Sul sul Simmers! Find out more about The Sims 4 Kits
HERE and tune into
our Twitch live stream today, March 2nd, @11 AM PT / 7 PM UTC! 🎉
Feburary 25: Today is patch day! 😃 To read the patch notes, click
here!
February 26 - Is everyone ready for the Friday Highlights? Check them out
here.
Do you still have hope/interest in TS5?
Return to top
Comments
Its a big quote LOL. But yes! This would be awesome.
I'm pretty flexible on what they want for the expansions, but the things I listed are absolutely essential.
....Well, okay....I also want scuba diving and all the water activities from the Island Paradise EP and expand on it:
I've also been asking for the ability to fly in all forms and the abililty to live in the sky/clouds:
We can build them now, but I'd like an ability/feature to easily build more elaborate treehouses.
So yeah, they can do whatever expansions they want, but these are what I'd really love to see.
The look of sheer terror is priceless, lol!
I would prefer an additional option. I would have to see the trailer and things to see if I will or will not buy the Sims 5.
The big buzzword for me would be: comprehensive.
I want a full base game. As I said in a different post, I want a base game with seasons, kids and pets in it. Maybe 6 careers (four of which are non-rabbit hole).
Then create different expansion packs with additional careers and aspirations.
The world would exist but would be empty lots. You would then pick a theme (snowy, sandy, grassy, urban, etc) and your world would transform into that theme. There would be various lots available on the gallery (from Maxis and other simmers) to download into your game.
Example: University pack.
Teacher, janitor, cook could all be new careers without rabbitholes. They are all needed in the university.
New world. Nothing in it but the option to download (for free) various university lots from the gallery or you could make your own. The lot would require certain things in order to work as a university lot.
As I said in the other thread, I would have extra build-buy and CAS stuff in the stuff packs. I would get rid of the game pack as I find them surplus to requirements.
So... no.
Because it's too hard and too expensive.
But unfortunately this is 2020 EA, while other game companies go in and give their games plenty of money and time, yes even the ❤️❤️❤️❤️ companies. EA will still be sitting there thinking that minimal effort = maximum reward is the only way forward in this industry. If even ACTIVISION (That's right EA, mentioning your ultimate rival!) at least knows that you need to put in some money and effort to make good games because while I don't like Call of Duty.......Holy ❤️❤️❤️❤️ is that new Call of Duty looking sharp, it looks like it actually had a budget!
Also I'd like to see a new death, where you get a bright lime-green ghost - Death by Envenomation.
Who was the twisted soul who decided in Sims 3 that a Malayan Krait was a "minor pet"? Were they insane?
Nikkei_Simmer's Sims 3 Blog - For more Sims 3 stories...
"The only conceivable use for a vampire is as a sharpened stick tester." ~ Haruo Chikamori, werewolf
✨ manifesting an italian inspired world ✨
Buy and play The Sims 3. It has so much gameplay and customization and so much stuff for your sims to do! It is
The look of sheer terror is priceless, lol!
I have a lot of hope and excitment for Paralives though. After the insulting stain that is Journey to Batuu, I made a Patreon account and supported development because I have more faith in a small team indie studio then a AAA company with millions of dollars at their disposal. That's just sad.
The new build mode features were good to begin with but as I got better at my builds I started to find that there were some things that I wanted to do that build mode just couldn't do, and as much as the new updates have helped it's just felt limited and like they didn't really take a concept to it's full potential (for example the platforms are good but they missed an opportunity to make a floating platform). There's also been a lot that should have been in the game that wasn't there from the beginning and is still missing (cars... like not even personal cars but carpool cars)
TS4 has lost a lot of good faith from me so I'd be hesitant to invest more money into the franchise until seeing other peoples playthroughs of the finished base game, and I wouldn't even buy it unless it a) delivered the product that the advertising promised and b) the product was good and a considerable advancement on TS3/4.
I just wanted a realistic life simulator without any over the top elements as the main focus, and seeing 4s (and Journey to Bateu) tone and art isn't my interests.
I'd like to compare how it should've been done to 1/2 where it's primarily a difficult life simulator with wacky elements here and there. Whereas 4 went full wacky with the occasional serious element.
5 could be good... In its own way if it's actually learnt from 4s errors. But as long as it isn't a life simulator I'm not buying it.
Especially if it sells us the most basic features like seasons for the FOURTH game in a row. I may like realism. But nothings worth paying £40 to get a part of the experience.. or pets. Another basic that would require a lot of waiting time and money just to get as a watered down variant of what 2/3 did. Leave the crazy out of world experiences to expansions so I can skip them
Complaining about how lacking a game is while still rewarding the gaming manufacturer with sales "just because" doesn't get us anywhere. Time to bite the bullet and withhold your money.
Nikkei_Simmer's Sims 3 Blog - For more Sims 3 stories...
"The only conceivable use for a vampire is as a sharpened stick tester." ~ Haruo Chikamori, werewolf
Even a completely open world situation or color wheels for everything would only delay my purchase for a while - I'd need to see what this means in-game, no mods first. I'd maybe wait a few months and see if I could find a good, non-annoying gameplay video to watch. As long as it met my play style checklist, I'd be happy to spend money on it.
If we get another game with no depth, no improvement from the previous games, features missing and graphics that look a decade old then I won't buy it.
It will be really interesting to see what happens when Paralives releases. The only reason I believe the Sims has continued to do "so well" is that it has never had any competition. Another reason I believe they have become complacent and cash grabbers.
But when a new game that gives us what we ask for comes to town... like I said it will be interesting.
My Sims 3 is good & Sims 4 is still developing.
I bought Crusader Kings III not long ago. It's a sequel to a game that had an eight-year lifespan and 15 (!) DLC, each at minimum the size of a Game Pack and usually more like the size of a full Expansion Pack in Sims terms...and all of them priced at $15 USD or less.
The game comes, out of the box, with just about everything that CK2 had, because Paradox wasn't going to convince anyone to upgrade if the game people were already playing was better in every way than the new game. It is a fantastic, fully realized experience and a worthy sequel.
EA's not going to be able to get away with putting out Sims 5 and having it be like previous Sims games were at launch, feeling like badly stripped-down versions and missing essential features of the games that came before them.
If they make it a fully open world, it's got to be at least as good as Sims 3 fully expanded.
If they make it a more restricted world, it has to be substantially better than Sims 4.
Because DLC is expensive in EA's world—"highway robbery" is more to the point compared to other long-running games' DLC price points—and your customers will only be willing to pay so much for an experience when they already have that experience in a previous game they already own.
It's not 2004 or even 2009 anymore. It's time for The Sims to evolve for the new reality of the long-runner "lifestyle game" marketplace in 2021.
I know EA have a bit of a reputation, my partner plays FIFA and watches streams and I hear a lot of complaints from their side too. I'm just hoping they won't make the same mistake twice.
║ ♦ keep my dolls inside diamond boxes!! ║
╚════════════════════════════╝
It is possible that dreams can come true. I was ready to give up on Assassin's Creed after years of Ubisoft churning out low-quality games. Then, they learned their lesson and came back significantly stronger. It is possible that Sims could follow a similar path. I live in hope.