"Naus;c-16981590" wrote:
"fullspiral;c-16981571" wrote:
@Naus. It's obvious you love the Sims 3. I had little to no performance issues with it. But for me, it just plain plum out of the 4 editions. It was ugly. The sims were ugly. It didn't come NEAR to the play of 2. It doesn't come NEAR to the look and feel of 4.
I don't know what you expect? Some of us just. didn't. like. 3. Just like you don't like 4. Give it a rest.
That's okay. I totally understand you don't like The Sims 3. I've no problems with that. We all have different priorities. I don't care about graphics as long as gameplay is satisfying to me. You're 100% entitled to your opinion regarding the game, what I don't like is when opinions are presented as facts as @RobinGreenthumb did.
He flat out say The Sims 3 CAN'T be played without performance issues and that it's a terribly executed game, both things are factually incorrect. I could go on and on about the brillance of The Sims 3 engine. How it managed to do something no other game has EVER done, which is to generate texture dinamically (when you change the appearance of an asset with Create-A-Style, the game writes what you've done as lines of code and then it dynamically ensembles a texture when needed); how it managed to simulate hundreds of NPCs with their own dynamic AI; how it overcame a problem with open world games at the time, which needed to load the map as you move. The Sims 3 in contrast uses level of detail meshes and textures and limited simulation but it has the ability to quickly switch to high level simulation and high level of detail as you zoom in. I don't blame so much TS3 engineers for TS3's issues but world designers that didn't know how to paint routable and unroutable terrain and didn't test their worlds thoroughly.
Sure is incorrect to say Sims 3 cannot be played as I had no problems playing as long as it wasn't an developer issue. In my eyes I am sorry but Sims 4 is the poorly executed game. If Sims 4 is supposed to be more superior than Sims 3, EA/Maxis should put those features that was cut out of Sims 3 and use them in Sims 4 and let's have an go at it, let me build apts from scratch and in other neighborhoods and if Sims 4 can run them with ease then we are cooking. I am not wearing blinders I never heard of an game especially an newer version where it is cut to the bone (Ouch that hurts !) and is considered more superior. Sure Sims 4 runs and Sims 3 ran for me with an whole lot of features. Now you have to buy an pack just to get extra space instead of allowing the user to make thier own space (Space in Sims 4 is like more than 10 million people vieing for 11 lots). Seriously, it comes down to what floats your boat and Sims 4 does not float mine as it feels like it is leaking. :)
