THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
spookymuffin:
I finally managed to fix my game (managed to get a corrupt install two times in a row) and I've been playing for most of the last 24 hours.
I like the game. I suppose that I'll do up a list of what I like and what I don't, just because all the cool kids are doing it.
I liked:
Moodlets. They are more dynamic and realistic than I had expected.The expanded interactions. Sure, "ask about day" and "enthuse about house" may both be more or less identical interactions but it does manage to give the impression that you can now do more than just chain chat/hang out/gossip until the sims are friends.I like the rabbit holes. My reasons are more or less the same as expressed by Pescado above. I don't want to watch my sim shop or take a cooking class.The new labels in the relationship panel. Husband/wife rather than "married", daughter/son rather than the generic "family" label.The eye textures. I know that most of you seem to hate them but, in fairness, they look a lot better than the default eyes in TS2. They also, coincidentally, resemble one of my favourite eye-sets from TS2.The CAS. Contrary to popular opinion, I don't think that it's all that hard to make a unique sim. Although I would recommend putting the "head width" slider all the way to the left to get rid of the whole fat-head thing.It's great that going to a community lot is so easy now. My sims never used to leave their homes unless it was necessary because it was such a pain in the ass to get anywhere.That it feels different. I was becoming so bored with TS2 that I'm glad that this is more of an overhaul than just "TS2 with better graphics".The fact that the rest of the neighbourhood looks after itself and continues on without me. As someone who rarely plays more than one or two families seriously I'm really loving this new element of gameplay.
I mean, if I really want to have full control again I can always fire up TS2. It's not like I can't have both of them installed at the same time.
I didn't like:
The fact that hair, eye and skin colour don't have genetic values anymore. I understand that it would have been very difficult to give them fixed values now that we can pick from such a huge range of colurs but I'm sure that there could have been a way to work around that. They could have given us a genetic slider so that we could assign specific pigment dominance at our own discretion, it would have been nice to be able to make some eyes really dominant and others extremely recessive.The skin tones are awful. I'm really hoping that people will find a way to override textures in the game in the near future. They are just too low-res and plain for my taste.Animation glitches. Hopefully this will be fixed in a patch.Gender is not taken into account when a child is being assigned its facial structure. There is no effort to feminise inherited masculine traits or vice-versa, there are so many little girls running around with manly jaw lines.Lack of hair/clothes meshes. A minor gripe and one that I know will be rectified in later EPs.
All in all, I think that I'm going to enjoy playing this almost as much as I enjoyed playing TS2 when it first came out.
lindaetterlee:
I never realized how much I missed the maxmotive cheat.
blackcat:
Quote from: lindaetterlee on 2009 May 22, 09:04:53
I never realized how much I missed the maxmotive cheat.
You can still do it wil testingcheatsenabled true and then shift click the mailbox or drag motives bar.
aussieone:
I've started up the TS3 on four separate occasions and played for a couple of hours each time.
When I've played, it has felt like I have to spend time with with people I really do *not* want to hang out with.
Then I've quit the game, fired up TS2 and it has felt like "Honey, I'm home!"
Maybe it's too big of a change for me; maybe the game sucks donkey's balls; but I really can't see myself warming to TS3 anytime soon.
BlueSoup:
Does anyone know how to actually work this stupid food replicator? Figured it out. What a pain in the ass these things are.
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