Some more Sims 3 stuff

kat wrote:
> Jeanie wrote:
>
>>Guardian Pegasus wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:44:21 -0400, katy <katysails.TakeThisOut@netscape.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Kind of leaves us storyboarders out of the picture...kind of hard to
>>>>write a story when things are happening that autonamously...I'm
>>>>wondering if they might stick a feature in that puts a family "On
>>>>Hold" maybe....
>>>
>>>It's rediculous. They keep talking about more power, more
>>>customization, and giving people tools, amongst other things, to tell
>>>stories... but in reality what we're getting is a stripped down, easy
>>>to play, console version, that I think the suits in EA hope will
>>>appeal to console gamers and younger children... trying to capture
>>>even more demographics.
>>
>>Well, if that is indeed the case, they will be losing the paying
>>customers, then. I think I've bought maybe one console game in the
>>past 10 years and that was for my son when we got him his
>>Playstation. Any other games he's had, he bought for himself. A few
>>years back, we got him a PS2 for Christmas and one game for it, too. He
>>rented games for a long time, then bought a couple of used ones
>>before he completely lost interest in it. He gave it to a friend a
>>while back in exchange for a tank of gas, which he enjoyed a LOT more
>>than he ever did the games! LOL
>
>
> I don't have a console to play anything on - says it all doesn't it.
>
>
Neither do we. We had a SEGA systeme when they first came out and one of
the boys still ahs it and gets it out once in a while to play Asteroids
and have a good laugh and we had a PlayStation that I sold with 20 games
to a little boy at a garage sale for 5 dollars....
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On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:43:00 GMT, "Granny by Gaslight"
<marrowjam@{getOUT}blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>Kills story following stone dead, doesn;t it?

It kills both story simmers and strategic simmers (which I imagine is
most of the 40% demographic of boys/men) stone cold dead. Frankly, I
think it will kind of put off every nearly group except the totally
casual simmers, and younger children, who will love it.
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"Guardian Pegasus" <nobody DeleteThis @nowhere.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:37:26 GMT, "Granny by Gaslight"
> <marrowjam@{getOUT}blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>You keep saying that. It sounds /nothing/ like Sim City Societies which
>>really doesn;t care about the sims at all. I am sure they are only there
>>as
>
> No, I mean, it sounds like what they promised Sim City Societies WOULD
> be.
>
Ah, gotcha!
Though I wasn't disappointed...
..

> The wonderful thing about Sims and Sims 2 is the *depth* at which you
> can dwell into their lives, controll their fate and so on.
..
True. And everyone in the hood if you are that way inclined. Micro-managing
them to within an inch of their lives...
..
That Sims3 sounds like a complete change in direction, though as someone
else said, how else could they change the game? As I typed that I realised I
could think of lots of ways to change Sims2 for the better for me but
unfortunately they nearly all include scrapping extra hoods (which adds
variety) (but keeping new building tools and buyables and extra animations)
but improving sim personality depth, interactions etc... but that would be
the 'same game' all over again.
And since I have looked at FT I realised I don;t want to be bothered with
the sims having extra personality aspects. etc.
..
Whatever, I suppose we will buy it in the end.
Like Jeanie, I am a bit burned out ATM.
..
GbG
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"Jeanie" <Nobody.TakeThisOut@home.com> wrote in message
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>>> You want me to do it? I only hvae a basic load-up sims2 running and
>>> it won;t matter if it implodes.
>>> .
>>> GbG
>>>
>>>
>> But what if the effects are long term? You'd have to play the hood
>> for a while to see the total ramifications.
>
> LOL! Long term effects on one of Veronica's neighborhoods?!?
>
> Jeanie
Shurrup... hang on!!! Decimate hood as a LONG TERM thing? What the heck does
it do? Send down seven plagues?
..
GbG
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Granny by Gaslight wrote:
> "Jeanie" <Nobody.RemoveThis@home.com> wrote in message
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>
>
>>>>You want me to do it? I only hvae a basic load-up sims2 running and
>>>>it won;t matter if it implodes.
>>>>.
>>>>GbG
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>But what if the effects are long term? You'd have to play the hood
>>>for a while to see the total ramifications.
>>
>>LOL! Long term effects on one of Veronica's neighborhoods?!?
>>
>>Jeanie
>
> Shurrup... hang on!!! Decimate hood as a LONG TERM thing? What the heck does
> it do? Send down seven plagues?
> .
> GbG
>
>
ooo..now that would be a good one...first have death by flies, then
death by drowning, then everyione starves, etc etc until finally Grimmy
comes and takes all the first born children! Somehow that all seems
familiar....
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katy wrote:
>> Seems to me like if you want any control of your sims at all
> especially if you're doing the storyboard thing like Jeanne, Maxon,a
> nd I do (and others...don't want to elave anyone out) you're going to
> be hopping all over the place. No leaving a family to their own
> devices to come back to later. Seems like the concept of playing 100
> families at a time will go down the drain. Our role will be downgraded
> from Mouse God to Plant
> Manager.

Yes this reminds me most of the old Sim Earth. There wasn't much you could
actually do with that to call it a game. Install the program. Set a world
up. Go to bed. Wake up and see what had evolved. 2 days later decide it
wasn't worth the space on your computer.

Gareeth
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"Engram" <engram_au RemoveThis @yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> maxon wrote:
>> "Guardian Pegasus" <nobody RemoveThis @nowhere.net> wrote in message
>> news:2jt0u31kulranr34jj3ett8v474t1b399s@4ax.com...
>>> http://www.luniversims3.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...e&id=16
>>> One promising tidbit of information from the article:
>>> "Which configuration? We don't know for now. The demo was running on
>>> a laptop"
>>
>> Yeah I noticed that too - also 'not released before 2009' and also no
>> definite date. I bet we do get another EP then since EAxis will miss
>> their guaranteed income boost for Christmas if we don't.
>
> I thought somebody posted about one of the US online stores having it on
> pre-order with the release date of March 2009? It had an exact date on
> there but I forget what it was. 19th?

I saw that today too - somewhere, forget where exactly. Anyway, looks like
they're starting with the marketing.

Best wishes
maxon
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"kat" <kat.news.DeleteThis@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>> They may be making it more realistic, but only for those people who only
> ever play one sim, and don't care what the rest get up to. I am a little
> afraid I might find that boring.

Yeah me too - I like playing entire communities.

Best wishes
maxon
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"Derek Lyons" <fairwater.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Jeanie" <Nobody.TakeThisOut@home.com> wrote:
>
>>I, too, will likely wait until I see people who's opinions I trust begin
>>to
>>praise the game. And if we ALL do that, who will buy it?!?
>
> The millions of other Sims players who don't hang out here.

Yeah, but they're not 'people we trust'.

Best wishes
maxon
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"katy" <katysails.DeleteThis@netscape.com> wrote in message
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> They may not post here, but many of them read us on google and other
> sites! They don't post because they are afraid...we are a terrifying
> bunch!


Do they? - good lord.

Best wishes
maxon
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"katy" <katysails.DeleteThis@netscape.com> wrote in message
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> I have to go through my Neighborhood and pick out some more people that
> are going to the graveyard..that will be sims that I have played and
> didn't like for some reason or other...mostly because they are boring or
> their personalities are just...bleah....that will take care of some of my
> population...I have a hard time playing sims I don't like...I made a bunch
> of them to fill in holes in teh story but now that the wars over, I have
> way too many "retired" knights in both shiny and not so shiny armor that
> need to just go bye-bye...Guess I will blue bush them all to a lot and
> have them oplay deadly axes with each other! Too bad only one can die at a
> time...the whole Grimmie sequence takes so long and he can't do multiple
> deaths on a lot...tooo bad..could have a communal farewell...

oooo mass murder - damn, here we are talking about what could be changed
about Sims 3 and they didn't think to add that.

Best wishes
maxon
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katy wrote:
> kat wrote:
>> Jeanie wrote:
>>
>>> Guardian Pegasus wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:44:21 -0400, katy <katysails.RemoveThis@netscape.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Kind of leaves us storyboarders out of the picture...kind of hard
>>>>> to write a story when things are happening that autonamously...I'm
>>>>> wondering if they might stick a feature in that puts a family "On
>>>>> Hold" maybe....
>>>>
>>>> It's rediculous. They keep talking about more power, more
>>>> customization, and giving people tools, amongst other things, to
>>>> tell stories... but in reality what we're getting is a stripped
>>>> down, easy to play, console version, that I think the suits in EA
>>>> hope will appeal to console gamers and younger children... trying
>>>> to capture even more demographics.
>>>
>>> Well, if that is indeed the case, they will be losing the paying
>>> customers, then. I think I've bought maybe one console game in the
>>> past 10 years and that was for my son when we got him his
>>> Playstation. Any other games he's had, he bought for himself. A
>>> few years back, we got him a PS2 for Christmas and one game for it,
>>> too. He rented games for a long time, then bought a couple of used
>>> ones before he completely lost interest in it. He gave it to a friend a
>>> while back in exchange for a tank of gas, which he enjoyed a LOT
>>> more than he ever did the games! LOL
>>
>>
>> I don't have a console to play anything on - says it all doesn't
>> it.
> Neither do we. We had a SEGA systeme when they first came out and one
> of the boys still ahs it and gets it out once in a while to play
> Asteroids and have a good laugh and we had a PlayStation that I sold
> with 20 games to a little boy at a garage sale for 5 dollars....

The kids have them, but they don't live here. Other than the boomerang son
that is, for however long he is back.


--
kat
>^..^<
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kat wrote:
> katy wrote:
>
>>kat wrote:
>>
>>>Jeanie wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Guardian Pegasus wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:44:21 -0400, katy <katysails.RemoveThis@netscape.com>
>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Kind of leaves us storyboarders out of the picture...kind of hard
>>>>>>to write a story when things are happening that autonamously...I'm
>>>>>>wondering if they might stick a feature in that puts a family "On
>>>>>>Hold" maybe....
>>>>>
>>>>>It's rediculous. They keep talking about more power, more
>>>>>customization, and giving people tools, amongst other things, to
>>>>>tell stories... but in reality what we're getting is a stripped
>>>>>down, easy to play, console version, that I think the suits in EA
>>>>>hope will appeal to console gamers and younger children... trying
>>>>>to capture even more demographics.
>>>>
>>>>Well, if that is indeed the case, they will be losing the paying
>>>>customers, then. I think I've bought maybe one console game in the
>>>>past 10 years and that was for my son when we got him his
>>>>Playstation. Any other games he's had, he bought for himself. A
>>>>few years back, we got him a PS2 for Christmas and one game for it,
>>>>too. He rented games for a long time, then bought a couple of used
>>>>ones before he completely lost interest in it. He gave it to a friend a
>>>>while back in exchange for a tank of gas, which he enjoyed a LOT
>>>>more than he ever did the games! LOL
>>>
>>>
>>>I don't have a console to play anything on - says it all doesn't
>>>it.
>>
>>Neither do we. We had a SEGA systeme when they first came out and one
>>of the boys still ahs it and gets it out once in a while to play
>>Asteroids and have a good laugh and we had a PlayStation that I sold
>>with 20 games to a little boy at a garage sale for 5 dollars....
>
>
> The kids have them, but they don't live here. Other than the boomerang son
> that is, for however long he is back.
>
>
Hopefully not long enough to install game systems on your tv's!
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