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What is a "base game feature"?
Keffers
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Lots of people throw around "The Sims 4 is missing key base game features" so I'm wondering, what justifies a base game feature? What is the definition?
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A base game feature for the Sims would be, at its most simplistic definition, dishwashers. This is an item that has been in the game from the day of release.
A feature would be, Toddlers. While they were not present in TS1 they have been part of the base game since TS2.
If you look back you will notice how progressively base game items and such have been left out, eventually sold back to us via some sort of pack.
This is something that started happening with TS3, hot tubs anyone? And it progressively got worse and now we have TS4. A game that in the history of the series is by far the most slashed.
Being part of the base game in the series for I don't know.... TEN + YEARS?
Toilets for example are part of the sims base game, just like pellets are part of pac man's base game.
The standard is usually set by the first release.
I don't believe we had toddlers in the sims 1.
Toddlers came in the base game of both the Sims 2 *and* the Sims 3. They weren't an add-on.
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So toddlers aren't a base game feature?
Yes, they are since TS2 which was released in 2004 I believe. So for more then 10 years toddlers have been part of the base.
The Sims 2 is what, 11-12 years old?
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You said 10 + years, so 2000 (when The Sims was released) was 15 years ago, which falls into your "+ years" part.
Of course it is. Lets see, TS1 had pools..Fast forward 15 years and they suddenly become MIA in a base.
TS1 didn't have toddlers nor aging but at the time that game was awesome with the features it had. TS2 revolutionist it and brought it forward. And in many way so did 3. See in a series, each iteration should push the envelope, evolve if you will. Retaining popular and loved features while expanding and introducing new ones.
Not slashing and cutting out content.
The sims 2 came out in 2004, that's 10+ years right?
Uhm...yes they are, since TS2 base game. Is it not logic to raise the standards over the years? Cause EA is doing the opposite. If TS5 happens, they'll probably cut out children too and have basinet larva baby turn into hot sizzling sexy young adult party material. Houses will probably be rabbit holes, but eventually turned into a functional home after buying 36 game packs and 78 stuff packs. Houses will probably function the same way as careers in Sims 3. Nothing but text bubbles to click on.
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So, The Sims only counts as a base game when it's arguing for features, but not as an argument for features being missing?
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If you are arguing for regression instead of progression then Id entertain your thought.
Personally, I like progression.
When you get over the fact that all the base games have been lacking the most basic features and sold to us separately at a later date, it's not too much to expect that at least everything we were offered in the base games previous, we are still offered this time round.
I'm not arguing for regression. I'm arguing about how quickly "BASE GAME FEATURE" is thrown around.