TS3 L&P

[Zoltan]

Maybe your friend is thinking about SimAnimals?  Isnt that new?   

[J. M. Pescado]

She is most likely a stupid person. I mean, she works at Walmart. Anything with a "Sims" label probably looks the same to her.

[rosenshyne]

She's probably sitting on a stack of pre-order boxes.

[witch]

I suppose people get easily confused with so many sims titles. The torrent I downloaded with Pet Stories - from 2005 I think - was labelled The Sims 3. 

[Emma]

My daughter works in retail too, in the electronics section and she has seen no Sims 3. Of course, we are in the UK so supply and demand might be different here. She says they usually get pre-orders of new games about 5-10 days before release, so she said she will keep an eye out for it. She deals with stock control and ordering (which is basically just ticking off and writing the amount needed of certain items) and Sims 3 hasn't even been on the list yet.

[MaryH]

Actually, she might be seeing the advertising "empty boxes" that will go up when the Sims 3 is officially announced-they're usually put up all over the electronics department when the game is released in order to advertise the fact that it is available for sale.
Or then again, she could be just confusing one label for another game. There isn't that much difference between the UK store supply and demand procedures from ours. Just a matter of days between the two.

[zceepy]

From Snooty sims: http://www.snootysims.com/thesims3/screens/thesims3-104.jpg
Is it me or is that hideous?

[Kyna]

I think it's intended to be hideous.

And thanks for reminding me that I won't have an "adult clothes for elders" mod in TS3.  Another reason not to rush into it when it's released.

[Tingeling]

Wasn't that supposed to be a fake vampire family? And yeah, she/it is hideous allright. I looks as though she has a black hole in her forehead. Is it a headband or a case of bad hairday/haircut?

[spaceface]

I would say both. Awful headband and terrible hair. But that dress is perhaps the fugliest of all.

[KellyQ]

She is most likely a stupid person. I mean, she works at Walmart. Anything with a "Sims" label probably looks the same to her.

FWIW, Walmart's website has the release date set as June 2, just like Amazon; I seriously doubt they have a stockpile of the game sitting in their backrooms.

[MidnightVoyager]

I'll assume she is mistaken and is actually sitting on a pile of empty boxes.

Dear god, what IS that thing? That hair is god-awful and that makeup probably required a trowel to apply!

[spaceface]

Ask her to take a peek inside, just in case those ARE Sims 3 games and were intended for sale, until someone at EA finally saw the light and decided that they should not be sold until the game could be fixed up a bit.

[Dark Trepie]

Okay, so I guess I'm getting into this L&P now.  Just wanted to go through some of this Alala Sims stuff.

Young Adults are on the game.

Does this mean Uni got rolled into the TS3 base game?

The hair customization has no limit. We can do high-lights and give different tones to every part of the hair using different colors.  The RGB System of colors is used to the colors of Create a Style. Once that you have created a style you can apply anywhere, like hairs, clothes, furniture, wall and floor.

This is kind of neat.  Should make for some interesting genetics.

Finally we have lots of accessories for our Sims, like shoes, socks, gloves, earrings, glasses, rings and bracelets.

Proper shoes and no sandals.  I approve.

There are five wished for life.

The ESL is a little confusing.  Does this mean there's five LTWs?

We can choose the tone of a Sim's voice, making it more acute or more grave.

DARK TREPIE IS DARK

In one family we can have Sims with different surnames.

Finally.  The forgotten, neglected step child known as Create a Student makes it's triumphant return.

There are no more signs.

My Aquarius is sad.

Sims can play Cricket.

Invisible cricket balls.

There are insects like cockroach and butterflies. They are really big!

So this hood is somewhere in the southeast U.S.?

To use cheats, we need to enable them first.

No wai!

Stairs are completely moldable.

Wut?

Sims don't need stair to get in or out of the swimming poll.

How is Brandi supposed to kill Skip now?

Hairs and trees move with the wind.

Your video cards will a'splode.

When we decide to go to another lot our Sims can go walking, riding a bike or by taxi.

I will expect an invisible recolor of the bike the day this game ships.

We can choose how to walk.

You can tell by the way I use my walk that I'm a woman's man.  No time to talk.

Depending on the traits, there are new interections between Sims, on the category "special" in the interection menu. An evil Sim, for example, can fight with anyone.

DARK TREPIE IS DARK

Pregnant Sims are like in The Sims 2, but the pregnancy lasts six days.

Oh sweet, merciful Jeebus...

There are vampires!

DARK TREPIE IS DARK

The storie of The Sims 3 is before The Sims 1. Bella and Vladmir are childrens!

Moar Bella theories.  Does she live in that house, up on that hill, near that river?

MM recorded two songs in Simlish, Bugersnot and Jumble, that will be in the first expansion pack for The Sims 3.

Hur.  Bugersnot.

[Tingeling]

That's the name of the Best Toy Ever Discovered By Ferretkind.

Is this the toy you talked about?

[jolrei]

Okay, so I guess I'm getting into this L&P now.  Just wanted to go through some of this Alala Sims stuff.

Young Adults are on the game.

Does this mean Uni got rolled into the TS3 base game?

No.  It implies prostitution.  YAs will apparently be prostitutes ("on the game").

Sims can play Cricket.

Invisible cricket balls.

Now we have to have servos in TS3.  Hordes of lethal white Krikket Battle Robots, who love sport, music, family life, pets, nature, and the obliteration of all other living things.

There are insects like cockroach and butterflies. They are really big!

So this hood is somewhere in the southeast U.S.?

See my previous comment on Krikket robots.

To use cheats, we need to enable them first.

No wai!

WAI!

Stairs are completely moldable.

Wut?

Perhaps you can set the base square and the upper floor destination square by stretching the stairs.  That would be quite useful.

We can choose how to walk.

You can tell by the way I use my walk that I'm a woman's man.  No time to talk.

No further comment.

[Lorelei]

@ Honorable Aide: Yep, that's it! But I found mine for five cents in a thrift.

@ Dark Trepie: LOL, INVISIBLE BIKE!

[nekonoai]

Funny Trepie is Funny.

No, we will not has university right off. Look for that in an expansion pack... or don't. (how well did that sell anyway?)

And yes, we must has invisible bikes!

[ShortyBoo]

The young adults are basically the adults now in TS2, and the adults are a "middle age" group, which several people have been asking for. I'm glad they put another age group between adult and elder, because in TS2, it doesn't make much sense for them to be in their 20's one day, and the next, they're suddenly in their 70's. The adults in TS3 will supposedly have wrinkles and will look older than the young adults. But college won't be in the game, so I'm sure they'll remake it for one of the EPs for TS3.

[YoungOldPrude]

Okay, so I guess I'm getting into this L&P now.  Just wanted to go through some of this Alala Sims stuff.

Pregnant Sims are like in The Sims 2, but the pregnancy lasts six days.

Oh sweet, merciful Jeebus...

Did you see the new pregnancy picture?
If you scroll down to the bottom of the article, you can find the picture...

http://kotaku.com/5149307/knocked-up-a-look-at-pregnancy-in-video-games

[Zazazu]

Doesn't look that bad to me.

You know what cracks me up about that article? (Other than "Ghost babies? GHOST BABIES?")? They keep talking about how it gives kids a false sense of what is involved in pregnancy, as if games would be the only exposure they have to it. Talk about unrealistic.

[Bleached]

Wait a second. So in TS3, if you watch a certain TV channel, it affects how many babbys the sim will have? Gee, that sounds realistic.

[floopyboo]

Sims can play Cricket.

Invisible cricket balls.

Now we have to have servos in TS3.  Hordes of lethal white Krikket Battle Robots, who love sport, music, family life, pets, nature, and the obliteration of all other living things.

There are insects like cockroach and butterflies. They are really big!

So this hood is somewhere in the southeast U.S.?

See my previous comment on Krikket robots.

Floopy farts hearts at jolrei. Feel the DNA lurve.

[talysman]

Funny Trepie is Funny.

No, we will not has university right off. Look for that in an expansion pack... or don't. (how well did that sell anyway?)

And yes, we must has invisible bikes!

Expect the expansion pack, because it will need hardly any work this time. All they need for college now is a way to mark a sim as "going to college" and one of those rabbit-hole buildings to represent the college. Enroll a sim in college by clicking on the building. The building itself could probably contain the code to handle grade calculations. Much less work than Sims 2 Uni. So, if EA has a choice between releasing an original expansion pack that requires a lot of work, and one that requires hardly any, which do you think they'll go with first?

[rosess]

Can't wait to have a pregnant sim skip to the hospital - or those invisible bikes would work nicely.