Thanks for wording it exactly how I feel and see it (for me it’s just a hunch, I’m not really part of the community, a bit of an outsider who happens to love one chapter in the same franchise; your arguments make it more concrete). Everything EA does surrounding this game breaths exactly this, instead of “would our game be…
I wouldn't call installing two NRaas mods a lot of work? I did that in 2014, that's 6 years ago. And I play in EA worlds just fine. Only IP needed adjusting that indeed took a bit of time. Other than that I always clean the cache files (5 of them) after playing. It's necessary, it's not a lot of work though. I must confess…
I've never played with patch 1.69, I just hear it causes a lot of problems I don't have. At first I thought it just meant having to play through the launcher, but now I hear talk of constant crashes when you play with all packs? If you play the game with all packs without any issues the rumours may not be true. The…
I could avoid it because people here warned me it was coming. I disabled automatic updating. Apparently there is a way to reinstall the game up till patch 1.67 (1.69 is the one you don't want, I have no idea what happened to 1.68 :D ) but you need the disks for that.
I think it’s time to accept Sims 4 is what it is and it will never get better in ways that matter. I just genuinely think they can’t. It’s not unwillingness, they can’t. So I do hope this ‘interest’ in what simmers want from this game (as in franchise) actually is related to a successor. Unfortunately I’m too…
Sims sharing a meal at one table in Sims 3 indeed have autonomous conversations. It's part of the animation. I actually don't think you can control it. They've done that when I played the game vanilla, they still do it now that I have mods.
I've been away for a couple of days, to find two chapters! I agree with bekkasan. And with you that there are always more sides to one story. Poor Samuel though, I hope his grandfathers will be able to fiill up the gap his parents left.
I don’t quite understand, € 39.99 is what a Sims 3 EP has always cost? Oops, never mind, there’s an on the left and on the right situation here :mrgreen:
I do miss open world in Sims 2 as well, won’t lie, it’s apparently that important to me. It’s just that where Sims 3 makes up for lacking details and more complex personalities by adding freedom, options and customizability, Sims 2 makes up for time not continuing and the one lot situation by superior sims and foresaid…
I must be tough, I don’t see things getting ugly? Just people disagreeing with each other. It’s a forum, that does happen. Anyway, one thing’s for sure, if EA wants to go online with this game and keep it teen rated, people have to realize there is no way woohoo would ever make it to such a successor. Because it wouldn’t…
You seem to think people mean it personally, “I don’t want you in my game”. It’s not, I don’t want anybody in my game. Including the simmers I befriended over the years here. I love to see what their experiences are in the games, I love it when they share their stories or screenshots, that aspect has always been a valuable…
Yes, I’m the same. I’m done buying packs that lure me into thinking the game’s entertaining after all, only to find out after a couple of hours it’s not. I can live with the thought I spent a few hundreds on a game I never play but I rather spend that money on other things from now on.
@Karon Sorry, missed the notification. No, it’s not the fact there are too little emotions that bothers me, it’s the fact that they’re triggered by objects instead of what other sims say or do or by what happens in their life or by their character. Mom can die, if the room’s pretty your sim will be happy. As for the amount…
Without wanting to downplay the video (actual amazing details in there, like water dripping on the lower floor, that should be so obvious, that indeed is a detail that matters) I'm quite positive Sims 3 does nr. 58 as well. Getting water out of their ears? And 59 as well (sloppy eating). And as for 62: Sims 3 also has…
@ClarionOfJoy Thanks! Yes, that does sound awesome. I'm going to watch those video's, see if that's for me. With an upcoming farmer in my game this might be very interesting.
There, you said it (that's exactly what crosses my mind, and the bullying, I'm just too yellow to say it up-front). It's already noticeable every now and then within the community as it is now (that small part I'm active in, Twitter), imagine what it will be like when it's in our games. Plus:
As far as I’m concerned never. For me that’s not what sims is about. Also because we are so free to do with sims whatever we like them to do, it could so easily become... weird. Creepy even. It’s not comparable to games with set gameplay, where players can play together.
I think that’s indeed personal. Like, for me it’s genuinely enough to watch my sim walk to the street, click and then teleport into their car. Somehow my mind just fills in the rest, I don’t need to see it all in detail. Like changing a baby by throwing them into the air is fine by me. I got the changing table at one point…
@ClarionOfJoy I never tried the OFB part when I played Sims 2 but it’s obvious lots of people loved that pack. I’ve always wondered if I would have too and reading this... It sounds as if you’re sort of obliged to do certain things and if there’s one thing I love about this franchise (and I only know one version properly,…
Personally I think it has a lot to do with who was and is in charge, makes the decisions. I’ve seen statements in interviews that tell me some devs/gurus just don’t really follow what it is that Sims players like and value in this franchise, probably because they play other games themselves. I’m surrounded by people IRL…
Yes, really looking forward to that game as well! (and I obviously agree with you and I actually think many people do; it’s why they developed Medieval)