How Many Plan on Buying Paralives vs TS5?

"ClarionOfJoy;c-17832815" wrote:

"Cinebar;c-17832796" wrote:


So as not to spam my own thread, Snowy Escape finally (after twenty years) has the feature/animation to remove shoes indoors. I have been begging Maxis for twenty years to add Sims removing their shoes and their own coats themselves when going indoors etc. The shoe removal is already in Paralives (confirmed) even before Snowy Escape release. I mean I have to weigh the apples against the oranges and see what things this little team is doing compared to what I have begged Maxis to do for year and years.

The shoe removal features in TS4's Snowy Escape EP is just the shoes magically disappearing in sparkles from the sims' feet. But in Paralives, there's actual animation for the removal of shoes! So lazy and cheap of EA/Maxis that they didn't even bother to create and include the animation for this!

That's what I mean. TS4 borrows so many non animated (all FX) mechanics from mobile games (to save time and less expensive) rather than animate stuff all over TS4. I know it doesn't bother anyone some, but it bothered me about TS4. I know today's players don't care the Sims don't open drawers to change clothes etc. but what is the point of a life simulator if you are leaving out the actual simulation. You know what that is so par for the course for TS4..it is so disappointing in so many ways to keep doing that sort of thing. Things I have begged for is just a FX sparkle :s

ETA: And I know we still hear the argument well, TS4 is a different game, no sorry, originally they sold the line it was the fourth in the series and a life simulator then as soon as released start that stuff about how it was 'different' and a soap opera or sitcom. But originally they said TS4 was a life simulator, it doesn't simulate some of the most basic things. Like a social worker.