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[Neonivek]

The Sims 4 confirmed for being The Sims.

That's comforting, in a way.

So, with the no open world, does that mean it's back to the old way, where only your selected family actually advances in age? Nothing else in the world changes?

Everyone ages... but that is it.

[varnish]

Ah. Disappointing.

[scrdest]

The Sims 4 confirmed for being The Sims.

That's comforting, in a way.

So, with the no open world, does that mean it's back to the old way, where only your selected family actually advances in age? Nothing else in the world changes?

Apparently other families can age, as an option, but there's that. They don't interact with each other unless they come over and do so in your place, that kinda thing.

Also, it is apparently not strictly not-open - they tried to go in some weird 'fusion' kinda direction, so you have 5-lot (communal and living) 'neighborhoods' where, if I got this right, you can move around, but beyond that - BOINK. LOADING SCREEN.

Oh yeah, and there isn't even the Sims 1 staple carpool. Sims just... teleport?

[Bouchart]

I'm not a fan of The Sims, but everything I've read led me to believe the game would be rubbish.

My expectations were right on target, it seems.

[BigD145]

The ONLY reason I am getting The Sims 4 is because I have been with the series for so long... I have to experience its downfall first hand.

You're voting with your dollars telling EA you want more Sims. How is that its downfall?

I don't mean a financial downfall

EA is a business. No other downfall matters. If they are making profit then The Sims 4 is a complete success.

[scrdest]

The Sims 4 confirmed for being The Sims.

Oh god. It's worse.

Spoiler: Far (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: worse (click to show/hide)

Ia! Babby ftaghn!

[Nick K]

I haven't been convinced enough to buy it yet but if it will run without hitching every two seconds even with mods like overwatch and the graphics set down to basically wireframe then it's a small step up from 3 in my book. 

Are you sure your Sims 3 hitching is because of performance reasons? I could run it with no mods on a laptop that's several years old. There's a bug in TS3 where a sim gets stuck somewhere in the game world and the game hitches every few seconds while it tries to pathfind for them. This can be fixed by using the console to reset the sim. You usually don't know which sim it is, but "resetsim *" will reset all sims in your neighborhood.

[coolio678]

well, it turns out that the create-a-sim is a free demo (kinda like spore's creature creator), so hats off to EA for giving the only thing in this game I was a little interested in away for free.

[Zona]

I haven't been convinced enough to buy it yet but if it will run without hitching every two seconds even with mods like overwatch and the graphics set down to basically wireframe then it's a small step up from 3 in my book. 

Are you sure your Sims 3 hitching is because of performance reasons? I could run it with no mods on a laptop that's several years old. There's a bug in TS3 where a sim gets stuck somewhere in the game world and the game hitches every few seconds while it tries to pathfind for them. This can be fixed by using the console to reset the sim. You usually don't know which sim it is, but "resetsim * " will reset all sims in your neighborhood.

That's one of the things overwatch dose automatically but I tried it just to be sure. Didn't help/ 

[Knight of Fools]

One image and one sentence to convince you not to buy this game:

This is your neighborhood right here.

[Tellemurius]

One image and one sentence to convince you not to buy this game:

This is your neighborhood right here.

When you do worse than sims 2.....
Listen, to me open world is a bad idea. Example: Sims 3 had a huge lag problem with sims randomly stuck somewhere, even with memory patches and some mods your game can still lock up. Now to me when they said they were limiting the neighborhoods down to 25 lots and was excited, then you show me this.....

[jocan2003]

One image and one sentence to convince you not to buy this game:

This is your neighborhood right here.

The horror... The saddest thing is that the most die hard fans will buy the game and enjoy it, the average player will buy to try and the casual gamers who doesnt look at anything before buying will also buy and send the message to EA that this is acceptable....

[NobodyPro]

One image and one sentence to convince you not to buy this game:

This is your neighborhood right here.

Please explain to me what neighborhoods are and why they exist. This whole thing smells of canned multiplayer.

[10ebbor10]

As far as I understand it, each neighborhood is a game safe (like the regions from Sim City), and the small subsections are each part that is loaded at one time.

[scrdest]

As far as I understand it, each neighborhood is a game safe (like the regions from Sim City), and the small subsections are each part that is loaded at one time.

I think that the small subsection is what is called a neighborhood. It's basically the loaded, open chunk of the world. The rest is loading-screen'd when you try to go there.

One image and one sentence to convince you not to buy this game:

This is your neighborhood right here.

The horror... The saddest thing is that the most die hard fans will buy the game and enjoy it, the average player will buy to try and the casual gamers who doesnt look at anything before buying will also buy and send the message to EA that this is acceptable....

One word: Spore. It has, relatively speaking, tanked, despite being a game people did want to try, because it was genuinely innovative in some ways. How? Yarrrrrrr!