Playing It Cool

[lea_hazel]

Dammit, I wasn't supposed to get excited about Sims 3 but I am! Well, I still plan on waiting to see more reviews and realistic specs, and I still might try to buy it second hand, but since there's no installation limit I will probably get it. I wonder if I'll be able to keep S2 installed and have them both at the same time. That way I can keep my Prosperity neighborhood and still have all the shiny new stuff. I really wasn't expecting to be this squeeful.

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[haycorn]

A REVIEW OF SIMS 3
(based on 1-2 hours of playtime)
(and in bullet points because I no can paragraph today)

- Off the bat, there are no immediate "WOW" moments as there were in going from Sims 1 to 2.
- The no-load world is super cool, though at times almost overwhelming
- Create-a-Sim is fantastic
- Less bladder need has somehow created more hunger need, at least for me it has
- I REALLY MISS hacks
- The new interactions are really, really, fantastic and it's frustrating now playing a single sim with no time for romance.
- Fair warning, because I was shocked to learn this! There is a feature called "story progression" which makes it so that neighborhood families grow and change and age and move away. This is wonderful in that now you won't have ten generations who are friends with that little blonde girl, but it is bad in that the only household they don't "progress" is your active one, so if you want to play multiple households and ensure that the one you leave is the one you'll come back to, you'll need to disable this option.
- I don't think that you can just have a Sims 2 family in a Sims 3 neighborhood, but I would not be surprised if someone figured out a way to do it.
- No, seriously. I am a bad gamer. I need a fucking mood hack.

[lea_hazel]

Squee! Thanks for commenting. I love getting responses from as many people as possible. I hope you post about it when you get around to playing a little more.

Playing hack-free is always a pain. I freely admit that's one of the reasons I'm holding back, because I know it'll take a while to crack the game enough to eliminate basic annoyances. I had heard about the sienmultaneous aging thing! I was pretty worried about this, but if there's a way to turn it off, then that's pretty cool. Especially if it's per neighborhood.

Mainly, I'm worried about loading the whole neighborhood at once, especially since there are apparently about a quintillion characters in the default neighborhood and it sounds like it would lag unbelievably unless you had about 50 RAM.

[haycorn]

I certainly will! I just don't want to make a big post based on my small bit of experience. (Also, I'm a bit sad that there is no pre-made family as awesome as the Curious family was *g*)

I have about a gig of RAM and a not-all-that-quick processor and I haven't really had a problem so far. The biggest issue I've had is getting used to moving and zooming.

[lea_hazel]

It's okay, because there's a second neighborhood and I already want it. Not as cool as Strangetown, no aliens or anything, but still.