The Sims 3 is supposed to be a simulator? A toy? A virtual sandbox?
Is it supposed to be a life simulation? If so, please tell me how I can get that life. It would be such an easy life. Unfortunately, I think I’d get really bored. Everything I do in the Sims world is accomplished with such ease and lack of stress that there is no sense of achievement.
I started off with one Sim (I didn’t know what to expect from the game) and kept adding more and more Sims to the household, hoping it would provide more challenge. Nope.
She’s been leader of the free world and she’s now the head of a corporation and a best selling writer. She’s overflowing with cash. She has dozens of best friends and it takes minutes for her to make another best friend. By the way, these relationships don’t weaken with time. Most of her skills are maxed. She’s bought most of the life achievement awards. Now she spends her time training her family to become superhumans as well. There is basically nothing left for her to do except die.
There are so many things in the game that make it far too easy. For example, while you are at work, you can tell your Sim to socialize with her coworkers or kiss up to the boss. You don’t even have to bother with the relationship minigame. Your sim will automatically make best friends. One of my sims just goes out to the park and plays guitar all day long. She automatically makes dozens of friends as well.
I’ve tried setting up little scenarios, like rivalries, love triangles, enemies, etc., but everything is accomplished far too easily. I tried the minigames like fishing and gardening, but those are rather boring.
Making money is no challenge, except during the initial stages of the game. Writing a book and painting brings in tons of cash. Investing in businesses in town is just overkill.
Getting promoted and reaching the top of the Sims profession is a piece of cake. It takes a day or two to get a promotion.
The Sims 3 is a wonderful game, but the fact that it’s too easy basically ruins it. Games, just like life, need to be challenging or else there is no point in playing them.
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youre right. many people think sims is cool because you can do lot of stuff but real life is more challenging. you will never replace your life with a game no matter how much try.
Heh, many of us try pretty hard to replace life with MMORPG’s, though.
I have to admit that I’ve had months where I spent more time in virtual worlds than I did in real life. Not a good thing, especially since I do it to escape real life problems. Of course, that only makes my problems worse.
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I agree, the so called “achievements” only feel like monuments of how much time ive wasted playing the game. I wish they made it more challenging, and an objective would be nice.. the fact that the game can never be won just leaves an empty feeling.
@Avery
I think a problem for us is that we aren’t the target audience for TS3. We need challenge, strategy, tactics, hardship, etc. We need to win. We need to beat something.
In TS3, if you approach it with the ‘conquer all’ mindset, then it’s going to become stale really quickly.
In any case, for the week or so that I played TS3, I did enjoy it.