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EA Confirms MySims For Wii, DS
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Then tell me what is in the game other then what I've said.
What about drawing in a community, interacting with that community to earn yourself new blueprints?
What about the fact that you have control over every house in the town, instead of just your own?
Did you ever actually try going into your villagers houses and speak with them? like the Hotel? the Goth chick (I think everyone starts with her)?
Except that's just wrong. There's mopre things to do in Animal Crossing and that's REFLECTED IN THE MANUAL.
The ONLY way to do this is by building stuff. Thus: you build stuff.
It's not required for anything and still: You buiild stuff.
Gosh, no, I didn't bother to do the most basic thing in the game that the tutorial forces you to do! You're totally right!
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I'm sorry, but if you truley think that that WHOLE game is in that single page of a manual...
...well... you're retarded. And nothing I post here can change that.
You can collect fruit, you can't eat it. Collecting anything is just getting Essences ie paint and textures.
You can't buy anything. You build stuff. Anything you want, granted.
There are no needs to be taken care of other then when people ask you to build stuff.
You can fish but, again, it just gives you Essences and it's just an extremely simple mini-game. You go to one pond, point at bubbles and press a button. No skill, no real variety, you get one of 4 possible Essences every time.
Obviously, because you have yet to prove me wrong. And thanks for the insult, that's real mature.
In any case, the point of the whole game is just building things. To that extenet there's a HUGE variety of stuff you can build but unless you REALLY get into building stuff the game is going to feel really shallow and simplistic.
You proved YOURSELF wrong!
You just said in the post above this one that you can fish.
Unless I'm missing a step... I don't see how Fishing <=> Building
Wow.
Fishing is just collecting essences. You use essences to BUILD STUFF. Everything other then literally building stuff is ridiculously simple mini-games (if you can even call them mini games) that do nothing else then give you more stuff to build with. You are not going to spend all day fishing. You are not going to spend all day prospecting. You do it for maybe a minute and YOU'LL NEVER HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN. In Animal Crossing ( for example) you could fish all, year and still not get every fish.
Yeah... and what did you do with the fish? Oh... thats right... you turned it into money... so you could get a bigger house...
And fishing in Animal Crossing isn't exactly Bass Fishing Pro AM 2008 or whatever.
OR turned them into the museum OR gave them as gifts OR kept them in your house. And it took a hell of a lot more skill then the fishing in Sims, that's for damn sure.
Look at it this way, if you choose not to build stuff or collect Essences in Sims, what else can you do? If you choose to not expand your house in Animal Crossing, what else can you do? You'll find the first question doesn't have an answer while the second has a list.
I've played maybe 2-3 hours of it so far, and it is certainly fun.
EDIT: It feels pretty shallow, but the game is worth at LEAST a rent. It's a pretty fun time-wasting game (in the vein of Animal Crossing; As there's really no huge dynamic part of the game. You play at your leisure).
In conclusion, any game that makes my husband yell "Toooo cute! Argh, it burns!" is a win in my book.
Hopefully, for the next iteration, they'll put in the chance to unlock new things or new events by building a certain way. For example, a certain waggle mini-game can be unlocked by building a house a certain way - or you can unlock a new location by building several buildings a certain way.
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Sure, it's kinda "kiddy" in that there's not much to do beyond building stuff...but it's like a Wii-based Legoland! It works great if you toss out Animal Crossing or Sims expectations and accept it for what it is. Being able to dress up as an evil count while designing and building demonic cupboards is a bizarre, goofy kind of fun. Collecting essences doesn't feel too much like a grind (to me, anyway) and I like the weird sense of discovery you get when figuring out how to get different essences (I was a bit tickled when I figured out how to get the Scary essence).
Simplistic fun, but definitely some creative, good times nonetheless.
They seem to be advertising it well and I can really see this selling like the proverbial hot cakes.
WiiU: JamWarrior
I think Animal Crossing has more to do overall, but MySims has more to do in one sitting. In MySims, you can choose who lives in your town, where they live, and what the interior and exterior of their house looks like, and you don't have to wait until the next day to do things.
I like Animal Crossing better but I think MySims is great too. I just hate the loading times and the lag.
Battle Revolution handled it so well. I'm interested to see how 3rd parties may do it.
No DS to Wii connectivity at all I'm afraid.
WiiU: JamWarrior