The reason I'll be harder on Sims than Paralives.

"SERVERFRA;c-17565770" wrote:
I so want Sims 4 to have competition as well, because they need to step up their game & seriously start improving the game with better ideas & themes.

This! The market has been cornered for waaaay too long. I hope that Paralives does well, not for the sake of the game but for the sake of the Sims. I'm fairly certain Paralives is either gonna flop trying to match up to a big company, or sweep it away and do a lot better. Fingers crossed for either. I primarily play indie and simulation-type games, so will probably buy Paralives anyway because it's the kind of thing I tend to like.

Yes competition will do the Sims team good and even though I would love Paralives to be everything it promises I still have alot of doubts about the game. The team is just so small and I don't know what they are capable of. They've been releasing teaser after teaser and I'm getting suspicious.
Also the "healthy competition" won't come anytime soon since Paralives hasn't been able to show facial customization or actual gameplay so far and the AI and gameplay is the most important part in life-simulators. This is gonna take a looong time.

"ChadSims2;c-17565313" wrote:
Really at this point everything they have done puts Sims 4 to shame the customization on creating lots and objects being able to put names on grave stones and Christmas stockings is amazing color wheel and so on for me its hard to be hard on something in early development that's putting in the work and everything being done right. Even the latest from going from day to night with details like crickets chirping everything is so detailed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUQjMVxwYbU

We haven't seen anything in terms of game play yet in Paralives, so I personally wouldn't go as far to say that it's putting Sims 4 to shame, I will admit the customization and graphics look INCREDIBLE and gets me really excited, but until I see actual game play I will reserve judgement. Sure the base game will have things like pets, boats, and a bunch of other things that The Sims 4 base game doesn't have, but more doesn't always mean better. I'm more interested to see how things like careers, skills, relationships and personalities will work, if they can win me over in these areas then I'll consider shaming Sims 4 <3

"filipomel;c-17565874" wrote:

"ChadSims2;c-17565313" wrote:
Really at this point everything they have done puts Sims 4 to shame the customization on creating lots and objects being able to put names on grave stones and Christmas stockings is amazing color wheel and so on for me its hard to be hard on something in early development that's putting in the work and everything being done right. Even the latest from going from day to night with details like crickets chirping everything is so detailed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUQjMVxwYbU

We haven't seen anything in terms of game play yet in Paralives, so I personally wouldn't go as far to say that it's putting Sims 4 to shame, I will admit the customization and graphics look INCREDIBLE and gets me really excited, but until I see actual game play I will reserve judgement. Sure the base game will have things like pets, boats, and a bunch of other things that The Sims 4 base game doesn't have, but more doesn't always mean better. I'm more interested to see how things like careers, skills, relationships and personalities will work, if they can win me over in these areas then I'll consider shaming Sims 4 <3

I agree even though I hope Paralives lives up to the hype, but one has to wait for the finished product and see what it offers first.

I have low expectations for Paralives to be honest. People don't understand how hard it is to create interesting gameplay, at the moment it's a pretty looking build simulator but that's about it.
It'll most likely take them a very long time to create the gameplay as that's the hardest part to create and make function fluidly and most importantly will this gameplay be fun to play with?
I also hope they take more creative liberties with it in the future of development instead of making it into a clone/knockoff of the sims, I'd like to see interesting competition that brings something new to the table rather than a copycat.

"Onverser;c-17567208" wrote:
I have low expectations for Paralives to be honest. People don't understand how hard it is to create interesting gameplay, at the moment it's a pretty looking build simulator but that's about it.
It'll most likely take them a very long time to create the gameplay as that's the hardest part to create and make function fluidly and most importantly will this gameplay be fun to play with?
I also hope they take more creative liberties with it in the future of development instead of making it into a clone/knockoff of the sims, I'd like to see interesting competition that brings something new to the table rather than a copycat.

Yeah, not to put too fine a point on it, but Paralives, at least right now, is just a glorified level editor.
You can make nice houses, and the people are....................... fine................... but there's no gameplay yet.

I'll be equally hard on Paralives as The Sims, because if they want my money, honestly, it has to be better than The Sims. Not "better IF Maxis had the same team size/budget", but actually a better game.

If it's not better than The Sims, I ain't interested.

I love Cities Skylines because it's better than SimCity. Like, objectively better. It's more challenging, more visually interesting, and overall more engaging to play. I love Stardew Valley because it's a million times better than Harvest Moon.

If Paralives wants my money, it's got to give The Sims a run for its money. I'm not interested in dropping The Sims to play worse game just because it has a smaller team and therefore its weaker gameplay is somehow fine.

I want a better game.

I want to try paralives. I know it a small team and maybe its not a sim game like I used to like... but mehh neither is sims 4 so... For now Im in love with My Time at Portia. If this game, an indie game overcome the sims 4 (for me ofcourse) paralives ca do it aswell

"Onverser;c-17567208" wrote:
I have low expectations for Paralives to be honest. People don't understand how hard it is to create interesting gameplay, at the moment it's a pretty looking build simulator but that's about it.
It'll most likely take them a very long time to create the gameplay as that's the hardest part to create and make function fluidly and most importantly will this gameplay be fun to play with?
I also hope they take more creative liberties with it in the future of development instead of making it into a clone/knockoff of the sims, I'd like to see interesting competition that brings something new to the table rather than a copycat.

You are going to have similarity to the sims.Because it's a life simulator.I have faith to it, because it seems there putting effort in to it.The paras are being worked on.They are going to take there own liberties, and style.Like the sun look like a dog.All the electronics have a symbol like ad

"pandie00;c-17567249" wrote:
I want to try paralives. I know it a small team and maybe its not a sim game like I used to like... but mehh neither is sims 4 so... For now Im in love with My Time at Portia. If this game, an indie game overcome the sims 4 (for me ofcourse) paralives ca do it aswell

Off Topic: I wanted to thank you for this post. I tried My Time at Portia over the weekend. It's nothing like The Sims, however, it is an amazing game! It immediately hooked me in a way that Stardew Valley never did. I foresee that I'll be sinking a lot of my free time into it. :D

My Time at Portia (and Frostfall) has helped to lessen the sting of watching my favorite franchise morph into...something else. Again, thanks for the tip.

"Cynna;c-17567496" wrote:

"pandie00;c-17567249" wrote:
I want to try paralives. I know it a small team and maybe its not a sim game like I used to like... but mehh neither is sims 4 so... For now Im in love with My Time at Portia. If this game, an indie game overcome the sims 4 (for me ofcourse) paralives ca do it aswell

Off Topic: I wanted to thank you for this post. I tried My Time at Portia over the weekend. It's nothing like The Sims, however, it is an amazing game! It immediately hooked me in a way that Stardew Valley never did. I foresee that I'll be sinking a lot of my free time into it. :D

My Time at Portia (and Frostfall) has helped to lessen the sting of watching my favorite franchise morph into...something else. Again, thanks for the tip.

I recommend My time at port is as well.Its like stardewvalley.