Why the hell aren't we talking about [Sims 3]

TekDragon

Search for "Sims" reveals nothing in the first 2 pages of results. What the hell, guys?



Release Date: June 2, 2009

Features:

• No more generic aspirations and slider bars for "cleanliness" and "playfulness". Instead you can pick 5 traits ranging from food lover to kleptomaniac. Your sim will also have destinies you can fulfill or ignore.
• Crazy customization on not only houses, but on the furniture itself.
• Move your sim throughout an entire town, not just a lot. Neighbors interact and age with each other and with your sim, making a real living town.
• Some random shit about making movies and sharing them on youtube. I dunno.

Some Pictures:

Hacksaw

Unless there's a feature that allows me to brutally and mercilessly slaughter each and every one of my Sims, this game holds no interest for me.

shadydentist

I haven't played any Sims since the original release, and that mostly consisted of me inviting people from my brother's household over and drowning them in my pool.

TekDragon

Hacksaw wrote: »

Unless there's a feature that allows me to brutally and mercilessly slaughter each and every one of my Sims, this game holds no interest for me.

In Sims 2 you could burn your Sims alive, crack their skull open on tile floors, starve them to death, make them go psycho with loneliness after the deaths of their loved ones, and more.

Triko

I played the original Sims for exactly 10 minutes before I asked what the freaking point of this game is, and uninstalled.

I don't need to play a life simulator, when I need to focus on my own

Hacksaw

TekDragon wrote: »

Hacksaw wrote: »

Unless there's a feature that allows me to brutally and mercilessly slaughter each and every one of my Sims, this game holds no interest for me.

In Sims 2 you could burn your Sims alive, crack their skull open on tile floors, starve them to death, make them go psycho with loneliness after the deaths of their loved ones, and more.

Needs more delicious, delicious murder. Is it possible to "accidentally" nudge them into the path of oncoming traffic?

-Loki-

Triko wrote: »

I don't need to play a life simulator, when I need to focus on my own

Yeah. Spend 6 hours improving your Sims relationships, or spend 6 hours talking to your wife/husband/friends/etc. Same idea, one gets better results.

TekDragon

-Loki- wrote: »

Triko wrote: »

I don't need to play a life simulator, when I need to focus on my own

Yeah. Spend 6 hours improving your Sims relationships, or spend 6 hours talking to your wife/husband/friends/etc. Same idea, one gets better results.

My family is a bunch of jerks, so not really.

TheCrumblyCracker

TekDragon wrote: »

Hacksaw wrote: »

Unless there's a feature that allows me to brutally and mercilessly slaughter each and every one of my Sims, this game holds no interest for me.

In Sims 2 you could burn your Sims alive, crack their skull open on tile floors, starve them to death, make them go psycho with loneliness after the deaths of their loved ones, and more.

This was in the first sims. I want more gruesome and inhumane ways to fuck with my sims.

UnbreakableVow

They're making another numbered Sims?

Why not just do a million-billion expansions?

Captain Eleven

The first thing everyone is going to do is get their Sims to have sex.

And then kill them.

Preferably in that order.

Funguy McAids

The art looks so generic and crappy. I doubt I can enjoy this before the community fixes up the character models and faces.

Other than that the Sims is a guilty secret pleasure. Totally awesome to get your girlfriend/wife hooked on if you want a lot of quiet time to yourself :P

I really enjoy biulding houses and decorating! There's my tiny feminine side.

lowlylowlycook

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

They're making another numbered Sims?

Why not just do a million-billion expansions?

Why not both?

Triko

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

They're making another numbered Sims?

Why not just do a million-billion expansions?

I mean, what the hells the difference between Sims expansion pack #28 and Sims 3?!

Steel Angel

Captain Eleven wrote: »

The first thing everyone is going to do is get their Sims to have sex.

And then kill them.

Preferably in that order.

The introduction of zombie and vampire sims in Sims 2 mean that you don't HAVE to do it in that order :winky:

:winky:

Triko wrote: »

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

They're making another numbered Sims?

Why not just do a million-billion expansions?

I mean, what the hells the difference between Sims expansion pack #28 and Sims 3?!

I think the big one is that they're shifting from just one household having stuff happen while the rest exist in stasis to having the others do stuff in the background at the same and giving you the option to poke around wherever you want. So basically the focus goes from individual families to the community you construct as a whole, ie somewhere between the first two games and SimCity.

lowlylowlycook

Steel Angel wrote: »

Captain Eleven wrote: »

The first thing everyone is going to do is get their Sims to have sex.

And then kill them.

Preferably in that order.

The introduction of zombie and vampire sims in Sims 2 mean that you don't HAVE to do it in that order :winky:

:winky:

All I'm going to say here is that one should never, never watch a German horror film.

BakerIsBored

TekDragon wrote: »

-Loki- wrote: »

Triko wrote: »

I don't need to play a life simulator, when I need to focus on my own

Yeah. Spend 6 hours improving your Sims relationships, or spend 6 hours talking to your wife/husband/friends/etc. Same idea, one gets better results.

My family is a bunch of jerks, so not really.

What happened, you giving up on CoH? I never thought someone that stomped me in a 1v1 in CoH would be into the Sims.

:P

TekDragon

BakerIsBored wrote: »

TekDragon wrote: »

-Loki- wrote: »

Triko wrote: »

I don't need to play a life simulator, when I need to focus on my own

Yeah. Spend 6 hours improving your Sims relationships, or spend 6 hours talking to your wife/husband/friends/etc. Same idea, one gets better results.

My family is a bunch of jerks, so not really.

What happened, you giving up on CoH? I never thought someone that stomped me in a 1v1 in CoH would be into the Sims.

:P

lol, I still play. Trying to get rank 10 in 1v1 on all 4 factions. It's slow going.

TheStig

shadydentist wrote: »

I haven't played any Sims since the original release, and that mostly consisted of me inviting people from my brother's household over and drowning them in my pool.

I slept with my neighbor's wife, locked his kid in my secret dungeon then got him trapped in my maze of no escape. I quickly got bored with the game after that.

Funguy McAids

I installed a lot of mods for the Sims 2. Including some nudity mods, and some sex ones that allow your sims to do fun stuff like give head in the shower, do it doggy-style, and other fun things like that.

Yep.

Dr.Oblivious

You want to talk about Sim 3? Well I guess we can have casual chit-chat about it...anyone else know it got leaked (an EA game getting leaked!? That's never happened before).

Sterica

This is the series that tainted my precious SimCity. Kill the Sims. Kill them all.

Lucascraft

The Sims franchise is the epitome of everything that is wrong with EA.

yalborap

There going to be any way to manually pose the little bastards like puppets for sick humor and/or fun drama without limits to my pose options?

Faffel

This kind of makes me want to play Sim City.

It's been well over a decade since I've played.

Amikron Devalia

Sim City 4 + Rush Hour makes for quite a fun game, especially with a few of the mods out there for the way roads are handled. (such as one I always liked that made cul-de-sacs possible)

Roshin

I enjoyed Sims 2 and the countless expansions for a while, but unless this is a major upgrade and Maxis/EA finally dare step outside the family friendly comfort zone, I'm having none of it!

Amikron Devalia

Well you can re-create that wonderful movie Juno, and get a teen knocked up, and having her go on misadventures... or just kill her, you know, whatever suits you best.

BloodySloth

So I'm confused. What's worth talking about here? Because I can clean my house and look for a job right fuckin' now, and it ain't costing me 60 dollars.

EDIT: There is the fact that starting fires isn't going to kill everyone I know and ruin my life in a computer game, but then I can make that happen in Dawn of War with giant robots. If Sims 3 has giant robots it might get my interest.

Amikron Devalia

Oh fuck you that had me audibly laughing, I almost woke my daughter up.

Black Ice

shadydentist wrote: »

I haven't played any Sims since the original release, and that mostly consisted of me inviting people from my brother's household over and drowning them in my pool.

Why did this and Stig's post make me laugh so hard?


I'll tell you what a good Sims game is. Streets of motherfucking Sim City. At least, back when I was 10, give or take 2 years. I think I bought that game when it was really old in some huge Sim game collection pack for $20.

You could make cities in Sim City (a game I never bought) and drive around them in Streets of Sim City. It was Twisted Metal/Vigilante 8/etc. for PC's.

Olivaw

There's an important fact not mentioned in the first post that everyone should know:

there's only three Needs bars now

It's like, eat, sleep, and bathroom, basically

No more "ugh i need to socialize" or "ugh, i need to be in a room that is nicer than this (???)"

Just take care of your basic needs and then you can focus on doing whatever!

That right there, combined with the "no more separate lots" thing, makes this a game I will probably purchase someday

Amikron Devalia

That, but not the ability to re-create the movie Juno?

Olivaw

Juno sucked anyway

UnbreakableVow

Olivaw wrote: »

There's an important fact not mentioned in the first post that everyone should know:

there's only three Needs bars now

It's like, eat, sleep, and bathroom, basically

No more "ugh i need to socialize" or "ugh, i need to be in a room that is nicer than this (???)"

Just take care of your basic needs and then you can focus on doing whatever!

That right there, combined with the "no more separate lots" thing, makes this a game I will probably purchase someday

Whoa

That's actually pretty cool.

Shit pissed me off in the first Sims, admittedly I haven't played any since.

Arasen

Hi, my names expansion pack. I'll be out 3 months after the retail game is released along with 4 of my other friends.
Main reason why I dislike the Sims. Expansion after expansion and charging and arm and leg for it.

Amikron Devalia

Olivaw wrote: »

Juno sucked anyway

Truth. But the ability to maim and kill the whiny teen, then pawn her child off on a neighbor is hard to resist.

RCagent

Anything new with the Housebuilding features? Because that was the area that I mainly played The Sims. Fuck that whole job life thing. I'm making houses.

Olivaw

RCagent wrote: »

Anything new with the Housebuilding features? Because that was the area that I mainly played The Sims. Fuck that whole job life thing. I'm making houses.

Apparently it's crazy customizable now

I don't know the details, I never really took the housebuilding aspect outside of a few custom houses

Amikron Devalia

My ex-wife would make me design elaborate dream homes for her in an ever-growing desire to make the "perfect" home for her digital mans. This ended quickly when she realized the better the home was designed and laid out, the harder time the sims themselves had using it properly.

Darlan

I still haven't tried any of the Sims games. I also still have no intention of picking this one up, but hey.

Maybe there'll be an expansion pack for it that grabs me.