Sims 2 Development insight
For anyone interested in sims2 development from a dev. Part 1 and part 2. I love hearing about the process of game making. And although he didn't mention it, it even gives a little insight on what t...
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The identity crisis is they're trying to make it into an RPG instead of a simulation. All the stupid buffs annoy the hell out of me. That's an RPG feature where you get to read about what buffs your character has. In a sim game, we should see things happening and not have to read them. I should be able to look at my sim and see that they're in a mood. I hate when kid sims come home sad from school because they got picked on. Um...hello...is this a simulation that you just made me read a scenario and then I had no freaking input in the outcome!? What the heck is that?!
Ya know what else...how are they going to make a hospital and not have a mini-sim inside the game to run a hospital. Have they never heard of the tycoon games? Instead we get a click this, do that, click there, do this 7 times, etc. We could have had objectives like run a general practitioner office where you are a doctor or nurse and hire staff who always perform their own roles. Then at a certain point work at a hospital in various roles and work your way up to actually running and managing the hospital. Now that has replay value because there are lots of ways you can accomplish the same task. And there are a lot of ways to fail, too.
Ok. I went on a mini-rant. Sorry about that. Haha.
I do agree with you that you never know what's going on behind the scenes and it's not ok to attack the gurus no matter how upset you are about something. But we should definitely let them know that we are upset and why.
Ya know what else...how are they going to make a hospital and not have a mini-sim inside the game to run a hospital. Have they never heard of the tycoon games? Instead we get a click this, do that, click there, do this 7 times, etc. We could have had objectives like run a general practitioner office where you are a doctor or nurse and hire staff who always perform their own roles. Then at a certain point work at a hospital in various roles and work your way up to actually running and managing the hospital. Now that has replay value because there are lots of ways you can accomplish the same task. And there are a lot of ways to fail, too.
Ok. I went on a mini-rant. Sorry about that. Haha.
I do agree with you that you never know what's going on behind the scenes and it's not ok to attack the gurus no matter how upset you are about something. But we should definitely let them know that we are upset and why.
