"bixters;c-17651723" wrote:
I'm very conflicted.
I think, creatively, the Sims 4 is really out of ideas. They have so much stuff that needs to be added to the game, but I don't think the game can handle any of it. Cars, babies, attraction, likes/ dislikes, story progression, etc. The Sims team seems to be avoiding all of these ideas, and doing random things like Star Wars. Is the game capable of having these things? Or is the technology too dated at this point?
If the technology of the Sims 4 is too unstable to add anything substantial to it, then it's time to move on!
But, I agree with Scobre that they may go with Sims 5 being an MMO. It will probably be subscription based and all online. It may even have loot boxes. The micro-transactions will be even worse. And EA does love online games.....
What I'm really hoping is that another franchise comes and takes this genre away from EA for good, a company like Paradox, or that Paralives is a worthy successor to the Sims.
I agree with the bolded. I think after a while there needs to be the realistic conversation of when is enough enough? When do we stop fighting with the technology and develop tech that works for us, rather than making the game work for weaker tech. And I don't mean as in making sure the game can run on lower end systems. I mean like...if it's too hard for you to add in
bunk beds with the current tech then maybe you just need new tech that makes it easy for you to add in
bunk beds. You can replace
bunk beds with any other content that the team or the fans have thought about being added to the game.
There has to be a point of recognition where someone says "a lot of things that a life sim has the potential to be, can't be achieved in this iteration, and I think we need to reassess our technology for the next version to see how we can include more content." This goes beyond just improved babies, and cars, and farming, etc. It includes robust AI, an immersive operating world, the depth of the animations, etc. And if the developers actually want to include these kinds of things, then yes absolutely try again on a new engine with a brand new game. If they don't want to include these things, then...I mean it's kind of disappointing because I feel like they're playing pretend at developing a life sim game to an extent. Or perhaps I should say, they're developing a life sim game that feels slightly unsatisfying
to me.
And it does become a question of can they or can't they? Or is it really they can and they won't? Sometimes it's hard to recognize the distinction between the two with the dev team. But the recent statement that was released saying they hear the fans asking for these things (cars, bunk beds, improved babies) and for this or that reason they're not being added at this time. But after so many years of fans requesting this, it really does make me wonder if it's that they can add these things and they don't want to, or if they simply can't figure out how to add them in-game without issues which goes back to what I was saying up above.
