I’ve always wanted to not time travel, but I don’t think I’d last more than a week. I think it’s become a crucial part of this game. I don’t have the patience to wait in general.
The ACNH Rant Thread
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For sure. They say it's not "intended to be played that way" or whatever, but yet, the games says otherwise.
“Actions speak louder than words” makes perfect sense. I feel that Nintendo is almost encouraging time traveling with the way they made this game. They took it out of the game itself and made it possible only by adjusting the system clock, but it’s almost necessary.
I feel this was done for 2 reasons.
1. In the past, you could put your game cartridge in a different system, and if that system had a different date, you could mess up your town. So the game would verify the current date and time before you loaded your save.
2. When your system ran out of batteries, it would lose the time and go back to the date 1/1/2000 or something like that.
Since your save can only exist on 1 Switch at a time, and the Switch can sync time with the internet, it makes it highly unlikely you start the game one day and wonder why it's January 1st 2000.
Canesvenatici
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More about the switch than the game I suppose- but i am *so* very upset that your island is saved to your console and not your game- I just lost my island due to an accidental wipe in a game store when I was getting my console fixed and now hours and hours of my times been wasted and ill have to start from scratch- why cant we save to our gamecard - it would save people buying extra switches for second islands too!
your local goomy
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Oh, no! I'm assuming the backup feature didn't work? But yeah, I hear you. I know they want families and stuff to play together...but I have zero family or friends who play animal crossing :/
If you had island backups enable, it's not too late to get it back, provided you haven't enabled them for your new island
kappnfangirl
Spooky Time
I know people put a strong emphasis on the lack of Brewster in the community but I believe that we are in dire need of shop upgrades. The previous iterations had several shop upgrades over time and the lack of this in NH is very noticeable. Shop upgrades mean more stock and different items, travelling npc’s becoming permanent like Leif and Labelle and Kicks and introduce Gracie. In addition, this would be a great way to add in the missing furniture series which the game really needs.
Overall, new horizons simply feels unfinished…I love the game but there’s so much wasted potential.
Overall, new horizons simply feels unfinished…I love the game but there’s so much wasted potential.
I'm pretty sure that NH's launch was the biggest I ever saw the TT debate. It was always there, but never to this extent. I think a lot of them were bandwagon fad jumpers who simply got into the game because of its social media craze on top of the pandemic lockdown. They would had otherwise never gotten into the game and were gate-keeping it even though they literally were new to the series.
If NH is your first game, that's cool. No disrespect there. This is simply to those gate-keepers on TT who just had no chill. Because most of us through the series just respected each other if we TTed, played it by the clock, or played in between. Notice how the TT debate is pretty much calmed down to what it used to be? The fad jumpers jumped to the next game.
King koopa
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I agree. I mean, clearly Nintendo worked hard to make this game good, but I think they went too far by taking too many things out with lackluster or no replacement. You can still have animal crossing like that, but maybe have extra functions that what you took out didn't have. For example, the bug off and fishing tourney could be made into a contest again, so the villager dialogue would make sense. While I definitely don't hate new horizons, I feel as if they added more to the game to make it feel less stale. Even just a quick message from isabelle talking about the island anniversary would be great, as poor Isabelle went from a hardworking secretary who always did her best to help, from a shell of her former self who just helps Tom nook and gives announcements. Her dialog has gotten really bland, and it makes her slightly annoying.
I wasn't trying to stoke another TT debate. I was simply stating how difficult it is to play the game from my perspective without TT'ing. Its fine if someone wants to play it by real time, but for some people that play-style doesn't appeal to them.
Is this directed at me?? NH isn't my first AC game I got into the AC series around NL and have been playing ever since. Again...I was pointing out how ordering 5 items on the Nook Shop was ridiculous and that it encouraged me to TT to get the items that I needed. If you like playing AC without TT'ing thats cool.
Is this directed at me?? NH isn't my first AC game I got into the AC series around NL and have been playing ever since. Again...I was pointing out how ordering 5 items on the Nook Shop was ridiculous and that it encouraged me to TT to get the items that I needed. If you like playing AC without TT'ing thats cool.
Not directed to anyone. Just people who started with NH. Because I don't want them reading my post and thinking I am lumping them all together or looking to be mean spirited ect. I just added to what you said. That's all.
I will admit, that even though I am not a new player, it did come across to me as rather... well not mean spirited, but slightly derogatory to players who started with new horizons.
It sounded like you were saying that those who started with new horizons and found it through social media where just
And when you said they
To me this comes across as saying that their opinions on the game are less valid than other players who had played other entries in the series first
And then lastly, saying the issues within the community were due to newer players, seems rather harsh.
It all just felt rather otherising to me.
I'm not saying this to be mean or anything, just that I'm not sure that your intent came across as well as you'd hoped.
VanitasFan26
I'm just a ghost.
As a Time Traveler myself, I know sometimes it can be boring when there is nothing much going on in the game, I time travel because whenever I order stuff on the Nook Shopping it takes a day for it to be mailed to the mailbox, also I go ahead of 15 days just to kick out a villager, and then sometimes if I feel like going back and replaying events I can just time travel backwards.
With due respect I know people prefer to play without time traveling thats fine they can play however they want. I do not agree that people should shame others for time traveling because it comes off as an insult. I seen it happened last year in the community and I think the argument has since died down. There will be days that I feel like time traveling when I want to get something done or sometimes I may not want to time travel and actually take my time with the game. I know what my limits are so I don't let the time traveling bother me too much.
With due respect I know people prefer to play without time traveling thats fine they can play however they want. I do not agree that people should shame others for time traveling because it comes off as an insult. I seen it happened last year in the community and I think the argument has since died down. There will be days that I feel like time traveling when I want to get something done or sometimes I may not want to time travel and actually take my time with the game. I know what my limits are so I don't let the time traveling bother me too much.
your local goomy
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I just wish terraforming wasn't so difficult. I've always wanted to make an island based off of 1800s Spain, but I just can't find the willpower to do so because I can't terraform for the life of me. I can't even decorate.
I'm talking about the vicious time travel debates where people were hard-core anti timetravel. It was bigger in this game than any other time. And they often weren't kind to others about it. I may have missed it with the other games. It was there, but I never saw it to such an extent. I don't care if this is someone's game they started off with. But if someone is going to dictate how new or old players should be playing the game, that is gate-keeping.
But we'll just have to agree to disagree.
But we'll just have to agree to disagree.
I would be fine with even a QoL update on terraforming to simply give us a cursor/marker where our tools are going to be aiming. It's kind of weird they didn't think to add something like that.
Canesvenatici
Senior Member
I didnt actually know it was that was an option until it was too late!
- I will definitely be enabling it this time round though cant deal with losing another island (and right?? Then they also seperated it so you cant *even* play with friends ect online without the pass too 
)
your local goomy
goom?
I know that I compare this game to The Sims a lot, but honestly, I think they had The Sims in mind when developing New Horizons. The terraforming in The Sims is at least simple and enjoyable, I'm still not the best at it, but I can at least look at something I did and be happy with it. With New Horizons, the terraforming is so difficult for me that I constantly mess up and never feel content with what I did. Don't even get me started on when you're trying to work and a villager sits in the spot you're working on and won't move. -
lol I used to have my villagers do that all the time. I don't know why, but it felt like they were programmed to home in on you because it happened all the time when I donned the hardhat.
But honestly, I have the most trouble terraforming rivers. Like all the time. I try to make nice curves and shave a bit off and happen to wipe out the entire area I had just done or end up covering it all up due to the weird gap patterns.
I think in general villagers are programmed to come hang out with you if you're in an area where no one is. Probably to make the island feel more lively.
Problem is, when you're trying to build cliffs, youre going to be in one area a while, and lively isn't something you want XD
I really love terraforming in this game for how simple and easy it is to make whatever you want. The rules are simple and yet give so much freedom.... but...
I really hope the next game in the series has a little transparent box thingy in front of you to show an outline of what will happen if you press A.
When making cliffs it's not such a big deal as you're either going to build up a cliff, or if you're facing the wrong way accidentally tear one down.
But with rivers... if you get the angle your facing wrong... yeah, you make the wrong thing, have to fill it in, and then try again. Possibly several times.
I say next game as I'm doubtful they would add it to this one. But if they ever did I would be very grateful
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