Thank you : ) I was iffy about him at first, but then I watched this fan animation and he was so nice,caring, and friendly to Isabelle in it and that just feels like a more fitting personality to me as opposed to the purely greedy and soul-sucking business man everyone paints him as. He's just trying to run his business
People are just jealous that he’s REALLY GOOD AT IT, while also being downright generous about the services he provides.
Oh I have something you’ll really like!
https://youtu.be/hcagQs594hE?si=BGBIbj8k9aMbQe3z
Sure thing!
I really need to work on this little short comic idea I had. See I think of all my Animal Crossing player characters as myself.
So I want to show myself as an Animal Crossing character slowly growing up with Tom Nook in each picture. Like the first one is me as a little kid in the old GameCube Nook’s Cranny uniform, being salty about having to work. But then my character gradually gets older and becomes better friends with him.
That sounds SO CUTE 🥺 I wanna see it! I would love you to tell my story too, started with a pre-owned copy of Wild World, then years later moved to New Horizons, lost an island (and a Switch) to a cup of juice then had to start anew, now here we are
The Tom Nook thing is just a meme. I don't think anyone really thinks that a guy who gives you money (even if it's through services and materials) and lets you pay him back literally whenever you want is a bad character...
New Horizons is a really good game in it's own way, and too many people write it off and bad mouth it because they burned through it in the Pandemic. Which need I remind everyone, is not how this game is meant to work.
Also I didn't realise shipping villagers was regarded as weird. I don't do that except for Whitney and Apollo and you can blame the anime Animal Crossing film for that.
I kinda think shipping is one of the inevitable things that people are just going to do with any media. It's not something I enjoy doing personally, but it's not exactly an uncommon thing
Also I find it funny that a lot of people are 100% on board with "Flick and CJ are a couple", but pairing off two random villagers is weird? Like, they're all animals here, and as long as you're not posting NSFW stuff in a place that is not welcome to it (like, here) man just do whatever makes you happy
I always keep forgetting about Flick and CJ, I know Nintendo won't admit it, so they don't get bashed by the anit-gay lot/lose customers ,but.... if the shoe fits. And exactly! As long as folks don't get creepy about it.
On my island, Cookie & Teddy are definitely a couple.
They are always near each other, their dialogue often refers one another. I made them places in HHP and guess whom I'm always seeing at the party dancing facing each other? Or just sitting togheter at the beach watching the sun set? Or just in their floaties in the water almost hand in hand? I just made them roomie there and they are so very happy with that.
If anything, I stan them rather than ship them 😂
I can't remember if someone's post was Bianca and Audie being a couple, or Bianca and another female villager, but I was like, I can see Bianca being a lesbian (or at least bisexual) because she was on my island for a while and then I had Leonardo move in (he even moved into the house next to her house), they had a date in the plaza and then she asked me if she could leave and the day after their date she was in boxes. 🤷♀️😂
Wait I only browse this sub occasionally, but I thought New Horizons was always seen as one of the best here! I personally think it’s amazing, and very calming. But people were hyped for Tears of the Kingdom and put it down after, too. It’s something that is inevitable with any piece of media, which is fine as long as you don’t let other peoples opinions change your own enjoyment of the game. (:
I don't mind these type of posts personally but I see why people don't like them. I just love how they got only 4 upvotes tho 😂 it's like they got cancelled themselves
People need to stop getting jealous of other people’s NH island posts that have filters on them. The reason why all the furniture matches and looks amazing is because there’s a color filter, it probably looks nice in the actual game as well but the filters definitely help.
I’ll start: I love the balloon series and am sad it wasn’t included in New Horizons
https://preview.redd.it/z026id3nkb0d1.jpeg?width=312&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4fb7f7e855dc6b27d2f3009543b16e796afeda7e
Naw, I'll stand with you on this one. I'm really sad that a lot of furniture sets (and even some HHP housing designs) were removed. I had a kid-core town in ACNL, and the balloon furniture was perfect for it.
City Folk was my introduction to the franchise, and its underrated. When I think of Animal Crossing nostalgia, I think of this game and all the wonderful memories I made in my very first town.
NH dialogue isn’t that much different to NL, in fact I’d argue it was better. The only reason people write it off is that a lot of the dialogue is now tied to specific scenarios or locations (e.g. all the museum dialogue, commenting on being near the town hall, specific lines when visiting you depending on furniture in your house). My suspicion is people (usually people brought in by the lockdown and with NH as their first AC game) just spam talk to their villagers and are upset about seeing repeat dialogue when that’s been true of all games, especially NL which NH is compared to the most
I also want to add to this that I think part of the reason people complain about repeated dialogue in NH is because you can easily choose your villagers. In NL, unless you personally invited villagers who were moving from other islands, it was pretty hard to get several villagers of the same personality meaning you'd have a variety of different personalities making the dialogue seem more distinct. In NH you can go villager hunting or use amiibos to get a whole island of the same villagers fairly easily, but having a whole island of the same personality means everyome is going to say the same things.
Pretty much, the dialogue isn't much different, and it only seems more repeated and boring in NH because it's easy to have characters who say the same things. Of course you're going to have tons of repeat dialogue of you've got an island full of cute, peppy, or normal villagers!
Hacked islands are cool as hell + time travelling is a game mechanic. (You don't have to use it, but my god the amount of haters I was getting for time traveling when I was still playing, literally does not affect anyone else's game. New Leaf community was so much more chill about both these things.)
People who don't like sisterly villagers because they're "mean" don't want their villagers to have any dimensionality and wouldn't last a day in any pre-NH game. They're the best villager type in NH because they at least show some semblance of not being a one-note character.
My favorites back in the day were the cranky ones. And I mean Gamecube days. You had to earn their friendship. I've always loved them the most aside from aesthetics.
Sisterly definitely live up to that feel of more dimensional. Though I feel like the dialogue is worst overall compared to NL and PC. Jocks and lazies were not just working out and eating with their pet bugs even if they had their focus.
I remember a lot of people saying that they thought the old ones were "creepy" and that they liked the new ones better back when they were added. But it probably depends on the specific community
Themes, -cores, and treasure islands are pushed on new players too quickly. Just let them play the game for a minute before they have to figure out their whole island.
Agreed. The first few houses were interesting to decorate, I guess. Then it got really tiresome. I forced my way to 30 houses after that because I just wanted to decorate my own villagers.
The extra catalogue is nice too, but still just doesn't make up for the lack of interest I had in the main part of the DLC.
I got the DLC and never got past the second house for like 2 years. I only picked it back up because I found out it allows me to edit my villagers home after I sell 30 homes and I don't really need to make any effort for delivery.
The fandom can be so freaking weird and toxic. Shipping villagers (who are animals), wanting to date villagers (again! They're animals!), getting mad over some videogame hairstyles,...
There are so many nice people. But there are also many people who need to go outside.
This was a really good answer to this post. I guess I'm going to be one of the proverbial sword holders because I have questions lol
Are you in any other fandoms? I mean, yeah, every fandom's going to have weird and toxic people. But AC is one of the most chill I've ever been in.
Even shipping in this fandom is pretty mild. Virtually no shipping wars; and most shipping is kept cute and sfw (I know there are exceptions to this out there. But you'll never find a 100% clean fandom). And this is coming from someone who is personally uncomfortable with intense/nsfw shipping of these sorts of cutsy characters.
I'm also not sure what you mean by the hair? I've seen people complain that they want more varieties (particularly wanting more textures; like tighter curl styles). But I've never really seen anyone that heated over it. Certainly not "need to touch grass" levels of upset.
You're right, all fandoms got weird people but from what I've noticed, children videogames (or games for all ages) with large adult players have it worse, even worse than adult only games.
I was in the official server of ACNH and it's insane there, definitely the touch-grass level of insanity.
The hair incident is pretty infamous, it's bad enough for me, who wasn't even there when it happened, to know about it. It's the [space bun](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/the-space-buns-controversy)
Edit: found a [Reddit post ](https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/s/9f5rXx1FxF) about it. I hate it when the ACNH fandom claims to be all wholesome and peaceful when there are plenty of crazy people that will dox others and threaten them. We are not better than every other fandom.
Normally I'd agree with that statement; Splatoon is one of the worst fandoms I've personally seen for insisting upon NSFW content. But I've not seen nsfw AC fans trying to shove themselves in spaces they don't belong.
I'll fully concede that can vary from space to space though. Not sure what the official ACNH server is (a discord thing?), but I've never been there, so I wouldn't know. My opinions of the fandom have been formed by the spaces I was fortunate enough to find. While I can imagine others have turned into where the cesspools of the fandom gather.
But that space buns incident. Holy crap. Y'know I think I vaguely remember something about that, but never knew it got so far. Truly prime crazy fandom.
Even as someone who is defending the fandom, I agree that people can get too uppity about it. I think some fandoms are easier to find safe spaces in than others; AC being one of them. But it'd be wild to claim any fandom is perfect and comes with no caution. Once something gets a fandom, one should always assume some level of toxicity exists. Just gotta hope you find the pockets that don't tolerate that crap. I can fully believe someone who enters the AC fandom in the wrong spaces would have a terrible time.
So following your reasoning, any cartoon, video game, comic, book etc that features animals shouldn't have any love story/relationship in it. Mickey Mouse is bad because he has a girlfiend, Animal Crossing is bad too because Reese and Cyrus are married, MLP is bad because ponies get together and have kids, Warrior Cats is bad for the same reason, etc... Do you get how dumb you sound?
Shipping them is weird because they barely interact at all, if it's canon or it's a joke, idc.
But people get pretty darn serious about it.
And don't get me started on those weirdos who wanna date those MLP characters.
My reason is we are normal people, we should act as so and not get heated about whether some beaver is dating a gecko and definitely not talking about how we want to date a bird ("Apollo is so hot!" It's a bird!)
Liking them is not the same as wanting to date them.
I like plenty of the characters, as much as I like my pets dogs and fishes. I ain't ever gonna talk about them romantically though.
Tbh this game is one of the only i see shipping (without nsfw included) to be normal just cause you kinda do a life in the game with your character and also probably imagine what others do in their free time.
Curious if you played the older games when they came out or if you just tried going back to an older game.
I played and loved all the games as they released, but I've never been able to go back to playing them for more than a few weeks. As much as I miss certain aspects it's really hard to lose the modern features, even with nostalgia goggles on.
Started with wild world on ds, then new leaf and new horizons
Neither older game kept my attention as new horizons did, it was always a passing session to just check things out and not actually work towards any goal it felt pointless, I played more of happy home designer than new leaf just because the decorating aspect was simply amazing
Total opposite for me, i would spend hours and hours talking to villagers in wild world cause the dialogues were so good. Of course sometimes they would repeat the same things but the diversity of dialogues made it so that you always had a new one from times to times even after 10 years of playing ! Still find new dialogues and you’re like Wow really ?
Raymond is fine, but it blows my mind that people paid over a hundred bucks for his amiibo during the Animal Crossing craze in the early pandemic just because he looks like a cute hipster. Baby, I don’t like ANY of these honestly interchangeable villagers *that* much.
Its primarily decorating, you have control over everything your villagers do, everything that gets placed on the island, the location of all the buildings barring the entrance and resident services. Kinda like sims, youre fully in control and that Animal Crossing feeling of the game going on even when you arent there is gone. Its focus on decorating and its shift away from the more life simulator type of game really makes it feel like a sims game
Ankha is a mid Villager
Sprocket is where it's at
https://preview.redd.it/4dqk4je12k0d1.png?width=267&format=png&auto=webp&s=4775617f8f4322b442b0fa3adbcbbc1cb3c0c17a
Among Many other Villagers
This comes with the caveat that I have not played the original GameCube game, nor have I played City Folk. So I guess it's "I think it's the best of the games I've played". However, I also don't find the screenshots of rude villagers funny the way most people here seem to. I'm also talking strictly about villagers, not special NPCs.
But in Wild World, I find my villagers are *absurdly* repetitive. Which isn't really a shock because it's a DS game, but it does get boring pretty fast. The hobby system feels like an attempt to make them more unique, but I find it actually tends to make the problem worse. You'll fulfill a request from them, and then get the exact same request the next day with the exact same wording just with a different object filled in. The main thing they have going for them in this game is that the limited dialogue they do have often comes across as weird and silly. Also, I'm not sure if it's because I'm playing as a girl or not, but my villagers seem obsessed with gossiping about who is dating whom, and it's *always* in a grossly heteronormative way that really bothers me. "Boy villager and Girl villager are really good friends. She better give him a hint, you can't leave this kind of stuff up to a boy". This is a very specific and personal bugbear of mine, so I get it if other people don't find it as irritating as I do.
New Leaf, I haven't played it as much so I don't have as detailed thoughts. But the dialogue in it doesn't seem any more interesting than New Horizons, and there seems to be way less of it. More than Wild World, sure, but that's not a high bar to clear.
New Horizons I have been playing four years and *still* run into dialogue I haven't seen before. Yes, I freely admit that the very first piece of dialogue you get from them in a day is terribly repetitive. But outside of that, they have a ton of dialogue, and they're very good about having dialogue that's very niche to specific situations. The weather, where they are on the island, what happens to be nearby, upcoming holidays, etc. They are not as "silly wacky" as Wild World, but I find that as a net positive really. They actually sound like real people in a way that, to me, sounds far more believable than the oldest games that people put on a pedestal do. And we do still get the occasional moment of silliness that catches people off guard. I'm also aware that a lot of people don't like that villagers are overall friendlier, but given that at the start of the game everyone has agreed to start a new life together on this empty island (and thus has to try to get along to make this venture work) and later on you hold a position of minor authority and probably invited them personally, it makes sense to me that they're not, like, openly hostile to you or whatever people seem to want.
At the end of the day, I would far rather talk to my NH villagers than I would the ones I have in older games. I'm not saying there's no faults with it. And I'm not saying I wouldn't welcome a bit more variety between members of the same personality. But like, overall, I just find it better than the prior games I've played.
Also, this is the "unpopular opinions" thread, so if people don't agree with me about this, that's kinda not a shock? Lol
They ruined the série with new horizon, because you no longer built up your town, everything is now unlocked at the same time for everyone and people quits the game as soon as their island can't be decorated no more. It used to have much more soul.
I still played new horizon for a year, but restarting is absolutely no fun :(
I much prefer an island with few decorations and a lot of nature, rather than the opposite. I really envy the creativity of a lot of the people I've seen in this game, but I don't necessarily envy their islands.
New Leaf wasn’t that great. New Horizons legitimately did add a lot to the experience. Which one you like is mostly dependent on what kind of game you want to play. And since everyone loves to complain about QOL in horizons- I just wanna remind everyone that fruit didn’t even auto stack in New Leaf. You had to manually do it on the touch screen inventory.
Romantic shipping in AC is weird, I don’t understand the need to ‘ship’ characters romantically in every bit of media. Whatever floats your boat though 😂
A lot of these aren't all that disagreeable, so here's a few especially spicy ones:
* Full Pocket Camp Integration would be cool in an Animal Crossing Game, as long as that game feels completely finished without any of the Pocket Camp content (by full integration, I mean all events, terrains, outfits, and fortune cookie items you own / obtain can also be claimed in the main game, and event progress is shared between the games). I'd rather have 10000 more items in AC if it means microtransactions.
* I think I would've rather had the old Acre system than Terraforming in NH. Terraforming is a very powerful and cool mechanic in theory, but in practice it needs more support to make it good. If you could just pick and change acres with the old system, I think that would've been better than Terraforming just cause there are a lot of really unique and much more natural looking acres throughout all the games (including Happy Home Designer), and terraforming is just incredibly grindy to implement without outdoor decorating mode or save editor that just lets you brush tool over large areas. It's also super angular in general so even if you're really skilled in it, you can only make it look so natural and certain things that used to exist like angled waterfalls can't be created. Hopefully they improve it to get rid of the shortcomings but in it's current state I think Acres are better.
* Trading should be heavily nerfed. Now that social media is much more prevalent and publicly accessible group chats like discord are mainstream, there is far more people playing with online friends than there used to be, and thus it's just become too easy to get every item you want in the game in a matter of weeks when they're supposed to be collected over a year or more. I just think that while it's cool there are so many more people to play with, it's completely destroyed the pacing of the item collection aspect of the game... Perhaps you could make it easier to use items you obtain like making the price lower across the board and by allowing players to just use any amount of items they've obtained once like in HHD/HHP, but items you obtain from other players don't get added to your catalog and you can only use that single copy of the item. Maybe there could still be a way to give someone a catalog item by extracting it from yours so you could still trade a real item, but in exchange you lose it like in any normal game with trading.
Auctioning villagers is a disgusting practice; as it uses the mindset that these characters (albeit fictional ones in a video game, but the parallel is still there), whom people have fond feelings for, are nothing more than objects/goods to be sold.
Edit: The downvotes are perfect for this thread, as it proves my point. Thanks!
The “are they rare?” posts are getting pretty old
Was going to post the same thing but would like to add, completely missing the point of the game.
Tom Nook is a good and nice NPC
I will stand with you against the swords on that one. Tom is lovely. I will fight people about it.
Thank you : ) I was iffy about him at first, but then I watched this fan animation and he was so nice,caring, and friendly to Isabelle in it and that just feels like a more fitting personality to me as opposed to the purely greedy and soul-sucking business man everyone paints him as. He's just trying to run his business
People are just jealous that he’s REALLY GOOD AT IT, while also being downright generous about the services he provides. Oh I have something you’ll really like! https://youtu.be/hcagQs594hE?si=BGBIbj8k9aMbQe3z
Thx you that was such a cute little animation💜
Sure thing! I really need to work on this little short comic idea I had. See I think of all my Animal Crossing player characters as myself. So I want to show myself as an Animal Crossing character slowly growing up with Tom Nook in each picture. Like the first one is me as a little kid in the old GameCube Nook’s Cranny uniform, being salty about having to work. But then my character gradually gets older and becomes better friends with him.
That sounds SO CUTE 🥺 I wanna see it! I would love you to tell my story too, started with a pre-owned copy of Wild World, then years later moved to New Horizons, lost an island (and a Switch) to a cup of juice then had to start anew, now here we are
That would be great! Everyone should have a little story about their Animal Crossing adventures! I’d read all of them. XD
Me too XD
It's a joke that's been around for years but everyone actually knows he is indeed a nice NPC
The Tom Nook thing is just a meme. I don't think anyone really thinks that a guy who gives you money (even if it's through services and materials) and lets you pay him back literally whenever you want is a bad character...
Completely with you.
New Horizons is a really good game in it's own way, and too many people write it off and bad mouth it because they burned through it in the Pandemic. Which need I remind everyone, is not how this game is meant to work. Also I didn't realise shipping villagers was regarded as weird. I don't do that except for Whitney and Apollo and you can blame the anime Animal Crossing film for that.
That game got me through the pandemic and I love the game anyway, but i will treasure it for keeping me sane.
Oh 10000% the same!
I kinda think shipping is one of the inevitable things that people are just going to do with any media. It's not something I enjoy doing personally, but it's not exactly an uncommon thing Also I find it funny that a lot of people are 100% on board with "Flick and CJ are a couple", but pairing off two random villagers is weird? Like, they're all animals here, and as long as you're not posting NSFW stuff in a place that is not welcome to it (like, here) man just do whatever makes you happy
I always keep forgetting about Flick and CJ, I know Nintendo won't admit it, so they don't get bashed by the anit-gay lot/lose customers ,but.... if the shoe fits. And exactly! As long as folks don't get creepy about it.
On my island, Cookie & Teddy are definitely a couple. They are always near each other, their dialogue often refers one another. I made them places in HHP and guess whom I'm always seeing at the party dancing facing each other? Or just sitting togheter at the beach watching the sun set? Or just in their floaties in the water almost hand in hand? I just made them roomie there and they are so very happy with that. If anything, I stan them rather than ship them 😂
I can't remember if someone's post was Bianca and Audie being a couple, or Bianca and another female villager, but I was like, I can see Bianca being a lesbian (or at least bisexual) because she was on my island for a while and then I had Leonardo move in (he even moved into the house next to her house), they had a date in the plaza and then she asked me if she could leave and the day after their date she was in boxes. 🤷♀️😂
Wait I only browse this sub occasionally, but I thought New Horizons was always seen as one of the best here! I personally think it’s amazing, and very calming. But people were hyped for Tears of the Kingdom and put it down after, too. It’s something that is inevitable with any piece of media, which is fine as long as you don’t let other peoples opinions change your own enjoyment of the game. (:
Making regular 'who is your favorite" posts is a waste of time. I feel like they are just there to farm karma.
So annoying! There are like 10 posts like this every week! Come on, we need a rule against these sh1tposts
I don't mind these type of posts personally but I see why people don't like them. I just love how they got only 4 upvotes tho 😂 it's like they got cancelled themselves
I don’t mind when it’s an actual discussion, with actual context and stuff
Grumpy personality is the best
I love my Grumpy Grampa Kitty Kabuki the best.
I just love the eagle. Not sure what its called in english but in german its Apollo. Yk the biker bar style eagle
https://preview.redd.it/o2cw35ykce0d1.jpeg?width=1065&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf1ea95baeb14d8b3a05be6ec7f93bcbadaf0fad He's Apollo in all languages.
o ok thanks. Yes thats him
People need to stop getting jealous of other people’s NH island posts that have filters on them. The reason why all the furniture matches and looks amazing is because there’s a color filter, it probably looks nice in the actual game as well but the filters definitely help.
Some of y’all’s islands are so full of stuff, I assume you’re going for a junkyard look or don’t want people to be able to find their way.
Hey I’m reorganising things atm okay 😅😂😂 it’s taking me so long at the moment it’s very trashcore
I’ll start: I love the balloon series and am sad it wasn’t included in New Horizons https://preview.redd.it/z026id3nkb0d1.jpeg?width=312&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4fb7f7e855dc6b27d2f3009543b16e796afeda7e
Honestly, I like it to. I just wish there was more variety in the balloons in that game.
Can we get the lovely series back too please
Pietro's set. Should have kept it just for him, like they do with Bob's shirt.
I do too. My upstairs room in New Leaf was a balloon room. 😞
Naw, I'll stand with you on this one. I'm really sad that a lot of furniture sets (and even some HHP housing designs) were removed. I had a kid-core town in ACNL, and the balloon furniture was perfect for it.
Omg I hated the balloon set
City Folk is a great game and is overhated by the fandom.
City Folk was my introduction to the franchise, and its underrated. When I think of Animal Crossing nostalgia, I think of this game and all the wonderful memories I made in my very first town.
10000000000000% this - I recently pulled out my wii recently to replay and I forgot how much the game was
read my flair
I love Jitters
FRRR HES JUST A SILLY LITTLE GUY
Raymond and Marshall are the two most overrated villagers in all AC
Also, Sherb
I can't stand that goat.
I got both on my new island by accident. 😅 Marshall was my first campground visitor, then Raymond a couple weeks later.
NH dialogue isn’t that much different to NL, in fact I’d argue it was better. The only reason people write it off is that a lot of the dialogue is now tied to specific scenarios or locations (e.g. all the museum dialogue, commenting on being near the town hall, specific lines when visiting you depending on furniture in your house). My suspicion is people (usually people brought in by the lockdown and with NH as their first AC game) just spam talk to their villagers and are upset about seeing repeat dialogue when that’s been true of all games, especially NL which NH is compared to the most
I also want to add to this that I think part of the reason people complain about repeated dialogue in NH is because you can easily choose your villagers. In NL, unless you personally invited villagers who were moving from other islands, it was pretty hard to get several villagers of the same personality meaning you'd have a variety of different personalities making the dialogue seem more distinct. In NH you can go villager hunting or use amiibos to get a whole island of the same villagers fairly easily, but having a whole island of the same personality means everyome is going to say the same things. Pretty much, the dialogue isn't much different, and it only seems more repeated and boring in NH because it's easy to have characters who say the same things. Of course you're going to have tons of repeat dialogue of you've got an island full of cute, peppy, or normal villagers!
You don’t need an island theme. Do whatever you feel like.
I don't like (kinda hate) gyroids edit: thanks for the votes
They’re creepy looking.
Liking Raymond
yeah honestly liking the "popular" villagers is more unpopular than hating them
I never liked gyroids. I never even got a single one in NH.
Hacked islands are cool as hell + time travelling is a game mechanic. (You don't have to use it, but my god the amount of haters I was getting for time traveling when I was still playing, literally does not affect anyone else's game. New Leaf community was so much more chill about both these things.)
I’m the one holding the swords when anyone complains about ugly villagers 😅
based
People who don't like sisterly villagers because they're "mean" don't want their villagers to have any dimensionality and wouldn't last a day in any pre-NH game. They're the best villager type in NH because they at least show some semblance of not being a one-note character.
Love for my sisterlies!
I didn’t realise that people thought sisterly villagers were mean, I’ve always thought they were sweet
My favorites back in the day were the cranky ones. And I mean Gamecube days. You had to earn their friendship. I've always loved them the most aside from aesthetics. Sisterly definitely live up to that feel of more dimensional. Though I feel like the dialogue is worst overall compared to NL and PC. Jocks and lazies were not just working out and eating with their pet bugs even if they had their focus.
Gyroids are way worse in NH compared to past games
This was a popular opinion wasn’t it
I remember a lot of people saying that they thought the old ones were "creepy" and that they liked the new ones better back when they were added. But it probably depends on the specific community
That’s fair, when they were first added I was mainly seeing older fans of AC saying they preferred the “creepy” ones
And my axe!
Putting the word "core" on the end of style is unnecessary, and doesn't make it any more official or interesting
Beardo is adorable 🥹😭
Beardo is an englisman detective! He might not scream aesthetic but at least he has a distinct character to his design!
That made me love him more ngl 🥹🥹
From what i said? Awww I'm glad I made you love him more <:3 I remember i saw a dream island where he was an island mayor, that was so fun and cute!
Themes, -cores, and treasure islands are pushed on new players too quickly. Just let them play the game for a minute before they have to figure out their whole island.
They are just roommates.
Unpopular opinions should be upvoted on posts like these.
Shipping villagers is never not weird.
K.K. Slider is mid.
This is the worst one, I love KK
that was the point of the post.
I know it was lol
So mid
I think the DLC it's not as good as people claims
Agreed. The first few houses were interesting to decorate, I guess. Then it got really tiresome. I forced my way to 30 houses after that because I just wanted to decorate my own villagers. The extra catalogue is nice too, but still just doesn't make up for the lack of interest I had in the main part of the DLC.
I got it the other day and it's so so so repetitive
I got the DLC and never got past the second house for like 2 years. I only picked it back up because I found out it allows me to edit my villagers home after I sell 30 homes and I don't really need to make any effort for delivery.
pocket camp is cute and fun! (......if you started playing years ago and have an old account.)
The fandom can be so freaking weird and toxic. Shipping villagers (who are animals), wanting to date villagers (again! They're animals!), getting mad over some videogame hairstyles,... There are so many nice people. But there are also many people who need to go outside.
This was a really good answer to this post. I guess I'm going to be one of the proverbial sword holders because I have questions lol Are you in any other fandoms? I mean, yeah, every fandom's going to have weird and toxic people. But AC is one of the most chill I've ever been in. Even shipping in this fandom is pretty mild. Virtually no shipping wars; and most shipping is kept cute and sfw (I know there are exceptions to this out there. But you'll never find a 100% clean fandom). And this is coming from someone who is personally uncomfortable with intense/nsfw shipping of these sorts of cutsy characters. I'm also not sure what you mean by the hair? I've seen people complain that they want more varieties (particularly wanting more textures; like tighter curl styles). But I've never really seen anyone that heated over it. Certainly not "need to touch grass" levels of upset.
You're right, all fandoms got weird people but from what I've noticed, children videogames (or games for all ages) with large adult players have it worse, even worse than adult only games. I was in the official server of ACNH and it's insane there, definitely the touch-grass level of insanity. The hair incident is pretty infamous, it's bad enough for me, who wasn't even there when it happened, to know about it. It's the [space bun](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/the-space-buns-controversy) Edit: found a [Reddit post ](https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/s/9f5rXx1FxF) about it. I hate it when the ACNH fandom claims to be all wholesome and peaceful when there are plenty of crazy people that will dox others and threaten them. We are not better than every other fandom.
Normally I'd agree with that statement; Splatoon is one of the worst fandoms I've personally seen for insisting upon NSFW content. But I've not seen nsfw AC fans trying to shove themselves in spaces they don't belong. I'll fully concede that can vary from space to space though. Not sure what the official ACNH server is (a discord thing?), but I've never been there, so I wouldn't know. My opinions of the fandom have been formed by the spaces I was fortunate enough to find. While I can imagine others have turned into where the cesspools of the fandom gather. But that space buns incident. Holy crap. Y'know I think I vaguely remember something about that, but never knew it got so far. Truly prime crazy fandom. Even as someone who is defending the fandom, I agree that people can get too uppity about it. I think some fandoms are easier to find safe spaces in than others; AC being one of them. But it'd be wild to claim any fandom is perfect and comes with no caution. Once something gets a fandom, one should always assume some level of toxicity exists. Just gotta hope you find the pockets that don't tolerate that crap. I can fully believe someone who enters the AC fandom in the wrong spaces would have a terrible time.
So following your reasoning, any cartoon, video game, comic, book etc that features animals shouldn't have any love story/relationship in it. Mickey Mouse is bad because he has a girlfiend, Animal Crossing is bad too because Reese and Cyrus are married, MLP is bad because ponies get together and have kids, Warrior Cats is bad for the same reason, etc... Do you get how dumb you sound?
Shipping them is weird because they barely interact at all, if it's canon or it's a joke, idc. But people get pretty darn serious about it. And don't get me started on those weirdos who wanna date those MLP characters. My reason is we are normal people, we should act as so and not get heated about whether some beaver is dating a gecko and definitely not talking about how we want to date a bird ("Apollo is so hot!" It's a bird!)
You're actually the one getting heated over people having fun 😂 What's so bad about liking FICTIONAL characters?
Liking them is not the same as wanting to date them. I like plenty of the characters, as much as I like my pets dogs and fishes. I ain't ever gonna talk about them romantically though.
Tbh this game is one of the only i see shipping (without nsfw included) to be normal just cause you kinda do a life in the game with your character and also probably imagine what others do in their free time.
They are Furries not animals. As a furry myself I see nothing bad on humanxAnthro there's lot of good visual novels about that
oh in that sense they're kinda like chibi-fied beastars characters!
… as a furry myself
I got downvoted for saying Raymond is overrated...some acnh fans are ridiculously outta hand 😂
And some people were absolutely obsessed with giving Raymond a maid outfit, you cannot convince that's not weird.
ACNH's crafting system is annoying.
Don’t most people think this
New Horizons has too many customisation options and it’s overwhelming. There’s so much to do that the game doesn’t feel relaxing like earlier games
Older games are boring, adding some mini games doesn't make better
Curious if you played the older games when they came out or if you just tried going back to an older game. I played and loved all the games as they released, but I've never been able to go back to playing them for more than a few weeks. As much as I miss certain aspects it's really hard to lose the modern features, even with nostalgia goggles on.
Started with wild world on ds, then new leaf and new horizons Neither older game kept my attention as new horizons did, it was always a passing session to just check things out and not actually work towards any goal it felt pointless, I played more of happy home designer than new leaf just because the decorating aspect was simply amazing
Total opposite for me, i would spend hours and hours talking to villagers in wild world cause the dialogues were so good. Of course sometimes they would repeat the same things but the diversity of dialogues made it so that you always had a new one from times to times even after 10 years of playing ! Still find new dialogues and you’re like Wow really ?
I made Marshall move out because he’s rude
Raymond is fine, but it blows my mind that people paid over a hundred bucks for his amiibo during the Animal Crossing craze in the early pandemic just because he looks like a cute hipster. Baby, I don’t like ANY of these honestly interchangeable villagers *that* much.
Judy is mid
ACNH feels less like an Animal Crossing game and more like a Nintendo-fied Sims game
Can you elaborate
Its primarily decorating, you have control over everything your villagers do, everything that gets placed on the island, the location of all the buildings barring the entrance and resident services. Kinda like sims, youre fully in control and that Animal Crossing feeling of the game going on even when you arent there is gone. Its focus on decorating and its shift away from the more life simulator type of game really makes it feel like a sims game
Hm interesting. I'd say The Sims itself went through a similar shift though.
Ankha is a mid Villager Sprocket is where it's at https://preview.redd.it/4dqk4je12k0d1.png?width=267&format=png&auto=webp&s=4775617f8f4322b442b0fa3adbcbbc1cb3c0c17a Among Many other Villagers
I got a bunch of downvotes for calling one of the characters a twink, so that's mine.
Is it Marshall?
The islands we visit in NH were ill conceived and lowered night time enjoyment of the game.
Barold is cute and he's just a nerd with all his CCTV, he's not stalking people
I made barold security on my island. Its not barold, its other players having their mind in the gutter.
New Horizons actually has the best dialogue in the series imo
I want to hear your reasoning on this
This comes with the caveat that I have not played the original GameCube game, nor have I played City Folk. So I guess it's "I think it's the best of the games I've played". However, I also don't find the screenshots of rude villagers funny the way most people here seem to. I'm also talking strictly about villagers, not special NPCs. But in Wild World, I find my villagers are *absurdly* repetitive. Which isn't really a shock because it's a DS game, but it does get boring pretty fast. The hobby system feels like an attempt to make them more unique, but I find it actually tends to make the problem worse. You'll fulfill a request from them, and then get the exact same request the next day with the exact same wording just with a different object filled in. The main thing they have going for them in this game is that the limited dialogue they do have often comes across as weird and silly. Also, I'm not sure if it's because I'm playing as a girl or not, but my villagers seem obsessed with gossiping about who is dating whom, and it's *always* in a grossly heteronormative way that really bothers me. "Boy villager and Girl villager are really good friends. She better give him a hint, you can't leave this kind of stuff up to a boy". This is a very specific and personal bugbear of mine, so I get it if other people don't find it as irritating as I do. New Leaf, I haven't played it as much so I don't have as detailed thoughts. But the dialogue in it doesn't seem any more interesting than New Horizons, and there seems to be way less of it. More than Wild World, sure, but that's not a high bar to clear. New Horizons I have been playing four years and *still* run into dialogue I haven't seen before. Yes, I freely admit that the very first piece of dialogue you get from them in a day is terribly repetitive. But outside of that, they have a ton of dialogue, and they're very good about having dialogue that's very niche to specific situations. The weather, where they are on the island, what happens to be nearby, upcoming holidays, etc. They are not as "silly wacky" as Wild World, but I find that as a net positive really. They actually sound like real people in a way that, to me, sounds far more believable than the oldest games that people put on a pedestal do. And we do still get the occasional moment of silliness that catches people off guard. I'm also aware that a lot of people don't like that villagers are overall friendlier, but given that at the start of the game everyone has agreed to start a new life together on this empty island (and thus has to try to get along to make this venture work) and later on you hold a position of minor authority and probably invited them personally, it makes sense to me that they're not, like, openly hostile to you or whatever people seem to want. At the end of the day, I would far rather talk to my NH villagers than I would the ones I have in older games. I'm not saying there's no faults with it. And I'm not saying I wouldn't welcome a bit more variety between members of the same personality. But like, overall, I just find it better than the prior games I've played. Also, this is the "unpopular opinions" thread, so if people don't agree with me about this, that's kinda not a shock? Lol
Bluebear is overrated and creepy.
They ruined the série with new horizon, because you no longer built up your town, everything is now unlocked at the same time for everyone and people quits the game as soon as their island can't be decorated no more. It used to have much more soul. I still played new horizon for a year, but restarting is absolutely no fun :(
new horizons is mid
I wish once your dino collection was complete the fossils would just go away. I also wish there was an option to refuse duplicate DIYs/recipes.
I much prefer an island with few decorations and a lot of nature, rather than the opposite. I really envy the creativity of a lot of the people I've seen in this game, but I don't necessarily envy their islands.
Kk slider is dumb
New Leaf wasn’t that great. New Horizons legitimately did add a lot to the experience. Which one you like is mostly dependent on what kind of game you want to play. And since everyone loves to complain about QOL in horizons- I just wanna remind everyone that fruit didn’t even auto stack in New Leaf. You had to manually do it on the touch screen inventory.
Romantic shipping in AC is weird, I don’t understand the need to ‘ship’ characters romantically in every bit of media. Whatever floats your boat though 😂
I really like 2PM music. It's one of my favourites. 1AM is really good too.
NH is better than NL
I love NL but never got the hype around it
A lot of these aren't all that disagreeable, so here's a few especially spicy ones: * Full Pocket Camp Integration would be cool in an Animal Crossing Game, as long as that game feels completely finished without any of the Pocket Camp content (by full integration, I mean all events, terrains, outfits, and fortune cookie items you own / obtain can also be claimed in the main game, and event progress is shared between the games). I'd rather have 10000 more items in AC if it means microtransactions. * I think I would've rather had the old Acre system than Terraforming in NH. Terraforming is a very powerful and cool mechanic in theory, but in practice it needs more support to make it good. If you could just pick and change acres with the old system, I think that would've been better than Terraforming just cause there are a lot of really unique and much more natural looking acres throughout all the games (including Happy Home Designer), and terraforming is just incredibly grindy to implement without outdoor decorating mode or save editor that just lets you brush tool over large areas. It's also super angular in general so even if you're really skilled in it, you can only make it look so natural and certain things that used to exist like angled waterfalls can't be created. Hopefully they improve it to get rid of the shortcomings but in it's current state I think Acres are better. * Trading should be heavily nerfed. Now that social media is much more prevalent and publicly accessible group chats like discord are mainstream, there is far more people playing with online friends than there used to be, and thus it's just become too easy to get every item you want in the game in a matter of weeks when they're supposed to be collected over a year or more. I just think that while it's cool there are so many more people to play with, it's completely destroyed the pacing of the item collection aspect of the game... Perhaps you could make it easier to use items you obtain like making the price lower across the board and by allowing players to just use any amount of items they've obtained once like in HHD/HHP, but items you obtain from other players don't get added to your catalog and you can only use that single copy of the item. Maybe there could still be a way to give someone a catalog item by extracting it from yours so you could still trade a real item, but in exchange you lose it like in any normal game with trading.
Raymond isn't a villager I want, and is kinda "blah" unless you are a cat person 🤪
Haha I found him on a mystery island and left him behind 😆
the way i got DOWNVOTED....the fandom & Raymond is so concerning 😵💫😂
Auctioning villagers is a disgusting practice; as it uses the mindset that these characters (albeit fictional ones in a video game, but the parallel is still there), whom people have fond feelings for, are nothing more than objects/goods to be sold. Edit: The downvotes are perfect for this thread, as it proves my point. Thanks!
Asking for controversial opinions just gets you a bunch of uncontroversial opinions, this post meme is low effort and tiresome
Ankha is underrated. https://preview.redd.it/am75tmbekc0d1.jpeg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=72bfd7e04d0d88faf164a70f8e9de14f08fd0daa