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Sims2 vs Sims3 (vs WoW)

BillieTheBotBillieTheBot Posts: 8,721 Bot
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Even though I had the right hardware at the time in 2004 (P4 2800MHz, 1GB DDR, Geforce 6800), the game never took my heart. Here I am 5 years later, totally addicted to Sims3, which apparently was a less popular game to Sims2. Is it just me or is that really the case?

Similar motive to this thread - why is WoW still so popular? Don't get me wrong - I still love the game but it is based on a 2004 graphics engine. It's getting outdated. Character creation involves 5 skin tones, about 12 different hairstyles, 1 build type and a few options for a bit of bling-bling. In Sims 3, you have about 6 different infinite sliders for nose shape alone, same for eyes, same for mouth, face shaping, infinite build types from anorexic to obese plus the option to re-colour anything using hex/RGB colouring. That's even before you start downloading mods. Once you hit www.modthesims.info you start shaping thighs, butt, calves, sim height, neck, shoulders, waist, ears. Oh yes, with the ears mod, you can make them look like night elves lol :-)

What's your favourite game for character creation? I would say that Star Wars Galaxy (2004 MMORPG) was way ahead of its time in that criteria, almost as detailed as Sims3 is now.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Mass Effect 2 - because the way the game develops I really felt I was owning the face and the character I was playing.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Jim V wrote: »
    I really felt I was owning the face
    That is proper pwnage right there. :thumb:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    WoW is going to improve its graphics with Cataclysm afaik, but yes I agree with you. Sims3 character creation screen is awesome.

    Also going to that website now. WTB porn star boobs on skinny girls.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    how can you compare two games that have nothing alike just by the character creation options? I don't think this matters at all in mmorpgs. Hell, back in the days I played I made it my duty to have the most ugly character possible. Usually with a bald patch and a ridiculous mustache. It's all about understatement.

    Doesn't really matter, except you are on of those sad cases who fap to their character.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    My problem with WoW isn't so much the lack of options, it's more the disparity between the vanilla content/races/armour and the TBC/Wrath stuff. The graphics on the newer stuff is, understandably, much better, but it means new races look shitty in old gear and old races look a bit weird in new gear. But they're going to fix it, so I am happy to wait.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The best character creation I've ever seen was in the old PS2 Smackdown! games.

    I could make anyone if I put enough effort into it. You've not seen a wrestling match until you've seen Bing Crosby suplex Peter Peter Sutcliffe from the top rope only to be tagged in the napper with a steel chair shot from Ian Paisley.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    StrubbleS wrote: »
    Hell, back in the days I played I made it my duty to have the most ugly character possible. Usually with a bald patch and a ridiculous mustache.

    Oi! Some of us are stuck with that in real life... :p
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Perhaps it's just me StrubbleS, but because I have a background with Poser back in the 1990s, I therefore have character creation as a game criteria.

    My main rant (and the purpose of this thread) was to try and establish why WoW is still so popular while still running on a 2004 graphics engine. Okay, Elite for the BBC Micro only ran in 8 colours, but it's still a classic game, and people still follow that game and its various modern ports. Graphics aside, I think WoW has also lost it when The Burning Crusade came out. It was never the same as oldskool raiding in MC and BWL <3
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Monserrat wrote: »
    My main rant (and the purpose of this thread) was to try and establish why WoW is still so popular while still running on a 2004 graphics engine.

    Two reasons:

    1. That engine will run on crappy laptops, old desktops & pretty much anything that it's installed on. Most people don't have tricked out gaming PCs, so WoWs scalability means anyone can play it.

    2. It always relied on a stylized cartoony look. WoW still looks good because of the art direction. Cutting edge realistic graphics age fast, cartoony stuff doesn't. It's why Super Mario World still looks great but Starfox doesn't.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Monserrat wrote: »
    Perhaps it's just me StrubbleS, but because I have a background with Poser back in the 1990s, I therefore have character creation as a game criteria.

    My main rant (and the purpose of this thread) was to try and establish why WoW is still so popular while still running on a 2004 graphics engine. Okay, Elite for the BBC Micro only ran in 8 colours, but it's still a classic game, and people still follow that game and its various modern ports. Graphics aside, I think WoW has also lost it when The Burning Crusade came out. It was never the same as oldskool raiding in MC and BWL <3
    I dunno, most of the people I talk to hated Molten Core and loved instances like Karazhan (which is beautiful, I have to say).

    What I've seen of the new ones (not much, admittedly) and heard, they're not as technically difficult or even (with maybe the exception of Icecrown) as visually impressive as some of the BC ones.

    Also not everybody cares about the graphics. Particularly when a lot of people have to turn them right down anyway. And they aren't terrible, considering. Not really.
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    Infinite Part Deux wrote: »
    The best character creation I've ever seen was in the old PS2 Smackdown! games.

    I could make anyone if I put enough effort into it. You've not seen a wrestling match until you've seen Bing Crosby suplex Peter Peter Sutcliffe from the top rope only to be tagged in the napper with a steel chair shot from Ian Paisley.

    sorry to dig that old post up, but I think I just pulled a muscle somewhere on my side from laughing so hard.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    StrubbleS wrote: »
    sorry to dig that old post up, but I think I just pulled a muscle somewhere on my side from laughing so hard.

    Ever seen Bing Crosby powerbomb Yngwie Malmsteen through a table? Fucking brutal.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    My main rant (and the purpose of this thread) was to try and establish why WoW is still so popular while still running on a 2004 graphics engine.

    Kids. They made the game more accesiable, and also destroyed it. I couldn't care about graphics just as long as they're sufficient to play the game. Prime example to this date is CS: 1.6 AND Source.
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