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Which do you like more; open world or open venues?
Minai
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I wish there was a way to combine both.
But I prefer venues
But I prefer venues
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That way, you would travel to the community lots like you went 'downtown' and then visit each lot.. a lot like in real life where you would have to drive downtown, park, then most of the time, you walk to all the different lots. And in the neighborhood, you walk to your neighbors house if you wanted to visit. This makes more sense to me, and wouldn't be as laggy as having and entire open world.
Yeah, I didn’t get very far in the sims 3 because I hated the rabbit holes, and my computer would crash a lot, even though I had a brand new gaming laptop.
I love the idea of open neighborhoods and wonder if they'd work. I'll accept a loading screen to get to San Myshuno, or to get to the business district in Willow Creek. It really does feel silly to get a loading screen between apartments in the same building, though. I don't visit my neighbors because of it. I call them and invite them over just so I don't have to wait.
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I wish that Sims 4 neighborhoods were at least opened up as @lexaloo was saying. I don't feel like this would be laggy at all. I feel like it would make me more connected to my Sims, if in that neighborhood, I could see them back at home and tend to those Sims while also tending to the ones in a venue down the street. This would give me a better feeling of control, or the ability to have control, if I wanted, or not. Also, it would give that sandbox feel.
Love Sims 4, just don't love all the loading screens. :x
The sims 3 was nice with an open world and a true improvement. The rabbit holes it contained were not always bad, but I would like it to be optional just as The sims 4 has with jobs.
I did not like the constrictions for these rabbit holes lot. Take the cinema lot where you could not build your own functional cinema lot, cause the game would never give it the same working features as the original one.
The sims 3 lots were always empty and sims barely knew how to act on them which caused a true problem. The sims 3 became a big failure, cause basic game play was so faulty.
I would expect the to learn from this, stop the forced rabbit holes and gives us OPTIONS. If they want to keep most players happy, they should know by now, that this works the best.
It's so weird and annoying I need a loading screen to visit the neighbour who's house is right besides mine!
It also makes me rarely leave the house when I'm playing a big household, because of some reason if I leave with one or two sims, then the others will stop what they were doing and the madness begins! What is sleeping? Working? School? Peeing? I dunno! I shall go play chess outside in the middle of the night! Complete madness.
For me, personally, I don't have any problems. And the problems I did have with Sims 3 weren't really due to open world.
I hate loading screens, even if they are only a couple seconds long. I miss having a sim at home, such as a kid at home doing homework, while mom and dad were on the other side of town having a date night, watching a movie and having dinner, and brother or sister bicycling to the pool to swim. The closed world is just a huge bummer in my books.
I could understand us having open "worlds" as in only one world at a time being open (such as Sulani is open, but if you want to go to another world/neighborhood you have to have a short loading screen). I really hope they bring back open world/neighborhoods with Sims 5. That is about the only way I will jump on the Sims 5 train right out the gate. Otherwise, I'll probably wait until it can measure up to where I think the game should be.
I think it means venues that aren't rabbit holes. In the Sims 3 most of the places sims could visit were rabbit holes and it was pretty rubbish in my opinion to be sat outside a restaurant or other indoor venue waiting for my sims to be done. I don't ever want that back.
I don't know why open world is solely blamed for the issues Sims 3. Heck, even Sims 2 had issues (stuck loading screens, which also happen in Sims 4; ugh!!).
I don't want that back either!! I already don’t go to the concerts and things because they are rabbit holes. I would much rather send my sim to a Lounge.so I can see what they are doing and control them.
There were some rabbit holes but you could replace them with the actual venues once they came out. In a perfect world I would have both, but if I ultimately have to choose, then I prefer the open venues. But here's the thing, TS4 has loading screens but like TS3, it also has rabbit holes aka "closed venues" so I wouldn't say TS4 has open venues either.
My TS4 game sometimes has crashes too. The other day I was on an infinite loading screen, but then the game loaded the world/lot, but somehow my sim wouldn't do anything and was just standing there a long with everyone else. I tried to close my game and nothing, I had to go to the task bar and close it lol It's rare, but sometimes it happens. But I can say the same about TS3, I don't usually have many crashes.
Not to mention some places are boring. Lecture halls were open in TS3 and they were as boring as real-life lecture halls.
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People literally complain about the game being too realistic. They want their occult sims.