Well, I'm not against of new Sims releases, it's just something I don't like, if I don't like one part doesn't mean I hate it entirely.
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I just don't get these games. I never have. Why would I want to play a video game version of an already boring life? These games are only good for trapping people in the kitchen, making them soil themselves, and them burning them alive in a room with no doors.
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I see The Sims series as house building tool mainly. It allows me to make prototype of a house or a room, which is kinda cool, as I can see how it would look like if I'd made a kitchen or a living room like the one in a game. Making sims and controlling them is just... an add-on, expansion.
But speaking of TS4. Graphically it looks between The Sims 2 and 3. I like new building tools, especially moving entire rooms, which is awesome. New manner of making sims looks cool (as I never got these bars and stuff), however they look quite ugly. Hair look far worse than in Sims 3 and this whole emotion stuff... I'm not convinced.
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I can see some temporary amusement (I suppose if you never played it before and are exploring what you can do), but I have to agree, I never saw any appeal. Doing the mundane stuff you did before you started Sims and continuing it when you quit Sims...
I don't quite see how it is fun as a building tool, but that is just a matter of personal taste ^^ It at least seems more interesting to do then babysitting and watching your Sims shower, sleep and have arguments ;)
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Yeah pretty much, I'm from that group of people, always play the newest entry of a series. Pretty dumb, I know.
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To be fair, when it comes to Sims... Yeah, there are big changes between Sims and Sims 2 for example. Same with Sims 2 and Sims 3, so Sims 4 = Even bigger changes, so yeah, it's hard to keep playing an older Sims title when a new one comes out, because you look at the new one and go "UHG!" Being even more specific about that: CAS looks WAY WAY WAY better in Sims 4 than Sims 3, gosh, that's awesome.
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But all the fun you had with the previous versions will be with you. I'm a huge fan of sims, I've bought almost every game and expansion (except the last two, my income cant keep up with how quick they're releasing them), and I cant wait until sims 4. When it comes out, I'll buy it and probably never touch sims 3 again, but I just see it as a game that I bought and completed. I had fun with it, but its time to play the next one.
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EA has a nasty habit of making any previous release of The Sims they made left in the dark. If you have 3 and they release 4, the web sites and community all get taken down and become redundant.
Last Sims I bought was 2. I have all the expansions and stuff packs and I have decided that because they killed it when 3 came out I will not be buying any more sims game from them.
It's not just the players that make this happen, it's EA, much like they do with the sports titles they release year after year. The way EA likes to destroy the support/take down the servers for older games they release is the major reason I dislike them (though this guarantee thing they are doing gives them a single brownie point for me, maybe not enough to forgive them for how bad they were but a good step in the right direction, anyway). Just my 2 pennies!
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Don't you think it would be way too much resource to keep all the sites and communities for all the game releases? If you look for a community there is enough communities on the internet.
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Only 3 servers would go for ALL their outdated games?
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That's kind of redundant. Do you think it would bankrupt them to keep supporting their somewhat old games?
What's more important? Sucking every last penny out of your customers every chance you get, regardless how people may feel, or that you are alienating the very people that pay you? Or keeping some kind of loyalty to those that buy your product. so that they will trust you and be happy to buy what you are selling? You can niggle the semantics but that has nothing to do with what I am saying about their business ethics.
*edit for typos
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Of course it would be nice if they kept them, but you need to look at thing realistically, they had so freaking many game releases, do you think it's a simple job to keep up all those sites and communities up? especially when it isn't such a crucial thing? (people can find other communities for that game in other place if they really want)
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Yeah, the site and the official community is the most important thing about the game. Without it there's no even a point to sell the games, right? :|
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There are games that are thriving because of the communities even though the company has pretty much abandoned them (NWN/2 with the Vault, and The Elder Scrolls with the Nexus, to name 2) I totally agree with you there.
That's a different beast entirely though, in light of what EA is doing. Look at Autolog for the NFS series for example. You can't connect to them on the web for anything but Most Wanted right now because they take the old autolog down when they released it.
The community can't fix that, just because EA are determined to keep it all on their own side of the internet. I forget which one it was but you couldn't even keep your own screen shots without a third party software, because they are/were saved on autolog, and not your own hard drive, then they refuse you access to them to push Most Wanted in your face instead. This is just one example and I know there are others as well. Do you honestly think that's fair?
What happens to someone that wants to play Simcity in a year or two, and they decided to take the server down for that? They're screwed.
So back to The Sims 4- it won't surprise me if they make it always online(or planned to before the mess that was Simcity launch). I won't be surprised if they make the next NFS (Rivals) that way as well. If they don't, you can betcha they will have some kind of hook to make it less fun when they release The Sims 5, if not unplayable entirely. They want games to have a shelf life and if you look at GoG it's pretty obvious that their customers don't.
I still play old games and I really don't know why everyone thinks it will be okay to make games so internet dependent, when all that means is you will be fucked in a year or two if you want to play them. On top of that ISPs are charging for bandwidth overages. "oh goodie! I get to pay even more to single play a game!"
They are turning games you bought into pay to play games. It has nothing to do with their resources, it is all about taking as much of your money as they can, anyway that they can.. I am not so willing to pay more than once for something I buy. I buy LOTS of games every year. I don't need to have all these other charges after I already paid. I think that if I buy a video game I should be able to play it as much as I want free and clear, as long as I want to, and have the hardware to run it.
Anyway this is just how I feel about it and I am obviously in the minority because if more people felt the same way they would stop funding companies that do this. EA made billions already this year so I guess it doesn't matter to people. I won't buy a game that plays single player yet still requires me to connect to a server somewhere, that I have no control over, to get the full enjoyment from that game. Especially when the EULA tells me they have a right to terminate those servers when ever they feel like it. If they made a legal binding commitment to keep those servers online forever I would have a change of heart.
Just 2 more of my pennies.
*edit Maybe things are getting better
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Well, people preferred Sims 2 when Sims 3 came out.
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actually i think the cartoonish style fit more to the sims series.. they should totally go back (for some stuff) to the first sims or even the 2nd one, makin a crazy n fun game not too realistic-like like sims 3.. plus on sims 3 the chars were kinda ugly and weird i prefer them like this
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they seem inovated enough to put new stuff or improve old one for their sim (it not like i pay EA any coin anyway),then it good anyway
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Well, it looks alright, but Sims has never looked... Sufficient to me. It seems like a game that I'd buy to jump on the wagon, then realise it's a horrible game.
That being said, watching OTHER people play it is fun.
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One of my issues with the sims is that EA tends to remove features that were present in previous games only to release them as expansions. It's that kind of money grabbing that pisses me off. I also wish they would release some official mod tools. Of course, that would eliminate their ability to sell stuff packs so that won't happen.
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Here, Really I hate when new Sims is released, all those stuff packs and expansions just go to waste.
EDIT: Also I don't like the look of the new sim, they look even more artificial.
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