I bought this game a while ago but never really played it. After starting yesterday I can't believe how much fun I've been having. For starters this game runs heaps better than TS3 and looks a lot better. I kinda wish TS4 ran on this engine! The gameplay is actually very addicting. I feel like I'm actually living in a Medieval world, going to the market, being the Monarch and sending people to stocks, doing quests, levelling up, ugh it's so good!! Everyone who is interested in Medieval history should play it.
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Yeah I agree, I remeber when it first came out and they marketed it a little bit on their streams and stuff but it didn't get the exposure like the main Sims 3 packs at the time.
The engine really is improved, my game runs perfectly. It feels as optomised as TS4.
I'm still a tiny bit mad horses were already made for ts3 engine and yet we didn't get them in the medieval setting, but it's the best.
I kind of skipped TS3 (I own it yes, but it never felt "mine" somehow), but Medieval is the coolest. I just wish the tiny bugs it has left would be fixed, but I guess they won't bother doing that
ETA: Okay wait! I just went to Origin, and I think I might actually be able to play this on my laptop! It's $19.99 for the deluxe pack. I think I'll get it!
The game's biggest flaw was cutting too much of the simulation aspect out...when players really just wanted a TS3 in the Medieval era.
Get it!! I'm sure it will run fine, it's pretty optomised as well.
I actually liked the fact that they trimmed down some simulation elements tbh.
Yay I'm glad! Honestly I've been playing it for a total of 10 hours and feel I have barely scratched the surface. There is literally so much to do.
I don't know if that would be a good thing haha. The open world of the Medieval world is awesome and runs perfectly, going through loading screens sounds like backtracking.
well there were a lot of things that I think people would enjoy from it in sims 4 having your sims be kings and queens would be really cool
I know there's a mode but having it in game with a sims 4 twist would be cool @sam123
I ended up getting it. Can’t wait to be finished with my homework so I can play.
Yay!! Hurry and finish so you can play haha!
According to my Origin account I've been playing 148 hours in total, oh my gosh And there's still so much to do!
I got a new computer last November, and therefore I had to reinstall every sims game I had. Luckily I had backups for my LC family in TS2, but with others, Medieval for instance, I had to start off fresh. Kind of frustrating, because I had finished nearly every ambition with platinum and collected a fair amount of achievements, but on the other hand, I basically love fresh starts, it's somehow so satisfying to plan what to do and when, so it wasn't that big of a deal. I just got to relive the joy of getting the achievements and finishing the ambitions
@SimLibby you're more patient than I am! I'm such a perfectionist that I always go for platinum at the first playthrough, after that I can lean back and relax (or at least try haha). If I can't reach the platinum I have to google for tips for how to do that That goes for almost every game I play haha, except for regular sims maybe.
I would love to get all the achievements as well, but they seem like so much work lol.
Thanks for the tips! I thought the children of the hero sims couldn't be the heirs anymore? I mean, they could earlier, but after some patch or something they couldn't anymore. Or at least it doesn't work in my game. But I have never got more than 2 children tops per hero sim, so I didn't even know that they will be sent away when there's more than 4. You learn something new every day!
But I'm going off topic now.
The children should be able to be heirs also if you import a sim to next kingdom and must therefore choose a new hero sim, but they can't be even that anymore and I recall playing the quest you mentioned, where you kill the Monarch, and that was like last year or something. And even though my Monarch had a child, I couldn't choose the child as the next Monarch Because I know that was possible earlier. Oh well. Stupid EA.
But the importing issue is what it is.
And I don't know if anyone else has this, but I also have saving issue. If I hit the normal "Save"-button, the game screams error (error code 16 or something like that), and the only way to save my kingdoms are through "Save As". And that means I have millions of copies of my kingdom and I have manually delete the spares from my Documents folder afterwards. I just played yesterday and I hit the normal Save button and it didn't tell me the error, so I thought it was fine, but today as I opened the game in order to continue, it hadn't saved a thing. Luckily I hadn't played more than a couple of hours, but still.
I haven't had that issue yet, doing a quick Google search shows that there's no real fix. However atleast you can Save As!