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Re: Soapbox: I’m Super Excited About The Future Of Animal Crossing: New Horizons

KarmaGoona

@pinta_vodki for your 2) request, I think that could easily be rectified by removing the fact that your villagers prioritize certain dialogue over the more varied stuff. They will always say the most “relevant” thing first so you have to talk to them 3 or more times to get to the good stuff, and that’s pretty dumb. The fact that certain dialogue is locked behind the friendship point system is also tedious. It needs an overhaul and will quell the complaints that villagers talk like bots when they don’t actually.

Re: Soapbox: I’m Super Excited About The Future Of Animal Crossing: New Horizons

KarmaGoona

@rjejr The excuse is to get you to trade online with other players or trade locally with someone that has different fruit than you. If you can’t afford Nintendo Online or you don’t have any local friends to trade with, well you’re just screwed. For now, anyway. Maybe Nintendo will listen to the complaints about having to rely so much on trading one day.

Re: Soapbox: Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Wedding Season Is A Reminder That Marriage Is Hard Work

KarmaGoona

I thought the event was fun but I only played until I got multiples of the items within the first few days (with time travel because I’m impatient lol) and then stopped going back. Not because I didn’t enjoy it, but because doing the event motivated me to use Harv’s Island for other purposes and it ended up being more fun than the wedding photo shoots. I do hope once this event is over that Reese and a Cyrus return in some other form, though.

Wedding Season didn’t drag on too long to me. It was a completely non-intrusive event that doesn’t take place on your main island and therefore doesn’t affect what’s going on there. The villagers don’t have any dialogue on it unless you give them heart crystals so they don’t constantly remind you about the event and Isabelle doesn’t say anything about it either. Harv’s island is also fully accessible even if you don’t want to do the wedding photo shoots so it’s not as if you’re forced into doing it if you don’t want to.

Like the other events, they likely made it longer in order for people to have more time to get what they need from it as some items are more expensive than others, and a lot of animal crossing players don’t like to time travel. It’s understandable and was probably enough of a criticism of the previous games with shorter events that they decided to change it for this one. Not everyone has time to hop on everyday and play, even while quarantine is going. But at the same time, i wish they squished another type of event in this month to keep those who finished wedding season occupied while we wait for them to announce what’s next. Well, June is almost over anyway so we’ll probably get an announcement any day now.

Re: Soapbox: Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Wedding Season Is A Reminder That Marriage Is Hard Work

KarmaGoona

@Real_Obsi This is exactly how I feel whenever I see people especially people writing these articles complaining about the “boring” events are and how slow paced everything is. They want the game to be about competition and making a quick in-game buck when that’s not what Animal Crossing is about. I mean they can make it that way when they spend all of their time trading, but that empty feeling they get when it’s over is just the realization that despite all the people raving about how great the game is, it just isn’t for them in particular. And that’s completely fine. There’s no reason for all this unnecessary negativity over a harmless game. Hating on things because they’re popular is just part of our culture not, I guess.

And that’s not to say criticism of the game is bad, of course. It just feels like the people criticizing the game don’t understand its purpose.

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