This article caught my eye from my RSS reader, it’s a new preview shared with us from the official Sims 3 Site on The Sims 3 Late Night!
The notion of spending an evening with good group of friends for a fantastic time is global in its appeal and cannot be pinned to any culture. Our goal with Late Night was to provide the most complete, thrilling, and modern take on an afterhours scene than we’ve ever done before.
We always look to the past for inspiration and find ways to evolve. The theme and feel of Nightlife was a bit suburban and lighthearted. It presented a set of late night activities for Sims stuck in suburbia and overly family-friendly entertainment such as the bowling alley. The silliness was quite evident in the coordinated group dance “smustle,” or the vampires who cavorted about town in an outfit similar to the one Sesame Street’s The Count would wear.
The Sims 3 Late Night is set to be a more mature and realistic look at the night scene in a more urban environment. Instead of experiencing pre-determined set pieces that players would inevitably see over and over, it’s more of a playground of possibility and intrigue.
The open neighborhood allows Sims to migrate from bar to bar, each of which will offer new drinks, new clientele, and new activities. Grungy dives may be a great place to start the evening with cheap juices or darts with your Sim’s friends. However, from there your Sim should travel to an upscale lounge where, assuming they can get in, the bar-goers will be more attractive, the drinks will be better, and the music will push everyone to the dance floor. Exclusivity plays a big role in the Late Night scene. Being someone determines where you can go and what you can do. The rewards for becoming a VIP aren’t just recognition, but access to exclusive lounges, friendships, and more ways to experience the night.
How your Sims approach this vibrant and diverse night scene is entirely up to you. Will they hit the scene with a group of friends as a normal Sim and hope they can get past the bouncer? Or will they pool together some of the best musical talent in town and become the hottest new band? Impressing a celebrity or even becoming one has several perks that can fundamentally change a Sim’s life. Innovative and entertaining bartenders who know their way around a delicious beverage are always sought by the best clubs. It also helps to be a creature of the night– as a Vampire, your Sim can use their amazing abilities to draw more out of life…from others.
Interactive high-rises allow players to finally view the world from the top floor of a towering building. There is no better way to convey wealth in a game all about being somebody than a glamorous rooftop party amidst the evening skyline. Penthouses can be filled with luxury objects such as hot tubs and your Sim’s every whim tended to by their butler.
Having a butler allows your Sim more time to attend countless parties thrown around town by celebrities with whom your Sim should be building a relationship. In Late Night, there is always a party somewhere.
A richly diverse scene, great music, bartending, Celebrities, and even vampires will make Late Night an original downtown playground in which Sims can let loose and have amazing experiences.
Dear EA: The sims is a silly game, the characters are cartoons, they live in world where they love llamas and they speak a made up language, the quirkiness and humor is what makes the game interesting and unique. However fun barhopping may be (it really doesn’t sound fun…) it will never be as memorable as the smustle. The series is slowly losing all it’s charm
yay now there is butlers :DDD
I read the first 2 paragraphs only and already started to get pissed and frown! EA, are you idiots?! I’d like to say not but this makes me think otherwise! Can you not realize The Sims’ best feature IS silliness! Come on guys! Stop trying to be so serious, you’re going to fall apart, and that is a fact! I’m all for making it realistic, but when you go on a “serious streak” and start to make things “mature”, the fun begins to drain and The Sims begins to die! Please, DO NOT forget about your past! It’s what made you a legend in the gaming world! Never lose that!!
@Robodl95 I hate to say it, but I agree with you! It seems like The Sims is slowly dying! And I do think it’s EA! If I’m not mistaken, Maxis was in control of the original Sims, right? So maybe they should hand it back over to Maxis and make The Sims the greatest game in history…again! 😀
Don’t worry. The game still has that silliness and I’m sure they are just marketing the product so more people are attracted. Lot’s of people are wanting the game to be more real and actually EA are listening. And let’s face it – realism is not equal to silly fun. The only mistake they are doing is actually that they are mocking their old products.
I’m sure with all the new stuff in Late Night there will be a little bit of silliness.
The last work Maxis did for The Sims franchise was the Open for Business EP for Sims 2. I really like that EP but it seemed to me that it was the most buggy one of them all. Even part of the logo was cut and I was thinking how they let such thing that you see every single time you start the game to be undone.
As of now Maxis are working on the new Spore franchise and there is no sing of them going back. Too bad Spore didn’t turn out like The Sims. It’s a great game and if EA didn’t put the DRM they could have sold a lot more and right now we could have had at least 2 or 3 EPs for the game.
Yes I’m sure most of it is for advertising reasons and to grow the community! But making it something that it’s not isn’t right! I personally would like to see more silliness and realisticness, and I think it is possible to merge the two equally. But for now we’ll have to wait and see how LN is.
I like the sound of this EP, but I don’t think the current Sims team at EA has any business dissing “NIghtlife.” That was a very fun EP and also very successful. They can only pray this one will be as good. More than likely it will be full of bugs, and will require an immediate patch. The arrogance of EA annoys me sometimes.
Sometimes I really think the people at EA have lost their minds… Calling Nightlife silly (and making that sound like a bad thing) is just ridiculous – after all, they seem to think vampires are good enough to include in Late Night! So, they’re going for realistic, are they?… Really?! Oh, I get it, the silly part had to do with being “suburban” and “lighthearted”… Stop being snob (or acting like snobs, for all it matters…) and don’t stray from the path that made The Sims great! And, if you really want to make the game more realistic, how about putting back a few real things, like weather, pets and sims getting into and out of their cars instead of the acting REALLY SILLY when they “teleport” themselves into and out of cars?!
I like the realism. I never really was too fond of the over-exaggerated facial expressions and animations from TS2. It’s ok to have something funny or silly happen occasionally, but when it happens too much, it’s like I’m watching some kind of super cheesy movie that’s just trying too hard to be funny. Kind of like those spoof movies that keep coming out like “Epic Movie” or the new one “Vampires Suck”. I’m actually thinking about playing the vampires in LN and I’ve never played any of the “creatures” from the sims games. The vampires in TS2 were just too corny with the way they dressed and how they kept going around hissing and covering their mouth with their arm. I thought it was stupid.
I like the realism, too. Let’s face it- the silly stuff is fun the first time you see it. After a couple of dozen plays, it wears *very* thin.
I’m happy that they’re beginning to remember the fact that more complex, OPEN ENDED gameplay is what made the Sims the success it is.
…but…. I *LIKED* bowling…. 🙁
I’m liking how Late Night is sounding, it’s adding a lot of stuff that seems like it will make the game better. But, we still need family friendly stuff, like bowling.
Silliness remains. I just EA interprets this differently than you (commenters). I think what they mean is that it’s more realistic than the simplicity of what was essentially a house with a bar in. The whole experience is more in-depth and realistic.
I’m sure we’ll get bowling in another EP. They’re bound to give us back most everything from TS2 eventually.
I kinda have to agree about Ts2 Nightlife Downtown though, it didn’t really feel urban aside from the tall skyscraper objects in the backdrop.