I can't deny it, I've always had a soft spot for The Sims. I found #3 quite a disappointment though, due to performance issues and some other things I forget now.
Here's a little-known Thrik fact: The Sims 3 is what finally made me move out into my own home years ago. I was spending so much time in the game making my own meals, taking care of my own home, etc that I started thinking... what the fuck am I doing this in a game for when I could be out there doing it for real? So within a month I got a flat in another city and moved in. ![]()
http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotati…I&v=WjPPjU8OARg
I really like the way they're doing Sim customisation now. Being able to just drag around the Sims' bodies to reshape them to make giant asses and stuff is so much better than the horrible slider-based way of doing it that's in everything from Mass Effect to Skyrim. It's about time this shit was improved and hopefully we'll see something like this in any game with customisable characters from now on.
Anyway... it's The Sims. You pretty much know what you're getting, although apparently there's going to be a lot more emotional depth to the Sims. It's kind of hilarious that they claim to have all these realistic new psychological things in place then in the trailer a guy is sent into a deep depression while in the middle of chatting up some girl by some hipster dude playing on the violin. ![]()
Also it looks like for the first time they've seriously evolved the tools for building, etc. It seems ironic that they've simplified the tools for building houses by making them more like working with rectangle primitives in 3DS. ![]()