The Sims 4
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ChisanaAoi
Aspiring Egg
Umm, that was kind of rude. If the first one died down (which I'm guessing it did since I didn't see it in the posts) what's the harm in making a new one?
kittenrobotarmy
JOLLY COOPERATION
I'll probably get the Sims 4. Sure, it's expensive, but all of EA's stuff is and Sims is a lot of fun for me. Too bad they kind of killed Create-A-Sim with the new styling.
BellGreen
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I think the new styling will be much easier but I do agree that they killed it
I hope my tablet PC is compatible with Sims 4 to begin with. I've been waiting for the Computer Requirements for ages.
kittenrobotarmy
JOLLY COOPERATION
I kind of like it, along with the new emotions, but I have a Mac. I'm hoping it will be compatible.
Colour Bandit
Senior Member
Ooh I didn't know they were making a fourth one! I'll have to pre-order it at some point...
I just bought my own copy of The Sims 3 (I used to 'share' a copy with my brother) and the Supernatural dlc today for my new computer... Which hasn't arrived yet. I'll pick up some more dlc later on.
I just bought my own copy of The Sims 3 (I used to 'share' a copy with my brother) and the Supernatural dlc today for my new computer... Which hasn't arrived yet. I'll pick up some more dlc later on.
Dembonez19
The Beaubysitter
I'd love to be able to get back into The Sims series. I loved the original Sims games and Sims 2, but I didn't even start The Sims 3 because my computer can't handle graphics-intensive video games. I figured if I bought it, I wouldn't be able to enjoy it.
Besides, I really don't have the time to play it anymore. It's one of those games that requires time (or motherlode).
Besides, I really don't have the time to play it anymore. It's one of those games that requires time (or motherlode).
Officer Berri
Cousin Redd's Nightmare
I'm super excited about The Sims 4. I only managed to buy the first few expansions to The Sims 3 and lost all interest in playing it. The big, open town was like a ghost town. It felt empty. And don't get me started on how broken the game seems to be for most people who play it. Luckily while I played I never had issues with it like most people seemed to, but I think that was because I have a decent PC.
Things I love about The Sims 4:
-The Look of the Sims. They look like Sims again. Not those chubby ugly baby faces that I got with the Sims 3.
-Emotions! My sims in the Sims 3 felt so... emotionless for me. Sure they DID stuff, but the soul and personality that I felt in the Sims 2 was completely absent in the Sims 3. It felt like they went all out on graphics and the open world that they forgot about the Sims themselves!
-CAS looks amazing! I hope I can make a dude with a more feminine figure, and a woman with a more masculine figure. It'd allow for more range in character appearance, which is fabulous! With this new system I can probably better create characters than I ever could before!
-The art style is simply amazing. I love the town screenshots and everything I've seen about the world so far!
-I have read that hats and hairstyles are separate entities now. They say that you can have any hat with ANY hairstyle! I'm so happy I could squeal!
Things I'm iffy about:
-I've heard that the build/buy mode have been fused together. Can't say I like that if it's true. I've also heard this 'build/buy' mode is like looking at a catalog instead of the list of items like it has been in the past. This. This right here I hate. I hate hate hate hate it. But perhaps it's not as bad as it sounds and will be simple and easy to understand and navigate. I'm sketchy, but optimistic it won't be as bad as I think.
-I don't like how there was a huge text box by your Sim's image that stated their emotional state. Stuff like that drives me nuts. Let me hover over their mugshot and get a "[Name] is feeling [emotion]!" thing. Don't stick a huge ugly box right next to it!
Comments on popular topics I've seen about the Sims 4:
-"It should have a multiplayer mode!" No. No it should not. I have found that people who say this seem to assume that Multiplayer would not change the quality of the game or the gameplay at all. But it would. Oh, goodness but it would. Instead of 100% attention on gameplay features, the attention would be split so people who WOULD have been working on making the game look lovely or having cute little things like Sim children running to greet the parent after they get home from work, those people might be pulled away to work on multiplayer interactions. Meaning the amount of unnecessary but 'fun' little things would get cut out more often.
Gameplay would also have to be totally altered if the Sims were made into a Multilayer experience. You would only be able to control your one sim family, if not only one single sim. That cute Sim you want your sim to marry? That could be anyone. A child? An adult? A creepy troll? Anyone! Because of this, there would likely be no woo-hoo type actions. Also, you would likely not be able to edit the town your sim lives in beyond their home lot. Because, if such a thing was even allowed by programming, who wants to build an epic park when that creepy troll I mentioned earlier could run in and demolish it and build naughty anatomy out of walls or bushes?
-"I want realistic graphics like [Insert latest gen game here]!" That is not going to happen. Take a look at your latest gen game (I'm using Final Fantasy 13-2 here). What do the characters do in it? They run around a map. They fight monsters. They run around a map. They fight monsters.
What do your Sims do? They change their clothes. They take off their clothes to shower. They run around. They play in fountains. They plant gardens. They ride bikes. They hug/kiss/fight/talk to/shake hands with/etc. other Sims. Your Sim can have any face you make for it. Your Sim can have any hairstyle you give it. The game has to focus on these interactions. If more time had to be spent in making every Sim look like Snow (...hey I like this idea now. NO. Bad Berri. Focus.) with realistic hair that moves in the breeze and clothes that look like you could yank them off the character and put them on in the real world, there would be MUCH less game play options.
Also, many players of the Sims franchise aren't hardcore gamers like you or I, dear random peron. Oh no, I know many who are simple house wives or house husbands older than I am! Their PCs aren't made to play as many detailed games. EA knows this. They want their games to be playable by a wide audience. That means that they can't make Sims look super detailed like Snow or Serah. Else they will knock out a chunk of their fans.
Things I love about The Sims 4:
-The Look of the Sims. They look like Sims again. Not those chubby ugly baby faces that I got with the Sims 3.
-Emotions! My sims in the Sims 3 felt so... emotionless for me. Sure they DID stuff, but the soul and personality that I felt in the Sims 2 was completely absent in the Sims 3. It felt like they went all out on graphics and the open world that they forgot about the Sims themselves!
-CAS looks amazing! I hope I can make a dude with a more feminine figure, and a woman with a more masculine figure. It'd allow for more range in character appearance, which is fabulous! With this new system I can probably better create characters than I ever could before!
-The art style is simply amazing. I love the town screenshots and everything I've seen about the world so far!
-I have read that hats and hairstyles are separate entities now. They say that you can have any hat with ANY hairstyle! I'm so happy I could squeal!
Things I'm iffy about:
-I've heard that the build/buy mode have been fused together. Can't say I like that if it's true. I've also heard this 'build/buy' mode is like looking at a catalog instead of the list of items like it has been in the past. This. This right here I hate. I hate hate hate hate it. But perhaps it's not as bad as it sounds and will be simple and easy to understand and navigate. I'm sketchy, but optimistic it won't be as bad as I think.
-I don't like how there was a huge text box by your Sim's image that stated their emotional state. Stuff like that drives me nuts. Let me hover over their mugshot and get a "[Name] is feeling [emotion]!" thing. Don't stick a huge ugly box right next to it!
Comments on popular topics I've seen about the Sims 4:
-"It should have a multiplayer mode!" No. No it should not. I have found that people who say this seem to assume that Multiplayer would not change the quality of the game or the gameplay at all. But it would. Oh, goodness but it would. Instead of 100% attention on gameplay features, the attention would be split so people who WOULD have been working on making the game look lovely or having cute little things like Sim children running to greet the parent after they get home from work, those people might be pulled away to work on multiplayer interactions. Meaning the amount of unnecessary but 'fun' little things would get cut out more often.
Gameplay would also have to be totally altered if the Sims were made into a Multilayer experience. You would only be able to control your one sim family, if not only one single sim. That cute Sim you want your sim to marry? That could be anyone. A child? An adult? A creepy troll? Anyone! Because of this, there would likely be no woo-hoo type actions. Also, you would likely not be able to edit the town your sim lives in beyond their home lot. Because, if such a thing was even allowed by programming, who wants to build an epic park when that creepy troll I mentioned earlier could run in and demolish it and build naughty anatomy out of walls or bushes?
-"I want realistic graphics like [Insert latest gen game here]!" That is not going to happen. Take a look at your latest gen game (I'm using Final Fantasy 13-2 here). What do the characters do in it? They run around a map. They fight monsters. They run around a map. They fight monsters.
What do your Sims do? They change their clothes. They take off their clothes to shower. They run around. They play in fountains. They plant gardens. They ride bikes. They hug/kiss/fight/talk to/shake hands with/etc. other Sims. Your Sim can have any face you make for it. Your Sim can have any hairstyle you give it. The game has to focus on these interactions. If more time had to be spent in making every Sim look like Snow (...hey I like this idea now. NO. Bad Berri. Focus.) with realistic hair that moves in the breeze and clothes that look like you could yank them off the character and put them on in the real world, there would be MUCH less game play options.
Also, many players of the Sims franchise aren't hardcore gamers like you or I, dear random peron. Oh no, I know many who are simple house wives or house husbands older than I am! Their PCs aren't made to play as many detailed games. EA knows this. They want their games to be playable by a wide audience. That means that they can't make Sims look super detailed like Snow or Serah. Else they will knock out a chunk of their fans.
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Lion-Lhasa
Fancy Flareon
Oh dear. You're the first ever person I've seen who has said they trust EA.
They will take the game in a direction in which they can squeeze more money out of it. So it wouldn't surprise me if they made Create-A-Style as an addon pack or something.
The expansions will also be exactly the same.
Almost all the expansions for S3 were for previous games also.
S4 merely looks like a graphics upgrade from S3. I will pass over this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUcsUvGDJJ0
^ Building starts at about 0:40
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I agree wholeheartedly with everything you've said.
However people that make the game look lovely aren't the same people that sort multiplayer interactions. Features would be lost because of time restrictions since the programmers wouldn't be able to code so many other interactions.
So that teddy that you can ''Talk through''/''Give Name To''/''Play With''/ would just become ''View'' or ''Play With''.
Within each development team there are many smaller teams each with their own job, especially in big companies with big franchises with even bigger budgets.
Either that or the game would be continuously delayed and still be released as a poor product and the game would flop. Then EA would liquidize Maxis and there would only be awful spinoffs remaining.
At least that's how I saw it lol
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McMuffinburger
Senior Member
i have high hopes for sims 4 since sims 3 extremely disappointed me the graphics were great nd i really liked all of the build stuff i mean building a house was amazing but the game play lacked so much for me and im a player more than a creator, but from what i have read about sims 4 i think im going to like it alot plus i dont think its going to be a computer killer like 3 was they said they were trying to make the game more comp friendly it wont be like 3 however which for me is a good thing, i am excited about it and i hope they dont screw this 1 up...i have spent so much money on the sims 3 franchise to just not play it ever again i went back to sims 2...but i could rant and rant all day about issues with sims 3 but i did all of that on their forum a long time ago lol
They've already said that sims 4 will be easier on our desktops & laptops than sims 3 was, because of the graphic style changes. So there's hopes for that.
I love love love sims for the building aspects, I'm hoping to actually enjoy 4 for playing when I need entertainment.
I love love love sims for the building aspects, I'm hoping to actually enjoy 4 for playing when I need entertainment.
tamagotchi
i'm not mean
I won't buy it (Outdated Graphics Card), but it doesn't look that bad. I can't see too much of a difference from Sims 3, though.
Vexedex
~Mayor Andrew of Juno~
I can't wait for it, although I doubt I'll be able to play it on this laptop as The Sims 3 barely runs on this.
I'll probably get it for console, as long as it gets good enough ratings when it comes out, as it could totally change or totally ruin the game.
I'll probably get it for console, as long as it gets good enough ratings when it comes out, as it could totally change or totally ruin the game.
Alyx
Covered in bees
The game is scheduled to be released fall 2014. I'm excited. I have every expansion and stuff pack for Sims 3 and I love the game. I'm sure Sims 4 won't be a WHOLE LOT different than Sims 3, but there are added features that I am 100% psyched for - like, picking up a WHOLE ROOM and moving it to the other side of the house when building, and no more sliders, just grab your sim's butt in create a sim and make it as big as you want (okay that's a really bad example, sorry). Even though Sims 4 is going to be off the wall expensive, doesn't make me any less excited for it.
sn0wxyuki
I'm a girl~ ❤Barold
Wow couldn't believe I met some Sims fans here! I always become a laughing stock when I mentioned how much I like Sims (people are mean sometimes) I played sims since it release the first base ever until Sims 3 last expansion and currently exciting for the coming Sims 4!! Can't wait for it and definitely the expansion too!! xD But I wish EA will turn Sims to online eg: I have my house in one neighbourhood and other players have their houses too! We can meet and interact with each others, while earning money from NPCs or other wealthier player who open a business (refer to Open for Business) xD still~ So excited for Sims 4!!
The Sims 4 looks very promising. The problem with the sims 3 for me was that it just got so repetitive and I didn't feel like playing anymore. With the added emotions into the sims 4 I hope the sims keep me surprised and also the building looks superb. Can't wait! 
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