"Scobre;c-17669702" wrote:
"bellagoth_;c-17668977" wrote:
i skipped sims 3 until a few years ago mostly because i didn't know a sims 3 existed, and i even played sims medieval before lol. i'm not familiar with rpg games so i wouldn't be able to point the similarities. but i think ts3 still carries a bit of the original sims idea on it, you do feel you're still playing a sims game despite the new features. but ts4 has no idea of what it wants to be, and i think that's one of the big issues it has.
I skipped it until Island Paradise came out myself. I heard Star Wars pack is very similar to the Sims Medieval. I didn't play the Sims Medieval so I wouldn't know. But it does feel like the Sims Castaway. Yeah I think the community and the game is going through an identity crisis right now. Community has never just been one thing, we are even more diverse now than we used to be with even more generations playing at once, so I do think age of the franchise does influence feedback now. Sims is far from being an indie company now. I also saw this video and thought of you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC50uNYDCqg
thank you for the video :) there's a comment on it that gives a really good point of view and i fully agree with it:
"I feel like the quirkiness he talks about is seen the strongest in TS1. It's quirkiness is very different from what TS4 is doing, with their over the top animations, goofiness and toilet humor, angry poops and all that. In the Sims 1 the quirkiness is expressed in somewhat macabre ways. Suspicious calls, jokes about lifes failures, turning. The humor is on a whole other level. Another example is the way Will Wright deeply analyzed life and made it comical. Just the idea for us to control little people who sometimes know they are controlled is absolute quirkiness. The Sims need more and more friends to advance in their careers until they are on top and suddenly they don't need any more friends to stay there. With the cake dancers it's the same. An exaggeration of life. They are not really strippers just mimicking them in a funny overdrawn wacky way. The famous heart bed was very expensive, meaning Sims had to work hard There was a magic beanstalk that grew to a cloud where you could see a sleeping Will Wright. The skeleton maid. I mean the game uses Comic Sans as a stylistic choice and it's entirely valid in that context, but a quirky choice non the less. To sum it up Will Wright knew what he was doing, while TS4 team and EA doesn't have a clue what going back to their roots and quirkiness even means. It's like they never really got why we love to play that game. Their weird and quirky attempts are flat and surface level making it more appropriate for a child than a teen or adult. It's weird that you think we got some quirkiness back with TS4. Nope even TS3 is more quirky than that game. The originality of the Sims is going away with each title. The Sims 4 suffers from creative laziness."
