Topic: Animal Crossing: New Horizons

I just don't really understand why some people who clearly already dislike a thing would just keep spending this much time, energy and even money on it. And then go on forums like this and spend even more time complaining about it

You guys realise you're not forced to play stuff if you don't want to. Right?

I found from the official guide, you can invite the villagers from Amiibo card in Hotel.
https://game8.co/games/Animal-Crossing-New-Horizons/archives/...

Okay, I will do Time Travel again to speed up the process to get VIP Room.

@skywake Yes, but I keep wanting to give this game the benefit of the doubt because this is one of my favorite series- or was, and there's nothing out there that's like Animal Crossing. If an indie dev created a game just like Animal Crossing, I'd probably never touch the new things in this series- but sadly that's never happening from the looks of things.

I'm in the same boat as @VoidofLight. I'm not criticising this game out of "hate" or whatever some might say. It's precisely because I love aspects of it, and the series as a whole, so much that I'm critical. If I didn't care I wouldn't even bother and would've moved on long ago, like with most games I have issues with.

So far the reward from Hotel was really great.
I love the design of the new furnitures and stuffs, looked very premium.
I think I can make better narrative screenshots during photoshoot at Harv Island as I got more furnitures for supporting my narrative screenshots idea.

Interesting.
The DIY request at Hotel will get reset every Monday.
By doing Time Travel, I can cycle the other DIY that I can choose to work.
Feel unable to fulfill the DIY request?
Do Time Travel, get new request list.
Problem solved.
I don't even need to play in slow pace.
Time is money, efficiency is the method I used.

@Anti-Matter If time is money, why are you playing videogames? That's wasting a lot of money.

You are so preoccupied getting to the destination you're not even enjoying the journey. But you do you.

@OmnitronVariant
I mean when I play video games, I also considering some efficiency.
Games like Animal Crossing can be speed up the process for time efficiency.
I don't need to wait exactly 1 day when I can speed up the process in minutes and no consequences for doing Time Travel in ACNH.
By doing this efficiency, I can play ACNH quickly so I can play other games or continue my backlogs after I have finished one important business from ACNH.
Also, by doing Time Travel in ACNH I can cycle the random villagers appeared on my campsite or Redd open his business at my island to exploit the Art stuffs.
This activity can made me sink into several hours gameplay until I felt fulfilled.
I remembered it took 10 hours by total just to get Raymond appeared at my campsite as my most wanted villager back during pandemic 2020.
If I didn't do Time Travel, I will never get him quickly.

Played the game for the first time in 3.5 years!!!

I've forgotten a good chunk of the game's mechanics/gameplay loop. A little disappointed that my negligence seems to have been of minimal consequence to the other islanders (of whom nobody had mentioned how long I had been gone, a feature I miss from earlier entries).

I also realised that I missed out on the New Year balloon arches, though I might use the save on my Switch Lite to get my mitts on those.

I can't see myself getting addicted all over again though. Pokémon Go takes up so much of my time as it is.

@SillyG
The New Year arc just only the 2021 and 2022 edition.

Phew. Then it seems I may not have missed anything at all, then.

@SillyG Really? mine all mentioned not having seen me in "like, 2 years, pookie!" 😆
@VoidofLight wait, you bought the S2E?? I thought you had said you were planning to skip it?
@FishyS yeah, I saw that. She'll be bummed if it doesn't work, but then she'll get distracted by the LEGO items and not care, and I won't mind because it was only 5 bucks anyways haha. Fingers crossed!

So dumb question, but..
Is the new rumble intensity on the Switch 2 version supposed to be that intense? (Pro Controller 2)
It's like a huge earthquake inside my controller already just by swinging a net, or using the sling shot. lol 😅

@Budda It was pretty weak on Switch 1. The Switch 2 controllers have more powerful rumble capabilities.

You can always turn off rumble if you find it annoying.

I noticed the HD Rumble in my Pro 2 controller when pole-vaulting and diving was way more intense after the update. Before, only the fishing was really noticeable. Doesn’t bother me. It’s odd how that wasn’t mentioned in patch notes or by sites.

Got Cece settled into a brand-new plot of land today, on a Friday at that (Shiver led Team Friday in a Splatfest once), and I was able to make a perfect Snowboy beside her plot! Of course getting the Three-tiered snowperson recipe makes me think of the magic number 3 in Splatoon 3...

Next up is Viche. No one spoil anything, but I wonder what their houses or the Zelda characters’ houses are like? I’d guess they just have furniture from the collabs.

@CaleBoi25 I don't think I said I was planning to skip it. If I said it, it was probably a few months ago and before I knew the price. Went ahead and bought it because it was relatively cheap in comparison to the other Switch 2 Editions and because I wanted to stay up to date with the developments of the game so that I can have informed criticism.

A strange swipe for you to make given you seemingly are on a mission to continue to burn time and money on something you appear to not ever enjoy

In any case, efficiency is a large part of gaming, there are literally entire genres built around it. The number of hours I've spent in JRPGS trying to work out the most efficient ways to grind or farm. Or time spent trying to get to that one spot in a Metriodvania or something to sequence break. It kinda misses the point to say that was a waste of time when we could've just "enjoyed the journey". Finding the efficiencies was, in and of itself, the game

And lets not forget the fact that speedrunning is a thing

One thought RE: the oddness of the pricing of the Switch 2 Edition and the inclusion of the content outside of it. Been mulling over this one for a bit. I think we, as in the terminally obsessed, forget that we're not the only target audience for this stuff. We miss the point a bit because we look at it through our eyes. I don't think the pricing of the Switch 2 Edition is about us. I think it's more about the retail experience for people buying into the platform

You look at the best selling games on the Switch and it's Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, Smash Bros, Zelda, 3D Mario, 2D Mario, Pokemon, Mario Party. It's pretty clear to me that Nintendo is making sure they have a retail box of some kind on the shelf that says "Switch 2" for as many of these as possible. Because to Joe Average consumer the free updates are invisible to them, they might not know backwards compatibility is a thing even, all they know is that this is the list of Switch 2 games

I've seen this first hand. A colleague of mine picked up a Switch 2 for their partner over Christmas. They know I'm a bit of a Nintendo dork and they were entirely new to the platform, so they asked me which games were good for it. Naturally, the page they have open is the list of Switch 2 games from an online retailer. Which included the Switch 2 Editions. For all intents and purposes, as far as that page was concerned games that didn't have a Switch 2 Edition didn't exist, they were not options, they were buying Switch 2 games. FWIW they ended up getting Animal Crossing (the Switch version because the S2 Edition wasn't out) and the Mario Kart World bundle

In terms of the price for the Switch 2 Edition of Animal Crossing? Well, as I'm sure we're all aware, Nintendo seems to want to set a certain perception of what the value of a Switch 2 game is. They're worth more than Switch games. Therefore all of their Switch 2 Editions cost more than the Switch version. As such the upgrades have a cost. We might not agree with that and certainly third parties are taking a different approach but that's clearly where Nintendo is. That's it, nothing more complicated about it.

And the 3.0 update is just the 3.0 update. If there's a grand strategy behind releasing it now I would say they're doing that just so people talk about it more. Make posts, share, discuss, make it relevant again

tl;dr: the cycle Nintendo is looking at here is not "Existing Animal Crossing owner who has the game and a Switch 2 buys the Switch 2 Upgrade and ponders the value". Rather, the cycle is "existing Animal Crossing fans talk about Animal Crossing after the 3.0 update, boosting its relevancy, so Joe Average considers Animal Crossing when mulling over of the Switch 2 games stand at Target"

@VoidofLight maybe that was someone else then, idk

Can we bring the new villagers to Happy Home Paradise?

I’d love to bring Cece and Viche to HHP to be roommates in a perfectly Splatoon and Deep Cut themed vacation home. Mineru could be cool too. I’ll decorate their yards on my island anyway, but this would be so neat. I haven’t read anything about it though.