Zero Punctuation: The Sims 3

[Deuce03]

I found this review marginally less useful than usual: he spend most^W^Wthe whole of it lambasting the principle of the game, which hasn't actually altered since the first Sims. I have to wonder whether he actually played Sims 3 beyond the ten minutes it took to investigate colours and hairstyles.

Still entertaining, but I was hoping for some more specific critique.

 

[luckystriker]

Chock full of existential loathing. Nice one Yahtzee!

 

[Alanosborn1991]

great review yahtzee

 

[festival_of_carnage]

Seriously, Yahtzee. Did you having a falling out with some girl or something? If you have balls, then quit whining all passive-aggressively about the evils of woman and just get over it already and move on with your life.

If you want a woman's touch so bad, I doubt misogyny is the way to go about getting it anyway.

Seriously, pull yourself together, dude.

 

[dudeman0001]

What is with Anonymous Sources and complaining about nothing? I just came to say how funny I thought the "I'm here to review video games, not computer programs you just dick around in!" line was, then I see a bunch of comments saying "Ohh this is baad, that's bad, everythings bad after a month" This is probably my favourite review next to his blood on the sand review. But after all
"Fans are whiney complaining dipshits who will never, ever be grateful for ANY consession you make. The sooner you shut out thier shrill voices the happier you'll be."

 

[themaskedhero]

I remember playing The Sims (the first one) when I was younger and have since dropped out of all that muck, but I completely understand what you mean by the whole "doing all the stuff you hate to do all day in a game when you could be having fun with real people" thing. That might be why I don't play it anything like it anymore. And why I only play games now that involve other people to play with.

Good review, as always.

 

[AlanWhite]

Long ago when I was a little young tosser I absolutely loved the sims and everything about it. The day I bought the sims 2 incidentally was the day of my first orgasm but over time I started to realize how boring it really was. Then one day I discovered a mystical force that accomplished something I though impossible, it made the sims fun again. This mystical power was called CTRL+SHIFT+S "boolprop testingcheatsenabled true" ENTER. All of a sudden I was enjoying myself again; money problems GONE, wants and needs GONE, time consuming relationship building GONE; I was finally free! But by cruel fate this fun could not last; I had taken the life from a life simulator and was left with a hollow shell of a game with no challenge and no substance.

 

[estherblueburger]

so completely right...zero punctuation is my new hero sims3 should be given to people with life sentences, although even they might resent the loss of their time and will to live.

 

[mptothedc]

I was waiting for that reference to WoW! haha

 

[RedRoseKay]

tbh i think sims 3 is a good game, the way ea have made it so you can customize everything is good if you ask me. its good for people who like designing things, such as some1 like me who has studied art and design for a good 4 years now.

 

[GamingMedley]

Yahtzee, you need to check out http://aliceandkev.wordpress.com/
The Sims 3 has amazing AI, if you actually took the chance to look at them in-depth. I mean, on the surface, you could say people have horrible AI - they do the same repetitive, predictable things. It's not until it becomes a case study, and you see them in their best and worst of moments, that you understand how real they are. If you only notice the people in The Sims 3 during the social get-togethers, they'll seem mundane and predictable, I'm sure.

 

[danfaust]

incidentally im still not gay" ? Yea i think Yahtzee is semi-gay

 

[DanDeFool]

About a year behind OT, but whatever.

I've never had my manhood absorbed into a rank, blood-streaked, Spam sandwich. If I ever have sex, I'll have to remember to bring some feminine hygiene products and some Boars Head luncheon meat. Maybe some Branston Pickle for lubricant.

 

[GODoftheRIGOVERSE]

I like to start fires in the SIMS and watch people burn or use the telescope to make aliens abduct my characters

 

[Trebor68]

Awesome review. Glad I never played the fucking thing

 

[QueerBiNatureNYC]

i can't believe you said "spam sandwich"

 

[NeuroticMarshmallow]

I agree with everything...I sorta female so everything but the all women are evil.
granted,I doubt it was meant to be taken all that seriously.

All in all, even though it wasn't much different,The first was better-maybe cause the score was much more kickass.