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Colour Wheel or Open Worlds?
ExxCee
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On almost every post in this section there's a mention of how TS3 was so great because of open worlds. I agree - it was great - however, not having open worlds in TS4 means the game is a lot smoother (a lot) and in my opinion it looks better and cleaner.
HOWEVER... I would love colour wheels to come back. Having the ability to choose individual patterns, colours, schemes etc that matched to your own specifications was what kept the game interesting for me and allowed me to build endless new and totally unique lots. Open worlds were great, but also limiting in some ways and would be harder to reintroduce than a colour wheel (I'm guessing - I honestly don't know the first thing about this). I just find myself always gravitating to the same colour schemes and furniture sets because they work well and I know they do, but it means all my builds look the same!
If you could only choose one - colour wheel or open worlds - which would be more important to your game? Or are you loving TS4 just how it is?
HOWEVER... I would love colour wheels to come back. Having the ability to choose individual patterns, colours, schemes etc that matched to your own specifications was what kept the game interesting for me and allowed me to build endless new and totally unique lots. Open worlds were great, but also limiting in some ways and would be harder to reintroduce than a colour wheel (I'm guessing - I honestly don't know the first thing about this). I just find myself always gravitating to the same colour schemes and furniture sets because they work well and I know they do, but it means all my builds look the same!
If you could only choose one - colour wheel or open worlds - which would be more important to your game? Or are you loving TS4 just how it is?
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For me the charm of S3 was really in its open world... If s4 had that it would be so great, but it's unlikely to ever happen
Open world I have mixed feelings about. I don't see them suddenly recreating every world from scratch just to shoehorn in an open world mechanic, especially when San Myshuno took them a year to make. The thing about San Myshuno, though, is that it emulates the open world pretty well. Each neighborhood is visible from every other one, while at the same time being Sim-dense and full of stuff to do.
Would I like to visit my neighbors without load screens? Sure. But 10 seconds is not that big of a deal for me to wait though. And if you have lower PC specs than mine and it takes more than a minute... well, that's hardly Maxis' fault.
Ideally what I'd like to see are larger worlds. Instead of neighborhoods with 4-5 lots each inside a greater world of 4 or so neighborhoods, I'd like to see a world with only 2 neighborhoods, but each one of those neighborhoods contains a much larger number of lots. Let's say, 6 or 8 lots.
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Omg omg omg @JoAnne65 I love you for this comparison haha.
Here we go with another thread blaming open world for lag though. *Sigh*
That said I'd choose open world, hands down. Having cars for your sims actually makes sense with an open world and I thought it was neat seeing them Drive or taxi to their destinations. Also, the ability to be able to control all of your sims in a household, even if they aren't on the same lot.
This too!
It still seems to me that most of the detractors I'm reading here for Open World don't really even understand why I liked it and what made it great (IMO). It's NOT about loading screens of lack thereof. It's not traveling via roads in vehicles, though I did like that touch of realism. It's ALL ABOUT being able to control multiple Sims from my household wherever they may be.
'Active careers' in GTW just serve to magnify the problem and make TS4's ugly side come out, IMO. The problem is, I can't take one Sim to work and have control over the rest of my household. If I go to work with that single Sim, everyone else in the household is in maintenance mode and essentially loses that day of their lives as far as any kind of progress toward their goals goes.
So for that reason alone, I would choose Open World over CASt. But I still loved my CASt too! I used it on most everything, and I'd really very much like to see it again too.
(Don't get me wrong -- I have no expectation of either of these features returning in TS4. Just hopes for TS5.)
Although I would like it if they removed the loading screen between lots on the same district, but thats it.