Open world=Lag

"JoxerTM22;13012990" wrote:

"AiHaou;802133" wrote:
Open world=Lag

Again this?

1. TES 1-5
2. Gothic 1-3, Risen 1-3
3. Far Cry 3, Far Cry Blood Dragon
4. Watch Dogs
5. Dragon Age 3

Open world? Open world!
Any lag? No lag!

So stop posting nonsense!
Bugs in Sims 3 are there because of sloppy programming, lousy code and refusal to fix it but instead concentrating on crap microtransaction milking business.

I don't know why people keep trying to compare other games to The Sims because, IMO, there is no comparison that can be made. I haven't played a lot of the games you've mentioned in particular so I might be off-base with this, but I have played Watchdogs and I know that game, while technically open-world, is still a very scripted experience.

With TS3 you had multiple households with multiple, unique sims and they were all supposed to be living out their lives and doing their own things completely independent of the player. That is much, much different from playing a game where you run around an open city and have a bunch of AI NPCs based off 5 or 6 different character models where their only "job" is to walk / drive around to make a place look busy. Never mind all the individual lots you could also take your sim to and wander around in, all without loading screens, I haven't seen many other open world games do that.

I'm not saying this was the reason why TS3 was so laggy, I'm a believer that it was bad coding on their part as well with a dash of them perhaps being a little too ambitious for the time but to my knowledge we still don't have what TS3 attempted to do in any other video game and we're coming up on 2015 now.