Whingeing
A.K.A. Sims 3 naysayers. All over the Sims 2 community, I have found people who are just aching to beat EA/Maxis down into a dirt hole. They speak of broken promises, horrid glitches and, worst of all, bad skin texturing. They endlessly bitch about the advert manager's lying, cheating and subliminal buttfucking. Well, I am bloody sick of it.
Yes, they are horrid at skin texturing, but fuck. I am willing to bet that within two months of its release, someone will have mastered the skin texturing and there'll be a next-gen Navetsea running around (translation: awesome shit). Yes, they don't do too well with hair. But a) it's better this time around, b) the animations are going to be much improved and c) again, custom content will be out in no time. "But they're conspiring against custom content! They'll lock down the system and force us to buy EPs to get new content!" You know nothing of hackers. If a 360 can be hacked, a Sims game should be buttermilk. Remember what it was like before SimPE? Well, it might be like that for a little while, but I doubt it. EA/Maxis has allowed and even encouraged any and all custom content for both Sims games and many of their other products. Why would they stop with Sims 3?
And glitches. My. God. Why must people bitch about glitches? I usually don't even notice a glitch unless it actually interferes with the basic game function. Like, someone's arm sticks out at odd angles, I don't give. A Sim suddenly starts walking funny and can't get pregnant, I get a little grumbly and avoid the situation in future, but I don't bitch. Little (and big) glitches happen. When you're writing what amounts to tens of thousands of lines of code, you can't really go back and made sure you've accounted for every single possibility. You're supposed to, but really, you can't while maintaining your sanity. I'm quite sure Sims 3 will be the glitchiest mofucka yet, but it's also a much more complex game. Sims 1? Pretty simple. Needs, general appearance, job, friends, house, boom. Sims 2? Crazy amount of stuff. Wants, time, age, generations, aspirations, clothes, hair, facial features, makeup, roof style... a zillion new things that all have to be coded for in minute detail. I can only imagine the immense amount of work something as complicated as Sims 3 is taking. So, in short, DON'T BITCH 'BOUT GLITCH.
Broken promises? Nothing they've said so far in interviews with whatever magazines has been outside the scope of what was actually demonstrated to the interviewers, and I'm pretty sure that whoever said they heard the guy saying something about curing cancer deserved to drop the soap in a prison shower. Any false hype that's been thrown about has been lost on me; I'm not really very vulnerable to that kind of stuff. If you believe what they say on TV, I expect you've tried to drink CLR thinking it was holy water. Basically if it ain't hype, it's probably true.
But I can't post this on a Sims 2 forum. I'd be ripped to shreds.
...sigh...
Yes, they are horrid at skin texturing, but fuck. I am willing to bet that within two months of its release, someone will have mastered the skin texturing and there'll be a next-gen Navetsea running around (translation: awesome shit). Yes, they don't do too well with hair. But a) it's better this time around, b) the animations are going to be much improved and c) again, custom content will be out in no time. "But they're conspiring against custom content! They'll lock down the system and force us to buy EPs to get new content!" You know nothing of hackers. If a 360 can be hacked, a Sims game should be buttermilk. Remember what it was like before SimPE? Well, it might be like that for a little while, but I doubt it. EA/Maxis has allowed and even encouraged any and all custom content for both Sims games and many of their other products. Why would they stop with Sims 3?
And glitches. My. God. Why must people bitch about glitches? I usually don't even notice a glitch unless it actually interferes with the basic game function. Like, someone's arm sticks out at odd angles, I don't give. A Sim suddenly starts walking funny and can't get pregnant, I get a little grumbly and avoid the situation in future, but I don't bitch. Little (and big) glitches happen. When you're writing what amounts to tens of thousands of lines of code, you can't really go back and made sure you've accounted for every single possibility. You're supposed to, but really, you can't while maintaining your sanity. I'm quite sure Sims 3 will be the glitchiest mofucka yet, but it's also a much more complex game. Sims 1? Pretty simple. Needs, general appearance, job, friends, house, boom. Sims 2? Crazy amount of stuff. Wants, time, age, generations, aspirations, clothes, hair, facial features, makeup, roof style... a zillion new things that all have to be coded for in minute detail. I can only imagine the immense amount of work something as complicated as Sims 3 is taking. So, in short, DON'T BITCH 'BOUT GLITCH.
Broken promises? Nothing they've said so far in interviews with whatever magazines has been outside the scope of what was actually demonstrated to the interviewers, and I'm pretty sure that whoever said they heard the guy saying something about curing cancer deserved to drop the soap in a prison shower. Any false hype that's been thrown about has been lost on me; I'm not really very vulnerable to that kind of stuff. If you believe what they say on TV, I expect you've tried to drink CLR thinking it was holy water. Basically if it ain't hype, it's probably true.
But I can't post this on a Sims 2 forum. I'd be ripped to shreds.
...sigh...