Sims 3: Bitching and moaning

[strangetomato]

Wow. Just... wow.

From the The Sims 3: World Adventures Q&A on IGN:

The Sims 3: World Adventures offers a whole new way to play that we've never done in a Sims game before. We're utilizing the opportunity system introduced in The Sims 3 to take your sims through a whole variety of different adventures. You can start by talking to a local merchant who will send you off to find a keystone that unlocks the treasure chest to get into the secret chamber and so on. You aren't just picking up random tasks--you can follow and participate in a story. Each location offers different back stories and secrets to uncover. We're also working on a much more interactive exploration system in our tombs and catacombs. The player will need to solve puzzles to get from room to room--you can't just click in the treasure room and say "Go Here" anymore. Using your sims' skills, special items and figuring out a puzzle will be how to get through the multitude of areas we've set up for you to explore.

Sorry, but if I wanted to solve puzzles to get from room to room, I'd play a Legend of Zelda game. They're MUCH better at it. I hate to whine about this yet again, but seriously... what the fuck?

Comments

[simsinthecity.livejournal.com]

See, now they're taking out the great little nuances that made the series. Like what you and I say all the time about the premades from newer EPs.

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

And even being a person who likes traditional video games and having played them all my life (even if I'm a girl), I think all these "gaming aspects" are a terrible idea. You solve the puzzles, collect and prize and... what? Oh right, there STILL is no goal, so you get to do all this tedious stuff but you don't get to "beat" the game. You just get to do the same mini-quests for each generation, each neighbourhood. It's like playing Tetris on the same speed forever.

[poppyperson.livejournal.com]

OMG. What were they thinking? Come on, we play puzzle games for puzzels we play virtul world's for sims. Now I have to admit, when I first saw the sims 3 I thought COOL! I do have lots of problems with sims 2 (Like my game can't take custom content) but now...

WHAT IS THE SIMS COMING TO?

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I'm really sorry for the rant and taking up so much of your space.

No apologies needed here! ^_^ This is a free rant zone. Rant on. It's not good to bottle up your frustrations.

You feel much the same way I do. I could see the potential there for this game to be a great successor to Sims 2, and it had some GREAT features, but they're going so far off track now. Maybe it's not as bad as it sounds, but it sounds like a huge mistake.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Are we reading the same comment? Because I don't recall her saying that.

She said that her friend's daughter, a specific person, had no idea about sims games and thus had no expectations, so she loved it. That was hardly a sweeping generalization about all Sims 3 fans.

[petchy-14.livejournal.com]

*Smiles*
I honestly liked the "Stories" games.. And wasn't everyone saying that the game would add very little to the "real" game unless it featured tasks to be done? And a Reward for it?
Including a Stories type thing sounds actually wicked for me - Hollidays were dull and boring unless there was an actual ~reason~ for them being there.

However, from a storytelling point of view, it seems that thats got to be the worst choice.. but what about just sticking to TS2? TS3 for me is something to go in hand with TS2.. not an "heir to the throne"
I say let them be different, noone wanted an exact carbon copy of "Bon Voyage".. did they?

[sidonzo.livejournal.com]

Ok, maybe samethana didn't mean the comment the way it sounded to me. I've just seen comment after comment in the sims community that says the very things I described above about people that like the Sims3. Hate on the game all you want, but why attack your fellow simmers, you know? (That is a generalized you there, not you specifically, strange_tomato.)

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

Keep dreaming.

They couldn't even give the base game a way to make a black alien eye (yet you can have green skin).

The sims3 has officially KILLED the sims franchise (for me).

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

*observes moment of silence*

So sad.