Yes I'm sure they're just not including the holidays in the base game. They're smart enough to know that people will datamine the hell out of this game so why include something on the cartridge when you can just add it later?
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct - Feb 20 @ 9am ET
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Exactly my thoughts. Those were 3 Of the biggest takeaways from me. My absolute favorite addition is the ability to place where future islanders go. Now I can make an actually community, designated park space, retail core, etc without fear of an islander ruining my setup.
Crafting your own waterfalls sounds huge to me. I missed having varied terrain in New Leaf.
I'm still not a fan of this cloud save support, especially that they couldn't have it implemented day one. To a certain extent, I can understand not transferring whole islands to duplicate items, but when there's just my account on my Switch and I want to upgrade to a Pro somewhere down the line, I really don't want nor need two separate consoles just to play my full library.
I'm still not a fan of this cloud save support, especially that they couldn't have it implemented day one. To a certain extent, I can understand not transferring whole islands to duplicate items, but when there's just my account on my Switch and I want to upgrade to a Pro somewhere down the line, I really don't want nor need two separate consoles just to play my full library.
Yeah, I was mocking that mindset. Its really stupid and overzealous when there will more than likely still be glaring exploits eventually. This decision is complete ass.
I think you need two copies of the game for that. But there maybe a way to do it ?
Honestly a lot of the micromanagement of the island seems a little more than what I personally want from AC games, but I'm willing to go in and give it a try.
Couldn't it more be so that each year's event can be a bit different?
I'm about to fly out to Japan Nintendo headquarters and demand some real goddamn explanation about this blatant erasure of Reese & Cyrus, my beloved alpacas have truly been done dirty, and as a Reese stan, I'm currently reconsidering my pre-order while being curled up on the floor crying 😭
Nope, the towns have always been cozy, however the island is larger than ever previous game except Population Growing.
You can choose your island layout.
You can choose where villagers place their homes.
You can relocate your home.
You can terraform the land, adding elevated areas, expanding or shrinking rivers, etc.
You can limit visitors from using things like Axes, and designate best friends who don't have those restrictions.
You can use limited time Dodo codes so only people with that code can enter you island when you open the gate.
Lots more I'm forgetting.
Seems they were mostly referring to in-game developments on the island haha
This is the worst take I've ever seen on this here website.
Ok I need to get this off my chest, take the reactionary punches that follows and then I'm done here.
HUGE AC fan here, easily my favorite Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS titles and I have limited experience with the home-console games. What drew me in was just the vibe. It's as simple as that, but what kept me was the charming design, of having random seeds which breeds "unique per player" content, and makes it really satisfying once you burnt out after 3 months on your village, constructions and management to say "Ok I'm gonna do-over it all, give me a new seed and a clean town!" and the joy of being in those 3-month sprints where I actually played it was all about the lived-in feeling. It would update my calendar spontaneously (even if it's all pre-planned systematically) and I would "log-in" every day and be surprised there was almost always something new happening. That hasn't changed but the rest of the experience has... and I can already tell it won't improve what I think makes the games work.
What makes it all work is the subtle and "hidden" nature of the way the games are systematized. It's the random terrain and town seeds, pattern generation, face generation, who comes and goes.
They literally took everything that used to be a reactive and organic element of the game engine and said "HERE YOU GO, PLAYER! YOU CAN CHEAT NOW." and we just get to decide literally every thing right down to almost stats that determine what is in your world. This is a cop out. Almost none of these things are actually new features to the game or its engine, they just give you the keys to them. I was already a bit leery about the Mayor thing in NL but it was a nice balance between the generated and the player-driven content. This is like 100% more player-driven and it takes out too much of what made AC stand out from any other "SIM" franchise.
Very, very disappointed right now. It's like "Animal Crossing: Materialist Edition".
Really debating whether I am getting it day 1 now. I hope they mitigate this lameness via good post-launch support so there's still a sense of an immersive and ever-growing world that changes with the clock.
HUGE AC fan here, easily my favorite Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS titles and I have limited experience with the home-console games. What drew me in was just the vibe. It's as simple as that, but what kept me was the charming design, of having random seeds which breeds "unique per player" content, and makes it really satisfying once you burnt out after 3 months on your village, constructions and management to say "Ok I'm gonna do-over it all, give me a new seed and a clean town!" and the joy of being in those 3-month sprints where I actually played it was all about the lived-in feeling. It would update my calendar spontaneously (even if it's all pre-planned systematically) and I would "log-in" every day and be surprised there was almost always something new happening. That hasn't changed but the rest of the experience has... and I can already tell it won't improve what I think makes the games work.
What makes it all work is the subtle and "hidden" nature of the way the games are systematized. It's the random terrain and town seeds, pattern generation, face generation, who comes and goes.
They literally took everything that used to be a reactive and organic element of the game engine and said "HERE YOU GO, PLAYER! YOU CAN CHEAT NOW." and we just get to decide literally every thing right down to almost stats that determine what is in your world. This is a cop out. Almost none of these things are actually new features to the game or its engine, they just give you the keys to them. I was already a bit leery about the Mayor thing in NL but it was a nice balance between the generated and the player-driven content. This is like 100% more player-driven and it takes out too much of what made AC stand out from any other "SIM" franchise.
Very, very disappointed right now. It's like "Animal Crossing: Materialist Edition".
Really debating whether I am getting it day 1 now. I hope they mitigate this lameness via good post-launch support so there's still a sense of an immersive and ever-growing world that changes with the clock.
Yeah this is a day one for me. All of it looked fantastic in my opinion. What a perfect game for the Switch. Can't wait for March 20.
it looks INCREDIBLE
I would have NEVER expected full landscaping and terraforming.
just WOW. gonna preorder tonight!
I would have NEVER expected full landscaping and terraforming.
just WOW. gonna preorder tonight!
these are my sentiments, too. i never wanted animal crossing to be a game where i have 100% control over every single detail, down to the shape of the island. i feel like i'm going to stressed over making my island "perfect" instead of just enjoying it for what it is. i think this is just because i am a huge perfectionist.
I guarantee there will be a full system transfer functionality if a new revision of the Switch comes out, just like the 3DS got. They just aren't going to maroon people's Splatoon, AC, and Pokémon data.
What? It isn't the same at all to BK. Rare just did some random and often repeated noises. AC actually does the phonetics of the words/syllables which sorta gets lost in ENG iirc.
It kind of felt like when people started making paths in New Leaf (and probably before) that Nintendo wasn't intending for that. But I like that they have leaned all the way into it. A. If complaint was houses moving into areas where you had your paths, messing things up, and it's cool that Nintendo lets you have more control over that now.
Everything looks incredible. I just wish we knew more about the transfers. I'll definitely upgrade my switch to a new model at some point. My only hope is if Nintendo introduces a FULL system transfer (as opposed to user transfer) that can move AC over....
The best friends thing and Dodo codes seem great.
Will allow me to invite people without fear they're going to destroy my town.
Also, can you only type in game chat online with that stupid Switch Online app?
Will allow me to invite people without fear they're going to destroy my town.
Also, can you only type in game chat online with that stupid Switch Online app?
You can play how you want. The reality is that this was the next logical step for the game. In past versions it would reach a point where the only thing to do on a daily basis was to check the shops basically.
You can still chill. Not like you're going to be editing terrain every single day. Bask in the reward of customizing your town and home to your liking and setting up areas to chill in the virtual world as you say.
my apologies. They did say separate service but that does not mean it's a paid service. still, it's a mystery why cloud saves aren't supported. In a service that people paid for
