why does this game feel so incomplete?

Given how the switch games all have had major updates and patches and dlc, I would assume the same for New Horizons! It definitely feels like it’s going that direction with the events that are released each month.

I actually have found the release of content to be a good pace. Plenty to do at the beginning of the month and as it tapers down, a new month comes with new events and content. I actually might be in the minority when I say this but I prefer this over all the content being released at once. Keeps me playing the game.
 
The whole industry is like "rush rush game, put in content later" and I hate it so much. :c so many things I thought that were basic functions of all animal crossing games, nowhere to be seen in this one, and we are all stuck just hoping they will come in an update.
 
Because it's an island game with no tropical fruits or diving :[

jk, everything will be "updated" into it I believe
 
because it is. they're more than likely going to add stuff as 'dlc' as time goes on to keep up the hype of the game, is my guess. which in my opinion is kinda..dumb? like, you can't even upgrade your nooks further than the first upgrade right now. they needlessly removed a bunch of very popular furniture sets that have been in the game since it's creation for no reason. so they can release it in 6 months and be like omg new acnh DLC! when it's a furniture set that has existed for 19 years. sigh. i love this game and animal crossing so much, but seeing games like pokemon swsh and new horizons being released in the state that they are is just sad on nintendos part. they are more than able to do better and they aren't, and part of me feels like it's because they want people to continue buying into nintendo online every year. it's obnoxious.
 
Most of food was added with Welcome amiibo, over four years after New Leaf's initial release.
Yes and this game was released 4 years after that. Your point? Should we wait another 4 years? Also conveniently removing the rest of the entirety of my post kindave removes the important context and entire point of what I was saying. But go off
 
I feel that the main issue people are so focused on is the lacking amount of furniture sets (which I agree with). We went from a PWP system with a lot of limited variety to essentially almost full control over filling our entire island with items. If we didn’t have this newfound control and went back to the same system as New Leaf I’m not sure the amount of furniture would be so glaring (yet). It’s inevitable, given how much room there is to decorate, that islands start feeling very same-y with the furniture since there already isn’t tons of variety and we have so much more space to fill.

I‘m not sure everybody WANTS a zen garden but when there aren’t many alternatives and you’ve already used most of the available furniture some place else, it’s hard not to make one for the sake of variety.

That’s just my opinion, though. Other than that I don’t have many criticisms of the game.
 
Because it is.

Many features from New Leaf, and arguably also staple features from the game's history, were not returned and we have no guarantee about when (or if) we can expect them back.

No gyroids. No Brewster and the café. Few furniture sets. No diving. No tropical fruits. No Pete, Phyllis, and Pelly. No Porter. No Copper and Booker or police station. No Phineas. No Dr. Shrunk. No Katrina and fortune telling. Few shops at all. Few shop upgrades. No GracieGrace and luxury items. No descriptions of the displays in the museum. No move-out letters. No villagers showing the first letter you ever sent to them. Seemingly limited villager interaction. No 3DS/Wii U to play Puzzle League or Desert Island Escape (though I suppose that would have to be altered slightly to fit this game). I'm sure I'm missing many features here.

After a few months of playing, I still think New Leaf is the better game of the two in terms of the content it offers, but I hope Nintendo proves me wrong.
 
I agree that we need more furniture sets especially with the ability to put furniture outdoors. My bedroom and beach cafe having the same furniture just feels weird 😅 and more NPCs and buildings would be great but nintendo is clearly releasing them with every few updates so I'm not concerned about that, it'll be nice to welcome them to the island bit by bit

but other than that, it seems like the features that people are missing are mostly New Leaf specific ones. Most of the core AC features are in this game, apart from villagers visiting our houses I guess. If they bring over a few features from NL that would be great, but honestly New Horizons has already introduced so many amazing features of its own that I'm pretty happy in that area.
 
I think it's the lack of furniture, food items, house styles, etc.

It can get a little bland only having iron and wood basic furniture.
Makes it hard to have a theme.. other than a redneck, bamboo farmer. :)
 
it weirdly enough does, like lacking the features new leaf has?
 
For me, the fact that Redd was not in the game at release, means the game was not complete at launch. If they are adding anything more that takes a long time to fully collect (like seafood or gyroids), they should do it soon or they will totally unbalance the game. Doing only diving next Spring for instance, because you need to complete it but already have all the fish and bugs, wouldn't be as fun.

I also really miss the luck system and Katrina. It was my favorite feature in the game. Second was the furniture sets, and oof does it sting to not have those after they have been a series staple for so long.

I didn't expect things that have been in the series since the beginning to be excluded.
 
Mostly because Nintendo isn't releasing all the content at once and rather in chunks.
 
I just want we can have more than 10 villagers xD

P/s: Oh and i want our villagers can do more stuff with item we placing around not just looking at them and smile or turn them off and on lol
 
I know what you mean, I felt the same at first. I have really high hopes for NH. I think they intend to add A LOT more in future updates. I just don't see how they wouldn't. Especially considering how well ACNH has sold - they're not gonna just ignore that.
 
It doesn't feel empty to me at all? Yea there are some things missing and all but when I went back to New Leaf it became immediately clear that NH if anything doesn't feel as empty as NL. It's jarring to go back to towns without furniture outside, at least to me.

Also burning question, why do people use smaller font sizes here? Is it meant to be cool? Cute? I can't see very well and it's annoying the heck out of me
 
They developers have said that they will be adding free updates for 2 years so maybe they will add what they couldn't while developing, they even took more time to finish the game so it must've been quite a lot of work to develop the game and polish it so I guess they didn't have much more time to keep delaying to add tons of more content.

They probably will keep adding new things and probably minigames in later updates, we just gotta wait to see. I do have to agree though that from other games, there does feel like quite a bit of stuff they left out... especially villager text, it's just not as great in this game and runs out quickly. I really hope they add more stuff to make the game interesting :D
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It doesn't feel empty to me at all? Yea there are some things missing and all but when I went back to New Leaf it became immediately clear that NH if anything doesn't feel as empty as NL. It's jarring to go back to towns without furniture outside, at least to me.

Also burning question, why do people use smaller font sizes here? Is it meant to be cool? Cute? I can't see very well and it's annoying the heck out of me
I think people do it as sort of like a facade, trying to roleplay a sort of character or something. Maybe people do it to express how they would talk IRL, like if someone is more introverted or isn't as confident in talking, they use smaller text to not seem like they are yelling or talking loudly. Just my two sense
 
It doesn't feel empty to me at all? Yea there are some things missing and all but when I went back to New Leaf it became immediately clear that NH if anything doesn't feel as empty as NL. It's jarring to go back to towns without furniture outside, at least to me.

You can't tell me that NH villager interaction is on even remotely close to the same level as NL. Villager interaction may not seem like a huge deal when you're still new to the game, but when you finish your island, your catalogues and museum, the villagers and hanging out with them is the *single* thing you keep playing for. And when you have a handful of 5 lines between each personality, and villagers that never ping you unless it's for a reaction (which won't happen once you've finished your island, you'll have unlocked them all by this point) the game gets very stale very, very fast. In NL, across 2 copies, I had 3,800 hours played. I finished my town somewhat early on, but kept coming back time and time again for the priceless villager interactions. I accidentally made my favorite villager, Jacques, move out from TTing to much. My friend adopted him, I cycled 16 villagers, and got him back. He remembered me the entire time. I'd visit her town weekly to see him and he'd always tell me how much he missed me. Some of the NL dialogue is very sentimental, and it's a large part of what keeps people coming back. To see how much this department lacks in favor of customization of your island is depressing.

Just my hot take, I know people play the game for different reasons, but AC has always been my comfort game since I was 8 years old, and I'm 23 now. There's just things about NH that lacks that comfiness, and I hope we do get it back.
 
Also burning question, why do people use smaller font sizes here? Is it meant to be cool? Cute? I can't see very well and it's annoying the heck out of me

It’s usually an aesthetic thing. Some people use small font, some use a different color, others type strictly in lowercase. There’s even some that do all three. It’s pretty common to see on forums that lets users personalize their posts, not just here.

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On topic though, I’ve been playing this game for months straight since release, I went back to play some of NL recently and oh boy is it rough to get back to. I did not miss plot resetting and stressing about random move outs at all. While I do miss some of the sets like sleek and rococo, I think the trade off for flexibility of where to put items makes it worth it. Though, I do hope they add more furniture in the future, both old and new.

Really, moon on the first page described my feelings about the game perfectly.
 
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