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If they do decide to bring back crafting in the next game, i at least hope that the mechanic takes some form of backseat and isn't the main focus of the game alongside decorating like ACNH was; they can still add quality of life improvements to these mechanics but overall i think the villagers should be the core of the series! And boy do they desperately need a factory reset.
YES yes 1000 times yes. The villagers used to be so fun and dynamic. Not even the negativity or rude aspect, but they'd have drama, they'd have hobbies, they'd have autonomy. They were more than dolls in your dollhouse island to display and have no connection with.
I like crafting but not breaking gold tools (what's the point of having them?). As much as is love decorating, i feel the competition to have the most beautiful island overwhelming and take away the relax aspect of animal crossing which is what i miss the most in old games and want to retrieve. So i think crafting should be in next animal crossing but with gold tools that don't break and bigger catalog with added furnitures, crafting tools/items. Really hope they bring back old fruits and maybe some news, i would love strawberries and rapsberries in bush or crops and in crafting we could have cute decorations with it!
I really hope crafting is here to stay, and Nintendo just does some quality of life updates, maybe bulk crafting or ability to craft from storage? It was short of annoying to collect everything, go to a table, find the DIY, only to find out I am missing a resource or don’t have enough of one resource
Crafting is fine, but I don't like breaking tools or exclusive furniture. If the game's about freedom, I should be able to get anything however I want.
As someone who is new to animal crossing, I can't even imagine how the games would work without the crafting. Seriously, how did the older games work?!
Kinda strange tbh I couldn’t imagine the game without the crafting. My only real gripe is not having enough personality types of villagers and not letting villagers see you in a negative way.
They also were more fun because interacting with villagers was more fun. I'd actually rather not see crafting return because it means our tools just won't break. I feel like they made tools break JUST so we had to craft them. It's unnecessary tedium. If they brought it back I'd want it to be just for furniture and other things, but NOT for tools. If villagers were more fun, had hobbies and personalities, you'd have more tasks to do with them and for them. You could spend like an hour tracking down a lost item in the gamecube game, you could get tasks from villagers. In wild world they'd have hobbies and you'd try your best to track down the shirt or furniture or whatever else they were collecting. City Folk and New Leaf? They had hide and seek, scheduled visits to your house or theirs. It makes sense how it seems the other AC games had less to do if New Horizons is the only game you've played, but in comparison to older AC games, the villagers in NH are dolls and your town a big dollhouse for you to collect them and display them. In older games they'd have at least some simulated aspect of autonomy and character. It used to be you could give them a gift or a shirt and sometimes they'd say it isn't their style and they wouldn't want it. They could move away even when you asked them not to. I used to boot the games up just to check in and see what my villagers were getting up to. What drama had ensued. What do they get up to now? Singing. Sitting. Grabbing sticks. Failing to catch bugs. That's about it. Talking to them has little substance, and it makes me so sad
@@geo_chronick209The gold tools being breakable has stumped me from the beginning…and I’m new to Animal Crossing (and crafting in general). There are just not enough gold nuggets in the game to allow for the making of multiple gold tools AND the separate crafting recipes that call for it. The durability is better, yes, but not that much better.
I fs want crafting back but the next game I want more materials/recipes, bring back all old fruit and features/characters/minigames from the old games and then give us more buildings on the island bc I want it to feel like a real town/city without having to fill in space with fake buildings (more nooks cranny upgrades, the roost, more stores, and more villager houses, etc.)
I like crafting. I enjoy it as a way to make money through hot items. I like to pretend my character is a little carpenter or something and they make furniture to sell to Timmy and Tommy who then ship it all around the globe. It'd be neat if future games brought back Re-Tail's flea market, so I could craft furniture and fill the flea market with items I made for my villagers to buy like my own little store.
I hate the crafting but mostly because they used it as an excuse to skimp on so many other things. Lack of gameplay variety, poor events, lack of furniture variety, all because they pushed crafting your own stuff and collecting ingredients.
This is what you could do. Definitely keep crafting, but do two things on top of what you've already mentioned: 1. Have a bigger variety of special items that *can't* be crafted and must be earned from specific villagers, won in special events, purchased at exclusive stores, etc. Like the seasonal event items but on a much larger scale. 2. *Deepen the villager interactions with crafting.* Like let's say a villager wants you to craft a specific item for them (and they'll get mad if you just pull a completed item from your storage). Or maybe a villager will ask you for resources and then the villager creates a new recipe when you give them those resources (which you then unlock for yourself). Or maybe villagers can harvest materials too, and they'll create things based on their own inventories. Another thing is that you can have exclusive recipes that are tied to villager personalities (peppy villagers will make certain items, cranky villagers will make another, etc). You could even have an exclusive series of furniture and meals that can only be unlocked by a villager *visiting your house.* Let's say if you're close enough friends with a villager, they'll come visit and be inspired by your choice of decorations/meals in your inventory. Then they'll ask for certain ingredients/materials, and upon receiving said materials will go to your kitchen/crafting table and make something. Then voila, you get a new furniture/food item and the recipe to go with it; and it's a recipe you could have only gotten in that instance. Some think that crafting will take away from the variety of exclusive items and villager interactions. I disagree. If anything, crafting can *enhance* those things; it just needs to be done in moderation and it needs to intrinsically tie into villager personalities and interactions.
I do like the DIY system however it badly needs a batch creation option, especially considering the Hot Items mechanic with Nooks Cranny. It would also be nice to customise items you've just created without having to cancel out of the crafting menu... I also feel like cooking needs a revamp to actually make it relevant.
I love crafting. It gives me more to do, and as you say, more freedom to play in different ways. As an old Animal Crossing veteran since the first game, my disappointment with New Horizons (and I played pretty faithfully for two years, so, you know, I can't say I "hated" it) had precisely to do with the *removal* of things that were in earlier games. I want the next game to bring back a bunch of stuff that never made it into ACNH, and I want crafting to come back as well--with, as you say, various QoL improvements. The more there is to do, the more I'll stay invested in a game that otherwise does, let's be honest, get pretty repetitive.
This I think is the best take. If crafting is here to stay, make the game not JUST an island/town designer, but ALSO the life sim it originally was. Find that balance between us being God and us being a nobody in a town of rude villagers (as much as I did actually enjoy that, I think they just wouldn't do it again)
I love crafting, but I think they should improve the system they use to get the recipes, there are lots of recipes but I have gotten mostly repeats than anything else that I get to a point when I don't want to look for the recipe at the beach or visit my neighbors crafting, because I only get repeats and rarely something new after playing for a while, even tho there are lots of other DIY I still don't have
i haven't had a switch lite in years. sold my first one after about 8 months with the game, lost my island. just got a new one the other week, so TECHNICALLY im a brand new player again, and im only 3 weeks into the game and ALREADY have gotten multiple repeats. i feel this so hard. very exhausting
Honestly the issue with crafting is that: 1.- focused A LOT on being done on hours where all stores where CLOSED as a way to do something for the day if all stores were closed 2.- They didnt consider time traveling, overall NH WASNT designed with time travelling on mind compared to NL 3.- BREAKABLE TOOLS 3.1-FUCKING BREAKABLE GOLDEN TOOLS
The fact that this version of the game probably had the largest player bases that the game has ever had, and they only know a version of the game with crafting then I can't see them taking it away. I DEFINITELY think they need to return to form, I never played before but what I have watched about earlier version says that their was so much more to do, so much to keep you engaged. I think crafting alone didn't replace that but taking crafting out isn't the answer. I would never mine resources. lol
I'm hoping that the Next Animal Crossing game will be more like the older Titles. The older Games were very enjoyable, but New Horizons lacks many things causing it to feel like an unfinished game. New Horizons feels like an island designer game than an Animal Crossing game.
It is crazy to imagine Animal Crossing without crafting now lol. The custom furniture crafting is such a cool idea, I wouldn't be upset if Animal Crossing had something like this in addition to the regular crafting!
Hate isn’t a strong word for me. They butchered all of the item list. Dozens of themes removed, hundreds if not thousand+ items. I’d be fine with crafting but only if they brought back the items. The “freedom” isn’t needed as in the old games only the axe broke. That’s it. And the golden axe NEVER broke.
Yes, there should be crafting. But there also should be a way to reach the same goals w/o crafting by fulfilling other activities, even if it should take more time. In my ICDL (= Ideal Cosy Game Life) it should be my choice to do what is asked of me, or to do it my way by doing other things instead like gathering or hunting or cooking or gardening or... to accomplish the same goals.
Yes. And every animal crossing after. Also unlike in New horizons I really think that you should be able to buy the crafting recipes more than once so you can gift them to your friends we were having trouble finding them. Bulk crafting is definitely needed so it doesn't take so long to make as many of something that you need. Also bring back villager hunting. That's it I have a short list 🤣
I absolutely love crafting. But I also love survival and building games where crafting is a core mechanic (I actually don't enjoy games where this is no kind of crafting or building, hate me for it). I love recipes for the most part. I love discovering recipes. I love catching a fish or collecting a resource and getting a surprise item. What I don't like, is having some time limited way of getting some recipes. I kind of fell out of playing NH because during fall I wanted to collect of all of the Autumn recipes, but I couldn't get a few of them despite talking to villagers, collecting every bottle and snipping every balloon. So I got frustrated and ended up not really wanting to play
I hope the next game keeps crafting and makes it better. Hopefully they have a lot of black hairstyles at launch too so they don't need yet another Black People Patch.
Lolly was in my campsite this morning and I thought of Kora and Lolly. I had to give her a pass though because she wanted to replace one of my originals and I just couldn't do it. lol
The moment I realized the 1st upgrade to nooks cranny was the only upgrade and that a large portion of furniture needs to be crafted causing the same furniture to be displayed all the time at nooks. I stopped playing. Grew up playing the originals. Crafting could be good…. If it didnt take away from what animal crossing was.
As someone that hasn't played ANCH in almost a year, but has over 1600 hours, crafting should absolutely be involved! It is so fun and makes islands so unique, but there is so much more potential that hasn't been tapped into yet.
Have you played the older games in the series? Lol maybe I'm just one of the veteran fans that hates New Horizons like you mentioned (hate isn't a strong word for me, I genuinely believe it's one of the worst games Nintendo has ever put out) but crafting plays a huge part into why I ended up hating this game that I wanted to like so much. You don't need to have constant access to tools when tools never break in the first place. Something like 90%+ of furniture items from previous games didn't return to this one in favor of the crafted furniture, most of which I don't even like that much! And don't even get me started on how hard it is to actually even gain access to creating most of the furniture that's locked behind an already tedious mechanic. Only having a few furniture items to choose from a day isn't a problem when they actually allow you to meaningfully upgrade the Nook store to allow it to have a much larger selection and also usually not being the only store option either. There have been a lot of things that New Horizons has done that come across like quality of life features at a glance, but I honestly feel like most of them have ended up making the game a less enjoyable experience. The series used to be a lot more of a life sim, and sometimes life isn't fair or convenient. Having that sort of stuff happening in the game made it a lot more interesting than the game where you're the ultimate overlord of the entire world and everything about reality bends to your whims. There's a lot I could say about this game and the crafting mechanic, but I feel like I've probably said enough for now
YES!!!!! Preach it!!!! We need the new fans to realize this. They should understand they are playing a half baked game and it could actually be so much better. If this game did what it did…. Without taking away from what the old games were and literal content lol then this game could have been a masterpiece. But unfortunately it ended up being one of the most disappointing and worst Nintendo games I think I had ever played. I felt cheated to be honest. I wanted my money back lol oh well.
@Nick-yv1rm I really feel the half baked part of it. That's another big part of why I don't like it. After all the updates they did (minus the Happy Home Designer game), I feel like the game finally got to an acceptable place for where it should have been at launch, assuming they were going to do updates later. The majority of updates for the game were just adding in holiday support. The only meaningful ones added stuff that should have been in the game from the start because it was all content that was in previous games. There was absolutely no excuse for them to hold back art, the Roost, deep diving, stuff like that when they had already delayed the game an entire year to give themselves more development time. The updates should have been used to add new content to the game instead of add in stuff that should have been there from the start. If they really wanted to make sure people couldn't time travel to get the holidays early, they could have added those in later as additional stuff to what was already coming that update. And people seem to forget that they actually quit updating this game earlier than originally promised. Nintendo very rarely hits on the money with how much update time they actually do. Sometimes they quit early, sometimes they go longer. New Horizons was one of the games they gave up on early
@@loganmiller7827 oh my god you are such a breath of fresh air. Yes the DLC literally just added things we already had in previous entries and then the fanbase would be like “OH MY GOD WE CAN SWIM WHOAAAAAA” just comes to show people didnt play the previous games. Same with all the other things you mentioned like art and the Roost. All have been in the series for a long time. Would have been cool to have all of that from the start then we get new things. Maybe new shops. Maybe new town developments. Paragliding. New characters. New resources or new gathering materials like mining (just examples im not creative) but instead we got crafting which would be cool…. If it didnt just replace 90% of what we already had in previous games. Hopefully the next entry will be better… and actually return to form and just enhance what we have already had in the past with new and innovative ideas rather than taking steps back and replacing ideas instead.
I feel like the crafting genie is out of the bottle for this series. Just make the highest teir of tools unbreakable next time, okay Nintendo? Oh, and add some storage quality of life upgrades.
I loved the crafting. It just needs to be streamlined. Whenever I played New Horizons I was expecting crafting to be half assed but was suprised by just how much there was to it.
yea im over breaking tools. hopefully there’s less emphasis on crafting in the next game enjoyed it in new horizons but it really needed to be improved
I think crafting is a cool and fun addition, however I fucking hate building tools over and over again. If the golden ones didn’t break than okay whatever but they do!
Absolutely agree sadly I don't think we getting a new game until 2026 I be shocked if we get it in 2025 but I love to see better music I think new horizons music not as good but I still love this game I want stuff like new flowers
One thing that made me drop out so quickly of Animal Crossing, it’s because it feels like a game that has nothing to do, you craft things but is purely cosmetic, nothing really changes, it’s just a bench or something cosmetic, the museum is an empty building with like, you put things there but no one shows to see, or anything, it’s a dead game that wanna make you believe that it’s alive. Even the npcs interaction I feel are very robotic, NPC just give you an random item that doesn’t even make sense most of the time, or very crappy clothes, I understand the appeal during the pandemic, but nowadays it’s just a boring game to shake trees and decorate an island with no purpose. Hope the next game have more relevant and fun mechanics or I won’t buy, I just bought because it was a hit and I wanted to check it out. Stardew Valley, Cozy Groove, Graveyard Keeper.. are way better than AC .
Unpopular opinion, but i dont think crafting is the main issue. It can be expanded, but the problem with new horizon is the lack of social interactivity with the villagers. Thats the thing the developers should evolve nd make good again like in the GC and wild world. Remember AC is a simulation game and the main factor should always be keepin the conversations and activities fresh. Not just build more and more
Honestly no. I dislike how we are this powerful creature instead of a normal person in a cute village. Crafting makes the player too strong. Little things like a flower wrath, a fruit basket or outfits i am okay with. But i don't like the huge sandbox aspect of New Horizons in comparison to the other AC games.
We'll be lucky if it isn't just another beloved franchise turned into hero-summoning microtransactions. You only need to use 400 tickets to get a Lucky, but you need 20 Luckys to get a 5 star Lucky and of course, only 5 star villagers can actually move in. But don't worry, if you buy the new player package, you'll get 10 summons for free.
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If they do decide to bring back crafting in the next game, i at least hope that the mechanic takes some form of backseat and isn't the main focus of the game alongside decorating like ACNH was; they can still add quality of life improvements to these mechanics but overall i think the villagers should be the core of the series! And boy do they desperately need a factory reset.
YES yes 1000 times yes. The villagers used to be so fun and dynamic. Not even the negativity or rude aspect, but they'd have drama, they'd have hobbies, they'd have autonomy. They were more than dolls in your dollhouse island to display and have no connection with.
I like crafting but not breaking gold tools (what's the point of having them?). As much as is love decorating, i feel the competition to have the most beautiful island overwhelming and take away the relax aspect of animal crossing which is what i miss the most in old games and want to retrieve. So i think crafting should be in next animal crossing but with gold tools that don't break and bigger catalog with added furnitures, crafting tools/items. Really hope they bring back old fruits and maybe some news, i would love strawberries and rapsberries in bush or crops and in crafting we could have cute decorations with it!
The gold watering can make gold roses
I really hope crafting is here to stay, and Nintendo just does some quality of life updates, maybe bulk crafting or ability to craft from storage? It was short of annoying to collect everything, go to a table, find the DIY, only to find out I am missing a resource or don’t have enough of one resource
Crafting is fine, but I don't like breaking tools or exclusive furniture. If the game's about freedom, I should be able to get anything however I want.
Wouldn't that be, boring, though? At least for me, having anything however I want would get very boring, very quick.
At least the golden versions shouldn't break
Having more things to collect is alright
Crafting as a whole - I can take it or leave it
100% but expanded and able to craft multiple things without having to back out each time for a single item
As someone who is new to animal crossing, I can't even imagine how the games would work without the crafting. Seriously, how did the older games work?!
Kinda strange tbh I couldn’t imagine the game without the crafting. My only real gripe is not having enough personality types of villagers and not letting villagers see you in a negative way.
They were better bc you didn’t have to tediously grind for materials and the shops had a lot more options for furniture
They also were more fun because interacting with villagers was more fun. I'd actually rather not see crafting return because it means our tools just won't break. I feel like they made tools break JUST so we had to craft them. It's unnecessary tedium. If they brought it back I'd want it to be just for furniture and other things, but NOT for tools.
If villagers were more fun, had hobbies and personalities, you'd have more tasks to do with them and for them. You could spend like an hour tracking down a lost item in the gamecube game, you could get tasks from villagers. In wild world they'd have hobbies and you'd try your best to track down the shirt or furniture or whatever else they were collecting. City Folk and New Leaf? They had hide and seek, scheduled visits to your house or theirs. It makes sense how it seems the other AC games had less to do if New Horizons is the only game you've played, but in comparison to older AC games, the villagers in NH are dolls and your town a big dollhouse for you to collect them and display them. In older games they'd have at least some simulated aspect of autonomy and character. It used to be you could give them a gift or a shirt and sometimes they'd say it isn't their style and they wouldn't want it. They could move away even when you asked them not to. I used to boot the games up just to check in and see what my villagers were getting up to. What drama had ensued. What do they get up to now? Singing. Sitting. Grabbing sticks. Failing to catch bugs. That's about it. Talking to them has little substance, and it makes me so sad
@@geo_chronick209The gold tools being breakable has stumped me from the beginning…and I’m new to Animal Crossing (and crafting in general). There are just not enough gold nuggets in the game to allow for the making of multiple gold tools AND the separate crafting recipes that call for it. The durability is better, yes, but not that much better.
@@Wabit-b6kBut then, trying to get particular items still required relentless grinding, so ... 🤷♀️
I fs want crafting back but the next game I want more materials/recipes, bring back all old fruit and features/characters/minigames from the old games and then give us more buildings on the island bc I want it to feel like a real town/city without having to fill in space with fake buildings (more nooks cranny upgrades, the roost, more stores, and more villager houses, etc.)
I like crafting. I enjoy it as a way to make money through hot items. I like to pretend my character is a little carpenter or something and they make furniture to sell to Timmy and Tommy who then ship it all around the globe. It'd be neat if future games brought back Re-Tail's flea market, so I could craft furniture and fill the flea market with items I made for my villagers to buy like my own little store.
I hate the crafting but mostly because they used it as an excuse to skimp on so many other things. Lack of gameplay variety, poor events, lack of furniture variety, all because they pushed crafting your own stuff and collecting ingredients.
This is what you could do. Definitely keep crafting, but do two things on top of what you've already mentioned:
1. Have a bigger variety of special items that *can't* be crafted and must be earned from specific villagers, won in special events, purchased at exclusive stores, etc. Like the seasonal event items but on a much larger scale.
2. *Deepen the villager interactions with crafting.* Like let's say a villager wants you to craft a specific item for them (and they'll get mad if you just pull a completed item from your storage). Or maybe a villager will ask you for resources and then the villager creates a new recipe when you give them those resources (which you then unlock for yourself). Or maybe villagers can harvest materials too, and they'll create things based on their own inventories. Another thing is that you can have exclusive recipes that are tied to villager personalities (peppy villagers will make certain items, cranky villagers will make another, etc).
You could even have an exclusive series of furniture and meals that can only be unlocked by a villager *visiting your house.* Let's say if you're close enough friends with a villager, they'll come visit and be inspired by your choice of decorations/meals in your inventory. Then they'll ask for certain ingredients/materials, and upon receiving said materials will go to your kitchen/crafting table and make something. Then voila, you get a new furniture/food item and the recipe to go with it; and it's a recipe you could have only gotten in that instance.
Some think that crafting will take away from the variety of exclusive items and villager interactions. I disagree. If anything, crafting can *enhance* those things; it just needs to be done in moderation and it needs to intrinsically tie into villager personalities and interactions.
I do like the DIY system however it badly needs a batch creation option, especially considering the Hot Items mechanic with Nooks Cranny. It would also be nice to customise items you've just created without having to cancel out of the crafting menu... I also feel like cooking needs a revamp to actually make it relevant.
I love crafting. It gives me more to do, and as you say, more freedom to play in different ways. As an old Animal Crossing veteran since the first game, my disappointment with New Horizons (and I played pretty faithfully for two years, so, you know, I can't say I "hated" it) had precisely to do with the *removal* of things that were in earlier games. I want the next game to bring back a bunch of stuff that never made it into ACNH, and I want crafting to come back as well--with, as you say, various QoL improvements. The more there is to do, the more I'll stay invested in a game that otherwise does, let's be honest, get pretty repetitive.
This I think is the best take. If crafting is here to stay, make the game not JUST an island/town designer, but ALSO the life sim it originally was. Find that balance between us being God and us being a nobody in a town of rude villagers (as much as I did actually enjoy that, I think they just wouldn't do it again)
I love crafting, but I think they should improve the system they use to get the recipes, there are lots of recipes but I have gotten mostly repeats than anything else that I get to a point when I don't want to look for the recipe at the beach or visit my neighbors crafting, because I only get repeats and rarely something new after playing for a while, even tho there are lots of other DIY I still don't have
i haven't had a switch lite in years. sold my first one after about 8 months with the game, lost my island. just got a new one the other week, so TECHNICALLY im a brand new player again, and im only 3 weeks into the game and ALREADY have gotten multiple repeats. i feel this so hard. very exhausting
Honestly the issue with crafting is that:
1.- focused A LOT on being done on hours where all stores where CLOSED as a way to do something for the day if all stores were closed
2.- They didnt consider time traveling, overall NH WASNT designed with time travelling on mind compared to NL
3.- BREAKABLE TOOLS
3.1-FUCKING BREAKABLE GOLDEN TOOLS
The fact that this version of the game probably had the largest player bases that the game has ever had, and they only know a version of the game with crafting then I can't see them taking it away. I DEFINITELY think they need to return to form, I never played before but what I have watched about earlier version says that their was so much more to do, so much to keep you engaged. I think crafting alone didn't replace that but taking crafting out isn't the answer. I would never mine resources. lol
I'm hoping that the Next Animal Crossing game will be more like the older Titles. The older Games were very enjoyable, but New Horizons lacks many things causing it to feel like an unfinished game. New Horizons feels like an island designer game than an Animal Crossing game.
It is crazy to imagine Animal Crossing without crafting now lol. The custom furniture crafting is such a cool idea, I wouldn't be upset if Animal Crossing had something like this in addition to the regular crafting!
As a OG AC player, I like the crafting, but it needs some major QoL updates and tools need a durability meter.
Hate isn’t a strong word for me.
They butchered all of the item list. Dozens of themes removed, hundreds if not thousand+ items.
I’d be fine with crafting but only if they brought back the items.
The “freedom” isn’t needed as in the old games only the axe broke. That’s it. And the golden axe NEVER broke.
I really like that other crafting system you mentioned. It could lead to a whole new level of customization for furniture
I hate crafting, but I wouldn’t mind if it stayed. As long as it’s optional.
Make at least gold tools unbreakable in the next one please Nintendo
New Horizons being my 1st Animal Crossing game, crafting felt like the literal normal of the series for me at the time
Absolutely it should! However I genuinely think tools shouldnt be breakable, especially Golden ones
6:00 MySims did the same thing and it was SO COOL
Yes, there should be crafting.
But there also should be a way to reach the same goals w/o crafting by fulfilling other activities, even if it should take more time.
In my ICDL (= Ideal Cosy Game Life) it should be my choice to do what is asked of me, or to do it my way by doing other things instead like gathering or hunting or cooking or gardening or... to accomplish the same goals.
Yes. And every animal crossing after. Also unlike in New horizons I really think that you should be able to buy the crafting recipes more than once so you can gift them to your friends we were having trouble finding them. Bulk crafting is definitely needed so it doesn't take so long to make as many of something that you need. Also bring back villager hunting. That's it I have a short list 🤣
I absolutely love crafting. But I also love survival and building games where crafting is a core mechanic (I actually don't enjoy games where this is no kind of crafting or building, hate me for it). I love recipes for the most part. I love discovering recipes. I love catching a fish or collecting a resource and getting a surprise item. What I don't like, is having some time limited way of getting some recipes. I kind of fell out of playing NH because during fall I wanted to collect of all of the Autumn recipes, but I couldn't get a few of them despite talking to villagers, collecting every bottle and snipping every balloon. So I got frustrated and ended up not really wanting to play
I hope the next game keeps crafting and makes it better. Hopefully they have a lot of black hairstyles at launch too so they don't need yet another Black People Patch.
Bring it back but not as a core mechanic
Lolly was in my campsite this morning and I thought of Kora and Lolly. I had to give her a pass though because she wanted to replace one of my originals and I just couldn't do it. lol
The moment I realized the 1st upgrade to nooks cranny was the only upgrade and that a large portion of furniture needs to be crafted causing the same furniture to be displayed all the time at nooks. I stopped playing. Grew up playing the originals. Crafting could be good…. If it didnt take away from what animal crossing was.
As someone that hasn't played ANCH in almost a year, but has over 1600 hours, crafting should absolutely be involved! It is so fun and makes islands so unique, but there is so much more potential that hasn't been tapped into yet.
Have you played the older games in the series? Lol maybe I'm just one of the veteran fans that hates New Horizons like you mentioned (hate isn't a strong word for me, I genuinely believe it's one of the worst games Nintendo has ever put out) but crafting plays a huge part into why I ended up hating this game that I wanted to like so much. You don't need to have constant access to tools when tools never break in the first place. Something like 90%+ of furniture items from previous games didn't return to this one in favor of the crafted furniture, most of which I don't even like that much! And don't even get me started on how hard it is to actually even gain access to creating most of the furniture that's locked behind an already tedious mechanic. Only having a few furniture items to choose from a day isn't a problem when they actually allow you to meaningfully upgrade the Nook store to allow it to have a much larger selection and also usually not being the only store option either. There have been a lot of things that New Horizons has done that come across like quality of life features at a glance, but I honestly feel like most of them have ended up making the game a less enjoyable experience. The series used to be a lot more of a life sim, and sometimes life isn't fair or convenient. Having that sort of stuff happening in the game made it a lot more interesting than the game where you're the ultimate overlord of the entire world and everything about reality bends to your whims. There's a lot I could say about this game and the crafting mechanic, but I feel like I've probably said enough for now
"The series used to be more of a life sim, and sometimes life isn't fair or convenient"
I desparately want this aspect of AC back 😭
YES!!!!! Preach it!!!! We need the new fans to realize this. They should understand they are playing a half baked game and it could actually be so much better. If this game did what it did…. Without taking away from what the old games were and literal content lol then this game could have been a masterpiece. But unfortunately it ended up being one of the most disappointing and worst Nintendo games I think I had ever played. I felt cheated to be honest. I wanted my money back lol oh well.
@Nick-yv1rm I really feel the half baked part of it. That's another big part of why I don't like it. After all the updates they did (minus the Happy Home Designer game), I feel like the game finally got to an acceptable place for where it should have been at launch, assuming they were going to do updates later. The majority of updates for the game were just adding in holiday support. The only meaningful ones added stuff that should have been in the game from the start because it was all content that was in previous games. There was absolutely no excuse for them to hold back art, the Roost, deep diving, stuff like that when they had already delayed the game an entire year to give themselves more development time. The updates should have been used to add new content to the game instead of add in stuff that should have been there from the start. If they really wanted to make sure people couldn't time travel to get the holidays early, they could have added those in later as additional stuff to what was already coming that update. And people seem to forget that they actually quit updating this game earlier than originally promised. Nintendo very rarely hits on the money with how much update time they actually do. Sometimes they quit early, sometimes they go longer. New Horizons was one of the games they gave up on early
@@loganmiller7827 oh my god you are such a breath of fresh air. Yes the DLC literally just added things we already had in previous entries and then the fanbase would be like “OH MY GOD WE CAN SWIM WHOAAAAAA” just comes to show people didnt play the previous games. Same with all the other things you mentioned like art and the Roost. All have been in the series for a long time. Would have been cool to have all of that from the start then we get new things. Maybe new shops. Maybe new town developments. Paragliding. New characters. New resources or new gathering materials like mining (just examples im not creative) but instead we got crafting which would be cool…. If it didnt just replace 90% of what we already had in previous games. Hopefully the next entry will be better… and actually return to form and just enhance what we have already had in the past with new and innovative ideas rather than taking steps back and replacing ideas instead.
I feel like the crafting genie is out of the bottle for this series. Just make the highest teir of tools unbreakable next time, okay Nintendo? Oh, and add some storage quality of life upgrades.
I loved the crafting. It just needs to be streamlined. Whenever I played New Horizons I was expecting crafting to be half assed but was suprised by just how much there was to it.
yea im over breaking tools. hopefully there’s less emphasis on crafting in the next game enjoyed it in new horizons but it really needed to be improved
Crafting gives a lot of freedom and I don’t see it being removed at this point, especially considering how many new players there are.
I think crafting is a cool and fun addition, however I fucking hate building tools over and over again. If the golden ones didn’t break than okay whatever but they do!
I hope you will continue the all villager hunt soon. 💖
Absolutely agree sadly I don't think we getting a new game until 2026 I be shocked if we get it in 2025 but I love to see better music I think new horizons music not as good but I still love this game I want stuff like new flowers
One thing that made me drop out so quickly of Animal Crossing, it’s because it feels like a game that has nothing to do, you craft things but is purely cosmetic, nothing really changes, it’s just a bench or something cosmetic, the museum is an empty building with like, you put things there but no one shows to see, or anything, it’s a dead game that wanna make you believe that it’s alive.
Even the npcs interaction I feel are very robotic, NPC just give you an random item that doesn’t even make sense most of the time, or very crappy clothes, I understand the appeal during the pandemic, but nowadays it’s just a boring game to shake trees and decorate an island with no purpose. Hope the next game have more relevant and fun mechanics or I won’t buy, I just bought because it was a hit and I wanted to check it out. Stardew Valley, Cozy Groove, Graveyard Keeper.. are way better than AC .
Unpopular opinion, but i dont think crafting is the main issue. It can be expanded, but the problem with new horizon is the lack of social interactivity with the villagers. Thats the thing the developers should evolve nd make good again like in the GC and wild world. Remember AC is a simulation game and the main factor should always be keepin the conversations and activities fresh. Not just build more and more
I honestly dont want it back but if it is i prefer it to be only for cooking food
Personally, If the next game had crafting I would not buy it.
no. please no more crafting! having to make each individual piece and not have mass crafting is awful
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Honestly no.
I dislike how we are this powerful creature instead of a normal person in a cute village. Crafting makes the player too strong. Little things like a flower wrath, a fruit basket or outfits i am okay with. But i don't like the huge sandbox aspect of New Horizons in comparison to the other AC games.
Yeah just make it faster
honestly, seeing new leaf’s qualities vs new horizon’s. It makes me want to rage quit.
NO.
_No_
We'll be lucky if it isn't just another beloved franchise turned into hero-summoning microtransactions. You only need to use 400 tickets to get a Lucky, but you need 20 Luckys to get a 5 star Lucky and of course, only 5 star villagers can actually move in. But don't worry, if you buy the new player package, you'll get 10 summons for free.
No. No. No.
Pretty much ruined the game for me.
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No