What do players mean by "gameplay"?
This is one of the most common terms I see around on this forum, and it also seems to be one of the main complaints consistently made against ts4. However, I can't quite wrap my head around that compl...
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"Cinebar;c-16268920" wrote:
I strongly disagree. :) If the AI is not good then there would not be a reason to build a new series. We would all be saying been there, done it, let's find another game series to play. The AI is the most important feature and must adhere to what a player thinks should happen. Short cuts sometimes are fine, but leaving out big chunks of simulation is the reason many think TS3 or TS4 have not lived up to the legend of The Sims.
Exactly, that is when the Sims starts to lose the Sim aspect of the simulation. I mean it is supposed to be a life simulator game, not only a pretty picture to look at so needs a good AI system to make the simulation work well. If I wanted that I would buy art from the merch shop to look at. No need to buy a game at that point. "Life simulation games are about "maintaining and growing a manageable population of organisms", where players are given the power to control the lives of autonomous people or creatures." When it becomes not about that anymore then that is when people question whether the Sims 4 is even a Sims game anymore because it is less about the simulation aspect and falling more into other game genre types that focus purely on looks over gameplay.
