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Is Sims 4 for me?
Paniac
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As a 40-year old man, I realize I am probably not anywhere near the typical Sims player these days. However, I've always been a fan of Sims and Sim City games over the years and I'd like to at least consider Sims 4.
I'm not the type of player who enjoys customizing my avatars or homes. I pick some random pre-made character and move into some pre-made house. So I've probably just passed 90% of the content (and playerbase) right there. What I'm interested in is the gameplay. What does my character and his family do every day? How do they progress in life? What motivations do I have to get out of bed every morning and make those pancakes for the 50th time?
Is Sims 4 for me or is it more for the artistic type of player who enjoys creating and modifying their characters and homes?
I'm not the type of player who enjoys customizing my avatars or homes. I pick some random pre-made character and move into some pre-made house. So I've probably just passed 90% of the content (and playerbase) right there. What I'm interested in is the gameplay. What does my character and his family do every day? How do they progress in life? What motivations do I have to get out of bed every morning and make those pancakes for the 50th time?
Is Sims 4 for me or is it more for the artistic type of player who enjoys creating and modifying their characters and homes?
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May I ask do you play TS2 or TS3?
I haven't seen anything in the game that suits my playstyle and I'm also an older gamer (50+) but female. Good luck!
So I suppose I should have phrased my question a bit different. Is there enough of a difference in the gameplay between 3 and 4 for me to buy into 4 or shall I keep playing Sims 3? But I am now thinking I will just wait awhile on 4.
And I have bought into every version of Sims and all of the EPs, beginning with the original Sims game. I don't even want to think about how much money that has cost me :P
LGR is the best. He's not a paid shill for EA and absolutely loves games in general. His "let's play" type of reviews are long but are great. The one he did for TS3 University Life on YouTube still cracks me up.
However, there are many questions that need to be asked before you invest money into a game collection as big and as expensive as this one gets starting with "will this one actually be released before they make Sims 3 work?" sorry, that one is mine. You can make up your own (hehe).
You see, some of us Sim's 3 customers are sitting with quite a few problems still, that is actually why I popped onto this one to see if people where speaking up about quality this time around. I really don't wish what I am going through on anyone.
Just ask questions on quality first, that is if you decide to buy as well as, "what if it doesn't do what you say it does" "what will be the remedy?". It's a loop-hole in false advertising laws that some companies try to do to really never provide you with a good product so they can play this 1, 2, 3, 4 game. I hope that is not what they are doing, I love this game but I got a broken $700.00 collection this time around which doesn't "fully" run on 4 times what they said it would just like to get my opinion on this forum as well as all the rah rah rah ones. From a Office Manager's very own mouth, "Sim's is complicated" which they seem to think a game's code being complicated means that we should let them off the hook for it never functioning they way they intended it to be. I'm not trying to make it do anything other then what they said it did and I can't get it. So your question about "if it is the game for you" is just one of 20 you should start asking.
Good Luck, there are several great gaming companies out there that offer great technical support for game issues Arena Net is doing very nicely. I went through hoops to get sent back to forums with several reported bugs still broken and they are putting this one on the market anyway. So, I just think unless they fix the prior product having advice to ask more question is the best thing I can offer. Good Luck with what ever you decide K.
I had never heard of LGR but after checking out the site (I love the way he has it designed old-school) and watching a couple of his videos, I'm now a fan. Thanks for pointing me in his direction, Stdlr9
I may take breaks from time to time but I still enjoy playing TS3. As I mentioned, I don't do much with creating things but I enjoy watching generation after generation of Sim come and go not only from my family but from the whole neighborhood.
Just make your own sandbox game with your own rules. Sleep with 10 people. See how many fires you can start. Get kicked out all your neighbors' houses. Make friends with everybody then declared them all your nemeses (nemesii?). Be vile or good. Or both.
I'm gathering that no one really knows yet how TS4 is going to be compared to TS3 in terms of gameplay. Or that we're assuming it is going to be similar in most ways. Unless someone comes up with some reason for me to not wait a few months, I'll probably stick with TS3 for now. Thanks again!
edited: because i forgotted how to do a past tense
That's exactly what I am thinking now as well after reading everyone's replies on here and browsing through this forum a bit. I guess I figured they would have shopped around a demo to various review sites by now but it seems like they're keeping it pretty tight until it is released. That doesn't bode well if they're afraid of negatively impacting their pre-sales figures with a demo :P
At any rate, I'll just wait and watch with the rest of you all.
First Question for you then would be: Do you believe they'll make it function as they say it does?
I think personally you'll be beta testing for Sims 5 design team, while you sit with a broken version of Sims 4 asking for help for your current game purchase on forums talking to the message board, waiting for fixes that never come like we do now.
That is all us Sims 3 people did and those of us left still do. We worked for free finding bugs so they could design Sims 4 in my opinion. Proof is in it not being fixed before this got put up for pre-order. There's your bug reports, fixed. You just have to buy it again.
I would feel stupid if I ever purchased a thing from this company again. Maxis, EA anything affiliated with them what so ever. Google it, write it down. Get quality products or let the business go belly up. Games should work, if they don't they are in the wrong business.
Maxis isn't making games that I can rely on.
Quality isn't priority.
And last but not least, an office manager saying computer code is "complicated" (their own words) is a reason they don't have to make it work or can take years to do so without letting us know when we can expect it done? Well, that sounds like a company that doesn't even know how to achieve what they set on the shelves as already being finished and "sell worthy". A product on the shelf, means ready. At least it used too. "As Is" is creative concept. Sims talk Simmish, we can't change that ,but not scuba diving or gardens that stop growing, missing sound files etc.ect.. That's sloppy craftsmanship, and I won't be tolerating it.
A consumer should get what they pay for and there are tons of functional games made by companies, who give actual customer support that are just as complicated, some even more so and they aren't hiding behind it. I don't have faith in this collection of companies any more and for god reason, I sit will so many broken pieces of this current one, still asking for help and not getting it.
Buyer be really, "really" aware. Getting a "Quality product" shouldn't be a request, it is a given. They got our money for it.