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I stand by my diagnosis. Sims 3 was better than 2, but the micro-pricing was an abomination worthy of, well, EA. I think that someone totalled it up, and to own every expansion and official store item in that game, at base price, it would cost about $77,000 US dollars. Sims 4 was just a step back from 3 in terms of features and objects, no seamless world etc. Don't get me started about character creation.
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JustJeff88 posted:Sims 4 was just a step back from 3 in terms of features and objects, no seamless world etc. Don't get me started about character creation. Was it 2 or 3, where you could go hog wild with colours and shapes for your characters?
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THE BAR posted:Was it 2 or 3, where you could go hog wild with colours and shapes for your characters? 3. 4's character creation tools are better and they look less uncanny valley but missing create a style hurts it.
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big cummers ONLY posted:My gf owns every piece of dlc for Sims 4. It's rhe only game she plays on her own, and she plays the poo poo out if it. She loves building houses and uploading them, but she insists on using poo poo from all kinds of different DLCs so very few people can actually play in them. Her most popular upload is a little 2 bedroom she made for my Sim and Vin Diesel that only uses base game stuff This is wholesome content. I think I actually bought The Sims 4, but I couldn't handle the stress of my sims running about urgently talkin Simlish then going to work and not being their best selves. I am a big weepy baby.
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JustJeff88 posted:I stand by my diagnosis. Sims 3 was better than 2, but the micro-pricing was an abomination worthy of, well, EA. I think that someone totalled it up, and to own every expansion and official store item in that game, at base price, it would cost about $77,000 US dollars. The best part is that if you acquired all said DLC and expansions the game ran like garbage so you were encouraged to turn a bunch off. Truly amazing. Still a fun game though.
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THE BAR posted:Was it 2 or 3, where you could go hog wild with colours and shapes for your characters? I honestly can't remember. I've played 1 more recently than 2 or 3 because I found a complete version of 1, self-installing, on an abandonware site. I still have my discs, but I'm not going to the trouble of installing it 2001-style. Sims 1 is... difficult to play without cheats. kirbysuperstar posted:3. 4's character creation tools are better and they look less uncanny valley but missing create a style hurts it. What I recall is Sims 3 allowing the player to put any pattern on any item, which SIms 4 took away. Also the fully integrated world thing.
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JustJeff88 posted:What I recall is Sims 3 allowing the player to put any pattern on any item, which SIms 4 took away. Yes, that's part of create a style, like I said
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JustJeff88 posted:I stand by my diagnosis. Sims 3 was better than 2, but the micro-pricing was an abomination worthy of, well, EA. I think that someone totalled it up, and to own every expansion and official store item in that game, at base price, it would cost about $77,000 US dollars. I say this as the lightest "to be fair" ever because I'm exactly the kind of weird brained fool to want to have access to everything in the Sims 3 I possibly can (RIP Katy Perry pack  ) but at least there's some kind of line to be drawn between the major expansion/stuff pack content (even if some of them are truly dire poo poo like the Diesel pack) and the in-game store. Sort of like the difference between buying every single WoW expack at launch over the entire game's lifetime vs. buying every single premium mount or whatever other stupid crap Blizzard sells on the side.When there's a sale you can get all the separate expansions and packs and etc. for the Sims 3 for about $100~ which is still a lot but puts it into the same bracket as something like Crusader Kings where if you're into it, you're into it. But owning everything from the in-game shop, dear lord... And lol if the margin between the retail stuff and the in-game stuff really is that insanely vast.
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As I understand it, The Sims 4 was originally intended as an online multiplayer game, ala The Sims Online. However, it turns out the end result was not fun to actually play at all, and also SimCity 2013 happened and completely poisoned any chance of the idea working out, so they scrapped it and quickly built a more traditional single player game with the assets. Not the worst disaster, but fair to say it was pretty lightweight at launch!
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kirbysuperstar posted:3. 4's character creation tools are better and they look less uncanny valley but missing create a style hurts it. It was dumb to make the characters more grounded, when they kept doubling down on supernatural stuff in 4. Watching LGR's videos on 4, and I hate that smug look everyone has. JustJeff88 posted:Sims 1 is... difficult to play without cheats. Remember needing X friends to progress your job rank?
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repiv posted:Recipe for Disaster next week
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kirbysuperstar posted:Yes, that's part of create a style, like I said I defer to your expertise. As I said, I haven't played 3 for years, and I played 2 last year for about 2 hours. I did play Sims 1 for a few robust days last summer. Sims 1 is one of those games where, years later, one can see why it was so beloved, but one can also see how 2 and 3 surpassed it. John Murdoch posted:I say this as the lightest "to be fair" ever because I'm exactly the kind of weird brained fool to want to have access to everything in the Sims 3 I possibly can (RIP Katy Perry pack I am with you, John. I'm a completionist type who wants everything, but we are in the era of piss-taking levels of DLC due to corporate greed and bad industry practices. Sims 1 had 8 expansions, including the base game, each of which was about £30. Expansions were released about twice a year over a period of three years, which was doable for those of us who want All The Things. Sims 2 had 19! expansions and stuff packs (again, including the base game) released in just 3 years. Sims 3 had 22 expansion and stuff packs released over just 3 and a half years PLUS the $77,000 in store content. I bought every bit of 2, but 3 was when I fully realised that they had hit piss-taking levels - that's when I stop buying games and start 'acquiring' games. At least in the case of 2 and 3, the core gameplay experience was better, but Sims 4 is a worse game than 3 and has about 28 expansions & packs over 8 years with no end in sight. I know that some twat is going to say 'you don't have to buy all of that', and that's not the bloody point. We don't have to play games at all - they are a pointless exercise wherein we waste away the hours until the grave. I've simply come to the point where, if a game has tons of expansion content, I just don't bother. Sims 4 is a great example, but also the aforementioned Crusader Kings, Cities Skylines, Train Simulator and the like. THE BAR posted:Remember needing X friends to progress your job rank? How dare you remind me of that. I remember having to marry in-game so that my very outgoing/nice wife could socialise. There were no days off in Sims 1 and a sim could only miss one day of work; two missed days in a row and it was the sack. One couldn't realistically just go to work every other day, either, because the postman would bring bills every three days and they were massive. Needing friends to advance professionally is utterly unrealistic. I have no friends in real life and I've also accomplished nothing, but i'm sure that that's just a coincidence. I also recall that, at level 9 or 10 of a career, there would inevitably be a random event where the Sim would, through some utter contrivance, end up much lower in rank and in entirely different career path. The devs didn't want top-level players to get complacent, I suppose. The Kins posted:As I understand it, The Sims 4 was originally intended as an online multiplayer game, ala The Sims Online. However, it turns out the end result was not fun to actually play at all, and also SimCity 2013 happened and completely poisoned any chance of the idea working out, so they scrapped it and quickly built a more traditional single player game with the assets. I hadn't thought about this in years, but you are correct - I remember Sims Online now. As someone who firmly believes in the principle of 'multiplayer ruins everything', that explains a great deal about Sims 4 shortcomings.
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Anodyne is free on Itch.io through the end of Sunday to mark the game's 10th birthday.
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"Anodyne"? Must be a nice little inoffensive Content Warnings (Light spoilers) Low-res pixel art (like in the style of the screenshots of): Suicide by hanging, mild horror, murder by blunt objects, dead bodies, stabbing, blood stains, mentions of sex, unexpected killing of an NPC. oh. huh.
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It's also very, very good, especially if you have nostalgia for the 2D zeldas but especially especially if you like video games that make you go "what the gently caress just happened?"
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FFT posted:"Anodyne"? Must be a nice little inoffensive if that list of content warnings puts you off, i do want to stress that it's not an edgy game at all. it can be dark and there's some absolutely striking things in it, but i'd call it on the less dark side of yume nikki (for example) anodyne 2 also owns and it's not necessary to have played the first game to play it. it was my goty that year and i still think about certain bits of it often
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I played the poo poo out of Sims 1 back in the day but could not keep up with all the expansions, and eventually I gave up. I recently tried sims 4 and it's just awash with a bajillion things to do and I gave up again
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I played the poo poo out of Sims 1 back in the day but could not keep up with all the expansions, and eventually I gave up. I recently tried sims 4 and it's just awash with a bajillion things to do and I gave up again I understand. See what I said about expansions and whatnot. If Sims 1 and its 8 installments (7 expansions + base game) are overwhelming for you, then Sims 4 with its several times that is certainly going to be much too much.
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flatluigi posted:if that list of content warnings puts you off, i do want to stress that it's not an edgy game at all. it can be dark and there's some absolutely striking things in it, but i'd call it on the less dark side of yume nikki (for example) Just making a joke about what "anodyne" means
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I played the poo poo out of Sims 1 back in the day but could not keep up with all the expansions, and eventually I gave up. I recently tried sims 4 and it's just awash with a bajillion things to do and I gave up again The Sims 4 base is pretty much all you need, though. I’ve heard Seasons, Pets and the Supernatural packs are good, and that seems like enough. I haven’t bought any DLC for it. I think the Personal Interests thing can be overwhelming if you do something that goes against your interests in-game. If you like making your sim go out and party or be an artist, then trying to fulfill a Sim with Business Interests or a Sim that constantly wants to buy things, sucks. You can choose it in character design or you can take a potion (I think) to recalibrate them. I skipped Sim 3, Sims 2 is my favorite, but Sim 4 is really fun. I’ve put in 40 hours across PC and PS5.
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Anodyne is very much a game that's out to deliver an experience, not just gameplay. It's worth the while for a video game connoisseur.
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While Sims 3 has a bunch of stuff 4 is missing, I can't really go back to it. The multitasking added in 4 is a part of it, but mainly because 3 was a horrifying mess of bugs that required multiple mods and fixed world maps to not devolve into a hitching laggy trash fire immediately and even then EA still warned people not to enable too many expansion packs at once because their game couldn't handle it.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:While Sims 3 has a bunch of stuff 4 is missing, I can't really go back to it. The multitasking added in 4 is a part of it, but mainly because 3 was a horrifying mess of bugs that required multiple mods and fixed world maps to not devolve into a hitching laggy trash fire immediately and even then EA still warned people not to enable too many expansion packs at once because their game couldn't handle it. Have you tried any mods such as Overwatchor or Errortrap? What about FPS limiters? I don't think that mods should be looked upon as a crutch, rather something to improve and preserve games that we enjoy.
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Recipe For Disaster, a restaurant management sim, is currently free on Epic. Next week's free game is Warpips, one of those games about sending waves of units in a straight line at the enemy base that's sending waves of units at you (but with voxel graphics).
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JustJeff88 posted:Have you tried any mods such as Overwatchor or Errortrap? What about FPS limiters? I don't think that mods should be looked upon as a crutch, rather something to improve and preserve games that we enjoy. Oh of course but even with all the NRaas mods and a bunch of time tweaking them to the right settings, it was still only a matter of time in my experience until poo poo fell apart with a given saved game. The Sims 3 was just deep down busted if you added all or almost all the expansions.
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Lurks With Wolves posted:Next week's free game is Warpips, one of those games about sending waves of units in a straight line at the enemy base that's sending waves of units at you (but with voxel graphics). I considered picking up Warpips when it was like $6, so I'm pretty pleased to get it for free. Maybe I'll even play it.
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Fanatical is threatening to inflict the Leisure Suit Larry series upon you for zero dollars, with limited stocks available.
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Those idiots, they totally forgot to include Part 4! I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
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Mierenneuker posted:Those idiots, they totally forgot to include Part 4! I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder. not again! 
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Mierenneuker posted:Those idiots, they totally forgot to include Part 4! I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder. What? It's the best one in the series! A classic!
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The Kins posted:Fanatical is threatening to inflict the Leisure Suit Larry series upon you for zero dollars, with limited stocks available. I'm still not old enough to play Leisure Suit Larry 1, I don't know enough quiz answers to verify my age: https://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.html quote:The "Chicago Seven" was
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i actually deliberately learned them all and what the gags were and it was a lot of fun at the time. Im pretty sure my Rote Memorization Trivia section of my brain is shot now, but what can ya do? I think even Al Lowe himself tells you to CTRL+ALT+X past it
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The Kins posted:Fanatical is threatening to inflict the Leisure Suit Larry series upon you for zero dollars, with limited stocks available. Linking your Steam account to a place like Fanatical sounds like a bad idea.
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THE BAR posted:Linking your Steam account to a place like Fanatical sounds like a bad idea. ok! I def wont! whys that tho?
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wizard2 posted:ok! I def wont! whys that tho? Dunno! It's one of those pinky swear key sites, and I have no idea what linking your Steam account to anything entails.
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THE BAR posted:Dunno! It's one of those pinky swear key sites, and I have no idea what linking your Steam account to anything entails. Fanatical is 100% legit
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got it e: huh, ok!
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Worrying about Fanatical is like worrying about Humble Bundle. They're known quantities. I'm still trying to wrap my head around wtf "pinky swear key site" could possibly be meant to convey.
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elf help book posted:Fanatical is 100% legit Alright, why do they need whatever info that linking my account grants them? They already have my email, you can't wring blood from a stone! E: Q_res posted:Worrying about Fanatical is like worrying about Humble Bundle. They're known quantities. That they present themselves as a legitimate site, but might be a key reselling operation. That they're being coy about it. I have no idea!
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Fanatical is legit and you can also revoke the permission after getting the games I believe. I think Steam also revokes automatically every 30 days and requires a renewal or something too? I remember on steam gifts having to re link a lot.
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