The best interaction I've had with my villagers was when Apple asked me to do a treasure hunt with her, and that was super fun and unexpected

I think the villagers feel kind of.... bland. I've got 3 peppys. Hearing about Maglev Mike taking the relationship off the rails is driving me *insane*.

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I actually miss when a villager would ask me for a piece of fruit while standing right next to a fruit tree in new leaf

Not a mechanic I miss, but a related thing that makes me insane: I cannot stand it when I forget that I talked to a villager earlier (sometimes many many hours earlier) and I make the mistake of talking to them again and they give me that snarky, passive aggressive "Wow nothing better to do today huh?" or "Seeing you a lot today.." type of response. Oh, sorry your highness, sorry I forgot I can't talk to my animal friends in the animal friend game more than twice a day without the 'tude. I'll give you your gift tomorrow, then. edit: "This was in every game" I dont care. Also maybe I'm misremembering but I don't remember getting the passive aggressive remarks after merely talking twice. Ive long since given up trying to see fun new dialogue lol

Most of my villagers ask if I want to take a hike around the island with them, and I really wish I could actually do that. Just have a villager follow behind you for a while until they were tired or you told them to stop.

Another thing that bothers me is when you find a lost item in NH, they just straight up tell you who it belongs to. In New Leaf, you’d go on a wild goose chase trying to find who the item belongs to.

I reall miss our villagers having emotions after talking to another neighbour. I loathe the fact, that every conversation ends in a neutral or happy sentiment. In earlier games they wouls get angry, or sing, or sad and the funniest thing was when one got sad and the other happy. Where are our fights? Why do they even have different levels of 'getting along' if it doesn't do anything? Also grumpy villagers aren't grumpy anymore, they're just "old"

I need the megaphone back so I can actually find villagers instead of wandering around for 30 minutes only for them to be in the museum

Lately I actually have noticed there’s a lot more dialogue in the game and I appreciate it so much. But I do also wish there would be more interactive things like treasure hunts, tasks, or adding back the hide and seek mechanic. I wanna have closer interactions with my villagers. But Im still so thankful Nintendo gave us more dialogue, I’m tired of hearing about Goldie’s book club and Cookie telling me three things. One, I’m fab. two, she means it. and three, there is no three.

They’re basically there for aesthetic and for what we USED to like them for in previous ac games.

the cutest villager interaction I've seen was Zucker asking if he turned into a butterfly would Margie let him stay inside with her during the winter, it was so adorable

I miss when Resetti would steal your entire face for not saving.

Even though I haven’t played any of the other games, it still feels wrong on how little interaction they have

I wish that they could atleast add dialogue that is affected by personality and species for example a peppy cat may say something different than a peppy penguin and etc And I really want my villagers to visit my house again like they did in new leaf

In Wild World, we were able to give responses to some of the dialogue, and their mood changed depending on our response (some even gifted furniture/clothing as rewards!)…it spiced things up, you know?

I think everything about new horizons is well… just so painfully passive? I miss when my villagers would brutally insult me and rudely gossip about my neighboring villagers, which is incredibly lacking in this new addition. Of course it might not appeal to younger audiences AS much, but it would add so much more depth to the game and I think young me would have enjoyed the snarky quirks about the characters a little more than what we have now :)

It would be cool if they had personalities more like the stardew valley townsfolk, as you have to talk to them and give them gifts to get more interesting interactions from them in that game.

I actually miss going round asking people if they need help in the older games

For my villagers.. I had to kinda "force" a personality onto them.. I have a total of 3 lazy villagers (my favorite type) where they're just the exact same character but with a different model on them.. It's Weber, Alfonso & Bob.. Weber i've made into a bug lover. His house is very "Earth" coloured and he has a dirt floor so i thought "Hey why not?" So he has a buch of bug & Nature stuff. Alfonso has a very colourful house inside and outside, so i made him the toy kid. He has a buch of toys everywhere. Bob i haven't really come up with anything as he doesn't really fit anything i can come up with.. But stuff like that i would have love to see in the game. The villagers actually have an interest. Let's say like 15-20 different hobbies within every personality type.. Then every villager get's one interest/hobby instead of EVERY lazy villager liking snacks and bugs.

Considering we get a massive list of play testers every time we have a song from K.K. - it blows my mind that they signed off the “you would like a new villager” mechanic that goes with the campsite, it’s so repetitive, random, time consuming and utterly boring that I skip campsites entirely. Especially as you lose a random villager that you might like unless you go through it all again and again and again.

Sherb became self aware the other day - said that we were on a game, how the trees grew fruit too quick and how there was always music. Then proceeded to smack talk Tom Nook. I'm ngl it freaked me out irl. He ended it with it just being a dream... but im keeping an eye on him lol

We need more personalities! Also Resetti.

Only once have I felt sad when a villager left my island. I encouraged Celia to leave and then felt guilty about it immediately afterwards. At least she moved to my friend's island so I could still visit her (even though she doesn't recognise me :c)

Even though I don’t play acnh, I’ve watched lots of videos, and it looks like villagers have become TOO nice. Even in new leaf It feels they are too nice. I like Wild world, where there is villager drama, seeing 2 villagers argue and one angrily stomps off after. They should really add more of that in acnh.

Maybe there can be a setting button to adjust the level of sass. Or better yet a slider to fine tune. Also yes fetch quests, them coming to us more, and more of them coming to you would help.

The best interaction I had with villagers was when I listened in on a conversation between Rolf and Roald and Roald was telling Rolf about electrolytes and alkaline stuff. Rolf asked me if I knew anything about that, and when I said yes, he said then I’m also probably the type who will hold my hand under my chin as I eat a cookie. It’s true, I’ve never been more called out in my life by a fictional character, ever 😂

I’ve gotten a *slight* improvement in my ACNH villager experience by talking to every villager twice. Their first dialogue is always one of like 3 things, and I’ve seen it before. Their second one has a better chance of something new to me. Dizzy the elephant had a passionate, despairing rant about wind chimes hurting his ears. It was a good time.

I used to really enjoy the petition signature quest from New Leaf. Even if it absolutely wasn't worth the reward you got, it gave me an excuse to pester my friends and let me come to their islands... I'd love more quests in general, so long as they don't result in my villagers displaying an ugly sea bass in their house 🙄

Use the repeativeness to learn another language. Go to system settings and change the language to what you want to learn and when you play animal crossing look up every word you don’t understand as you read. This is very hard amd a very high ceiling to pass but it’s a good challenge and great fit for animal crossing since you can do this at yer own pace. It also changes the dynamic of playing, you ain’t just playing a video game; you are doing homework. No one can complain about you playing video games ever again!!!!! Also for so,e reason so,e of the names change and I think it’s kinda cute; Timmy amd tommy chsnge to nendo and tendo for Spanish amd it’s so much cuter.

I never played animal crossing before NH so I dont miss anything but we do need our villagers personality to have more.. Personality. I find that the normal villagers while cutest have bland houses and aren’t interesting at all… but then that kinda spreads for the rest of my digital buddies. If the personality’s maybe we’re given a glow up I think that would help out the game

Don’t forget that Resetti has the ability to summon lightning when he gets super peeved

The only moment that melted my heart in AcNH is when spike had me do a treasure hunt and when I brought him the gift he went "oh look it's your very own Spike photo!" 😭 It was so cute

I have noticed that if I interact with a villager multiple times in a row, I am more likely to get a request. Keep selecting “I want to chat” and the third time is sometimes a request.

My first animal crossing game was new leaf, I liked how your villagers could ask you to come to their house or viseversa! I thought that was really cute and fun, even though all they did was walk around! I also really liked that they could sell you furniture from their house!

I want sassy vilagers and more interactivity with them so bad. Then i can call this officially the best animal crossing

I miss the old design philosophy Nintendo had in mind when it came to some of the older Animal Crossing games. The original series producer wanted to emulate his emotions when moving away from his small rural town (and family and friends) to a new city, all on his own. Making new friends, accomplishing himself over responsibilities, tasks and obstacles. At first, you’re just a young adult moving away from home and trying to get your foot in the door on life. You’re never more important or held to any sort of pedestal over your animal neighbors, everyone has their own struggles in life. You may think you’re special but you’re but a resident of this small town like everyone else. Contrast that to modern animal crossing. You’re an all-powerful deity that your animal neighbors literally worship. Everything is entirely up to solely you, the protagonist. You get to decide where people live, who gets to stay on the island and who has to leave, everything. You decide who gets to plant flowers by their house, you decide where public services are located, and you even decide what your neighbors wear for christ’s sake. The original design philosophy has since been trampled over in the name of customization and player freedom, trading substance for open-endedness, trading quality for quantity. That’s what I like about AC gamecube. It’s much more like an honest struggle when it comes to succeeding in your new animal life.

I’ve been getting back into wild world and new leaf recently and it just makes New Horizons lack of interactions even more glaring. My wild world friends regularly came up to me to gossip, share letters, ask me about how to help villagers, things like that. In new leaf they did more of the same, and even if you have multiple villagers with the same personalities they all feel different. New horizons has the problem of if you have one smug villager for example, you’ve literally had them all. I just find it so frustrating because I feel similar to you, I don’t really care about talking to my animals all that much, I’ve heard all of the conversations before. Yes they’ve added some new dialog which is appreciated don’t get me wrong, but it’s more if the same and it’s so disappointing

I miss tree stump designs and the mini games on Tortimer’s island and mostly I miss the toy hammer I could whack people with 😆

In NH I just consider the villagers decorative. They've gotten more plain from game to game. I mean I get why they did it, to appeal to the masses. But it felt so much more personal when they were different and kinda bitchy.

I’ve just started playing New Leaf for the first time (New Horizons was my first AC experience) and so far New Leaf’s villager interactions seem MUCH more engaging and varied. I wish New Horizons’ villagers were as well-rounded as they used to be in even the most recent game prior…

Honestly, in my opinion I think that the interactions are lacking, but they aren’t horrible. If there was just a little more dialogue, it would be almost perfect.

I miss when Isabelle would follow you around when you chose a spot for a public works project. It was such a cute part of the game. Why doesn't Tom Nook follow you around when you place/move a home or one of the shops? Or having villagers walk with you like in Pocket Camp

I go back to New Leaf A LOT, and mostly for the interactions. And I remember even thinking when NL came out that it was lacking in the interaction. But now with NH it really puts it into perspective. I still have Wild World but I just don't get as much joy going back to that one. I'd much rather the interaction just come back in the next game. I've always said this one is just like Happy Home Designer for islands. Happy Island Designer.

I think sometimes you just have to wait for something interesting to happen to the villagers. Like one day I found Celia and Marina angrily stomping around both saying Fauna had told them a movie spoiler. Then later I found Fauna stomping around and she said she was mad no one wanted to talk to her anymore. Or something along those lines. It was funny and interesting to see tho!

The villagers in New Horizons almost feel like toys that you press a button on and they cycle through a few select phrases.

They have updated the dialogue quite a bit, to be fair. I took a few months off and was shocked to see how much that had changed. The other games probably have about as much variety as NH now. But I agree that whats missing is the SPICE

Not really something from previous games (maybe it is I haven't played the other games except a little bit of wild world) but I think it would be nice if they could code villager specific dialogue. I noticed when going through the villager wiki that a lot of villagers have their own aspirations and I think it would be nice if we could hear about them when we become friends with our villagers. I know it would take a lot of coding, so it probably wouldn't happen but I think it would be a nice way to differentiate each personality further.

Can we talk about how the programming for the villagers is also flawed? I seen my villagers do their daily exercise in front of buildings, sometimes they work in place when objects or fences are around, and also they tend to block your way when you're trying to terraform. Everytime they do this I find myself having to push them to the beach and dig holes around them, just so they would not get in my way. Its not something I want to do, but when my villagers keep doing that it gets me really annoyed.

I wish they had more variety and said more things

I hearty heart Mott but boy oh man am i ever tired of hearing him name his abs.

smth i find frustrating is that the normal villagers are often considered the "cutest" so if u have a few on ur island u get "i thought i smelled my dad's ________" a million times a day ;_;

yeah, everything.

I remember having both Tank and Bubbles in the original AC as well. Tank became my best friend and he's been my favorite villager ever since.

very true, my normal villagers have the same dialog, they are very bland.

I don't know what they were thinking, I mean maybe they were thing that because of the rudeness from past AC games that it got too much, but I think having everyone be too friendly is just creating this balance issue and lack of interesting interactions.

I miss that the villagers don't visit us in our houses anymore. I liked that...

i miss how in acnl villagers could ask you to get them a piece of furniture for their house. idk why but i just really want that back in acnh lol

I kind of miss the gemstones you used to be able to get from rocks in New Leaf (I think you can still get them in Pocket Edition?). I think they would be great crafting materials. When it comes to villagers... I now like to listen in on when they have a conversation with eachother. It's not always as predictable as the ones you have with them alone. Other wise, it can get a bit boring. There are now a couple of ones on my island that I can't get to move. Some of them are my own fault, because they did ask me once if they should move, and I told them no. If you told them "no" once, they'll ask you again later, right? Please?

Playing NL and NH at the same time now, I do admit that I romanticized the villagers in NL a bit. NH's seem actually more alive since they do stuff and not just walk around all-day aimlessly. Having said that, I do miss interactions like hide and seek especially. I am attached to my main island villagers and I actually enjoy trying to coax new dialogue out of them with outfits etc which led to some fun discoveries. I actually time-travelled excessively on my 2nd island to free a space there after allowing one of my mains to leave and suddenly realizing that I ABSOLUTELY would miss him. Now he lives on the 2nd island and it makes me happy lol More interactivity with items and yourself like as you said giving you the option to request a task would go a long way, though.

I miss having a lot of shops and Tortimer's Island. I didn't start playing until New Leaf so I don't miss anything from the older games. Brewster's Cafe would be good too. I hope the next Animal Crossing game adds more character types. Smug and Uchi were good new types in New Leaf and I'd like to see more added if Nintendo could think of any.

I honestly miss the sassy villagers saying I had ugly face or clowning me for what I was wearing lol it made me appreciate the villagers that I actually liked more. I totally agree asking for something to do from a villager helped when you were bored. Now I just run around aimlessly the save an quit especially since my friends have stopped playing a long time ago.

The villagers in new horizons are just things for me to throw around and judge based on appearance while in past games I didn’t care what the villagers looked like it was their personality that I cared about the old villagers said and did interesting things

When I showed my sis how to villager hunt she found agent s on the 1st ticket, lolly on the 7th, Audie on the 35th, stitches right after that, then merry on the 67th, and a ton more. When she told me she didn’t add any of them to our island I was like -- *inhale* “boi.”

Fetch quests are something that I think would be incredibly fun to have. I also think it would be nice if villagers had more that they could ask you to do, instead of just cycling through the usual requests of delivering a present or needing you to catch a fish. It would be the perfect balance between the villager mechanics from past games and the kinder, more toned-down personalities in New Horizons

As a kid I loved doing hide & seek with my villagers, after that interaction I spent days talking to my villagers wondering when I could do it again. I also loved my villagers for who they were but not how they looked.. I miss those days :'D

Maybe it's just me, but I remember constantly being asked for stuff in Wild World and it made me relieved that it's been toned down in New Horizons. Still, while my neighbours ask me to give stuff to others due to a fight or something quite often, the request for specific insects and bugs, or just playing a little treasure hunting minigame feels quite rare As for dialogues, I find myself discovering more unique ones after talking to them a few times throughout the day. I still run into the same conversations mentioned in comments and this video, but there are a number of times when I get caught off guard on dialogue I didn't see. An example is Ozzie being annoyed with wind chimes and he took out the frustration on me. Like jeez, I've never seen him so angry before Or perhaps I'm just forgetful and you guys have run into that same sort of random dialogue already? I tend to be wrong a lot, lol Although, it does feels like more conversations have been added after not playing for months It would be cool to do more activities with them at least

Ideas for an update: 1. Make it so that villagers can naturally like or not like you based on what you do in the game, for example if you have tons of flowers on your island or water them frequently, villagers with the nature hobby (for example Zucker) they will like you more and if you don't your friendship could naturally lower of stay the same 2. Give villagers the ability to not like you, this would only work for villagers ho naturally move in via move in queue, these villagers are more likely to be provoked by you pushing them, they will spawn far away from your house, will take more friendship points to become friends with, and are more likely not give you medicine, not ask you for favors, ask for you stop chatting with you, and their birthdays will appear later on the bulletin board, with this in mind, they will still be grateful for any gifts and gifts will give you their normal amount of friendship points 3. Improve villager to villager relationships, this is the fun part, for villagers that are good friends you can see them chat more, along with giving each other gifts, hanging out with each other, sitting together, walking together, them both approaching, or ignoring you, and more. While villagers that hater each other will go off at each other, "Borrow" stuff, plant pitfall seeds outside each others houses, and ignore each other 4. "Minigames" that will randomly be done with your villagers, and I am not talking about the poopy treasure hunts that take two seconds if you already dug up your fossils for the day, like i want to see the 3 on 3 basketball that Dom and Diana always talk about, it feels like I am missing out on an opportunity to bond with my villagers 5. The ability to have SE??!??!??!?!!?!? OK WEVE TALKED ABOUT THIS JAMES!!! AUDIE IS NOT THAT HOT!!!!

One of my favorite animal crossing memories was in wild world (my first game), when Octavian and I had a back and fourth with letters. He kept calling me lame! and I loved him for it!!! The best part was that that conversation was over more than one letter. I was devastated when he moved.

The best interaction I’ve had is with Phil when I had him on my island and he was telling me about his plan of making a basement video 🤣 like- I don’t know whether to be worried or to laugh. It sounded sketchy

I wished they would be more interactive.

I miss all the interactions and variety in New Leaf.....I miss the sense of progression also...in NH I reseted my island twice cuz I got well bored extremely quickly

My favorite feature was just brought back. It was the feature where you could go to a villagers house and they'd ask you if you liked something in their house and then they'd give it to you. I love that mechanic and I'm glad it's back.

Honestly, I miss Mr. Resetti. I used to purposely close my game and not save to see him pop up and get really angry. I found it funny.

Am I the only one who squealed with joy at one villager and literally screamed in excitement at another? The first one was Stitches, and the one that made me scream was Raymond :p yes I'm an adult, but I freaking love my boys!!!! I'm crocheting little toys of all my villagers now that I have all villagers that I absolutely love :)

I definitely felt this when I returned to my island recently after 11 months off. In past games you could expect villagers to be mad at you, or some even would have completely left! But when I logged on it was only after seeking them out and initiating talking to them that they referenced my absence, but it was just kind of a 'Oh! You were gone for a while, welcome back!' kind of thing, and then things were straight back to normal. I do miss how they had a lot more autonomy to themselves, like you're neighbours and friends do in real life! Gave it a bit more of a hint of what it's like living in the real world. They kind of just feel like little interactive toys now, that look pretty, but once you tire of 'playing' with them you just stick em on the shelf to look at.

So, I play this game too much. You're right in that asking for fetch quests need to return. But I've learned that if you swim a bit, they are more likely to have a thought bubble appear above their head. And IIRC, you can ask the villagers in new leaf for fetch quests. That being said, I do not want to wait for the new animal crossing for them to improve the lack of villager interaction. Nintendo is pretty decent about listening to us when it comes to updates, albeit slow (there's a pandemic, people are dead, etc etc), but I'm sure they'd be able to at least increase the thought bubble/hey player rate, if not add an option of "do you need something." And it seems that most games, not just Animal Crossing, have been increasingly making things easier for those who are new to the series.

This is my first AC game but hearing you talk about the before times makes me miss something I didn't have 😭💔

The best conversation was with Erik, when he was talking about cars and then making a lot of crashing “sounds” in the dialogue and ended up saying “I’m not allowed to drive cars. Anymore.” That was THE best and only great interaction I have had with any villager.

i think they should add little scenes where you can organise things with villager friends like sleepovers or picnics or a beach day, thatd be so fun! and maybe it could work like u have to craft certain items and put them in certain locations to have it, like with a beachday maybe u have to craft a coconut juice thingy and put it on a beach and then u can start a beach day activitu, i think thatd be so cool and also a good opportunity for a photo with your fave villagers

I miss being a messenger boy for my villagers. Working as the local UPS/FedEx was nice

The villagers do feel like clones of each other after a while, the more you play the more you notice them saying the same things over and over again.

I have done three villager hunts for Raymond. First two I gave up after finding another good villager. In this case Wolfgang then Magen. But on the third try I passed on A LOT of desirables. It took 68 tickets but I got the business cat for my island. It's fun to imagine stories for why they moved to your island.

Villagers on their birthdays are so sweet! They are so happy and dance around their house.

This was my first real ac game, and pc gave me a sort of feel for the villagers I might want. I picked a fave from every personality, and then a 2nd normal and one plot where I rotate out my Sanrio villagers (so I don’t get bored of them either). Everyone is just different enough where I’m attached to them, if ANYONE left I’d be truly devastated

The best interaction I had in the new animal crossing is when Chester was unintentionally breaking the forth wall… but it all dwindled down to just him telling me a “scary” story

After talking to puddles twice in one day, she says ‘let’s see how many more times we can talk to each other today?’ And it feels like I’m just not wanted. Like I’m being punished for talking to them

I miss residents coming over to your house. Pearse used to always come and have a nose around my house. He would call in when I was busy sorting furniture or something. It was funny.

Watching this while trying to recreate custom designs for my city core island cause I don’t have Nintendo online 😃👍🏻

Im glad Im not the only one who feels this way! I’ve gone out of my way to try to collect some of my favorite villagers from my new leaf town but it’s kinda just made me more sad knowing how they used to be kdjdnnd

I've said this a million times, but the villagers feel like dolls. The part of the game that used to give the series life now feels completely lifeless...

A cool idea they could of added to the game in winter could be snow ball fights. You run around your island looking for that perfect shot on your neighbor to win the game without getting hit yourself

I came from New Leaf and even still,I adore my villagers since I have barely any friends in person. Genji, Bruce and Biskit are some personal favourites and are my best friends. They make me feel less lonely,even though they aren't the same. I still love my villagers to the moon and back!

I moved marshal out two days ago and I went villager hunting last night and I found Sherb- I was super exited

I am deeply invested in villager friendships, as this is my first AC game.. But that changed 6 months into playing when I read about there being 8 set personality types & discovering they would all share the same dialogue - I was so shocked & kinda upset that my villagers were kina just vacant vessels that carried 1 of 8 personality traits 💔😭 I know that sounds harsh but hear me out 😂 I still have a strong attachment to all my villagers & refuse to let any leave. The longer I play the more I notice the repetitive dialogue & it's frustrating because it would be so easy to pep up/diversify their dialogue!! I still talk to my villagers every day but once I've got there photo my interest in them definitely wanes :( I kinda wish I'd never read about the personality types lol 😭 Take poor Isabelle for example - she has been given the worst dialogue by far - Literally says 1 of 4 things every. Single. Day. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ How much better would it be to give her 1 new thing a day? It could be as simple as commenting on the weather, or telling us which NPC is visiting that day - she wouldn't even need 365 different promts.. She used to irritate me but now I feel bad for her, because no-one bothered to flesh out her character.. This is why I miss Tom Nook greeting me in the morning - he's a total cutie & he'd always give you a job or direction - I miss those interactions! TLDR: I am strongly attached to my villagers & talk to them every day but I wish the dialogue was more varied.

It's funny for me to see all the little scenes of Bam wanting to leave and Kora ignoring him bc I have had him since day one and I desperately want to have someone esle in his place so I would personally love to see this in my game

I really wish there was more villager requests/favours, not just for items already in your inventory but to craft items you have the recipes for, or buy something specific for them. It would make me feel like I actually have something to work towards after completing most of the games objectives within a matter of months

This is why Wild World is my favourite one because I have more comfort and interactions, I don't get to control my villagers and I love that.

you know for some reason i thought the video would be about how there is really very little difference in percentage between villagers you want to leave and those who you have gotten there photos of(ie best friended). still great video and the snips from villagers wanting to leave is funny.

I liked how the villagers would interact with each orher

SPEAKING OF CONNECTIONS TO VILLAGERS... I adore Eugene the Koala. he was my best friend in new leaf and i get emotional thinking about him. i also adored cyrano, marina, rowan, jambette, fauna, knox, even pinky who i couldnt stand i regret letting move out, and so many more... i miss new leaf sm :( i never played the older games so i wasnt around for the meaner villagers but i think new leaf was perfect. villagers were nice without feeling lifeless and occasionally did have their sassy mean moments. if theyd just bring back favors nh would be so much more fun for me.