Amikron DevaliaI didn't ask for this title.Registered Userregular
edited May 2009
I wasn't asking for anything, I am almost positive this expansion will be quickly coming after its release. Pretty much the only thing EA hasn't done with the Sims. There's more than enough torture methods built into vanilla Sims and Sims 2 for my tastes.
Apparently the build grid is much, much smaller. Furniture is freely placable and rotatable, multiple items can be placed on small end-tables (like on the corners, center, sides, etc). You can use textures from your computer to colour things, as well as use a colour wheel and premade material settings on both clothing and build mode stuff.
The Sims franchise is the epitome of everything that is wrong with EA.
Business savvy and profit? If I owned a publisher, I would love for that to be "wrong" with my company as well.
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Amikron DevaliaI didn't ask for this title.Registered Userregular
edited May 2009
I think he is referring more to how EA basically told maxis to shelf features purely to make into expansion packs (things like pets and so on) rather than just making a quality game that didn't need oodles of patches/expansions/etc.
But in EA's defense, money, glorious money! MONEY MONEY MONEY!!!
Don't knock the Sims too much. It's fun while it lasts, and the modding community is sick.
No seriously, I mean that. They're sick and twisted which is what makes it fun.
Any game that has a mod that allows your sim teen to sit in front of a computer and whack off to porn after smoking a joint is an instant win in my book.
Also... I created an adoption agency called Adopt-a-Clone. It was run by three over-weight women in dominatrix leather gear housing enormous tits (all mods), one sweet grandmother who cleaned up the diapers, and a black samurai who funded the agency.
...
What?
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I wasn't asking for anything, I am almost positive this expansion will be quickly coming after its release. Pretty much the only thing EA hasn't done with the Sims. There's more than enough torture methods built into vanilla Sims and Sims 2 for my tastes.
Oh see I thought it was a satire of posts in this very thread
Don't knock the Sims too much. It's fun while it lasts, and the modding community is sick.
No seriously, I mean that. They're sick and twisted which is what makes it fun.
Any game that has a mod that allows your sim teen to sit in front of a computer and whack off to porn after smoking a joint is an instant win in my book.
Also... I created an adoption agency called Adopt-a-Clone. It was run by three over-weight women in dominatrix leather gear housing enormous tits (all mods), one sweet grandmother who cleaned up the diapers, and a black samurai who funded the agency.
...
What?
Oh I agree, the Sims itself in concept is a great and enjoyable series. Though I'm very hard pressed to buy the expansion packs for them, though due to my ex-wife I have half of the ones that were shoveled out for Sims 2. Pets are quite awesome though, I will say.
I wasn't asking for anything, I am almost positive this expansion will be quickly coming after its release. Pretty much the only thing EA hasn't done with the Sims. There's more than enough torture methods built into vanilla Sims and Sims 2 for my tastes.
Oh see I thought it was a satire of posts in this very thread
But I see now that I was mistaken
It was more to give the poster above my expansion idea a reason to dream that, one day, he too can purchase the Sims and at least 1 of its expansions. In a perfect world.
The amount of porn pictures being used as wallpaper will be horrifying.
Some of the wallpapers I have seen are highly questionable
I remember when someone had chopped up a several page layout of an orgy and used it as wallpaper
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Amikron DevaliaI didn't ask for this title.Registered Userregular
edited May 2009
"Come into my living room and we'll watch the game."
"Hey, isn't that your wife getting DP'd by the mailman?"
"Why yes, it is, don't you think the skin colors match the couch so nicely?"
Ok, so this is "unofficially" out for unscrupulous people. My girlfriend (honestly, not me) is a massive Sims fan, owns every single Sims 2 expansion (including the Ikea one?!) and has this on pre-order so I figured there's no harm in giving it a shot to see how it runs on my machine. I'm at work now and have left her playing so I can really only comment on performance.
So rocking onboard graphics and a dual core CPU I've been able to crank this up to a widescreen resolution and experimented by turning everything (except AA) up to full. The game ran at a fair lick (probably 25fps or so) however I noticed the scrolling was a bit jumpy. Turning everything down to minimum the scrolling was still jerky so I guess that's just how it is (Sims 2 was pretty similar).
From the text messages I've had up to now and my brief experience:
Items can indeed be placed at an angle now.
I didn't see an option for changing the height of a Sim (I thought this was in but clearly not)
Sims weight is now variable. It's based on a slider bar. Fat sims are FAT.
You can disable ageing from the in game menu, or change the length of time it takes.
The character creator appears to be a lot more detailed but as with Sims 2 the number of different hair styles you get etc is fairly limited. I expect these to increase with the expansion packs.
Interface hasn't changed much at all really from Sims 2
And after asking what it's like, by text message, I received the following:
Oh and one new thing I quite like (at least I think it's new, I was never too in to the Sims), there's a free-will meter. You can set how much they need baby sitting or you can leave them to get on on their own.
Oh and one new thing I quite like (at least I think it's new, I was never too in to the Sims), there's a free-will meter. You can set how much they need baby sitting or you can leave them to get on on their own.
They would free-think somewhat previously, and it could be disabled outright. Though, this system seems much more complex, and well, useful. Especially when managing a large family. I shouldn't have to tell the mother to change the baby before making dinner, that poor stinky bastard needs changing dammit!
I've never, ever understood the appeal of this 3D Paper Doll simulator. For guys at least.
I had a friend in college who was really into the Sims. I watched him play it one day and was like, "ok, and THEN what?"
Yes, it's 2009 and guys are allowed to like whatever, but honestly I just don't see the appeal here
Its one of those games you can just sit back and enjoy whenever you feel like it. You could make the same argument for sandbox games like Elder Scrolls or X3 or many other sandbox games.
I've never, ever understood the appeal of this 3D Paper Doll simulator. For guys at least.
I had a friend in college who was really into the Sims. I watched him play it one day and was like, "ok, and THEN what?"
Yes, it's 2009 and guys are allowed to like whatever, but honestly I just don't see the appeal here
I know what you mean.
I played the first Sims back in the day, and it was amusing and all, but then I sort of realised that it was nothing more than me playing with electronic dolls for an hour, and that was it. Don't get me wrong, it's fun to screw with your Sims and all, but the novelty on that wears out real fast.
I'll buy this. Play the SHIIIIIIIIIIIT out of it for 3 days straight non-stop, then never play it again. Happens with every single Sims game and I don't see why this will be any different.
Still a day 1 purchase.
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I've never, ever understood the appeal of this 3D Paper Doll simulator. For guys at least.
I had a friend in college who was really into the Sims. I watched him play it one day and was like, "ok, and THEN what?"
Yes, it's 2009 and guys are allowed to like whatever, but honestly I just don't see the appeal here
Its one of those games you can just sit back and enjoy whenever you feel like it. You could make the same argument for sandbox games like Elder Scrolls or X3 or many other sandbox games.
Which is why I don't enjoy those games much either :P
Endless, Aimless Games you can't win or solve are not my favorite I guess. Or maybe I just don't have enough pent-up relationship frustration that I find a need in torturing little digital versions of my loved ones
My wife and I like to make ourselves, start out married at a house, and then just see what happens. 90% of the time she would end up cheating on me when the people that live around come and visit. Hopefully thats not an omen for anything....
I've never, ever understood the appeal of this 3D Paper Doll simulator. For guys at least.
I had a friend in college who was really into the Sims. I watched him play it one day and was like, "ok, and THEN what?"
Yes, it's 2009 and guys are allowed to like whatever, but honestly I just don't see the appeal here
I know what you mean.
I played the first Sims back in the day, and it was amusing and all, but then I sort of realised that it was nothing more than me playing with electronic dolls for an hour, and that was it. Don't get me wrong, it's fun to screw with your Sims and all, but the novelty on that wears out real fast.
It's like a dumbed down dwarf fortress.
The appeal comes from experimenting with different setups, and generally goofing off and creating your friends(also a popular thing to do in dwarf fortress). If you want to 'play the game' the challenge comes from intelligently managing your sims so that they become successful and fulfilled. Which is pretty hard once you start throwing kids and whatnot into the mix. But once that's done, if you just ache for goal oriented gameplay other than 'don't suck', yeah you're probably not going to enjoy it that much.
Something about this repeated 'playing with dolls' expression irks me.
I like the Sims, I have the first two, although I've never bought an expansion pack. I don't need extra crap in the game, especially not at the prices they charge for it with user created stuff being free and all.
Most people who don't get it are looking at it with the perspective that you need to "win". Yes, indeed, if all you do is make sure your Sim's bars are all full, get a job, chat with friends and be successful, it is a pretty boring game. What The Sims is really about (for me and most other people who find it fun) is creating a good story.
In the Sims 2, I had 3 Unruly biker gang members move in with an upper class white family. They slept in the same beds, used the same bathrooms, ate the same food, etc. The gang members occasionally played with the kids, much to the dad's chargrin. He hated the biker gang members and wanted them out of his house. The wife had sex with the biker gang members when the dad wasn't around. Afterward she would go back to pretending to be a perfect house wife. Eventually, the biker gang members decided the bathroom that everyone shared was too private. They moved the toilet and all the plumbing (pretty impressive actually) into the center of the living room in plain view of everyone. If that wasn't enough, they installed a basketball hoop directly above it. Not only did you have to poop in front of the biker gang, but basketballs would be raining down on you while you did it. This led to the upper class white family often "holding it" as long as possible, occasionally opting to go in their pants instead. That set the stage for a highly entertaining game of Sims.
Sounds like they finally solved one of the issues that bugged the hell out of me in Sims 2. The fact that whenever you had a Sim leave the house to go someplace, like the park or shopping, time would pass, your Sims attributes would go down, you'd go back to the house and it'd be the exact time when you left. Of course your Sim attributes would still be low from the trip, so it would screw up any balance you had going before you left. This was especially true with the sleeping cycle.
I look forward to seeing what type of trouble I can get my Sims into once this comes out.
Something about this repeated 'playing with dolls' expression irks me.
perhaps its because, when it really comes down to it, thats what all of us are doing in every computer game?
THEY ARE ACTION FIGURES, DAMMIT!
anyway, i enjoy the sims
one of my guys owned and operated a bar/lounge/restaurant and slept with pretty much every female that worked there or was a patron. many shenanigans were had
When the Sims first came out, I accidentally bought the Mac version. I didn't even look to check, the concept was so alien to me. Computer games that wont work on my computer what kind of sorcery is this??
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Now your sims can fight in the most epic conflict in Sims history!
- All new "first person" mode lets you get into the fight like you never have before!
- Multiple weapons to destroy the enemy as it tries to crush your hopes and dreams meter!
- Capture enemy units and torture them for intel! Use said intel to launch counter offensives!
- Control a team of up to 6 of your neighbors, taking squad based sim tactics to a whole new level!
Seriously
It's the Sims
Stop asking for new ways to kill them
Torture though, that's another matter. Particularly the psychological stuff
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It's pretty damn nuts.
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Business savvy and profit? If I owned a publisher, I would love for that to be "wrong" with my company as well.
But in EA's defense, money, glorious money! MONEY MONEY MONEY!!!
No seriously, I mean that. They're sick and twisted which is what makes it fun.
Any game that has a mod that allows your sim teen to sit in front of a computer and whack off to porn after smoking a joint is an instant win in my book.
Also... I created an adoption agency called Adopt-a-Clone. It was run by three over-weight women in dominatrix leather gear housing enormous tits (all mods), one sweet grandmother who cleaned up the diapers, and a black samurai who funded the agency.
...
What?
-- Jesse, Breaking Bad
Oh see I thought it was a satire of posts in this very thread
But I see now that I was mistaken
PSN ID : DetectiveOlivaw | TWITTER | STEAM ID | NEVER FORGET
Oh I agree, the Sims itself in concept is a great and enjoyable series. Though I'm very hard pressed to buy the expansion packs for them, though due to my ex-wife I have half of the ones that were shoveled out for Sims 2. Pets are quite awesome though, I will say.
edit:
It was more to give the poster above my expansion idea a reason to dream that, one day, he too can purchase the Sims and at least 1 of its expansions. In a perfect world.
Some of the wallpapers I have seen are highly questionable
I remember when someone had chopped up a several page layout of an orgy and used it as wallpaper
"Hey, isn't that your wife getting DP'd by the mailman?"
"Why yes, it is, don't you think the skin colors match the couch so nicely?"
I recently built myself a HTPC, specs are:
2.8ghz - Intel Dual Core
4gb ram
Nvidia Geforce 9300 motherboard.
So rocking onboard graphics and a dual core CPU I've been able to crank this up to a widescreen resolution and experimented by turning everything (except AA) up to full. The game ran at a fair lick (probably 25fps or so) however I noticed the scrolling was a bit jumpy. Turning everything down to minimum the scrolling was still jerky so I guess that's just how it is (Sims 2 was pretty similar).
From the text messages I've had up to now and my brief experience:
I didn't see an option for changing the height of a Sim (I thought this was in but clearly not)
Sims weight is now variable. It's based on a slider bar. Fat sims are FAT.
You can disable ageing from the in game menu, or change the length of time it takes.
The character creator appears to be a lot more detailed but as with Sims 2 the number of different hair styles you get etc is fairly limited. I expect these to increase with the expansion packs.
Interface hasn't changed much at all really from Sims 2
And after asking what it's like, by text message, I received the following:
"Is good. I've had a baby"
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chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Slight topic deviation: Wouldn't it be aces if someone, somehow, used the Sims "engine" to remake Space Station 13? Just seems like it would fit...
PSN: SirGrinchX
Oculus Rift: Sir_Grinch
They would free-think somewhat previously, and it could be disabled outright. Though, this system seems much more complex, and well, useful. Especially when managing a large family. I shouldn't have to tell the mother to change the baby before making dinner, that poor stinky bastard needs changing dammit!
ZING!
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This is the 2009 version "I'm only (playing/watching) it because, you know, the chicks (are hot/make out/fall out of their clothes), man!"
I had a friend in college who was really into the Sims. I watched him play it one day and was like, "ok, and THEN what?"
Yes, it's 2009 and guys are allowed to like whatever, but honestly I just don't see the appeal here
It's a fun sandbox? Not every game needs an end to be fun.
I know what you mean.
I played the first Sims back in the day, and it was amusing and all, but then I sort of realised that it was nothing more than me playing with electronic dolls for an hour, and that was it. Don't get me wrong, it's fun to screw with your Sims and all, but the novelty on that wears out real fast.
Still a day 1 purchase.
Which is why I don't enjoy those games much either :P
Endless, Aimless Games you can't win or solve are not my favorite I guess. Or maybe I just don't have enough pent-up relationship frustration that I find a need in torturing little digital versions of my loved ones
It's like a dumbed down dwarf fortress.
The appeal comes from experimenting with different setups, and generally goofing off and creating your friends(also a popular thing to do in dwarf fortress). If you want to 'play the game' the challenge comes from intelligently managing your sims so that they become successful and fulfilled. Which is pretty hard once you start throwing kids and whatnot into the mix. But once that's done, if you just ache for goal oriented gameplay other than 'don't suck', yeah you're probably not going to enjoy it that much.
Something about this repeated 'playing with dolls' expression irks me.
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Most people who don't get it are looking at it with the perspective that you need to "win". Yes, indeed, if all you do is make sure your Sim's bars are all full, get a job, chat with friends and be successful, it is a pretty boring game. What The Sims is really about (for me and most other people who find it fun) is creating a good story.
In the Sims 2, I had 3 Unruly biker gang members move in with an upper class white family. They slept in the same beds, used the same bathrooms, ate the same food, etc. The gang members occasionally played with the kids, much to the dad's chargrin. He hated the biker gang members and wanted them out of his house. The wife had sex with the biker gang members when the dad wasn't around. Afterward she would go back to pretending to be a perfect house wife. Eventually, the biker gang members decided the bathroom that everyone shared was too private. They moved the toilet and all the plumbing (pretty impressive actually) into the center of the living room in plain view of everyone. If that wasn't enough, they installed a basketball hoop directly above it. Not only did you have to poop in front of the biker gang, but basketballs would be raining down on you while you did it. This led to the upper class white family often "holding it" as long as possible, occasionally opting to go in their pants instead. That set the stage for a highly entertaining game of Sims.
I look forward to seeing what type of trouble I can get my Sims into once this comes out.
perhaps its because, when it really comes down to it, thats what all of us are doing in every computer game?
anyway, i enjoy the sims
one of my guys owned and operated a bar/lounge/restaurant and slept with pretty much every female that worked there or was a patron. many shenanigans were had
good times
It's nice to see someone other than Blizzard doing this for once, and I might actually pick it up just to support this notion.
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