Hello
I enjoyed playing the Sims 1, wasnt really hardcore about it but enjoyed it nonetheless. I was a massive fan of Sims 2, lost countless hours/days/nights to the game, and was highly anticipating the Sims 3.
I live in the UK so the earliest I could get my hands on the game was 12 Thursday night, which I did, and have been playing pretty much ever since.
Ive read a lot of threads on here about people hating the game for various reasons, and other people defending it and declaring it the best Sims game ever made. My personal opinion after playing for two days is that there was no need for this game to be made. Sure there are a few new features, but I feel that instead of releasing the game as "The Sims 3", they should have released it as the next expansion pack for Sims 2.
Look at the differences between Sims 1 and Sims 2.. Improved graphics, improved customization, whole new levels of depth to the game. Sure there was no bear to kick over ur garbage.. but it was a massive improvement on the original game.
Along came the numerous expansion packs and stuff packs, and The Sims 2 became in my opinion more than any one game ever could be. Most of the hardcore Sims 2 players will, like myself, own all of the expansions and also have a ton of custom content in their game. I think the people who deleted their Sims 2 games from their hard drives before installing Sims 3 may have been a little nieve in their expectations.
But what option do we have? anyone who loved the Sims 2 will want to play the Sims 3. Its logical. But realistically, where could it go? what more was there to do?
We now have an "open neighbourhood". I own an average computer so maybe I dont qualify to comment on this new feature as the "seamless" transition of sim screen to neighbourhood screen takes about 30 seconds, and everything renders in suuuuper sloooooow moooooootion.
Still, if i had (like some have) bought a new pc just to play this game, and I could smoothly and seamlessly switch from one screen to the other.. what fun would await me? I get to watch my sim vanish into a building .. then I get to watch the building.. for a LONG time. Then my sim pops out, and Im treat to a slideshow of a poorly rendered graphical representation of the ONE neighbourhood, untill he arrives home. Once home I wait the usual 30 seconds for my house and belongings to re-appear, and I can go to bed. For 15 minutes. 15 minutes REAL time. Who on Earth decided this was a good idea? Seriously...? Oh and I can actually go with my sim to work!.. and.. watch THAT building for a LONG time.. great.
The fact that I love the new traits system is more of a curse than a blessing, as this is the one thing I would miss from this game if I went back to playing Sims 2. If the traits werent there, I could shelve this game for 2 or 3 years untill the inevitable expansion packs are available, and then maybe it could hold a candle to its predecessor..
..or maybe not. The most important thing lacking in this game is quality. The Sims 2 had quality in abundance, and this game does not.. "Spore" did not.. the Sims 3 gives me the same feeling I get when I play Spore.. it feels cheap, carelessly produced. Even the Sims themselves look ridiculous. Like inflatable dolls. Oh and who decided that only big mamma jamma's have breasts? ..
There are only really two things that need to be known about this game.
Firstly, it is the most pointless game ever made. We already had everything we wanted in the Sims 2, and the good things from this game could have easily been added on as an expansion pack.
Secondly, the people who made this game care less about the enjoyment of the player than they used to.
In answer to my threads title, they made this game to cash in. Pure and simple.
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I can appreciate that you don't like the game. But I enjoy it, sure there are a few things that bug me. I really don't like the rabbit hole lots. But for the most part I'm enjoying the game. Love the scenery and the different feel the game as a whole has.
It's quite different from sims 2, that is why they made it. i don't think of it as a replacement for sims 2, but more of a new game. Plus I got rather bored of sims 2 a while go.
I also think comparing a game that has been super expanded to a game that is currently on its base layer isn't entirely fair, but I still enjoy TS3 better then TS2 already, mainly because I love the feel that things are always happening around me. The town feels like a town, not like people only are at the lot because I am. I enjoy it, but it's your opinion. Perhaps you should try it on a speedier computer, I could see how that'd be frustrating.
Get over it! Or buy a new computer!
Duh...to make money.
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happy? :roll:
The graphics are way better, the ENTIRE TOWN is going AT ONCE, and there's so much more subtle detail. I'm constantly discovering new interactions and things to do, and by the time I think I've found everything out, there'll be a new expansion pack to enjoy.
First, Sims 2 doesn't have everything I want in the game. Because aging seamlessly with seamless neighborhood isn't possible with the sims 2...along with the traits and everything else. They would have to recode the entire base game of the sims 2 AND the each and every EP along with it. No way this could have been just another Expansion pack.
This game is good enough to be a sequel to the BASE game of the Sims 2. That's what it strives for and it achieves that. People expecting it to have everything the Sims 2 had with it's numerous expansions are asking for a lot. So much that the game would have been delayed for another year at least. Just give it time, pretty soon the CC will be our with the first EP and people will realize how much the sims 3 is better than the sims 2.
Also I did try to make it very clear that I feel that anyone hoping that this game would directly replace the entire Sims 2 catalogue was being a little over optimistic.
Personally, had this all been just another expansion pack (Which, for obvious reasons it never could be even if the graphics were TS2 style) I would've never bought it. I found Sims 2 to be dull. I think people get your point, and are disagreeing. It's part of a forum, is to have open conversation where people can either agree or disagree. If I'm misunderstanding, I apologize.
The point YOU'RE missing is that all of this is just an opinion. Your opinion. And since it's your opinion that some things are disappointing, you're questioning why the game was even made???
You do realize that other people exist in this world of ours don't you?
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I think.
And i'd still disagree. Seamless neighborhood, the aging, how each Sim lives their own life. That's not possible for them to just add it into a new game.
Also to say EA made this to make money, well how true can that be? Companies lose money because of the cost of making games. If they could have made another EP then they would have, that's much cheaper cost and brings in more revenue most likely. But I don't see how it's possible.
You're also forgetting a lot of other small features like the weight, and small graphical upgrades like how the sun sets and the moon rise, CAST. There are many differences in the game if you ask me, enough to warrant a sequel.
Think about seamless downtown EP? Or a Seamless University neighborhood? This couldn't be done and I think once the first EP comes out, the CC will get rolling and patches and mods will have fixed whatever people didn't like they will love this as much as it's prequel.
We forget if there was anything we didn't like about the sims 2, there was a mod to fix it. whether that be "zzzZzzzs" above the sims head, censorship, or whatever else.
I like the game so far, other than all the problems I'm having with my '01 PC. I wish it had an updated driver and a new video card because I have far more than enough RAM on my computer. So it's somewhat of a lost cause for me.
I wish my computer was fancy and fast as hell like some other simmers here. But oh well.
I love the Sims 1, minus the low wiggle room you have. I love the Sims 2 with all my heart, and I was so very extremely excited for the Sims 3 to come out. Once it did, I was a little upset because I first couldn't install, had to wait until today to finally get it, had a few more hours of trouble, finally got to CAS.
Loved. It. Absolutely loved it. There's so much I love about it. I love that it's very organized, and that there isn't a bunch of disproportional shirts and stuff with the pants. I love that you can choose your shoes. And accessories. I love that you can customize the color down to the almost very last detail. I love that you can tweak it so much that it really is your own creation.
I'm still getting used to the seamless neighborhood thing and the way everything is set up. I'm not too hot for the way the toolbar thing is set up when you're playing your Sim, I think it's a little too organized, that it will definitely take me some time to get used to.
I've only been playing for a few hours so I don't know all of whats new and old, and what's gone, and me being a huge Boolprop user, I'm not sure how I'll be able to adjust to the regular simming, but I guess I don't have much of a choice do I?
I tried playing the Sims 2 today before I installed the Sims 3, and I was bored out of my mind because I just kept thinking about what I could be possibly missing
Hey, it's not for everyone. Some people will like it, love it, hate it, never play a Sim game again. Oh well. You can't please everyone.
There was absolutely no creative reason to make TS3. TS2+expansions+CC = as far down that "sandbox game road" as you can wish to go without getting pedantic. Do you REALLY enjoy your game that much more now than "Mrs Random", who lives on the other side of town, and by the way, looks like a blow up doll now ages the same as you do?
#1 It's dictionary. Not dictionery. If you're going to try and school someone about words and what they mean, try spelling them correctly.
Just a thought.
#2 This forum is here for people to get help with the game as much as people sharing their opinions.
#3 There are already hundreds of threads with people complaining about the very things you are. Now what's more important? Someone trying to get a question answered or someone reading yet another thread about the same complaints which sends the question threads down off of page 1 more quickly?
#4 Thinking that a game shouldn't have been made because YOU don't like it is arrogant and lacks thought. It's called a mental shortcut. What about all the people that are enjoying it? They don't matter? Plus if you were joking, why can't we poke fun back at you for being simple minded?
TS2 was, IMHO, more than just a game. It was more than other games. TS3 is fun, but its just another game.
I feel like TS2 was the version that needed to be created so that they could get to TS3. The aging was a HUGE deal because it allowed you to play one family longer since you weren't stuck with a sim at the top of the career track and a kid in private school. But the wants and fears were terribly annoying on most of the sim types, I only ever played Family and Knowledge because I hated the others, especially romance, are you kidding? woohoo with 5 different sims? it took me long enough just to get to the first 1.
The personality points were fine for awhile but they too got kind of dull and pointless.
But sims 3, the wish system is a huge improvement on the wants and fears, the personalities are way more unique and you have a lot more options. And bonus, when you're teen has a bf and grows up, so does the bf. Life was so short in sims 2, I had to start looking for a wife/husband for my sims when they were a teen, get then talking to an adult, then half the time they weren't romantically compatible and so I still ended trying to get them to start a family before they turned an elder. Seriously, that's just lame
sims 2 is the incomplete version of sims 3, if you want to stick with something unfinished, go to it, but sims 3 was made because it was needed, a lot of people love the new features, I use to HATE having my sim go to lots because of the loading then they'd spend a few hours there get tired and when they got home it was the middle of the afternoon again and they're exhausted - not fun. But now I'm slowly starting to embrace the idea of sending my sim out sometimes, because there is so much other there to discover.