Open Neighborhood Rather than Open World

For me it's open world rather than open neighborhood and it always will. Open world only contributed to difficulties due to lousy implementing. I'm not prepared to settle for less just because they messed things up that shouldn't have been messed up. And even messed up I love it.

I could deal with open neighborhood because what I love absolutely best about open world in Sims 3 (which I'm currently playing) is seeing the activity in my sims immediate neighborhood. I like seeing the neighbors coming and going. I like being able to walk over and visit the next door neighbor or run across the street and hang out with a neighbor. What I like best about open world is being able to switch to another household member and check on what they're doing.

I agree with Joanne65 open world all the way for 5- no loading screens, no rabbit holes, no disappearing into the void. A proper Sims game.

wholeheartedly agree! easy pass on full open world but to have the neighborhoods truly open would be ideal. it's a pain having to hit a loading screen to go to the house right next door to yours.

"orkhid22;d-924788" wrote:
In TS3 the entire world was open and i think this contributed to difficulty running the game. In TS4 the active lot and a portion of the neighborhood within the world is open. I'm not sure if this can be done for the current iteration, but in TS5 keep the neighborhood open but include not just the open spaces but also the lots (residential or commercial) in that area. That should be a happy medium between fully open world of TS3 and the half open world of TS4.

I feel a fair mix between the two would be a fair compromise. In S2, Sims walked by the lots and could be interacted with. In S3, you could see your neibhbours in their yards and coming and going from their homes.

In S4, you can see sims out and about, but they're difficult to interact with, and you never see them out and about in their own yards. There is an illusion of sims out and about, but the feeling of them actually being present is not there.

I feel a happy medium could be met. An open neighbourhood could definitely be achievable if an open world could be. I would compromise if an acceptable compromise was offered.

Personally, If It were possible I'd go open world all the way again no doubt.

However at this point (since apparently there's a lot of lower specs), in order to get away from the awful rotating loading screen, I'd settle just a little for a fully open neighborhood sectional. But only if it's like this:

https://68.media.tumblr.com/7fa8e514634ed72dfb8abe2e0a03141b/tumblr_ovxuqhH1g21rz1zglo1_1280.png

I feel like that's more than fair even for the lower spec computers. Like absolutely fully opened parts, with no type of loading.

OR

My favorite: cut the openness completely in half. That way one half of the map is completely open untill you get to the other half. Either way, as my mom would say "You gotta give me more to work with" :wink: .

https://68.media.tumblr.com/6fce796ec076546c0f11951a6ad3653b/tumblr_ovxuqhH1g21rz1zglo2_r1_1280.png

more bigger areas seems awesome but it won't work on San Myshuno, hope they will include more city with bigger areas to explore.

"cactusjuice;c-16019689" wrote:
I agree with Joanne65 open world all the way for 5- no loading screens, no rabbit holes, no disappearing into the void. A proper Sims game.

I don't mind rabbitholes as such actually :mrgreen: I do mind them when they are used out of 'laziness', standing in the way of potential awesome gameplay (prom, restaurant, shop and ridingschool come to mind). So I'd love a Skyrim kind of system. Open world galore, but for certain lots - visible from the outside though - a loading screen (the purely functional lots like city hall, school and some of the careers can stay rabbithole afaic).

"kremesch73;c-16019738" wrote:

"orkhid22;d-924788" wrote:
In TS3 the entire world was open and i think this contributed to difficulty running the game. In TS4 the active lot and a portion of the neighborhood within the world is open. I'm not sure if this can be done for the current iteration, but in TS5 keep the neighborhood open but include not just the open spaces but also the lots (residential or commercial) in that area. That should be a happy medium between fully open world of TS3 and the half open world of TS4.

I feel a fair mix between the two would be a fair compromise. In S2, Sims walked by the lots and could be interacted with. In S3, you could see your neibhbours in their yards and coming and going from their homes.

In S4, you can see sims out and about, but they're difficult to interact with, and you never see them out and about in their own yards. There is an illusion of sims out and about, but the feeling of them actually being present is not there.

I feel a happy medium could be met. An open neighbourhood could definitely be achievable if an open world could be. I would compromise if an acceptable compromise was offered.

And Sims 2's attention to a fitting map is very important to me as well. The fakeness of Sims 4's backdrops is binary. It's a painting, not a real world, and it's a painting that doesn't make any sense at all.

Open neighborhood is fine.

Calculating all the actions of every Sim in the world was never that big a draw for me, as those Sims just weren't that interesting.

Load screens are 30 seconds, tops. Big whoop. But apparently that's somehow inexcusable, even though TS3's load times could be upwards of 5 minutes.

Frankly, TS4 does a fine job of simulating a living, breathing world. But because it's missing a feature from a past game (even though it was a cra.p feature), people just won't let it go.

It's been 3 years, and frankly I'm sick of hearing about it.