is it just me or villagers dont have interesting dialogue?

[acnl.nancy]

anytime i talk to my villagers 99% of the time they always say that the moon is 235,000 miles away and they will walk around the island until they walked that length, then their like "call me moon *their species*!!" or some pun or whatever. i barley enjoy talking to my villagers anymore cause ITS THE ONLY THING THAT THEY SAY. anyone else?

 

[xTech]

Well yeah, once you've been playing the game for several hundreds of hours, obviously talking to NPC with repetitive dialogue is gonna get boring eventually. The majority of the time I kind of just ignore my villagers when they try to talk to me, and definitely don't proactively go out there and try to talk to them. Instead I merely observe them, usually in my explorer outfit, like a creepy David Attenborough. I would like if they had a slightly more diverse selection of dialogue, but even then like I said before, it will always get boring eventually, no matter how many new lines they add.

 

[Pintuition]

Do you have a lot of villagers that are the same personality? I've found the dialog to be more interesting amongst villagers of different types. When I had 3-4 of the same it got really repetitive and annoying. In any case, the dialog does repeat a lot in general. Hopefully they'll expand the dialog options in the future!

 

[Snowifer]

I usually don't talk to my villagers that often because of how much contextual dialog they put in, but sometimes they say something new. I just hand them their gift for the day and will see them around on my island. I try to catch conversations between villagers, but even that is getting repetitive due to the 3 lazies that I have.

I know they have seasonal dialog, so hopefully, they'll have more stuff to say in the fall.

 

[daringred_]

no, i agree. villager dialogue is always going to get stale/repetitive eventually (although i ironically didn't have that problem in NL despite playing it for 7 years) but it shouldn't happen as quickly as it did in this game. i've only had two villagers of the same personality twice: two normals and then two smugs. the smugs were particularly insufferable since their dialogue was almost always identical down to every word but their catchphrases.

 

[acnl.nancy]

Do you have a lot of villagers that are the same personality? I've found the dialog to be more interesting amongst villagers of different types. When I had 3-4 of the same it got really repetitive and annoying. In any case, the dialog does repeat a lot in general. Hopefully they'll expand the dialog options in the future!

i have mostly peppy and normal villagers, i have a lazy and a snooty villager too. thanks!

 

[SheepMareep]

I feel bad because I don't really talk to my villagers anymore kjdnfkjdnf but maybe it's a good thing because over the months i forgot all their dialogue for the most part so if i do talk to them it isnt too annoying lol

 

[Skunk]

I ignore my villagers xd. Just give them a gift, then I do other things. I love to just observe them.. respectfully!!

 

[Hobowire]

Dialog is repetitive. I wish I can skip it but it's a grind. Spamming A is what I do best.

 

[theviolentlolita]

From what I've observed they add a few extra lines of dialogue with each update, but generally you get the base dialogue most of the time. I also wish they would add more stuff like dialogue trees.

 

[Halloqueen]

I've found the villager dialogue in New Horizons to indeed be noticeably more bland and repetitive than I ever found it to be in New Leaf, and I've played a lot of New Leaf.

 

[Jules]

From what I've observed they add a few extra lines of dialogue with each update, but generally you get the base dialogue most of the time. I also wish they would add more stuff like dialogue trees.

This plus adding in hobbies like bug catching, fishing, art collecting that the player can assist with!

 

[Hirisa]

I’ve found that the higher my friendship with a villager is, the more dialogue variation I experience. I think that design choice makes sense but I am not a huge fan of how it was implemented, e.g having to exhaust event related dialog and observations about what you did yesterday first, and the constant reminders that you’ve spoken to them already. But I don’t think any of the previous titles did it better and in some cases I think earlier games, particularly New Leaf, did it worse, so it’s a bit of a wash for me.

 

[xChives]

If you talk to them repeatedly (usually about 4 or 5 times) they’ll finally start giving some interesting dialogue. Even so, I’m hoping they’ll add in some more engaging dialogue with future updates. I understand it would take a large amount of time to give every villager their own unique lines but what we have now is severely lacking...

 

[LuchaSloth]

It's definitely lacking...which is another reason why I wish they just kept the "ask for a job" functionality.

 

[Matt0106]

It's definitely taken a hit compared to other games. Even their requests; I missed when they would ask for different kinds of fruit since it gave fruit a bigger purpose, or for specific furniture (yes I know you gift them those things but it's not the same). Now they only ask for fish, bugs, or to do a treasure hunt. I miss that hide and seek game so much, but they don't ask.

I would ask for them to patch in more dialogue and requests, but usually stuff like that stays as is for the entirety of a game's lifetime.

 

[JunoHorizon]

Yeah I don't talk to mine at all besides gifts. Even if they run up to me I don't acknowledge them as it's usually just to buy something off me or give me some clothing duplicate and I can't be bothered to even say no anymore.

It doesn't help that all the contextual dialogue is front loaded so the first thing they ALL want to say to me every day is "you hit rocks, you dug up fossils, you are holding a bug net, let me tell you about the HHA". Even when I get to the non-contextual stuff I've heard it all a hundred times.

I still like my villagers as they're a cute bunch, but they're basically moving island decorations.

 

[Shellzilla_515]

I still get repetitive dialogue but I occasionally get new ones which is a treat. Though I think it has fared better than New Leaf from my experience. What my villagers talked about constantly from there are about rumours, how good their clothes look on them, and doing a lot of favours upon talking to them.

 

[DarkOnyx]

I miss when they'd ask you questions, or to rate something on a scale, and the dialogue would change based upon your answer.

 

[Chibiusa]

Every single time I talk to Flurry for the first time of the day (at least it feels like), she says the same exact line about the sun cheering her up.