Open worlds discussion

"Chaotic_Moira;c-18107944" wrote:

"crocobaura;c-18107615" wrote:
I suppose picnic tables must be restaurants too because you sit down and eat food at them too. I don't call that a restaurant, you need a waiter and maitre'd for that along with kitchen staff. Same with shops, selling from inventory is not a shop. I'm glad you enjoyed TS3 but for me it was major downgrade after TS2. Even with all the store sets it wouldn't come close to the type of detaild gameplay TS2 offered for community lots.

Preference between Sims 2 and 3 or 4, is just that, a preference, and we don't have to agree. I was just clarifying on your comment that there were no playable community shops or restaurants in 3, because there are. You may not care for their game play, and that is fine, but you also are not accurately representing the game play.

In a restaurant you sit at a table (whichever kind you as the builder choose to place in the restaurant) you use a menu (which is customized by you the player), to order, and your food is cooked and brought to you. It is true that the chef takes your order which is odd. I used a mod to have waitstaff. In general, other than the waitstaff, it functions as all the others in the sims series.

Also, in shops you can purchase at the counter with a menu, or right off the shelf when walking around the store. Different packs/sets brought different ways items can be bought and sold in shops. You may not have had the pack that allowed this, I don't know. But it is available.

If you don't like 3, or an open world, that is fine. You mentioned other reasons it didn't suite you. I am not here to convince you otherwise. I just wanted to point out that having playable lots is not a hindrance to having an open world, as Sims 3 does have fully playable lots.

My main complaint about the lots that were playable was that they were empty or closed when my sim got there and that was entirely due to the way the open world system was designed to work. The fact that they sold many community playable activities through the store is a different issue altogether. I bought all the packs but if I want a fully functional game I was expected pay more for that and store prices are not exactly cheap, and they would still suffer from the same issue as other playable lots and be empty or closed when you got there. If you are fine with that good for you.