Skyscrapers!

SeanieRockz44

OMG skyscrapers are in the background! More exciting than any of the CAS content!!



Let's hope they aren't distant terrain and we can actually go there in the game. Maybe the setup is similar to SimCity, it's a different region we can visit.

Callum9432

I believe they may just be a backdrop, at least they look that way to me.

Glic2003

Callum9432 wrote:

I believe they may just be a backdrop, at least they look that way to me.

Yeah they looked totally fake to me; like they're just part of the skybox (i.e. the background).

Chimp2678

Looks like a backdrop or a new neighborhood when you click on it to go and a loading screen will appear and Sims will be in the city?

GBA91101Nver4get

It looks like a backdrop to me, but I'm still hopeful that we'll get apartments to live in as well as houses in the base game.

Mstybl95

You guys...why would they include a backdrop like that and not allow us to go there? I think that line of thinking is just silly. This is a sandbox game. You don't build castles on the outside. If it were just distant terrain, they would have left it trees and hills. Maybe it will be closed off until an EP, but there is no way any company would dangle fruit in front of you and say sorry, that's just an image.

Callum9432

Mstybl95 wrote:

You guys...why would they include a backdrop like that and not allow us to go there? I think that line of thinking is just silly. This is a sandbox game. You don't build castles on the outside. If it were just distant terrain, they would have left it trees and hills. Maybe it will be closed off until an EP, but there is no way any company would dangle fruit in front of you and say sorry, that's just an image.

They would use a backdrop if people complained that towns in TS3 felt too isolated.

alejandro15039

I think it looks like a backdrop, but who knows? maybe it's like in Simcity 2013 the unplayable cities are backrops and when you click in them you can see the actual city, or if it was only a backdrop I think it looks so near to the world, and the neighborhood view would look strange.

BlueSeaWaves

Mstybl95 wrote:

You guys...why would they include a backdrop like that and not allow us to go there? I think that line of thinking is just silly. This is a sandbox game. You don't build castles on the outside. If it were just distant terrain, they would have left it trees and hills. Maybe it will be closed off until an EP, but there is no way any company would dangle fruit in front of you and say sorry, that's just an image.

Didn't WA have the Eiffel Tower, where sims couldn't even visit? I hope its not a backdrop but it does look like one.

Mstybl95

CrystalAbyss1 wrote:

Mstybl95 wrote:

You guys...why would they include a backdrop like that and not allow us to go there? I think that line of thinking is just silly. This is a sandbox game. You don't build castles on the outside. If it were just distant terrain, they would have left it trees and hills. Maybe it will be closed off until an EP, but there is no way any company would dangle fruit in front of you and say sorry, that's just an image.

Didn't WA have the Eiffel Tower, where sims couldn't even visit? I hope its not a backdrop but it does look like one.

That's distant terrain and I could still place the Eiffel tower on a lot in any hood I wanted.

cowodyboy

They said there would be Nightclub's.....just saying

alejandro15039

cowodyboy wrote:

They said there would be Nightclub's.....just saying

And Open Restaurants too!

Callum9432

EA haven't officially mentioned anything about community lots. The only article I'm aware of that "confirmed" open restaurants was an April Fools' joke, and nightclubs are speculation based on the Prima Guide description and some Olympus concept art, but they're not officially confirmed.

Mstybl95

They did mention nightclubs at gamescon. And part of the preorder bonuses have more to do with nightlife than anything else. I'd say they are making that a focus of the base game.

SmokeyBearz

What if the backdrop could be replaced with a custom one?

I can imagine this, paired with a sub-hood system, could facilitate creating cc worlds while keeping the impression of living into a bigger environment. The backdrop could represent an infinite number of settings, from sci-fi and metropolitan to medieval and fantasy based. Just drag and drop a jpeg into x folder and voilà!

Cinebar

Mstybl95 wrote:

They did mention nightclubs at gamescon. And part of the preorder bonuses have more to do with nightlife than anything else. I'd say they are making that a focus of the base game.

I watched the live feed at Gamescon. I don't think they said anything like yes there will be nightclubs. This was speculation, I think. Or was speculation from one of the early mag articles. The prima stuff you get for pre ordering could just as easily be used in a home than a community lot. We really still don't know if there are open venues at all in this game. They have mentioned a few in some places like a museum but nothing about dining out, or dancing or clubbing etc. I think Sims have to hold some events I norder to get promotions sometimes, who is to say the prima stuff in the preorders isn't for that to make a party go better or something? Really, they did not mention 'nightclubs'.

And the key features listed on the official Sim site says you can add 'backdrops' so I think those buildings are just that, a backdrop just like the other picture where the tutor houses in the background also look fake like a backdrop. For all I know the sky scrappers could be neighborhood decorations like in TS2's Nightlife EP.

Callum9432

Cinebar wrote:

Mstybl95 wrote:

They did mention nightclubs at gamescon. And part of the preorder bonuses have more to do with nightlife than anything else. I'd say they are making that a focus of the base game.

I watched the live feed at Gamescon. I don't think they said anything like yes there will be nightclubs. This was speculation, I think. Or was speculation from one of the early mag articles. The prima stuff you get for pre ordering could just as easily be used in a home than a community lot. We really still don't know if there are open venues at all in this game. They have mentioned a few in some places like a museum but nothing about dining out, or dancing or clubbing etc. I think Sims have to hold some events I norder to get promotions sometimes, who is to say the prima stuff in the preorders isn't for that to make a party go better or something? Really, they did not mention 'nightclubs'.

And the key features listed on the official Sim site says you can add 'backdrops' so I think those buildings are just that, a backdrop just like the other picture where the tutor houses in the background also look fake like a backdrop. For all I know the sky scrappers could be neighborhood decorations like in TS2's Nightlife EP.

I agree with you on all of this, Cinebar, except for one thing - I never understood why some people thought those tudor houses looked like a backdrop. With the skyscrapers today, I could clearly see that they were 2D, but those tudor houses look very much 3D to me. There were some 2D looking trees between them and the active lot, but the buildings themselves looked 3D.

pieceofme07

It looks like a backdrop to me. Watched the video loved it cant wait to see more.

Aeroprincess87

It might be a separate district you can visit in game. And the only reason I'm saying that is because I don't see bars (which were confirmed in the pre-order bonus) or nightclubs (which are mentioned in the prima guide) being in the middle of suburbia. So maybe you have to visit the city to go to those places. And maybe this means there will be subhoods or subworlds this time around and we won't have to cram the content of every EP into one small map.

HeyHeyy

Chimp2678 wrote:

Looks like a backdrop or a new neighborhood when you click on it to go and a loading screen will appear and Sims will be in the city?

GBA91101Nver4get wrote:

It looks like a backdrop to me, but I'm still hopeful that we'll get apartments to live in as well as houses in the base game.

this is wat i'm hoping. that its a different neighborhood. it does look like a backdrop tho :?

Haucusuchus

Like others here, I think it looks like a backdrop, and might be there to give a believable "point of origin" for all those service sims that come from nowhere like in Sims 3. It could also be a placeholder for a latenightlife type expansion in future.

I even wonder if they won't do some kind of tie-in with Simcity, kind of like how Sims 2 did with SC4.

Aeroprincess87

Cinebar wrote:

Mstybl95 wrote:

They did mention nightclubs at gamescon. And part of the preorder bonuses have more to do with nightlife than anything else. I'd say they are making that a focus of the base game.

I watched the live feed at Gamescon. I don't think they said anything like yes there will be nightclubs. This was speculation, I think. Or was speculation from one of the early mag articles. The prima stuff you get for pre ordering could just as easily be used in a home than a community lot. We really still don't know if there are open venues at all in this game. They have mentioned a few in some places like a museum but nothing about dining out, or dancing or clubbing etc. I think Sims have to hold some events I norder to get promotions sometimes, who is to say the prima stuff in the preorders isn't for that to make a party go better or something? Really, they did not mention 'nightclubs'.

And the key features listed on the official Sim site says you can add 'backdrops' so I think those buildings are just that, a backdrop just like the other picture where the tutor houses in the background also look fake like a backdrop. For all I know the sky scrappers could be neighborhood decorations like in TS2's Nightlife EP.

From Simified's interview with SimGuru Graham

Simified: Are there any new skills in The Sims 4? Any returning skills?
Grant: There will be some new skills with The sims 4 such as bartending but also some familiar returning skills too, such as gardening, writing, cooking and painting. Cleaning is also there but it’s not a skill, like in The Sims 3.

I'm pretty sure this, the prima guide, and the limited edition bonus set/picture say that there will bars in the base game.

Sk8rblaze

In Sims 1 and Sims 2, they would often mention "SimCity". E.g "SimCity has noticed a lag in your payment of bills." It was basically just used for stories and such within the game. You'd assume that's where your Sims went for work too.

What if that city is SimCity in TS4? Instead of cluttering the town up with all these different work buildings, most of our Sims' jobs just take place in the city. Our towns would be composed of premade townies and randomly generated, SimCity visitors. Notice how the buildings look like the recent SimCity release too!

Slippy64653

Sk8rblaze wrote:

In Sims 1 and Sims 2, they would often mention "SimCity". E.g "SimCity has noticed a lag in your payment of bills." It was basically just used for stories and such within the game. You'd assume that's where your Sims went for work too.

What if that city is SimCity in TS4? Instead of cluttering the town up with all these different work buildings, most of our Sims' jobs just take place in the city. Our towns would be composed of premade townies and randomly generated, SimCity visitors. Notice how the buildings look like the recent SimCity release too!

I would really like that, because you will have more room for residental, and commercial lots, and have more sims in the neighborhood

Mstybl95

Aeroprincess87 wrote:

Cinebar wrote:

Mstybl95 wrote:

They did mention nightclubs at gamescon. And part of the preorder bonuses have more to do with nightlife than anything else. I'd say they are making that a focus of the base game.

I watched the live feed at Gamescon. I don't think they said anything like yes there will be nightclubs. This was speculation, I think. Or was speculation from one of the early mag articles. The prima stuff you get for pre ordering could just as easily be used in a home than a community lot. We really still don't know if there are open venues at all in this game. They have mentioned a few in some places like a museum but nothing about dining out, or dancing or clubbing etc. I think Sims have to hold some events I norder to get promotions sometimes, who is to say the prima stuff in the preorders isn't for that to make a party go better or something? Really, they did not mention 'nightclubs'.

And the key features listed on the official Sim site says you can add 'backdrops' so I think those buildings are just that, a backdrop just like the other picture where the tutor houses in the background also look fake like a backdrop. For all I know the sky scrappers could be neighborhood decorations like in TS2's Nightlife EP.

From Simified's interview with SimGuru Graham

Simified: Are there any new skills in The Sims 4? Any returning skills?
Grant: There will be some new skills with The sims 4 such as bartending but also some familiar returning skills too, such as gardening, writing, cooking and painting. Cleaning is also there but it’s not a skill, like in The Sims 3.

I'm pretty sure this, the prima guide, and the limited edition bonus set/picture say that there will bars in the base game.

That's basically what I read. I know that I read something about going out on the town. Of course it was a year ago so I don't remember from where, but many things point to there being a focus on nightlife and young adult entertainment in the base game.