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I see a lot of people saying it is elitist to ask for a next gen sims game that doesn& #39;t limit it& #39;s features for extremely date hardware. I want to make a thread about why I think people are misunderstanding the point.
Many people are misinterpreting this as us asking for mind boggling graphics and a massive open world. This isn& #39;t the case. What we are asking for is a game that can meet the level of technological advancement we have seen in past releases. Sims 4 is the first time they held back
It can be hard to imagine this, but there was a time when The Sims 1 gave people trouble. I remember playing the game on my Uncle& #39;s computer that he gifted me, and I had a choppy frame rate. The load times took upwards of 3 minutes to travel. It was a heavy game for some machines
So imagine what happened when The Sims 2 released. It wasn& #39;t even able to launch on the pc we had. I was upset, i was frustrated. I was also 5, so i had no money and there was no way my parents were going to buy a gaming pc for me. (we didnt even know they existed)
So for a year I owned the game without being able to even play it. Then, the Christmas of 2005(i think?) my parents got us ALL a new family computer. It was an emachine not at all made for gaming. I think it cost like $350. But it ran the sims 2 at minimum settings.
When i FINALLY got to play The Sims 2 i wasn& #39;t made that it didnt work on the old pc. The game was more amazing than I ever even thought possible. The graphics blew me away, there was so much new stuff to do. It never even crossed my mind.
Funnily enough, Christmas of 2009 i got The Sims 3 and the same thing happened. It would not run on the emachine. I was devastated bc at this point i was old enough to have seen videos of the game and I wanted to play SO badly.
I didn& #39;t get to play it until halfway thru 2010. My parents bought themselves a new computer, for $400. The idea was that WE would use the old one and my parents would have the new one as their own.
Of course, I begged them to let me see if I could run the sims 3 on it. And i could. Once again, I wasn& #39;t at all angry that they had to get a new pc to play it because I was blown away by how amazing it was. new graphics, an open world. Create a style. It was REVOLUTIONARY
The Sims 4 is the first time I didn& #39;t have to buy a new pc to play the next sims game. Up until LAST year i was gaming on a desktop no doubt optimized for office use. And it was already 5 years old when Sims 4 released. I should be happy i didnt have to buy a new pc right?
Well i wasn& #39;t. Because being able to run it didn& #39;t make up for the fact that it was devoid of any meaningful changes. It didn& #39;t feel revolutionary like The Sims 2 or 3. It felt samey, it felt safe. It took steps backwards.
My point is, if you cater to extremely dated hardware you can& #39;t have amazing jumps in quality like 2 or 3 did. Yes, it was lame that we had to get new computers. But we didn& #39;t EVER consider getting a gaming pc. We aren& #39;t asking people to do that.
All we are saying is you should get up to date hardware to play. The desktops i had before met the MINIMUM requirements, I had to have my settings down. But it was worth it because it allowed the game to evolve and not restrict itself.
The Sims 4 has to restrict itself and it& #39;s damaging the gameplay in a horrible way. We don& #39;t want to see that happen again. We aren& #39;t elitist, we don& #39;t hate poor people. I literally AM poor. But the customer HAS to evolve or the game can& #39;t.
Yes it sucks that you might have to spend 400 or more dollars to play new games. But thats the way it ALWAYS worked for the sims. That& #39;s why we got 3d graphics, and why we had an open world, and more complex ai. Because the customers were willing to meet the requirements.
