Patricia, Sims 3 Nieuws latest helper on the site was able to attend the EuroGamer Sims 3 Chat with Grant Rodiek. She pulled the chat transcript and has published it on the site. Here are a few sample questions, but make sure you check the rest!
IainMcKenzie asks: A lot of the audience for Sims games, say people like my mum and sisters, use laptops nowadays because they prefer the convenience of portability. Unfortunately most laptops have pretty weak graphics cards. For the Sims: Life Stories game EA did a lot of optimisation to help the game run well on such hardware – will the Sims 3 also be practical and enjoyable on a laptop?
Grant Rodiek: It ultimately depends on how new and good your laptop is (doesn’t it always?), but we’ve done a lot of work to make sure our game runs on a wide variety of systems. We’ve really worked to make our minimum spec work on low-end machines or laptops. We didn’t optimise for laptops specifically like the Stories games, but we definitely work on a lot of machines.
DFawkes asks: Not that a game like The Sims 3 needs it, but will there be any online functionality?
Grant Rodiek: Actually, there’s quite a bit. We’re not an online game, but you can upload houses, Sims, patterns, movies, and screenshots easier than ever to share with friends.
Furthermore, we’re giving players awesome new tools like the awesome online video editing tool that lets you edit movies. It’s really cool and so easy to use. I’ve made so many movies and I cannot wait to see what people with talent (our fans) come up with. Wow, that’s a lot of “awesome”.
Is that their way of trying to convince people their movie tool doesn’t suck? By saying awesome every 5 seconds? It’s as useless as Windows Movie Maker actually more so. At least Windows Movie Maker allows you to do what you want most of the time. It’s awesome awesome awesome AWESOME!
After reading that I’m more confused than I ever was. First he says the neighborhood will evolve (get married, have kids, die, etc.) when you’re not controlling those Sims, then he says it won’t, then says it will but it won’t.
If you must play every family you create in order for them to evolve then it’s a rather pointless game since that’s pretty much the same thing as Sims 2. You create them and if you don’t play them nothing happens to them at all until you come back. Where it should be they’re glorified extras who can push the plot of the main story (ie your life) without you having to control their lives.
Maybe he just did a poor job of explaining it.
Nothing really new though although it was better than most of BBS chats. He didn’t get one marriage proposal the poor guy.
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