I get sick of Isabelle telling me there's no news today... couldn't they mention more things? They know it's a game played basically 365 days a year. So come up with at least 365 different news topics. 🤷♀️
You mean you DON'T want to hear her talk about random movies, TV shows, magazines, concerts, or the sock she lost behind the washer on loop every week? Wow, such a fake fan, I personally wait with bated breath everyday for her to tell me one of 8 scripted mundane things. My life has been so enriched with the knowledge that she *spins wheel* falls asleep learning about *draws card* jiu jujitsu and *rolls dice* wants to go back to supporting us and our enjoyment of the island!
She either needs to find something to announce or she needs to shut up. Going through two loading screens every single day only for her to announce literally nothing 99% of the time is just annoying.
i wish this game wasn’t so focused on aesthetic . like don’t get me wrong i love how beautiful the game is, but in the old games i didn’t feel the pressure to look pretty. with the villagers having less personality and just existing to be collected combined with the overwhelming number of clothes available daily, i feel like i focus on surface level things waaay more rather than relationships and bettering the town
John animal crossing was never meant to be a decorating game. great that you spent 645 hours doing that, but that doesn’t mean other aspects of the game aren’t lacking in serious ways
Honestly, a lot of games are moving this direction. Especially with games as a service and cosmetics. Gameplay updates takes a back seat. Sims 4 has this issue as well. The game looks beautiful, but is extremely shallow.
It was a game built on the concept of relationships, NH hollows it out and destroys it. The original director of the gamecube original was inspired from the loneliness he experienced and how much he missed his friends and family when he moved into a new town.
Even writing a letter sucks in this game now. It may just be me, but buying paper and taking my letters to the post office brought me joy. :( I miss the post office so much.
THIS. All the charm and fun from old games was replaced with menus. It was so much fun to go into the salon and get ur hair done, but there is nothing fun abt going through ANOTHER menu to change ur look
yes! i used to send every villager a christmas/birthday letter, i'd send them jokes, i'd just give them things i thought they'd like. but i've only written maybe half a dozen letters in this one. for some reason, "You can't put a fish in a letter!" was hilarious to 6 year old me, and i miss that detail alone so much
YES! It was so charming. Showing up at the post office during the day or late at night was always such a cool part of the day. I LOVED that and I miss Pelly, Phyllis and Pete, too. Letters in this game are so much more cumbersome. It's an annoying, long menu with all these hoops to jump through to send ONE letter. You can't buy your own stationary and write things in batches anymore... Just another regressed feature in this game imo
Very true. Animal Crossing was always about daily life, and yet more and more of that gets put into menus. What is there left to actually do in this game?
Yeah, weirdly looking through stationary and building a huge collection somehow feels less tedious than the NH approach, and that's probably because NH has very little love for letters. Like, I only EVER use it to send things to my real life friends, because there isn't a single animal that wants letters sent to them. It was special to have a new villager move in with old letters, or see the letters my villagers would send each other. That's how I found out Samson has an unrequited crush on O'Hare and would literally follow him to the ends of the earth. O'Hare kept showing me oddly romantic letters from Samson in New Leaf, and since then, each town I've had with O'Hare eventually had Samson too. Including New Horizons. You don't get stuff like that anymore.
*Finally someone talked about the god damn music.* -Also, I’m sad at how quickly you can befriend Sabel. Granted that in itself is not so bad, but once you get all her patterns all she has is repeated dialogue.
i didnt play for a big while and i was worried she would forget about me and go back to her shy personality. but no! she had to say the same shit she said last wednesday!
Right! I was so disappointed when she started repeating herself so quickly, she was the only NPC that you could actually talk to, and she gives you what? Like a week's worth of gameplay with her? Then it's the same as every other and I stopped talking to her completely.
new horizons graphics + wild world holidays and cute random events + new leaf progression + population growing villager dialogue would be the perfect animal crossing game.
Exactly this "You buried bells, you dug up fossils, you had a visitor" or they usually just spit out their usual default lines over and over. So boring.
I always considered the New Leaf rumor system to be aggravating but having villagers blatantly state that they've seen you performing activities is somehow much more creepy and annoying. What I do in my spare time is none of your business Mira!
Villagers dialogue system is kind of weird, but it works like this: You have to talk to them multiple times. The first time you talk to a villager, THEY WILL ALWAYS COMMENT ON SOMETHING YOU DID RECENTLY. Dug fossils? They'll mention it. Terra-formed? Fished? Whatever you were last doing, villagers will talk about that first. Talk to them again and they'll usually mention something going on on your island. (Visitor, event, etc) Talking to them again will bring up different conversation stuff, and even villager requests.
@@jeweledexplorer3305 "creepy and aggravating" is exactly how I'd describe it. I love octavian but whenever hes like "SAW YOU EARTHBENDING OUT THERE, KIDDO!" or "MAKE RIVERS MUCH? HAHAHA" i'm like god, stop, are you my weird uncle?
Maleik a lot of people lost their jobs due to covid, and the currency was already suffering in my country before it hit (South Africa). I literally can’t afford it 🙁
You can make your own mini games on your island in NH, but if you’re a lazy person like me, you would rather the game have those features already, or it doesn’t look nice on your island. I really want the mini games and the tropical island from NL back
One thing I'm really disappointed about is how they got rid of villager visits in New Horizons. I really enjoyed my villagers coming to visit me like I visit them. It kinda feels like i decorate this big house for nobody now.
TCMine no worries! so in New Leaf and i believe previous games, once you built your house, the villagers living in your town would stop by sometimes when you were in your house. they’d stay for a while and look around.
Omfg yes biggest dissapointment, that and little to no interaction of the animal friends with items you place around your town, wouldn’t it be so cute to occasionally see 3 animal friends on the three tea cups ride or stuff like that we unlock, it’s like they only will sit on a seat or lay down on a towel or hammock you leave around your island, that can’t even come to your house...this makes me never want to buy a possible animal crossing game or anything animal crossing related ever again unless I saw amazing reviews on it for many months, I would wait even longer as long as it takes to see others make a proper evaluation because this is legit getting tedious, cool game but could be so much better, I got started on animal crossing pocket camp As I never had nintendo products when I was younger and it’s sad to hear how Nintendo seems to have pushed this game out too soon and if they are going to do updates on the game that should include things like the old games that the fans obviously crave and I would love to see in NH but who knows?
You know, this IS the Animal Crossing game I stopped playing the fastest. I just thought it was because I was really busy, but I honestly haven't had a lot of drive to play it either.
The villagers being so boring and hard to get rid of really turned me off. They're the heart of AC games. Doing your daily tasks is fine but chatting with the villagers and creating positive and negative relationships with them was so much more interesting. Now they're just copy paste clones with a dozen lines of identical dialogue. So sad. Also only being able to have one village just sucks. I really don't see why Nintendo is so damn stuck on that. Just ruins the fun for households with multiple players but only one switch.
I absolutely agree. In the first game the villagers behaved like realistic people who could chew you out if you were being an asshole, or even if you WEREN'T. Now you could kick them directly in the Adams apple and they'd still give you gifts 24/7 and act like you're their savior.
Tbh villagers aren't hard to get rid of at all you just have to time travel. Sure it's tedious but I manged to get all the villagers I wanted through nookazon 😎✌️
honestly one of my least favorite things is how long the holidays are. there’s no need for the wedding event to be a WHOLE MONTH. and that stamp rally? all things that needed only a day or two. i’d tather have a lot of small, one day holidays than like 12 super long ones
Don't forget the bunny DAY lasting 12 whole days but the cherry blossoms lasting only 10 days and overlapping with the bunny day. So we had pretty sakura trees and sakura petals in the air and water, but friggin eggs hanging from those trees
I've been a fan of the franchise for 10 years and this is the only game where I've felt like it's a chore to talk to log in and talk to my villagers. My favourite villagers, Kiki, Deirdre, Diana, Kyle, it feels like I'm only talking to them if I see them, where in previous games I'd go out of my way to talk to them. The characters are so watered down it honestly feels like they're being held at gunpoint by Tom Nook and being forced into conversation.
I also feel bad for all these new players because they are being introduced to the series with a game that doesn’t nearly offer the full “animal crossing experience”. EDIT: For example, I have 1200 hours in New Leaf and I still have fun with it to this day. I have 295 hours in NH and I’m bored of it. That should speak about how lacking NH is.
It seems like the majority of them don't care which sucks, I've seen a lot of people try to explain what was better in the old games to them but they would get mad at them for "bashing" the game
Im a new player and I got New Leaf for my 3DS just now I wanted to save up for a Switch to play NH but nah New Leaf is good and this game made me loose intrest for New Horizons
@Medea I agree with this. They havent played the older games and ACNH is their first one. Of course, they will think it's super fun and awesome. But to us who have played the past games, it's not the same for us.:(
this was such a painfully accurate video that SERIOUSLY puts how bare the new game is into perspective. incredible job but damn does it suck to see the franchise flop such a seemingly promising game
No playable mini games, bare bones villagers, tom nook nor issabelle ever leave the resident services center, not being able to get on fourth tier because...its too dangerous? At least we can shit in our toilets.
@@niamhy5941 you can build your island up four levels, but without glitching cant access standing on the fourth level, or decorating it. The game says it's too dangerous to go up that high.
I felt so happy having both Chief and Lobo again, but then realised they have the exact same dialogue. Remember when villagers of the same personality were different?
Honestly, the characters of the same personalities were always the same. It's just more noticeable here because of the more limited dialogue pool, I think.
red cherry in older games, villagers had both a personality and a hobby, so you can have two cranky villagers, but one of them collects fossils, and the other could be into fish
Personalities have two subtypes as well but there isn’t much talk about it online. In my town, I have Kiki and Marina and sadly they have the same normal subtype so they have the exact same dialogue (despite different hobbies), meanwhile Flora and Sprinkle are different peppy subtypes so they don’t share almost any dialogue. But yeah, no one ever talks about it.
Animal Crossing used to be a life simulator where you can see how the villagers in your town develop and evolve overtime. Now it's a Diorama Showcase disguised as a cute fun life simulator exerting too much power to the person who decided to launch the game on the console first cementing the game as less of an immersive title with animal NPCs being made into glorified cardboard cutouts that you collect to make your island look prettier(im not lying you literally need 10 villagers to get a 5 star rating), basic tasks being made infuriatingly tedious and slowly adding content from previous games that should've already been in the game at launch. For a 60 dollar game.
Enraged Lemon i mean if they all say the same dialogue, might as well go for the better looking one ?? if villagers had more individualized personalities then i’m sure people would have variety in their villagers
New Leaf felt like the series was taking a step forward... New Horizons felt like it was taking several steps back. So much content from the previous games missing including characters, holidays, equipment, meaningful dialogue(remember when animals could dislike you???), etc. I hope this trend of "Early Access" doesn't become a staple for Nintendo games like it is now for Animal Crossing and Pokemon.
I've played AC Games since i was six years old (started out with WW), really disliked NL (shocker, I know) and adored NH at first. The whole Mayor-Thing really annoyed me, especially because I wasn't a 'hardcore AC player' who spend hours upon hours making bells to pay off those pricey PWPs. I went back a couple of weeks and my town looked so boring - but I liked the stores, the Island, Tortimers Mini Games, Storage Rooms in the Museum (Still missing constellations of WW you were able to draw yourself with the help of Celeste), Cafe and so on. Therefore I was pleasently suprised and happy to be able to put normal funiture outside. But now it just feels diluted, unfinsihed and only the nice graphics try to make up for it. And that shouldn't be the only reason to like and enjoy a 60€ expensive game..
I mean, from a concept perspective it makes sense that they wouldnt dislike you. Its your Island and they move to your island, why would they do that if they disliked you? In the older Games, werent you the new guy moving into town?
Nintendo has been adding updates to games over time with a lot of Switch games. For example they did it with Splatoon 2, Mario Tennis Aces, and other games. It's safe to say that this method isn't going away soon.
ACNH was a case of 3 steps forward, fours steps back. They added so much cool stuff, but for every 1 thing they added, they cut 5 things from previous games.
The local mutiplayer is so annoying. Why does the stupid follower system exist? Why do all the items a follower grabs go to that box in town hall, a long-ish loading screen away, and not just to their inventory? Why can't the followers use the tool ring if they *can* use the emote ring? Furthermore, why are they the only ones who can emote without needing to use the ring? The L button is open on the leader's control scheme... At the end of the day, it's not THAT big of a deal, but it is really annoying just how last-minute it feels. :/
Oh yea, and the absolute worst, slowest Dialogue is probably when you go to the airport. What do you want to do? Visit someone locally or online? Oh, so you want me to connect to the internet? Okay so now, Via dodocode or friendslist? Oh, nobody available, good luck next time.
I want more stores I want Isabelle to say actually relevant stuff I want my villagers to have more dialogues I want more upgrades for the shops I want implemented features similar to HHD like personalizing the exterior and interior of villagers houses I want to be able to buy and craft in batches I want way more interactivity with furniture I want DIY recipes to be easier to get and MORE VARIETY PLEASE I want more easter eggs and cute fun in-game jokes Why does this game feel like a huge downgrade apart from graphics and the terraforming/crafting features. Everything else feels downgraded.
I forgot: I want kapp'n or at least some type of multiplayer activities/games to do I want a possibility of non-breakable/incredibly durable tools I want my villagers to do more stuff with me (visit my home, let me buy their furniture, ask me to play with them more often, look for me for random stuff not related to buying/selling stuff...) I WANT MORE STUFF TO DO.
@@amos_monasterio I disagree. I have no doubt that Nintendo underestimated how big it would be, and therefore decided that they could get away with a less feature full game. Now that they know how much money this is IP will make them, I am confident that they will not hesitate to push out a better feature full game in half the time it took to release ACNH.
Ki-Adi Mundi the thing is, its been only about 6 months or so and people are already really bored of it. In older games, people played them for much longer. For example, i had new leaf and played it for about 2.5 years straight,then didn’t play it for about a year, then was able to pick it up for another 2 years. New horizons just doesnt have that, and will lead to people coming in for the updates, playing it for maybe a week, then leaving until the next one
I feel like they could definitely make the terraforming tools a lot better. What we have now is sooo frustrating. Also the fact I can move everything except the stupid residential services sucks ass. it would also be kinda cool if we had some mini games in it
I'm glad someones finally saying it. Every time I offer a fair critique about it being an incomplete game with people jump down my throat. Ive been an ac fan since I was 7. To me this game has godawful dialog, almost all my favortie npcs, holidays, furniture, and features missing. Its music is so bad especially compared to other games. Not to mention it just doesn't feel like an Animal crossing game anymore. It feels like so much of that quirky charm is gone. I don't hate new Horizons but I wish I could critique it without 90000 Nintendo bootlickers jumping down my throat.
@John Nice that you like it, as you said on every other reply, but to long term fans like many in the series the game is just super incomplete and it's easy to just get bored. I have over 100 hours into it and most of those hours were just pop in checks to see if my island self destructed or not before I play a game that actually holds my attention for more than 5 minutes because of the sheer lack of content. Is it good that some people are still enjoying the game for a long time? Yeah totally but a lot of us just feel as if this game is a major step down from all of the older games and everything that they offered to us.
@John Uh, not sure why you took a month old youtube comment as a personal attack. Good for you for enjoying it but you're offering no constructive argument except "but I like it". Old fans of the series feel let down and we are allowed to feel that way and talk about it.
@John I.. am calm? I don't think I said anything so radical or angry to you it warrants a "Jesus Christ man" I said don't take it personally because you seem to think I'm specifically attacking you or anyone who enjoyed the game. I'm not calling /you/ specifically any names. I'm saying there ARE plenty of people who white knight a multimillion dollar company. If you enjoy the game great, thats awesome. I was referring to people who will die before accepting sometimes Nintendo games have flaws. I won't go over the legitimate complaints of this game since there are plenty mentioned in the video. No ones saying you can't like it or you're a bad person for liking it.
I honestly haven't even thought of that, but yes if I'm Nintendo I'm looking at this as the best selling Animal Crossing game by a lot and going okay this is clearly what people want. And I can't say I blame them, but it is unfortunate for those of us to whom this is not what they want.
Phillip Alleva-Cox honestly i like the way they handled the creativity & control u have over the island now, but everything else is ok at best. there’s no way they can improve on that part so ether they’ll keep gettin everything else simplified or they’ll listen to fan outcry & expand & flesh out the amount of stuff u can do in the game right off the bat & conversations u can have w/ villagers
In the earlier games, the animals felt like real living characters. In New Horizons, they feel like set pieces. Something cute to sit on your furniture you put outside or to look nice next to that waterfall you set up. At no point do I feel like I'm actually friends with any of them like I did in the original, Wild World, City Folk or even New Leaf (Yes I know they're not real but indulge me here lol). They feel like empty hollow husks. They're essentially just dolls.
The idea that anyone who isn't time traveling has entered into "end game" territory in an animal crossing game after 3 months is ridiculous, that's just not how they're supposed to work. And yet here we are. Genuinely feels like there's nothing left to do except remodeling my entire island again, and after flattening the whole thing I've not even started because the terraforming is so finicky and tedious that I just don't want to do it. Waiting for a specific color of furniture to randomly appear in one of 6 slots at the store is not gameplay. The villagers really are boring. I never talk to them because they just repeat themselves. I can't buy that the game was made to evolve over time considering how much referenced content that's been found data mining that isn't present in the game. I waited for this game for years, it's the only reason I bought a switch... idk it's just really disappointing once you get over the initial excitement.
@@OdinWannaBe lmao so I did some math because I have nothing better to do right now. At the moment I have ~290 hours in the game. Which sounds like a lot but it's been out roughly 100 days at this point and it's a game that incentivises daily play. Knowing that I have played every day, that puts me at a little less that 3 hours a day on average. Which again sounds like a lot, but that's just the average and doesn't factor in days where I'm spending much more time (such as the very early game, event days or where I'm just doing a lot of terraforming etc, I also tend to leave the console on while I'm doing other things) in reality my 'average' play session is closer to 30-40 minutes a day which has been steadily declining. Not that outrageous for an animal Crossing game imo. While my play time is probably more than a lot of people, in terms of the core playerbase of this game it's actually pretty modest and is in line with what you would expect from someone who is playing the game "as it's meant to be played." So I would not say that me being frustrated with this game is purely a product of the amount of time I've spent playing it. It might be a result of the fact that I'm the kind of person to write a reply like this though 😂
So true tho, I spent like 2 years on a NL town and even then I was still trying to improve my town, but now in this game it feels like I can't even do anything else because your island fills up with stuff so fast, I used to hate how expensive and how long it took to build public works projects last game, but looking back it made everything you built feel impactful, and it made it so that you would slowly build up your island to make it better and better, looking back I really prefer how slow paced the old games were, they just felt more like animal crossing
Same feeling... I liked AC since Wild World. I have Zelda BOTW and this game. At least i have hopes with the upcoming Rune Factory 5 (Rune Factory games are fantasy life simulation with farming and fighting mechanics) and the botw sequel lol. I'm SO disappointed with ACNH, and we apparently don't have a right to complain anywhere else because a hoard of fanboys would shit on us.
I feel like this game is the equivalent to the Sims 4 problem. Previous game had so much more content, but the Sims 4 had better CAS.. basically acnh looks better and you can place furniture outside, but previous games still had so much more content.
@@viex9338 My first animal crossing was new horizons and I got it on release day and I do really enjoy the game but I got bored after the first week was over and than I've hardly played it since. I just don't feel motivated to do stuff on the island but at the same time I still really like the game.
I love the process of when trying to get a new villager you want from Nook Miles islands. Go inside building, talk to machine, operate menus until you can buy ticket, wait for ticket to slowly print with more dialogue, go outside and run to airport, go inside and run to npc, go through more menus (why is consuming the ticket not the first option on the list), finally fly out to island just to peek at what animal is there and immediately leave without second thought if you don't like them and go back to the town hall or whatever again to repeat the process. Just let me use 2000 points from the airport to fly, ffs.
Anyone remember ‘Message of the week’ and ‘Thinking to myself’ from Wild World? ‘Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, and make sure everyone wears a whole lot of deodorant’ And ‘The early bird catches the worm, but the late mouse gets the cheese’ I remember going to check every week without fail just to see what was written. And the whole side stories of Phillis, Pelly and Pete.. and just .. everything:(
I was really engaged the first two months, that's when it dawned on me how little there is to do. I played New Leaf right before this game came out and yeah, it has over double the content.
I started playing mid June maybe am just too new but from what I've heard on youtube tom nook used to be in poverty and labelle ran away from the able sisters. But in this game am not picking up any of that. They're kinda bland in their dialogue. This is my first animal crossing game.
It's the same for me. I think 2 weeks less. Bought it a few days after release and only play it again since the swimming update, but i think the joy won't last long. Maybe 2 weeks max :(
My biggest pet peeve is how the 5 original villagers you have don’t get a customized house. They should be upgrading their house at some point, I want Weber to have his music house because that relates to his name, not just an ugly dirt hut! I’ve started kicking out the villagers I love just so I can invite the same one back.
This omg, I've been saving up Nook Miles so I can kick out Louie just so I can get him back with his real house. He was sick the other day and I walked in and he still had his sleeping bag in his house O_O this is the third time I've restarted my island from scratch but I've still been playing over a month and he's still using his tent sleeping bag!
The villagers really need fixing. What’s the point of a community-based game if the people you live with are stale and shallow? I do agree with the arc consept, though it needs to be drawn out longer (unlike befriending Sable) Here’s what I’d also do to fix it: - First, two new types. Motherly and Fatherly. Are generally more responsible and stern than other types, care about the player and other villagers, though are different from Cranky and Snooty in that they’re less judgy/shallow. I do like the concept of having these kinds of villagers, especially when I’ve caught my Cranky villager giving a pep-talk to one of my lazy villagers, but it shouldn’t replace Cranky/Snooty completely. - Make Cranky/Snooty closer to their roots. They shouldn’t be unnecessarily mean, but they should have a shorter tempers than other villagers. If someone really doesn’t like them then they can remove them from the town, but for others like me who’d like some conflict it’d be nice. - More sub-personalities and make them distinct. You can see some of this already with lazy villagers. Ones more kid-like while the other’s more of a slob, but otherwise they’re basically the same. Make the different sub-personalities have different goals. Some examples: Peppy - one villager wants to be a pop star and is up to date on all the latest trends, another wants to have fun and throw parties and often invites others over, the third is like a motivational speaker and is always offering help/advice. Smug - One wants to be a famous actor/model and talks about photoshoots or movies, another wants to be an author and talks about his book, the third is a snob who likes luxury and high-end stuff. - More distinct friend groups. If one villager is friends with another, then they should actually be friends. Maybe they go on walks together, they visit each other, they talk about what they did with their friend the other day, if their friend is sick they’re the first to mention it, if their friend moves away they’ll talk about missing them or calling them later, etc. Right now, it feels like everyone tolerates everyone else. There are no real relationships. - Let villagers dislike each other. Let a snooty villager offend a normal villager, let a cranky villager dislike how pushy peppy villagers are, let clean-freak normal villagers dislike how gross lazy villagers are. Peace is boring, let there be a little bit of conflict between villagers. It’ll make the villagers actually feel real since irl not everyone gets along perfectly. Additionally, let fights/arguments last more than a minute. - Let villagers have bad days where they’re more angry/moody/sad. Then, let the player try and cheer them up with a present or by talking to them. Again, everyone’s too happy. They don’t feel real if they can’t feel anything other than ‘content.’ - Let villagers interact more with the world! What’s the point of building a bistro if I’m the only one that uses it? I made a park and literally none of my villagers go to it. I’ve got a bamboo bath area no one can use. They all just want to hover around the plaza and their homes. If you’re like me and have things clumped together (ie a residential district or a market area) then it makes the rest of the island feel lonely. Categorize items into things like ‘toys’ or ‘cooking’ and then designate which personalities are more likely to use them (ie childish lazy villagers will play with toys like sandboxes and springy ride toys. Meanwhile, normal villagers will cook a lot with things like the pizza oven or cooking campfire. While all villagers can do these things as well, it’ll be rare to see a cranky villager play with a toy.) That way items are interacted with, it reenforces personalities, when you walk into their homes they’re doing more than just walking around, and when you do catch a villager doing something they normally don’t it’s actually really cute. - LET VILLAGERS POST ON THE COMMUNITY BOARD! - LET ME INVITE VILLAGERS OVER TO MY HOUSE! - BRING BACK THE FLEA MARKETS!
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I still don't know why villagers don't act/react differently to things and objects based on personality. Remember New LEaf's april fools event that obviously didnt make it to this game? That had a lot of info about each specific villager that for some reason they only used like on one week, that already made them distinct enough
I hate this drip feeding crap. Even if they patch in all the content from New Leaf into New Horizons, that still doesn't fix the terrible system they used for the special visitors, it doesn't fix the repetitive dialogue, it doesn't fix the horrible friendship system, and it doesn't fix the awful island evaluation system. I pray that there will be this super update that just fixes everything wrong with this game, but I doubt it.
@ThisGuy69 for how long have they been working in NH tho? I heard they started development after Happy Home Designer, but I honestly doubt it, cause that would be like more than 4 years of development, and NH doesn't feel like has had that much time tbh...
I really hope they fix the dialogue imo, and I think they fixed the special visitors thing. Still, I agree that the dialogue should be improved and that there should be more to do. Which I'm hoping they can improve...
I'm hoping for such an update too but how likely is it - it's nintendo after all. Animal Crossing has had many of those problems since a long time, especially the repetitive dialogue, and it hasn't been changed ever since.
David S. It could be I think. The visuals are pretty stunning and I guess maybe the villiager Animations take a while. Not to mention modelling allthough this is less of a hassle I believe since most villiager Meshe‘s are the same with just different textures. But still dunno coding is a massive hassle so It could very well take that long. Some games take up to 7 years but I agree. Content is severely lacking!
"this game should have been released later, with more content ready" You're saying this like the Nintendo devs are frantically creating new stuff to add to the game. I'm pretty sure most of the stuff that gets released every month was ready at least 6 months before the game came out. They aren't drip feeding content because they are making it on the fly. They are drip feeding content because modern games have shown this is how you maintain player interest. Don't give them everything at once, regularly release more stuff, and people will keep playing out of sheer FOMO, even though they're already bored of the game.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure some of these things were in the game. I somehow got the OK Motors jacket from a balloon the day before they released the add-on for the Pocket Camp crossover items.
This I dont understand how this is a hard concept. Tons of the things they release they're drip feeding from reserve. Time travelers have shown people will be scummy and cheat. Well, all those punks didnt experience stuff that wasnt actually patched in, now did they?
My villagers are SO boring, it’s unbelievable. I have Bob and Al, and they both talk about the bugs in their floor every single day. Bella and Audie talk about Maglevs in Love every time I find them crafting. They all comment on me digging up fossils every day. I miss when villagers had variety. In previous games, you could have villagers that were in the same personality group, but acted completely different. Now they’re all carbon copies of each other and are pretty much only there to look nice. I’ve literally only had villagers request things from me 5 times, and I got the game on launch day. If Nintendo wants to make this game better, add more dialogue. I just want my villagers to be interesting again. And I’m so glad this isn’t just a personal thing, I’m also not a huge fan of the music in New Horizons. I LOVE the soundtracks of all the previous AC games, they hold a very special place in my heart especially since I grew up with them. But literally the only memorable tracks from the New Horizons OST is the 12 PM music (my personal favorite), the 5 PM music, and the music that plays at Nook’s before it closes. Most of it’s just bland and forgettable.
Never have I been so offended, by something I entirely agree with. Every point is correct, but I still love the game. but I do agree that for the majority of players the game is pretty shallow right now.
@Caio Coelho shallow doesn't mean it isn't great. I should have used better words. shallow in my eyes just means the number of things to do. The game is refined to pure gold in every way, and it's worth every penny, but many players are running out of things to do in it and saying they're going to wait for more updates. That's shallow to me. Though I understand I might be wrong, and I am open to see other sides.
Not to mention NO WAY to control the Campsite or make villagers leave without a 20 step algorithmically deducted in-depth guide on how to mess with RNG to bully certain villagers into leaving
ik there are barely any buildings and a small amount of villager spots. People say that it would cram their islands w more but it really wouldnt theres so much room for extra places to visit
We Animal Crossing fans were so hyped about NH and went ahead and bought it on release day... Man I would have never thought I could be so disappointed by an Animal Crossing game. Like you said, every entry in the series up until NH had felt like an improvement to the previous one. After 7 years and after NL I had hoped for such an awesome game. I will never buy another Nintendo title on release day again.
So i agree with you, however there was *one* time where Mira - a sisterly character- did come up to me with a problem of just that, worrying about a family member and wanting to write them, i think she mentioned it was her mother, and it gave me an option to say either "Don't write to her" or "You should write to her" i chose the latter, and she was happy and skipped around for a minute afterwards. but other than that, everyone seems very bleak and similar.
The only problem with that is that most characters have the exact same dialog and problems as eachother and do not seem unique. I had Biskit and daisy say that exact same thing to me.
I think there's a little more to it, but it can be really scarce. Once, I saw two of my villagers get into an argument (Pompom and Curt) and during the conversation, Pompom stormed away and Curt just apathetically left, but after talking to Pompom, you get details about what it was they were talking about and what made her so angry. I thought it was a pretty characteristic and lively encounter.
@@tootz6697 if your two villagers are talking, which is common and you dont talk to one of them mid conversation to see what it's about, and you just leave them to talk it always (or basically always) turns into an argument.
Imagine for the music problem, they should add a phone app where you pay nook miles to keep the songs from previous games and if you buy a full collection you can listen to the whole thing as hourly music. You could possibly mix and match songs from different games and be able to hear the songs every hour.
I tell people this and they get all defensive and say “THIS IS THE BEST IN THE SERIES?! SINCE WHEN HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO PUT FURNITURE OUTSIDE?!” Like.... cool.... now what about the rest of the game?..... I dont understand why this game is getting so much praise... its saddens me. I feel like animal crossing is dying and turning into something else...
If it turns into the next Pokémon. I will punch a car. ACNH was my first animal crossing, but I can see the problems, The durability system is fucking tedious, in Botw atleast it feels rewarding to get a weapon, here it feels like a chore, the npcs are bland as hell, and it gets boring really fast.
@@mau4903 YEA and just as I was reading that I was thinking about getting on my 3Ds to play it before sleeping that game never seems to get old for me and while i don't have ACNH people are overhyping it to hell and when I watched my sister play, unedited, not over exaggerated or anything it looked kinda boring :/
This sums up my feelings on the game so well. There's a lot to do at first, sure, but once you've finished terraforming there's absolutely nothing left to do but menial tasks. The world feels so lifeless as well, there's no real charm or lasting character to it because everything is so cookie cutter and limited. It's not a bad game, but it's not amazing like the previous games. I got about 200 hours out of it. That sounds great, but the truth is that the game is designed in such a way that even basic tasks take a long time- heavily padding the runtime. Going through 30 seconds of copy paste dialogue to donate something to the museum is not gameplay. Spending 10 minutes crafting bait is not gameplay. The game just feels like an endless gameplay loop with no payoff beyond the final house upgrade and a 5 star island. The best way to earn large amounts of bells is to play the stalk market (aka doing nothing). The game doesn't know what it wants to be. Villagers range from having boring as hell canned dialogue, to being annoying as hell, to being casually passive aggressive when you talk to them more than a few times in a day. In the month I played, villagers really didn't have any memorable dialogue. I didn't have any memorable interactions. Overall this game feels like it hasn't really progressed since the gamecube era. The hardware is so much more powerful, but we still have huge limitations on what we can do and minimal QOL features.
What we need: - unique villager dialogue - actual personality and arcs - more shops - more shop upgrades - better furniture (just look at acpc’s selection) - better updates, seriously What we got: - fIREWORKs
I sighed when i saw the new update was fireworks and on my 1st night with fireworks managed to get every possible prize Redd had in less than 5 minutes. I stuck around to see if there was maybe some secrets or anything like new furniture or anything interesting, but there was none. Didn't take long for me to get bored
@@Pooky1991 basically how every update has been. I went into the water, got like 10 creatures. Didnt go back. Visited 5 dream islands. Didnt do it again. Its not as fun where u have to wait a long time to have content that used to be there, also another problem: ITS JUST HANDED TO U!!! I HAVE NOTHING TO WORK TOWARDS
@@smugsdeadchannellol6184 I feel like eventually characters like Kicks and Leif should have their own shop where you get the opportunity to get new shoes and flora. Leif especially. I think uts asinine that unless you have Nintendo online, you can't get every fruit in the game. I remember in the beginning going on mystery tours to dind new fruit and getting bored because all the islands are the same, only to learn later you can't get all fruit unless you trade online apparently
I made a list of everything I like more about New Leaf about a month after this game out: * The dialogue is a lot better and stays fresh for longer * The house designs are a lot more unique * All the rooms in your house actually had a choice to be fully upgraded * Isabelle was a lot more useful * There are a lot more furniture sets it seems * Going to other towns was a lot faster and simpler * No mannequins in New Horizons * No dream suite or anything similar in New Horizons * Kicks has his own store * Timmy and Tommy’s store has a lot more upgrades * So many characters were removed in New Horizons. They could possibly come back with updates, but I think they should have all been there in the base game * The museum has a gift shop and display rooms you could decorate * Isabelle shows up in town hall and gives the player special items on certain mini holidays * The police station * Brewster’s coffee shop * Club LOL concerts * Fortune teller shop * A lot of public works projects like face cut out standees and bus stops seem to no longer be in New Horizons * There are a lot more kinds of street lamps and street clocks * You can remodel town hall and the train station * All the Holidays are in the base game * You can order special items from villager RVs * Custom design patterns remain pixel art when you use them * In Winter, the campsite tent turns into an igloo * Diving * Tortimer Island * Island tours * No badges from Phineas * I’m not 100% positive, but you can’t invite or have villagers over at your house in New Horizons * Ore’s such as ruby, amethyst, sapphire, and silver are in New Leaf and can be used to customize certain furniture * Perfect fruit * Fortune cookies and a lot of Nintendo items and clothes * Four leaf clovers * Villagers ask for catchphrases and nicknames to give you a lot more often * Gyroids were completely removed from New Horizons with the exception of Lloyd * The 3DS and WiiU were playable and you can even unlock special items from playing them * Villagers ask you to do more task or give your opinions * The banana, lemon, lychee, durian, persimmon, and mango all went missing in New Horizons * Golden tools (and all tools) can break * Ability to turn a full dinosaur skeleton into a small model * Villagers that leave your town can visit * Play hide and seek * Villagers can come to your house * You can put turnips in storage * Fertilizer * Town Ordinances * Amiibo Villagers * Museum Descriptions * Preview wallpaper and flooring * Better hourly music
Add the fact that every avatars have their *dedicated* custom pattern slots. The shared slots in NH really complicates stuff like road building (capability to rotate patterns upon placement is a good alternative but NL doesn't have it either so ...) Seriously Nintendo, how hard could it be to include such a basic feature ?
Don't forget all the missing clothing items, I've always wore the yellow bar tee and the red bar tee and they no longer exist so I can't make my character exactly how I want without making my own yellow bar tee pattern. Also the yellow hair I used to have also no longer exists in the game >.
Even today you would still have a good time going back to the earlier games. New Leaf is probably the most complete OG AC game but any of the older ones are fine too.
- Villagers in the older games with the "cranky" personality would actually verbally insult you sometimes and possibly even insult your clothes, to contrast with 'nice' villagers. In NH the 'cranky' villagers just act like old people and never insult you or your clothes. Many villagers also share stock phrases even if they have different Natures. - Isabelle gets to leave the mayor's office more often in NL because you can build things and then have commemoration events for them with her (in NH she spends 99% of the game ignored because she isn't in charge of any important game features and there are hardly any commemoration events) - Bugs would multiply in your house based on how long you were gone. In NH you can be gone a month and get maybe one single bug. You still can't use your net indoors to catch it either. - In Pocket Camp you can ride the teacup ride, but for whatever reason, in NH you can't. In New Horizons, it was very weird having to wait for almost a full in-game week to finally get a Museum and even longer for a town hall. In the old games you could come into someone's town after a week and already feel their influence on its landscape, see their house full of stuff, hear their town theme, etc. Meanwhile a week into your friend's NH playthrough is going to look identical to yours, because so much of it is just waiting for the day to reset so you can have more stuff to do again, not to mention the several-day wait to get buildings constructed
My first was Black Flag, which I actually had a lot of fun with. Recently I tried AC Origins and it just felt lifeless and janky. Overall, I don't think AC is a very good franchise.
I was so excited for this game. But 1 month after the launch, i kinda just stopped playing. Remembering the time i spent on AC on the Gamecube and the Wii it made me wonder if it's due to growing up and that i just don't have the time or spirit for this type of game anymore. Hearing you talk about all of this made me realise that it's actually the game and that it's truly different from the ones before... Guess i'm buying a 3DS with AC now, lol. Also: Damn, i miss the old music so so much!
I agree that NH is disappointing compared to NL. I love the new island building, but the villagers are so bare-bones and boring. They say the same exact thing every single day. I only talk to my villagers because I want the to leave my island. I've been cycling through my villagers to get the ones I want aesthetically.
Honestly, the characters started getting boring since city folk, it got worse in NL and even worse in NH ... And for real, i feel like my villagers gad interesting and funny conversations during the first 2-3 weeks but then my villagers always repeat the same really short sentences ...
You're right and you should say it. I'm beyond disappointed with this game. I am a jaded-ass, depressed person who doesn't get excited for shit and I was SO excited for ACNH to come out. Tbh, I was more excited the day it came out than I was when I got my grad school acceptance letter. Now I don't play because I'm honestly bored and feel no connection to the characters.
I was so disappointed when I finished my fossil collection in a couple of months in New Horizons, when it took me years (on and off) to do it in New Leaf. On that subject, the museum is a great microcosm of the problems with NH. Graphically and aesthetically it's a huge improvement -- it's beautiful, I love walking around in it, looking at everything I've caught and donated. But the fossil collection is tiny, and all of the meat of the museums in previous games, the in depth descriptions of every fossil, fish, and bug, are completely missing. It's beautiful, but ultimately very shallow. Just like the rest of the game. That being said, I'm still playing this game every single day. I see all of it's problems, I'm very frustrated with them, but due to the state of the world right now it's an easy happy place to step into where all my villagers are my friends and everything is nice. Animal Crossing has always been great escapism, and I wonder if NH would be as popular as it is if it hadn't dropped just as lockdown was really getting started.
I wonder why the fossils getting completed faster is such a thing, seeing as there are more fossils in new horizon, maybe we're just more lucky? Or the rate we get such fossils is amplified? Maybe the fact that we can get some on mystery islands?
@@SerpongeDash I finished my fossils by trading with other people.. and if the fossil collection was twice as large, or if I got half the fossils on my island, I'd *still* have it finished by now because of the online community I'm involved with. I know not everyone plays with online communities, but a lot do. I'm not even in one of the bigger discords.
@@SerpongeDash the fact that we can only obtain fossils made that easier. In previous games traps and giroids existed (even though I felt annoying the giroids, they made longer that kind of stuff)
I've been saying this since after the first week of playing. Let's not forget golden items don't do anything special anymore either. Bug net isnt any bigger, rod doesnt make it easier to catch fish and the slingshot doesnt shoot 3 shots anymore. Hell I bought the damn golden tool DIYs for christ sake. Oh and a small detail everyone forgets: In New Leaf you use to be able to change the color of lamps to make the room look a different color, it would even be seen outside in the windows. Such a wasted opportunity, especially cause the way the lamps and other lighting sources look so nice now.
@@Edax_Royeaux and all it really does is make gold Roses. Its watering pattern doesnt make it any more efficient at watering for hybrids. Which is all watering is used for.
The lack of buildings is killing the game for me. I loved the plaza in NL and wanted to use some buildings to make my island look more alive. I knew the game won't be the same when I got Luna's bed in the mail instead of a fully fledged Dream Suite.. Brewster where you at? :(
the saving system for online is absolutely horrendous, and when your friend brings you a present and you have things for them and then it times out and everything fails shouldn't happen whatsoever with a good internet connection. this is a newer console and a extensive game that should've came with more content and appealed less to the teenage girl with a knack for collecting things.
im also very upset about the very small size of our islands, where we could've actually built real communities with the NPCs and had more variety and things to do that were already in other previous games!
Julia Elizabeth Meeker the small size of our islands?? dude maybe don't take up so much space for stuff?? i literally have a whole mountain town area, two separate neighborhoods and more space than i know what to do with. you want infinite space??0
I’m still waiting for them to add The Roost and bring back fortune cookies. Getting Nintendo themed furniture and clothes was one of the best things about New Leaf.
I want to use my nook mile tickets to buy fortune cookies if that's how they'll implement them. The roost is gonna come back but I cant believe I have to wait until they patch it.
If I'm honest? I would dread seeing Nintendo themed furniture being added in at this point. Not because I hate it or anything. But because of the game's stock market and people responsible for it. The recent update for Pascal and mermaid furniture and gulliver's pirate items prove my point. People are time traveling and collecting these things and selling for exuberant prices. Look up nookazon. Or hell discord animal crossing groups and such. See how people are selling mermaid dresses for millions upon millions of bells. Or pirate crowns for 100+ nmt's and the likes. But something like the triforce from LoZ? A live mario themed wallpaper?
@@zomboids2100 That's not AC's fault. If you could go online in Population Growing people would sell the trophies and stuff. It's 2020 so everyone who wants to competes for e-clout and attention on social media. Time traveling isn't cheating, though I don't do it.
I’m in a weird limbo where I’ve played PG, WW, and CF but missed new leaf. I was so excited to try out all the fancy new things from new leaf but at this point I’m just playing the animal crossing I did when I was a kid only now I can put things outside and the villagers are now soulless shells
@@KoolMB we complain about the smallest things because the smallest things were what added up to great games. we just miss the little details and bits of characters that used to make the series what it is.
@Sarah Hamilton And? If you grew up with a game series that brought you a sense of peace, joy, and solitude through the years, you'd probably be pretty concerned with the regression for that series, too. In a very real way, this is one of my favorite franchises of all time. It inspired me at a young age and provided hours upon hours of entertainment and joy. So, to put it bluntly, it just sucks seeing this happen to it. Why do people stand up for things they care about? Video game or otherwise? There are a lot of good reasons for people to voice their disappointment with this game
My complaints: I hate the breakable gold tools, the loss of so many old NPC, the lack of museum descriptions, the overly long dialogue, the slow menu system, and all the new music tracks. I absolutely love Animal Crossing. But I still go back to Wild World. This game is rather unfinished and awkward to play.
I agree with the music complaint especially. I've been a fan since WW (Wild World) and recently been backtracking to try Population Growing and maintaining City Folk and New Leaf and I gotta say the hourly music just doesn't provide the same impact the new leaf music does. Is it bad? No. But it definitely is missing that Animal Crossing Feel that previous installments have managed to provide and give a slow, atmospheric experience that games like NL, PG, CF and WW managed to nail so well. I gotta say the decline in OST started not in the mainline game but in Pocket Camp because its just the same boring loop every hour and the character chime is just the same loop of the games main theme fitted to that specific character but thats a whole different story for a whole different day.
@@badfrad1754 the vast majority of reddit is very bad for doing anything other than feeding into the current pop narrative circle jerk, explicitly because of this reason alone - people will just ignore the facts at hand and instead try to suck up to people with influence/power in the particular community.
I completely agree with you especially on the golden tools. I think the fact that they can break really demotivates people (including me) into getting them unlike in the previous games where it was a huge deal. It doesn’t help that it can take a while to get all of the tools, so people may think: “What’s the point of getting them if they break?” The only really useful gold tool I can think of in NH is the watering can because you need it to breed gold roses. Getting the golden tools SHOULD be a big deal because it is time consuming, but in NH they pretty much nerfed the crap out of them so it’s just an afterthought or a chore to do to many people, at least from what I heard people say
Before watching this I though I’d disagree with most of the points but I just can’t because as much as I do enjoy New Horizons it really is missing so much
And the new fans think this game is amazing because they have never played an older game and it basically tells Nintendo that the way they are handling this game is really good. Im not hating on new fans im really glad more people like animal crossing now.
The "they could add these features in later" response doesn't excuse anything. If a game from 7 years ago had these features at the start at a lower price, why would its latest iteration not on release? The answer no one wants to say is marketing and cutting costs. It's the same nonsense Splatoon did with "updating" the game with "free content" when the reality is that said content was planned from release to be in the game (maps, weapons, music, splatfests in general) it's just been chopped and drip-fed to create the illusion of constant updates, establishing a loyal customer base that cites it as free stuff all the while enticing potential customers of a fresh new update they can join in if they purchase the game. Same exact thing is happening here only now you can compound it all with the horrible internet service on switches compared to the free service on a 3DS and you've got a nightmare of a product in terms of quality and content.
@@francoperalta5986 It being free doesnt make it good practice by default. Major complaint about this method is paying 60 bucks for something not fully released and running out of content within a month, an unprecedented fact in a mainline animal crossing game. Put this in into context for New Leaf which only had a quality of life update years after release in the form of moving lots of furniture at once and the dailies system set up by HHA.
SamsPrivatePinballMachine To compare newer gen games to older games is a bit ridiculous though. Older gen games aren’t capable of updates, so usually what you have is what you get, hence why there are bugs in older gen games that go left unpatched (e.g.: Pokémon Yellow has bugs, glitches, and exploits that were never fixed because you cant patch a game from that console). I’m not excusing the updates with free content because I do think it’s a method to tease players into stretching out gameplay. All console games charge at the price of $60 though, and it’s been like that for over ten years regardless as to whether the price is “deserved” or not. It was only a matter of time before Nintendo did it. This problem isn’t really only Nintendo’s fault but rather the video game industry as a whole because it’s really the exploitation of knowing that they could always add content in updates (such is seen in Bethesda’s games like Fallout 76 and Elder Scrolls Online). While there are games that exploit this concept there are examples where it’s beneficial (like League of Legends, Overwatch, etc.) because the game that was originally intended didn’t include what it does now, so it expands the gameplay. As for Animal Crossing New Horizons, while there is content I miss from older games, I’m not going to be mad over content that hasn’t been implemented yet, nor complain about a game’s price while questioning whether it was worth the cost when I have well over 400 hours of playtime.
The dialog in this game, including all of the villagers conversations, feels like it was written by a fresh-out-of-art-school student who wants to create a meme with every sentence
It just dawned on me that I've been playing this game for 3+ months and I still can't remember what most of the hourly songs sound like when I'm not playing. They're that dull lmao
I enjoy the game a lot since I love terraforming, but I totally agree about the music. I can still recall 6+ hourly themes from the original and wild world... But I can't think of a single theme I really enjoy from New Horizons. Some of the event themes are good at least (egg day, tournament).
The only ones I seem to remember are the 12pm, 2pm (I hate that one), 3pm and 12am ones. Compare that to new leaf where I remember the song from EVERY hour I played
@@VoltaMagica Oh yeah city folk too! I just started playing that recently because I wanted to try and see what the pre-Isabelle Animal Crossing games are like and oh my GOD city folk's music is top tier
This game makes me miss Wild World so much...it was my first but it just offered SO much. I miss the random little holidays like La-Di-Day where neighbors could make new town tunes or Flea Market day where you buy/sell furniture indoors. Great way to get neighbors’ furniture you haven’t seen or capitalize on selling Flies lol It made town life feel more lively. Even the little random message of the day on the bulletin board is gone. THE BULLETIN BOARD IS SO BORING.
even in new leaf i feel like there was more on the bulletin board. in new horizons i have about 10 total billboard messages and i’ve played since launch. its ridiculous
I'm new to the series and love new horizons, although I understand the criticism. I am also thinking of buying a DS and Wild World, as people say it was a really good one, do you think I should? (The old graphics don't bother me)
Honestly I bought this game and played it since it came out and every single time I played it I was thinking about how much I wanted to play wild world instead, not an exaggeration, sure nh has much more content but God it feels soul less
I've played around 150 hours of New Horizons and I already can't stand the fucking music anymore. In comparison I have probably put close to 500 hours into New Leaf and still listen to the soundtrack just on it's own. That's saying something.
You've touched on everything I've been complaining about for months now, are you secretly my clone? But Nintendo ain't "updating" the game because the content isn't ready, it's solely a PR move to keep people coming back to the game, but it's an awful way to do it, the base game is so dry of content that you'll get bored in a month, or two as you've already done everything, and the updates are so small that you can experience them within a few days.. So it's just a constant cycle of cut content being released so slowly that you're bored as soon as the update hits. Villagers are mannequins in this game, so extremely boring, the repetition in dialouge feels way way worse than even NL, and I think that's simply just because there's less player inpout in conversations, in NH most of the times the villagers will just talk, and then act like you just said something despite you not even inputting anything, whereas in NL you constantly had to engage in the conversations, with the slider, a phrase, or even you typing something to them, the last thing is still in NH but it's barely used. It doesn't matter what Nintendo does, the sour taste is already there, the first impression is ruined, there's awful decisions about the core game that's already locked in, any released content will be consumed within a day. And none of it makes sense, Animal Crossing is a game where all the content always were earned over time, this garbage fire however you're just mouth fed content, it doesn't feel rewarding to get new stuff, because you haven't earned it, Nintendo just decided to plop it in for you. And almost worst of all is the music, the same meat grinder of a song, slightly remixed at every hour of the day, I can't even play with sound on, because the music makes me want to rip my ears off...
Oh and the multiplayer... Complete trainwreck, laggy, random disconnects out of nowhere, even if you got gigabit internet through LAN, Not that it maters because all you can do in multiplayer is go visit shops, what a joke.
I mean I love the game am being delusional to be perfectly frank I have fun with the game I don’t care if its nostalgic fun or delusional fun because I’m having fun Also I’ve had next to no issues with the online idk maybe this is just me but whatever
You’re absolutely right. I love the game. But the focus was set on aesthetics which makes the game so boring. I don’t think this Game will last a long time, I think after about 2 years the Game won’t sell much anymore and people will forget about it. The updates are boring and I already don’t really care about them. It’s a unfinished game and minor updates won’t help finish it.
really?? that's all you play the game for? wow it's almost like upgrades graphics, being able to place stuff outside and terraform are like huge gigantic features that are new
PPHVRVXH they’re not. Graphics don’t keep a person interested, terraforming and crafting get old almost immediately, and putting stuff outside isn’t a groundbreaking mechanic. Putting items outside isn’t gameplay. It’s a feature.
PPHVRVXH and I don’t play the game at all. Because Nintendo decided to make the second player character on the island a second class citizen so they can’t even use half of the “new” features
@@glctcthnkr8059 4 games, over the Switch's lifespan. Smash is a given, 3D Mario and Zefla are *always obsessively made to be as good as possible.* Mario and Zelda are their main brand names, so they obviously need to make them good. Hence why they are so good. Nintendo Switch Online ruined Spaltoon 2, Mario Maker 2, and so much more, because it barely works, and costs 20 euro or so a year.
@@KittyKatty999 Ports from previous consoles are generally "complete" experiences as well, but I guess that's to be expected. Then again, half the Switch library is ports anyways...
YES ABSOLUTELY I am so sick and tired of everyone being like "be thankful you got the game at all! It's so good!" What? Thankful the game's not finished and a ton of features and characters are missing and I still paid full price for it? Why on earth am I not allowed to be disappointed that it launched incomplete?
Have you seen what people have been doing? How many have basically "completed the game" by April to may? Or how many that had done everything also decided to sell their spoils to everyone else for ridiculous prices which has basically caused bells to almost be worthless if not bidding with something above 4-5mil. And how nook tickets are pretty much the main currency?
Somebody finally built up the courage to say it, holy shit... I’m sorry, but I’m genuinely really glad that someone shares my sentiments on why this game was such an immense disappointment, because it seems like you can’t criticize this game anywhere without getting attacked for it. Nintendo’s been doing this with Sw/Sh as well, and I REALLY don’t like the current path they’re going down on. It’s gotten to the point where it seems like they’re going to keep pushing out unfinished games like this that are essentially early access without calling them early access, not to mention the atrocious online system. They’re turning into EA.
The general public simply has to wake up to the company that Nintendo is today. Their honestly one of the most anti-consumer company out there. The Switch for example has HORRIBLE build quality, literally like a toy, but people excuse it with "well that's just Nintendo :)" Im sick of them always getting a free -out-of-jail-card when it comes to these issues. And lets not even talk about their games. Thy have like what, two standout titles with Mario Odyssey and BOTW and that's it. When was the last time Nintendo has released a game that has contributed to gaming in any kind of way? We really have to stop idolizing them just because we liked Pokemon and Super Mario when we were younger.
Luigi Bros Yes True, I agree that what you Said is completely true. Still I feel like that Nintendo purposely doesn’t follow certain progressions in the gaming industry just because they can. They have no competition when it comes to their I games and I simply feel like that’s hurting the average customer. It’s not like I WANT Nintendo to fail, I just feel like they have to change some things up. Edit: Just remembered that a prime example for what I mean is Pokémon Sword and Shield, they had so much time to develop and progress with the Pokémon IP and what do they do? Release a shitty Pokémon game that does absolutely nothing new.
@@MineLord1909 But Nintendo holds a 30% share of the Pokemon Company. And yeah I do think Nintendo games are dropping in quality. Like not just ACNH and SwSh, Splatoon 2 is a carbon copy of Splatoon 1 (though willing to give leniency since the first was on the Wii U and not many people had that)
I just have to say, I picked up my old new Leaf town just the other day, and since then I’ve been thinking “I just don’t like new horizons anymore” I know it’s a new game and that it’s main point is building an island from the ground up. But.... why couldn’t it have been released as New leaf + They removed so many things that I don’t see returning any time soon, even the moments of bad luck where you fall over aren’t in the game. Which means Katrina no longer has a place because luck simply doesn’t exist anymore. I’ve put many hours into new horizons. But it’s still lifeless in my eyes. In new leaf you could spend five minutes playing and be content. New horizons and you have to play longer and more often to even feel like you’ve done something substantial because it have that level of charm that makes it easy to feel fulfilled with only five minutes a day. I don’t know if it’s just me who feels like this, but new horizons is made to make you feel like you have to play for a long time every day to justify having brought it when other ac games never did.
You know I never really tried the Welcome Amiibo update in new leaf because for some reason I was scared it’d erase my data, but now I want to see what I missed in the meantime
Animal crossing is literally just padding the game. They knew what they were doing when they didn’t allow us to craft in bulk or using a catalog to buy outfits and so on and so forth it forces us to play longer for example the fact it forces an entire week of real time to get things like the shop and museum and everyone’s getting all gitty over these updates like they weren’t purposefully left out to stretch out the play time of a game only good for a month
Minecraft: Offers full game for 20 bucks, yearly big updates for free and infinite possibilities and endlesss save files. ACNH: Game gutted to the core to give the illusion of being like Minecraft in terms of constant updates but overall being a empty unfinished game that is being dripfed content that you‘ll stop caring for once you‘ve played for a few months. This is a 60 Dollar game! You better give us free updates and add new content too for free because you‘ve charged us full price for a unfinished game! This is anti consumer!
Wait they didn’t put in bulk crafting on purpose to make us play longer? I’m sorry but what does that accomplish there isn’t any paid dlc or micro transactions they literally get nothing if you keep playing the game. For all they care you could buy it and burn it
I absolutely could not understand the hype around New Horizons, every RU-vidr latched on to it to stay relevant while everyone did the exact same handful of things that the game offered. When even the video game giant Nintendo starts releasing shallow games that get content over time... Also, how the FRICK do people accept the fact thar you have to mash A to craft faster? What year is this, is this the early 2000s calling, wanting their button mashing mechanic back?!
@@samb9759 "just let people enjoy things" is about the stupidest thing a webcomic idiot has ever made. Criticism is not stopping your free will. Saying hype is dumb is an observation. It does not mind control you.
Void of Space and Time yeah your right in general unless someone is telling you not to enjoy something which this comment isn’t so its my bad sorry Also what do you mean by “webcomic idiot I don’t know this term”
I spend forever trying to be best friends with Shari and get her photo, and when I finally got it she didn’t say anything heart warming like “I want you to have my photo as your my best friend”, she just gave me in return for some random gift I decided to give her like it was nothing. I felt like there was no point, if the photograph is meant to show your best friend status with a villager then why is there no dialogue that supports this?
I'm literally typing the german version of your video, now everyone will say I copied yours lmao. You brought up the exact same points I wanted to bring up, because they're all true. This game is in such a disappointing state and it deserves so much better.
That sadly happens too often in the DE RU-vid community. I can't hear the "THEY ALWAYS STEAL FROM THE AMERICANS" -argument anymore. Keep doing what you're doing ❤️ we are also in germany lol
Ngl considering this game was delayed I fear to think of what exactly we would have gotten if they stuck to the original release date. And I think this game is a step up in so many directions but, as always seems to be the case with Nintendo, three steps forward, two steps back
@Caio Coelho But that's a blatantly untrue blanket statement. I don't recall Fromsoft releasing a game in their SoulsBorne/Sekiro franchises that were considered 3 steps forward and 2 steps back. Id's Doom Eternal was a wonderful upgrade in my eyes from Doom 2016. Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2 was considered fantastic. Half-Life: Alyx was lauded as an amazing entry into the Half-Life series after years and years of hiatus. Divinity Original Sin 2 was an incredible upgrade from the previous entry. Those are just off the top of my head.
@@glopsnopper3806 If you actually think those games suck you really need to re-evaluate your taste in games. Those are some of the better games i've played or watched and i highly doubt you've even tried any of them to see for yourself. If you try to hit me with a reddit moment right now im beating your puppy
rune factory 4 has more content, more dialogue, actual story, combat, bosses, farming, cooking, fishing, smithing, enchanting, chemistry, dating, slice of life events, marriage, child raising and much more and you can take things the way you want without no one dictating your daily activities or story progression. best part of all? its 30-40$, I cannot understand people's fixation with animal crossing, it's so barebones
@@thebleachbottle I think it depends on ur expectations. It is my first Animal Crossing game and I really really enjoyed it. For about 6-9 weeks, playing 3-6 hours daily. For me that is ok for a 60€ game. It might be bad compared to the previous games, but it is a good playtime for ur money when u compare it to different kinds of video games.
Also remember: Dont be delusional and admit that a game can be not as great as you have wished it would have been. Lying to yourself wont get you and the developers anywhere.
reflect yourself I’ve played animal crossing for years and nh is by far my favorite it focuses on a certain type of player and sort of leaves others in the dust I’m sorry if the game disappoints you but there are people who this game is built for we’re not being delusional we were just the target audience I agree that it’s not entirely fair that your expectations deserve to be seen but what you can’t do is tell others that they only like the game because there delusional
I'm barely able to keep playing, even the people that were preaching to me that despite it's ''minor'' setback, that there's much to do, they barely play anymore. Yeah right, there's so much to do, like what? Maintaining my house and shaping what I can on my island? Hard cap on villagers even though it's a better console with better memory and blah blah blah... 2 shops and the museum, I wanna keep going, but what's the point? I wanted to create a massive indoor spa, where people could go and relax, can't create your own buildings and outdoors bath can't be interacted with. Created a massive park where my villagers could go and enjoy games, talk and watch the sea, not a single one goes there. With the new update, I can swim, pretty nice, the diving mechanic to catch new species is nice, but I'm a 100% sure that it was already in game and just withheld these features to release latter, cause the spot in nook miles it took was blank and already there, the tank for jellyfish was already there... Fuck sake! Why am I the only one swimming!? Why is there no beach activity for my villagers!? This game lacks creativity and basic understanding on town management, even Stardew Valley, with a much smaller team, much less development time and budget, was able to publish a more complete game than this, the hell is going on with Nintendo?
You can create your own buildings. I created Player 2 to make a restaurant and I will create a Player 3 to make a Kimono shop. Granted they won't be functional but they still give me a lot to work on.
"I'm a 100% sure that it was already in game and just withheld these features to release later" And you're 100% right. Data miners found references to bushes, swimming, Redd, and fake art way back in May. There were also references to a museum shop and cafe, a third upgrade for Nook's Cranny, and the ability to plant crops and cook food. The code is literally already in the game, but Nintendo is drip-feeding us content on purpose to force people to stick around.
I'm surrounded by people that have only played New horizons out of the series. And the death stares I've gotten for saying these things since april is haunting... I really wish nintendo would stop doing the absolute bare minimum, because it's really making me lose overall appreciation for the company.
this was my first ac game. i was genuinely excited when my brother got it for my birthday back in april, because i saw all the hype about it. and for the first 2 months i loved it! it was fun and new to me, obviously given the fact that i was new to series. then in june i just stopped playing it. until last week. and to be honest loading up that screen again should’ve made me go “aw man why did i ever put this down? it was so much fun!” but when it did, all i thought was “oh! we have diving now. anything else?” i remember after i had spoken to sable a few times after she gave me her last patterns and i realised she wasnt giving me anymore, i went “wait really? that’s all?” it’s kinda sad that when i was given a game built around building up a town and customising your island, the most fun i had was probably designing custom clothing based on anime characters, and cosplaying as them in game. i felt guilty about not playing more because this game was NOT cheap. rm200? i could’ve bought a lot of decent meals with that money. i felt like i was being ungrateful, or that i was falling into a habit of only getting excited about something after initially purchasing it, only to let it collect dust after (which i admittedly do struggle with). but then i was going to a game like the sims 4, and even though i slowed down playing that as well, at least when i went back to it i could still have fun. going back to acnh just made me feel tired, and it wasn’t a game i particularly looked forward to playing everyday after the first two months. im just rly sad tbh. heck, i might not touch the game until i see something i really enjoy because i dont want to burnout from it completely :/. coupled with the fact that i don’t have nintendo online to play with my friends which might’ve improved my experience overall, i cant help but feel like i wasted a lot of money on it :(
Get yourself dolphin emulator and download the gamecube game it‘s so good! It‘s a lot more harsh, it has really mean villiagers that are charming af and it‘s tedious in a good way. It looks kinda lame but it‘s really fun! On top of that letter writing in that one is also easential and really deep. You have to watch your spelling and not write too much to get your villiagers to not write back a diss. You really have to earn your status and your friendship there because it‘s not as easy. There‘s a whole lot less content to do but it‘s still really fun! If you‘re not into that then I also recommend Wild world for the DS. It‘s the sond game and is like a extended better version of the first one wirh just worse visuals but you‘ll get used to those. No public works projects or outdoor decorating in both but that only makes you focus more on your villiagers, chores and your collecting. Villiagers will be your daily source of items because nook‘ll only sell 2 items a day and one of them is clothing (in wild world you get clothing from the hedgehogs). Your beginning dept is 19000 bells wich sounds really tiny compared to the other games but it‘s a lot more than you think. There‘s no easy way to grind. No tarantula island. If you want furniture and clothes ralk you your villiagers. If you want money sell fish and insects. Is it anything but summer? Red snappers are your only source of value now~ 3k a fish. Better go fish your heart out cause you‘ll have to earn money like a regular townie. In the old games you get lesser but your experience is so deep. So much work to befriend villiagers, mailing fossils to only getting them donated a day later, closet can only hold 3 pieces so get rid of what you don‘e really need. No shoes or socks not even hats in the gamecube but it makes dressing easier and less important. The gamecube version is such a charming game. It doesn‘t treat you like a toddler, it doesn‘t give you 100% control, it teaches you to think before making any decitions and it makes it satisfying to progress. Paying my first loan after getting the fishing rod on day 3 was amazing! It really makes these aspects special. If you haven‘t played it then go and test it out! If you‘re sick of new horizons, this one won‘t treat you as a god and will grind you down so you‘ll have a good time!
I put 500 hours into this game, and I agree with everything. Most of the daily events are pure garbage (Label, Leif, Kicks, KK, and the fact that the turnip lady counts as the sunday event) Villager dialogue is BY FAR much more bland and repetitive than any of the previous games. Terraforming is grossly slow and tedious. The flower hybrid system is overly complicated. Tools breaking makes me want to break my controller. 1 shop upgrade down from 3 for no reason. No concrete way to have a certain villager move out. Cap of 10 villagers. There is just so god damn much missed potential it's disappointing.
I was disappointed in the cranky personality. Part of the reason I love Kabuki and related to him when I was a child was because I too was no good at social interactions. People didnt like me and it just made me more and more cranky. But I kept talking to Kabuki every day until he and I were friends and I cherished him and understood him. I felt like our friendship had been earned. Now, he just...doesnt seem himself. Its Kabuki but...its *not* Kabuki. Its just a shell and I feel like I didnt earn his friendship. I feel heartbroken a little. I feel like hes easily replaceable with any other villager who would just as easily be willing to be my friend. I dont want easy friends!
ugh same with me and roscoe. Some of my most vivid memories of playing Wild World as a kid were with Roscoe, running around and bothering him and always thinking it was so funny when he got all mad. He was my favorite villager ever, and I remember him getting more friendly with me as I continued to pester him. Now, in new horizons, he's lost all of his bite. It's depressing to see he's been reduced to some boomer old man personality. I don't even bother having him on my island anymore, it just makes me sad.
Omg I feel the same! I love Kabuki sooooo much he is my favorite villager. But NH did him so dirty bruh. I enjoyed making friends with him in NL and other games because he would be mean at first but then he slowly opens up and he will tell you really sweet stuff like about his childhood and things and I think it’s very lovely, and he begins becoming your friend little by little. But in NH he is just like every other cranky villager and he has no uniqueness to him anymore to me. This game has truly disappointed me in so many ways I haven’t picked it up in almost a year and what they did to the villagers and especially Kabuki will always make my heart sink even more.
I honestly stopped playing after I found out that the villagers all say the same thing...it's really boring when I have multiple villagers that have the same type. They all say the same thing and it's really heartbreaking to me, because while I admit I really only remember new leaf, but even so I remember really getting attached to my villagers. This time around uh, I don't even mind if they would all leave. I couldn't care less.
I mean, he wasn't entirely correct on those points, as there's a good amount of furniture in the game with the same/similar aesthetics but with different names now.
@@Shalakor there is literally nothing similar to the Rococo set in the game currently at all. The "cute" set is almost just a recolor of that dollhouse pink heart set from NL and the Imperial set is... there. And most of the sets we have now aren't even complete. the Rattan set is the only actually complete set we have.
I sadly have to agree. I got the game when it released. I got K.K to come to my town. Did the stupid bunny day event , then got bored. :( Also the multiplayer functions are seriously outdated.
To make things worse, it's actually the fith, and only if you leave happy home designer out (AC for GameCube, Wild World, Lets got to the City, New Leaf, (HHD), and now New Horizons
I was fully expecting to disagree with you, but you're so right. This is the first game I have stopped enjoying talking to my villagers because I have 2 of same character type. My favourite part of the game. I just figured I got bored because I'm 25 now and the world seems a bit less magical. But I miss the fortune teller and exploring mini games and so much more. I got the swimming update and I'm already bored again. Because its all hollow
Especially because so much of NH focuses on decoration, it makes me sad that there’s so little furniture, and so few ways to get it. In NL, I would be a lot more excited to decorate my house because the furniture I used all had some special story behind it. I got some furniture from fortune cookies, a villager I’d grown really close to gave me something, I worked really hard to earn medals for island furniture, etc. it feels now like none of the furniture really means anything, you either buy it or craft it. The lack of any sort of connection to anything on my island makes me lose motivation to decorate it. I dunno if that’s just me though (also totally agree on the music I haven’t found ONE song I like lol)
17:31 in NL you were also able to play Desert Island Scape, a minigame from Amiibo festival, and I cannot begin describing how fun it was. Also, speaking of Amiibo festival, I always thought people were too harsh on it. Like, dude? You were promised a mario party and you got a mario party, what did you expect? It is an spin-off after all, it isn't a regular animal crossing game Unlike NH, which was advertised as a new animal crossing game, when it really just is small portions of other AC games attached together like Frankenstein
Hi, I’m from the future. 1 year later and hardly anything has been fixed. Villager dialogue still sucks, shop still can’t be upgraded, Gyroids still don’t exist, no QoL update, NPCs are still missing and basically the only stuff that’s been added was holiday furniture....
This video has aged even better, as Nintendo have added _absolutely nothing_ of consequence since this video was added, other than diving, which was in the previous game and just like Redd was clearly meant to be in this animal crossing from the start but wasn't done in time. They didn't patch anything back in... the game was just a massive downgrade and a colossal disappointment that has put a real stain on the series going forward.
The villagers are supposed to be the life blood of these games but in New Horizons they are boiled down to their bare minimum for personality. I have Erik and Sasha on my island (which a lot of people think is a huge boon) and they have the same personality trait. That means that they both will say the exact same thing to you. They both make the same joke about falling out of trees when napping, they both comment about being friends with the bugs that live in their houses. This game feels like a rushed mess with as little personality as possible to try and save time, and I’m sad for the people who have the displeasure of this being their first foray into the Animal Crossing franchise.
The older this video gets, the more ridiculous it gets, that they didn't fix ANY of the pacing issues yet. I would rather DIE than click through all these text boxes to send a letter to my animals at this points. Even with the DLC it is still missing a shit ton of old furniture. I appreciate the new furniture but if it came at the cost at the old stuff that was ALWAYS included - why bother? And even with what the DLC added - it came too late for me, I am done playing. I paid 60 Euro for this game and it took them two years to add a large amount of content, when the base content couldn't hold my attention for longer than a few months. I still enjoyed the DLC content for like 3 weeks but it should have been included in the base game - because most of it WAS cut content. And I would have had more fun with it if I had a larger variety of things to do from the get go.
Can’t tell you how much I agree. I remember freaking out when I found Cookie, who had been my favorite villager in Population Growing (GameCube), and being so excited to get to know her again. I have to admit defeat - I don’t care about Cookie. I don’t care about the New Horizons Cookie, but I still love the GameCube Cookie. The pink puppy in New Horizons sounds exactly like the other Peppy villager on my island - Tammi. I have no desire to get to know Tammi cause she’s exactly like Cookie and repeats all the same things. I’d like to find Goldie, but she’s going to sound exactly like Marina, so what’s the point? I’d just be getting her for her looks and nostalgia.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's disappointed. I've been a fan of the series since a couple months after ACGC's NA release in 2002 and it's been one of my favourite series' since then so of course I was super excited for NH. I don't dislike the game, but I feel like it could have been so much more plus some of the decisions they made don't make sense to me. I like the idea of crafting and terraforming, but I don't like how fast crafted tools break (I think golden tools shouldn't break at all) and I don't like that a lot of the staple furniture is gone (and gyroids too). I don't like the watering down of villagers' personalities and I wish they would have put asking for work back in. The lack of shop upgrades was really surprising to me since it was a huge part of the older games. And I wish they would have done more to play up the island theme. The mystery island thing is ok in theory but I wish the islands felt more special. Even if they put a daily limit or made it cost more I think it would be better if the islands each had something unique or some kind of minigame (like how NL had with island tours) Plus the fanbase seems to have become so insanely toxic since NH came out. It's sad to see
I don't see many people bring up the community but yeah, it used to be a nice wholesome pretty small community, but now it's full of people having a literal black market for villagers, and people asking for real money for villagers, on top of all of them getting mad if you criticize the game at all
@@umjammereddy The time travel threats are the worst, I used to time travel on New Leaf because of my working hours, if I didn't change the clock even with ordinances by the time I got back from work my villagers would be asleep and the shops would be closed so I used to time travel in order to get the general daily interactions done and that was fine no one cared. I time travel in NH for whatever reason I'm apparently satan.
