What do you guys miss from previous AC games?

[Shawna]

I saw this thread on Animal Crossing Community (another AC forum), and I figured it would be an interesting topic to discuss, so I brought it here. ^_^

Animal Crossing: Game Cube - 64/GC-only villagers, The Sports Fair, Balls, being able to fetch balls for villagers, retrieving items for villagers, being requested to plant flowers around the villagers houses, “Give me Work” interaction, cheat codes. THE LOVELY STEREO!

Animal Crossing Wild World - I honestly miss how villager pictures were executed in this game. In NL and in NH, villagers randomly just give them to you after you have come close enough with them, and they are treated like an ordinary item. In Wild World, they ping you and tell you that you are one of their closest friends. You would have to either trade with another player or create an alternate player to receive a second one. This made the pictures feel more special.

Animal Crossing: City Folk - The shopping card. I never really got to use it, but to my understanding, it made it to where your bells were pulled out of your bank account. This was especially useful for for the Gracie furniture. You wouldn’t have to take up space in your pockets with bell bags. I also love how the model room worked. The person who had the highest points in the town got their room replicated. I can vaguely recall themes being a thing too.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Being the mayor, PWPs, all of the furniture sets that were in previous titles, but didn’t make it in New Horizons (lovely, regal, rococo, princess, etc.). I do like the cute furniture in New Horizons, but it feels like a step down from the lovely furniture. At least the mermaid furniture stayed. You were also able to customize the exterior of your house with a lot of freedom. You can do this in NH, but again, it feels like a step down from what we were given in New Leaf. We have to praise NH for giving us a lot of creative freedom with our islands that we didn’t have in previous games for our towns. However, in terms of exterior house and building customizing and interior decorating, New Leaf is PEAK! Also, I know people criticize New Leaf for having watered-down villager personalities, but I actually still think they are more heartwarming then in New Leaf than in NH. I miss picking up houses from street pass and being able to buy things from there. I also miss how main street would evolve over time. Nookling's only has one upgrade in New Horizons. Lastly…TORTIMER ISLAND!

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp - Not a mainline game, but I just want to point out how this game has furniture sets, fish, bugs, flowers that are not in any of the mainline games. I hope with Pocket Camp almost complete, they will add this stuff in the next mainline game.

Of course, New Horizons itself did a lot of things right. I honestly love how the game gives us a lot of creative freedom with our islands. It isn’t the aspect itself I dislike. I dislike how a lot of other features were ignored or watered down. I would love to have the furniture sets back, more exterior possibilities, and more interactions with villagers. I hope the next mainline game considers the best futures of these games and uses them for the 6th mainline game, along with added new stuff we have all been asking for. ^_^

 

[Balverine]

This is so silly, but I miss the werewolf costume from New Leaf LOL

As for other stuff, e+ had a ton of cool features that I miss like the tasks villagers would give, villagers who never returned (Taro, my beloved), being able to go into Nook's after hours by hitting his door was funny LOL
Even small things like being able to go into villager's houses when they were nearby was cool

I also really liked the size of the town in e+/Gamecube and how you could have 15 villagers

 

[Rainy.Nights]

I almost exclusively play ACNH now, but there is still a ton of features I miss from ACNL. Some of the main ones I can think of include unbreakable tools, SO many cool furnitures, house room sizes, patterns on stumps, more types of fruits, town tree memories, custom museum displays, and the previous lazy villager personality. That said, there are also many other features in ACNH that were more of an upgrade over ACNL.

 

[Mimikyu's Shadow]

I miss villagers occasionally being jerks to you in New leaf especially when you first met them. It is so refreshing and I wish you had to earn friendship instead of being instant besties like in New Horizons. I vividly recall Rooney calling my place the equivalent of a dump for not having any furniture on my second day in a new town from New leaf when he asked me if he could come over . I also missed the other fruits, the pwps, working at the Roost and failing to get orders right, the mini games on the tropical island, and just evolving your town overall over time. I dont miss villagers leaving without my consent tho and flowers dying without my beautiful ordinance.

 

[Croxxingfan98]

I miss villagers occasionally being jerks to you in New leaf especially when you first met them. It is so refreshing and I wish you had to earn friendship instead of being instant besties like in New Horizons. I vividly recall Rooney calling my place the equivalent of a dump for not having any furniture on my second day in a new town from New leaf when he asked me if he could come over . I also missed the other fruits, the pwps, working at the Roost and failing to get orders right, the mini games on the tropical island, and just evolving your town overall over time. I dont miss villagers leaving without my consent tho and flowers dying without my beautiful ordinance.

EXCUSE ME WHAT? you could work at the roost? thats so cool i never knew

 

[Bulbadragon]

Gamecube: I loved being able to ask villagers for things to do. I liked the fetch quests that sent you to multiple villagers and that the items could be things like a Gameboy.

Wild World: I miss the events like the flea market days and the other special events exclusive to this game. It's probably because there were no irl holidays, but I wouldn't mind having both.

City Folk: I know some people didn't care for it, but I really liked the city in City Folk! I liked seeing random villagers. It made some of the NPC shops feel more special. I also loved getting balloons and things from Phineas.

New Leaf: So much of the furniture! It struck a good balance between having the classic furniture sets we always had and lots of new items. It made NH super disappointing when I realized it was all new furniture with very few things returning.

 

[Mayor Charlotte]

I mostly started playing with new leaf and I also miss the patterns on stumps, golden fruit, main street, the princess series set, tortimor island for games and fishing.

 

[PugLovex]

one of the biggest things i talk about that's missing from NH is GracieGrace. i LOVE that damned store even with it ridiculous prices. the gracie and princess sets are amongst some of my favorites in the franchise, and of course the other sets are beautiful as well. i also really liked the lace dresses, party dresses, and tartan dresses. so many good items!

 

[T0mn00kd3f3nd3r]

1. Mii Masks

2. Wolf Link and/or Epona as villagers

3. Further Upgrades for Nook's Cranny past the T&T Mart-Esque Phase

 

[-Blue-]

This isn't as big as other features like the lacking multiplayer options, the reduced furniture, the smaller extra rooms, ect but I miss how responsive villagers were. The dialogue is lacking yes, and New Leaf's wasn't amazing but it was better than what NH gave up when they gutted the villagers so much.

But I really miss the little simple interactions they did. Like if you called them out with a megaphone they would wave gleefully if they were bestfriends and it was super cute. And if you weren't they would look around like they didn't know who called them or just give you a wave. You could also be too close to them when using the megaphone and they would react angrily, in shock, or upset because you just screamed in their ears and I thought that was funny

I didn't do it on purpose the first time! And if you talked to them when they were sitting on a bench or whatever they would tell you to sit with them. Same as in NH, but they actually acknowledged you were sitting with them if you were friends and give a big happy grin. It was so adorable. I miss that!

 

[fwn]

The big heads and little bodies

 

[rockstarfan]

aside from all of the furniture sets that have been lost, i think new horizons has a different vibe altogether. in most of the previous games, i felt like my character was moving out on her own and getting to experience being an adult for the first time. it feels very different in new horizons where i have to craft most of my items and live in a tent for the beginning of the game. I think i just miss the “small town” aspects of the other games rather than the “island survival” ones in new horizons.

I’ve always enjoyed new horizons though, and i will forever be grateful for the freedom we now have with decorating our islands

 

[Spooky.]

I miss most having a little shopping strip in new leaf, especially because we had more than just two stores/buildings. It made it feel more like a proper town.

 

[niko@kamogawa]

I miss some of the furniture series from Animal Crossing: New Leaf namely Princess and Gorgeous series. I think Cute replaces Lovely series in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Other than that, I also prefer that all shops are in one area.

 

[jas_n]

This might sound a bit crazy, but I miss playing Animal Crossing at a framerate of 60fps. Gamecube was my first AC and it couldn't make me settle for any framerate less than 60.

 

[UpFalls]

The Kokeshi dolls from GC. And does anyone remember storing items in letters at the post office? And in both GC and WW had post office storage where you could put things in letters then have Pelly put them away for you. Then if you restarted your town everything would still be there because of how all that stuff was stored outside of the game. And speaking of, what about Pelly and Phyllis?

Flea market day in WW ranks as one of my most favorite features ever. I think there was more about City Folk I didn't like than did but the shopping card and city were good.

New Leaf had tons of goodness, and it's hard to think of any downside--I thought it was much better all the way around than the earlier versions, only surpassed IMO by NH, and in some ways on an even footing. (I really, really do tire of tools constantly wearing out--if they were truly 'trusty' they wouldn't be breaking at least once a day.

ETA: I just remembered a bug in WW where you could place turnips on tables and they'd never rot. Between that and the flea market money was EASY!

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

I miss the Gracie items.

 

[Seastar]

New Leaf had minigames! Tortimer Island let you play minigames to earn medals (currency to buy items). You could also play on Tortimer Island with friends or random strangers. The Roost let you work there and take coffee orders from random villagers. The Welcome Amiibo update added two minigames you could play by obtaining a Wii U or 3DS furniture item. Interacting with them in your house let you either play Puzzle League (from the 3DS) or Desert Island Escape (from the Wii U). Puzzle League was just Panel de pon/Tetris Attack and Desert Island Escape was a minigame from Amiibo Festival.
New Horizons is mostly full of crafting and designing and doesn't have anything like this going on. I'm kinda disappointed in the 3.0 update because they're still only focusing on those things.

 

[Cirice]

I miss the perfect fruits so much. I also miss unbreakable tools.
I wish we'd have more tasks from the villagers and Tom Nook, because the island decoration aspect isn't something I'm very strong with.