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Will You Be Overwhelmed? - Scene23 - 20-12-2008 08:04 AM
I had been thinking (again)
about the game of The Sims 3, and I came upon a question I had to ask all of you? Now of course in the previous games, especially the Sims 2, because of the generations of families you can produce and that there was the loading screen per house hold so it would be so complicated and fustrating to play the children and grandchildren and try to make them age the way they are suppose 2.Now with The Sims 3, with the world being so endless, the Sims go about on their own, and this to the gamers that are going to be making families like crazy (like me { {lol}); With your families and sims spreading all over the town and no loading screens, and this could lead up to 20+ sims from your creation, do you think you will get overwhelmed with trying to keep up with all of the families and residents of your town or of Sunset Valley?
Personally for me I think I will just a lil bit, because i will get so attached to these characters that I do not want to miss one single moment that happens in their every day lives. But I wonder if there will be any photo capturing events to occur in the game, to anyone that remembers in (the Sims 1, when your sim has a baby or dies the camera automatically snaps a photo) so that would be cool if they could incorporate that into the game, as long as we are able to turn it on or off, just in case we are so busy with one family we are able to still keep up with the others. {clap}
Re: Will You Be Overwhelmed? - yummybunny - 20-12-2008 01:35 PM
No, I won't be overwhelmed.
I usually control one family in each n-hood in my sims 2 games, and I'm thinking of doing that for TS3. I don't think there would be seamless n-hoods. With more EPs, that would be lots of loading and stuff.
A may be shocked when I first play the game. I am happy with the fact that my sims can have a life without me. Most of them, I don't even care about, unless that's my main family. But with all the seamless action, when I first turn on the game, I may start crying.
But to think about it, when I start legacies, and want to keep up with the children of the starter, it would be kind of overwhelming. But I'd get used to it. I'm thinking to check on those children once in a while,but I plan on keeping in touch with family anyways, like the heir can come over his brother's house and meet his pregnant girlfriend or something.
Re: Will You Be Overwhelmed? - sims3luva22 - 20-12-2008 05:52 PM
I think I will be far too excited in the beginning to be overwhelmed. And by the time we get our first ep, I think I will b used to the game play by then.
I plan on only starting off with 3 families per neighborhood. That way, I can focus on what I want for their lives, like not missing anything, but also keeping myself from becoming bored. Also, when focusing on another family may pass the time to skip over the not so interesting parts of my sims lives. When I leave them alone for a bit, and focus on another family, when I play them again something interesting could be going on.
For ex: h#1 (house) may have a newlywed couple where after settling them in, after a few days of playing I may become bored stiff. I may set up my lady sim to spice things up a bit. I may prepare her with enough reward points so she can purchase the fertility treatment reward and throw in a set of twins or triplets to turn there easy life upside down. Making sure she's having a good pregnancy for her offspring will leave me time to pay attention just enough to where I know they are good to fend for themselves. During her pregnancy I may skip over to h#2 where my criminal masterminded teen has just been caught exercising his klepto trait. Then maybe I'm off to h#3 where my sims fav grandparent died and I need to plan her funeral.
Shifting homes will keep things interesting and I can skip out when things get boring knowing that the uni aging will have my sims in a dif spot when I return. Beats having to do every bit for yourself like in ts2.
Re: Will You Be Overwhelmed? - AbePwns - 20-12-2008 11:05 PM
I usually only play one family at a time, but if I want another family that I can keep track of, I'd just make a new slot, and put them there.
Re: Will You Be Overwhelmed? - heather - 22-12-2008 10:14 PM
I think it may feel very strange to start with, and some of us may find it a little confusing. But we will soon get used to the changes.
If you go back and play Sims 1 it feels really weird.
I am hoping grand kid's can stay over at grandma's place, in Sims 2 this wasn't possible (without cheating).
Re: Will You Be Overwhelmed? - b-rad - 23-12-2008 04:51 AM
I think it will feel very alien lol. But --since we can have more than one neighborhoods of the same kind-- I will simply make a new neighborhood for a new family. Unless I want them for my other family. Or if it is just casual game play. Maybe I will have to neighborhoods, one for a casual game play, and one for my Family Story.
Re: Will You Be Overwhelmed? - Truswagga - 24-12-2008 10:40 PM
iCan't wait to play the game and iThink iWill be able to adjust to the game quickly. the thing is im so overwhelmed by the price.I'm pretty sure it WILL be WORTH it. 8)
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