What Does the Future of Animal Crossing Look Like?

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  • čas přidán 12. 09. 2024

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  • @PixelPikmin
    @PixelPikmin Před 5 měsíci +161

    The future of Animal Crossing is that we either get all of the features at launch or the game sells 15 million units less than New Horizons

    • @Protendo
      @Protendo  Před 5 měsíci +72

      I mean, the next AC game would be *lucky* to reach 30 mil. ACNH’s numbers will likely never be touched, the combination of Switch Effect and pandemic launched it into the stratosphere

    • @PixelPikmin
      @PixelPikmin Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@Protendo True, I mean most of the sales were from the c virus and people not having much to do. So sales will decline either way

    • @coyhCoyHerbert
      @coyhCoyHerbert Před 5 měsíci +8

      ​@@ProtendoBut the pandemic exposed a crap ton of new people to the series which will logically massively increase sales for future games.

    • @coyhCoyHerbert
      @coyhCoyHerbert Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@PixelPikminYeah, but the pandemic exposed a crap ton of new people to the series which will logically massively increase sales for future games.

    • @princessfaust
      @princessfaust Před 5 měsíci

      All they have to do if they want people to rave over it is slapping “open-world” on it. 🙄

  • @y2kinder
    @y2kinder Před 5 měsíci +80

    Having played since Wild World ,I love the graphics and island design in NH but I miss the life sim socialness of the game, I just want more dialogue and less repetition because that gets old so fast!

    • @ceseak1571
      @ceseak1571 Před 5 měsíci +3

      I wish they would biing back the personality of the villagers in wild world.

  • @voidoflight2420
    @voidoflight2420 Před 5 měsíci +25

    I'm worried for the future of the series. New Horizons sidelined the stuff that I loved about these games in favor for decorating. All the praise the game has been getting and major points of criticism seem to be around the "Free updates," which makes me feel like the team itself most likely are going to double down on the aspects that I disliked most. I'm hoping that's not the case, and that they'll use New Horizon's engine as a basis for the future- but I'm going to have to see what the new game is like before I say if I'm even excited for it or not.
    One thing I feel is for certain is that AC6 probably won't sell as well as New Horizons did, given that it had a boost due to the circumstances at the time.

  • @NintendoHero
    @NintendoHero Před 5 měsíci +72

    Between TOTK getting a whole year for polish and Mario Wonder having no set development timeline, I'm hoping the the next big Animal Crossing gets enough time to be a complete experience at launch. So much to build off of with New Horizons, and I really hope they nail the vibes and atmosphere this time. Side note, your editing continues to get sharper with every upload!

  • @snoozebutton9996
    @snoozebutton9996 Před 5 měsíci +32

    I'm quite pessimistic that AC will ever go back to it's roots again. They dialed down the sassiness of the villagers with each title in the series to what we got now. Sadly NH did too well and i guess they will draw the false conclusions and release even more dollhouse-gameplay that is shallow than actually make the island, the NPCs and Villagers interesting again.

    • @Saixilein
      @Saixilein Před 4 měsíci +4

      I really would love to set into a village again, with maybe "this one neighbor" you just hate, cause he is rough & sassy. But at some point his character changed and you start liking him. I want to be a villager, like all the others. I dont want to be "God", who decides wich villager is living in wich place, moving their houses at 2 am, dont allow them to move out and changing their Houses, Decorations and all... NH feels more like a clunky Mapeditor, then an animal crossing game.
      They should bring us Happy Home Designer 2 - with all the Stuff from NH and turn AC6 into a more New Leaf experience, with more focus on NPCs, activitys, minigames, dialouges, BUILDING up friendships etc.

  • @Wackaz
    @Wackaz Před 5 měsíci +28

    Now this, THIS is a video I have been waiting for. I love your AC content man, it is just the best. Your New Horizons opinions have always been the best takes in the modern AC community. Thank you for spreading the truth and expressing what a lot of us - and for a long time, it felt like such an unusual minority - have been feeling since the release of the disappointment that was New Horizons.

  • @maxpowers6738
    @maxpowers6738 Před 5 měsíci +59

    I feel like the best route to take Animal Crossing 6 is by having it be a combination of what made both New Leaf and New Horizons great as those are the best games in the series of all time. I would like it if the next game returned to living in a town with much better character interactions while keeping the decorating aspects like terraforming and placing furniture outside.

  • @VERIFLIED
    @VERIFLIED Před 5 měsíci +75

    They gotta work on the villagers personalities and the music

    • @amysteriousviewer3772
      @amysteriousviewer3772 Před 5 měsíci +12

      With the advance of AI I think villager interactions could become better and more varied than they've ever been.

    • @winxeris
      @winxeris Před 5 měsíci +6

      I never understood the acnh music hate, I absolutely love the soundtrack, especially how well they encapsulated the island vibe

    • @VERIFLIED
      @VERIFLIED Před 5 měsíci +10

      @@winxeris I just think it’s too safe and a little boring

    • @sunny_sketches
      @sunny_sketches Před 5 měsíci +11

      @@winxeristhe older soundtracks had a super unique sound (especially the gamecube tracks.)
      i just think the ACNH soundtrack is a bit generic when compared.

    • @Korfiatis14
      @Korfiatis14 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Fr like i love the villager designs but the dialogue is boring asf

  • @hannahappa
    @hannahappa Před 5 měsíci +51

    I think a big thing is certainly adding more character to the well characters of the game. Something people loved about the originals is that they actually were somewhat interesting to talk to whereas in the newer games there’s just nothing there. I watched a video by someone playing it more recently and they had barely spoken to their villagers at all. It’s just more boring and pointless so it’s why people end up just caring about aesthetics more than anything.

  • @d-jams
    @d-jams Před 5 měsíci +10

    I feel like Nintendo will not make the same mistake of dropping development so early on with the next game.

  • @ErdemuOc
    @ErdemuOc Před 5 měsíci +14

    I feel like they're going to make the game more than just your town/island with actual locations you can visit and activities to do outside of town

  • @PajamaPantsClan
    @PajamaPantsClan Před 5 měsíci +10

    7:00 100% couldn’t agree more. NH should have had everything from NL from the get go. It sucks we still don’t even have everything back. NH felt more like a different branch off CF instead of continuing off NL if that makes sense

  • @voyan38
    @voyan38 Před 5 měsíci +5

    I just hope the next Animal Crossing comes up with a way to show new fans why so many people were passionate about the previous entries. Whether that's mini-games, mean villagers, loading times less than an hour- their next approach will be exciting nonetheless.

    • @Protendo
      @Protendo  Před 5 měsíci +2

      I still have nightmares about those loading times ngl

    • @Most-sane-deltarune-fan
      @Most-sane-deltarune-fan Před 5 měsíci

      @@Protendo Surely it's not THAT long? I'd say you have to wait at least 3 minutes on each loading screen.

  • @aboxyguy
    @aboxyguy Před 5 měsíci +6

    i want to feel positive on AC's future given they have a blueprint on how they can improve NH's core mechanics and QOL, but i can easily see them getting too comfortable and putting less work in now they they know what they can get away with. the update model is guaranteed to stay and if splatoon is anything to go off by, it could be average/underwhelming. simply finishing the game than adding to it
    terraforming and island decorating are great addition but i hope they focus on the in-game community aspect again. everything is so disconnected with NPCs having less to do and say (tho id argue villagers still say interesting things, but you really gotta hunt for it like in the DLC or museum)

  • @GAMEBO1z
    @GAMEBO1z Před 5 měsíci +4

    they need to bring the city back 🙏🏼 or do something like stardew where you can pick what kind of area you can live in like a forest, farm, mountains, city, by the ocean i would love that

  • @YourFaceIsCats
    @YourFaceIsCats Před 5 měsíci +3

    I’d like a more open-ish world. Where you’re a traveling happy home designer. Getting inspiration for new furniture as you travel the country and meet different types of villagers from different types of communities. Maybe throw in a survival type of gameplay where you’re mostly just foraging for resources to build the furniture. Opening up further ideas for furniture while you’re at it.

  • @amysteriousviewer3772
    @amysteriousviewer3772 Před 5 měsíci +6

    Given that they now basically had 4+ years with the engine and most assets already done I really hope we don't see such a barebones release version again.

  • @Kyler360
    @Kyler360 Před 5 měsíci +11

    Cautiously optimistic for AC's future. NL was bred out of the disappointment people felt after CF, so I think that means the next game will be a banger.

  • @IsThisPurgatory
    @IsThisPurgatory Před 4 měsíci +7

    They basically catered more toward the female base with the decorating and all being such a big point. I just want a campy/city feel with bulk crafting and a more diverse dialogue from villagers.

    • @AS-cs9gi
      @AS-cs9gi Před 3 měsíci +1

      Well I am a girl that is disappointed with the dollhouse direction the series seems to be taking

    • @myon9431
      @myon9431 Před 2 měsíci +2

      ​@@AS-cs9gisame, but I get what he's saying because there are a lot of mainly female players who only care about the aesthetics and designing aspects instead of anything else

    • @SleepyKittyPaws
      @SleepyKittyPaws Před měsícem

      it's the sims 4 fanbase
      they are used to throwing money for features that could have been included at launch

  • @1bwash
    @1bwash Před 5 měsíci +2

    I actually didn't mind the way content came out with ACNH, my problem becomes more evidence when I tried a new play through. You're basically forced to rush day to day activities in order to unlock landscaping, proper path laying, etc. You should really be able to do those things without needing to fill your map with villagers and get a certain ranking. It would be nice to get your map going, having a core group of maybe 3-4 villagers and really get to know them.

  • @unblairable
    @unblairable Před 5 měsíci +16

    6:20 couldn’t agree more, i don’t know how anyone can look at new horizons and say it was made by lazy people who didn’t care about the final product. there’s so much love and care put into that game, even with its many flaws
    let’s hope nintendo takes the criticism NH got to heart and gives the dev team as much time as they need to put out a properly finished game, like they’ve done for their other juggernauts like mario and zelda. it pays off!

  • @slimeys1469
    @slimeys1469 Před 5 měsíci +5

    I just am sad cause I don’t think I’ll be able to buy another animal crossing game because it reeally expensive in my country so I will have to stick to new horizons, but I sure hope that they will give more personality to the villagers cause I hate searching for a villager for ours just so they will have the exact same dialogue as another villager

  • @CrobatmanIamthenight
    @CrobatmanIamthenight Před 5 měsíci +30

    I'd rather a remaster of new leaf tbh

  • @RuguBlue
    @RuguBlue Před 5 měsíci +6

    I always look forward to your Animal Crossing videos! Can't wait to see the future of the series! 😊

  • @nocctea
    @nocctea Před 5 měsíci +1

    i completely agree i’m really unsure and worried about the future of the series! the community gave a lot of critique for new horizons, but as you said, it was the biggest selling animal crossing game, so who is nintendo going to listen to? the money or the fans?
    i fear animal crossing may go the direction of just a decorating game and will never be the same. which is SO sad cause there’s NO game like animal crossing

  • @jeremy1994jdm
    @jeremy1994jdm Před 5 měsíci +2

    By far the biggest issue, is just making the whole game a creative mode. The charm of the series is to have things out of our control. Neighbors who come and go on their own, not a predictable schedule, and a world that feels overall like it continues even when you aren’t playing.
    The game just feels like a very algorithm where we are a god working along side it. Boring.

  • @ScooterCat64
    @ScooterCat64 Před 5 měsíci +8

    I will only be interested in a new Animal Crossing if they lean much more into the life sim aspect and less into the sandbox aspect, but I feel that will be highly unlikely, so this series sadly won't be for me anymore.

  • @wav9686
    @wav9686 Před 5 měsíci +6

    If they make the tools break in Animal Crossing VI, then I will probably cry.

  • @AS-cs9gi
    @AS-cs9gi Před 5 měsíci +2

    will there be a video about new leaf online play ending next month?

  • @TheRebelDottie
    @TheRebelDottie Před 5 měsíci +5

    They can’t be any lazier with AC than New Horizons, right? Right?!

  • @mk-aka-morgan8386
    @mk-aka-morgan8386 Před 5 měsíci +7

    I'll be honest, I love the concept of Animal Crossing, but Everytime I try to play I just wish I was playing Stardew Valley instead 😔 The villagers designs are all so cool though 🥺

  • @sashizakura9124
    @sashizakura9124 Před 5 měsíci +8

    If by "influential" you mean "forgettable cash grab", I agree 100%. NH is a hollow shell compared to any previous Animal Crossing game. The first game was truly influential. Wild World was influential. New Leaf was influential. NH took all of the fun features and character interactions that were built into the games up to that point and smashed them head first into a brick wall. Brain-dead characters. Ugly, limited clothing. Crafting that became tedious after a very short time. That awful terraforming without enough props to allow you to truly create some amazing landscapes. So many half-finished ideas they rushed out to take advantage of people being stuck at home for COVID...I hope the next AC game released corrects these awful mistakes. NH was the first Animal Crossing game I actually sold after a year, I was so bored by its empty world.

    • @Protendo
      @Protendo  Před 5 měsíci

      Influence ≠ quality. ACNH is my least favourite Animal Crossing game but underselling its impact doesn’t accomplish anything. New Horizons’ success sparked a whole new life sim uprising in the indie space, completely shifted the dynamic of Nintendo’s top selling franchises, and created an actual cultural phenomenon. These are factors that will 100% pave the series’ future. Influence is defined by impact, not by whether you and I consider it to be as good as it’s predecessors.

    • @SleepyKittyPaws
      @SleepyKittyPaws Před měsícem

      one of the things that genuinely astounds me is how this game supposedly wants players to focus entirely on island decoration, but they didn't even bother adding more types of bridges, ramps, paths, etc
      their motto of thinking the players should invent their own content is downright disgusting

  • @bennycaustic5102
    @bennycaustic5102 Před 5 měsíci +4

    I'm pretty confident that the next Animal Crossing game will be a certified GOAT. Nintendo is pretty quite, but they do listen to fan feedback.

  • @ausgod538
    @ausgod538 Před 5 měsíci +13

    Saying this isn't the responsibility of the devs is being delusional when new horizons launched as it did and focused on what it did because kyogoku and nogami clearly focused on building aspects more than life sim. Not everything is corporate even more when things people complain aren't done by executive. It's creative decisions and most of the problems people see are... That, not executive decisions per se

    • @Protendo
      @Protendo  Před 5 měsíci +8

      The developers’ vision was clearly wider than the time they were given to complete the project. Terraforming was New Horizons’ primary big new draw - it makes complete sense that upon realizing their ambitions were beyond their timeframe, they’d focus on completing the thing that set the game apart from its predecessors. I can’t fault the team for choosing to direct their focus somewhere when directing it everywhere would be impossible under the time they had.
      I never claimed that the devs have no responsibility in the game they create, but that ACNH’s launch quality isn’t something I’d blame on them. If they had a Mario Wonder-esque loose deadline, I’m certain things would’ve been a lot fuller.

    • @Wackaz
      @Wackaz Před 5 měsíci +5

      Absolutely this. The director was new for this game and although her work on New Leaf was clearly of a good quality she was clearly inexperienced going into a directorial role and her vision wasn't in line with Katsuya Eguchi, the original creator and artist of Animal Crossing, and his intention with the games. People need to accept that this game released in a way it did for a reason, and it wasn't entirely the corporate structure of Nintendo to blame, although I do think that plays a role, because a noticeable pattern with Nintendo since Iwata and during the Switch era has been a shift in strategy to releasing unfinished games and finishing them over time under the disguise of "free updates." So while I agree the directors had a role in the disappointment of New Horizons, their vision clearly wasn't truly fulfilled due to Nintendo's new business model (although this widens the debate because you could argue that these Devs had absolutely years - they said they started pre-production in 2012! - which means there was no excuse for releasing content as franchise-old as The Roost over a year and a half later after release.

    • @ausgod538
      @ausgod538 Před 5 měsíci

      @@Wackaz nah this is athing that happened with iwata as well it literally began with splatoon lol its also not how most of their titles work and even acnh having less than previous games still had more than enough content for 60

    • @myon9431
      @myon9431 Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@WackazIsao Moro was one of the directors for New Leaf (he also worked on previous AC games) but he's left Nintendo now. He had zero part in New Horizons. Obviously we will never know, but I wonder if the magic left with him.

  • @ShortRacoon
    @ShortRacoon Před 5 měsíci +4

    Drive...
    WHAT

  • @SleepyKittyPaws
    @SleepyKittyPaws Před měsícem

    the future of animal crossing are games with even less content releasing and being abandoned after an update or two
    oh and you can forget life sim, everything will revolve around dollhouse decoration

  • @crimsonhunter6538
    @crimsonhunter6538 Před 5 měsíci +4

    epic

  • @Juliannemarie761
    @Juliannemarie761 Před 5 měsíci

    The thumb nail is everything! 😂

  • @thespeedyyoshi
    @thespeedyyoshi Před 5 měsíci +2

    Have y’all seen that animal crossing rumor about it being totally different with controllable vehicles and skyscrapers? 😂😂
    That’s wild.

    • @Most-sane-deltarune-fan
      @Most-sane-deltarune-fan Před 5 měsíci

      Are you joking or are you serious?

    • @thespeedyyoshi
      @thespeedyyoshi Před 5 měsíci

      @@Most-sane-deltarune-fan serious. Sadly can’t post links in CZcams comments anymore but if you search it up, you’ll see it

  • @Estaaa1306
    @Estaaa1306 Před měsícem

    It’s a shame because they could have made new horizons so interesting If they expanded on Main Street or just added the old features to the new game. It’s just lost its personality which is so sad

  • @greenxclips1733
    @greenxclips1733 Před měsícem

    They aren’t making spinoffs only dlcs

  • @TCSGaming-qj2sw
    @TCSGaming-qj2sw Před 5 měsíci +2

    I have a lot of ideas for a future Animal Crossing game. I would call it Animal Crossing: New World. It would have...
    - High quality RTX graphics with characters like Tom Nook, Lolly, and Isabelle looking fuzzy.
    - Full first-person 360 camera
    - Every item ever (including lemons)
    - Every character ever
    - Every building upgrade ever (and new upgrades, such as upgrading Nook's Cranny to a big box store)
    - Ability to have at least 50 villagers in your town
    - Ability to interact with a lot more items (Ex: using boats, cars, surf boards, pools, bath tubs, and bikes), including for NPCs
    - Ability to share towns between multiple systems, and have multiple towns on a single system (such as the ability to share towns with your family)
    - More than just the option of your town being an island
    - So much more

    • @Katzelle3
      @Katzelle3 Před 5 měsíci +2

      what is RTX to you
      fuzzy effects are just texture trickery
      if you have video memory to spare then those are computationally cheap
      the camera would go against the aesthetics of the game
      more content is not a new idea and making the game more resource intensive is not a new idea either
      every game map has barriers and the ocean is the most elegant way to go about it
      having your island hosted on a server would be a neat idea if servers did not cost money

  • @shadowcitizen545
    @shadowcitizen545 Před 5 měsíci +11

    New Horizons only sold so well because it released during the pandemic. I don't think it would have earned that much if it had released normally. Worst game in the series imo, only thing that was good about it was the island customisation. Brewsers, downgrade from NL. Nooks, downgrade from NL. Harv's island and the campervans, downgrade from NH. R.I.P Reese btw. When K.K Slider comes to your island that is when the game ends, there is very little to do after that.

    • @Nau712
      @Nau712 Před 5 měsíci +2

      the game end to you but it's just the beginning for many people

    • @Most-sane-deltarune-fan
      @Most-sane-deltarune-fan Před 5 měsíci

      What do you mean, RIP Reese? She's there! She exists! She hosts an event alongside her husband!!

    • @Most-sane-deltarune-fan
      @Most-sane-deltarune-fan Před 5 měsíci

      Well, yes, @@Nau712 ! Happy Home Paradise exists, and that's always fun!

    • @myon9431
      @myon9431 Před 2 měsíci +1

      ​@@Most-sane-deltarune-fanYeah but that's it. It's the same event every single year. It gets really boring. She was much more involved in New Leaf, you'd pretty much talk to her everyday.

    • @Most-sane-deltarune-fan
      @Most-sane-deltarune-fan Před 2 měsíci

      @@myon9431 And that's what you do in New Horizons - talk to Reese every day in June!

  • @Jme_hde
    @Jme_hde Před 5 měsíci +2

    If the next Animal Crossing has any less personalisation and customisation than New Horizons has than it is already a MASSIVE step back for me and most people whose first Animal Crossing was New Horizons.

  • @RodriThunder
    @RodriThunder Před 5 měsíci

    I attempt to play this game for 3 years I couldn't do that I don't like how you get new furniture I think it's because Nintendo making you to buying the online and making friends New Leaf is better I could play that game for years the animals barely ask for help so all you could do is decorate your house and Island I like it but it don't have any longevity like what do you do after you decorate your house and Island

    • @Most-sane-deltarune-fan
      @Most-sane-deltarune-fan Před 5 měsíci

      "what do you do after you decorate your house and Island"? Have you heard of a thing called Happy Home Paradise? Or a place called Harv's island?

    • @myon9431
      @myon9431 Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@Most-sane-deltarune-fanHarv's Island is really boring and lackluster especially compared to Mainstreet.
      We went from shops, personalised that could be updated... to simple, boring, small RVs. Downgrade in every way. It's even a downgrade to the City from City Folk. And I'm sick of islands. There's such a lack of variety.
      HHP is great though it feels more like a seperate game to me so I feel like that's not a fair point. you can play HHP without really touching NH much.

    • @Most-sane-deltarune-fan
      @Most-sane-deltarune-fan Před 2 měsíci

      @@myon9431 Hm. "HHP is great though it feels more like a seperate game to me so I feel like that's not a fair point." DLC isn't actually a separate game, otherwise Nintendo would've announced that as their newest game. "you can play HHP without really touching NH much." You DO KNOW that HHP is connected to NH in various ways, right? Lottie knowing Tom Nook, DJ KK coming to perform at the resort after he's already done a concert on your main island, Tom Nook letting you order items from Nook Shopping after you've made a fair bit of progress in the game, the dodos being the only in-universe way to enter and exit the resort (saving is out-of-universe)... it's connected!

  • @yesnt8314
    @yesnt8314 Před 2 měsíci

    i’d like to think ANCH took so long because HD games take so long to make. Since it’s already been made I don’t think it’s gonna take that much longer.

  • @IsThisPurgatory
    @IsThisPurgatory Před 4 měsíci

    6/10? Damn lol

  • @chunk1179
    @chunk1179 Před 5 měsíci

    😂

  • @edpocalyps
    @edpocalyps Před 5 měsíci +2

    first