When Do You Think Sims 4 Will End?

"@drake_mccarty;c-16317459" wrote:

"jackjack_k;c-16317432" wrote:

"@drake_mccarty;c-16309543" wrote:

"Cheekybits;c-16309529" wrote:
I don't understand why people assume if sims 5 comes out it will be better. If they use the same game engine it will take just as long for packs if they don't it will take just as long to redo animations. Look how long it took them to do toddlers in sims 4, do we really want to wait again.

They always talk about how Sims 4 required an upgrade to their technology base. I just don’t see it. They can’t accomplish anything on this technology.

I would hope the heads at Maxis would immediately shoot down the idea of reusing the Smart Sim engine. It has been the largest road-block for Sims 4.

The engine actually seems to be the most stable and best engine they’ve ever made.

An engine and game are two very seperate things. They’ve chosen to build The Sims 4 the way it is. The limitations are based on the fact they chose to make them in the first place.

They were able to turn The Sims 2, that already used SimCity 4 as it’s world engine into The Sims 3. However there was no way they could add Open World to the Sims 2. Yet they used The Sims 2 engine for TS3. The engine is just a tool kit to make a game.

The only reason they build new engines is when the old ones can’t make proper use of technology. But look at gaming engines like Unreal. The amount of games using that engine is huge.

Also remember, the Sims 2 engine was also used for The Urbz, The Sims 2 console games and even The Sims 3 for console (also Nintendo 3DS), hence why they’re able to copy and paste animations etc freely.

The Sims 3 for 3DS was basically found to be a reskinned Sims 2.

I know what I’m talking about Jack. Just because the game is stable doesn’t mean it has a good foundation underneath it.

Yes they are able to do some pretty cool things with flexible game engines, but Sims 4 can barely do anything. Do you think they intentionally design the game to be so vastly inferior? No.. that’s a byproduct of their lack of funding and difficult to work with engine. Go do some research and stop spreading misinformation on the forums.

You don’t know what an Engine is?

The Sims 4 engine is a tool kit to make games. You do understand that right? The Sims 4 engine isn’t just The Sims 4 tools devs use.

The reason why The Sims 4 is limited, is because they built a game with limitations.

But they could make a whole new game that looks nothing like The Sims 4, with the Sims 4 engine.

The engine is good, because it doesn’t seem to collapse with a lot of content. But that doesn’t mean they built the best game they could with that engine.

Ever heard of Unity? It’s a gaming engine. Devs use it to make thousands of games.

EA make their own engines with The Sims, and always have done. But the Urbz all the way to The Sims 3, use the same engine which is why they can reuse the animations freely.

A gaming engine is NOT what tools devs make for themselves for the game.
A gaming engine is what devs use to make the tools to make the game.

Completely different.