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I've spent more time per session on this game, than I have previous Animal Crossing games. I am spending more time exploring online with my friends. And I have more to do than I have ever had to do. And this is all considering that the point of this series is about the village/island growing and expanding WITH you over a long period of time.

This is the wildest of wild takes. This take is simply you complaining just for the sake of complaining.

While I will agree that the rest of the complaints are overblown, it does sort of feel like the villagers are more brief in their dialogue than past games.
 

Durden

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Oct 25, 2017
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Man, I'm goin so hard on this game. My fiancé's a reason for it too. She doesn't play games as much as me but she still plays a good bit, and when she finds something she really likes she'll stick with it.

Been with her for 5 years and I don't know if I've ever seen her quite like this with a game. It's been wake up, Animal Crossing, go to sleep. Like 12 hours at least on Saturday and today no joke (pretty sure Saturday was 15). We're both a little competitive too, so her playing so much is keeping me playing right there with her.

We're just fucking loving it. I could see myself playing this much more than New Leaf.
 

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Do Tarantulas and Scorpions appear in multiplayer now?
I think I've seen a video of Bees appearing In multiplayer now.

I may send out a dodo code in an bit or so.
I'm not sure if it would be a smarter idea to send it out in DMs to those who request, or just post it here in a hidden tag.
 

Chrno

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so selling stuff was better before nook's cranny was a thing.. right? now I'm limited >:\

should have stayed in the stupid tent.
 

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Looked at a few posts - nobody is down on this game? Across GC, WW, CF, and NL, the one constant I had was talking to villagers. Online was fun too after the GameCube.

There is nothing to do in New Horizons. 2 villagers instead of 5+. They have one sentence to say instead of 3+. Half of your total conversation time is just getting them to say something. The one sentence they say per interaction isn't interesting. Because there's only 2 villagers, there's way less chance to see other villagers interacting with each other, which gave the game flavor. The NPC tally is dismal.

GC:
5 villagers
Tom Nook
Able
Sable
Blathers

Side characters:
Copper
Booker
Pelly
Phyllis
K.K. Slider
Rover
Porter

This game has...
Tom Nook
2 nephews with the same personality
2 villagers
Dodo
Blathers (after you get the museum)
Gulliver (dunno what triggers him)

I'm guessing more characters will show up over time but this is dismal first impression. AC was already a light-touch game so there isn't room to go lighter.

"Play online", you might say. Online hinges around having stuff to do. In the old games I could hang out in the cafe, talk to 5+ villagers in a neighbor's town, buy stuff from Nook, see the museum, and check the observatory. All *on top of* what you can do in this game: fish, catch bugs, and once you get the pole, see the other half of your starting town.

You can say all you want that it's just a social sim, and what you do doesn't matter, but that excuse doesn't work in 2020. There are hundreds of free to play games where you can hang out and talk to friends. Outside the f2p space, Terraria, Stardew Valley, and Minecraft all seem to eat the lunch of the first few days of New Horizons - and I don't even particularly like those games.

As a near-lifelong fan of AC, this one hurts. I got a peek at what's coming to my island in the next day or two and it doesn't seem like it's anything major.
I've spent more time per session on this game, than I have previous Animal Crossing games. I am spending more time exploring online with my friends. And I have more to do than I have ever had to do. And this is all considering that the point of this series is about the village/island growing and expanding WITH you over a long period of time.

This is the wildest of wild takes. This take is simply you complaining just for the sake of complaining.
I... don't understand this.

In past Animal Crossings, I felt like I had nothing much to do each day, even from the get-go. I usually played for about 15 minute sessions.

The sense of progression in NH is so. much. better. Crafting makes collecting materials hella fun. My play sessions so far average about 2.5 hours. I'm having a blast. I truly feel this is a huge step forward for the series.
Imo, the biggest issue with this game is that the goal seems to be to get yourself to the point where the previous games all started at.

In terms of what's actually in the base game, I'm worried that there isn't much outside of "day 1" in any other Animal Crossing title.

Like, there's no art section in the museum, does that mean Redd isn't in the game? Celeste doesn't seem to have her own place in the museum either, and Brewster seems to be gone too. Can you upgrade Nook's Cranny like you could in every other game? What about actual, new, unique non-villager npcs outside of the dodo brothers?

I guess they could add all of this content in updates, but they've only mentioned holiday/seasonal events and npcs so far. Also, even if they add all of the content I mentioned, how do we know it's not years away?

In its current state, I feel like New Horizons is a great foundation for a good Animal Crossing game, and we're just left to hope that everything else we'd expect gets added over the next couple/few years.
 

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The ghost appeared on my first night in the game but I couldn't get to him without a pole, and tonight he returned. Got him this time.
so selling stuff was better before nook's cranny was a thing.. right? now I'm limited >:\

should have stayed in the stupid tent.

Yeah I thought it was weird that you lose convenience by upgrading. Odd game design choice.
 

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Do Tarantulas and Scorpions appear in multiplayer now?
I think I've seen a video of Bees appearing In multiplayer now.

I may send out a dodo code in an bit or so.
I'm not sure if it would be a smarter idea to send it out in DMs to those who request, or just post it here in a hidden tag.

I feel like either route should be fine but if you want to really center things on just a few interested parties then go the DM route?
 

Pirate Bae

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Do Tarantulas and Scorpions appear in multiplayer now?
I think I've seen a video of Bees appearing In multiplayer now.

I may send out a dodo code in an bit or so.
I'm not sure if it would be a smarter idea to send it out in DMs to those who request, or just post it here in a hidden tag.
Yeah they do
 

Meelow

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Oct 31, 2017
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Do Tarantulas and Scorpions appear in multiplayer now?
I think I've seen a video of Bees appearing In multiplayer now.

I may send out a dodo code in an bit or so.
I'm not sure if it would be a smarter idea to send it out in DMs to those who request, or just post it here in a hidden tag.

DM please, it usually gets super full in a second if it gets posted here.
 

Antoo

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Some photos of today.

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Finally caught an Orefish!

And was fishing for like an hour and a half

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By any chance can I buy the couch and wallpaper? Lol. I'll pay 150k.


(Sorry if I've been posting a lot of these throughout the thread btw; having no luck with balloons or shop items)
 

Mipmap

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Hot damn, I just got extremely lucky. I caught a Stringfish and then a Golden Trout directly afterwards. I didn't know the Stringfish available and I hadn't even heard of the Golden Trout.
 

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Alright.
It's currently 5PM here,
According so critterpedia, most of the rare fish become available after 4, but given the sun hasn't set yet, they'll probably be rarer than later tonight.
Arapaima
Dorado
Great White Shark
Whale Shark
Arowana
Hammerhead
There's also a bunch of less rare fish and bugs available here that are seasonal and not avaliable right now in the north, although you won't see any of the day time butterflys due to the time.
It's also still too early for late night bugs, like Moths and Scorpions (if they can even appear).
Send me a message and I'll give you the code.
Islands name is Death Isle, and I'm playing as a girl named Dawn.

Edit: Offer now void for just a bit
 
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Fanuilos

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Oct 27, 2017
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Stepped out of nook's tent and I swear I saw tarantula drop from the sky in the distance. This is now a horror game.
 

Balbanes

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Are you sure you're talking about the "100 fish without messing up" one? Cause the "total fish caught" one does have 500 and 3 more after that. They are two separate progressions.
 

Wingfan19

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Oct 25, 2017
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So, I'm not crazy in that you can't make a regular long sleeve shirt in this game, right? I had to import some stuff from my 3DS game. Also, why is the sleeve resolution lower in the NH compared to NL?
 
Nov 8, 2017
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Finally found a non native fruit other than coconuts via the nook pass. 1 in 10 visits maybe. Pretty rare overall. Loving the game so far overall.
 

ASTROID2

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You still gotta make your designs in new leaf if you wanna share them in new horizons is so stupid. You even have the twitter charing feature cmon Nintendo. The game has a lot of really weird quirks I feel anyone outside the dev team would have noticed in 2 seconds.

Edit:
I think you get a QR code maker thing later on.

You must. Hopefully.

Edit 2: Ah yes looked it up you do.
 
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belairjeff

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I think a lot of capabilities will be added as we go on. Hoping for substantial updates in the coming months.
 

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