polygon must be new to this whole 'animal crossing' thing lol
Polygon: Animal Crossing players are starting over after dozens (or hundreds) of hours
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For me personally, I think restarting would involve more work than just tearing everything down. I would need to reacquire all the permits and lose everything that I cataloged. I do understand why some people would restart though, since people who regret choosing their island name, how close resident services is to the airport, and the color of the DAL airport are all things we can't change and might be reasons why ppl restart if it really bothers them.
Hmm. I read in a interview that they tried to resolve the issue of resetting the island by giving the player the option to terraform it. But regardless of it, some people would still reset their island for their own reasons.
Terraforming was also a way to address unanticipated player behavior from past games. Kyogoku said that, looking at earlier entries in the series, users would repeatedly reset and start over to choose the town layout they wanted. In New Horizons, your island is completely malleable, even after that decision, bringing more flexibility to the gameplay.
"Some may have thought that, 'Oh, this would have been a perfect layout if there was a river here or if the river wasn't there,'" Kyogoku said. "Well, for users like that, we were able to give them what they weren't able to achieve before."
I’m not that active social media, so I don’t know or can’t say if there is an actual pressure in some AC communities to have that ”perfect island”, at least in this website I have not noticed it, but I wouldn’t be suprised if this was the on other bigger sites like Twitter or Instagram where looks is everything.
Link to the interview.
Terraforming was also a way to address unanticipated player behavior from past games. Kyogoku said that, looking at earlier entries in the series, users would repeatedly reset and start over to choose the town layout they wanted. In New Horizons, your island is completely malleable, even after that decision, bringing more flexibility to the gameplay.
"Some may have thought that, 'Oh, this would have been a perfect layout if there was a river here or if the river wasn't there,'" Kyogoku said. "Well, for users like that, we were able to give them what they weren't able to achieve before."
I’m not that active social media, so I don’t know or can’t say if there is an actual pressure in some AC communities to have that ”perfect island”, at least in this website I have not noticed it, but I wouldn’t be suprised if this was the on other bigger sites like Twitter or Instagram where looks is everything.
Link to the interview.
necrofantasia
ribbit
seems like a massive waste..
Honestly I did the same thing with my villagers. I was gonna do a residential area, but I feel like having them dotted around the island allowed me more room to make them bigger yards (I like to spoil them and not have them live in puny yards) and also it gives me a reason to go all around the island and talk to them rather than concentrating in one area
mirukushake
Senior Member
I read a book about psychology a long time ago that basically said that too much choice can be just as bad or worse as no choice in terms of happiness, and that always stuck with me. So I picked my island and I'm sticking with it. I look to islands on social media as inspiration, but I don't try to emulate them. Yes, I could reset and terraform for hundreds of hours until I get the "perfect" layout or fruit but that would be kind of a terrible use of time imo. At that point it's not a game, just work. I never reset in years of playing NL and I don't plan on it for NH either.
dawnofvayle
Senior Member
Honestly I did the same thing with my villagers. I was gonna do a residential area, but I feel like having them dotted around the island allowed me more room to make them bigger yards (I like to spoil them and not have them live in puny yards) and also it gives me a reason to go all around the island and talk to them rather than concentrating in one area
Yes, I'm giving all my villagers yards that match their personalities. Claudia my snooty has a fancy pool near the beach, my two wolves live in slab-wood houses up in the mountains with lots of rustic wooden stuff, Sherb has a paddling pool and inflatable sofa, Tia has a little tea area since she has like 4 teapots in her house. I love coming up with ideas for making the areas around their houses look cool.
tybalt_cake
heavymetallover
I really don't know why people restart their town , I feel you're throwing +200 hours into the trash , just because of weird placement of buildings or whatever.
People really need to realize you don't need to have that cute island you saw on youtube , or that amazing island in twitter , think like that and you will start getting anxious by this , you will delete your whole work and overall , you just got anxious , annoyed and stressed over a game that is supposed to do the opposite to you.
And I know they bought their game , but at least try making the cost of your switch , the online membership and new horizons go less stressful.
People really need to realize you don't need to have that cute island you saw on youtube , or that amazing island in twitter , think like that and you will start getting anxious by this , you will delete your whole work and overall , you just got anxious , annoyed and stressed over a game that is supposed to do the opposite to you.
And I know they bought their game , but at least try making the cost of your switch , the online membership and new horizons go less stressful.
Restarting isn't that stressful imo. This game isn't a rat race, you can use TT and catch up day by day if it bothers you that much. I restarted after 100+ hours and it wasn't that big of a deal. Your DIYs, Museum, and Catalogue will fill back up over time. It's not like New Leaf where I could just cheaply buy a second cartridge and make a "perfect village" on that other cartridge.
SheepMareep
Actual Magical Girl
Tbh this was normal for new leaf too. After a couple hundred hours people started to reset their towns to change their layouts, and led to the need for a should I reset thread.
New horizons released at an odd time and everyone got to that strange "should I reset?" Feeling much quicker because of that. Especially since this time around it feels WAY more competitive/like a lot more pressure added to players than NL did when it was first released.
I'm honestly debating on resetting mine as well but I am hesitant because of the designs I made :c
I like seeing all the different articles that are coming out about NH since it's so popular now. They're really interesting lol
New horizons released at an odd time and everyone got to that strange "should I reset?" Feeling much quicker because of that. Especially since this time around it feels WAY more competitive/like a lot more pressure added to players than NL did when it was first released.
I'm honestly debating on resetting mine as well but I am hesitant because of the designs I made :c
I like seeing all the different articles that are coming out about NH since it's so popular now. They're really interesting lol
So am infamous among my peers for restarting games and getting close to finishing. Usually with JRPGs which is my bread and butter of games.
And part of me slightly wants to restart but with all the help I got from peeps here with my cataloging and the amount of work it took me to get my villagers... yeah hell naw. Haha I'm good.
And part of me slightly wants to restart but with all the help I got from peeps here with my cataloging and the amount of work it took me to get my villagers... yeah hell naw. Haha I'm good.
The strange thing is how Animal Crossing has gotten so big and so massively popular that non-issues are becoming issues for game journalism sites to write about.
I reset my 280ish hour island for a variety of little reasons that don't make much sense. Since I started at midnight on release day because of my digital pre-order, my Nook Achievements were a day off. Apples are my 100% favorite fruit in real life and I didn't realize how much I missed them. Yes, I could have re-planted my entire island, but I like the idea of my favorite fruit being my native fruit on my passport. I felt overwhelmed after I cut down all my trees since my island felt way too big. Yes, I could have easily replanted them all, but it didn't fit my "vision" of my island. I felt like I had way too many bells because I played the Stalk Market pretty aggressively to make my first million and that felt like I took all the challenge away from the game. I had my house nearly paid off and had all but the basement done already.
In all, I think the biggest reason why I reset was because I felt like I was just progressing too fast through the game because I had a sudden influx of free time thanks to COVID-19.
I'm playing New Horizons a lot more like I started out playing New Leaf and I am loving it so much more. I did go a little crazy this morning and planted all my stocked up bushes and half of my saved flowers completely randomly on my island, but I love it. When it annoys me and when I start to actually organize and decorate my island for real, I know that I can change everything.
I reset my 280ish hour island for a variety of little reasons that don't make much sense. Since I started at midnight on release day because of my digital pre-order, my Nook Achievements were a day off. Apples are my 100% favorite fruit in real life and I didn't realize how much I missed them. Yes, I could have re-planted my entire island, but I like the idea of my favorite fruit being my native fruit on my passport. I felt overwhelmed after I cut down all my trees since my island felt way too big. Yes, I could have easily replanted them all, but it didn't fit my "vision" of my island. I felt like I had way too many bells because I played the Stalk Market pretty aggressively to make my first million and that felt like I took all the challenge away from the game. I had my house nearly paid off and had all but the basement done already.
In all, I think the biggest reason why I reset was because I felt like I was just progressing too fast through the game because I had a sudden influx of free time thanks to COVID-19.
I'm playing New Horizons a lot more like I started out playing New Leaf and I am loving it so much more. I did go a little crazy this morning and planted all my stocked up bushes and half of my saved flowers completely randomly on my island, but I love it. When it annoys me and when I start to actually organize and decorate my island for real, I know that I can change everything.
DJStarstryker
Senior Member
Maybe Polygon needs to write an article next about those speedrunners who reset RPGs after 40 hours, repeatedly, because they did something slightly wrong and are now a few seconds too slow to beat their record. /sarcasm
AppleBitterCrumble
TBT Hoarder
A small part of me would reset because I feel like I've done so much customizing that it would be hard to easily undo.
However, I'm deciding to trust the process of this and take it slow because we haven't even gone through a whole year of the game and we don't really know what's in store for upcoming seasons/updates/events and I would hate to have to demolish a piece of my town I enjoy to squeeze in a new building or something.
However, I'm deciding to trust the process of this and take it slow because we haven't even gone through a whole year of the game and we don't really know what's in store for upcoming seasons/updates/events and I would hate to have to demolish a piece of my town I enjoy to squeeze in a new building or something.
I’m 210 hours in and I have to keep reminding myself there’s a world outside my room and switch. I’m quite glad I’m going back to work tomorrow cause these past 7 weeks I’ve literally achieved nothing other than play a virtual life sim 
Underneath The Stars
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i actually considered resetting at some point JUST for the native fruit & island name refresh.... but i was too happy with island layout & starter villagers to reset 
I feel this, I’ve already restarted once because I time travelled and realised that I love playing normally! Then ended up TT a couple days backwards then forwards because I got mad at the 3 villagers I got placed with when nook wants you to set out land. So now I feel like I cheated and am tempted to restart again. I don’t know why I can’t settle on my island layout either. it’s frustrating though
I feel like that people who experienced this, rushed too much into everything.
I remember couple of time after the release, there were already people with huge, complete island, 5 star etc.
I am 450 hrs into it and nowhere finished my island. Working on it piece by piece, aiming to an island that I will like first.
That's just my 2 cents tho
I remember couple of time after the release, there were already people with huge, complete island, 5 star etc.
I am 450 hrs into it and nowhere finished my island. Working on it piece by piece, aiming to an island that I will like first.
That's just my 2 cents tho
ForgottenT
♫ drops of jupiter ♫
It's just OCD people looking for a quick fix for their islands, even though there isn't one, I've seen it so many times, people just get stuck in a loop and never get anywhere because they don't want to put the work in, due to feeling overwhelmed, they need to learn some planning skills, even just doing one acre at a time with a basic idea for areas can lead to amazing towns.
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