With the "filthy" "cheater" pejoratives removed, the general idea isn't 100% bad. Some online players unfamiliar with TTing might wonder why other people's towns online are so far ahead of their own town. So maybe a little (non-pejorative) icon could be added to the online profile of frequent TTers, or TTers who have travelled months into the future. Not as a form of shaming mind you - I'm very much against shaming people when all they've done is used their £50 game purchase in a way that they find the most enjoyable.
A TT icon on profiles could serve as a useful heads-up that basically tells people unfamilar with TTing that "hey, this player has been to the future in their game, that's why their progress is so far ahead of yours, don't bother making unfavourable comparisions between your town and theirs, because theirs is naturally going to look a lot different from a non-TT'ed town, ok?"
People can time travel by accident, though. This happened on my New Leaf save file, when the battery in my 3DS got bumped and the date got reset to 01/01/2011. I booted the game up and clicked past Isabelle stating the date and time without actually reading it. (I got some "non-legit" bank interest after I changed the date back.) So I suppose if they added an icon on TTer's profiles, they'd need to make it harder to unintentionally TT - perhaps on booting the game, Isabelle could ask "I noticed an unusual change in the date, are you REALLY sure you want to continue?" when the game detects a large discrepancy between the date that has been set and the real-life date.
Personally, I wouldn't intentionally time travel, but it's harmless, and it's useful for the people whose play style is more centred around the town and interior design parts of the game than the other parts of it. For players who like that sort of gameplay, it might be good if Nintendo made a separate game/mode to appeal to those players, that would operate more like a sandbox game, where all furniture, bridges and landscaping tools are readily available without having to wait weeks for them. It could be somewhat of a successor to the 3DS game Happy Home Designer - perhaps call it "Happy Town Designer" or something like that.
I don't really know how they would make something like that work, but the existence of Happy Home Designer makes me think that they could do a more customisation-centred game/mode again.
"Now, criticism of the way in which the game handles multiplayer is certainly valid - it's easy to understand why fans would be upset by the limitations - but hurtling scores of '0' at it certainly isn't."
Why not though? This is a legitimately game-ruining experience for second players, who can't progress through the story or start infrastructure projects. Every player in the house apart from the first is basically getting a demo mode rather than the full game. Not everyone has £200-300 to buy a brand new switch just to play this one game.
The £50 required to buy the game is a lot of money on its own for many people. Additional £200 purchases should not be required for households with more than one player.
There is no other Switch game that does this. And yes, New Leaf only had one mayor, but least with New Leaf you only had to buy a new cartridge if the second player wanted to be a mayor too, not an entire new (expensive) game console.
People are 100% within their right to think this restriction justifies a low star rating. It's literally just a number, it's not verbal abuse or anything like that. The numbers don't even have well defined, commonly agreed upon meanings - some people think 5/10 means "terrible", others think it means "average". Having a go at people for giving a "too low" score just seems odd to me, because I don't think anybody considers these scores a precise form of measurement for anything.
If giving a 0 star rating is too extreme and hyperbolic, then surely NL giving a game with such a massive flaw a perfect 10 is also extreme.
A lot of this comment section seems much more "extreme" than the 0 star ratings. None of the 0 star reviews I read were mean about people, but this comment section has multiple people saying very nasty things about anybody who gives this game a low review rating. It's totally hypocritical.
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Re: Nintendo Cracks Down On The Super Mario 64 PC Port
It would be cool if someone made a free pc game someday that was similar but non-infringing. Like Super Tux and Super Tux Kart but a 3D platformer
Re: Random: Cadence Of Hyrule Guitarist Jokingly Petitions For Time Travel Cheater Stamp In Animal Crossing
With the "filthy" "cheater" pejoratives removed, the general idea isn't 100% bad. Some online players unfamiliar with TTing might wonder why other people's towns online are so far ahead of their own town. So maybe a little (non-pejorative) icon could be added to the online profile of frequent TTers, or TTers who have travelled months into the future. Not as a form of shaming mind you - I'm very much against shaming people when all they've done is used their £50 game purchase in a way that they find the most enjoyable.
A TT icon on profiles could serve as a useful heads-up that basically tells people unfamilar with TTing that "hey, this player has been to the future in their game, that's why their progress is so far ahead of yours, don't bother making unfavourable comparisions between your town and theirs, because theirs is naturally going to look a lot different from a non-TT'ed town, ok?"
People can time travel by accident, though. This happened on my New Leaf save file, when the battery in my 3DS got bumped and the date got reset to 01/01/2011. I booted the game up and clicked past Isabelle stating the date and time without actually reading it. (I got some "non-legit" bank interest after I changed the date back.) So I suppose if they added an icon on TTer's profiles, they'd need to make it harder to unintentionally TT - perhaps on booting the game, Isabelle could ask "I noticed an unusual change in the date, are you REALLY sure you want to continue?" when the game detects a large discrepancy between the date that has been set and the real-life date.
Personally, I wouldn't intentionally time travel, but it's harmless, and it's useful for the people whose play style is more centred around the town and interior design parts of the game than the other parts of it. For players who like that sort of gameplay, it might be good if Nintendo made a separate game/mode to appeal to those players, that would operate more like a sandbox game, where all furniture, bridges and landscaping tools are readily available without having to wait weeks for them. It could be somewhat of a successor to the 3DS game Happy Home Designer - perhaps call it "Happy Town Designer" or something like that.
I don't really know how they would make something like that work, but the existence of Happy Home Designer makes me think that they could do a more customisation-centred game/mode again.
Re: Angry Players Are Starting To Review-Bomb Animal Crossing: New Horizons
"Now, criticism of the way in which the game handles multiplayer is certainly valid - it's easy to understand why fans would be upset by the limitations - but hurtling scores of '0' at it certainly isn't."
Why not though? This is a legitimately game-ruining experience for second players, who can't progress through the story or start infrastructure projects. Every player in the house apart from the first is basically getting a demo mode rather than the full game. Not everyone has £200-300 to buy a brand new switch just to play this one game.
The £50 required to buy the game is a lot of money on its own for many people. Additional £200 purchases should not be required for households with more than one player.
There is no other Switch game that does this. And yes, New Leaf only had one mayor, but least with New Leaf you only had to buy a new cartridge if the second player wanted to be a mayor too, not an entire new (expensive) game console.
People are 100% within their right to think this restriction justifies a low star rating. It's literally just a number, it's not verbal abuse or anything like that. The numbers don't even have well defined, commonly agreed upon meanings - some people think 5/10 means "terrible", others think it means "average". Having a go at people for giving a "too low" score just seems odd to me, because I don't think anybody considers these scores a precise form of measurement for anything.
If giving a 0 star rating is too extreme and hyperbolic, then surely NL giving a game with such a massive flaw a perfect 10 is also extreme.
A lot of this comment section seems much more "extreme" than the 0 star ratings. None of the 0 star reviews I read were mean about people, but this comment section has multiple people saying very nasty things about anybody who gives this game a low review rating. It's totally hypocritical.