Things you DO like...
Slymenstra:
I also like all the things everyone listed but wanted to add some other things.
I do like... the entire landscaping items (trees, shrubs). I think they are very well done. I love how they move in the wind.
I love how my sim can go over her boyfriend's house and hang out and sleep over.
I like how elders look, I just think they are so damn adorable.
I like how my sims jump into the water from the side of the pool.
I love the beaches and the oceans. If they make a BV type expansion it will be awesome to swim in the ocean. (They should have shark attacks!!)
I like the quests.
I like the paintings my sims do.
I like the whole cooking/gardening.
I guess I could go on and on...
Soggy Fox:
I love the landscaping, the traits are fun, and the ability to chose when to age a sim is pretty good too.
I think its is far less realistic that a sim child can max out writing and painting, but not learn any real cooking. When I was 106 I was actually a damn good cook already - not only did I learn from reading [I was reading adult books by then, btw] but I was actually cooking dinner without an adult supervising me, at least after the first few times when it was obvious I had it under control. Yes, sometimes meals were a little odd, as I experimented with spices, but it was better than some adults manage.
But overall, I think once it is possible to import new objects and fix the few things I think are backwards, that as a game, sims 3 will be an improvement after all.
lingeringviolet:
Quote from: slymenstra on 2009 June 22, 21:55:06
I love the beaches and the oceans. If they make a BV type expansion it will be awesome to swim in the ocean. (They should have shark attacks!!)
Shark attacks would be fantastic; more ways to die ftw.
I really like the sunrises and sunsets and the way the water reflects the light. I love the wider variety of skills and ways to make money. The variety of LTWs is a big improvement, too.
Zazazu:
Quote from: magic cookie on 2009 June 22, 10:14:31
Quote from: Zazazu on 2009 June 21, 17:45:10
I halfway agree with you there. Kids should be able to read about cooking, do gardening, athletics...I did all those things as a 6.
Sorry, I didn't explain myself well. I agree that kids could learn about cooking, from a special kids book. What wasn't realistic in Sims 2 was how you could make your Sim kids and teens skilling machines, reading and learning everything from a book and having maxed everything before turning into an adult!
I was never a power-skiller. However, children having only four skills they can learn seems to contribute to the prevalence of the Perfect Aquarium, Illustrious Author, and the general Author/Artist LTWs. I want my sims to pop up their own LTW naturally, and I feel like the game predisposes them to the same of four wants. Not always, but often.
Seriously, though? Separate books for kids? Could you not read adult books as a 6? I was reading L.M. Montgomery at 6 (technical age, not Rule of Six). Betty Crocker is hardly James Joyce.
awrevell:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2009 June 23, 00:09:31
Seriously, though? Separate books for kids? Could you not read adult books as a 6? I was reading L.M. Montgomery at 6 (technical age, not Rule of Six). Betty Crocker is hardly James Joyce.
I am with you there Zazazu. I hated school with a passion as a kid. I was forced to endure reading "See Dick run. Dick can run fast. Jane ran after Dick." in shool when I was reading Edgar Allen Poe and Dan Ross (Dark Shadows books written under the pen name Marilyn Ross) at home afterwards. I once took a Dark Shadows book with me to school and got in trouble for it, till the teacher checked his desk and found his copy was still in his desk. He was reading the same book and thought I had taken his book from his desk.
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