One time I was playing the sims and I wanted to make me and mike but I wanted to make us separately and have us meet. But when I moved into my house, I had this sexy ass neighbor. I figured I could have a fling with him and break it off and get with Mike later but then the neighbors kid got attached to me and I couldn’t just end it when I was so close to his daughter. I really cared about him too.
So the only thing I could do was have it end in tragedy. That way I wouldn’t have to break up with the guy and I could adopt his daughter to stay close to her. He passed away peacefully on fire in the kitchen. Now in previous games, when a kid is taken away by CPS, the next kid you adopt is the same kid. Welp that didn’t carry over into sims 4 so the daughter ended up being taken away and erased from the game by the great sims deity.
I’m a sentimental man, so I kept neighbor mans tombstone around. I’d occasionally chat with his ghost, but he seemed cold to me. I can’t help but thinking he was a bit mad his daughter no longer existed. But this escalated once I started seeing Mike. His ethereal visits became more frequent and more hostile, usually breaking my electronics or creating a mess. But he went overboard when he started the fire.
Being a sim the died in a fire, his ghost had certain abilities specific to his death (setting fires). He got pissed because I kissed Mike so he set my couch on fire that ended up barricading us in the bedroom. Now I couldn’t find the fire alarm in buy mode and I hadn’t had the foresight to predict my spiteful ghost died-in-a-fire ex boyfriend would be an afterlife arsonist to care about it that much so a lot of the house had burned by the time I could get the FD there.
After having almost nothing covered by insurance (thanks Obama), Mike sat me down to have a talk with me. While I couldn’t understand him, I imagine he said “What the fuck you need to deal with your crazy ass ex boyfriend ghost. This never would have happened if you weren’t a thirst little sim bitch and dated me first.”
I approached the grave. It was time to release him. He was waiting for me. He knew this was the end. That after this, there was no coming back from the afterlife. I know he tried to kill me, and he knows I got his daughter deleted, but at that moment, it was just like old times. Telling each other jokes 27 times in a row until he would have sex with me.
We had a final ghostly embrace and he was gone. I sold his tombstone for 300 bucks and bought a microwave.
If you haven’t heard, EA just fired most of The Sims team and silently killed the franchise (what was left after the closure of The Sims Studio at least) and moved the remaining team to the mobile division. This means that there probably won’t really be anymore Sims games for PC or Console other than maybe a few stuff/expansions for TS4. (and I have a strong impression that The Sims Mobile won’t last very long either.)
It seems like they’re trying to pass off what’s happening as just some layoffs for budget reasons and down play what’s happening.
I’ll post more as I hear more. If anyone knows anything let me know.
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What the fuck, did EA get taken over by a predatory capitalist private equity firm, or something? The company seems to exist for no reason other than to shrink the gaming landscape by buying and then killing previously healthy companies.
Seriously. If I remember right, this is exactly how it played out when they killed Bioware Montreal, Visceral, and many others. It always starts with pulling people off the team and reassigning them to stuff of “greater importance” and hanging the success of the studio on the success of one specific game, usually with impossible targets. If (when) Anthem isn’t as lucrative as they want, they’ll do the same to Bioware Edmonton.
For those interested, this is a list of the studios EA has shut down. It’s a year old so it’s actually a bit out of date because they’ve closed more studios since but it gives a fair idea.
Kleptomaniac Sims can no longer steal Subway stations from lots.
Sims can no longer WooHoo in the Elevator with a Sim who is on a different floor.
The Grim Reaper will no longer be prevented from reaping souls due to band affiliation.
Fixed a tuning issue so that Sims now vomit at acceptable levels.
It is no longer possible to ‘Try for Baby’ with the Grim Reaper.
“Become Enemies with Child” wish no longer appears.
Sims who are on fire will no longer be forced to attend graduation before they can put themselves out.
Pregnant sims can no longer brawl.
Baby Sims will no longer become stuck on a Sim’s hand while driving a car.
Sims will no longer receive a wish to “Skinny Dip” with Mummies.
A meteor can hit a building, which case everyone will run out before the collision. Those who do not exit the building will die. Sims automatically leave if a meteor is approaching, unless it is a school, in which children are not allowed to leave and will always die.
I can’t stop laughing holy shit
As a programmer I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
“That meteor hurling towards us doesn’t dismiss you I do, now sit back down.”
It’s a downgrade version of Sims 3. Limited options, weird controls, no offence to the animators but the graphics look blocky and plasticy, there were some features of gameplay that I liked and would have liked to have added to Sims 3 (like characters being able to talk while doing an activity) but many new gameplay aspects that I did not like, like not being able to control your sims at home when another one of your sims travels to a different location. I also didn’t like the layout of the stats and found them confusing. It felt like an entirely different game and not like the sims I know at all. I reject it.
The only sims I’ve played is 4 but I can tell you the animation/art in sims 4 is much nicer and easier to look at
It’s probably just a matter of getting used to it.
I like the background art and the objects are pretty, but the food looks very blocky and the sims looks like plastic. It’s just not my style, too cartoony for me.
Sims 3 looks like pure ass. The colors are dull. And you want to talk blocky, the sims, not just the background stuff, are blocky there.
That’s fair though.
The dull colours look more natural, but there’s more customizable options which I like. There are barely any hair/eye/skin colour options and it bugs me.
The colors seem pretty boring to me, and they kind of blur together, but I definitely see why the brighter ones would be unpleasant.
Wait which game has more options
Sims 3, you can customize hair/skin/eye/etc colours to whatever you want. Sims 4 gives you options to choose from but you can’t make your own. Diminishes my creativity 10 fold.
Honestly I’m just salty that Sims 3 won’t work on my brother’s computer and I won’t be back home until August 8th or later so I can’t play Sims again for over a month. It sucks.
That didn’t effect me much because most of what I do in that game is build houses because I’m not good at management stuff like the game is, but that makes sense.
It does. Are there other sims games there though
I only have the Sims 4 two-day free trial downloaded, we don’t have any other Sims games.
I actually like the changes they made to build mode in the Sims 4, that might be my favourite feature in the game. I haven’t tried it out myself but from videos I’ve seen it looks great!
Ah.
It is pretty good, although I watch a youtuber who plays sims, and he pointed out that there was something about terrain that was better in one of the earlier sims games and that he missed that. He also compared it to another game with a build mode and that there were things that could be improved there too. It’s still pretty good in my opinion and definitely works for building houses. I like it.
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