

However I'm 99% sure this won't happen, because this is EA we're talking about, so I'll just keep playing TS3/TS4 forever, I guess. Time for something as integral to life as animals & weather not treated as extra. I have paid for those expansions four times now. Right now I remain skeptical.Īlso I won't buy TS5 if seasons & pets are not already integrated into the base game. But if they release the game and it will be good, I will buy it. So the way Paralives devs keep promising the world, is a huuuge red flag to me. At that point there's only two viable fixes, rewrite the entire thing (one survival game I managed to forget, did this with good results) or keep building onto something you know you can't fix because rewriting would take too much resources. A lot of inexperienced indie devs fall into this trap, they are so concerned about every little detail and wanting to put out the best possible product, which is not a bad thing at all, but then they fail to account performance, until they're so far into developement that fixing the performance issues would be near impossible. Mostly it's the "You can do everything in this game". (I.E Stonehearth, I see a lot of red flags with Paralives dev posts that I saw with Stonehearth dev posts that I didn't regonize then) I don't want to be a debbie downer, but I have been an early-access supporter to many different simulation games, which have all been "released" as a buggy-high performance-CPU-required mess barely out of Beta, and left to modders to fix, if they ever will, while the devs go on to greener pastures and new projects which will all ultimately have the same fate. OtherI don't have any faith in Paralives actually becoming a functional game. If it was soon I know I would go ahead and try Paralives and possibly buy it if it was released within the next few months. It offers so many things in it that I wanted in TS4, the fourth iteration of The Sims, but doesn't have or wait years to see.so yeah, I'm thinking more and more about that little Indie game more and more.

If Maxis does do that to the Simming community I may have no other choice but to go with Paralives, because I do really want a new 'Sim' game and the new has worn off of TS4 for me a long time ago and time for a new game. At least as real looking as the past three Maxis games rather than returning back to a time of how those homes in Paralives remind me of TS1.īut Maxis seems to be on track to build a AAA game that is possibly not at all my cup of tea (at least I did buy a lot of TS4). remind me of TS1 and I might need a more real looking game (or at least as much as TS2-TS4) real looking (3D) textured objects, homes, environment, Sims etc. lol I'm not sure I like the art style at all, the pictures on Steam of the houses etc. I could have gotten some ideas in there I guess if I had. I don't know, I love Maxis, but I don't want a TS5 MMO and might have to jump ship and go with Steam's game.I will admit I haven't followed the Paralives' team as much as others.
