"Rebbilina;c-17283991" wrote:
What I mainly disliked about the open world was that you were confined to that world. You couldn't just pop over to Sunset Valley if you lived in Riverview whenever you felt like it. And yes, it was laggy. Even now, playing it on a gaming computer, it still doesn't run smoothly. The loading screens were a nightmare too. I remember that I used to always have a book or something next to the computer whenever I was playing the sims 3 back in the day, because I needed something to if I had to go through a loading screen and be stuck there for like 10 min.
For sims 5, I'd love it if they could open up the neighbourhoods, but keep the worlds closed. If I have to go with one though, I very much prefer sims 4 worlds. The loadingscreens don't bother me, as they're always less than a minute for me.
This is basically where I'm at. I'm not anti-open world but I like some of the elements of TS4.
TS3 really toasted my computer at the time. I had a lot of fun with it but the open world glitched in the end for me so that none of the NPCs were free-moving, they all pooled up on one lot in a way that was creepy. Then, my laptop melted down and I didn't come back until well into TS4. I decided to give TS4 a try and decided that I was ok with the short loading screens on my better computer.
I do like the large neighborhoods with minimal loading screens in the open air like the Windenburg countryside, Brindleton Bay and the Sulani islands. It's not illogical to me to have a short loading screen to travel to a different neighborhood.
Editing this to add: When I say my laptop melted, I mean that it literally overheated and the various pieces fell off while the fans ran too fast at a high heat. No issues like that now, but I'm playing on a better computer.
