KRAFTON's inZOI Life Simulation Game vs. Sims 5 (Rene)

"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-18326397" wrote:

Interesting. Pretty.

More competition is healthy, but I feel none of the realistic life sims have anything on The Sims, no matter how beautiful they look.

For me personally, one important element seems to be missing and that is CHARM. There's nothing truly charming about these games. They're very generic. Not one of them seem FUN at all. There's lack of personality, there's nothing quirky or cheeky about them, and at the end of the day I think this will be very difficult to achieve due to their hyper realism. Ofcourse it depends on what you're looking for in a life sim, if it's "realism", this will suit a lot of players!

I pre-ordered Life By You since I'm very interested in exploring some of the more complex features that are offered in the game, but for me it's a lot easier to fall in love with a game like The Sims in terms of graphics, design, animation, quirkiness, silly features...just overall aesthetics etc.
I'm still secretly hoping for a Fantasy / Occult life-sim, or something space related. The only quality life sim that offers anything close to the things that I wish for in a life-sim is... The Sims. It's a no-brainer, really. ?

I 100% agree with everything you said here. I also prefer the silly, quirky, cartoony sims. And fantasy/occult content is my favorite content! I'm a big geek and I love how much pop culture is in The Sims. TS1 and TS2's occults were inspired by all the Hollywood Halloween classics, and TS3 started incorporating modern pop culture with all of their occults and lots of the worlds lore as well, and TS4 has followed in TS3's footsteps in that regard. No other life sim competitor is adding fantasy or geek culture into their games like The Sims does.

I did pre-order Life by You, however, because even if I'm not 100% satisfied with the game, at the core that game is made for modders. So if I don't like the way the humans look? I'm sure there will be tons of default replacements. And I'm sure people from the sims community will mod their own occults into the game even if Paradox doesn't make any. Also, with it being a discounted price compared to what it will be at full launch, pre-ordering that seemed like a good deal to me. Even if I like The Sims better, I know I'll still have some fun with Life by You as well.

But all the other life simulation competition that I've seen come up, including inZOI, just doesn't look fun to me. Paralives I'm still undecided on, I'm still waiting for them to give gameplay previews, I do like Paralives art style so if they have gameplay that looks fun and it's on par with the price range of most indie games, then I'll probably get it. But I'm not gonna pay AAA prices for a life simulation game that isn't The Sims. So inZOI is probably out of the question, because to me that game looks expensive and boring.

That being said, I'm not moving on to TS5/Project Rene right away either. I mean, since it's gonna be free to download I'll probably get the base game at launch, but I'm not putting a single penny towards it unless they give occult content that's a significant gameplay upgrade from TS4 and for a fair price. Which is something that I can't really trust any AAA company to do at this moment in time b/c live service games are the trend right now and I hate those, but hopefully Maxis can surprise me there. But I'm still buying content for TS3 and TS4 to this day (don't have all ts4 packs yet and i like the ts3 online store content) so like, EA isn't losing a customer in me. lol

Well this one's a pass for me. Too realistic. The characters, the world. It's like filming a movie in present day. None of the brightness, vibrancy, lightheartedness, charm, absurdity of the Sims' games.

The reviewer also mentioned that the company had to send most of the reviewers computers because the game was so demanding. That might be a problem for a lot of simmers.

Looks good for those who are ready for something new and are ok with those type of graphics and realism but I see this as more competition for LBY than The Sims.

"Sheepiling;c-18327998" wrote:

"MarteziaKing;c-18327984" wrote:
Hold up, there was a livestream? What did I miss? I'm not in the mood to watch it, but can someone post a short recap for me please? ?

I don't know if the company that made inZOI did an official livestream or not, but there's a lot of sims content creators that were sent early copies of the game and have been streaming and/or reviewing it! I watched the stream from acottonsock

I should've been more specific. I already know about the livestreams from The Sims content creators, but I was talking about a livestream from Krafton, the company that's creating inZOI. ?

"Babykittyjade;c-18328044" wrote:

"simgirl1010;c-18327956" wrote:
Well this one's a pass for me. Too realistic. The characters, the world. It's like filming a movie in present day. None of the brightness, vibrancy, lightheartedness, charm, absurdity of the Sims' games.

The reviewer also mentioned that the company had to send most of the reviewers computers because the game was so demanding. That might be a problem for a lot of simmers.

Looks good for those who are ready for something new and are ok with those type of graphics and realism but I see this as more competition for LBY than The Sims.

Wow they had to be sent computers??!! ??
Truly makes me wonder what kind of a beast is needed to play this ?

I wonder what kind of computers that Krafton sent the reviewers. The computer I got is a HP All-in-One 22 with 953 GB of storage (I already used 163 GB because I got Google Chrome, The Sims 4, the EA app, Steam, and the Epic Games store installed). Hopefully my computer is powerful enough to play inZOI. ?

"Babykittyjade;c-18328044" wrote:

"simgirl1010;c-18327956" wrote:
Well this one's a pass for me. Too realistic. The characters, the world. It's like filming a movie in present day. None of the brightness, vibrancy, lightheartedness, charm, absurdity of the Sims' games.

The reviewer also mentioned that the company had to send most of the reviewers computers because the game was so demanding. That might be a problem for a lot of simmers.

Looks good for those who are ready for something new and are ok with those type of graphics and realism but I see this as more competition for LBY than The Sims.

Wow they had to be sent computers??!! ??
Truly makes me wonder what kind of a beast is needed to play this ?

There is some misinformation on this thread. I will clarify.

FYI @simgirl1010 @Babykittyjade @MarteziaKing The game is currently NOT optimized. So the Sim influencers who were given a temporary review copy were also gifted a top gaming computer to be able to run the non-optimized game. Once the game is optimized for release, it will be able to support a wider range of specs (that is the point of the optimization).

"simmerorigin;c-18328053" wrote:

"Babykittyjade;c-18328044" wrote:

"simgirl1010;c-18327956" wrote:
Well this one's a pass for me. Too realistic. The characters, the world. It's like filming a movie in present day. None of the brightness, vibrancy, lightheartedness, charm, absurdity of the Sims' games.

The reviewer also mentioned that the company had to send most of the reviewers computers because the game was so demanding. That might be a problem for a lot of simmers.

Looks good for those who are ready for something new and are ok with those type of graphics and realism but I see this as more competition for LBY than The Sims.

Wow they had to be sent computers??!! ??
Truly makes me wonder what kind of a beast is needed to play this ?

There is some misinformation on this thread. I will clarify.

FYI @simgirl1010 @Babykittyjade @MarteziaKing The game is currently NOT optimized. So the Sim influencers who were given a temporary review copy were also gifted a top gaming computer to be able to run the non-optimized game. Once the game is optimized for release, it will be able to support a wider range of specs (that is the point of the optimization).

Oh okay, thanks for clarifying this! ?

@simmerorigin thanks for the clarification. I'm sure that'll put some minds at ease.

the livestream from acottensock was amusing, her in game husband was being stolen from her by sum red haired female zoi, so she went and gave the red haired female zoi a punch in the face. Seems the game has sum drama already happening. lol!

"DivinylsFan;c-18328141" wrote:
Some people sound like representatives or employees

Are you accusing me of sounding like a Krafton employee just because I wanted to share the correct information?

"MoonCrossWarrior22;c-18326160" wrote:
I hope someone makes a medieval themed life sim, would be very cool if they did. :P

Yeah, I would love to see a medieval life sim in the same nature as The Sims, more so, a fantasy renderition.