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While I agree with you 100% you gotta remember literal children play the game.
Yknow one thing I would just absolutely love and I think others would agree? A completely original, cinematic opening like Melee's.
Something about the presentation of Melee's opening still stands out as the best in the series to me, and I really wish they would do something like that for Ultimate.
Town ordinances.
Setting the town to beautiful and taking a break for a few months and coming back to almost no weeds was a godsend.
Also hope they keep the amiibo functionality intact so I can always have my favorite villagers in town too.
It's shit like that which makes me reconsider whether I should've purchased Splatoon 2. Also the screwed up gyro aiming when laying down.
Allow to move Villagers.
Or give us a way to tell newcomers not to set themselves somewhere. Cause I had one move and put himself right where I wanted to expand a forest. Like either create a "residential area" or a "non-residential area". Like similarly to how the "Designer" option of the house interior works.
Just gives us more options to customize our town, even environments that allow for certain permanent looks, like a more northern location where the weather allows for snow to fall sooner and last more than a southern location where your beach line would be bigger and summer would be longer. It could allow for different looks, such as the southern town would have more a paradise look/vibe to the villager's houses while the northern would have more of a stone/cabin look to them.
And yes, character customization right off the bat. I don't mind the "automation" of the game but I still wish there were options.
I don't want too much control over my village, since I think the more passive environmental elements are half the fun of the game, but some quality of life improvements would be useful (like what alpha said about dictating where villagers can and can't drop a house, or the updated decorating controls they brought in from Happy Home Designer). I'd definitely like to see some more long-term goals beyond just paying off your mortgage and filling the museum; it feels like you get every major change within a month or so of regular play (for instance, upgrading the Nook shop, opening the club, building the police station, etc.). It'd be pretty neat if we had something like that that took YEARS to build up to, to the point where no one would even know about it until it eventually happens.
I'd also like it if villagers could contribute more to public works projects, since the idea that you're paying for literally everything not only makes the game feel like a chore (and not in a fun way), but it also hurts the "your town keeps going even when you're not playing" element. I'd also like an easier way to farm bells than going back and forth to the Island; if the load times are shorter, that's one thing, but variety is never bad, and Animal Crossing is too charming a series to spend like 75% of your total playtime doing laps around the same tiny area. Maybe if you made it so rare bugs and fish would spawn more frequently when you're visiting someone else's town, so as to encourage exploration and online play? It'd definitely keep things interesting if that were the case.
I'd personally love it if they brought back the NES consoles from the Gamecube one (you could even tie it into the Online Service) and maybe improved the criteria by which the HHA score is determined. I've had utterly amazing house layouts where everything matched that haven't broken the first tier, yet throwing out all but a half dozen items placed in the proper corners gets me a prize for "good feng shuei".
Above all else, I'd like to see them experiment with online connectivity, which has always felt super lackluster in AC games. The community for New Leaf is super strong, but there's no way of participating through the actual game. I'd like to see something like the old Check Mii Out Channel on the Wii, where everyone could upload their Miis for contests and whatnot. Imagine having annual fashion-design or interior decorating contests in Animal Crossing, where X amount of winners get special or exclusive items (or just lots of bells). There's a lot Nintendo can do with the power, convenience, and connectivity of the Switch, and I hope they don't squander that potential by just making New New Leaf (although I'd honestly be kinda fine with that, since I'm still playing NL to this day).
I absolutely agree with this. I'd love the town in the next game to at least be the same size as the GC Animal Crossing town. I would also love to see the maximum villager count back up to at least 15.
If it's just New Leaf but in HD and bigger towns it's a hard pass for me. I've already played the game to the point it became a chore.
I think Pocket Camp had some interesting ideas like amenities, requests, cycling villagers, the market box, finding random strangers, etc. So my expectations for a Switch game are way higher. I hope they try a lot of new stuff in the new game.
The one thing I want in the new animal crossing is to be able to more precisely place public works projects. It was so frustrating running all over the place trying to find a good spot to build a fountain.
It really doesn't help that you don't really know for sure where the the center of the project is in relation to your character, at least not on the first time.
I wouldn't be surprised if they made it work like placing furniture in Happy Home Designer on some special edit mode.
the option to choose whether you want to play as mayor (like in new leaf) or just a normal villager (like in the first 3 games)
I would love for the town to become a proper city after a point
Or even have branching paths. How cool would it be to have your village grow into a quiet mountain town, full of forest and wildflowers, only to visit a friend's town that's blossomed into a miniature city with a bustling nightlife?
Two things I don't think I've seen mentioned here:
-via the FAQ for the Online subscription, you can use the Gold Coins to buy the service, but not for autorenewal.
-Kirby's Epic Yarn port is New 3DS/2DS only
The Kirby thing could be a mistake seeing the boxart.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/821/dc536350-4a3b-4784-b43a-18ed3550ddd0/image.png
Is that game really only that powerful?
So why does Nintendo seem to hate having dedicated servers for things? It's like they're only used for hosting their websites and everything else is P2P
I should probably mention it here as well.
https://www.spieltimes.com/news/splatoon-2s-anti-cheat-system-hacked-before-becoming-a-paid-online-game/
See you Tuesday.
If they were using dedicated servers at least half the cheats likely wouldn't work, just from server-side validation.
gg Nintendo
One thing I'd love to have in animal crossing is better online. I would love to start a new home with a friend in another town, similar to how the local multiplayer works.
did smash 4 ever have a huge hacking problem?
I've never once even heard of someone cheating in Smash 4's online.
What are we paying for again?
Remove or change the amiibo functionality. That's all I ask.
It was fine in new leaf as that game was years upon years old but I think picking the same villagers over and over again right out the gate is kind of a load of shit. I don't think you should have that much power in a new release because it takes away a TON of what makes the games fun (seeing who moves in and whatnot)
It's very rare but a very long time ago I was playing Brawl online and someone was playing as Giga Bowser infinitely.
It was actually really super cool, the guy was even friendly most of the time.
I had a lot of fun "cheating" in smash by selecting stages that shouldn't be options, like the wifi waiting room.
I can sorta agree, but I also bought a couple booster packs in an attempt to force Bob to move in. I'd like if they tied it into the post-game, like you can only use Amiibo/cards to force people to move in once you've paid off your loans (but you can use it for furniture and whatnot beforehand).
Nintendo General - Paid Online is Here, Get Your 56k Modems Ready
