THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
Caraleede:
Quote from: Soggy Fox on 2009 May 29, 20:49:21
They failed in not supplying us with uppern and lower body sliders. Both men and women can have different proportions. In addition, but not all fat people are shaped like a pear. I'm still shaped like an hourglass, just a generously proportioned one. In addition, some guys are shaped like triangles, with nice broad shoulders and narrow hips. That's hard to manage, as much as having a curvy slender woman is.
The fat slider is useless! I could put up with faulty genetics, and the fat sims who can stick their arms through themselves due to horrible bone structure, but what the fuck is that slider for?! It's either skinny and flat-chested, or a giant pear with thighs the size of Texas.
My initial reaction was that I could like TS3, but all this crap adds up - leaving EA in desperate need of Chk-Chk boom. :P
Doc Doofus:
Well, all I have to say is, it was smart noodlin' on EA's part to put Securom in the pirated version of Sims 3 to keep people from pirating it!
Oh. Wait... What the fuck?
Warge:
After having tested this for about half a week, I'd like to report a few bugs and also provide my personal notes about it:
First off, I've had a jumping bug. Yes indeed, one of the sims (my self-sim no less) had troubles sleeping and shifted every second from lying in bed to stiding through the bed. I should have saved a screenshot from that.
I didn't care really since this jumping did not disturb the energy recovery, but it got worse: the self sim began teaching a toddler to talk and again, shifted from sitting on the floor to standing twice a second. Very annoying.
About here, the spouse also began teaching a toddler to talk, and was done - the message popped up and everything, but she did not stop teaching the toddler. That was more serious.
I tried remedy this through the old TS2 way, by making the sims usable and simply deleting them, returning to the neighbourhood and return (where they should in TS2 style, return standing by the mailbox, fresh from bugs and whatnot). They didn't. I ended up with a household consisting of one (1) toddler... So don't delete sims, will you?
Apart from the bugs, I don't really mind the game - and this is indeed a game as Pescado said earlier. It IS possible to make quite good sims, and by using and undertanding the color wheel and materials, you can make anything look exactly how you want. Using Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V in the binary field also makes sure everything has the exact same color. The building and buying tools are a blast.
One thing I really do mind is the animation set, or rather, the lack of animations. The animations are dull and flat and the facial animations even worse. A good smile is more than just showing the teeth. The walking animation seems to be taken from The Movies where the theatralic way of walking was more in line with the actors, but for normal people or sims, the walking looks just wrong.
Since this is a game and a new way of approaching family life, I think it just is a matter of getting used to the new style and way it is played. Even if I don't like that I can't make my own setting but is limited to Sunset Valley it could have been ok, if there would have been options to a) remove all the crap EA has filled the family and house pools with, and b) would have allowed me to put down a few lots of my own.
Things are EXPENSIVE, and I'm not talking about the game itself, but the stuff in the game. Building a house for a couple and keeping it under 16000 simoleons is hard, especially if the girl is knocked up. Not that I mind actually - it was way too easy to make money in TS2, but here you actually have to earn your keep. That is very, very good.
The most fundamental things in life are weather, time and seasons, and not having those included was a disappointment.
Got to love the rabbit holes. I don't give a damn about how a school looks inside, I just want to know there is one in town. Very good initiative.
The lack of hair styles is also a disappointment, and also the fact that my teen boys can't grow a five o'clock shadow. I don't mind the lack of clothing styles that much, mainly becuase the customizing tools makes most of what you want.
For the game itself, I find it odd that a game that is not holding everything that was promised is to be released, and that so much will be available only through download. Perhaps EA was inspired by the great paysites debate, and decided they wanted some of the cake. Since EA and Maxis are companies they are out to make money, and that's fine by me. However, trying to make money this way, by making people pay for extra content that was supposed to have been included from the start, that sucks.
Have a nice day.
teaislovely:
Has anyone else had an elder last a really really long time past their lifespan? I've got mine set to live 190 days and this sim is now 206. I like her and all but I need to make some way for babies. DIE SIM DIE.
Lurker:
Quote from: GayJohnScarritt on 2009 May 30, 01:02:22
Just noticed, that after my paperboy kicked my non-working gnome, and I stood him back up, the gnome started his hijinks later on that night. So obviously the old saying "He needs a kick in the pants to get him moving" really is true.
I already Kicked all of them several times and stood them back up, they're still stiff frozen. Thanks for the suggestion though :) I will kick them like 5 times in a row each just to be sure. Since you had that non-moving glitch too i wonder if they're just borked. Or maybe the RLD version is the culprit since they already had stopped moving before changing it for the Razor one. I will have to get new gnomes to test anew.
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