Well if a bouncer doesn't let your Sim into an exclusive Late Night venue, you can just give them a them financial incentive and they'll look the other way. So I guess that's not looking too good.
Don't forget Colossal used a track from TS3 in one of their Cities: Skylines trailers once. Unknowingly, that is. So yeah, it's licensed out and most of these producery types don't even know what the music's from.
Well for me it ended about 2 years ago, but I'm getting the distinct impression that we'll never see more than 6 or 7 expansion packs. They have a engine that's, even according to the devs themselves, limiting and hard to work with, and they seem to be starting to run short on ideas. Now considering the lifespan of a Sims…
No, hell no. I regret spending my money on it back then. Over the last 16 months I've spent no more than 29 hours in TS4 and most of those hours have not been more than mildly enjoyable. I seriously doubt this game will ever redeem itself for me considering I've liked it less and less every time I've given it a chance. 3…
Just wanted to chime in and add that TS2 Ultimate is still 100% free. You can't win something that you were entitled to redeem already. If they tell you they can't give you a code, just try again with someone else.
Oof I'm so glad I don't bother with legacies and story progression and whatnot. Sounds like hell. I don't have anymore need to build a family in The Sims than I do in real life so I have to use that in my favour. Doesn't mean my performance is all sunshine and roses though - with great freedom comes a great deal of crap to…
Yeah, the icon was a Blackberry-looking thing, and the in-game model was the ugliest Nokia phone you've ever seen. University Life replaces it with something that I suppose vaguely resembles a HTC phone circa 2012. A definite improvement, though there's this nasty bug where the screen is way too big sometimes. And I think…
Well it's definitely a case of tech merely existing versus tech existing, AND being useful, AND available to the public. I mean, cell phones have been commercially available since 1984. But what's the point of having a $5000 phone that's huge, that's heavy, that you can only use in inner cities, and that has a 45 minute…
Well, yeah, but my Sims are spoiled city kids. They don't live in some musty suburb full of lawn flamingos and floral print wallpaper. My grandma lives in one of those places, albeit the upper middle class version of it. That street of hers, and everyone in it, only makes sense if you think of it as some giant 80s rich…
So I've been building this '80s-themed world in TS3 for the last 4 or so months and I've been getting progressively better at making it look real and convincing but there will never be phones as phat as TS4's. There will never be phones, period, except the kind you hang up on your wall with a big plumming antenna on top.…
Agree to disagree - the only thing wrong with the Decades Stuff Pack is that there isn't enough of it. That pack really needs double the amount of content.
Interesting that you mention the "external partners". I know asset creation is a thing that you guys have been (partially) outsourcing for longer, but I wonder in how much it contributes to certain stylistic inconsistencies I've noticed. In both TS3 and TS4 I've seen significant differences in asset quality and art style…
The depth of field should disappear completely when you press F8. That's very odd. Just for reference, here's depth of field: And here's ambient occlusion:
I swear it looks even better in your game than in mine @Namaya92. Have you tried the ambient occlusion too? You just press F8, and the depth of field goes away and you get ambient occlusion instead. I wish it were possible to have both at the same time but that would've made a whole slew of other things impossible.
I kind of felt bad about going back to TS3 so soon after TS4 came out (I think it was less than a week) but I've really come to appreciate TS3 a lot more since then. I've gotten a hell of a lot better at it, too. I've also modded it to be more fun, better looking, and easier to run. I also put a couple of hours into TS4…
To be honest, I don't really think of my Sims as them being Sims. I think of them as real people trapped inside my computer. So their weird little language and the Plumbob and whatever else, I just completely overlook it. It's not part of my game and I pay it no mind. When I wonder what they're saying, all I hear is…
When TS4 came out I told myself that even though it was 🐸🐸🐸🐸, I'd probably switch over to it by 2015. There'd be a bunch of expansions, I figured, and there'd be enough in there to make it worthwhile. It's now 2017 and I haven't touched TS4 since June, but spent much of last evening playing TS3.
I think it's a terrible idea, it will just enable people to upload low-quality images or pictures taken with the phone's camera. If people want to upload their pictures, and I take it from your post that that could potentially include real-life pictures as well, it mustn't be so easy that it will enable laziness. Otherwise…