OK, so why would I want this mess?
mibsywibsy:
Quote from: Lerf on 2009 May 29, 17:32:36
Having been invited, oh so politely, to fuck off and die on N99 for not joining in the cheering section for Sims 3, someone give me some reasons to not think it's a total waste of hard drive space.
Hard drive space is trivial; if this is really your concern, you probably ought to upgrade your hard drive.
That said, in my experience it's probably not worth the hassle. TS3 is essentially a stripped-down TS2 given an aesthetic makeover, but with extra bugs, and a small handful of marked improvements and shinies that you will find yourself really missing when you inevitably go back to TS2 (be it from aesthetic disgust, shitty SPT behavior, lack of hacks/non-rabbithole community lots, [X] feature, whatever). CAST is shiny, the rabbithole options/career branches/opportunities for jobs (and only jobs) are shiny, Traits are shiny, some of the new Inventory functionality is shiny, the skill challenges are shiny, unless you are a bedamned 12 the ability to have Sims with different body types is shiny... but it's all rhinestones sprinkled over a steaming pile of EAxian stupid shit. Unless you're sure that none of the shinies will have any allure for you, all that will happen is you'll find yourself playing TS2 and feeling a sense of relief, but kind of wistfully wishing you could give your 53rd Knowledge Sim with the Nature OTH some Traits, and trying in vain to find the CAST button when confronted with a Maxis item that would go perfectly in your living room, if only it was in the right color/style.
LauraW:
I played Sims 2 since it came out..wasn't that 2001? So for 8 years! I was also awed by the difference between Sims 2 and Sims 1 and the bugs didn't bother me because it was such a cool game! When things were a bit boring, I could add new custom careers and make a medieval hood or a Victorian hood...or a hood in the desert or in the mountains. I could make Northern Exposure into a hood! With Sims 3, we are stuck with the same rabbit holes and without them, I don't think you would have the careers at all. You could live off the land and off writing novels or fishing I suppose, but half the game, the careers and career opportunities would be gone.
This game is a nice casual game, but I find myself logging out every once in a while due to boredom already. With Sims 2, I would play and play and suddenly realize 4 hours had passed and the sun was coming up! I don't think I will be playing this for 8 years unless they give us more content and don't expect us to get it from the Sims Store for astronomical prices.
seanachai:
TS2 came out in '04. I think TS1 came out in '00?
vagabondher:
I've been trying to figure out some sort of justification why, although a LOT annoys me about this game, I don't uninstall it and go back to Sims 2 permanently. I think it's because with Sims 2, I refuse to play it without a) most or all the expansion packs and b) a vast array of mods. The Sims 2 base game is horribly boring and the Sims 3 base game falls on the same level - not in being boring, but in being frustrating - but I (perhaps naively) have hope that once we have mods galore and expansion packs to play with, we may very well be singing a different tune.
But hey, I'm probably going to be wrong and when that day comes, I'll be eating crow.
Peggy_Leggy:
Quote from: GnatGoSplat on 2009 May 29, 20:46:14
The man goes out and knocks up just whoever, and then doesn't care to visit his illegitimate love children. He'll hook up with and impregnate mothers and daughters in the same household. I've got a Jerry Springer-like story going on in my town, and it's been quite amusing so far. Sims being able to impregnate townies was something I thought would be fun, but couldn't be done in Sims 2.
Ha ha, that's exactly how I'm playing one of my saved games. I have a pro athlete who knocks up women all over town. His favorite conquest so far has been Judy Bunch, an overweight, family-oriented wife and mother. He really had to work at bringing her over to the dark side.
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