And I'm not even talking about content. Just on the technical side it's astonishingly bad and it's even worse when you take into account the number of years since its release.
I was at a friend's place two days ago and he has the eleven (yes, eleven) expansion packs, and boy do you have to be fucking motivated to even play the game :
- Loadings are long as shit
- the game will progressively slow down, lag, freeze AND crash over time. The more you play, the more annoying it gets. Something with the game not dumping useless things it kept in memory. This was apparenlty never fixed, modders had to do something.
- it takes forever to go anywhere, so you just want to stay on your lot. Needs and stuff don't help.
- lots of shitty bugs that were already there when I tired the game years ago.
- after 14 YEARS since Sims 1 pathfinding is still trash. I'm almost sure it's the same. Your sims sometimes still have to go around the whole house to speak to someone right in front of them, someone they were just talking to at the exact same spot a second ago.
Of course when your sim can't find its path it starts a long ass animation to tell you so and then just stands there, wasting sometimes almost an ingame hour.
- Towns are broken. On some lots its physically impossible to get to your workplace in time. I'm sure a ton of the premade houses are made just to annoy you because they're built and furnished just the way you don't want them to, since it worsens the pathfinding issues for the most basic actions.
-Sims still have to put on the floor anything they have in their hands to even speak to someone, and it takes way too long.
- A fucklot of other things.
How hard is it to patch this game? They have no problem releasing an expansion every six months but can't fix basic things that were there since day one (or worse,14 years ago)
I'm sure some annoying and nonsensical things will still be there in Sims 4. I wonder how many people will pay $69.99 and install Origin for it when it releases.
I was at a friend's place two days ago and he has the eleven (yes, eleven) expansion packs, and boy do you have to be fucking motivated to even play the game :
- Loadings are long as shit
- the game will progressively slow down, lag, freeze AND crash over time. The more you play, the more annoying it gets. Something with the game not dumping useless things it kept in memory. This was apparenlty never fixed, modders had to do something.
- it takes forever to go anywhere, so you just want to stay on your lot. Needs and stuff don't help.
- lots of shitty bugs that were already there when I tired the game years ago.
- after 14 YEARS since Sims 1 pathfinding is still trash. I'm almost sure it's the same. Your sims sometimes still have to go around the whole house to speak to someone right in front of them, someone they were just talking to at the exact same spot a second ago.
Of course when your sim can't find its path it starts a long ass animation to tell you so and then just stands there, wasting sometimes almost an ingame hour.
- Towns are broken. On some lots its physically impossible to get to your workplace in time. I'm sure a ton of the premade houses are made just to annoy you because they're built and furnished just the way you don't want them to, since it worsens the pathfinding issues for the most basic actions.
-Sims still have to put on the floor anything they have in their hands to even speak to someone, and it takes way too long.
- A fucklot of other things.
How hard is it to patch this game? They have no problem releasing an expansion every six months but can't fix basic things that were there since day one (or worse,14 years ago)
I'm sure some annoying and nonsensical things will still be there in Sims 4. I wonder how many people will pay $69.99 and install Origin for it when it releases.
