Pet peeves on acnl

[Tap Dancer]

3. Non time travelers. Most think they are Soooo much better than us Time travels. Some won't even play with us time travelers.

One of my friends plays one month behind and the rest play in real time. I play one month ahead. No one has ever said anything negative to me. IMO, there is no wrong or right way to play. It's your game; play it however you want.


My list:

1. I wish we could change the color of our clothes the way we can change furniture. Maybe that blue dress would look better in yellow...

2. I don't like tanning. I have fair skin IRL and while I don't mind a slight tan on my mayor, I looked strange last summer because I was extremely dark. (I had dark brown hair at the time and my skin was almost the same color.) I don't like umbrellas and hats, but I guess I'll be forced to use them this year or I'll be crazy dark again. It would make everyone happier if we could choose our permanent skin color in the beginning of the game.

3. I wish we could choose where the villagers will live. I don't mind having no say on who moves in, but I think I should at least be given 3 or 4 choices of where to place their home.

4. I want a bigger map with 12 to 15 villagers. I also don't want to see anyone who moved out on Main Street.

5. I want to hang pictures on the wall instead of using up space on my tables. I also want to be able to give my picture to villagers! Wouldn't that be cute? If they place my picture in their house, that would prove we have a really high friendship level. I know that Marina and Cyrano are best friends in my town. Marina was at Cyrano's birthday party all day. (No other villagers came; I checked in the morning, in the afternoon, and again at night.) They should have pictures of each other in their houses.

 

[Rendra]

1. Skin-tone. WTF.
2. Where villagers place their houses (having a few options to place them would be really nice).
3. Re-color wallpaper & flooring. You can do this with furniture but not the matching wall & floor.
4. Hang villager's pictures on the walls and give them my picture too.
5. Have a catalog tab (but not for ordering) like you do for fish/bugs. So when you are in Nooklings/Able Sisters/Kicks and don't know if you have already had a particular item, you don't have to rush to the catalog machine in Nooklings to double check.
6. When you go and visit someone's town, I really wish you could go and visit their HHA Showcase. Some people get alot of streetpass houses while others get none.

 

[candiedapples]

I'm pretty happy with most aspects of the game. I don't think there is much that is worthy of rage-quitting or anything like that. I don't mind not being able to micromanage every little thing. I think all the villagers are cool and definitely don't think ANY of them deserve to be HATED and despised, and seeing people devote so many threads about why they HATE a fictional character. I dislike seeing so many complaints about how such and such a character is overrated or how people who like certain villagers are being too mainstream.

But I also wish it was easier to change the skin tone, instead of pale being the default. It's so hard to get a tan and so much easier to go back to the light skin. I'm a brown girl in real life, and it would be nice to see myself represented in more games.

The other thing has more to do with some of the players of the game. I don't like it when people misuse the term OCD when describing their playing style. It trivializes the experience of real life people who actually have this condition. Some of them may not be taken seriously because of the casual misuse of the term by other people. Just because you like to have your houses and plants all in a row and symmetrical doesn't make you OCD. it just means that you like to have an orderly landscape in your video game.

 

[Seth Lios]

One thing that really annoys me is villagers randomly planting flowers next to existing ones. I'm trying to grow specific hybrids, so it's a bit of a pain constantly having to move or get rid of the extra flowers.

 

[Tap Dancer]

The other thing has more to do with some of the players of the game. I don't like it when people misuse the term OCD when describing their playing style. It trivializes the experience of real life people who actually have this condition. Some of them may not be taken seriously because of the casual misuse of the term by other people. Just because you like to have your houses and plants all in a row and symmetrical doesn't make you OCD. it just means that you like to have an orderly landscape in your video game.

That's not a game pet peeve, for me, as much as an everyday pet peeve. People are always saying things like, "I'm so OCD about how my hair looks." No, you're not. I was diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and OCD. The things that I do out of compulsion are extreme. I'm picky about things in my game, but I don't have to do them and I don't think about them constantly.

 

[DarkFox7]

1. I personally like Bob. Not because of the whole religion thing, but because I've liked him ever since Wild World for his interesting design (a purple cat with spots and narrow eyes).

2. I agree, Jambette is very ugly. But the creators even stated so themselves that they purposely made "ugly" villagers so players would learn to not judge a book by its cover.

3. I've never seen non-time travelers ever act like they're so much better than time travelers. I've especially never heard of them not playing with time travelers for that reason. But if some truly have, then shame on those stuck up people, they don't deserve to play with those others anyway. I think you should be able to play the game however you want (since, y'know, it's YOUR game) without getting hated on for how you play.

4. I agree with you on that one. It's their, game, they bought it, so everyone else can get out of their business. If they wanna dupe, fine, I don't care. If they wanna hack, fine, I don't care. I just personally wouldn't do it myself.

5. I 100% agree with you. Though, I don't think it's anything worth getting offended over. Since the game was originally made in Japan, I'm pretty sure they base their human designs off of Japanese people since they all share the same skin color. But that's just my guess.

And I think you've already turned this into a hate thread, hon... Dissing Bob and people who like him, dissing Jambette, and dissing time travelers... that's kinda hateful, just saying. As for my peeves:

1. Rocks.

2. Not being able to choose a map without resetting.

3. Not being able to choose where villagers place their houses.

4. Not being able to choose who gets to live in your town and who doesn't.

5. Not being able to color the train station and town hall like you want (yes I know you can renovate it, but it's original color will ALWAYS remain with it, and will also always show up that way on the inside).

6. Boring conversations. They were so amazing in Wild World... what happened?

7. Not being able to make constellations anymore. I absolutely adored that feature in Wild World and it's a shame they removed it.

8. I wish you'd get a camper everyday instead of some days.

9. How they label the tall birds as "ostriches". NONE of them are actual ostriches, I mean good grief.

10. How you can't change your house placement or anything else permanent.

 

[Candy_Rose]

I don't time travel because I haven't played an animal crossing game without time traveling before, and I just wanted to experience it naturally.

I don't judge or hate on time travelers for playing the game how they want to.


Jambette is one of my FAVORITE normals! Sure, she's not the prettiest villager ever, but she has always been the nicest to me.

Oh and I have loved Bob even before I knew he was popular. :3


My personal AC pet peeves are:

1. Villagers who plot their houses in my perfect apples. Happened to me twice.

2. Isabelle telling me my PWP is too close to something else, when there SHOULD be more than enough room.

3. When people hate on others for how THEY choose to play THEIR game.

4. (I totally brought this one on myself) giving a villager an lulzy immature catchphrase, then having it spread to ALL the villagers. It was funny the first time when it was just one or 2 villagers saying it, now that EVERYONE says it, it's not funny anymore.

5. This one is minor, but it annoys me when villagers plant random flowers where I have them in a pattern. Or when they plant red roses, where I can't tell if it's a hybrid red or a random one they planted.

 

[Shimmer]

Yes, it really would.

- - - Post Merge - - -



In new leaf he does not in the older

That's still purple.

 

[saehanfox]

1) fruits not auto-stacking
2) some items not being re-orderable
3) having to cycle through 16 villagers to get someone back into town
4) not being able to plant shrubs in a ring
5) Isabel telling me I can't put this PWP here
6) loids popping up from the ground after it rains or snows
7) not being able to know exactly what your character will look like when you use Shampoodle

 

[infinikitten]

(responding to the first post in the thread so god knows what could have happened in the last 15 pages, sorry if this post doesn't fit in with ongoing discussion)

The skin color thing has always bothered me. If Pokemon games can do it, ACNL, why can't you? :\

I didn't know there WAS a Bob fad, though. I thought everyone was more enamored with all the Tier 1 villagers than Bob, of all things. I've seen a couple people mention him here and there but I thought it was a forum in-joke that I haven't been clued in on yet since I'm not really "up" on all the happenings at the TBT forums / stuff that happened here in the past and whatnot.

Regarding time traveling, I hate having to do it myself, but sometimes it's necessary. As with all things, purists' feathers are easy to ruffle and it's kind of amusing-slash-sad-and-awkward to watch them get worked up over it, but I've never once seen anyone say they wouldn't play with anyone who time travels. That's extreme, imo. Has anyone seriously said that? Ever? I am... doubtful. Sounds like an exaggeration to me.

But the hacky thing. The duping and stuff. That, no, that's not cool. If you do it for your own game then whatever, but when you flood the market (online obviously) with all your duped crap, nobody knows how to price anything and it's seriously annoying for anyone who's trying to sell or buy or... participate in trade in general. If somebody were to show up and just spam everyone with all the top tier villagers, be mysteriously prolific with rare items, et cetera then everyone else would have to re-evaluate their own prices on things, and what they're willing to pay others. There's always some wiggle room and adjustments are made as time goes on but that's just it: it happens SLOWLY, AS TIME GOES ON, not all at once like a landslide.

So maybe my pet peeve is people who don't understand that. B)

 

[Captain Crazy Chicken]

I can't see what's inside the weather thing of the PWP.

 

[lunathenia]

Ok. Well..I have been storing this anger up for awhile now...<_< and..here's what peeves me the most

1. Oh my God...why is Bob "awesome"? He is just a purple cat. That's it. Nothing out of the box.

2. Jeabette this abomination, who in the right mind..would create this? Just what the F were they on?

3. Non time travelers. Most think they are Soooo much better than us Time travels. Some won't even play with us time travelers.

4. People who value the "economy" of the game. Ok..I mean the people that hate on duping and hacking. It is there choice to play the game this way. And personally, I think they could help other players. I mean especially people who lost there game, or someone stole from them. And, just think of the other possibilities. I mean they just sell AR's in game stop. And are licensed, by Datle. So it must not be that bad..

5. Not having a choice of skin color.
I am white, but frankly I find this to be quite raseist, lots of other skin colors play this game. And I am sure some feel like they..well..are not..welcome..?
One of my dearest friends is African American, and feels quite discriminated because of this.

These are my OPINIONS these are not facts. Please state yours, and wether or not you agree with me.

DO NOT TURN THIS IN TO A HATE THREAD!!!​

U've nailed it!!

Too many cry babies whining/making fun of ppl who TT, hack, dupe, glitch, etc...
Seriously? How old are you? Who cares? It's THEIR game, THEIR time, THEIR town/character, their choice, their, their, I can keep going...

Ppl bought the game to hf in their own way, w/e that is.
(BTW I don't hack/glitch/dupe but I do TT a lot b/c I don't play for like 1-2 weeks and then play for 1 whole day)

 

[DarkDesertFox]

1. Villagers moving out on their own free will.
2. Unable to view my own friend code while connected to the island online.
3. Time consuming earning Public Work Projects.
4. The lack of storage space for patterns on each account.
5. Inability to move a villagers/house/other buildings after they have been set.
6. Being unable to demolish/remodel certain projects after they have been put down.
7. The island/activities for the online multiplayer are limited.
8. Being unable to control what visitors interact with in your town.
9. Villagers making you wait for house visits.

In spite of all these things I really love this game. Next to Pokemon Y it is probably my favorite 3DS game.

 

[xxxmadison]

when villagers ask for things like furniture and u can't say no
like ur house looks fine

 

[ACupOfTea]

1) ROCKS
2) Ugly villagers
3) Having to plot reset villagers
4) Missing the day a villager moves in and having them in a place you don't want them
5) DID I MENTION ROCKS?

 

[MidnightCthulhu]

The skin color thing is probably what annoys me most. I mean, it's obviously a feature they could've added, so why didn't they? And the tanning feature just feels like a slap in the face because of this...
Also NO, TOMMY. I DON'T NEED YOU TO EXPLAIN WHAT WRAPPING PAPER IS. SHUT UP, PLEASE.

 

[Lucaboo]

I'm not so sure about the skin colour thing, my friend has a darker skin colour in the game. Idk how she got it though

 

[Shiny Spritzee]

1) ROCKS
2) Ugly villagers
3) Having to plot reset villagers
4) Missing the day a villager moves in and having them in a place you don't want them
5) DID I MENTION ROCKS?

Rocks are so stupid! I have a great map in my second town but I have like 6 rocks all in spots that would be perfect for PWP's. And some are clustered together. Yes, money rock is ok, and ore rock, well that goes away after you break it but that should be it. Even if money rock wasn't everyday, I could live with that because it would just be the one. Please stop peppering town maps with rocks that have no purpose apart from to cause annoyance!

 

[2munchkin2]

I'm not so sure about the skin colour thing, my friend has a darker skin colour in the game. Idk how she got it though

Tanning. That's all.
Skin colour is added in the new game though.

 

[Mo6372]

One of the biggest things that annoy me isn't part of the actual game, but it's the people. I hate it when they. Steal or disrespect the town, for example, you invite them to ur town to play and then they take all ur times on the floor, destroy ur hybirds by running all over the place and then shake ur trees.... And then they claim their innocent. Yes u can flip the switch, but sometimes u don't notice till it's too late :/