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Could this be the best Sims game ever?? Here I go reminiscing again
promiseofrayne
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I've been playing since 2000/TS1:
I have to say that I could't wait for the Sims 4 to be released. I was a little disappointed when I saw it was stripped down with a glorified Create-a-Sim feature and over-emotional robot Sims. One thing that I remember saying about The Sims 3 was that all the Sims looked the same, and how come Maxis should have further developed the Sims from TS2. Finally they did, but then I found the rest of the game to be lacking. It took me 2 hours to figure this out. I was excited about how the game reminded me of The Sims 2, and how it wasn't like the runaway train TS3. I was too amazed by the new facial expressions, the hair, the new look, that it took me a while to figure out that TS4 wasn't keeping my attention.
I'm going to say how I feel now. I am still bored lol, but I see where this thing is going (or I'm really delusional lol). I think it was stripped down because they want to get back to what made The Sims amazing. The Sims 3 had this wonderful open world, but I felt that The Sims there were too serious. It lost most of the silliness and fun that TS1/TS2 had been built on. My Sims were constantly followed by stalkers (paparazzi), andreceived unwarranted punishments for being a well-known Sims (rumors). I couldn't be malicious without the whole town knowing (even in private!!). My aliens fell flat, my vampires were weird, interesting and then the same, and the werewolves should have been on the pet expansion...but the good things (generations, university, back to business etc...) were lost even when Maxis tried to make up for it towards the end. Too much (not that I complained because it kept my attention), but I didn't laugh like I use to.
With all the expressions the Sims make, how come the more I play, the more I feel like they're robots. Over-emotional robots. I like the reactive Sims from Sims 2. I would like that back. -_- I just want more substance, not too much to ask...and Matching furniture! LOL. So here's my take: Bring back the Sims 2 concept of worlds (did not like open world, too laggy), Keep our super engineered Sims brought to up by CAS (we need more colors, more outfit, and hair ASAP), teens need to look like teens, you can let the toddlers back (although I shortened this stage-toddlers are necessary), I like to pretend to have cars (even if its not open world), I want that ol' Sims 2 relationship concept back, did I meantion more colors (I like to decorate), my dear family tree (my PowerPoint presentation is getting full keeping track), more houses and places to go in each town (so that my neighbors won't all be related to one another soon), the solo and Default careers (but not the ghost buster type), cemeteries (so I can send my tombstones and visit my long gone Sims), move_object on LOL....
Anyways, I'm realistic. I cannot compare TS3 (several expansions/stuff packs) to TS4, no matter how bare I feel TS4 is. I think Maxis is going to allow us to create the perfect Sims game as we go along.I'm going to be patient (I think). Plus I really cannot go back to Sims 3 now. I'm falling in love? I'm in it until the end. I'm still hoping that EA doesn't disappoint me, even though they have so many times in the past. I dare EA to blow me away...until then, I'll be waiting.
Fell free to spread your voice about the "good ol' times" and how you would envision the perfect Sims game....
Sincerely,
The Crazy Sim Lady aka The Crazy Sim Lady who just wrote a paper on how crazy she is about the Sims :)
I have to say that I could't wait for the Sims 4 to be released. I was a little disappointed when I saw it was stripped down with a glorified Create-a-Sim feature and over-emotional robot Sims. One thing that I remember saying about The Sims 3 was that all the Sims looked the same, and how come Maxis should have further developed the Sims from TS2. Finally they did, but then I found the rest of the game to be lacking. It took me 2 hours to figure this out. I was excited about how the game reminded me of The Sims 2, and how it wasn't like the runaway train TS3. I was too amazed by the new facial expressions, the hair, the new look, that it took me a while to figure out that TS4 wasn't keeping my attention.
I'm going to say how I feel now. I am still bored lol, but I see where this thing is going (or I'm really delusional lol). I think it was stripped down because they want to get back to what made The Sims amazing. The Sims 3 had this wonderful open world, but I felt that The Sims there were too serious. It lost most of the silliness and fun that TS1/TS2 had been built on. My Sims were constantly followed by stalkers (paparazzi), andreceived unwarranted punishments for being a well-known Sims (rumors). I couldn't be malicious without the whole town knowing (even in private!!). My aliens fell flat, my vampires were weird, interesting and then the same, and the werewolves should have been on the pet expansion...but the good things (generations, university, back to business etc...) were lost even when Maxis tried to make up for it towards the end. Too much (not that I complained because it kept my attention), but I didn't laugh like I use to.
With all the expressions the Sims make, how come the more I play, the more I feel like they're robots. Over-emotional robots. I like the reactive Sims from Sims 2. I would like that back. -_- I just want more substance, not too much to ask...and Matching furniture! LOL. So here's my take: Bring back the Sims 2 concept of worlds (did not like open world, too laggy), Keep our super engineered Sims brought to up by CAS (we need more colors, more outfit, and hair ASAP), teens need to look like teens, you can let the toddlers back (although I shortened this stage-toddlers are necessary), I like to pretend to have cars (even if its not open world), I want that ol' Sims 2 relationship concept back, did I meantion more colors (I like to decorate), my dear family tree (my PowerPoint presentation is getting full keeping track), more houses and places to go in each town (so that my neighbors won't all be related to one another soon), the solo and Default careers (but not the ghost buster type), cemeteries (so I can send my tombstones and visit my long gone Sims), move_object on LOL....
Anyways, I'm realistic. I cannot compare TS3 (several expansions/stuff packs) to TS4, no matter how bare I feel TS4 is. I think Maxis is going to allow us to create the perfect Sims game as we go along.I'm going to be patient (I think). Plus I really cannot go back to Sims 3 now. I'm falling in love? I'm in it until the end. I'm still hoping that EA doesn't disappoint me, even though they have so many times in the past. I dare EA to blow me away...until then, I'll be waiting.
Fell free to spread your voice about the "good ol' times" and how you would envision the perfect Sims game....
Sincerely,
The Crazy Sim Lady aka The Crazy Sim Lady who just wrote a paper on how crazy she is about the Sims :)
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EDIT: Anyway, the Sims 4 will be better than all of the Sims games combined when expansions and stuff packs start rolling in.
> EDIT: Anyway, the Sims 4 will be better than all of the Sims games combined when expansions and stuff packs start rolling in.
I completely agree with you 100%
OT: For most of your post, I do agree with you. I don't like the overemotional faces the sims make. It's...It's creepy...
Potential shouldn't cost 70 dollars and have only 5 hours of play value, lol
Agreed. I purchased mine on sale. No way is it worth the $90 Australian dollars they're asking. Goodness no.
― Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
But if an essentially 2-feature game Like Sims3 can become such a good high-quality game, that it turns it's fan base into a minor religion.
Who knows what will happen when Sims4 really gets going.
TINY HOUSE CHALLENGE
The May Family
Modeling Career?
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Marcus Aurelius
Yours sincerely, Joseph
Yea! He got banned
TINY HOUSE CHALLENGE
The May Family
Modeling Career?
This would be a pretty reasonable option, actually. A good compromise.
Thank you. This means that people who like open worlds still get to visit their neighborhoods and roam around without a loading screen, while it still can reduce lagging because the entire world isn't rendering at the same time.
Yours sincerely, Joseph
This is what I think people were expecting when they talked about how the world would be. So when they found out it wasn't, it meant they weren't satisfied. I know your suggestion is what I expected before I read otherwise.
It a OK game but it will never be a great game.
The Road goes ever on and on And I must follow, if I can,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.