Disappointed with City Living
I purchased City Living a little over a week ago while it was on sale for 60% off. What I've now found in my shortish time playing the pack, that this City Living is but a shadow of what it could have...
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"PlumbobBaileyy;c-16421515" wrote:
IMO, this is just how the Sims franchise is now (or at least TS4). To me the magic is gone and it just seems like one big money grab. I love CAS for the game, but that’s kinda it. Tbh the Sims 2, a game released ten years before the Sims 3, is better... Kinda sad, this used to be my favorite video game franchise.
If there is one thing that makes The Sims 2 magical compared to its predecessors, is that the game itself give a focus on the main star of the game. The Sims. The sims themselves are much more depth in detail, they had game changer memories, in depth personality, want and fears, and awareness on their surroundings. Each Expansion Packs didn't just add new gameplay but also new systems that impacts a sims uniquenss compared to other sims. Nightlife added Turn off and Turn ons, Freetime added Hobbies and Interest, Apartment Life added Reputation System, Pets added animals that still gave the player a more focus on the sims and many more. Like I said the Base Game sims are already special, detailed and unique, and the packs just makes them more of that. more special, more detailed, more unique.
Meanwhile with The Sims 3 I felt that they cut a huge detail with their sims and focused on sandbox living type of gameplay. THey removed somethings that makes the sims 2 sims special. The Biggest example is the Wants and Fears System. All of us in real word had want and fears, and in the game it add a lot of personality with them. Not all of the sims had the same want, and feat. And if we fear of something, we will never do it or anything related to it and if something that we fear happen, it will cause us huge sad memory just like in The Sims where say a feared death happen, the sim will mourn and affects his life with what happen, where it feels like The Sim you are playing are never be the same as he/she was before that sim biggest fear happen. But since the game has no goals, the devs thought creativity is better than detail on this sims, there priority was CASt and Sandbox building based on what I feel. I loved Sims 3 no doubt but there are times after I played Sims 2 that I find that there is something missing with this sims. Just like with 4, I find their traits to be not enough to make them unique. There are no expansion packs that added changes on the way these sims to feel more unique, other than reputaion.
The Sims 4 could do the same things Sims 2 did especially since its a closed world. It means that they can prioritize them again. IF EA didn't force them to go online. We knew it began development before three was even launch, So we are looking at 4 year development of the game. For Four years they can already surpass the things on what Sims 2 did if they build upon it but nope. Sadly even on those years the game only got a total of one year development time. IF there will be The Sims 5, I hope they will really add depth on personalities.
