Cororan has stated after seeing a poll on the Sims Forums that the majority of glitterturders want to see more cartoony Sims for Sims 5. Her reaction, like mine, was of absolute disgust.
Those who know me know that I can’t get enough of TS3
TS3 sims, I love playing with. In fact I get attached to my sims and could spend hours playing with them.
TS4 sims, I just would end up torturing (in the vein of Gray Still Plays) I have no attachment to TS4 sims. If a modder came up with a mod to inflict a “Disasters&Blessings” type torture mod; TS4 sims would meet a nasty end in every single one of my TS4 games. :evil maniacal laughter:
Nikkei sad no explodey things in TS4. Very disappointed. Nikkei stick to TS3 where lots of fun things that go boom like meteors, det packs. Nikkei very happy with TS3. Maybe sims not happy but Nikkei happy -very important to keep Nikkei happy.
On a more serious note:
I agree with @Deshong04 that Uncanny Valley is just an imaginary concept to deal with some people’s uncomfortable-ness with dealing with characters in a game or robots that are made to appear close to realistic human. Believe me, when someone gets into a FPS (first-person shooter) you’re not worrying about whether, “oh no, I’m doing something that’s horrible to another human being”. It’s a target and you aim and fire two shots center mass. Me I wouldn’t mind seeing just how far Sims 5 can push the graphics envelope.
And frankly yeah It may be disturbing to others to hear but I can make the distinction between a sim in a game and a real human being. And I won’t hesitate to inflict torturous pains on the former while respecting the rights to live of the latter.
Realistic cow-plant being nightmare fuel?
No more nightmarish than any of the spiders encountered in Dragon Age.
@Damienf519 unless you have an inside scoop as to what Will Wright intended; your “to tell you the truth” is in effect just a supposition. In fact none of us are certain as to what Will Wright would have wanted should he have continued to helm Maxis. And THAT is the truth.
The last game Will Wright had input with was Sims 2. Sims 3 was entirely EA/Maxis by which time Will Wright had left the company so TS3 was the experimental direction in which EA had wanted to go at the time - which leaned towards realism. But unfortunately EA found out that the technology at the time wasn’t up to the standard that they wanted to pursue or it would have knocked it out of the park.
Now we have technology that can push the envelope of hyper-reality. But instead of trying again to push the limits they decided to take 10 steps backwards and deliver us a game that looked like a colourist tripping on acid vomited up on a 2D cartoon along with missing key elements of gameplay and enthusing pver “how smoothly it played”. Now after multiple stuff, game and expansion packs, you’re now complaining about lag, game-breaking errors and multiple “Series of Unfortunate Events” which makes TS4 just as buggy as you continue to complain that TS3 is.
We can see exactly through other games just how good graphics and gameplay can actually combine together. Good gameplay and good graphics are not mutually exclusive terms. When I hear of people telling me that you can have good gameplay at the cost of good graphics or vice versa all I hear are EXCUSES! And a development group NOT WILLING TO PUT IN THE WORK necessary to make this a truly AAA title and THAT DISGUSTS ME.
You can see what a development group who puts everything into their work and pride of effort can come up with when you look at any shots of Flight Simulator 2020 the latest iteration in the venerable flight simulator game from Microsoft.
FS2020; a photo-realistic flight simulator modelling real world flight controls, atmospheric modelling and eye-popping 3-D terrain that has a direct effect on the flight characteristics of your aeroplane is going to be run on a 24/7 online server because due to its vast size (in the petabytes) it cannot run self-contained on a consumer PC. What we end up doing is buying access to the flight sim server to fly around a vast open world.
And unfortunately, that is the future of the Sims game as well if anyone is wanting online play. It will end up being online access to a server to run the game. And if they plan to mollify the people that they’ve alienated, EA is going to have to take a step in the other direction or this game is going to sink. And Sims will join the ever increasing list of titles on the trash-heap.
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