Any getting Sims2 on PSP?
Baa:
The only console game that appeared to have nice graphics were the PSP and the xBox versions of the games. All the others seemed mediocre, but you really can't compare a computer with a high-end video card and a measly console. Maybe when the PS3 and the other new consoles come out, Maxis will consider moving the Sims to that format. In my mind, I don't see why they didn't wait. Think about it, they could've waited and made a greater game on a new console, than to put it out on consoles that will soon be replaced and be rendered useless. They could've even worked out a deal with Sony or Nintendo to have the Revolution or PS3 ship with The Sims 2 console version, just like some other game companies do.
Oddysey:
Quote from: Kngidomapaloce on 2005 October 30, 18:43:31
The only console game that appeared to have nice graphics were the PSP and the xBox versions of the games. All the others seemed mediocre, but you really can't compare a computer with a high-end video card and a measly console. Maybe when the PS3 and the other new consoles come out, Maxis will consider moving the Sims to that format. In my mind, I don't see why they didn't wait.
Money! Money now! Not money later! Now!
Shupinola:
I came rather late to consoles - just 2 years ago when I bought a PS2, mainly so I could play SSX 3 and the Final Fantasy games. One of the games I took with my offer package was The Sims: Bustin Out. This was mainly because I had so many problems with bugs in The Sims that by the time I got to Unleashed things had got so bad as to make the game unplayable. But I missed my Sims, so I thought that a PS2 version would be OK because 'Playstations don't crash'. It's true! Final Fantasy VI, VII, VIII, IX, X and X-2, Gran Tourismo 3, Buffy: Chaos Bleeds, SSX3 ... not a single crash. Sims: Bustin Out ... er ... OK, so Playstations CAN crash, but only when you try playing a Maxis game on them. Add to that, work buses going to the wrong part of the screen and merging with the school bus, objects becoming stuck and unusable (and with no boolprop or moveobjects that means game over) and Sims getting stuck. Now where have I seen stuff like this before - AND since? Over on the 'official site', I've had the entire gamut of excuses as to why it was my fault and not the fault of shoddy programming from Maxis: 'It's your Playstation.', 'It's a faulty disk.', 'It's your personal hygiene.'. OK, so not the last one, but it might as well of been there as it's as good a lame excuse as all the others.
So, The Sims 2 on consoles might be really great, but having been burned so many times by Maxis, I'll not buy any of them for any format other than PC. My PS2 is for SSX (On Tour should arrive with the postie tomorrow morning) and Final Fantasy. As these two franchises move to the PS3 I'll buy that machine too and continue my relationship with those games on consoles. The Sims 2 is far too big a game to play on consoles and too many things can go wrong with it. Maxis are not keen enough on getting things right or putting them right. The game might be great, but it has to be on a platform where modders can sort out the bugs that Maxis can't be bothered to sort out, and that means the humble PC.
What I can't understand, is why anyone who uses this forum - knowing how shoddy Maxis's programming is - would be fool enough to even consider buying a console version of a game that is almost 100% certain to be buggy? Buggy AND limited in it's gameplay and options.
Darkstormyeve:
Quote from: Shupinola on 2005 November 01, 22:14:59
What I can't understand, is why anyone who uses this forum - knowing how shoddy Maxis's programming is - would be fool enough to even consider buying a console version of a game that is almost 100% certain to be buggy? Buggy AND limited in it's gameplay and options.
Thats why I am asking about the game on this thread ::)
I have never exprienced the problems that you have encountered with the game, be it Sims 1 or 2 and when I have, it has often been my own fault or something that I downloaded. I know nothing about the console game so hence I am asking, wanting to know what people think of it. No game shops in my town have a demo to show me and I refuse to part with AUS$400 on a game machine that I have never held in my hand at least.
So pull your head in and don't be so rude.
cheriem:
I usually just read and laugh a lot. But must reply to this thread. I will probably be buying the PS2 version for a friend who loves Sims but doesn't have a computer at the moment. Am hoping this will be a nice Christmas present for said friend and family. I love my Sims2 plus all expansions and am a happy camper since I can have my mods as am a super controller ;D.
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