"ClarionOfJoy;c-18098081" wrote:
"Breazona;c-18098050" wrote:
"Tasaar;c-18097989" wrote:
"simmerorigin;c-18097367" wrote:
I do think using Unreal Engine will improve efficiency, especially with asset creation and animations.
If it means we don't get a laggy mess a la TS3, and a game with more depth than TS4, I'm game with literally any engine.
Yeah, my first thought was Sims 3 as well. Adore this game but building it on an improved Sims 2 engine had to have hurt it, right? I mean I'm a bit of an idiot so I could be completely off base here!
The Sims 3 wasn't built off The Sims2 engine. It is it's own engine. It's just that it was too far ahead of its time.
The computers we have now play it just fine:
- lag free and can load all EPs and SPs on SDD
- graphics can be set to as high as your hardware will allow (just make sure to get the tool that will update TS3 to accept new graphics cards)
- also, when people blame lag on the game itself, it is usually a routing issue which can be fixed
- the newer computers also have faster CPUs which actually govern the number of townies and tourists you have going out and about and going to the lots
I really should set up a YouTube channel and do videos on how I set up a world, how I play sims and do some tutorials on some things that would be helpful.... ?
Finally, someone else who gets it. I took all the cc junk and redid my game right before Sims3 Supernatural came out because I'm a family player and babies were lines. I'm not rich, but I knew to get a good gaming computer when I bought mine and I bought an Asus. Taking off the cc was a night and day change in my game. Still to this day I can play with the whole store and all games without problems. The low end computers and the cc was the biggest issue with the Sims3. And you are spot on, it was ahead of it's time and all I can think about when playing the Sims 4 is how happy I was playing Sims3. Loading, getting out of CAS, saving are issues I hate about the Sims3 that Sims4 got right and that's why I mostly play Sims4 right now because I want to play instead of waiting to load and also because once in game(Sims3) I never want to quit. I can't count how many times I played morning until late at night all day long. TBH, I don't know if that has happened once in the Sims4.
The images for me that helped at the beginning of this is from OP and Simming girl and were the ones that showed the sim looking people walking around the jungle, or sim looking people walking, and the city picture/view. Wow, is all I can say. I hope sims look that real. We've had cartoons in the Sims3&4 and it's time to take this game to Unreal Engine and take Sims to new places and that means looking good. After seeing what's possible, I'm glad S5 is in production; I just hope they are better at putting out packs. Sims3/ and store had so much, but we get same old stuff in the Sims4 and I'm tired of paying good money for stuff already in game, just changed a little. I've had the whole Sims3 store and all games and all games from the Sims4 except 2 kits that are just clothes and seem to be what we already have just slightly different. I don't need that. I hope in addition to real engine that they concentrate on getting a bunch of content out like they did in the Sims3. No content/news in the Sims4 has seriously killed my interest these last few years.
