I agree with LGR that it will depend on your play style about loading screen. Sims 3 was not my play style at all.
Glad after waiting 5 years to get something for my play style. If just EA adds toddlers and family tree back in an EP I think I will get what I want from that game.
With Sims 3 it is impossible to play with multiple families like the The Sims 2, Story progression would take over and destroys all your progress. That was a bad design. Sims 3 is only suitable to play with one family!
Everything I post is an opinion here and I think every post of others is as well.
i think people are being unfair with the price. i payed 89 for my daughter to have mario that she clocked in 2 weeks . but a game i will get a hell of a lot more than 2 weeks out of isnt? What other games do you guys base your opinions on?
Woah where do you buy games that you pay 89bucks for a Mario game O.o ?
Not sure wich country you are from but if i use dollar converter I apperiantly pay 64bucks for the average WiiU/PS3 game
PC games are cheaper here (they go down in price really fast), Except funny enough sims games XD sims 3 basegame in every store i see it in still costs 65bucks easy and even sims 2 expension packs go for 26 dollars if you have to buy them in a store...
Anyway only thing i still buy at full price are nintendo games because they never drop in pricing, Other then that our PS3 is pretty new (bought it for cheap since the PS4 launched, and we had a wishlist for that console of like 10games lol)
We mainly use a PC/WiiU and 3DS combo in our home atm (works great for us), anyway OT
Good review, I'm still voting with my wallet and not buying the game, the lack of CAST and open world are still my gamebreakers, and I really would like to wait and see where this game go's from here (I really need prove that EA will let maxis fix this game on their own, instead of letting the community do the free labor again like in TS3) and not just that, but i would really like to see this game go into another route (with some NEW expensions).
i live in australia and pay for impatience . i dont mind forking out for games. obviously but i was just trying to compare $per hour value and because i sim alot its always been a good deal.
I watched it and I agreed with some points and disagreed with others. Though generally, games nowadays are expensive and if you don't mind waiting or look for deals, you can get things cheaper.
Seems like a fair review. Besides the load times. I'm 32 hours in a save and my load times are fine. So it is a problem with him not the game.
LGR has already explained about the load times in a post just above
I just saw, and I have the game maxed out also. The only thing I don't have is a SSD drive. So it could be a problem with that? I don't have the load time issues yet.
All this talk of SSDs makes me want to join the future.
Do it my son. You'll never look back. Frankly my SSD went defective, got replaced but between the time it took for the replacement to arrive I went back to my backup IDE drive and my god, I felt the difference. BIOS/Post/Windows going from a 5-8 sec load time back to 30+, programs no longer on an SSD having their boot up time doubled, etc.
It's fair when people say it doesn't solve EVERY issue that HDs have had but when it comes to those load times and performance improvements for HDD-bound programs/games? You'll swear jesus-light is bathing you while angels sing to your glory at some point...
Perhaps it is a problem with SSD technology and how TS4 interacts with it? Even with his addendum, it doesn't match my experience as I also play on Ultra with Uncompressed Textures and have a save file of 30+ hours now with 8 sims on lot. Like the other person who said, the difference is that I use HDD not SDD technology.
Perhaps it is a problem with SSD technology and how TS4 interacts with it? Even with his addendum, it doesn't match my experience as I also play on Ultra with Uncompressed Textures and have a save file of 30+ hours now with 8 sims on lot. Like the other person who said, the difference is that I use HDD not SDD technology.
It may be a configuration issue in his PC - seems like someone who knows more than the basics, but never underestimate the wonderful maze of specs that is the PC Master Race. I have an SSD - my game loads in sub 5 seconds on average per loading area without issue. I'm only at about 10-12 hours of save time but I've left the game running for 24 hours and that load time did not change at all.
So there is something odd to his complaint though I'm certainly not going to write him off on it either - would love to see what processes or other items may be running that could contribute. Always a reason for something acting that way - hell, it could be symptomatic of a "less common" game bug or even an interaction problem between TS4, his GPU and the current drivers.
I am going to watch it this evening even though I normally don't watch many videos of people playing. However, I am really on the fence. I honestly just don't want to spend $65 after tax on a base game. I know it's the going rate for a lot of games now, but I just can't. Lol I am trying to wait until it hits $50. By then hopefully there will be a gigantic patch for me to download as well!
I like LGR's reviews but even so I'm not interested in TS4 at all so even if it were on sale...just no. And if anyone happened to gift it to me I would politely thank them but say no thanks please get your money back. I have TS/TS2/TS3 all installed on my gaming laptop, lol. I'm good to go.
“What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter”
Perhaps it is a problem with SSD technology and how TS4 interacts with it? Even with his addendum, it doesn't match my experience as I also play on Ultra with Uncompressed Textures and have a save file of 30+ hours now with 8 sims on lot. Like the other person who said, the difference is that I use HDD not SDD technology.
It may be a configuration issue in his PC - seems like someone who knows more than the basics, but never underestimate the wonderful maze of specs that is the PC Master Race. I have an SSD - my game loads in sub 5 seconds on average per loading area without issue. I'm only at about 10-12 hours of save time but I've left the game running for 24 hours and that load time did not change at all.
So there is something odd to his complaint though I'm certainly not going to write him off on it either - would love to see what processes or other items may be running that could contribute. Always a reason for something acting that way - hell, it could be symptomatic of a "less common" game bug or even an interaction problem between TS4, his GPU and the current drivers.
Yeah, I definitely won't write him off about it. I am mainly posting my experience to let people know that the reviewers experience with load times is not a guarantee. It is, however, a possibility given that it has happened to him.
I added an annotation about the load times to the video.
Basically, running the game maxed out at 1080p and with "uncompressed textures" enabled made load times longer. Combined with the fact that my save game became bloated after almost 40 hours on a single save file, the load times got lengthier. Playing a fresh save and disabling uncompressed textures returned the load times to their normal 5 to 15 seconds.
My main point remains though: it's annoying to have so many load screens and have them increase over time. As I said in the video, "your results may vary", but the load times are there and are frequent depending on how you play
@phreakindee thanks for posting your review, I've always found you to be very fair and balanced & I really enjoyed it Still waiting on my copy, but your review picked my spirits up a bit after seeing all the negative feedback and "I'M RETURNING IT!!" posts
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*Oh boy here is my chance to impress him with my simming knowledge and YouTube videos...*
... Hi
As for the price, yea well, I already bought it.
Glad after waiting 5 years to get something for my play style. If just EA adds toddlers and family tree back in an EP I think I will get what I want from that game.
With Sims 3 it is impossible to play with multiple families like the The Sims 2, Story progression would take over and destroys all your progress. That was a bad design. Sims 3 is only suitable to play with one family!
LGR has already explained about the load times in a post just above
Lets make this a reality!
I just saw, and I have the game maxed out also. The only thing I don't have is a SSD drive. So it could be a problem with that? I don't have the load time issues yet.
Do it my son. You'll never look back. Frankly my SSD went defective, got replaced but between the time it took for the replacement to arrive I went back to my backup IDE drive and my god, I felt the difference. BIOS/Post/Windows going from a 5-8 sec load time back to 30+, programs no longer on an SSD having their boot up time doubled, etc.
It's fair when people say it doesn't solve EVERY issue that HDs have had but when it comes to those load times and performance improvements for HDD-bound programs/games? You'll swear jesus-light is bathing you while angels sing to your glory at some point...
I can play at last TS2 TS3 and TS4 So great that toddlers are here!!!
It may be a configuration issue in his PC - seems like someone who knows more than the basics, but never underestimate the wonderful maze of specs that is the PC Master Race. I have an SSD - my game loads in sub 5 seconds on average per loading area without issue. I'm only at about 10-12 hours of save time but I've left the game running for 24 hours and that load time did not change at all.
So there is something odd to his complaint though I'm certainly not going to write him off on it either - would love to see what processes or other items may be running that could contribute. Always a reason for something acting that way - hell, it could be symptomatic of a "less common" game bug or even an interaction problem between TS4, his GPU and the current drivers.
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter”
Yeah, I definitely won't write him off about it. I am mainly posting my experience to let people know that the reviewers experience with load times is not a guarantee. It is, however, a possibility given that it has happened to him.
Aha - that would do it