What is The Sims 3?

[fitbabits]

Glad you asked, and it just so happens that Electronic Arts has released a small trailer which aims to answer just that question.

Before we get to the video, though (it's below this post, by the way), let's take a peek at the accompanying press release:

Electronic Arts Inc. today released a new trailer showcasing an inside look into the creation of The Sims 3. Meet some of the masterminds behind this highly anticipated new title which offers players vastly more customization options and building upon the best features of its beloved precursor, The Sims 2. The Sims 3 lets players decorate and tailor their community.

Sims 3 is expected for release on February 20th, 2009. For more information about Electronic Arts exciting line of products, please visit www.EA.com.
Click the headline to view the trailer.

[fitbabits]

As promised, the video:

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BTW, I am in no way responsible for the poxy music which accompanies this video.

[Mozgus]

Same "game" all over again.

[Soap]

After the Sims "H&M clothing edition" and Ikea housewares collection...I'm pretty much done with the Sims.

[Ph00p]

Its a game where Willy Wright earns money for doing next to nothing yet AGAIN.

[Phanto]

The Sims 3 lets players decorate and tailor their community while simultaneously interacting with other online players.

So this game is going in a similar like Spore with the online "features" ??, Is the game screw then?

[MosBen]

Why should the expansions for the previous game make you avoid this game? I played both previous versions and I'll play this one to. I've also never gotten an expansion for a Sims game. EA would love for all of us to buy every game they put out, but that doesn't make some of them fun even without all the extra stuff.

[Inspector Fowler]

Hey. You fellers can act cool as long as you want.

Me? I'm going to make a prison and torture people. Drown whole families to make ghosts that fill up a house. Make a whole house of super hot lesbians that lives next door to college-aged, pre-married me. Oh yeah.

Well, that is, if they allow me to turn off the aging. I hate feeling like I'm investing time in my characters if they're only going to be dead in 10 hours of gameplay.

[Talon-]

Golly, there's a lot of hate going on in here.

I'm genuinely interested Sims 3, and all the community stuff sounds really cool. I probably won't play it, but I know plenty of other people that will love it.

[Talon-]

Its a game where Willy Wright earns money for doing next to nothing yet AGAIN.

Jealous because Will Wright is smarter, richer and more successful than you? :rolleyes:

[bean19]

I'm going to happily explore the game's features for about two days and then delete the game (unless it has draconian DRM that only let's me install it 3 times and then I may have to pass on what would otherwise be a 100% for sure first day purchase).

[Rogue_hunter]

Me? I'm going to make a prison and torture people. Drown whole families to make ghosts that fill up a house. Make a whole house of super hot lesbians that lives next door to ... me. Oh yeah.

Geez man, you stole my idea, though I'm not married.

[Variable Gear]

Jeff Green, wherefore art thou?

[Farsight]

Amazing how much animosity there is here when a game isn't about shooting someone in the head, or stabbing elves.

The Sims, for all its flaws, is an incredible achievement in gaming, and a great example of the huge market out there that most game developers aren't even attempting to tap into.

The Sims3 promises to offer people the chance to interact with a seamless and EVOLVING world. If they are even remotely successful in delivering that, the game will be the biggest leap forward since 3D. Imagine a GTA game where your actions have a lasting, unscripted impact on the city. Even if you don't like the Sims, you should be very excited about that paradigm shift.

Personally, I'm looking forward to boinking the neighbor's wife, and later on seeing a mysteriously familiar-looking child playing in their yard... :)

[saulob]

hm... this remind me of GTA, you can walk over the city now, do anything I like... yep, a new sandbox game, with the Sims name on it...

[Farsight]

this remind me of GTA, you can walk over the city now, do anything I like... yep, a new sandbox game, with the Sims name on it...

Then you missed the point.

Except for a few scripted aspects, nothing you do in the GTA world matters. Everything resets. It's a sandbox where your dad follows you around with a rake, wiping away any trace that you were there.

The Sims3 promises (and may even deliver) something completely different, and revolutionary. This is a world that is changing as you play in it, in an unscripted manner. You and I may start with the same neighborhood, but later on, they will be filled with different people living different lives, based on random chance and the decisions each of us makes.

This concept has never been attempted on this scale before, to my knowledge. Even assuming there are (perhaps big) limitations in how the neighborhood can evolve in The Sims3, done even slightly sucessfully, this is a very big deal.

[Xerxes]

Some cute ladies working Sim3. Anyways, I just don't get it. I get to play around with people doing ordinary life stuff. Now if they had the Mythology of Sims, where I got to play around with the pantheon of Gods AND the normal world below, then were having fun. Zeus being a dick? Have Dionysus become the new ruler of the Gods. Watch them split and try and get Zeus back in power or turn on him cause they like the partying. Watch them torture people. Pre order Kratos bonus!

Gawd, that's still like playing with normal people.

[BorisCal]

What I really want is the possibility of changing the size of the female sims breasts, to gigantic proportions that will leave the DOA girls jealous.

[NationalKato]

Jealous because Will Wright is smarter, richer and more successful than you? :rolleyes:

Look: some people don't like these Sims games because they're essentially the same. Some people don't like Will Wright because he promises more than he delivers.

Why is that opinion any less valid because he's rich and successful? Am I supposed to idolize Paris Hilton because she's rich and successful? Is being rich and successful the pinnacle of life now? Or just the pinnacle of your Sim's life?

Jealousy has nothing to do with it.

[Evil Avatar]

HaHa. Someone screwed up (leaked?) some information in the press release about the game having online gameplay and now we are being asked to delete that part of the Press Release from our post. (Which I did.)

[Farsight]

Am I supposed to idolize Paris Hilton because she's rich and successful?

You just compared Will Wright to Paris Hilton.

Do you understand all the ways you just FAILED, or do they need to be detailed?

I get to play around with people doing ordinary life stuff.

You're not doing it right.

If you did in real life what I do in the Sims, you'd end up dead or in jail, or both.

I look forward to living out a "Big Love" scenario in The Sims 3, where I see how many complete families I can juggle before they either figure it out, or my Sim dies of exhaustion.

The "Saw" angle may be amusing, and works in the Sims 2 also. Just make a group of young people, and stick them in a house with as many opportunities for Sim-death as you can think of, and see who survives the longest.

Perhaps you do this kind of thing in real-life all the time, but I try to have -some- boundaries. :)