Sims 4 made my gay Sims straight
In Sims 3, if you made gay Sims, they pretty much always stayed gay - even if you stopped playing them for a while. You could move on to another house, play for a while, and when you came back, your S...
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"ponderberries;14028708" wrote:"Cinebar;14028691" wrote:"ponderberries;14028666" wrote:
Do you have a quote or a link to that @happysimmer3 ? Unless we can see the context it's hard to know exactly what they were referring to in terms of the game. Did they say they left out things they didn't feel were absolutely necessary or was that just your understanding / interpretation of what was said?
For example when I see the quote "complexity was their enemy" I tend to think open world. I can't be certain because I don't know where the quote came from.
SimGuruMax said this when talking about the complexity of the TS3 that it was hard and complexity is their enemy with budgets and time etc. They avoided the complexity as much as possible in the TS4. This also went on to talk about how complex carrying a baby or toddler in the TS3 is so they avoided it in the TS4. It was hard. That is in the tech discussion threads with the gurus. As he went on to further explain, you can't put a toddler in the pocket to be able to multitask so complexity is their enemy when it came to building this game to carry around a baby but then you can't put the baby in the hind pocket (basically) and the multitasking requiring they use another object or drink etc. And something about graphs and nodes on that graph. :#
Ah so it sounds to me like multitasking is the culprit here.
Multitasking does seem to be the reason why a lot of things that fans ask for are 'too hard and expensive', but this is not the issue with simplifying the game as much as possible. This info is all right there in the Simulation Tech Talk threads (which they unstickied, btw, apparently they discovered that too much truth wasn't such a good idea, lol). I can provide the links later when I'm on my PC, if you still need them.
The open world was eliminated for several reasons, one of which IMO was that this was supposed to be an online social game. Your sim would live in one house, and you could invite other players to live in the other houses. Then you could chat, and party, and chat, and woohoo, and chat......and so on. :D
