New EP & still no Hood Editor!
maxon:
Quote from: Doc Doofus on 2009 August 05, 21:02:47
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I've been playing Anno Domini 1404 obsessively in the last week (since I've completely lost interest in Sims 3) and I am being completely blown away by the depth and variety in the game. Stuff keeps happening and I think 'O wow, that's nice.'
That got me curious enough to go googling for a review. I watched this youtube review:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42zToqR2w1c
... And I have to say that I'm unimpressed. It sounds like too many city/empire building sim games I've played over the years. They may have made it more complicated or added more detail, but from the sound of it, it offers nothing very new or intriguing. Unfortunately for me, because I'm about due for a Sims break.
In some ways that's fair comment - it is one of those supply chain management things - like Caesar only with more stuff. Really, a lot more stuff. I happen to like that sort of game very much but if you don't then it's not the game for you. I like the atmosphere and the campaign side of the game has a story which I'm always a complete sucker for. The reason I was thinking of it (despite playing all the time at the moment) and mentioned it is that it's a new game to me, like Sims 3, and, well, basically there's just so much more in it than TS3. It made me realise just how much EA has stripped out of the sims game. This game is a new game, cheaper than TS3 and has and does more.
rum nate:
Quote from: maxon on 2009 August 05, 11:18:19
EA were talking about the neighbourhood editor when they first revealed that there would only be one hood in the new game but I noticed they didn't mention it after 3 months or so before release. I guessed then they'd changed their mind. If they do release it, I would guess they would charge for it or release it as an EP - "NEW, you can now edit your own neighbourhoods! Give us yet more of your hard-earned money (or that of your parent's) for something that should have been in the game when it was released! And don't forget the Sims Store guys." Lame.
I noticed that too. When they announced the game was no longer going to be released in February, but rather in June, all talk about releasing a tool to edit neighborhoods stopped.
If we don't get the tool in either World Adventures or by years end, I doubt we will get it at all. But with all the negative feeling towards World Adventures on the BBS, and all the people who want a tool to make/edit neighborhoods, watch EA put that in WA as a new feature just to get people to buy it.
uknortherner:
Quote from: rum nate on 2009 August 05, 22:26:49
I noticed that too. When they announced the game was no longer going to be released in February, but rather in June, all talk about releasing a tool to edit neighborhoods stopped.
If we don't get the tool in either World Adventures or by years end, I doubt we will get it at all. But with all the negative feeling towards World Adventures on the BBS, and all the people who want a tool to make/edit neighborhoods, watch EA put that in WA as a new feature just to get people to buy it.
Going off EA's previous record, I wouldn't even expect that. Instead, if you're lucky, you'll get a half-arsed neighbourhood terrain editor with most of the functionality removed and accessible only via a cheat code, a la FreeTime.
funnykid:
Quote from: uknortherner on 2009 August 05, 22:31:27
Quote from: rum nate on 2009 August 05, 22:26:49
I noticed that too. When they announced the game was no longer going to be released in February, but rather in June, all talk about releasing a tool to edit neighborhoods stopped.
If we don't get the tool in either World Adventures or by years end, I doubt we will get it at all. But with all the negative feeling towards World Adventures on the BBS, and all the people who want a tool to make/edit neighborhoods, watch EA put that in WA as a new feature just to get people to buy it.
Going off EA's previous record, I wouldn't even expect that. Instead, if you're lucky, you'll get a half-arsed neighbourhood terrain editor with most of the functionality removed and accessible only via a cheat code, a la FreeTime.
That's what I think. At best, EA will do a half-assed job at making a neighborhood editor. They are either too "busy" making crap for the Store, grinding out increasingly buggy EP's, or rolling in the cash they made off us.
Krib:
It's painful watching the direction of this game. A sandbox with every aspect of game-play so carefully monetized that they can't even get around to helping the community build real custom meshes, or allow us to customize neighborhoods, an ability we had in TS2. Perhaps the next EP will be a joint venture with Abercrombie & Fitch - visit their stores in-game!
My first post had to be sometime; please don't dismember me. I'll return to lurking now. Nice place you've got here.
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