With simmers digging up Sims speculation on whether EA is going to go full on into a new Sims game; presumably the Sims 5, it is sincerely hoped that the bitter backlash from those fans who disliked the idea of the Sims being dumbed down to the point of idiocy has registered on the EA development team.
There was a reason why Sims 3 outsold the rest of the Sims franchise. It was unique and the open world took the franchise in a completely new and innovative direction.
Something Sims 4 failed miserably to do. In fact it stripped the game so badly that it was barely a mere shell of what it was supposed to be and nowhere near the quality of the game it was supposed to replace let alone follow in the footsteps of Sims 1 let alone the lofty heights of Sims 2.
The Sims 4 tried futilely to capture the quirky humor of the Sims 2 but achieved only gesticulations that appeared much like a disjointed spastic having an epileptic seizure. Instead of being amused and entertained by this it was all that I could do to not picture it as a car-wreck; my reaction to the whole thing being about the same level of disgusted reaction as a nun watching the 2004 movie by Paul Haggis, the ice cream scene on slow motion.
With visceral reactions like that to the Sims 4’s dumbed-down content, is it any wonder that only those who are well accustomed to not caring about value for money are the only ones who buy this sorry excuse for a game. It is nothing more than a mobile game mass-marketed to teenagers. And the sorry situation that EA finds itself in is the lack of effort on putting anything substantial into a proper assessment of why the Sims 3 sold so well despite the frustrating problems encountered with incessant Error 12 crashes.
The Sims 3, despite its more vocal detractors, was not a bad game. The Sims 3 broke convention with life-sims and went realistic graphics in its environment. At least as realistic as it could get with 2009 graphics technology. The whole point was that Sims 3 team was not reluctant to push the edge and to see how far they could go. In that regard they were fearless. And Simmers were wondering just how far the next iteration of the Sims was going to push the envelope.
What happened was the new development team listened to all those who were complaining about Sims 3 and decided to dumb down the game by turning to cartoon graphics and painted backgrounds that weren’t even accessible outside of a very small defined rectangular sections of town everything else was a painted background; essentially any scene that seemed the slightest bit interesting would be a no-go zone which is highly irritating to someone who is accustomed to going anywhere as long as the Sims 3 map allowed. No restrictions.
But restrictions and a much reduced map were what we got along with excuses like “we’re trying to make the game run better and make sure that lower end systems are able to run it and the ones who complained about the fact that the game was being sliced to pieces for DLC were summarily silenced by the Glitterturd Guild; were promptly told to stop taking the development team to task for taking the easy way out; holding the team accountable for their actions and making sure that they put out their very best effort. The result is what you see in the lack of re-playability and the consistently boring Expansion, Stuff and Game Packs that litter the Sims 4 spartan landscape.
To put it bluntly; Sims 4 is s veritable shit-show with perhaps the exception of the Discover University expansion pack which of course broke the game yet again which had to be fixed by yet another game update. Wow, isn’t that just great; it should be a marketing tool.
”Buy an Expansion, Stuff or Game Pack; get a new bug free. Experience the added frustration of ”For the three hundred and sixty eighth time.,,why doesn’t my fucking game work?!!!!”
Well, Jonny, you’re just having a bad day, go outside and play ball. It’ll get fixed in two weeks when the new bug-fix patch is rolled out. You have a wonderful day now.
Yes, Folks, Jonny is going to have to wait until EA troubleshooting gets around to getting his game working again. But in that time Jonny is learning a wonderful life lesson; You always have to have patience when you deal with computer problems. Find a proactive solution by not complaining because EA wants you to play your game even when you can’t play your game because...they messed uo!
...or you, Glitterturders just could have backed us up and told the development team to smarten the fuck up and work out the damned bugs before it hit store shelves.
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