THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
DrNerd:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2009 May 18, 21:23:12
Quote from: cwieberdink on 2009 May 18, 20:09:58
Zazazu, those are some fugly ass sims.
The skin tones are flat and react oddly to lighting. Also, you have no sliders for facial features. You can only choose from a limited number of noses, eyes, etc, though things like hair color and eye color give endless possibilities. All the sims are fugly. In her defense, she was making a face in the second picture.
...So they've basically given us Mr. Potatohead, with customizable hair and eye color? That turns out looking doughy? Ugh, uber-fail.
Zazazu:
Pulling food out of their ass is no surprise, since they have a tendency to put everything and anything in inventory. Any time they read a book, they put it in inventory. Papers? Inventory. Freaking guitars get popped into inventory by default.
I'll go through CAS again and see if I can't spy the sliders. Kind of bit more off than I should have starting with a two-sim household.
Can't hold off any more.
Likes:
Load times are great! 22 seconds game load, 18 seconds to 'hood view. Saved camera points still work, though the numbers available are 5-9 now. 4 is locked by a new speed type.There's no What's This? on move-in. You do get the occasional Check Out New Object for new purchases, but not as frequently.More friend type variety...Friends, Good Friends, Best Friends. It's possible there are more, I just haven't seen them yet.Collectibles! One of my sims is focusing on finding seeds. She has apple, lettuce, tomato, and several unknown seeds. I haven't had her plant them because she hates the outdoors. You can also collect bugs and butterflies. Maybe more.Texture customization is pretty intuitive.Love the bikes. Build/buy object image quality is great. Imposters are high-quality.
Dislikes:
No options to determine how a sim gets around on a case-by-case basis. I'd like it if they biked one day, took a cab to somewhere far off, and maybe just hoofed it to the neighbors'.The buy display interface is odd. Room sort is all jumbled up. Type sort has some odd categories.Edge scrolling is hella oversensitive.Even minor wish fulfillment gets a choir of angels? All you did was buy a $100 object. Sound effects well done, but too frequent.Some of the side effects you get from traits don't seem to match. An excitable vegetarian friendly schmoozer slob chose to go to a community lot in formal wear. Why? If anything, she should have worn pjs.Sim and clothing textures are of poor quality. Light reflection on sims is often done in jagged lines and somehow just doesn't look right. Edges on clothes are also kind of jagged/fuzzy, as is hair.This is with all options maxxed. Want divving uneven. One of my sims always had tons of wants thrown at her. Another went two days without popping up a want.On making a meal, even when near-death hungry, sim will cook it and then walk off to another activity instead of sitting down to eat.No numerical value for relationship score.Energy seems to drain incredibly fast. Sims need almost eight hours of sleep, and sometimes even a nap.Pathfinding. Sims will stand there staring at the air, waiting for a sim about 10 feet away to pass them.
All-in-all, I can see some definite potential, but it feels very unfinished in a typical EAxian way.
ShortyBoo:
I wonder what's up with taking screenshots. I've taken some print screens of the game and they all look very dark and I've noticed this for all the screenshots from the leaked game. The game itself isn't that dark, but I've had to adjust the brightness and contrast for all the screens I get.
Lum:
Awesomesauce! One of the comments at the arr site mentions that 'it runs even better than ts2' in his 4 year-old-machine. I'm going to take his word on that, cuz I really don't want to get a new video card.
J. M. Pescado:
Considering that it accomplishes this by essentially stripping most of the game, that doesn't mean much.
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