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Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct - Feb 20 @ 9am ET
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The island reconstructing stuff is a game changer. All in all, this looks like New Leaf, just with a bit more noteworthy options and features, and that's really all I need from it.
I get my AC Switch on the 13th, the wait till the 20th is going to be painful
for me its literally just personal preference, i find that if i am able to control every single detail of the environment ill spend most of my time trying to "perfect" the landscape instead of actually enjoying it. im sure to other people it is a very popular feature (as evidenced by most of the replies to this thread), but for me it is just a substantial change to the core gameplay loop of animal crossing.
which isnt to say i am not literally shaking with excitement after this direct lol. day 1 purchase babey. just making some commentary on how different new horizons is compared to previous games.
Nah, let's take options and content from people who want it instead.
Are you sure about those removed features? They plainly showed furniture being recolored and customized (and built) in the video, and stated you can go to remote islands for wildlife capture and fruit/flower harvest, essentially what you went to Tortimer Island for.
literally who said to take the feature away? what on earth
Some people just like the serendipity of going with the town they get by chance. Resetting the game again and again is very unchill.
Did they show off a way of making custom patterns in New Horizons? It seems silly but I hope the only way to get custom patterns isn't from New Leaf/HHD.
I wonder if there will be a reset function in case you terraform your island so badly it'll basically be impossible to get it back to what it was by default
Sorry, I've been really out of the loop, but digital game sharing won't work?
Speaking just for myself, I am very excited by all of the customization but it does make my head spin a bit tbh.
Not really, the opposite. Outside of the first time you start basically, you can play like 10-15 minutes at a time a couple times a day.
I don't *expect* that to be the case - I think we should take the Direct as being entirely presented in-universe, and it's content that's in the game at launch but will be 'developed' over time by Nook - certainly the fairly extensive footage of that content does suggest that that's the case...
...but it's not impossible that you're right.
you know you don't have to complete everything, the game can still be relation and rewarding at the same time
Pretty much. I wonder if it'll be something like it was with the Wii, where the accounts were only knowledge to Nintendo. When my Wii was stolen in 2007 I was able to get Nintendo to bring my VC purchases over when I bought my new system, maybe this will be like that.
You cannot embrace change where you already know where it leads, and that place is worse.
I was not in favor of increased customization in New Leaf and how it eroded the NPC driven roots of the franchise, making villagers and shopkeepers service-elements rather than just characters. I just do not care for this "service the player" approach of the series that has gotten overfocused. And i cannot let go of the wrongness of taking all the smart and nifty systems of the engine and rather than letting them be based on a number of hidden variables they just let you select any variable from drop-down lists and GUI. Again, they're just taking anything that made this special and surprising and revealing how the gears run behind the clockwork. The illusion of anything is lost here.
At least the weather is still improved and there are other things but they took too many fundamental features and exposed their mechanics to the player, and that's really fucking disappointing to me.
That was incredible. It really looks like all I could ask of the first main entry in the series in such a long time.
My only problem is the fact that you can only share the same island in a single console. Both my partner and I are planning to play this quite a lot, and we would have preferred to have separate playtroughs. In fact, as it stands, we're not both available on the week-end it comes out, so none of us will be able to play for a few days after it comes out, in order not to get too much of a headstart on the island. Really wished they would have given the option to have shared or seperate islands.
My only problem is the fact that you can only share the same island in a single console. Both my partner and I are planning to play this quite a lot, and we would have preferred to have separate playtroughs. In fact, as it stands, we're not both available on the week-end it comes out, so none of us will be able to play for a few days after it comes out, in order not to get too much of a headstart on the island. Really wished they would have given the option to have shared or seperate islands.
lol Animal Crossing with actual voice speaking from the animals would be god awful and diminish the charm by like 80% in an instant.
That's just an attitude some have about games in general. If a person doesn't use or like optional content in games, they feel it should be removed.
I just don't like the game's vibe right now. It's incensitivizing grinding, work and player-servicing which is the polar opposite of what the franchise originally was.
Sounds like this version is expanding on the mayor role, so now you have even more freedom to customize your island. And that's the focus here.
I like it but when it comes to Animal Crossing I'm more into activities. Hoping they have added some new events.
Also I love the online trading aspect of the game. Like selling rare pieces to other players for lots of bells. Did they make that easy? Haven't had the chance to watch the whole thing.
I like it but when it comes to Animal Crossing I'm more into activities. Hoping they have added some new events.
Also I love the online trading aspect of the game. Like selling rare pieces to other players for lots of bells. Did they make that easy? Haven't had the chance to watch the whole thing.
and i can't imagine them having to hire VAs for all the updates and events every time.
Thats exactly like the ship in Dragon Quest Builders 2. To the point of getting new fauna and flora for your island that way.
More like it just gives more options. The series has always been about starting from scratch and building up the town. Now you just have the option to even change the terraform.
I'm sorry your vision of AC is so incompatible with what others want that the very idea of convinience is athema to you.
And whenever they mention another neighbor, they'd have to pause for a half second while the stock voice clip of them saying that neighbor gets put in
And they'd have to have a "cute" nickname for the player because they couldn't use the player's name
I was afraid at the beginning about the "we will ad these features later, like the museum, town hall, shops and so on" only to realize that it was the Nook Tour spokeperson speaking, not Nintendo, so it's already included in the game but not available when you start, like before. Nice !
I have never played an animal crossing game, and know virtually nothing about the series.
I'm thinking of picking up the new game to play with my sons however. Can anyone say if the game has local multiplayer, and is so how does it work?
I'm thinking of picking up the new game to play with my sons however. Can anyone say if the game has local multiplayer, and is so how does it work?
People don't know what they want.
But I what I know I don't want is this. I'm not playing this to decide everything.
I'm so fucking bummed right now...
For those with families/households with multiple Switches, will you be getting multiple copies of the game?
My wife and I both have our own Switches and can't decide if we should each get a copy and play in our own cities and do online multiplayer, or just one copy we share and live in the same city and local multiplayer...
My wife and I both have our own Switches and can't decide if we should each get a copy and play in our own cities and do online multiplayer, or just one copy we share and live in the same city and local multiplayer...
Like, just to say Hi? Is there anyway to coax them into living on your island?
Apologies if I'm late on information. Just started watching now!
I've always just dabbled in Animal Crossing games, but I was hoping to make New Horizons the first one that I really sink my teeth into since my Switch is my most-played platform by a country mile. That said, all this time as new footage has slowly trickled out (culminating in today's Direct) I've had this nagging feeling of disappointment with the game's shift away from small-town life to a deserted island theme.
I haven't seen anyone else mention disapproval of this shift, but I was wondering if anyone else around here felt the same. As a deserted island starting from nothing, it feels like something more akin to a survival game than an Animal Crossing game. And I really, really don't enjoy survival games. Yes, I realize that it's still very much Animal Crossing, mechanically, but that "moving into a small town" vibe has always been one of the biggest draws of the series for me.
Anyone else feel similarly, or am I truly alone on this island? 😏
I haven't seen anyone else mention disapproval of this shift, but I was wondering if anyone else around here felt the same. As a deserted island starting from nothing, it feels like something more akin to a survival game than an Animal Crossing game. And I really, really don't enjoy survival games. Yes, I realize that it's still very much Animal Crossing, mechanically, but that "moving into a small town" vibe has always been one of the biggest draws of the series for me.
Anyone else feel similarly, or am I truly alone on this island? 😏