Animal Crossing Villagers used to be Mean and Rude

The animals in older games definitely felt much more alive. I remember watching two villagers get into huge fights in City Folk all the time. The drama was amazing lol

I think so they should make the dialogues according to the friendship level,it would be nice to see a villager avoiding us when we hit them with a net (it should affect them permanently

It's not that I necessarily want the villagers in ACNH to be more rude, but I would like for their dialogue options to be at least a little more diverse. Because right now each personality type has maybe 5 lines that they keep repeating, so it gets old really quickly. Especially if you have many villager with the same personality type.

I honestly thought people were exaggerating when they said the villagers were mean, but this is insane

I like the older dialogue, it gave them more personality and it was kind of funny.

Honestly they should just make a kids mode where it has friendly villager conversations and a mode for older kids with the rude villagers

It's not so much that they were mean, but that they had their own personalities and opinions. They felt like real people that were actually worth getting to know. Earning the friendship and love of a cranky or snooty villager meant something.

I heard they got complaints from parents who's kids villages started off with almost entirely mean villagers in games prior to New Leaf, & that the kids felt like the bullying they got at school was just continuing in the game. But you have to admit that getting villagers to slowly like you was an activity in the game that occupied your time & also served as a goal. Now people just judge villagers by their looks & try to get them to move out.

I find it very unsettling that every single villager is friendly with you all the time in NH. I'd like them to be more... Receptive of my actions

I just feel like in the older games the dialogue never got stale because there was always something new. I don’t remember a lot of the same dialogue getting repeated over and over again which always meant there was something different about the interacting with the villagers. Also side note, I started playing animal crossing as a child. And I LOVED Resetti

I think it's less that people literally miss the old rude villagers and more that it's the only reference we have for villagers with diverse personalities. like I absolutely love how rude everyone is when I revisit the game, but I can't remember it very much from when I was a kid I just want villagers to feel real? ACNH feels like a simulator game where I have a line-up of animated dolls I get to fill my island with and then spam through the text every time I talk to them to upkeep friendship levels

What I wish nintendo realised is that while perhaps some kids would get upset at the dialogue, for a lot of us it made the world so much more real. I remember disliking some of the cranky villagers I had and would plot revenge on them by pushing them in pitfalls and basically 'fighting back' when I was younger haha. It's similar to pokemon rivals, where your rival would be rude but you'd show them who's boss. Sadly, all that's changed now. Everyone just wants to be your friend.

I always said they should have an option to turn on mean dialogue. At the start screen there should be a setting for child friendly/only nice villagers and teen/adult friendly variety

Now villagers are pretty much only: “bugs are my friends” “I’m a gymbro time to work out” “I’m a pop star” “I have no personality”

I also remember villagers could be super mean to each other in older games too! Like sometimes I'd listen to them talk and one would get so upset that you couldn't even try to cheer them up because they were too upset to let you

I hope Nintendo eventually integrates a setting in which you can control how fluff the dialogue is or something because I do miss the sass that came from villagers and NPCs from older games 😂 it makes them more believable imo and shows more personality

one thing i really like in animal crossing wild world was the option to have more interaction with the villagers. You talk to them and then instead of just saying something at you, they ask you a question sometimes, and how you answer affects their reaction, positive or negative. I think even that little bit of feeling like you are having a conversation made all the difference in the world

Elijah: "I wrote a very heartfelt letter." The letter: "Buy stuff from Tom Nook, or else."

The number of times in Wild World when I accidentally didn't save and Mr Resetti would make me repeat a phase back to him and then not accept it even when it was perfect :') Also, I do miss Pelly and Phyllis because Phyllis was just funny to me as a kid and now I understand her pain lol

I actually kinda like Resetti’s character arc. He got so stressed and angry from having to dear with OUR BS that he had to go to the doctor to get it checked out, and even after the doc tells him not to engage, as it’ll only make him mad, Resetti still does! What a power move, man, but it obviously wasted good for his health, which is why he has a lower role in New Leaf and New Horizons. Probably suffered from stress-induced headaches back in the older games, maybe he still does. He was a little harsh, especially in a world that many use for escapism, but I’m glad that he knows that what he said was wrong! Excessive stress can really hurt people, both physically and mentally, and people need to know that so that they can ask for help if they ever get into a Resetti-like situation! It’s a good lesson to learn, and what Resetti said also was a good lesson, just taught wrong. I would LOVE to see him in the next game just.. chilling out somewhere stress-free where he can live his life drinking a smoothie besides the beach or whatever! He honestly deserves it after all he’s been through.