THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
BlueSoup:
It sucks that it takes twice the number of old rotting newspapers now before the damn paper delivery kid will stop coming.
simsdesperado:
I played it for some hours, and while I have no issues with the sims, or the gameplay, I do have some concerns regarding the graphics. I have an nvidia 8600 videocard with 512 mb memory and inspite of the fact that all settings were on high and gameplay was smooth, the textures look very blurry and pixelated, especially on close-ups. Even the sims's skins. Also, I noticed that from a normal play camera height, texture details go missing. I made a sim with red and white polka dots shoes and the dots were visible only when I viewed them in extreme close-up. I also have an issue with the dark shadows on the objects. I tried to make *white* towels but the result was more like dirty white towels. And the same thing happened with the curtains, the bedsheets, the leather couch that's also in sims2. And the indoors lightning seems to suffer from the same drawback as the radiance lightning mod for sims2. The objects near the light source glow and appear overexposed while those a few squares away are very dark. Maybe I don't play enough games to make a reasonable comparison of what is realistically achievable in terms of technology, but I find these issues very annoying, especially when we had very beautiful clean textures in Sims2 and the lightning was good even though it was not realistic. Maybe it's an issue with my card, or maybe it's just the way the game renders objects. But if that's the case I don't think it should render objects with lower quality when you're inside the lot. It's very annoying because things seem hazy.
Anyway, the other issue I have is CAST. I find it a bit difficult to use, it's quite intuitive, but do we really have to approve each and every recolour for each and every recolourable subset? There are too many steps I think and it is time consuming. Also, it takes up too much screen space. I don't see why do we need to have the saved recolours window pop-up when we save the recolours. It takes up additional space and you need to move the camera so you can see the object you're trying to recolour in the little space that's left. Also, it cannot be moved to another area on the screen. It was possible to move them in Sims2 so why not in Sims3?
Edit: I also find annoying that we now have buttons for raising and lowering the camera view. Why did we need that?
For the good parts, I like that sims can play in the bathtub with the little rubber ducky, it looks so cute. Can't wait for the censor blur to be removed so I can see the whole animation! I love that sims can ranomly meet people, and find things to collect. Also, the cemetary at night is awsome, I can see my sims having some halloween parties there. And the ghosts actually look very nice in game. The neighbourhood is awsome, haven't had the time to explore it all, but what I've seen so far looks good. Free roaming is great! Also, did anyone notice that in the scrolling text that appears while the game loads, they say that online experience is not rated by the ESRB. Could it be possible that they intend to release an online version too?
Edit again: I also had my sim use the toilet and bathtub to sit on while eating. I think it's cute. My sim stoped using them after I bought her a couch so I don't mind it if they do eat sitting on the toilet if there's no chairs available.
Tyyppi:
Quote from: simsdesperado on 2009 May 21, 11:26:22
Also, did anyone notice that in the scrolling text that appears while the game loads, they say that online experience is not rated by the ESRB. Could it be possible that they intend to release an online version too?
This probably refers to custom content you can download from other users.
BlueSoup:
Quote from: simsdesperado on 2009 May 21, 11:26:22
Also, did anyone notice that in the scrolling text that appears while the game loads, they say that online experience is not rated by the ESRB. Could it be possible that they intend to release an online version too?
I doubt it, I bet they mean the exchange features price gouging.
I had this very wonky animation show up when the toddler was watching the cooking channel with her mom. She sits normally for a bit, then she gets excited or something and this happens.
Samethana:
This game reaches a whole new level of craptastic.
Whereas the change from TS1 to TS2 was awesome (better graphics, better gameplay, better interface), the change to TS3 is a major setback imho. The sims are awful (and I'm not one of those face1 type lovers), the interface sucks majorly and the entire build/buy mode is even crappier than the TS1 one.
If there was no TS2, I'd rather play TS1 than this non-game. I'm going to unpre-order immediatly and throw this piece of crap off my precious computer!
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