The Sims 3 - What Are Your Views?

I was tired when I got home last night, but I wanted to see The Sims 3 in action so I installed the game at 11:30 p.m. and played for about an hour.I can see that this game is going to be much more goal oriented than the previous two sim games, because of the Lifetime Wish, which is a single wish that each sim will strive to fulfill in their lifetime - I didn't get into it much, but it looks fairly interesting, and something that will make the game feel much more gamey. The Everyday Wishes also seem to push you in a certain direction, making each day feel slightly more goal oriented. Because I only played for an hour I didn't get the opportunity to check out how well the other new concepts are working (namely, the Moodlets, the Lifetime Happiness thing, or the slightly re-worked Careers model... my sim doesn't have a job yet, and I haven't even looked at the new Career Panel) but it all looks interesting enough.The one thing I will say is that, at first, The Sims 3 feels exactly like The Sims 2, except that you're playing on a lot that's humongous.Up until now, we've been restrained to playing on our own lot, so it's weird looking out the window, and seeing all these houses around you, with other sims in them. I don't think it quite registers in your mind how big of a change this actually is. You feel like you're playing The Sims 2 - but of course you're not.For example: I dislike what the houses around me look like, so the first thing I'm going to do is destroy them, and do what I've always wanted to do, which is to create an entire neighborhood of my own creation - you can do that in The Sims 2 as well, of course, but all of the houses are on separate lots, and whenever you're on one lot, the others you've created are all rendered in 2D and you can't walk over to them. In this game you can. I'm going to create a very dense housing project and fill it up with the most dysfunctional people on the face of the planet.But like I said, I only played for an hour, and didn't get to see much. But I can see that there's obviously a tremendous amount of potential here.Graphically, The Sims themselves look much more modern, but here's my one complaint: the rest of it just sucks. The graphics for the town are god-awful. I feel, at times, like I'm playing a game from 4 years ago. I realize that the developer had to make this game work on a range of computers, but honestly I think that they could've improved the visuals A LOT. And here's the real kicker: on my Core i7 920, with its GTX 275, the game will chug along when my sim starts running down the sidewalk - the system performance can be horrible at times. I'm guessing that the reason for this is that all of the other sims around you are being simulated, so the computer is struggling to keep up. I'll bet that this is a processor thing. But again, the saving grace here, is that the sims themselves look better, and that you can destroy some of those ugly buildings around you, and build your own.Overall, then, from one hour of playing, the gameplay looks to be much improved, but the graphics, for the most part, kind of suck - a bit disappointing in that regard, really. I'll post back later when I've had a chance to really sit down and play the game in earnest.The Sims 3 - What Are Your Views?
I think I'll wait a year or two for the inevitable ''Sims 3 Super Triple Deluxe Edition'' to come out.The Sims 3 - What Are Your Views?
I planned on buying it until i saw they omitted content from the game just to make you pay real money on top of the 50 bucks you spent for the game. EA's money grubbing ways just never end.
I brought the manual to work with me and am sitting here in the lunch room reading it.I had no idea that the sims themselves are so much more complex than their Sims 2 counterparts. For example: when you create your own sim (last night I selected a pre-rolled sim, which is why I missed out in seeing all of this) you choose from four individual traits - Mental, Physical, Social, and Lifestyle. Each of these traits contains a long list, and from each of the four lists you choose just one of them.For example, the Mental trait's list is as follows:Absent mindedArtisticBookwormCan't Stand ArtComputer WhizExcitableGenuisGreen ThumbHandyInsaneNatural CookNeuroticVirtuosoYou choose one from that list, and then you choose a single one from each of the other three lists (Physical, Social, and Lifestyle).I could, for example, create a sim that's Insane (mental), Hydrophobic (physical), Inappropriate (social) and Kleptomaniac (lifestyle) - and maybe pair that sim with a room-mate who is Excitable, Unlucky, Grumpy, and Childish. Or I could do the opposite of that and create a sim who's Artistic, Neat, Charismatic, and Good. There's a multitude of combinations.It'll be interesting to see how all of this pans out when you factor in that each of these sims will have a Lifetime Wish, and that together they're all going to grow old, get, jobs, have kids, and die. I wonder what would happen if I were to create an entire neighborhood of dysfunctional sims (say, Excitable, Slob, Dislikes Children, and Evil people) and watch them all live their lives' in proximity of one another? I wonder how they would interact, and what their kids might end up being like?Like, I said, I haven't actually seen any of this play out - but, at least on paper, it's incredibly promising. Really, it's not like The Sims 2 at all. This game is much deeper. I'm going to have to spend more time on this.
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I've never been able to conjure interest in a game that has nothing remarkable to offer.
I actually bothered to try this. This is still the most dull and boring game I've ever played. It's more fun to move a cursor on the screen.
My intention was to start a thread in which people who are actually playing The Sims 3 might post their comments about it - if you haven't played the game, or if this type of game just doesn't appeal to you, then would you please not post in this thread. Thanks. :)
it's exactly how I predicted it would be, a souless copy of 2. Except it crashes occasionally and deletes your file.
[QUOTE=''Mr__Peanut'']it's exactly how I predicted it would be, a souless copy of 2. Except it crashes occasionally and deletes your file.[/QUOTE]



Thanks for that stunningly detailed post! The forum is such a richer place because of that! Yes! This is exactly what I was hoping for! Thank you, thank you, and thank you again! I heart the Gamespot PC Forum!
[QUOTE=''Mr__Peanut'']it's exactly how I predicted it would be, a souless copy of 2. Except it crashes occasionally and deletes your file.[/QUOTE]i bet my left nut you havnt played it
[QUOTE=''Gamerboi27''][QUOTE=''Mr__Peanut'']it's exactly how I predicted it would be, a souless copy of 2. Except it crashes occasionally and deletes your file.[/QUOTE]i bet my left nut you havnt played it[/QUOTE]well I guess you lose your left nut, is it really that far fetched that I bought the game? You ass.
omg u did ? :Oo well, just wait a bit im sure there will be patches
Although I haven't played the game, my feelings are that a lot of people don't realize how big of a change it is to have everything there, instead of things seperated into different loaded areas. To me this just seems like it will make the game much more enjoyable. Also I'm not sure why people are mad that they stripped away content.. everyone knows.. or should've known that they were going to do this so that they could release expansions.
[QUOTE=''Mr__Peanut''][QUOTE=''Gamerboi27''][QUOTE=''Mr__Peanut'']it's exactly how I predicted it would be, a souless copy of 2. Except it crashes occasionally and deletes your file.[/QUOTE]i bet my left nut you havnt played it[/QUOTE]well I guess you lose your left nut, is it really that far fetched that I bought the game? You ass.[/QUOTE] Well with the hate you obviously have for the Sims Franchise yes it is that hard to believe......the reviews have been very positive so i think ill believe them over you
I'm having a blast with it so far. Not sure how people consider this game to be The Sims 2.5 with all the new features added and moving the focus away from your Sims to the entire neighborhood. To me this is what The Sims 2 should have been instead of it being a version of The Sims 1 put into 3D. The Sims series has never been for everyone though, but it amazes me how people who have hated the Sims still go out and buy a copy then come onto the boards complaining about how horrible it is. That makes no sense to me.
[QUOTE=''Gamerboi27''][QUOTE=''Mr__Peanut'']it's exactly how I predicted it would be, a souless copy of 2. Except it crashes occasionally and deletes your file.[/QUOTE]i bet my left nut you havnt played it[/QUOTE]



I've played it and it has crashed about 3 times and deleted my saves twice.
I'm enjoying playing my insane, evil, genius, artistic, and flirty Riddler-meets-Jonny Depp's Willy Wonka Sim. For some reason, it just feels right. :P
[QUOTE=''Ein-7919'']I'm enjoying playing my insane, evil, genius, artistic, and flirty Riddler-meets-Jonny Depp's Willy Wonka Sim. For some reason, it just feels right. :P[/QUOTE] haha thats so wicked
My opinion is mixed. I'm having a performance issue with scrolling on a fast PC. I recently made a thread about this earlier today. Other than that, I like it. The world feels more active and alive, and I can create a more fluid story for my character. So far I rose to the top of the criminal career, and bought out several businesses, have a hot wife, I bang the maid, I bang half the neighbors when my wife is working.Twisted and sneaky, just the way I like it.

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