World Explorers - Chapter 4
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The game seems interesting to me as I am one that hated the fact the Sims 3 sims have no emotion - not like the sims 2 sims. Like my first experience with Sims 3 that has always left a lingering discomfort was in the first household of my own creation I played where I had the standard - mom, dad, a child and a teen - the mom I quickly got preggers so I could experience babies from newborn age - and I realized that when the baby was born there was no real excitement. In sims 2 the grandparents would come over and be excited - everyone loved playing with the baby (actually a bit too much) in Sims 2 - but in Sims 3 the sims were like robots - and had it not been for the moodlets saying they were in a high mood over the birth of the baby - well I wouldn't have known it. Everything was so mechanical - whether it was love, anger, excitement - sims showed these emotions rarely - at most it showed on the moodlet bar but after two second of looking a bit happy they went right back to being mechanical. But what got me the most was the moodlets behavior wise was null with in seconds of them expressing a great joy. Like robots they took care of the baby like they had been triggered and if I did not make them play or hug it, they did not do it anymore than they had to to keep the baby out of the bad mood bar. When it's mood was fine sims never go near it. The baby could be put in the swing and just be forgot about.
As if that was not bad enough - my sims mom got preggers again when the baby was midway through toddler and the game decided to get a little glitch when she jumped up out of bed and went into labor which caused her to die - of course the kids and hubby came running and cried and the minute that was over it was as if they went on with their lives. Even the toddler showed no missing the mom ever and they had a full friendship bar.
To me this was disturbing and has always colored my sims 3 experience badly. So much so that even though I have always loved the Sims families I got to the point where I became satisfied just to play single sims with out families. Legacies I adored in Sims 2 were actually quite boring to do in sims 3 because that all important emotion was missing.
I will admit in Sims 2 it was a bit of overkill like a newborn baby I once had in sims 2 whose mom had starved to death after giving birth - had grown up and when it reached child age was still having crying jags about it's mom that it really never knew being dead. But as annoying as that was - sims having no emotions with just a moodlet is worse as there is little difference in the robots in Sims 3 and the sims when it comes to emotions. You have to fight so hard to even make them fall in love without cheats, it is just too far off in that direction and also why it never made sense to me to play like rebellious teens or anything like that because the sims just don't show it. It is like a movie star reading a script and when that scene is done it is fully done and no mention is ever made of it again.
So I guess you can understand why I see the Sims 4 sims a lot more attractive play wise than the sims 3. In sims 3 if you stick to a single sim just doing all the goal type things the game works - but to just play as we have always played focusing on generations and families - this game for me gets boring. I rarely play families. I will get a couple together and married and then plip them in their house with skills and jobs and their lives laid out and then go make a new sim.
If you notice most of my sims are all single sims. The few families I made were a few for Rflong's WW world and other than that just the very first family I played (that wasn't EA's) and tried to play like Sims 2 - got their kids all grown and realized I could not keep playing like that as I was just not interested enough in them to enjoy each of them marrying and raising a family too. So I will add them to some of my games and let them play themselves. But legacies just had lost their whole appeal to me once they got big families and high enough in careers and a decent size house and all.
So to get the emotions back at all - yeah - I am game. Believe me it has nothing to do with cost - we live on one paycheck and a small disability pension that mostly pays for my med insurance and co -pays - of which I get to take out 50 dollars every 4 months and hold onto for sims games. I don't go anywhere or spend any other money so getting 50 dollars 3 times a year is not like money is no object. It very much is - but keeping my mood and sanity stable is the only reason I get that. I also only will except gifts from the kids on my birthday, Christmas, and mothers day that has to do with sims. So that is the way I get all my sims stuff outside of folks who are very generous at gifting me - otherwise I would not own the store I assure you.
But I see these sims 4 have something that is very important to me - feelings and emotions - I don't care about hair or houses or anything else as much as I care about that. That is more important to me than stuff - so yeah - I am not jumping up and down in my seat, but I am definitely thrilled to see that and have hope in the one game I really love.
Now whether or not I will buy every ep etc depends on what I feel playing with the base game. Seeing I kept buying everything I could for sims 3 just hoping the programming would eventually give us back the part of Sims 2 I loved, without breaking the game like Sims 2 broke on me.
So I want stuff and play adventure I will still have sims 3 - at least this go round it looks like my games hold up and play fine enough so far and like many of you I can go back and play these and their many worlds - but if Sims 4 is half of what they showed emotion wise - I know those are the sims I will be enjoying the most.
Realistically when it comes to sims though projecting sims eps to come is still one step at a time as we do well know how EA has a way of embellishing sims and making them something they are not so that part of me stands reserved until I have the base and see how the sims really are for myself.
Just the fact I now have options and have a game I can go back to finally - makes me really happy.
So no question - I will buy it.
ETA - I did not see a place in the new "the sims" boards for a forum. I looked everywhere - did you guys see forums where we can converse. Maybe I just missed it.
As if that was not bad enough - my sims mom got preggers again when the baby was midway through toddler and the game decided to get a little glitch when she jumped up out of bed and went into labor which caused her to die - of course the kids and hubby came running and cried and the minute that was over it was as if they went on with their lives. Even the toddler showed no missing the mom ever and they had a full friendship bar.
To me this was disturbing and has always colored my sims 3 experience badly. So much so that even though I have always loved the Sims families I got to the point where I became satisfied just to play single sims with out families. Legacies I adored in Sims 2 were actually quite boring to do in sims 3 because that all important emotion was missing.
I will admit in Sims 2 it was a bit of overkill like a newborn baby I once had in sims 2 whose mom had starved to death after giving birth - had grown up and when it reached child age was still having crying jags about it's mom that it really never knew being dead. But as annoying as that was - sims having no emotions with just a moodlet is worse as there is little difference in the robots in Sims 3 and the sims when it comes to emotions. You have to fight so hard to even make them fall in love without cheats, it is just too far off in that direction and also why it never made sense to me to play like rebellious teens or anything like that because the sims just don't show it. It is like a movie star reading a script and when that scene is done it is fully done and no mention is ever made of it again.
So I guess you can understand why I see the Sims 4 sims a lot more attractive play wise than the sims 3. In sims 3 if you stick to a single sim just doing all the goal type things the game works - but to just play as we have always played focusing on generations and families - this game for me gets boring. I rarely play families. I will get a couple together and married and then plip them in their house with skills and jobs and their lives laid out and then go make a new sim.
If you notice most of my sims are all single sims. The few families I made were a few for Rflong's WW world and other than that just the very first family I played (that wasn't EA's) and tried to play like Sims 2 - got their kids all grown and realized I could not keep playing like that as I was just not interested enough in them to enjoy each of them marrying and raising a family too. So I will add them to some of my games and let them play themselves. But legacies just had lost their whole appeal to me once they got big families and high enough in careers and a decent size house and all.
So to get the emotions back at all - yeah - I am game. Believe me it has nothing to do with cost - we live on one paycheck and a small disability pension that mostly pays for my med insurance and co -pays - of which I get to take out 50 dollars every 4 months and hold onto for sims games. I don't go anywhere or spend any other money so getting 50 dollars 3 times a year is not like money is no object. It very much is - but keeping my mood and sanity stable is the only reason I get that. I also only will except gifts from the kids on my birthday, Christmas, and mothers day that has to do with sims. So that is the way I get all my sims stuff outside of folks who are very generous at gifting me - otherwise I would not own the store I assure you.
But I see these sims 4 have something that is very important to me - feelings and emotions - I don't care about hair or houses or anything else as much as I care about that. That is more important to me than stuff - so yeah - I am not jumping up and down in my seat, but I am definitely thrilled to see that and have hope in the one game I really love.
Now whether or not I will buy every ep etc depends on what I feel playing with the base game. Seeing I kept buying everything I could for sims 3 just hoping the programming would eventually give us back the part of Sims 2 I loved, without breaking the game like Sims 2 broke on me.
So I want stuff and play adventure I will still have sims 3 - at least this go round it looks like my games hold up and play fine enough so far and like many of you I can go back and play these and their many worlds - but if Sims 4 is half of what they showed emotion wise - I know those are the sims I will be enjoying the most.
Realistically when it comes to sims though projecting sims eps to come is still one step at a time as we do well know how EA has a way of embellishing sims and making them something they are not so that part of me stands reserved until I have the base and see how the sims really are for myself.
Just the fact I now have options and have a game I can go back to finally - makes me really happy.
So no question - I will buy it.
ETA - I did not see a place in the new "the sims" boards for a forum. I looked everywhere - did you guys see forums where we can converse. Maybe I just missed it.
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