Apocalypse! How many are left?
Lerf:
Only if EA ditches the set neighborhood system. Sorry. If all neighborhoods have to look alike then the game will always be fail as far as I'm concerned. I love being able to make the neighborhood look exactly as I want it and as far as I can tell this is impossible in S3.
seelindarun:
Quote from: jordi on 2009 July 09, 16:33:46
Quote from: Lerf on 2009 July 09, 16:16:17
Only if EA ditches the set neighborhood system. Sorry. If all neighborhoods have to look alike then the game will always be fail as far as I'm concerned. I love being able to make the neighborhood look exactly as I want it and as far as I can tell this is impossible in S3.
Yeah, that's a major downside to the game.
Which is exactly why it makes me question whether TS3 is the better game at its core.
It certainly could have been and maybe it still can be, but after all the hype, it's deflating to find that it's still just theory.
For all its seamlessness, the world is much, much smaller in TS3.
fiberglassdolphin:
Quote from: seelindarun on 2009 July 09, 21:22:17
Quote from: jordi on 2009 July 09, 16:33:46
Quote from: Lerf on 2009 July 09, 16:16:17
Sorry. If all neighborhoods have to look alike then the game will always be fail as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah, that's a major downside to the game.
Which is exactly why it makes me question whether TS3 is the better game at its core.
I'm so pissed. I was so hoping that neighborhood tools would be better rather than a relapse to Sims 1 functionality. No adding and rearranging lots, no decorations, no choice of ground covering, no custom terrains. I hope more people complain about it in more visible internet venues.
The reviews of The Sims 3 all seem to be overwhelmingly positive. Are they critically searching for shortcomings at all? How much is EA paying them?
GelatinousSubstance:
That's why I don't think EPs could make me like this game. I'll be surprised if things change because the direction seems fairly clear at this point.
Lerf:
I keep getting told that I'd love Sims 3 if I just understood that I'm not supposed to play the game the same way as I played Sims 2. I enjoy my play style--rotating families in houses I built for them and decorated for them, in a neighborhood I designed for them. When I try to explain this--or when I bothered--I get told, "Well I never built houses/played any family but a particular Maxis-made family/played any family past the second generation", etc. etc. with a strong sub-text that I was playing wrong all this time and I should just straighten my thinking out and do it the One True Way.
In Sims 2 if you wanted to play the way I do you could, if you wanted to play any other way, you could. With Sims 3 you seem to be channeled into one playing style. Why the hell should I bother with it?
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