Current Events > Animal Crossing New Horizons is a mastahpiece so far

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can't stop playing it

@TheBlueMonk_

it looks like it has its charm, but what makes it a masterpiece?

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Idk, I kinda run out of things to do too fast.
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It's animal crossing

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How is it better than stardew? Or any other farm game?

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boxington posted...

it looks like it has its charm, but what makes it a masterpiece?

it's kind of too early to tell, but it improves upon New Leaf in every way

TC is a known Nintendo shill.

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The graphics are amazing, the atmosphere...

and all the flaws of new leaf are fixed.

Balloons and the slingshot drop useful/exciting items now.
Houses and all stores can be moved, no placement in the game is permanent.
Public Works projects are replaced by having the ability to place any furniture outside, and there are massive pieces of furniture in this game that are the size of, if not bigger than Public Works in New Leaf
You can sell at any point in time of the day.
Saharah Wallpapers and Floors are animated now.
They removed all the terrible special visitors like Katie that made me dread visiting other people's towns.
You don't need friend codes or have to add people as friends to visit them.
The Villagers have personality again.
Villagers can't move in randomly and destroy your shit and build houses in places you don't permit. Only the first two villagers are truly random, you have agency over the rest and they implemented a reliable way to kick out bad villagers.
Tools are more useful now in the sense they used to take up store slots, but would have no purpose beyond the first couple days of the game.
Trees can be picked up, rocks can be destroyed.
Museum is way cooler.
They removed Beetle Island farming, which ruined the money grinding of new leaf.
Mystery Islands are way way way better. You randomly land on an island of several presets. Some of the islands have special properties like trash island, bass island, bamboo island, tarantula island etc.
Mystery Tickets make nook miles worth grinding for even after you collect all the items buyable with nook miles.
And they give you a constant stream of tasks to do to unlock nook miles. Which means you can play the game the whole day fulfilling little objectives if you choose to.

I can go on

GrandConjuraton posted...

TC is a known Nintendo shill.

How so?

The only bad thing about the game is cut content, but it looks like they are going to do a slow trickle like Splatoon 2.

They cut the Cafe, Gyroids, Diving, Minigames, Tropical Fruit, some other stuff too that I'm forgetting

Cafe, gyroids, and diving were trash.

I liked the cafe. Gyroids were trash because they couldn't be re-purchased and there were too many to store.

Another huge plus for New Horizons, they give you massive amount of storage. Like I have 400 slots right now and you can increase it beyond that.

They also added more inventory slots and other Quality of Life changes like that

Diving was ok, gave you another set of creatures to collect. My only issue was they would bubble all the time and it was just kind of annoying to listen to and look at while you were fishing.
And I didn't like the Pascal mechanic all that much, because it meant you would have to go diving everyday just to see if Pascal was in your town and there was no indication.

boxington posted...

it looks like it has its charm, but what makes it a masterpiece?

Graphics, music, gameplay, Nintendo's creation

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Milkman5 posted...

Mystery Islands are way way way better. You randomly land on an island of several presets. Some of the islands have special properties like trash island, bass island, bamboo island, tarantula island etc.

iunoo that's my one gripe with this game, after you have neough of everything there's no point in visiting those islands and a lot fo them are just feels bad

My only gripe so far is that you can't island hop with friends

They have a bunch of chairs where people can sit in the airport, so maybe that's a possibility one day?
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soulunison2 posted...

iunoo that's my one gripe with this game, after you have neough of everything there's no point in visiting those islands and a lot fo them are just feels bad

money grinding on the better islands

MarqueeSeries posted...

My only gripe so far is that you can't island hop with friends

They have a bunch of chairs where people can sit in the airport, so maybe that's a possibility one day?

I have a lot of gripes. Manila Clams don't stack, I don't like that you can only craft things one at a time.
They need to changes these for sure in an update.

Milkman5 posted...

money grinding on the better islands

thats not my goal tho I just wanna breed pretty flowers

@soulunison2 posted...

thats not my goal tho I just wanna breed pretty flowers

there's supposedly a hybrid flower island

Milkman5 posted...

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there's supposedly a hybrid flower island

bro I wanna see islands that house shit other than tulips or lilies and thats all Im getting

This is the first AC game Ive played since the first. My wife loves these types of games, and Ive enjoyed it so far but the amount of dialogue you have to go through for so many things that could be once and then skipped is mindboggling to me.

Weve gotten past Blathers, started getting fossils, upgraded the house, etc. maybe 10hrs in.

Just so many little irritating things with the interface and user experience that is completely unnecessary that its at times hard to play. Simplest examples are things like everytime you capture something your character has to say their little quip...just let me swipe and capture the thing and continue on. So many of these extra little time sinks built in, I dont care the reason, annoying.

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I miss gyroids a lot.

I miss cranky and snooty villagers actually being mean.

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LethalAffinity posted...

I miss gyroids a lot.

I miss cranky and snooty villagers actually being mean.

I read that there are still some villagers like that...there was a list of villagers you don't want or something

It's ok. I can't make myself play it for more than a few minutes a day

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Conker posted...

This is the first AC game Ive played since the first. My wife loves these types of games, and Ive enjoyed it so far but the amount of dialogue you have to go through for so many things that could be once and then skipped is mindboggling to me.

Weve gotten past Blathers, started getting fossils, upgraded the house, etc. maybe 10hrs in.

Just so many little irritating things with the interface and user experience that is completely unnecessary that its at times hard to play. Simplest examples are things like everytime you capture something your character has to say their little quip...just let me swipe and capture the thing and continue on. So many of these extra little time sinks built in, I dont care the reason, annoying.

people would probably get upset if they removed creature quips. It's a series staple.

Blathers would blab on and on the in the earlier games and they removed that in New Leaf so people got triggered. Now his blabbing is optional in New Horizons.

There used to be a character who would never shut up, Mr Resetti. He would talk for 10 minutes calling you a moron and people were upset he was removed.

The longtime fans like flavor text.

Milkman5 posted...

people would probably get upset if they removed creature quips. It's a series staple.

Blathers would blab on and on the in the earlier games and they removed that in New Leaf so people got triggered. Now his blabbing is optional in New Horizons.

There used to be a character who would never shut up, Mr Resetti. He would talk for 10 minutes calling you a moron and people were upset he was removed.

The longtime fans like flavor text.

None of that is what Im specifically talking about. Its that after you see some things once, its always the same. I dont mind the fresh new text that offers something to the experience. Catching the same bug and always having to press through a couple text bubbles is just a waste of time, though. Same if you go to sell or hand certain things in.

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Milkman5 posted...

The Villagers have personality again.

Can you go into detail please?

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