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EA is creating The Sims 1.5 (NOT The Sims 4)
katiealexandraa
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I don't understand how they are calling this The Sims 4. I've signed the petitions asking for a delay for EA to add toddlers & pools, however I don't even think adding those items could save the game at this point.
At first I thought EA was being secretive about information to release it periodically to build excitement. However, it is much more likely that they are embarrassed of the game, or know that the fans will continue to show their disappointment to their little "sneak peeks" of the game.
I'm calling this game The Sims 1.5 because it has literally reversed progress that the franchise has made. Toddlers & teens were added in The Sims 2, life phases that fans wanted and embraced, a simming experience IS NOT the same without them (teens are in the game, however indistinguishable from adults).
CASt is what I am most disappointed about. Playing The Sims 3 today, I use this tool on literally EVERYTHING. Hair colour, eye colour, clothing colours/patterns, shoes, furniture, deco, appliances, walls, floors, everything. By removing this feature with no ability to add it at all, this game will truly not be an improvement on The Sims 3.
And then there are the no open worlds. When sims go to work or school, they will just disappear and come back in a few hours. Again, reversing the progress of the previous games.
So much more to say, but I will leave it at that. I am not excited for The Sims 1.5, EA will have to do a lot of fixing to keep their fans.
At first I thought EA was being secretive about information to release it periodically to build excitement. However, it is much more likely that they are embarrassed of the game, or know that the fans will continue to show their disappointment to their little "sneak peeks" of the game.
I'm calling this game The Sims 1.5 because it has literally reversed progress that the franchise has made. Toddlers & teens were added in The Sims 2, life phases that fans wanted and embraced, a simming experience IS NOT the same without them (teens are in the game, however indistinguishable from adults).
CASt is what I am most disappointed about. Playing The Sims 3 today, I use this tool on literally EVERYTHING. Hair colour, eye colour, clothing colours/patterns, shoes, furniture, deco, appliances, walls, floors, everything. By removing this feature with no ability to add it at all, this game will truly not be an improvement on The Sims 3.
And then there are the no open worlds. When sims go to work or school, they will just disappear and come back in a few hours. Again, reversing the progress of the previous games.
So much more to say, but I will leave it at that. I am not excited for The Sims 1.5, EA will have to do a lot of fixing to keep their fans.
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Link?
*Edit: I guess it was unclear that this was a joke.
I just can't get over that they left out toddlers and skimped on teens. It boggles the mind. At least looking at this as a direct sequel to TS1 blunts some of the pain. :roll:
I just hope at the very least they'll manage to give out a game that doesn't try to eat its own saves alive but who the heck knows.
Agree.
In fact, I liked the original Sims game on a lot of levels, and a 1.5 of that might be fun (never did get into Sims 2 very much for a lot of reasons), but only at prices from 2005.
Gonna have to stick with Sims 3, and spend my gaming money on other games, probably not produced by EA.
Why are you asking for a link to an opinion? She can link to my post where I called it Sims 1.5 if she can find it. I'm sure there are many others with the same opinion. It's an opinion, people have them because so far this "new" information is looking more like they are talking about the sequel to TS1. That being the case it would have to be TS1.5.
It's a joke about the titile of the thread honey.
Relax its all video games.
Give it a rest. Despite the things they haven't included, if you look at only the base games, the Sims 4 is going to be more elaborate than the Sims 1, the sims 2, and the Sims 3. The Sims themselves will also be much more intelligent and life like than in any of the previous games.
The AI That Powers The Sims 4 Is Almost Too Smart
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/video-games/inside-the-mind-of-the-sims-4-16906802
Its hardly going to be like the Sims 1 but with some minor improvement. Even ignoring the graphics, which wouldn't have been possible when the Sims 2 was released, there's too much in the game that they couldn't do until now. Don't like it? Fine.
Don't like the fact that toddlers won't be include when its released in September? I feel the same way. Don't like the fact that there will be no Create A Style? so do I. However, this hardly makes the Sims 4, like the Sims 1, which is clearly much more primitive.
I don't like the fact that teens will be same height as adults either. It will be even harder for me to tell them apart from adults than in the previous games. That said they won't be indistinguishable, nor will their life stage be the same as a young adult/adult.
This clearly isn't the Sims 1.5.
Who could possibly know back then they were actually slapping EA?
LOL..
Sorry I got upset but with everyone screaming for links to make some bit of info "official" and now we know that even official information isn't actually official. With all of the arguing on the boards lately I'm glad someone is trying to bring some humor into it.
Who says a theoretical TS1.5 has to be a "minor improvement" from the original? At no point does OP bring up graphics either. The things she *does* bring up are features that TS1 didn't have either, which seem to be the basis of her argument.
Try not to take people too literally. Within the parameters she's bringing up her conclusion does make sense.
Saying the Sims themselves will be more intelligent or lifelike when they've yet to show us a an actual gameplay trailer is just speculation. They said TS3 sims would have better routing than TS2 and look how that turned out. I agree that TS4 is going to be more elaborate that TS1 (as a 2d game it would be sad if it wasn't) but what it doesn't have is more content.
(And before you assume I'm hater, I'm not. I'm pro TS1.5.)
Yea lol its too intense on here lately. Let's all lighten up a bit. It's all games.
I loved The Sims 1, there are still things in this game that I think were better than it's successors. Such as the Superstar (not sure if that was the right name) EP. I loved travelling to the different celebrity-themed location and having my sim do fashion shows, commercials, etc. Even though a newer sims game did not always contain everything the one before it did (example - not being able to buy clothes in The Sims 3), I still thought (even before each release) that the newer game was better than the one before it.
However with 'The Sims 4' or 1.5, I do feel it is better than The Sims 1 overall, that's why I said 1.5 instead of 0.5. However, definitely not better than The Sims 3.
I've heard a lot from EA about these "smarter" sims, as well as a lot about their emotions. While we've seen a little about the emotions, I have yet to see anything that makes them smarter than others before it. Sims don't need to be "smart," the users playing the games are the ones doing everything.
People might also be less disappointed if they didn't CALL it the sims 4. Calling it that insinuates that it's intended as a continuation of the core franchise they started with ts1 and have been building upon and expanding the feature set of since 2000. If they gave it a different name (The Sims DLC Mania for instance) then people wouldn't feel so much like their beloved game has taken 20 steps backwards. They would feel more like the sims series had come to an end and that EA was just making some spinoff games now.
There's no pools, and we're at risk of losing another staple (ghosts) both were in TS1. I'd say it's a whole new bad game built from zero.