Open world totally breaks immersion for sure

Those are beautiful pictures, but I don't see any Sims. If EA wants to build another open world system then I want 5,000 Sims running about so I can believe it's a 'world'. I don't want limits on how many show up anywhere, and I expect to see traffic jams, Sims hustling and bustling and the sidewalks so full of Sims mine can hardly get through. lol Seriously, I would upgrade to a gaming machine with whistles if they would build the sort of game I want.

*bowes down*

It's gorgeous . I love the open world and miss it , I agree with @Cinebar that the next rendition needs to be populated. I hated the ghost town feeling of sims3 but i loved exploring all the nooks and crannies.

Improved open world, remember this video?
https://youtu.be/o6gXiw5URNM

It shows how sims can finally be connected together and share the same world but live different lives. The same concept should have been brought over to sims 4 and should move on to sims 5 with new details and activities. How did we go from that to loading screens? Now it just feels like someone took our sims and stuffed them right back into their homes and locked the door. The only escape is throw a loading screen.

Looks AMAZING!!!!!

Also looks like something the Sims 4 should have been.

"Cinebar;14160281" wrote:
Those are beautiful pictures, but I don't see any Sims. If EA wants to build another open world system then I want 5,000 Sims running about so I can believe it's a 'world'. I don't want limits on how many show up anywhere, and I expect to see traffic jams, Sims hustling and bustling and the sidewalks so full of Sims mine can hardly get through. lol Seriously, I would upgrade to a gaming machine with whistles if they would build the sort of game I want.

When I played Barcelona the world was active and populated. It was a great vacation destination for my sims. I might have to move a family or just a couple there to live for a while.

That's one of the improvement I had expected with Sims 4. A real rush hour traffic jam for sims going to and coming home from work. Kids waiting at the bus stop for their school bus. An actually public transpiration (i.e. better subway, buses, cabs, possibly a trolley, and trains.) And not to forget cars again with all the working animations from Sims 2. Oh, and real grass, not green blobs on the ground.

It's so sad that Sims 4 has now forcibly shoved you and your sims back into that box, but wait. It's even better, it comes with even more loading screens than ever before! Yeah, RF and her team really knows what we simmers truly wanted. *roll eyes*

Awesome pics!

I do wonder what research was done to show that players did not want an open world. And yeah, that last sentence was a bit more sarcastic than a real question, as I believe the answer is "very little research".

Still, I do like having zero lag in S4 compared to S3, but that may just be my ancient computer's fault and not the open world aspect of S3.

No what breaks immersion is being confined to your lot because if you want to go next door you have to endure a loading screen.

"AthenaOnyx;14162166" wrote:

"barbaraluv86;856612" wrote:

Sarcasm aside, if the sims 5 (that's if it's ever made) brings back open world, would you want a new and improved sims 3 open world or do you want a semi-open world instead?

I know I'm going to earn some zagadoos for this. What I'd like is if s5 has somewhat open world like Skyrim. Like there would a huge land mass that is completely opened, world designers could build anything want mountains, forests, fields, sometimes you'd see random sims just wondering around in the world. Then there would be regions that would require a loading screen. These could be urban areas, tropical beachy areas, or quaint rural towns etc. everything by the buildings would be open, here you'd see plenty of sims just walking around doing there own thing. If you want to go into a building then that's going to require another loading screen. Let's say you're just walking through the city, you might see a mountain in the distance, if you leave that region you could actually walk to that mountain.

The reason I'd like things this way is because I think it's a good compromise between what would function well and what would make the game the most realistic.

Zagadoo is sooo august-september ;) I agree with you by the way. I don't play Skyrim but by the sounds of it that would be heaven. Don't know if it's doable in a Sims game though.