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You might want to hold off, I still learning to play the game but its going to need some serious cc to get it to look the way you want. The Sims look like something al la Playdought...camera movements are different and the limited cheats. I still learning game but let me say it not a great leap forward.....Let those of us that have it suffer through and learn the thing, save your money for the time being....

Wise decision.

I suppose it is because the Sims 3 doesn't have the same draw as the Sims 2 when it was first released. I suppose it's because many of us have already become accustomed to Sims 2 (and alot of Sims 3's animations and objects are very similar).

I can imagine new customers to the Sims Franchise are very excited about Sims 3. It will be a brand new game to them and hold their interest better than those of us who have expected more.

I brought the game and i must say.....I dont like it!  :mad: I am really upset i spent money on it. My 8yr old played it and he was like it's not better than 2!

If that doesn't tell people the end all story of the game, I don't know what will.

I pre-ordered, I haven't picked it up yet, probably not till Sunday the earliest. I guess that says it all.

I Picked up the game today.
In my impression, now  you have to remember this is hte stripped down skeleton Base Game.. and in a few years we're going to have all sorts of custom content and expansion packs and who knows whatelse... but in my experience it's a very well held together base game. Obviously it's kind of a shock from having gigabytes of custom content to only be able to use what they give us, but, they basically stripped out the net results of Sims 2 and all it's expansion packs.. well nto all of it but the more sucessful ones, and consolidated it into a new system.

Personally, I *Do* like playing it. The skin tones do NOT Compare to the custom skintones of sims 2 but you have to think, when sims 2 first came out, THEY didn't ocmpare either. :) But I Think there's a lot of oppurtunity for people to advance what they want and I for one look forward to it. :D

well, there are a lot of people that would disagree with you brat, don't know that you needed to start a whole new thread about it!

As to mods and CC, well, just look around the community. I've seen at least 3 different tools at various sites, a handy dandy mod already released and working, the first custom default override mesh is in testing so if anyone is holding off because they can't live with the vanilla game then I wouldn't hold off much longer

I have the game, and it's starting to get better now that place like MTS2 are putting out Mods and CC. I've already got a really nice house from there and that helps out lot. I'm still waiting for hairstyles, clothes and the little things that maxis left out like hottubs, pool tables, a slide and diving board for the swimming pools. I'd like to see a hack that allows you to have more personalities and skins, though from what I heard thanks to the sliding tool skins and good looking sims are going to be hard to do, but I have faith in the Sims community that they'll soon find away to do it, and everyone will be modding like crazy.

I was enjoying it, but now all it seems to do is crash on me -- I have lost my people umpteen times. I think I have changed my mind on the whole sims 3 thing.. I say most definitely wait!!

I have played the sims 3 and i can name off a few things i really dislike say the doughy face sims, and i am holding off on it until they get some good CC and mods for it. But all in all i say its a pretty good game and for those who dont wanna buy it i say your missing out and should at least play it one time lol

I probably will at some stage. But 50+ for something vanilla, before the first patch has even been published, is simply too much. 1.0 versions are always bug ridden.

I'm not about to drop fifty bucks on a game I may only play once, especially in today's economy. We just don't have it to spare and I'm happy and more than content with the game I already have.

You mean, those EA swines released the game with swimming pools and they didn't include a diving board, are you sure?  If true, that's the kind of attitude on EA's part that keep adding to the negativity of so many fans of the older sim's games.

I would hardly think the lack of diving board was an oversight.Diving boards and other objects that the sims can interact with suck up resources. In order to fit the game into their minimum requirements some of these objects had to be omitted.
No doubt they'll make an appearance soon either via the store or some future EP.

I have the game and I like it. I know there are things we are used to that are not in the game. But, I can wait. There will be eps in the future.

Which is a sad thing in and of itself because of the way EA Games does such a half-arsed job on their games...

True that the diving boards aren't available in Sims 3, but they probably won't make their appearance if the Sims have the ability to dive from the poolside already. They can either use the ladder or the poolside to dive or get into the pool just fine.

The overall experience isn't too bad for TS3 if Pescado's awesome mod is used the way you want it to work for you if you use the online configuration tool (from the same awesome mod thread at MATY) to set up how you want to play TS3. There are some features that will turn TS3 into TS2 somewhat with aging turned off for Sims outside the currently played household.

BUT, there are some things they could stand to be improved on that won't require immediate attention. I've read about issues people had with stolen children and wondered why their beta testers or guests at that creator's camp thing did NOT catch this bug in the first place?? Who did they hire to test the game - monkeys?

Well, to be fair, if you look at the actual guest list of the creator's camp, most of them are morons and other assorted lackwits. EAxis would hardly have invited a crowd of smart people. Smart people wouldn't have told them what they wanted to hear. You will note how easily they succumbed to EAxian brainwashing and quickly turned to regurgitating the party line.

And let's face it: Child abduction essentially represents a corner case of gameplay to begin with: This happened in TS2, too, and mostly wasn't noticed because who the hell lets random strangers handle their kids? In my fambly, we're taught to bite anyone who tries it.

In your family, you bite anyone that is near you so that's no proof of safety, that's proof of massively aggressive tendencies that in animals would be taken care of by spaying/neutering. Hey, works on cats and dogs! :D

After only 2 weeks the prices are already dropping. normally you're looking several months.
For those that want to wait just a little longer, it's already on E.Bay starting price $20 US.
If the price drop is constant then by mid next month you should get it for a couple of bucks.
So much for the credibility of the game reviewers that gave this tripe a 90+ score. They'll find it hard to convince the gaming community next time some game developer uses them to promote their next project.

I had a babysitter leave carrying one of my toddlers. He didnt come back until he turned into a child and because of his horrible kidnapping expiernce he  came back with trait Evil LOL

Yes, but we're specifically trained to bite strangers that try to touch us. Anyone who would want to touch someone else's kid is a pedophile and deserves to be bitten. Plus, being that we are specifically bred for combat, aggressive tendencies are part of the bill.

Or part of the ebil that is Pescado and his family line, take your pick. :D

Seeing as the thread has meandered off topic...

Pescado, I heard you were working on a seamless Sims 2 neighborhood mod--is this true?

Love,love,love the game!

Whoa, Nellie!

The price for the "regular" version on Amazon just went down to $39.99. I guess that reflects what a good chunk of people REALLY thought of this game ... more telling, perhaps, than even reviews on Amazon or comments on a message board! The Prima guide is over $6 off, too. The Deluxe version, though is back to $69.99.

A total discount of over $16 for the game and guide ... already? Keep this up, and if you are patient, you might be able to get a very significant discount toward the next expansion ... if you want to play this game.

Interesting.