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Originally posted by Meowster
Would not be surprised if all that space was from CAS and building tbh.  |
Nah.
You'll find the bulk of it being all the stuff inside the maps. The Sims 4 isn't graphically better (I think it is but we won't go there again
) but there is more detail going on.
All that detail requires HDD space. The CAS & Build mode in general will probably take up more space, but most of it will be the higher detail in the worlds.
As a quick example, in The Sims 3 water, you can see just the water with a group of fish every so often as a sprite on the surface. In The Sims 4 you can actually see the fish swimming etc. in the water. There's now birds in the sky etc.
The Sims 3 neighbourhoods were also very simple. If you deleted all the lots, you're kind of left with the ground, roads and water. Not much else.
This is, of course so the game can load a whole map at once. It needed to be bear boned, while looking good. And it does.
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In The Sims 4, they tried a different approach by building a world around the lots, rather than making a map, then putting lots on it. So there is much more going on at once.
Whether this is actually worth it, will be seen in the demo/game.
The Sims 3 just feels big because it's an open world. The worlds themselves don't have as much detail in them compared to The Sims 4, which has the same size world just broken up into 5 parts, with twice as much going on in them.
EDIT: Sorry for the long ass essay
It only takes me like 5 minutes to post **** this long, so I forget how long it's become because I've typed it so quick
I have to use one of those pre-set families, and save periodically because no matter what it eventually stops responding randomly.
