Is it true that other unplayed families wont age ? I always play with just one family and cant imagine others will stay in their age forever.
it looks cool otherwise
They will age, but they won't have other generations. They won't marry, have babies or move houses. Once they die, the game will generate another family to take it's place.
Since everyone is making Sims 4 out to be an awful game already before it's even released, I'd like to take us all back in time for a second. The year is 2009. Sims 3 is about to be released and everyone has lost their chill. Why's that you ask? Because compared to Sims 2, Sims 3 looks terrible. I mean look at everything the base game is missing.
Missing Gameplay Elements:
No interactable fully functional restaurants
No interactable fully functional grocery stores
No interactable fully functional clothing shops
No aspirations
No lifetime aspiration meter or anything to show how fulfilling your sims life has been
No fears
No private schools and wooing the headmaster “minigame to get into private school”
No dating system and dating “minigame” to get a perfect date
No interests
No turn ons and turn offs
No memories
No aliens
Hedges, flowers and trees never require maintenance (trimming, watering, etc.) and they never die
Environment and comfort needs removed
No illnesses
No inheritance when family dies
No need to buy clothes
No cockroaches for dirty homes
No zodiac signs
Can’t bathe babies and toddlers
No cleaning skill
No yoga or meditation skills
No car animations or interactions
No unlockable secret lots
No basements
Teens don't get acne
No need for friends to get promoted
No chance cards from work
No lifetime relationship bar
Less control over inactive families because of story progression
More difficulties in rotational play
No personality points
Only one world to play in
Cartoon charm graphic style lost and replaced by more realistic graphics
Sims have "pudding face" which a lot of people don't like
Missing Items:
No pianos
No recliners
No diving boards or pool slides
No hot tubs
No magazines
No wedding arch
No changing tables
Miscellaneous:
No cinematics for moving, woohooing, etc.
No underwear clothing category
Missing NPCs: Exterminator, headmaster, social bunny, tragic clown, therapist, gardener, butler, or nanny
No body shop application
Can’t create new neighborhoods in-game
Couldn't add new lots to towns
Difficult finding space for new lots when function was added
Each job doesn’t have a career reward
Most community lots are rabbit holes that you can't see your sim in
Hair doesn't move
I should hope EVERYONE was rejoicing when they got rid of cockroaches in The Sims 3. Those ****ers always clogged up my memories bar and made my sims get diseases.
There are more new features than removed features. You shouldn't expect everything from previous games, since The Sims 3 removed half the features of The Sims 2.
The new features aren't better than the features they removed tho.
Y'all and sit and list the features that TS3 removed from TS2, but TS3 actually INNOVATED (open world, etc) whereas TS4 didn't, hence why these reductions are BIG problems, especially since it's the "successor" to the biggest Sims game yet.
TS4 is CLEARLY rushed (exposed by a few Sims blogs as a scrapped Sims MMO project). Despite this, I'm not really bothered about the situation too much. What they've came up with is actually quite decent so far but I'll see how the final product is on release day and see if it's worth my coin before refusing it.
Y'all and sit and list the features that TS3 removed from TS2, but TS3 actually INNOVATED (open world, etc) whereas TS4 didn't, hence why these reductions are BIG problems, especially since it's the "successor" to the biggest Sims game yet.
Innovate
make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas, or products.
They will age, but they won't have other generations. They won't marry, have babies or move houses. Once they die, the game will generate another family to take it's place.
Oh really? So if I have a GF in another household as a teen, I'll still be able to date her when she ages up?
Y'all and sit and list the features that TS3 removed from TS2, but TS3 actually INNOVATED (open world, etc) whereas TS4 didn't, hence why these reductions are BIG problems, especially since it's the "successor" to the biggest Sims game yet.
TS4 is CLEARLY rushed (exposed by a few Sims blogs as a scrapped Sims MMO project). Despite this, I'm not really bothered about the situation too much. What they've came up with is actually quite decent so far but I'll see how the final product is on release day and see if it's worth my coin before refusing it.
TS3 seemed pretty rushed too. They packed so many new features into it but they were all buggy and incomplete. They tried to fix it with all those patches but there was only so much they could do when the whole thing was so poorly coded.
At least TS4 isn't laggy and has features that actually work properly. Most of the missing features aren't completely necessary at launch. I'm happy with them creating a good foundation for them to build on later on.
TS4 is a new game.
Why expect things from 3 to be carried over?
Cause its going from 3 to 4 as in advancement. They could've titled it The Sims: Emotions!!1!1! At this point, it doesn't even matter. I don't think people who truly loved TS3 for what it was will be happy with this game so we'll have to wait till TS5
Ditto @ MrTiko's post! It's a successor within a franchise. It's pretty common to expect evolution with sequels.
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TS3 seemed pretty rushed too. They packed so many new features into it but they were all buggy and incomplete. They tried to fix it with all those patches but there was only so much they could do when the whole thing was so poorly coded.
At least TS4 isn't laggy and has features that actually work properly. Most of the missing features aren't completely necessary at launch. I'm happy with them creating a good foundation for them to build on later on.
I agree, TS3 was a mess, but it had a lot of nice new features at it's time. I'm not sure what to think of TS4, though. It seems more polished for what little is there, but I don't think it can be saved from the mess that they create with EP's. Expansion packs always tend to slow down the game anyway, TS2 takes forever to load even on my high-end machine with all the expansions. I just think the nature of how they deal with EP's really makes all of their games sluggish after time. I don't see how they can make TS4 exempt from this.
TS4 will probably have similar issues to the earlier games as we get more content.
Can't believe it will be out in a week, seems like just yesterday when it was announced. I was sceptic at first but then the demo was released and I can honestly say I enjoyed CaS more than I enjoyed the whole horrible, laggy, poorly executed piece of crap full of UGLY Sims that TS3 was. And who cares about toddlers and pools really (I say this as someone who is playing Sims since the first part), the most important thing for me is that the game is smooth, fun and enjoyable like first 2 parts were, and building mode and overall feel of life mode from what we have seen looks just like that.
I agree, TS3 was a mess, but it had a lot of nice new features at it's time. I'm not sure what to think of TS4, though. It seems more polished for what little is there, but I don't think it can be saved from the mess that they create with EP's. Expansion packs always tend to slow down the game anyway, TS2 takes forever to load even on my high-end machine with all the expansions. I just think the nature of how they deal with EP's really makes all of their games sluggish after time. I don't see how they can make TS4 exempt from this.
TS4 will probably have similar issues to the earlier games as we get more content.
TS4 definitely won't be as smooth as it is right now as more expansions are added but it won't be anywhere near the trainwreck that was TS3. They've really worked on performance in this game (sacrificing the open world/CASt) and I don't see why that will change with EPs.
Let's call a spade a spade. When you can't take your babies out of the bassinet and walk around, something aint right. When all of the rabit holes are removed and just replaced with away actions somethin aint right. When the world is closed and smaller than a TS2 world again, something aint right. Y'all can go on on and on but at the end of the day, this game is rushed and left out core elements of the previous ones.Emotions and the CAS sculpting was not worth the things taken out personally speaking. Instead of fixing and working on the issues of TS3, cause I'll admit there were a few, they just removed them and then some. Sorry for the rant but as someone who played The Sims series since Sim Hotel, Sim Ant, Sim City, and TS1, up until The Sims 3 Into The Future, I'm just sooo disappointed.
Cause its going from 3 to 4 as in advancement. They could've titled it The Sims: Emotions!!1!1! At this point, it doesn't even matter. I don't think people who truly loved TS3 for what it was will be happy with this game so we'll have to wait till TS5
If ppl love playing TS3 then they can just play that.
It's not like anyone is stopping them.
