Will the Sims 5 have a story line.

Hopefully Sims 5 will be more of a sandbox game like Sims 1 was....I really don't want my Sims game to be an RPG like Strangerville. RPGs belong in gamea like Minecraft and Final Fantasy,not in a Sims game

I think that if Sims 5 is to be really impressive, it needs to be really flexible. The player will need to be able to choose the set up and the game will need to cater to the different major playstyles.

I think what we saw with the creation of the story mode sims is more in line with how it might go. By that, I mean, when the player loads a new game, they tell the game how they will play it whether that's focusing on one sim, one family or a rotation. There would be the option to have story progression or a completely blank world with no story progression where the player fills it or the game generates townies (possibly based on the player's specifications). The player could then later shift the style of the game progression in the settings.

If it caters too heavily to one play style, it will end up back in the same position as the other versions.

I enjoy how my own game is going. I'm exploring some of the packs further and things are getting more interesting for me. I have no need to move onto a new game any time soon, but I'll look at how things actually play out.

I know the old pattern but if they kill TS4 shortly after university, I'll be disappointed. I'm definitely not ready to start over again right now and I want to see new content. If that new content is in an entirely new game that starts all over, I'm just not there now. Whether I'll get there? I don't know. I'll make that decision based on how things are handled. As it is, I've set up an entertaining game and I'm playing that for the time being.

the sims5 needs to be customise so it can fit each player play style and taste like for exemple if players went aging fully off like sims1 and play sims4 style it will be there as an option if plyers went to play sims2 sims 3 style its the same in my toughs

Oh I hope not. I don't have Strangerville for that exact reason.

If it's done like Strangerville, count me in. If it's more along the lines of the Life stories or Medieval, then I'm not going to touch that "game" with a ten foot pole.

Especially I do not want storylines tied to certain households. If I decidede to adopt a premade household, I want to make them mine, not play out what the devs want me to experience. For example it is implied that Jacques Villareal killed his wife for the inheritance, while in most of my saves they simply broke up over different world views and sometimes get together again.

It would be nice if you could choose from several templates when you create a household in CAS and then in life mode the game starts the story. Templates could be "This sim's wife is missing, find out where she went" and you slap that on a male or female sim and also define which of the kids (if any) are of the missing sim. Maybe the wife was an alien all along and only on earth to study humankind, in this case the children will later show signs of that heritage. Or she was abducted by a criminal syndicate that will force your sim to do their bidding (at the very least regular payments until the wife is rescued). That way the player keeps full control over their sims, but can still opt into a storyline.

Sims 2 is what I was thinking of

If I wanted story- lined (linear) games I would play console games and play stuff like Mass Effect,Call of Duty, or those St. James games, etc.

I don't know about an offical storyline but I know for a fact that my game WILL have a story line going :wink:

When I say a story line I mean like The Sims 3 I suppose I mean Lore and background think Elder Scrolls shour you can play the story,but you can also spend all your time in the bar or blacksmith ignoring the story 100% am I making sense?

I wouldn't mind there being some sort of semi-guided, pre-created background story for premade Sims. As long as I have the option to completely ignore it & it's not set up fully like an RPG. If I want an RPG, I go play something else. But having the option there would be interesting.