OK, so why would I want this mess?
Scotty:
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.
I have gathered from this forum that:
You're stuck with balloon faced Sims. And second generation Sims are even worse.
You're stuck with nasty dead-looking eyes. (About 80% of my reason for thinking I'm going to hate this. All I can think of when I look at them is a Victorian porcelain doll in a horror movie. You know the one that tries to strangle the hero the minute s/he falls asleep.)
The Story Progression Toggle is either borked, not borked, or works for a while and then stops.
You can only run one family at any given time because the game will randomly delete them if you run any other family. This problem is either fixed or not fixed by aforesaid SPT depending on whether it's borked on purpose or not.
Most of the game consists of chasing all over the open concept neighborhood collecting stuff which has no use in the game other than display.
Relationships are either too easy to make or too hard. Or both at once.
All public areas are rabbitholes.
EA has given TSR some sort of perk which has allowed them to make their own content creator. (Which accounts for a good chunk of the remaining 19.56% of the reason I'm avoiding this turd.)
So. Anyone want to address the .44% that still thinks I might buy Sims 3 once the price drops to $1.98 US.
Oh, don't listen to those morons at N99. I was banned there years ago for calling Barb a fucking bitch. Most of those people over there are a bunch of sheep anyway. I have tried getting back in there a couple times, just to see whats going on, and maybe point and laugh at that group of sad sacks. But I'm still banned. But I could care less.
Anyway, if people don't like the game, that's their business. No reason for people to get their panties in a bunch just because you don't agree with them. I'm surprised N99 is still around. May they all fry in hell. I hate them even more than T$R, and that's saying something.
Sorry to derail this thread, but I see N99, and I just have to say something. :lol:
Blaise:
Quote from: Scotty on 2009 May 30, 03:40:53
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.
Oh, don't listen to those morons at N99. I was banned there years ago foe calling Barb a fucking bitch. Most of those people over there are a bunch of sheep anyway. I have tried getting back in there a couple times, just to see whats going on, and maybe point and laugh at that group of sad sacks. But I'm still banned. But I could care less.
Anyway, if people don't like the game, that's their business. No reason for people to get their panties in a bunch just because you don't agree with them. I'm surprised N99 is still around. May they all fry in hell. I hate them even more than T$R, and that's saying something.
Agreed. And I have not been banned at N99. But the place is full of brainless stepford wives - morons is a kind epithet for some of the N99ers. If someone called Pescado an asshole, he'd be flattered I expect.
Anyway, I can understand your desire to open discussion about this, but in the end, if you hate the game I don't think lots of mods, CC and a $1.98 price tag would sway you too much. I agree with so much of what you said, especially the creepy eyes. To me the Sims look doughy and demented.
P.S.: In the years I have watched things over there, I can assure you that Barb IS a bitch. Quite nasty under the happy, happy exterior.
Scotty:
I actually like the game. More than I thought I would. For a long time, I was determined that I was not going to try it. I hated the look of the Sims for the most part. Then I did start playing, I thought it would be just to check it out and see what it was like. I ended up playing ALL DAY yesterday. lol. I love it now. True, there are a few things I don't like. I still think the Sims look pretty creepy. And as usual, the townies are fugly. But I chalk it up to EAxis usual ineptness when it comes to creating Sims. It looks like they so it in their sleep, stoned. I have some good looking Sims in my game, but those are made by me. I am not the greatest when it comes to making Sims, but they look better than the Maxis ones.
As for Barb, I used to be a big supporter of N99. There was a huge fight across several Sim sites, and I finally saw her true colors. Ah well, I wont get into what went on, this was years ago when Sims 1 was still in its prime. But, I'm sure she remembers me. lol.
Lerf:
Oh, I wasn't banned on N99, and I'm still posting and hanging around the Sims 2 board, but basically I wasn't saying that Sims 3 looked like the greatest thing in the world and snarked at for it. Barb had absolutely nothing to do with it. The reallly funny part was when someone asked a serious question about modding I was one of the only two people on the board who knew the answer. At this point, though, I wouldn't go back on the Sims 3 board over there if it were the only source on the game on the internet. However, I wouldn't miss NoCommente's postings in the Sims 2 Pictures and Videos section for anything.
I'm trying to convince my husband that it's safe to Arrr! Sims 3, but he has veto power because he's the one who will have to clean up any messes. And I don't want him to have to deal with that because his regular job is doing computer stuff at a large university. He doesn't, thank Ghu, have to deal with students, but staff and faculty are capable of sufficient stupidity to bring him home grumpy. (My favorite is still the faculty member who, upon sitting down at her shiny new computer for the first time decided to free up HD space by getting rid of all the expendable files. You know, the ones ending in .exe. I leave the aftermath to your fertile imagination.) And on weekends he works on the computers at his Dad's business. It's a motorcycle dealership and repair shop. Envision biker employees with internet access using the computers with the inventory information, and a father who 1. keeps putting AOL back on his system though it's not necessary (AOL is a virus) and 2. will click on any popup even if it says "Get your hard drive wiping virus here in only one click!". Now do you see why I don't want him to have to take some virus off my system when he could be out having fun planting bamboo in the backyard?
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Scotty on 2009 May 30, 04:26:11
But I chalk it up to EAxis usual ineptness when it comes to creating Sims. It looks like they so it in their sleep, stoned.
That is probably not that far from the truth. I mean, you're a developer. You don't have any actual stake in these sims. You mash the random button a few times and call it a day.
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