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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"@Cinebar;c-16022103" wrote:"FloppyFish;c-16022098" wrote:
What is the alternative to having backdrops? Blank, white space? xD LOL. Every game has backdrops.
Yes, but they are usually much farther away. :) Not the house next door.
Yeah, but if your house is at the edge, it will always be the house next door.
I feel like Simmers especially, don't really understand why backdrops exist (and should exist). They kind of want a game where there's no decoration at all, which is why The Sims 2 & 3 have aged terribly by todays standards.
Say what you want about 4, but it will still look as fresh in 10 years as it does now. Bustin Out is proof to that. Detail counts.
Decorations made Bustin Out the incredible experience it is.
The Sims 3 suffers majorly from looking like a playable City Builder map instead of an Open World (even then, I would have taken SimCity Societies over TS3).
Having Sims 4 type backdrops would have made the game look fresh for much longer, because it feels realistic that Sims 3 maps are a small area of a larger city, not a remote island in the middle of the ocean.
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