Forum Discussion
8 years ago
Pros:
The game constantly gets new features and gameplay added to it, it’s the current game. It’s running.
CAS- and building mode tools
Cons:
As a successor you’d expect progress in essential fields compared to the predecessors. That didn’t happen. Certain features that were loved but criticised because they weren’t implemented flawlessly should have been improved, not removed.
The core of the game seems to be sealed gameplay. The devs thought of something and that’s the way it’s gonna work for every single player out there. Where in the sections of the previous two versions I see much more personal angles to the very same game. In short: there is no way you can make the game your own. It’s the dev’s game. That’s not what a Sims game is about, the charm of this game has always been its freedom, its customizability, its options.
The sims in it are awful and there’s nothing you can do about it, because it’s mainly their behaviour that causes it. Their over-the-topness (both in animations as in facial expressions).
I don’t like the art style. That’s partly subjective of course (when you like a stylized plastic look you do), but partly it’s simply because a lot is handled very sloppy. Apparently that improved in later packs, but it should have been from the very beginning. It’s a successor fcol.
The sims have no personalities and no form of memory whatsoever. This is why the game will never reach the level of its predecessors, no matter how much content will be added. The loftiest towers rise from the ground.
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