Sims 3: What's the point?
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It's a mixed bag. If they have an online store without third-party content, then that's bad because it's just more money-grubbing. If they do have third-party content, then that's good because it creates an incentive to create interesting stuff -- but also bad because it'll probably lead to people creating knock-offs for profit, and will be a disincentive to the people who normally would just offer stuff for free.SimuLord said:
The only point it seems to have now is to con 12 year old girls out of £40.
The only people I know who play it are female, and are 12 - 17 years old. I don't know why they like the game so much; you don't even do anything!
There I am, playing some Fallout 3 on my 360, and there is my sister, playing the Sims on her laptop. She asked me what the point of the game was and I said that it was telling a story. She then went on about how it was not as good as the Sims in any way because in the sims... You can customize your character. "You can do that on fallout!" I said, and showed her my character.
She asked me about the plot and I said I left the Vault to go and look for my dad, and she wondered why I would even do that. I then said it was part of the quest so I had to. My sister replied with " Well that's crap, with the Sims, you don't have to do any of that sort of stuff."
I couldn't raise my eyebrow any further without hurting myself. She basically admitted that there is no point to the Sims without even knowing it! There is no plot, there is no skill, there is no... point involved in the Sims.
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I hate the Sims.
The only people I know who play it are female, and are 12 - 17 years old. I don't know why they like the game so much; you don't even do anything!
There I am, playing some Fallout 3 on my 360, and there is my sister, playing the Sims on her laptop. She asked me what the point of the game was and I said that it was telling a story. She then went on about how it was not as good as the Sims in any way because in the sims... You can customize your character. "You can do that on fallout!" I said, and showed her my character.
She asked me about the plot and I said I left the Vault to go and look for my dad, and she wondered why I would even do that. I then said it was part of the quest so I had to. My sister replied with " Well that's crap, with the Sims, you don't have to do any of that sort of stuff."
I couldn't raise my eyebrow any further without hurting myself. She basically admitted that there is no point to the Sims without even knowing it! There is no plot, there is no skill, there is no... point involved in the Sims.
...
I hate the Sims.
Meh, its alright, I don't love the life simulation, but it provides a cheap alternative to more expensive architectural design software.
The point is, it'll be shit, and it SHALL be milked constantly by EA.
I hope it gets pirated to hell.
.....This is exactly why Will Wright cuts himself at night...
I hope it gets pirated to hell.
.....This is exactly why Will Wright cuts himself at night...
Well when it comes to men vs. women your dealing with a rational vs. relational way of thinking. Not that one is nessicarly better than the other. It's not surprising women like The Sims better than say Fallout. Fallout presents clear problems with fairly logical solutions. The Sims on the other hand has everything being relative, there is no right or wrong, or set objective, everything is based on it's relation to everything else and there
is little in the way of solid logic.
Plus when you think about it, what the Sims are is little dolls. Guys run around and play army (Argggh! Death!) girls dress up their dolls, play dress up, and pretend their at social functions. Contrary to the feminism movement this is fairly intristic. While there are exceptions (Tomboys and Girlymen) even when detached from society at early ages kids gravitate in those directions.
THAT said (in response to one of the posts)
I do not find The Sims to be paticularly exciting, but then again I've never much cared for flight simulation games. Strangely I've found a lot of people who hate The Sims love empire management games where there is no real point (oh boy, I've made 50 bajillion dollars!). The Sims seems to be very similar except on a smaller scale.
But hey, I'm into enough wierd/unpopulat stuff where I am more than willing to let the majority have their casual "life simulator". Not my cup of tea, but as long as they leave me alone and I get my RPG games and such, I'll mostly stay off the case of the Sims.
Spore had potential as a concept. They needed to add more depth though, they made it waaay too casual. I coulnt' believe after all that dev time it wasn't a deeper game.
is little in the way of solid logic.
Plus when you think about it, what the Sims are is little dolls. Guys run around and play army (Argggh! Death!) girls dress up their dolls, play dress up, and pretend their at social functions. Contrary to the feminism movement this is fairly intristic. While there are exceptions (Tomboys and Girlymen) even when detached from society at early ages kids gravitate in those directions.
THAT said (in response to one of the posts)
I do not find The Sims to be paticularly exciting, but then again I've never much cared for flight simulation games. Strangely I've found a lot of people who hate The Sims love empire management games where there is no real point (oh boy, I've made 50 bajillion dollars!). The Sims seems to be very similar except on a smaller scale.
But hey, I'm into enough wierd/unpopulat stuff where I am more than willing to let the majority have their casual "life simulator". Not my cup of tea, but as long as they leave me alone and I get my RPG games and such, I'll mostly stay off the case of the Sims.
Spore had potential as a concept. They needed to add more depth though, they made it waaay too casual. I coulnt' believe after all that dev time it wasn't a deeper game.
Me and quite a few of my friends are fans of the Sims franchise. Most are guys also. I personally love the series. I get my entertainment from constructing giant mansions and houses for my Sims, but this new one has me interested in gameplay.
You really stole the words from my mouth. These are the exact reasons that I'm getting a tad pumped for The Sims 3. I really hated how, in the Sims 2, I would have to constantly switch families to keep my characters from mysteriously aging faster than everyone else.SomeBritishDude said:
Hell, I had a character who got engaged three days after he turned adult, and before I knew it, he was an old man engaged to a hot blond bombshell.
Than I wouldn't haven taken the red pill either so I'm still in the matrix but I don't know it but now I do. IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW! *starts flying away and the credits start to roll*MaxTheReaper said:
