This would actually be an idea for the Sims 5. Merge the Sims with the SimCity. You can imagine the joy it would bring. Create and manage cities, create and manage houses, create and manage characters, all in one. The size and computer requirements for such a game could be lowered by lowering the graphics. Lowered graphics could be made to look cute, and to leave more space for smooth gameplay.

you could call itsims city...i'll show myself out

"Chazzzy;c-16624457" wrote:You lost me at “This could work by lowering the graphics”. Same...

Maybe as a spin-off game or something but not as a mainline Sims game.

"dirty_milos;c-16626922" wrote:"Chazzzy;c-16624457" wrote:You lost me at “This could work by lowering the graphics”. That was just my assumption, that the first criticism of the idea would have been the graphics and overall computer requirements needed for such a fusion of two games, because there is already no open world in The Sims 4 because of the heavy graphics, and that The SimCity 2013 has very limited cities in size because of the heavy graphics.It is still a graphics vs. gameplay debate, where some people prefer better graphics, while some other prefer better gameplay, that is probably why some still prefer The Sims 3 over The Sims 4. I am not a hardcore gamer, and I don't have a powerful gaming computer, as probably the majority of the people who play The Sims. But if The SimCity and The Sims would be merged in one game, then I promise I would buy a new and powerful computer just to play it, lol.It would be awesome to have a possibility to create a city, with roads and streets, and different types of buildings - residential, commercial, and industrial - and then you place the Sims to live in residential areas, and to go to work in commercial and industrial areas, even if it is a very limited city like in The SimCity 2013.For the price of 2 EPs you can get a decent video card (on sale usually) from $300 down to $100. I would put my money into a better machine and play the better graphically intense games rather than a watered down version of The Sims and Sim City hybrid.

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simmerLella
Rising Scout
7 years ago
Not with lower graphics!!!

But otherwise this is my dream. Maybe a zoomed out view utilizing the low LOD versions for macro town/city planning, then the usual Sims HQ view. :smiley: It'd be a good time with Sims 5 for this concept since Sim City died after Sims 4 was made. Technology moves on too so maybe that will help.

... Or EA could mess it up, but that could happen with anything.
OldeSimsFan
New Traveler
7 years ago
Nay! In view of what we've been getting for quality lately, a combo like this would reduce the graphics to 'o's for water, 'x's for land mass and the arrow keys for our moveable sims. I remember those days (C was a city.. whoopieee) and have no desire to return to them.
ck213
Seasoned Scout
7 years ago
Too much lowered graphics already. :p
dirty_milos
New Spectator
7 years ago
Ok, it seems that I shouldn't have mentioned "lowered graphics", lol. That was just my assumption. And also, I meant not just "lowered graphics", but "lowered graphics that would look cute and appealing", if such a thing is possible to achieve, and I believe it is.

I have purchased Cities: Skylines yesterday, and I must say, from the very start, it looks cold and lonesome and depressing, and as something is missing, like the Sim characters who would actually live their lives in that city and be playable.
BGH22
7 years ago
@dirty_milos I guess you missed my post. EA is no longer making SimCity. They shut the SimCity studio down in 2015. You can google this issue. Again I hear the sims 2 can work with one of the SmCity games if you ask the sims 2 section. I don't know if it still works. I have never tried it
dirty_milos
New Spectator
7 years ago
"phoebebebe13;c-16628992" wrote:
@dirty_milos I guess you missed my post. EA is no longer making SimCity. They shut the SimCity studio down in 2015.

That doesn't mean they cannot start the same thing or something similar once again.

"Cinebar;c-16629001" wrote:
I'm surprised City Skylines doesn't have agents walking around. (fake Sims).

There are people on the streets, but they are just part of decoration, as far as I know after two days of playing. They have names, I can follow them, but I can't play with them.

I have the feeling that both games are missing something. In the "God game", I can create characters and houses, but then I can't do anything with them, but to fool around a bit, until I get bored, because every thing I do is absolutely the same every time. And you can do just anything without any obstacle or challenge. In the "mayor game", I can create the world, or at least the surroundings, but then I can only stare at it, and do nothing with it. In the Bible, it is said that God created both the world and the people. Why do we then have one game only with world, and another game only with people, when the people are meant to live in the world.
karon_shiruba
7 years ago
"simmerLella;c-16627374" wrote:
"dirty_milos;c-16623756" wrote:
ETA: Also Cities Skylines has amazing graphics and is not limited. It's much more expansive than Sim City 2013 and looks at least as good.

Guys, the problem with the franchise is not lower/higher graphics. As you said, Cities Skylines was much bigger than Simcity and it didnt lag, didnt crashed... The problem with it is that EA gives a really short amount of time for the devs to work, they hav to rush to create the game, which means too many bugs in the release and usually heavy games (like sims 3).
All Sims basegames were produced between 4 years of developement, which is little for a game that big, especially Sims 3 and its open world.
It seems that Sims 4 will be around more than the other games, maybe 8 years old, and they didnt started producing Sims 5.
Sometimes they lie to us, cuz they dont want the hype of a new sims 5 to stop sims 4 from being bought. But we always had clues when Sism 4 was being produced during sims 3 life, and sims 3 during sims 2. While Sims 5 had no rumors until 2018. If they started producing S5 this year to be released 2022, Sims 5 will have 3 years of development, which is less then all the other games. The game will probably be worse than ever.
Movotti
New Spectator
7 years ago
"dirty_milos;d-944930" wrote:
Lowered graphics could be made to look cute

I think you'll find that very few people want a 'cute' game out of the sims.

Personally, I'd rather my game be gritty and grungy.
Travy1991
7 years ago
In an ideal world, this would be great as I would really love to build and download unique worlds to play my Sims in. But EA will not pay the resources to create the game we all want. Everything will be cut down and very limited, the way the Sim City reboot and The Sims 4 is.

However, I voted yes because I want to believe that the technical resources to combine two complex games will exist someday and that EA / Maxis would change their current greedy / lazy / out of touch ways with the community strategies.
dirty_milos
New Spectator
7 years ago
I was thinking of purchasing some of the SimCity series, but I was not sure which one. I watched some reviews, and saw people liking The SimCity 4 better than The SimCity 2013, because of the better gameplay, and in spite of the lower graphics. I saw that The SimCity 2013 was actually very limited because of the higher graphics quality, so one must wonder, does the better graphics automatically mean better game? I believe no. And better graphics are also the reason why we need to have loading screen each time we travel in The Sims 4, so that is another proof of better graphics destroying the overall game quality. And I am sure that there is a way to create some cute and pretty lowered graphics that would not require a supercomputer to play, but would also look appealing. That would be some real challenge for the developers.

Maybe I will go for The Cities: Skylines in the end. But, since The Sims evolved from The SimCity, it seems logical that these two should be merged together. Why to have The Sims withouth their SimCity, and why to have The SimCity without its Sims.