Open Neighborhood Rather than Open World
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...
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"jackjack_k;c-16022062" wrote:
I don't understand the hate for backdrops. Every good game should have them.
Open World games have them too (Skyrim & GTA V both have them).
It's embarrassing and poor design when a world suddenly comes to a halt because the no one bothered to make backdrops. Your world literally stops as soon as you reach the playable area border.
The Sims 3 would have looked a lot better had their been backdrops surrounding the explorable area. The size difference wouldn't have changed. All they had to do was make the worlds bigger but keep the routable area the same.
It's grating to see a City like Bridgeport literally be an island the size of a small town. Had there been a city that continued around Bridgeport it would have looked a lot better.
The Sims 3 on Xbox/PS have backdrops in it's worlds alongside the normal world and it looks great. Not just distant terrain, but houses, objects, decorative pieces. Not just endless Ocean.
It was nice to play a Sims 3 world that wasn't a town on a random island.
It's cute for a painting, yet in the same token it's a reminder how we can't go to those said places. Especially the beaches, and the Willow Creek fairies. Call me nostalgic, but I enjoyed going to beach for the first time in base game for TS3, even if it took us awhile to get the swimming interaction.
At least we didn't have to "paint" our pools in order for it to feel lake or beach-like :disappointed: .
It's not necessarily the backdrops as it is the limits that come with it. I guess i'm an explorer kind of girl, I like to get out and interact with the whole town. <3 Not just...watch it go by and be like "uuuugh why can't I go there? I bet their having fun over there :cry: " <--- when TS4 launched I had moments like that so frequently that I couldn't play the game for less than 20 mins.
As someone who loves fashion and scenery, yes TS4's backgrounds are cute. But there's also a very very painful reminder of where we still can't go. Even though I do like this game a little more, I'm not going to lie, sometimes I still do have those moments where I just wish I could go to those places that they paint sooooooo well. It still gets me sometimes :cry: .
