6/27 BTS Rene Reveal Discussion Thread

I have to say I do like the furtinure and lighting a lot. I hope the style is close to what the game will have. I assume the sims will still change.

To be honest, I'm starting to worry about how possible is rotational play there...

I do hope they do introduce a way to easily play rotationally there, like in The Sims 4. The Sims 3 rotational play was just... uncomfortable without mods...

I did like the presentation and the little tidbits about Project Rene. But I was more impressed with the news about the horses at this point in time. Plus was glad to hear the result of the survey for the next years' kit (Goth/Medieval).

I watched the reveal video for Project Rene. I didn't see any reason for Simmers to move on from TS4 (nor older games) to get onboard with TS5/Rene.

1. Everyone oohing over lighting, read the statement on the scene picture...like in all trailers/videos they do, may not be in the game. I always forget their exact quote warning not actual game footage stuff as stated on the video first scene.

2. They said it would look good on pc and the phone... So, it's going to have a lot of mobile features if lighting matters on a phone.

3. They talked about wanting to figure out what is the sweet spot for not too much emotional information on the screen (moodlets and text popups and buffs?) this time. Well, that's sort of odd because all they have to do is remember or play TS2 to figure out why it's beloved when it comes to understanding exactly what the Sims are talking about due to their expressions and speech bubble and 'emotional behaviors'. It's like they are trying to reinvent the wheel. It's just really odd they want to figure this out...without so many popups, text and moodlets and or buff stuff going on. :( Have they forgotten TS2 exists? It didn't have moodlets, avatar mood colors, or buffs and or text popups telling us what our Sim was thinking or feeling and or their 'mood'. Odd indeed.

4. They talked about wanting to figure out how to animate the Sim's movements and reactions etc. etc. That's odd, too. Nothing so far that would convince anyone to drop TS4 (or older games). They have been animating this franchise for more than twenty years. Some great animations in all of them to do with the Sim's stance, movements, reactions, etc. etc. It's like they want to reinvent the wheel.

5. Trying to figure out how to lighten hair in stands, colors etc. What? Did they forget they have been doing this for twenty years?

It's almost like they have never built The Sims...and I guess some of them haven't, but good gracious, I came away scratching my head, wondering why they are trying to reinvent the wheel and totally forgetting they have already made some terrific games, that we all still love and this one isn't impressive enough (yet) to get anyone excited about a new title. Sad.

It's almost like they don't remember the other three earlier games before TS4's moodlet/buff/avatar mood colors.

6. Apartments with a store beneath it, had a mod for that way back in TS2. They look at mods and always have...it's really late in the stage of The Sims to just now getting around to that. Multipurpose lots are possible in TS1, TS2. It's not new.
But it would be if they didn't have those and only TS3 and TS4.

A new generation of phone players may love this game but so far I saw nothing that they haven't already done and credit where it is due, the other games are great in their own ways, but this time it's like Maxis has memory problems.

ETA: I came away thinking they had three selling points and none of it was that impressive. Lighting was the lead topic, ok, yes, it's important but not as much as the Sim. 2nd was moods of the Sim....forgot all about TS2 there, like it never existed. Third, coloring hair...they have been doing that since TS2, with highlights, movement etc. Wait, Fourth, animation movements, stances etc.....even TS4 has some impressive almost human movements even more so than TS2, so yeah....nothing to see here. (Yet). One would think with what all we have seen with the other two upcoming games on the market next year or so, Maxis would have put out the best to take the show. Like drop the mic but they didn't. :o

"Cinebar;c-18283014" wrote:

Both Sims 3 and Sims 4 were reinventions of the wheel, where core gameplay systems of the previous games were ignored or partially reimplemented.

Just found out TS5 will apparently be free to play upon release. Any hope or excitement I had for this game is now crushed and gone. Free to play at start is never good. There will be microtransactions galore.

"Coconut27;c-18283148" wrote:
Just found out TS5 will apparently be free to play upon release. Any hope or excitement I had for this game is now crushed and gone. Free to play at start is never good. There will be microtransactions galore.

They can charge all the microtransactions they want. I've been ready to move on ever since 4 came out.

"Coconut27;c-18283148" wrote:
Just found out TS5 will apparently be free to play upon release. Any hope or excitement I had for this game is now crushed and gone. Free to play at start is never good. There will be microtransactions galore.

I was super disappointed to read this too. Hopefully, it'll be just the base game is free, and then you pay for the expansions, stuff packs etc and there will be minimal microtransactions, butttt I seriously doubt it

"luvdasims55;c-18283153" wrote:

"Coconut27;c-18283148" wrote:
Just found out TS5 will apparently be free to play upon release. Any hope or excitement I had for this game is now crushed and gone. Free to play at start is never good. There will be microtransactions galore.

They can charge all the microtransactions they want. I've been ready to move on ever since 4 came out.

yeah at this point i've had enough. I was holding on to my last sliver of hope and now its gone. Time to move on to Paralives and LBY for me. IDC about graphics at this point, I'm just done with how this franchise has become and how they treat their consumers

"SimSpock;c-18283093" wrote:

"Cinebar;c-18283014" wrote:


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2. They said it would look good on pc and the phone... So, it's going to have a lot of mobile features if lighting matters on a phone.

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I missed that. Yikes.

Well not necessarily. Why?

We KNOW that the mobile portion is for decorating interiors on the go. It could be more than that, but we only know that's the extent so far.

When they were showing the lighting, they showed renders of interiors. So the statement that they want it to look good on pc and phone does not necessarily mean they expect the full game to run on your phone.