A mod that makes it so that villager personalities are no longer genderlocked, and villager voices are no longer locked to personalities.
I feel like which villagers should be changed to which personalities would cause a whole lot of discourse (lol) but having a set few changed over to increase character variety would be nice. There are way too many banger designs locked behind the Lazy archetype, which is fine by itself but having more than two of them in a town is kinda irritating.
Slightly related, a dialogue mod to make Lazy villagers more laid back and normal like their earlier game installments instead of endless jokes about talking to bugs would be nice.
The villagers in the newest AC are terrible, complete backwards regression from even the original AC on GameCube. They are all 1 dimensional, have a few stock quotes, don’t have side quests or tasks or goals anymore, etc. They are completely boring and there’s barely any point talking to them. Bring back angry villagers, bring back tasks and chores, bring back more diverse dialogue than empty pleasantries
Example: A peppy villager (that's not gender locked) has the dream of being a popstar, right? Well you talk to her about her confidence issues. You need to item craft a karaoke machine (or you get the recipe along the way) and help her feel more confident. The quest finishes with the villager putting on a show that you decorate and she comes on the stage like an idol star as she performs a cover of one of KK's songs.
All of those character quests would end with a KK song preformed over the credits. The idol one is unique in that the villager sings a cover of it.
For other personalities I thought the quests would be something like this:
Snooty - you find out why they are so mean and arrogant sometimes and you find out it's because they were extremely lonely as a child and you help them connect to the other villagers.
Grouchy -maybe they are like that because they lost someone close to them. You help them heal from that and let others in.
Lazy - maybe they're just really chill and they help you instead. They help you relax more and give you easy quests. It would also invert the dynamic of a quest being done for them. They're trying to help you too.
Yeah like, in New Leaf villagers had assigned 'hobbies' that had them give you unique tasks connected to them, like clothes, fossils and gardening.
In New Horizons hobbies mainly only determine what animations they favor when idling around on the island. Like I'm sure that's great for the players who just consider villagers decorations but for everyone else, what a downgrade.
Yeah like one of the main points of cranky and snooty villagers would be that they take time to warm up to you. Now they're both super nice to you right out of the gate. Okay admittedly yeah I don't hate cranky villagers being gruff loving grandpas but something's missing in the experience now.
A mod that makes it so that villager personalities are no longer genderlocked, and villager voices are no longer locked to personalities.
I feel like which villagers should be changed to which personalities would cause a whole lot of discourse (lol) but having a set few changed over to increase character variety would be nice. There are way too many banger designs locked behind the Lazy archetype, which is fine by itself but having more than two of them in a town is kinda irritating.
Slightly related, a dialogue mod to make Lazy villagers more laid back and normal like their earlier game installments instead of endless jokes about talking to bugs would be nice.
The villagers in the newest AC are terrible, complete backwards regression from even the original AC on GameCube. They are all 1 dimensional, have a few stock quotes, don’t have side quests or tasks or goals anymore, etc. They are completely boring and there’s barely any point talking to them. Bring back angry villagers, bring back tasks and chores, bring back more diverse dialogue than empty pleasantries
Oh here's an idea I've tooled around with
personality-specific character quests
Example: A peppy villager (that's not gender locked) has the dream of being a popstar, right? Well you talk to her about her confidence issues. You need to item craft a karaoke machine (or you get the recipe along the way) and help her feel more confident. The quest finishes with the villager putting on a show that you decorate and she comes on the stage like an idol star as she performs a cover of one of KK's songs.
All of those character quests would end with a KK song preformed over the credits. The idol one is unique in that the villager sings a cover of it.
For other personalities I thought the quests would be something like this:
Snooty - you find out why they are so mean and arrogant sometimes and you find out it's because they were extremely lonely as a child and you help them connect to the other villagers.
Grouchy -maybe they are like that because they lost someone close to them. You help them heal from that and let others in.
Lazy - maybe they're just really chill and they help you instead. They help you relax more and give you easy quests. It would also invert the dynamic of a quest being done for them. They're trying to help you too.
Yeah like, in New Leaf villagers had assigned 'hobbies' that had them give you unique tasks connected to them, like clothes, fossils and gardening.
In New Horizons hobbies mainly only determine what animations they favor when idling around on the island. Like I'm sure that's great for the players who just consider villagers decorations but for everyone else, what a downgrade.
The Lazy villagers were done a disservice. Heck all the personalities were flattened.
Yeah like one of the main points of cranky and snooty villagers would be that they take time to warm up to you. Now they're both super nice to you right out of the gate. Okay admittedly yeah I don't hate cranky villagers being gruff loving grandpas but something's missing in the experience now.
I wish the villagers talked to each other more
I'm still annoyed that grumpy villagers were changed into nice old men