Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 20/03/2020

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Favourite Animal Crossing?

Animal Crossing (2001)
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27%
Wild World (2005)
12
17%
City Folk (2008)
1
1%
New Leaf (2012)
38
54%
 
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PostRe: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 20/03/2020
by OrangeRKN » Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:21 pm

The only thing really missing from v2 is a shop upgrade I guess. I can live with that as the tradeoff :lol:

ITSMILNER wrote:So, is this now a good time to play Animal Crossing?


2.0 goes live 5 November, I'd say so!

EDIT: Oh what the paid DLC launches 5 November at the same time?? I assumed this was coming later!

And it's included in the NSO expansion pack, that's a curveball

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PostRe: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 20/03/2020
by ITSMILNER » Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:23 pm

OrangeMKN wrote:The only thing really missing from v2 is a shop upgrade I guess. I can live with that as the tradeoff :lol:

ITSMILNER wrote:So, is this now a good time to play Animal Crossing?


2.0 goes live 5 November, I'd say so!

EDIT: Oh what the paid DLC launches 5 November at the same time?? I assumed this was coming later!

And it's included in the NSO expansion pack, that's a curveball


Wait, what if you don't want the DLC for AC and want the expansion pass, are they still expecting people to pay £34.99 :lol:

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PostRe: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 20/03/2020
by Qikz » Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:23 pm

This looks like an amazing upgrade oh my god. Damn. Definitely playing again.

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PostRe: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 20/03/2020
by OrangeRKN » Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:25 pm

ITSMILNER wrote:
OrangeMKN wrote:And it's included in the NSO expansion pack, that's a curveball


Wait, what if you don't want the DLC for AC and want the expansion pass, are they still expecting people to pay £34.99 :lol:


This is very unclear. Nintendo :lol:

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PostRe: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 20/03/2020
by OrangeRKN » Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:26 pm

Definitely going to need to do some island redesign now anyway, what with farming being a thing!

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PostRe: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 20/03/2020
by Tomous » Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:28 pm

If I'm reading the pricing right, the expansion pass is great value if you want to play Animal Crossing DLC and terrible value if you don't.

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PostRe: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 20/03/2020
by DarkRula » Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:30 pm

Whoo... this is certainly an expansion. So much new stuff to enjoy, and that paid DLC is pretty much Happy Home Designer rolled into the main game, and I love it. Partitions bring so much into the design of rooms, as do the ceiling enhancements and wallpapering just a single side of the walls. And we can even design the homes of our residents when we get enough experience. Well done, New Horizons team, you've blown me away with all this new content.

And I do wonder if the paid DLC for this game being a part of the Switch Online Expansion Pass means other DLC will also be available through it. Would make sense.

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PostRe: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 20/03/2020
by shy guy 64 » Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:32 pm

coffee, old characters, new characters, new furniture, ceiling furniture, new stuff for money, new stuff for miles. everything i could have asked for and then some. of course theres cooking now. but thats pretty much everything back that was missing i think.

also happy home designer as dlc? sold!

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PostRe: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 20/03/2020
by Robbo-92 » Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:32 pm

Typical, made myself a cuppa before this started and ended up dragging a jar out alongside the milk :fp: So yeah I’ve not watched it yet and this sounds like it was a great Animal Crossing direct! Will be watching it ASAP!

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PostRe: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 20/03/2020
by ITSMILNER » Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:33 pm

Tomous wrote:If I'm reading the pricing right, the expansion pass is great value if you want to play Animal Crossing DLC and terrible value if you don't.


Also, if you get the DLC via the expansion pass route but then let your NSO sub lapse in a year, do you then lose access to the DLC?

For £34.99 I am going to need more than just N64 games :lol: I may play AC but I won't consider the DLC

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PostRe: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 20/03/2020
by Tomous » Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:35 pm

Their pricing is bonkers :lol:


They need to put more DLC into it to justify it

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PostRe: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 20/03/2020
by Robbo-92 » Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:38 pm

Harv’s island finally becoming worth visiting :lol: Not even 5 minutes in and this is looking like a wonderful update :wub:

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PostRe: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 20/03/2020
by Ploiper » Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:38 pm

£35 is fine by me honestly. I will happily pay that for Paper Mario alone. quite a bit of new content here, might make me get back into it a bit, for a while anyway. create a farm area.

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PostRe: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 20/03/2020
by Tomous » Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:42 pm

Robbo-92 wrote:Harv’s island finally becoming worth visiting :lol: Not even 5 minutes in and this is looking like a wonderful update :wub:



Brace yourself for more

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PostRe: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 20/03/2020
by Robbo-92 » Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:44 pm

Tomous wrote:
Robbo-92 wrote:Harv’s island finally becoming worth visiting :lol: Not even 5 minutes in and this is looking like a wonderful update :wub:



Brace yourself for more


This is amazing! The farming is going to be nice and peaceful unlike I found Stardew Valley which seemed to not give you anywhere near enough time to, well take your time :lol:

They just keep adding more don’t they, as a final update this is looking superb :toot:

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PostRe: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 20/03/2020
by OrangeRKN » Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:45 pm

At that point I was thinking, damn, not only did we get Brewster like we knew was coming, but Kapp'n as well, and to top it all off Harv's island with all these other NPCs!

And then it kept going :lol:

By the way, Redd was there on Harv's island. Those art collections might just get finished yet...

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PostRe: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 20/03/2020
by Robbo-92 » Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:46 pm

I was delighted when I saw Kapp’n, his music is a great piece to listen to!

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PostRe: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 20/03/2020
by Robbo-92 » Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:52 pm

DLC too!!! The only thing that’s not been there is a shop update, which I thought would have been an almost definite really, even more so with the new items coming in making them even more sporadic in appearance…..

I hope we can use the home design options seen in the DLC in our own houses, the partition walls and counters are neat.

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PostRe: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 20/03/2020
by ITSMILNER » Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:55 pm

They should have made the new sub £26.99 a year and rather than give you AC DLC just let you get discounts on certain Nintendo products (For example, AC DLC is £22.49 out right or if you have the top sub it's £16.99)

Forcing people to subsidise the AC DLC just to play N64 games is just a ridiculous idea :lol: just when you think Nintendo are doing good they throw a strawberry float up like this at ya

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PostRe: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 20/03/2020
by Robbo-92 » Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:57 pm

Yes we can use them in our own houses! This is going to become a right time sink again isn’t it :lol: Probably just as well I’m not getting anything else on Switch expect the Pokemon games in November and January!

Just finished. That was amazing :wub:

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