The Sims 3

[Kaney]

...do you just not get it when I say don't be asking for links to copyrighted material?

[probablyoliver]

Hey everyone, can someone post a direct link to the torrent for this please?

[probablyoliver]

Kaney's a bastard. >_>

Pffft, like I'm gay enough to play Sims anyway. It's shit.

[DoubleX]

How do the Sims look in action? From the screenshots it looks like the models have taken a flying leap into the Uncanny Valley, so I'm curious as to whether that's alleviated when they're actually walking around and interacting with their environment.

[Magus978]

EDIT: Nevermind. Didn't see the posts in here.

I'll find my own "store" to get this thing :shifty.

Edited May 19, 2009 by Magus978

[Zaz]

What's new in this one? Haven't played The Sims in yonks.

[King Ellis]

Look! It's LL in Sims form and he has bad intentions for his paper boy.

For comparison (please note that Sims 3 has no good hair for the Cuban sensation)

Edited May 19, 2009 by Manaty Porn

[Magus978]

Can't view'em

Damn lack of being a donator.

[Ruki]

Didn't play much, but damn, I enjoyed the hell out of it. No loading when going from family to map view. Although I have yet to find how to switch to a different family

And is there only the one neighbourhood you get to play in?

[Maxx]

Look! It's LL in Sims form and he has bad intentions for his paper boy.

For comparison (please note that Sims 3 has no good hair for the Cuban sensation)

Oh surely those choices are more appropriate for Fitzy

[RoyWill Rumble]

Obligatory 'somebody do a EWB house' here.

[Herr Matzat]

Just what the hell are you guys doing? You prolly can get the game of of a gazillion Rapidshare acounds in under 3 houres if you just use google.

I, of cause, would never download something illegaly... nor would i steal candy from a baby, good traid that is!

[DoubleX]

OK, so, I'm not going to be going to the store everyone else has so far because a) I can be patient enough to wait two weeks and b) it would chew up most of our bandwith remaining for the month. So I've taken to looking at videos on Youtube, and I came across

Sweet shit that's amazing. I vote that once the game comes out and everyone has it (even the honest ones >_>) we have a building competition and see if anyone here is an awesome architect (in Sim terms).

[IAceI]

I'm going to purchase it legitimately when its released, I'm getting a new computer soon and I'd prefer to get it properly anyways.

Anyone know what its going to be like? Will I need to preorder to get it or able to just pop down on the day and pick it up? May just preorder it anyways when I get the new PC so I get it on the day

[oldskool]

Obligatory 'somebody do a EWB house' here.

I already managed to "Make an Inappropriate Forum Post" and tinker with a toilet by using a claw hammer, does that count?

[RoyWill Rumble]

Obligatory 'somebody do a EWB house' here.

I already managed to "Make an Inappropriate Forum Post" and tinker with a toilet by using a claw hammer, does that count?

Hmmmmmmmm...

I like you, so yes.

[Herr Matzat]

has anyone managed to have other sims move in? I think it´s somehow linked to the traids... but i don´t know how. For some reason i was not able to do anything with one sim, even so i had him creat 5 children... i changed his traits away from a pick up guy and than i was able to have him marry a woman - that emediatly moved her in. (the new babys look extra ugly, like worms)

Now i am playing with a charcater that has no pro or contra romance/pickup traits but still i am not able to do much with her wen it comes to more than sexy, baby... no relationships, no moveing in no nothing...

[DoubleX]

'The Sims' return with more personality quirks

By DERRIK J. LANG – 17 hours ago

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Maybe it's neat, childish, lucky, ambitious and insane — just depends on what traits gamers choose for their neighborhood of virtual playthings in "The Sims 3," Electronic Arts and Maxis' popular life-simulating game for the PC and Mac.

Executive producer Ben Bell said it will focus more on social behavior than ever before.

"'The Sims 3' is a huge step forward for us," said Bell. "You can create incredibly detailed people who have real personalities that you get to design using a feature we call personality traits. By combining words, you can create a new kind of a person that has totally different desires in life and then you get to go fulfill their destiny in the game."

Unlike previous editions in the series, every character will live their lives simultaneously in the fictional town of Sunset Valley.

Bell said "The Sims 3," available June 3, will also feature a moviemaking tool and more options for players to customize their Sims' homes, furnishings and clothes. Gamers can even turn their Sims into kleptomaniacs.

"A Sim who has this trait is going to have wishes in life to steal things from other people," said Bell. "They also have the ability to sneak into a friend's house, walk into a room where nobody happens to be hanging out and maybe swipe something. One of the fun things I've seen people on the team do is build up a whole household of stolen things."

In perhaps a case of life imitating art, a pirated copy of "The Sims 3" has already been leaked on several file-sharing Web sites two weeks before the game's launch.

EA said the pirated version "is a buggy, pre-final" version of the game.

"It's not the full game. Half of the world — an entire second city — is missing," said spokeswoman Holly Rockwood in a statement.

Electronic Arts has announced it is publishing "The Sims 3" without restrictive anti-piracy software known as DRM, a form of copy protection that requires online authentication.

-- Google News

Thought that might interest a few people here, especially the bolded bits.

Edited May 23, 2009 by DoubleX

[SeanDMan]

...are you making an implication about the gaming core of EWB!?

[DoubleX]

...are you making an implication about the gaming core of EWB!?

You may infer what you like.