THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
rohina:
Here is why the game sucks donkey balls as far as I am concerned, based on my massive play time of 2 hours-ish.
Most of the action in the game takes place only in the sim's head, aka the control panel with the wants and the moodlets. For instance, my sim got in a bad mood because she had a cold shower. The indication that this happened was that it popped up in her moodlets. Looking at her sim with the GIANT BLUR in the shower, I had no idea this happened.
Later, she was talking to someone and was "humiliated". How do I know? The control panel told me. Her squishy cupcake of a face changed not one whit during the experience.
Useless. Useless and boring. What am I supposed to do for 6 hours when she is at work? I tell you what I did, I knitted. Also, I figured out that "motherlode" works, so then we could fuck the job thing and go get humiliated by some more random townies.
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Quote from: coltraz on 2009 May 19, 08:05:54
and why the hell can't you make their eyebrows thicker or thinner?
You can... Look in CAS.
Quote from: vcpink on 2009 May 19, 12:59:35
anybody else think that the torrent might not be the final build... or might be a developer/executive copy to show the big wigs at ea, i say this because it does seem awfully light on content and whatnot...
Lol, you make me laugh. Google 'The Sims 3 Store' and get a clue.
Quote from: Exiled on 2009 May 19, 20:18:14
Ugh, my computer has crashed twice while trying to torrent it from Demonoid. Complete crash - I can't even restart, I have to turn the computer off and on again.
I'm on Vista, using uTorrent and downloading from Demonoid. I use Windows Firewall and NAV 2009. Can someone troubleshoot this and figure out why this is happening?
Sure, on the uTorrent support forums.
Quote from: Sigmund on 2009 May 19, 20:22:53
Actually, when I tried to play another family, I noticed something strange. One of my sims, Hank Goddard, is woohooing his female partner in law enforcement but didn't have her in his relationship panel at all when I played his family, and in fact had a completely different woman listed as being his partner. However, when I went back to play his partner's family, all the relationships were still intact. :-\ Not sure what it means, but it doesn't seem to bode well.
Surely EA isn't that stupid to leave a bug that major in the game... oh wait.
Quote from: Frally on 2009 May 19, 22:29:47
I spent 2 days downloading this bloody thing and now I can't install it. I'm getting an error message like so:
>SetupNew\setup.cpp(140)
PAPP:
PVENDOR:
PGUID:
$15.0.0.498
I am decidedly unawesome, so could anyone shed any light on what may be going wrong here?
This is caused by trying to run the installer with winRAR, stop that! Extract it.
Quote from: Jarsie on 2009 May 20, 00:04:18
***contains virus***
The file Sims3Setup.exe is a self-deflating executable archive. It contains two files, the real "sims3setup.exe" and a file "codec.exe", the archive runs both when called by Autorun.exe. The file codec.exe is a virus dropper.
I have found if, after you've extracted Sims3Setup.exe and you can't get it to open with winRAR, it is safe... it should give the error above. If it opens and you see the codec.exe in it, then you have the virus one. Another way to tell is the real Sims3Setup.exe is 389KB and has a file date of 4/23/2009 4:00AM
Anyway, why does everyone recommend DAEMON Tools and mounting and all that? I leave mounting for the bedroom and open ISO's with winRAR. It works perfectly fine.
I played for several hours last night and these are my impressions so far:
Good:
It loaded really fast, I expected to be waiting for years with a neighborhood like that.
You can use stuff in your inventory by clicking on it now rather than having to drag it into the world first.
Male bulges are bigger. (yeah yeah, I'm not lusting after computer people, I promise)
Traits are pretty awesome but I feel like there could be more.
Switching between fullscreen and windowed mode in game options is total win.
The needs seem to still matter as much as they did in Sims 2 (so they lied) which I was worried about. I know it may get tedious after awhile but this is what the sims is about for me... they do seem to take care of them better now which is good.
Males have underarm hair! I'm so used to them being ken dolls.
The neighborhood is great, the rabbit holes look good, it's all decorated nicely and looks good.
I like the way build/buy mode is layed out.
No loading screens is awesome! I also love the way the town feels alive and sims are everywhere.
New grave designs are win.
Moodlets are win.
What they did do with CAS was a step in the right direction but I don't think they stepped far enough.
Bad:
The tutorial was really really messy and unorganized. Your sim wants to buy a couch! Well la de da! He already has a couch dumbass!
What's with only 4 premade houses that aren't being lived in? I couldn't find anymore...
They said you could make ANYONE (look! another lie!). I spent 2 hours trying to make myself, studying a picture and all, and didn't come THAT close even after messing around with all the sliders. A few of the sliders even seem pointless as the change they make is very subtle.
Where the hell are male nipples? They are very very ill defined.
When I make a sim chubby, their thighs are 10x bigger than their lower leg which looks so odd.
People with a good sense of humor don't go around 'making silly face' 10 times a day EA.
The global aging and story progression settings are fail. They should be lot specific. The switching households and losing wishes isn't a big deal to me.
I agree with people, it's hard to kill the redundant round face shape.
Why can't I place lots empty lots where I want? Step backwards.
I don't like how they pop in and out of cars, what's wrong with opening the door?
I saw two cars drive right through each other, fail!
There needs to be more clothing and definitely hairstyles, and not in TS3 Store either.
I still have the extreme urge to kill townies. One rang my door bell and I invited her in. What did she do next? Throw away the unprepared dinner I was working on that I stopped to let her in. Kill!
Thumbnails of sims don't really look like the sim to me. They look even more clayish and silly in them.
Why can't I have a simple list of destinations? I don't want to jump to map view and back to send them somewhere. And there's too many damn icons, It takes me forever to find what I want.
Buildings don't get their model and render till you let go of the mouse. I understand this was done to prevent lag while scrolling but if you're making a story, it could be suckage as a house suddenly goes from a low quality blurry building to clear as you're moving the camera through town.
Overall I think it has a lot of potential but the question remains if EA will send it in the right direction. I love the neighborhood moves on and is alive (but the clock on city hall doesn't move!) and everything feels much more detailed. I want a setting to stop some sims from aging and going on about their life while I'm not looking but if I don't get it, I may get use to it. The way it's made now, they seem to have cut story tellers out a lot.
I think custom content ability has been extremely cut down. It looks like they locked up the game so you can only use stuff from the exchange / sims 3 store... I can't even find a option to package my sim to a file. This one might turn out not be as modable as sims 2 is and that's going to piss a lot of people off, me included. You even have to install that EADM to install patches it said. DNW!
I predict a lot won't give up Sims 2, me included. This seems really fun but really restricted which is going to hurt the replay value of it a lot.
Insanity Prelude:
I want to play this trainwreck for myself- you guys have piqued my interest- but I foresee myself going back to Sims 2. The amount of bugginess described is just ridiculous.
Frankenbeasley:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2009 May 20, 01:32:48
No. Demon child is definitely the genetic daughter of Ms. Schmoe. She has the same hair color, down to the subtle blue streaks. She also is extremely ugly.
Holy shit! Ms. Schmoe appears to have been raped by Diesel 10 from Thomas the Tank Engine!
kellinjar:
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Or, you know, if EAxis tells us...not that we can trust them, of course.
Its quite apparent this is the final version. If it wasn't EA would be telling people that to save their ass. People are complaining about this version and if it wasn't the real version, they'd be telling people that so that people don't form a judgment. If they lied they'd be called on it.
So the fact that they haven't said anything means its the final version.
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