Open world totally breaks immersion for sure

"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.

I like that idea, with Skyrim. LOL When I do play the game (hasn't been since last December, 'cause I'm hate those giant spiders), I couldn't help but wish the whole world was open. I like moving in and out of a store or any building without a load screen. I've slowly been building the current world I'm in "workable" stores with a rug hidden on the lot. So I can see my sims shopping for items, or inside the school and hospital, etc. But that's just my personal preference. It think with the technology we have today, and technology to come, there is no excuse for EA and Maxis not to deliver on a spectacular open world for Sims 5. Unless they still with their current course, if it's not cheap and easy it's to hard to do. :(

By the way, I have you an "insightful" because it really was. :)

I hope the sims 5 has a loading screen between each and every room on a lot. There is just wayyy too much open space in ts4 that's making me feel disconnected from my sims.

"Alysha1988;14162802" wrote:
I hope the sims 5 has a loading screen between each and every room on a lot. There is just wayyy too much open space in ts4 that's making me feel disconnected from my sims.

Maybe they need a loading screen between every frame of an animation. That might make you feel better Alysha :)

"Alysha1988;14162802" wrote:
I hope the sims 5 has a loading screen between each and every room on a lot. There is just wayyy too much open space in ts4 that's making me feel disconnected from my sims.

More load screens and even less animations. That's the best way to go!

im d/l that world as i type, so beautiful. back to the topic i would definately love the open world.

@GoldenBuffy exactly i feel like im stuff back into a single lot because i detest loading screens. even though we had them in sims 2 that was ages ago (and acceptable at that time) and we've seen they can do open world so why didnt they just expand on that?

"GoldenBuffy;14162830" wrote:

"Alysha1988;14162802" wrote:
I hope the sims 5 has a loading screen between each and every room on a lot. There is just wayyy too much open space in ts4 that's making me feel disconnected from my sims.

More load screens and even less animations. That's the best way to go!

Off topic: they don't look like they're ROFL'ing to me. Rather like they're being poisoned :D

So true, @Mulecat. The loading screens where something expected back in 2004, that was the technology back then. There is no excuse for it in 2014 -2015. And correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't Olympus going to be an open world, since it was online and players would have been able to visit other players at their homes? So if that was so, why did they toss out that gaming engine and design a new one that couldn't handle an open world concept implemented correctly and without the issues that many players had with Sims 3? It boggles the mind. Well, the whole game (Sims 4) boggles the mind.

"GoldenBuffy;14161983" wrote:

"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.

Yes, I was almost convinced that fake realtor trailer people were passing around (before the game was announced) on Youtube etc. 'was' the TS4. Lol I wish.

"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.

I will disagree not because i hated your idea but because that idea still means which only one part of the world will be simulated, this just gonna make the playable part increase in size, and gonna still feel like a sitcom, i prefer a full town being simulated to being able to walk to anywhere and know which the world is "moving", yesterday i was playing cities skyline and i was magnified by the town the npcs on the town all walking around or using cars, even childrens, the parks which i placed and others things with npcs playing around, that was what i hope for a true simulator, have a town full of characters having they lifes, while i can control some of they life aspects, that is why i'm looking for TGL and aldo taking a look to the project in mothersim site, both are trying to have the best they can with "today" technology.

Like you will say probably peoples with low computers will zagadoo or hate me but, serious if you want to play games in pc you can't expectate your dinossaur machine running games forever, game market is equal to others market keep changing and improving, each year news games are made and with a more complext technology which need better machines over and over, if you don't want to have buy a new pc or upgrade your pc to play then is much better you buy a console, or ps 4 or ps one and play on it than keep hoping which your machine will be able to play forever, world game is a expensive world specially pcs, I'm not rich or close i'm middle class and whenever i want to upgrade my machine is not easy specially in my country where we are literally robbed by the politics with absurds taxes, but i know which i can't keep using the same machine forever and do my efforts to have at last a medium pc good enough to play new games with minimum lag without need a top gamer machine which obvious is really too expensive, but i know how to look to more "in line prices" and be able to have a good at a reasonable price.

if maxis keep pulling forever that "we need to hold hands of low machines" they will ending failing in game market, cuz news peoples are comming and that peoples are making games which will attract more peoples than maxis if they pull a good combination of graphics and gameplay with can easy outshine the sims.

currently sims 4 state is not hard to make a better game for the peoples which understood about make games and that is a danger zone for maxis they put themselfs in a bad position the trumph card maxis had until now was "we are the only ones doing it", if paradox make they own life simulator i can easy see them again outshine maxis and take over it like they did with simcity 2013, because they not gonna make a cheap game for the sake of low ending machines, paradox aimming for game market like most of the game developer not just a little target(low ending) like maxis.

"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.

I think with 64 bit, they wouldn't even have to compromise. Make slightly smaller, more detailed towns. I should be careful, as Maxis will read smaller towns and ignore more detailed as they claim to be 'hearing me'.