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What new features do you think might be in The Sims 5?
sunnycakes
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About 2 months ago it was revealed that The Sims 5 is in development. I'm curious to hear what new features others think might be in The Sims 5.
I think that there will be a preteen life stage since a lot of people have been begging for it. I also believe that Seasons and Cats and Dogs will be basegame for The Sims 5. What do you think?
I think that there will be a preteen life stage since a lot of people have been begging for it. I also believe that Seasons and Cats and Dogs will be basegame for The Sims 5. What do you think?
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Agreed! This would be a great opportunity to add those life stages. And make babies/infants a life stage from the start.
I also think that the main new *bling* of the game will be the reemergence of colour wheel for designers and builders (exciting but if not included not a deal breaker for my purchase) and the multiplayer/mobile play (not exciting and if included is a potential deal breaker for my purchase) rather than actual new things for sim personalities or sim functional play. Unlike TS4, I don't think I'll be pre-ordering this go around and will wait and see if it's even worth buying.
Sorry if my answer sounds depressing, but I think the overall response to TS4 encourages the development team to continue with a bare bones base game. Too many Sims fans and Sims new fans reinforced that this is what we are willing to pay for--and many of the vocal minority moved back to TS2 and TS3 so the metrics that might persuade developers to make a TS5 game closer to TS2 or TS3 are most likely nonexistent.
I'm hoping that returns, it would give so much more freedom of choice. What would be new is if it existed in CAS to pick hair and skin colours, and clothing colours. I'm not saying I expect that, just that it would be awsome, and new, if it did happen. The way makeup is adjustable in CAS gives hints of how much more could happen with the freedom to choose any colour we want.
I think long hair and cloth animations should be possible too.
Now picture this - a living room with curtains rustling about due to a breeze coming in from outside.
*by non-orthagonal, I mean walls that aren't locked to 90 or 45 degree angles.
Well, I'll counter that pessismism with relentless optimism. . .
I think there will be something new. Each iteration of the game has had a new theme that made it different from the last. Sims 1 was new; Sims 2 was 3D, Sims could age, and influence was added; Sims 3 had the color wheel and an open world; Sims 4 had emotions. I just hope the Sims team doesn't think that cross-platforming is it for Sims 5 because I agree that would not be good.
I think they'll have to up their game if they want to compete with Paralives. And I also think they've waited longer than the traditional 5 years to release a new game so they may have been waiting until they had an idea or the tech to offer something really different.
I'm thinking it might include gradual aging this time.
I can also see enhancements to current and past features making a comeback with some improvements like the color wheel, enhanced genealogy, enhanced create-a-style/in-game clothing customization, etc. (I don't think open world will make a comeback, but maybe open neighborhood?) But I don't think any of these will be the new "theme" of Sims 5.
I would remove all unisex default skin from babies to children and make it binary from the start. It makes more convenient to edit.
Preteen stage is a must, I agree.
1. Transportation is essential for life, so it should be base game. Basic Public transport and basic cars/bikes.
2. A couple of non-rabbithole careers at launch. And i really think giving sims the option to have active careers such as at the grocery store, library, and school should be available.
This is not asking too much in my opinion. LBY can offer it for BG, The Sims, which is part of a multi-billion dollar company, should be able to as well.
I love the sims 3 and play it so much, but it can be unstable. The Sims 4 truly feels like it was a huge step back (for me personally, I know some won’t agree and that’s okay) in terms of gameplay and i just really want a game that I love and can play for hours (like TS3) but won’t have to worry if it will randomly crash after playing a few hours because it’s used too much of its minimal RAM or whatever the case may be since it’s game engine was outdated from the start.
Essentially, I want a game that will make me fall back in love with the Sims Franchise again. Sims 4 has brought more disappointments for me than joyful surprises, and I really just want to find more joy in the game again without having to only play the older iterations of the game. I like new things!! but I want more gameplay, more depth.
Amen to that while a little bit was added to each iteration, some features was taken away too looking at Sims 4 and for me it was not for the better as there was a limit in what and how I create and also stay tuned into the game and if any of the packs was meant to mimic the packs of old it was with limitations galore like City Living which has apartments but you are seriously limited to Apts in one Neighborhood and can't build from scratch, with LBYU and other sims coming out Rene will have to step up their game and not have another Sims City fiasco for Paradox is laying and waiting.