La VidaSo, do you like The Sims? Well how about we make the series all over again with worse graphics, animation, creation power, and to top it all off fundamentally getting many of the parts that makes The Sims good... Wrong.
A Sims game where you do not need to be a social climber? why the Sims 3 did that! It was actually a big feature to no longer need a huge friends list.
Bonus points for this Kickstarter only being discovered by me because someone, unrelated to the project I am assured, actually posted this kickstarter in The Sims 4 forum in the wrong places. Hurray for fanbase inappropriate advertisements! That would be like if I made a Dwarf Fortress Thread in the Gamespot thread about Dragon Ball Z.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1860210667/la-vida-a-game-about-life?ref=categoryNow before I continue I will get serious because what I said is very harsh to what looks like someone's personal project they put on Kickstarter. Since honestly I am speaking mostly out of spite of the advertisers then out of the project. This still deserves to be here, but not the disdain I show towards it.
The ultimate problem is that The Sims is a niche, it is a very small subsubgenre of simulations that already has an ultimate competitor. Yet La Vida is playing things straight and trying to compete with The Sims directly at its own game in a niche where all its competitors either found very mild success or died.
It fails by not trying to be different or better in some capacity (ignoring the "You don't have to be" statements, those well versed in the series know it is no longer true). Also even if it was different the information they put on their kickstarter is very sparse.
I actually kind of feel bad for putting this up here. if people in the thread wish me to (PM me) I will edit this out instantly.