The Sims 4

http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/6/4305058/the-sims-4-announced

Goddammit not this again. I was sure they'd end it with The Sims 3 and simply release endless expansion packs.

Sorry, old Windows PC, it seems you won't be retired just yet. Goddamn my addictions.

To soon. I'm not done with 3 yet I think I will not get it yet.

edited 6th May '13 8:38:22 AM by HeroShepherd

After the new Sim City? There's no way this will end well, mark my words.

I wonder what new mechanic they'll introduce. Because new mechanics means new ways to torture your sims to death!

GUNS!

,Maybe some sort of connectivity to Sim City? Play The Sims 4, live in your cities from Sim City. Would be interesting.

edited 6th May '13 8:46:49 AM by stingerbrg

Wasn't that supposed to be the point of the canceled Simsville, and later Apartment Life?

I might be getting this. I considered getting The Sims 3, but by the time I displayed interest there were so many expansions it was overwhelming.

I wish they wouldn't release tons of expensive expansion packs constantly, just include most stuff from the beginning.

Yeah, that would not be profitable at all.

I know...

The thing about the expansion packs is that they don't actually add content to the base game, which is annoying.

2 gets you 1, always on social DRM, with gameplay like The Sims Social or The Sims Online.

Ah, too bad I wasn't the first to here about this.

Okay, let's make wishlists.

^^ Yeah. One of the things that made The Sims 2 so great was how much, for example, University added to the game. None of the other expansions packs changed/improved the game so much (though Open For Business came close), but University became so synonymous with a complete Sims 2 experience that I couldn't imagine every buying the game and not getting University along with it.

I kept waiting for Sims 3 to release a pack like that, but most of the packs just released content that was maybe one or two levels up from superficial. I wouldn't have minded all the expansion packs for Sims 3 if they weren't as collectively disappointing.

Not to say that I didn't like them, it's just... well... I kept waiting for the big one that would tie it all together. Generations came kind of close, I think.

So I've never actually owned The Sims before, only played it briefly when my brother had it. I'm pretty familiar with Sims 2 at least.

How does user-made content work?

.package files and Sims3/Sims2packs

I'm a bit pessimistic about this, actually. After EA royally screwed up Sim City, and then said they want more microtransactions and stuff (Not sure about this, I heard it from my brother.) I'm hoping we don't end up with a game with DRM up the arse, £3 to buy a toilet improvement and little to no original content.

Knowing EA, I'm going to be looking at this with a bit of a negative filter. I'm hoping it comes out okay, though.

Seasons was a nice expansion for 2, I thought, but University was quite exhaustive in terms of content that it added.

Didn't really get into 3 that much, though. I think I simply liked how 2 played better.

3 kinda bored me after a while.

I do thoroughly enjoy 3, but I find myself not playing it for long periods of time. Plus, even though it allows a lot of interesting things with that family, the single focus family at a time bit can get very interesting, because it means other people who like to play it on my computer pretty much can't until I'm reasonably done with my family, and that I can't create a full neighborhood with families I give equal attention to the way I used to.

edited 6th May '13 3:51:49 PM by KnownUnknown

I would love to install the Sims 2 again if it didn't severly slow my computer.

And purchase new copies of Bon Voyage that actually work.

And get Freetime and Apartment Life (I like Witches too much)

Sims 3 would have been so much better if it hadn't removed so much base game content from Sims 2 and repackaged it later on as $40 expansion packs plus god-knows-how-much store content.

I should not have had to buy a whole new damn expansion pack just to have access to wedding cakes and arches. That is pure bullshit.

The problem I had with 3 was that you just didn't have that much control over the outside world (I can't see inside the work buildings...). This was excusable in 2 and 1 because they didn't make me want to do everything I do in real life.

Not to mention my Sims don't do what I say half the time...

What he said...