing an instrument with any villager
~ getting spa-style facials with snooty villagers
~ discussing the newspaper with cranky villagers (usually exaggerated news headlines and etc. for comedy)

Idea #2

Whilst any villager is speaking to you, you can press X and Y at the same time to ignore what they're saying and leave the conversation. When you do this, the villager will sigh, get angry, or get very sad. Your friendship level will also decrease if you do this.

Idea #3

Villagers can run up to you and instantly start conversation, just like how you can start coversation with them. Of course, if you don't wanna talk to them, you can do idea #2...

Idea #4

You can pick various topics to talk about with your villagers, or let them speak.

Idea #5

You can ask villagers to go places with you (e.g.: the beach, the shops, the museum). They might decline if they're busy or just dislike you.

Idea #6

You can cook, and so can villagers. All you need to do is buy a stove.

Idea #7

There are telephones in the game which you can use to call other villagers. If they're not at home or greatly dislike you, they won't pick up the phone.

Idea #8

You can choose to mute the in-game music and just have the sounds of your town.

 

[SunnyWindy]

Have a bank deposit for items that you want to share between each save slots of your cartridge.

Have more inventory space/closet space.

Have an easy way to know which item you didn't give to the museum... I accidentally sold a bug I didn't gave to the museum previously, now I'm still trying to figure out which one it was...

 

[MoeTheCatFan999]

These are all AWESOME ideas!
I would love to take my villagers to the island! And Moe is not in my head right now.
Also, maybe make the villagers wear pants? And give KK some clothes (for some reason I can't imagine that)

 

[ZoeZoe]

A) Bundling the same kinda flowers together into 'bouquets' in much the same way you can have baskets of fruit
B) CHOOSING YOUR MOTHERLOVING SKIN TONE and then in the summer/ winter it can vary a few shades
C) Being able to make gift packages, sorta like how you can wrap presents! But being able to fit many items in the basket. This way, if friends come to your town you can give them gifts quickly, makes for a neat trick of storage, and
C as well kinda) making care packages for villagers who are sick- maybe you can add a blanket, medicine, an apple/orange/their favorite fruit (I'll get there) and maybe some sorta book, magazine, or comic! Along with being able to add a little 'get well soon' card! ♥
D) Villagers having a favorite fruit!! Sorta like how in the old games islanders had a favorite fruit? (I only remember Ankha's was a cherry ) so they can bring it up in conversation and if you bring them their favorite fruit when they ask for any fruit, your friendship increases faster!
E) Yeah, newspapers!! Maybe you'll be able to open the printing shop as a PWP and it's run by a little robin who's feathers are constantly stained with ink or something equally adorable. A paper can come out once a week stating developments to the town, how villagers are doing, etc etc!
F) Building on that, comics!! Or something!! Like, short lil things you're able to read!! And each villager can have a favorite they'll talk about all excitedly. Peppys and Lazys love comics, snooties and uchis love magazines, Crankys and Jocks love the paper the most!! ♥
G) More interaction with ISABELLE and other NPCs. Maybe an apartment complex where they all live where you can see them at night. Find out more back stories. My very soul desires more interaction with Isabelle- I wanna be able to write letters to her!!! ♥
I have a ton more but these are all literally off the top of my head.

 

[Hot]

I'd probably leave the AC fandom if 1/3 of those ideas were implemented in the next game tbh. Sound options and character customization at the beginning of the game would be nice though.

 

[woodlandmermaid]

I think more mini games with the villagers in general would be nice! ^-^% I love playing hide and seek with them so if there were a few more games to play with them it would be pretty cool!

I also agree on more character customization!

 

[ZoeZoe]

I'd probably leave the AC fandom if 1/3 of those ideas were implemented in the next game tbh. Sound options and character customization at the beginning of the game would be nice though.

1) Wouldn't you stop playing the game, not 'leave the fandom'
2) you could state, y'know, positives, or other plots you want
That doesn't sound like enough to remake the whole game!
Anywho, I'd also really love paths being more heavily implimented- like, separate slots for the pattern!! It'd also be cool if you'd also be able to designate some areas a 'main path' that villagers CANNOT MOVE ON. I'd like that even more than choosing where they plot their houses!
There'd obviously have to be restrictions and all, but eh!

- - - Post Merge - - -

I think more mini games with the villagers in general would be nice! ^-^% I love playing hide and seek with them so if there were a few more games to play with them it would be pretty cool!

I also agree on more character customization!

^^^^^ !!!!! More minigames yes, and can you imagine? Filling in if you have more eyelashes or freckles, a bigger nose or mouth, etc!!
Wouldn't it also be cool if you had a talent? Some people breed hybrids faster, some people find it easier to catch big sharks or tricky bugs and some people finding different fossils faster!! That seems like a neat idea too ♥

 

[Hot]

1) Wouldn't you stop playing the game, not 'leave the fandom'

I consider not associating myself with the game and stopping my blog "leaving the fandom", so. Yeah, I'd just leave.

2) you could state, y'know, positives, or other plots you want

I could, yeah. But oh well.

 

[Ammoth]

… I want to choose Phyllis as my assistant and ban Isabelle to the post station

On a more constructive note, choosing where your dang villagers plot their dang houses would be HELLA
They could make it optional/a bit of work, even, like you'd have to talk to Isabelle each day and if someone moves in she tells you so, and that she's in the process of placing their home and you can help her, and if you choose not to help or don't talk to her on that day the plot is random. I don't care, anything provide there's an in game alternative?

More villager interactions would be cool tho, and flower bouquets sounds adorable.

And I'm all for more backstory! Remember to talk to Lyle tho, he tells you loads of stuff in this game! It's often overlooked, and he has a really irritating speech pattern, but he's cool for that.

 

[Ami Mercury]

Platypus villagers!!!!!!!

 

[mdchan]

I've only been playing AC:NL for two weeks, but there are things I'd like to see. Maybe I'll find more stuff as I keep playing (I've only seen part of one season, after all).

I also agree with more character customization, and being able to do more things with your villagers.
And I definitely want to see a residential zoning plan option. Maybe the game can start off with one or no villagers, and you have to plot where they go, then they start moving into your town.

Other things I'd like to see:

-Harvest Moon meets Animal Crossing (an option to include more farming of actual crops; could be a spinoff game or separate game rather than included in the next AC, but I'd really love to do more farm work with the way the clock system in AC works).

-Shopkeepers DON'T FOLLOW YOU AROUND. This is annoying the heck out of me.

-An option to turn off the garbled talking noise whenever an animal speaks. I've started to get used to it, but it can still be annoying at times.

-Better chance of finding a random spawn of a perfect native fruit. Shouldn't have to ask someone else for a perfect version of the fruit which grows in my town because it just won't appear. Also, perhaps some improvement to the appearance of perfect fruits? The apples look like they have thorns.

-The wardrobe and dresser have separate storage units; this allows for more items, especially with the gyroids taking up 3/4 of a drawer.

-A way to see where people you invite into your town are when they go out of sight; maybe show up as colored figure-like icons on the map.

-Larger Re-Tail; I have tons of items I want to sell, and currently am using all the Re-Tail spaces already.

-Some way to petition (perhaps by signatures) to get an unwanted villager to move out faster.

-A way to see the friendship progress with villagers (like the hearts in Harvest Moon).

 

[KittyKookie]

I'd love it if we could do different jobs or minigames for bells! It would also be nice to decide where a villager moves in too...

 

[ZoeZoe]

I always wished we could help Pete sometimes, in a lil mini-game way!! As if he got too busy sometimes and so we can go around making deliveries, and we get neat lil stuff in return like when we work for Brewster or take Katie somewhere!!! ♥
Hmmm I also wanna be able to give villagers your picture in return when you reach the highest level of friendship!! It would be an automatic thing tho, that way you can't give em away so that they lose meaning. You'd be able to choose your pose, the color of the frame, and it could have your birthday and star sign and favorite quote!! ♥
Maybe also the ability to demolish/renovate the first cobblestone bridge you get in case you're looking for a certain theme!! ♥

 

[MayorOrpheus]

I consider not associating myself with the game and stopping my blog "leaving the fandom", so. Yeah, I'd just leave.

I could, yeah. But oh well.

Lame. You're lame.

It's hard not to nitpick since there's been so many good ideas. I'd like to unlock the ability, through tom nook, to move villagers to a new spot. I don't care that it's random when they move in, I just want to be able to move fang to the other side of town.

 

[stitchmaker]

I love number 8. I'm trying to get the scorpion and don't want to listen to the music.

Wish the game had a catalog for clothing and furniture. Just like the museum does.
It would be helpful for the player or for when your visiting a town.

 

[TheEliteEmpoleon]

Being able to write checks to send money to other people. That would save soooooooo much time.

 

[ZoeZoe]

Being able to write checks to send money to other people. That would save soooooooo much time.

^^^^ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are the future oh my god

 

[PaperCat]

More inventory space, bigger maps for more villagers, more control over where villagers plot, easier to get villagers to move, more villager species, more character customization, more pattern slots.