THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
vagabondher:
Quote from: Zucabr on 2009 May 30, 18:46:41
Also, please don't double post. :P
Anyway, does anyone know how to complete Guitar Star in the Guitar skill challenges? It says you need to play in 10 parties/venues to earn it. What exactly constitutes a 'venue'?
I was wondering that as well. Playing a show at the theater, perhaps playing at parties? I'm currently just trying to skill my Sim up to level ten before getting to the challenges, but once I get there I'll let you know (or not, because I'm sure someone else already has the answer).
Peel:
Quote from: Papercut on 2009 May 30, 07:50:32
Skilling seems like more of a grind in TS3, which is strange, as I thought it was grindy in TS2, but it has somehow been made WORSE. Maybe it's because the game puts so much emphasis on A!CHIEVE!MENT!
I find that the time speed ups move very slowly in game and observing a Sim doing most of their skilling at less than high speed is rather tedious. All though not as tedious as watching them sleep at speeds 3 or 4. I don't know if it is my rather outdated video card or what but there is very little difference between 1 and 4, the only thing that seems to speed up are the sounds. I do like that Sims can skill at their job but following any Sims to their job, even a rabbit-hole job, was never on my must have features list. From playing this game I can see where they were trying to go but imo they never really got there. I never played "Sims Stories" or whatever they called that one but I did play "Busting Out" and it really reminds me of that console game. It is also reminiscent of that German game "Singles" that came out years ago for some odd reason.
I really like the customization tool and some of the interactions. I had a Sim sleeping and when a burglar was about to come into the house their neighbour who must of been outside at the time and had a brave attribute came running over and pounded them. That was funny. As was the "peeper" who was watching my Sim sleep at night. The jiggling of the flusher on the toilets however drives me bonkers. Of course The Sims have always had some long arsed animations that drove me. I don't really like the visual direction this game took. The more realistic 3D characters look the more living dead they look and gives them that extra creepy je n'ais quoi. In other games it is not really as noticeable as when a game is a life simulator and the more realistic characters are living in a cartoonish looking world. I found that the Sims 2 characters had a good balance of realism and toonish that they didn't have that yikes factor I find in this game, facial features aside.
I dled the torrent after I read about all the changes that they had made to the game and I am glad that I did as I saved myself both cash and disappointment on release date. Unless future expansions add different types of game play I won't be purchasing the 3 franchise. The base game is not designed for the type of player I am of The Sims games. Like "Busting Out" is a game with an over all goal that once achieved I never picked up again.
TashaYarrr:
As bored as I used to get of the 'special event' cutscenes, I now realize how much they brought to TS2, and I miss them. One of many reasons these Sims feel more robotic and way less organic.
EdenNintyNine:
Quote from: TashaYarrr on 2009 May 30, 18:57:52
As bored as I used to get of the 'special event' cutscenes, I now realize how much they brought to TS2, and I miss them. One of many reasons these Sims feel more robotic and way less organic.
I feel the exact same way; I kind of enjoyed getting those cut scenes, now that I think about it. With TS3 I keep trying to get them too, hoping that maybe my sim just did not have enough in common with one sim or maybe my sim was not attracted to the other sim. I did not realize however, that they- the cut scenes- had been removed; I am a bit disappointed now… the little dingle of music on ‘first kiss' interaction is hardly equivalent in terms of dynamic and dramatic sensation.
vagabondher:
Quote from: TashaYarrr on 2009 May 30, 18:57:52
As bored as I used to get of the 'special event' cutscenes, I now realize how much they brought to TS2, and I miss them. One of many reasons these Sims feel more robotic and way less organic.
I grew tired of the Woo Hoo cut scene whenever it was your first time, but I do miss all the fireworks and cute baby-twirling-in-the-air when you give birth. I mean, in theory, I like that my pregnant Sim can go to the hospital when she's in labor, but I wish when she actually gave birth it would cut inside to the room and show her holding the baby or something. Just a standard little cut scene would do.
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