I'm a New Horizons newfag. I recently gave the original a go on Dolphin and I gotta say, I finally get it. The warm, comforting setting and passive aggressive characters mesh shockingly well with one another. Half of my neighbors first impression of me was that I was the town sex pervert or something, while Tom Nook most certainly had a sweatshop under his floorboards. Another neighbor "lent" a Pikachu card he borrowed to another, so I was sent to retrieve the card by any means necessary. Sufficed to say, Mr. Nook was most pleased. Oh, and Nook's Cranny? That leather's synthetic, don't worry about a thing.
>>736460264The series is not meant to be all about how you can customize and personalize everything. The whole premise up until New Leaf on 3DS was "You get what you get", and then the joy of it was in knowing that other players got different looking towns with slight "DNA" changes, and different fruits, and that your schedule might have some surprises on Tuesday that someone else hasn't. Over time they started to expose the hidden systems in the series to the player's direct control and that has removed the sense of charm about them, I think.
>>736460264>Half of my neighbors first impression of me was that I was the town sex pervert or somethingany other games that do this?
>>736460264Oh, and Rover made fun of me for having a gender-neutral name. God I miss the 00's.
>>736460571Snoot Game, kinda? That's Trish's impression of you, at least.
>>736460264Now reset the game without saving and see the ass chewing you get
>>736460890I already accidentally did. I needed to close the game to get it to go back to fullscreen. Wasn't worth it.
I feel like New Horizons could be a good game for those who are interested in what it does, but as an AC veteran I can't say much of it concerns me. I'm fine with having a town to live in, with a mortgage to pay and villagers to do favors for. New Horizons is basically an island manager as you're able to pretty much do whatever you want except the equipment breaks and unless I am misremembering it was always the Gold stuff that never broke, now they do, and those were found in fun ways that encouraged changing things up (the watering can being a reward for a nice clean town in NL, the RNG interactions with the fountain bitch in City Folk)Villagers were also more interesting, grumpy ones actually felt angry and even the peppy ones could be assholes. Nintendo might expect a kid to not like that, but as a kid I most remember the smack talk.
>>736461604>New Horizons is basically an island managerI cannot stress how cool this is until you actually play it. It almost give you *too much* control, so it's easy to make your island cramped and shitty. I don't know, maybe I'm just bad at planning.
>>736460264yeah it's good shit. I remember trying New Horizons and it wanted me to build a town? dropped it almost immediately
>>736461875When you're first getting into it and you're not sure how all your tools will work when they are eventually unlocked it's easy to accidentally design your island in a way that feels shitty. After you unlock everything and experiment with them enough you can easily create a great layout, it's just a matter of whether or not you want to put in the time.
>>736461875it was a nice fucking time dump during covid but it stagnates at a certain point
As a AC veteran I feel like a lot of people fell off. NL is probably my second-least played AC game and NH is definitely my least played. My kids played on my island more than I did, and I can see why. It's a dollhouse simulator, and I can see the appeal, but that's not what I liked or appreciated about the previous games.Getting thrown into a town and it's basically "you get what you get, figure it out" was great and perfectly exemplifies what the creator wanted. You slowly make friends, accomplish more, make money, pay debts, etc. You get your friend's memory card or go online and it's almost a whole new world with a completely different set of villagers, and you can see how other people adapted differently to the same situation you got put in.In NH you control fucking EVERYTHING. You're a fucking god. Villagers won't even leave without your permission. You control every aspect of life, and you're no longer "living" there. The crafting is basically just there to slow you down because you're so fucking OP and can do whatever the fuck you want.
I feel like Wild World already lost the plot with simultaneous multiplayer. The original game was built around the idea of "things happen when you're not there" and that was the ethos of the "multiplayer" as well. Maybe your friend bought out the shop before you got there, or dug up the fossils and replaced them with trash, and asked you to buy them back.I really wish the series had continued to explore this element because when you're playing at the same time as other people, there's really nothing to actually do.
I used to see the value in both "life sim" gamecube AC and "dollhouse" modern AC but then Pokopia came out and absolutely mogs the dollhouse aspect of AC in every regard. I really wonder what they're going to do after this. Who am I kidding, we aren't getting a new AC game until 10 years with Switch 3 anyway.
>>736460264>New Horizons
>>736460264It's one of those games where the sequels never truly captured the vibe of the original
>>736460264Nintendo better put this game on NSO before 2030 happens and we can no longer properly enjoy it.
>>736460264>on Dolphin
>>736468332whats happening in 2030
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>>736468703Dinosaurs are going to try to take the world back
>>736468787is this the one done with ai
>>736460264>on dolphindoes he know?at least you can use your save file on the port
>>736468860if I recall the reverse engineering of the game source code had used some AI to help make it, but the actual PC port did not, although I suppose it's using said source code
>>736468703>In Animal Crossing for GameCube, the in-game calendar officially stops on December 31, 2030, with the game unable to properly display or simulate dates beyond that point in real-time. After this date, the clock loops, causing the game to revert to January 1, 2030, trapping the town in a time loop.
>>736469530You can tell if someone is a zoomer based on the AC reactions. Wild World was a straight downgrade from GameCube that we only put up with because it was on a portable. City Folk barely improved WW. New Leaf was hated on release for all the reasons that Hew Horizons is today
>>736469665>Wild World was a straight downgrade from GameCube that we only put up with because it was on a portable>more rooms>more stuff>typing with the touchscreen is a billion times better than moving the cursor from letter to letter when writing a letter/note on the bulletin board>online>blathers isnt worthless anymore>trading quests>flea market>dont have to load in every acremaybe you should take off your rose tinted glasses
>>736469665uh thats a fucking straight up lie. loads of people loved wild world on release.
