Time for the replay of the Showtime Live Chat! The chat/demo was hosted by SimGuruAaron, SimGuruGraham and SimGuruBritt! Watch it below!
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Time for the replay of the Showtime Live Chat! The chat/demo was hosted by SimGuruAaron, SimGuruGraham and SimGuruBritt! Watch it below!
I’ve heard they’re going to be showing Starlight Shores. I can’t wait to see it. I hope they show off a lot of the new venues.
Pretty certain it starts at 6 GMT (My Time). ๐
Wouldn’t that be 2pm eastern time? We’re four ahead of pst.
Nope, Eastern is 3 hours ahead of Pacific. Pacific 10am > Mountain 11am > Central 12pm > Eastern 1pm ๐
The VooDoo doll is alive! ๐ http://store.thesims3.com/setsProductDetails.html?scategoryId=11488&index=0&productId=OFB-SIM3:46429
I kind of like the new world but they definitely took the idea of Los Aniegos (one of the most famous sims worlds on ts3.com) and one is for sure. These producers are not aware of their work…
So we get a genie… I like it ๐
So…. they mention the golf thing, and then never show it?
Is it just that Graham is over exuberant or do the two on his sides have the personality of a stick?
Is it just me or is SimGuruGraham uber hot?
It’s just you. ๐
Gotta say, I really enjoyed the mime animations. Very cool and very well done.
Ya know they did kinda drop the ball with this whole showtime concept by not letting us add singers to bands and the acting career and broadway doesn’t get represented as well and those are the first two things that come to mind when I think Showtime.
Sadness, singers can’t sing with a band ๐
This is the reason why there is a sims boycot
What I was impressed with: the animations, photo booth, mechanical bull.
Not impressed with: fake crowds, fake coffee shop
Angry about: singers can’t be included in current bands, condescending glossing over player concerns with Simport security.
EA you dropped the ball again.
Agreed about the coffee shop, but I thought the crowd simulation they came up with was good. Did it look ultra realistic? No. Was it obvious that the bulk of the crowd was a giant black hole? Yes. Was it done well enough so that I could at least pretend and get lost in the performance? Yes, I think so.
Other than litter the place with two dimensional, cardboard bodies (which I would NOT have liked) or actual sims and kill all of our computers in the process, I don’t know what else they could have done to simulate that sold-out feel.
Like it or not, the majority of Sims players are not ‘gamers’ in the typical sense; they don’t have fancy gaming rigs, and for a lot of them The Sims 3 is the only game they play. With that in mind, the dev team has to be mindful of reducing CPU demand whenever they can, while still trying to be as graphically pleasing as oissuble. It’s a difficult line to walk sometimes, especially when it comes to something as technically intensive as crowd simulation, but I think they pulled it off this time.
Of course, I’m going strictly by what I saw in yesterdays walkthrough. Once I get the game and actually see it for myself, I may feel a little differently.
“graphically pleasing as possible”***
Which is well justified. Even so far into the game’s life everything is still only half complete. It’s all so disappointing that now I can only expect to be underwhelmed.
I though the chat was awful, they went over the same things again and again, showed very little new stuff overall (or maybe there just isn’t much in the pack) and were very unprofessional in their methods.
The whole pack seems like a half-arsed attempt to be honest, with many balls dropped!
No to singers with bands… feeble.
Fake crowds… lame. (some of us have top spec rigs so give us the option of real Sims).
Fake Rabbit holes… puh-lease!
Some items are only available if you use the SimPort feature?! Then the SimPort is NOT optional is it!! Idiots!
Katy Pery… Big Deal! One Sim, a couple of dresses and a few decorative objects… wow…
I’m sorry but this Pack epitomises all that has gone wrong with The Sims Franchise!
If this is the future of the Sims then I’m done with it, and I suspect most people will be when they wake up and think for themselves…