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I hope we get open worlds in this game.
Horrorgirl6
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I think we need open worlds .The sims 4 worlds look nice,but there limited and give less player control .
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Horrorgirl6
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^ This ^ The whole sum of this statement sums up the whole of how I feel. Priceless! and Thank you! for taking my thoughts/feelings about purchasing Sims 5, and Para lives, and putting it into words. I cannot fathom investing another dime into a brand new iteration that doesn't advance further that what we currently have. We have advanced too far in the gaming world to have Open World at the start/base of Sims 5. Anything less shows me that EA cares zero for what we as players have expressed wanting and needing.
If they can’t implement a feature they had over a decade ago, to a new game utilizing better technology, that’s honestly kind of embarrassing for them.
I will even take open neighborhoods.
It would also be possible to do smaller, neighborhood sized worlds. As long as players could build custom worlds, and use larger ones if their systems can handle it. I am very tired of TS4 with its shells and fake stuff all over. I think create a world, to some extent, is a requirement.
I'd like if it was incorporated into the game more than TS3's was, and easier to use. But even if it's a separate program with difficult to understand graphics tools, it won't be long before cc creators begin using it and sharing their creations.
I just don't want that many loading screens, it disturbs immersion and game flow. and while the maps are helpful, I think maps should be integrated differently, more like a pop up in game where sims can pick a location - and also have those maps be a more detailed representation
Generally, I want more immersion for how Sims move within a world and between neighborhoods. Like even if there are loading screens between neighborhoods, you should a least be able to hove over there with your mouse to click on it and also include the transportation into the design. Like Sims will walk, take a bike, ride a car (!!) or take a subway. the option to 'teleport' could still exist, but I like that kind of realness and I also would want my sim to explore more from their surroundings.
Yes, it was outdated but for me it showed that it was capable, I was happy to be able to create my own world and I knew they were not able to connect them as they did in Sims 4 but for me Sims 3 had more than one leg up in features than Sims 4 has as Sims 4 was and still is a few steps backwards. The thing is EA/Maxis did not know how tweak or maintain what they had so they cut everything from Sims 4. LBYU may overtake Sim's series if they keep on doing what they are doing like Paradox did with City Lines (same company that is making LBYU). The ball is in EA/Maxis hands, and it will be up to them in how they are playing it.
Seriously, open world brought nothing positive to my gameplay. I have no issues with loading screens, they take only a few seconds and are nowhere near as annoying as a car going around a neighbourhood only to reach a rabbithole restaurant.
okay thats fine, this was my opinion because I love the sims 3. I don't mind rabbit holes, but everyone has their own preferences!
You need to enable autonomy. With autonomy on, no one starves, they are very good at taking care of their own needs. As for the rabbitholes, why bother leaving the home lot in the first place? You complain that the loading screen is immersion breaking, but once you load the lot you get a fully playable lot with thigs to do. To me it felt more immersion breaking to go one minute with the car around the neighbourhood only to reach a rabbithole restaurant and then come back. It felt pointless to leave the lot and more like it was a detour from gameplay. The rabbithole theater in TS4 feels the same, you leave the lot only to then wait patiently outside the theater for the movie to finish and get your sim back. The fact is TS3 catered very well to those simmers who don't like leaving their home lot, those simmers that play full house on 64x64 lots and still complain that the lots are too small, but completely ignored simmers that play several households in rotation or those that like and enjoy to use community lots and gameplay.
I find that the problem was that half of your "downtown" were these dead buildings where Sims vanish in the ether and interact with nothing else. This was especially notable given that many of these would be customer facing venues IRL (the grocery store, bookstore, spa, theatre, diner, bistro), and some of these were open in TS2 (Grocery stores and restaurants), and never rectified it to any meaningful extent (we got a cash register in WA, and a store content bistro oven).
This also brings the question of do we need these rabbit holes in the world? How much would people's experience change if the carpool just drove Sims to the edge of the world, beyond the view of the camera or into a tunnel and despawned, reappearing at the end of their shift? It would've avoided all the routing issues of many Sims trying to enter the same building at once. It would also avoid the weird immersion breaking issues of having the nation's President operate out of a small town's city hall, or an international spy operating out of a local police department, and the opposite end of the spectrum where a quaint small suburban town suddenly had to accommodate a major sports arena, military airfield and a nine storey corporate headquarters - it seems even the developers got sick of this in later worlds as they started to merge many of them together. And I suspect it is why we got a very limited number of new rabbit hole careers after the base game: only four new rabbit hole workplaces: the film studio, fortune-tellers wagon, the stellar observatory and the plumbot arena - all other new careers were squeezed into existing rabbit holes, even where it doesn't really make sense, such as the art appraiser operating out of the criminal warehouse, even though only one branch of the career is criminal.
Which had no waiters, Sims just went in, then back out again with a random plate of food, and sit themselves at a random table, not necessarily with whoever they came with. The Bistro was a glorified vending machine.
Which brings us to the other half of your downtown. These random, generic lots that have no special function aside from encouraging Sims to do certain activities more frequently. There was nothing special or unique about them, nothing that was otherwise unaccessible to Sims on your home lot. Gym equipment and books aren't that expensive in the Sims 3 so rarely would you need to go to the gym or the library, likewise the art gallery or the park offered anything you couldn't do at home. This is a problem that persists in the Sims 4. The main, and arguably only, function of these lots is to meet other Sims.
Way back, in the Sims 1 (and to a lesser extent, the Sims 2), there were specific and exclusive activities that could only be done on community lots. There were carnival games, dining, shops and services, things that you couldn't do at home. If you wanted to progress in game or magic, you HAD to go to their respective subhoods. They had unique NPCs that provided services and just generally added character to the world.
I want open worlds to return in some capacity in the TS5, but I do believe it should not use TS3 as its template.