are you getting SIMS 3?

No I will not be buying The Sims 3.

I'm insecure and need to kill things. If I can't kill things then I won't play. How do you 'win' a game in which you can't kill people?

Boring. Ho-hum. I'm going to go back to Call Of Duty 4, and spend another six hours tonight doing the exact same thing, over and over again, until I drop dead: Pull out my gun, shoot people, shoot people. get killed myself, re-spawn, pull out my gun, shoot people, shoot people, get killed myself, re-spawn. The Sims is for people who have an imagination and like to create things, but I don't have an imagination and like to shoot people instead.

Create stuff? Build homes? Build relationships with other Sims? Explore life through abstraction? Are you crazy? I want to shoot people dead. That is all.

No, I got bored of The Sims after about 2 days.

broken_bass_bin

Yup, I did too.

But the second title was much better. And it appears that this third title will possibly be the sims game that I had wanted right from the start. For me, The Sims 3 is really the beginning of the franchise. EA's developer at Redwood is really starting to make this series look interesting. They're weeding out all the mundane stuff, and just putting in the stuff that's compelling.

The two people who have reviewed this game so far have both said that this title is difficult to walk away from.

What people need to understand is that this sereis is evolving like no other. This isn't like the Call Of Duty series, which, let's face it, is just getting a new coat of paint with each iteration - this series is changing fundamentally from one series to the next. The Sims 2 was much better than The Sims, and I now believe that The Sims 3 will be much better than The Sims 2.

It's not a title I would want to dismiss too lightly.

No I will not be buying The Sims 3.

I'm insecure and need to kill things. If I can't kill things then I won't play. How do you 'win' a game in which you can't kill people?

Boring. Ho-hum. I'm going to go back to Call Of Duty 4, and spend another six hours tonight doing the exact same thing, over and over again, until I drop dead: Pull out my gun, shoot people, shoot people. get killed myself, re-spawn, pull out my gun, shoot people, shoot people, get killed myself, re-spawn. The Sims is for people who have an imagination and like to create things, but I don't have an imagination and like to shoot people instead.

Create stuff? Build homes? Build relationships with other Sims? Explore life through abstraction? Are you crazy? I want to shoot people dead. That is all.

Charles_Dickens

[QUOTE="Metalphor"][QUOTE="bonafidetk"]

never saw the appeal of the sims games. On top of that it costs like £200 total for all the "expansion" packs when its all done. Plus its EA/Maxis so expect draconian DRM.

DanielDust

No, not even a little bit. Even from The Sims 1 I found it to be a stupid concept for a game. Just not in my taste.

I'll definitely be getting it....but after June 19th after my A-Levels have finished.

"The game will have disc-based copy protection - there is a Serial Code just like The Sims 2. To play the game there will not be any online authentication needed."

Das good

Yes, I do plan on getting Sims 3... however I hope that my Macbook Pro will be able to handle it. It handles Spore alright, but not at full blast.

Macbook Pro
2.4 GHz
2GB DDR2
GeForce 8600M GT 256MB

Yeah I will definitely buy it.

[QUOTE="clembo1990"]Yeah, its sort of a must have game. A chance to unwind from all the shooters and RTS games I play.Dogswithguns

That's the reason Im pick it up. ...lots of times I dont feel like any shooting and action stuff.

Yes, I do plan on getting Sims 3... however I hope that my Macbook Pro will be able to handle it. It handles Spore alright, but not at full blast.

Macbook Pro
2.4 GHz
2GB DDR2
GeForce 8600M GT 256MB

tyoism

I have the new aluminum MacBook, and although I never play games on it, I loaded up Spore anyhow, since Spore works in OSX as well - I have to admit, I was quite surprised at how well it ran (much better than it did on my old 4Ghz Pentium 4).

What is Will Wright doing if he has nothing to do with SIMS 3?