The reason I'm going to be less hard, and more forgiving on Paralives.Is because the Paralives team is small, and it's new.Why the sims team is not small, has more funds.The franchise is 20 years.And I think the reason why people are hard on Sims 4,and franchise.Is because it has been 20 years.It feels the game hasn't made the progress for 20 years old
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Personality,depth,humor,consequences,lore,customization.
That being said i hope it is as fantastic as it is being marketed. But i did read on their page that they're not going to include some stuff that i find weird that is not being included in a sims game as of now, like third person view... well, let's just wait and give them time to work peacefully...
I agree with this. I'm waiting to see the price. If the game is not as good and leaves a lot out, that's understandable with a smaller team, but also means it shouldn't cost as much (and they have less employees to pay and less expenses as well so it should be cheaper)
But yeah, we'll see. So far from what I've seen I'm sorta "meh" if I like it or not. Some stuff looks great, other stuff not so great, which is fine if it doesn't come with the same price tag as Sims 4.
For me EA/Maxis threw in the towel and failed to tweak the game in an timely period and instead of adding new with old, they cut everything. Also they saw an way to make more money by selling neighborhoods instead of allowing the end user to create their own. Now one has to wait months for some space. I can't seriously say Sims 4 has an total technical edge when it does not over it predecessors as the tech in Sims 3 was ahead of it's time and 32 bit Imho was not the best to play Sims 3 in and also Devs missteps in programming it. Most of Sims 4 packs are hit and miss for me.
I don't need to be forgiving or talk it down at all. I'm sure they will get my money eventually. I'm not going to cry over a miss spent 20-60 bucks even if I don't like it but chose to buy. Probably if it's over 40 I'll wait for a sale unless people that I know and usually agree with are raving about it.
I'm harder on this series because I know Maxis can do better than they did with TS3 or TS4 as far as bugs and ideas and actually sticking to the roots of The Sims. Both games had great ideas, but implementation of those ideas seem to me not to be up to snuff with what Maxis did with TS1 and or TS2, both later games seem to be riddled with more bugs, flaws and just not thinking about and or fleshing out features. And though I don't love TS3 it was a huge game after TS2 and the right way to go I suppose, with open worlds and CASt, but because of those things players lost a lot of the nuance of The Sims personalties and or animations etc.
TS4 doesn't have any excuse of why it should be flawed and or lack animations and or interactions and or fully fleshed out gameplay when it's a closed world system and tiny 'worlds' ten times smaller than any 'world' in TS2. So, yeah, it hasn't lived up to all that was promised. Paralives might be a passing interest but if they can gain new players from Steam I suspect it will do just fine.
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I do have some concerns because EA is pretty cold-hearted. They don't have a problem getting rid of games...just look at Sims city and shelved Mass Effect. If Paralives takes the players, I wouldn't be surprised if EA just stopped making more Sims iterations.
This! The market has been cornered for waaaay too long. I hope that Paralives does well, not for the sake of the game but for the sake of the Sims. I'm fairly certain Paralives is either gonna flop trying to match up to a big company, or sweep it away and do a lot better. Fingers crossed for either. I primarily play indie and simulation-type games, so will probably buy Paralives anyway because it's the kind of thing I tend to like.
Also the "healthy competition" won't come anytime soon since Paralives hasn't been able to show facial customization or actual gameplay so far and the AI and gameplay is the most important part in life-simulators. This is gonna take a looong time.
We haven't seen anything in terms of game play yet in Paralives, so I personally wouldn't go as far to say that it's putting Sims 4 to shame, I will admit the customization and graphics look INCREDIBLE and gets me really excited, but until I see actual game play I will reserve judgement. Sure the base game will have things like pets, boats, and a bunch of other things that The Sims 4 base game doesn't have, but more doesn't always mean better. I'm more interested to see how things like careers, skills, relationships and personalities will work, if they can win me over in these areas then I'll consider shaming Sims 4
I agree even though I hope Paralives lives up to the hype, but one has to wait for the finished product and see what it offers first.
I actually think Paralives will be pretty good in its own right if they take their time to do things right for their future consumers. I feel I'll like it if I play it, even if I don't necessarily like the idea of having to use Steam. Having another life simulator game will be fun too. But I think how much faith and hope so many people have in Paralives says more about just how little faith and hope those people have in The Sims 4 or even a Sims 5 now. Sadly, I feel better about the future of Paralives right now than I do about the future of The Sims.
I don't want Paralives, even if it turns out to be the best game ever, to kill or retire The Sims. I just want EA to do better by Sims players. If they see Paralives or any other life simulator game as competition enough to make them do better by us that's only a win for life simulator players in my book.
It'll most likely take them a very long time to create the gameplay as that's the hardest part to create and make function fluidly and most importantly will this gameplay be fun to play with?
I also hope they take more creative liberties with it in the future of development instead of making it into a clone/knockoff of the sims, I'd like to see interesting competition that brings something new to the table rather than a copycat.
Yeah, not to put too fine a point on it, but Paralives, at least right now, is just a glorified level editor.
You can make nice houses, and the people are....................... fine................... but there's no gameplay yet.
I'll be equally hard on Paralives as The Sims, because if they want my money, honestly, it has to be better than The Sims. Not "better IF Maxis had the same team size/budget", but actually a better game.
If it's not better than The Sims, I ain't interested.
I love Cities Skylines because it's better than SimCity. Like, objectively better. It's more challenging, more visually interesting, and overall more engaging to play. I love Stardew Valley because it's a million times better than Harvest Moon.
If Paralives wants my money, it's got to give The Sims a run for its money. I'm not interested in dropping The Sims to play worse game just because it has a smaller team and therefore its weaker gameplay is somehow fine.
I want a better game.
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You are going to have similarity to the sims.Because it's a life simulator.I have faith to it, because it seems there putting effort in to it.The paras are being worked on.They are going to take there own liberties, and style.Like the sun look like a dog.All the electronics have a symbol like ad
Off Topic: I wanted to thank you for this post. I tried My Time at Portia over the weekend. It's nothing like The Sims, however, it is an amazing game! It immediately hooked me in a way that Stardew Valley never did. I foresee that I'll be sinking a lot of my free time into it.
My Time at Portia (and Frostfall) has helped to lessen the sting of watching my favorite franchise morph into...something else. Again, thanks for the tip.
I recommend My time at port is as well.Its like stardewvalley.
Basically the Paralives going to have
colour wheel and open world of Sims 3
game play like sims 2 for all ages
and it will run on low-end computers
It's supposed to have a teen rating. I saw all the updates.
yes that as well, its aiming for a teen rating. Also please remember the game is only is pre-alpha which means its early in development. So please keep your panties on about Paralives