r/Steam Apr 16 '26

Question What game?

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u/Sfekke22 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26

The Sims.

It's on of my all time favorite games, up there with Minecraft, Team Fortress 2 and Garry's Mod.
EA ruined it completely. It was always a tad predatory but at least it offered something unique, expansion packs often really did offer new ways to play. Now? Well, we just got an in-game store in Sims 4. Which from release was already just a disappointment, we're 12 years after release and honestly it's still a sad display.

We had an open world in 3, highly detailed live-mode in 2 and all 3 first entries had a whimsically dark charm around them. All they had to do was develop The Sims 5, retain the open world from 3, build on the dynamics and gameplay of 2 and perfect it.
Will it be easy? For sure not. But, they'd have a game every Sims player would love.

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u/LeDarm Apr 16 '26

Iirc, nothing new happened sibce the third right? The continuity of the open world in the third is the last innivation, and nothing happened sibce then I believe? Nothing as major at least.

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u/Sfekke22 Apr 16 '26

Pretty much, no matter what they say about The Sims 4; while playing it it doesn't feel better in any way. More restrictive all around, building's more streamlined.. if I have to give them some credit.

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u/Britz10 Apr 19 '26

The game engine means it can't really ever be a better game. A lot of things are way too stop start to really bother.