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How often are the horses smiling in the base game?
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Buschmaki posted:Yeah, the freaking "realistic marriage mod" WOW, how did you become so truth teller?
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I just started the In Bloom legacy challenge while on a break from my regular legacy save. I like that it's making me do things I've never done before like grow a cowplant, but my god is gardening a whole lot of bullshit. Growing 5 perfect plants is going to take forever.
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Which gen are you on in your legacy challenge? I've always wanted to complete it but the farthest I've ever got was gen 3. I guess my attention span is too short, sadly
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macabresca posted:Which gen are you on in your legacy challenge? I've always wanted to complete it but the farthest I've ever got was gen 3. I guess my attention span is too short, sadly Gen 7 is a toddler! It's not really a challenge though, I just like playing one family forever. I play on long lifespan usually. I think I started this save when Eco Lifestyle came out, so it's been a while. I take loooong breaks and resume when new expansions come out.
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The problem for me is that I can't really resume playing on the same save after taking a break. I don't know why. It's kind of a shame. I love the idea of playing with one family for a long time, making their house bigger and bigger, having some memorabilia from earlier generations around the house. But I lack the resolve to actually get there
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Caphi posted:They've reinvented Oblivion conversations. Honestly kind of brilliant. Weren't those just reheated Half-Life "conversations"?
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macabresca posted:The problem for me is that I can't really resume playing on the same save after taking a break. I don't know why. I move houses a lot but it's always a treat to visit a home and be like "hey, I built this four years ago!"
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Apr 30, 2024 18:13
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has anybody tried all this and is it worth the effort? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1131162350
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Apr 30, 2024 18:35
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You don't have to do everything on there but it's a pretty good walkthrough for the essential bugfix mods. The fixes definitely make the game a whole lot more playable, but just know it's always gonna be Janky.
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Apr 30, 2024 18:58
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At the very least, you probably want to make sure it's not running at infinite FPS.
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Apr 30, 2024 19:33
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Every time I decide to want to play Sims 3 again I think of all the effort it requires to play Sims 3 again and just go back to playing 4 while complaining about it.
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Apr 30, 2024 19:37
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Here's what you need to do: limit FPS in your GPU driver, install Smooth Patch, play game. That's it. The Steam guide is basically useless and a lot of the information it has is either straight-up wrong or just useless advice that wastes time without producing significant improvement in anything.
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Randomly discovered that the Sims4 kit "bloomin rooms" is 100% off. So free. Not sure how long that will last and for how long it's been going on, but get while the gettin's good.
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I didn't even realize "Kits" were a thing. I guess even Stuff Packs were too much effort to make to round out their launch calendar. Gotta make an even slimmer tier so there's always something new.
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang posted:Randomly discovered that the Sims4 kit "bloomin rooms" is 100% off. So free. Not sure how long that will last and for how long it's been going on, but get while the gettin's good. They randomly give the kits away for free every now and then, I got Desert Luxe free last year, and Romantic Garden and Backyard Fun was free back in March too. I would never, ever pay for them (£4.99 for 20 build/buy items, lol no), but it's a clever marketing trick, while downloading my freebies I bought Realm of Magic because it had 60% off, and to get 3 packs of Sims goodies all at once for eight quid seemed too good to pass up.
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staring down the barrel of doing a reinstall since theres no release date for inzoi yet and i've got work hours to kill any other must-have bugfix type things or known issues with what i've got below code:edit oh i found someone who maintains a master mod list Super No Vacancy fucked around with this message at 04:46 on May 16, 2024 |
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang posted:Randomly discovered that the Sims4 kit "bloomin rooms" is 100% off. So free. Not sure how long that will last and for how long it's been going on, but get while the gettin's good. It is free till the end of May.
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Development for Sims 4 is basically over, right? They are working on Sims 5 right now?
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There's at least one more expansion pack coming sometime between now and August, but yeah, most of the (apparently pretty small) team is working on the next Sims game.
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Life By You got delayed again. No release date this time. This game is never coming out lmfao
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mutantIke posted:Life By You got delayed again. No release date this time. This game is never coming out lmfao Where? I can’t find this anywhere online
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buglord posted:Where? I can’t find this anywhere online https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/an-update-on-life-by-you-release-date.1680458/ I googled "life by you delayed"
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All I got was the first delay. Huh. This was like 10 days ago. How did I miss that? Anyway it makes sense that they pushed it back again. I didn’t realize it was supposed to release like next week. The animations still looked really really rough and the choppiness of the game was ridiculous on the dev machines they show content on. I’d prefer them release it at the end of year or something - just so paradox doesn’t have another cities skyline 2 disaster in their hands.
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They've stopped posting on their (normally very active) YouTube account and there are screenshots from community managers in Discord left out of the loop. Seems more and more like this delay is a soft cancellation. Shame, it seems like this is a personal project for Rod Humble and I would have liked to see it released even in a dreadfully unfinished work-in-progress state.
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mutantIke posted:They've stopped posting on their (normally very active) YouTube account and there are screenshots from community managers in Discord left out of the loop. Seems more and more like this delay is a soft cancellation. Shame, it seems like this is a personal project for Rod Humble and I would have liked to see it released even in a dreadfully unfinished work-in-progress state. I don't think yet another unfinished simulation game that will never be fixed despite its endless issues is what the world really needs, frankly
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So does this mean that Maxis, for better or worse, is the only developer that can make a game as complicated as these life sims and that all the many many bugs and janky expansion packs are as good as it can get? Is there no one else out there up to the task!? Idk seems like it.
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i have more faith in the korean game actually existing in a playable form than the paradox one, by income/employees i think they're like five times larger
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Waterbed Wendy posted:So does this mean that Maxis, for better or worse, is the only developer that can make a game as complicated as these life sims and that all the many many bugs and janky expansion packs are as good as it can get? Is there no one else out there up to the task!? Idk seems like it. Yes. Life sims are very complicated and full of development dead ends that only Maxis know from decades of experience. Thousands of man hours will probably be lost on things that would make Maxis employees giggle because there is some note from 2007 to that says "Never Ever Do That!". And before The Sims 4 Maxis was releasing them every 5 years so you would never want to launch your game against a new Sims so they were never funded in the past, which also means a lack of industry experience outside people who have been employed by Maxis.
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I don't know if I'd even count Maxis as a set of people who can make these games. They haven't actually created a new one in a decade. That's an awful lot of time for the people who did that do that to disperse.
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The director of Life By You is an ex maxis lead, he knows the ins and outs to an extent. Maxis still at that point probably had a legacy culture from 20 years of sim games though that can't easily translate to other studios. I'm constantly a bit baffled that EA doesn't put more resources into the franchise though. By all accounts they make an insane amount of money off it; like, it's one of the highest earning franchises out there even now. Even if from a cost benefit point of view it didn't for a long time make sense to invest in a whole new entry, burning good will by putting a skeleton crew to dev the expansions is just odd to me.
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I think colony sims like Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress are in the same neighborhood as far as semi-hands off setting routines for AI agents and watching them do their thing. I'm sure making the interactions and world work in 3D is most of the work, but I don't know why an indie Sims knockoff would need to be 3D or copy the entire Maxis formula. I think these projects would be more interesting if they had more of a non-Sims hook, like if the neighborhood around your family had set characters (like The Sims inside Stardew Valley) or a focus on running a business alongside your family or something.
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Bedurndurn posted:I don't know if I'd even count Maxis as a set of people who can make these games. They haven't actually created a new one in a decade. That's an awful lot of time for the people who did that do that to disperse. You would be very surprised at the retention at maxis for employees. They’re treated exceptionally well and a number of them have been at Electronic Arts for 20+ years. Even if you leave EA there is the thing internally known as the EA boomer rang because it really is one of the better companies to work for in the industry.
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Koramei posted:of money off it; like, it's one of the highest earning franchises out there even now. Even if from a cost benefit point of view it didn't for a long time make sense to invest in a whole new entry, burning good will by putting a skeleton crew to dev the expansions is just odd to me.
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I get that line of reasoning when it comes to sticking with Sims 4 for ages and not pushing for innovation, but putting such minimal effort into the expansions for so long has just been pissing people off. Compared to the literal hundreds of millions they're raking in, upping the dev team enough to pull of satisfyingly complete expansions has gotta be a blip in the finances and is a much better look. Anyway unrelatedly, I've been listening to Sims 1 ambience lately as I work and it's been kind of striking that despite the effort they clearly put in to give it a relatively timeless feel, how hilariously 1990s the TV audio is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40LZxRWlLAo also stumbled upon these for the first time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3iddmpQE0Y
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It's cursed how those simlish TV jingles are seared into my brain even after all those years
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Those ads are yet more proof that The Sims needs to go back to being a quasi-50s retrofuturistic period piece. I've said it before, I'll say it again. It entirely works in the game's favor!
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It's come up a few times in this thread but I sincerely think that just from a technology standpoint, going back a few decades suits the gameplay a lot better. The entire idea is built around watching your sims interact with their space and others in their world; dumping half of it onto them sitting idly on a smartphone is just as tedious in game as in our own reality. 80s/90s is perfect; computers can be an expensive thing that can super-solve a handful of problems but not nearly so much as to let your sim sit on their rear end all day. It makes me feel real old in weird ways looking at Sims 1 stuff again though. Not just the obvious objects like computers or clothes that are obviously from a different time. It's stuff like the kinds of furniture, decor, wall coverings and fixtures; Sims set out to let you create a whole variety of lifestyles, but ultimate luxury has such a different feel in 2000 compared to 2020.
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i liked the gimmick in sims 3 where you could go into the future as the last expansion pack and either live there or bring future objects/people back. I liked a lot of the sims 3 gimmicks tbh it is funny looking at the sims 4 packs and you can see the clear influence of twilight and harry potter (and even some hunger games) which seems pretty dated now. I don't know what their core audience would want in the same vein for a sims 4 since I get the impression half the YA literature now is just twilight or star wars fanfic with the names changed double edit heck the hunger games references go back to into the future, apparently Super No Vacancy fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Jun 10, 2024 |
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Into The Future is a good expansion but (like with University Life) the unavoidable "guy shows up at front door to introduce you to the new gameplay" thing gets super repetitive and kind of annoying
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