Comments on: The Sims 4: It Seems Better than it Feels

By: Fee

Fee — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 23:18:36 +0000

That first one I thought deleted itself, sorry to post twice.

By: Fee

Fee — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 23:18:02 +0000

Ipad graphics? really? major exaggeration. Anyone with eyes can see they are so much crisper and smoother. Sure they aren’t heavily textured, but so what? That’s the art style they went with and it suits the franchise better than the sims 3 ever did.
You are so wrong about emotions as well. In 2 and 3, they were either happy or sad. Sad they couldn’t do much. Now the new emotions actually affect how they do things and communicate. Which is much more realistic then previous. It is a life simulation after all, so focusing more on the sims themselves is the smart choice. And you like the robotic animations of the sims 3? The path finding is horrible and the lack of any form of multitask is completely annoying. But whatever, if you like stuff like that.

By: Fee

Fee — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 23:12:15 +0000

Emotions are clearly different. I don’t know why you refuse to believe that, but whatever. The Sims is a life simulation, therefore focusing on the sims themselves and emotions is the right step. In the sims 3, they are either happy or upset. This time the new emotions actually affect everything, like in real life.
I don’t see how you like the robotic animations of the sims 3, especially the horrible path finding and lack of any form of multitasking. They’ve explained several times why they haven’t don’t CASt yet. Severely brings down performance. Just because you don’t have issues with that doesn’t mean that 80% of other people do.
And saying the graphics look like an ipad game or old computer is completely over exaggerated. Anyone with eyes can see everything is more crisp and smooth. Sure the textures aren’t heavily detailed, but there’s more to graphics than textures.

By: Jess1281

Jess1281 — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 20:44:45 +0000

Sims 2 didn’t run on my windows Xp too well, I had an older computer when it came out. It did ok with my Vista (New comp, better stats, still cheap though)

My system I got last year The Sims, Sims 2 and Sims 3 run great with minor issues, but it has a decent processor.

Out of all 3, Sims 3 has had the most…Corrupted saves, lost family members while travelling, Crashing to desktop, or that one Error…then crashing to desktop. The monstrous mutant pets on my older system…. That wasn’t on the publisher though.

People always forget processing power in gaming, we have more storage then we need 90% of the time, it is all down to RAM and Processing power.

(Side note: I know OS have almost nothing to do with how a game runs unless it’s unsupported (Sometimes) but it is how I remember my past computers, lol. )

By: matt

matt — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 18:23:34 +0000

I’d have thought to keep fans interested now they have over a year to wait perhaps?

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 21:24:04 +0000

You haven’t seen any of the animation stuff. No one but the people at simscamp have seen them. Have you not read any articles about the masterclass? If you have, you’ll see they are finally focusing more on gameplay and stability over graphics. And it’s suppose to look cartoonish. The sims has never been realistic, so naturally, the facial movements aren’t going to be realistic.

By: Max Q Baker

Max Q Baker — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 21:04:33 +0000

Yup. I’m with Samis on this one.

By: Samis

Samis — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 19:37:09 +0000

Because it is. TS2 is laggy on my computer. Like I said base game was fine.

But now when I have all expansion and stuff packs, it is really laggy and slow. I lost one saved game because of lagg.

With TS3 I do not have any huge bug, just some minior. But I have minior bugs in every game I played.

So it is really different on every computer and different operating system.

By: deibreak

deibreak — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 18:03:49 +0000

Even though I don’t really like the look of the new sims all that much so far, I do agree that their faces look much better than sims 3, if you look at side by side comparisons then ts4 sims faces look a lot better. I still wish they would have kept the cartoony look but went with higher detail, but I understand they want the game accessible to as many players as possible.

By: Tanooki

Tanooki — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 17:59:36 +0000

You didn’t see the animation…?
The animation master class was only for press ;).