The Sims: Medieval

[Metro]

And here I thought this Skyway guy was supposed to hate everything.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Ever heard of The Guild?

Yeah. Good premisis which was buried beneath a ton of shit.

But it's european, indy, doesn't have a large fanbase and appears to have been polished with cow shit... therefore it's gotta be good right?

 

[BearBomber]

Hey this game has C&C and stats that affect gameplay. Move it to the RPG board!

 

[Drakron]

Oh, and there's actually a purpose to the Silent Hunter games in going after other submarines.

No, there is not.

The purpose of a WW II sub simulation is following orders and U-Boat orders were sink merchant ships, other targets had far less priority (attacking warships was risky due to escorts and they fact they could just outrun the sub, sub combat was rare as they were not really made for it and there was no strategic advantage for any side to do it).

You don't just sit there and tool around the ocean.

That is how it was done, go to grid and patrol and try to sink ships ... its not as if in actual war they would fire someone because NOT ENOUGH TONNAGE WAS SUNK! as that was out of the captain control (especially with early torpedoes).

Unless they changed it as the last time I played was the original over a decade ago.

Oh yes, they did ... there are bullshit "objectives" for the Career mode for the "dynamic" campaign as if one U-Boat could change the course of the war, they also made more dumbass moves as a attempt to gain casuals, as if they would bother with a simulation game.

There is more ... much more, on the other hand you can walk around in the sub in FPS mode and start patrols inside the subpens, besides the graphic upgrade.

If you're going to make an attempt at a pseudo witty dismissive remark try not to make such poor analogies and at least let it be logically consistent.

That is because you are a ignorant.

TS3 had many changes, one was "opportunities" that pretty much standard "MMO Quests", they keep adding then in the following expansions.

Why?

Because casuals like goals since they are fucking stupid and unable to grasp the concept of a goaless game, you cannot win at The Sims as the game have no actual Goal for anyone to Win.

That is what many simulations do, Silent Hunter games had no goal besides survive to see the end of the war as its the same if you sink 50 merchants ships over the War or none, it does not matter as long you follow orders.

 

[Cassidy]

Crusader Kings: Casual Edition for Consoles (TM)

 

[Metro]

That is because you are a ignorant.

Irony.

TS3 had many changes, one was "opportunities" that pretty much standard "MMO Quests", they keep adding then in the following expansions.

Why?

Because casuals like goals since they are fucking stupid and unable to grasp the concept of a goaless game, you cannot win at The Sims as the game have no actual Goal for anyone to Win.

I fail to see how adding goals to The Sims changes the fact it offered offered little challenge or any mild strategy in any of its incarnations. In fact I can't for the life of me understand why you're holding the Sims up as a paragon of the simulation genre. Sim City had no goals and yet it was a far superior simulation game than The Sims.

 

[Drakron]

Were I said The Sims was the superior simulation? Well it is on the type of simulation it does because outside The Singles I dont think there is anything like it.

Comparing SimCity with The Sims is like comparing Railroad Tycoon with Theme Hospital.

If you cannot see how adding goals to a goaless game changes the essence of the game them you are incapable of thinking, this is not the first time they pulled this before as they did it with the TS2 with their "Stories" segment ... a complete goal oriented game that ends when you complete the scenarios.

 

[Zdzisiu]

Skyway, should I play the vanilla The Guild 2 first or should I just play the Pirates Addon as it is standalone?

I'm asking if the Addon just adds stuff to the vanilla so you have all the fun of vanilla plus new things or is it something other?

 

[MetalCraze]

Play Pirates. They contain original G2 content as far as I remember (At least I definitely remember playing on vanilla maps too)

New stuff in addon compared to vanilla are mostly maps with seas and a pirate guild.

 

[Phelot]

Yeah the goals in TS3 are kind of retarded and the game really does abandon any kind of semblance of a challenge and just goes gung ho into allowing the player to make whatever perv or faggot metro sexual weirdo they want with no hindrance.

IS that a bad thing? I don't know. I don't know how fun it would be if the bills were more realistic, if your part time job as a cashier didn't really earn you fucking $30 an hour, if you had a mortgage, etc etc.

In the end, it was more funny then fun and it lasted me maybe a few days or so before it got old. Glad I didn't pay for it.

 

[1eyedking]

What The Sims needs is more hardcore stuff. You create your character in the beginning with a stat-allocation based system, and those stats last you a lifetime and can't be changed (and get passed on genetically). Your job performance depends directly upon these stats, and maybe some skills and education you acquire throughout playing (which in turn depend on your stats).

That way you could have people condemned to being rednecks generation after generation without hope of getting out of the circle unless they put their preteen daughters up as bitches for the morally depraved aristocratic members of a fascist society to inseminate through rape.

Now that would be a game I would play. "The Nazims", hell yeah.

 

[JarlFrank]

Sims really needs more consequences for shit you do, and more shit to do anyways. Fuck a chick, then dump her, breaking her heart and making her spend all her money for a hitman to kill you. Also she gets depressed, loses her job, and because she doesn't have any money left ends up as a hobo.
Then you get attacked by the hitman while you sleep but he triggers the alarm when entering your house, so you take your rifle and have a shootout.

Now that would be pure fucking win.

 

[Drakron]

That is impossible, TS2 had a memory system were events were recorded but TS3 does not have one.

 

[chzr]

well 'sims' themselves p. much represent EA fans. you can also play a jew:

in s2 expansion where you can make ur own business, i made a building next to my house and put there few card tables and guess what - all possible neighbours came to play fucking cards, costing me nothing and giving me $$$. of course, then i added 30$ entrance fee and they were still coming every night lol.

 

[Ruprekt]

This sounds like it'll be what Fable was supposed to be.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

FUCK FUCK FUCK

Just when I thought I was rid of the addiction for good.

 

[hanssolo]

am suprised how many sim faggots are on the codex.

 

[Zed]

am suprised how many sim faggots are on the codex.

Suck my Sims-faggot dick!

The game is now obtainable from your local games provider! I am totally downloading the shit out of it.

 

[Trash]

Really. Does this have a strategic aspects, bubonic plague, rebellious peasants and stuff or is it just 'larp' a disneyworld medieval fantasy life?

 

[CrimsonAngel]

am suprised how many sim faggots are on the codex.

What you have a problem with me playing god.

 

[Commissar Draco]

Really. Does this have a strategic aspects, bubonic plague, rebellious peasants and stuff or is it just 'larp' a disneyworld medieval fantasy life?

What you expect from EA Trah? Only game which looked close to Medival and not Disnayland was Witcher. So no whorewhouses, sodomite priests and raubritters for you.

 

[CrimsonAngel]

Really. Does this have a strategic aspects, bubonic plague, rebellious peasants and stuff or is it just 'larp' a disneyworld medieval fantasy life?

What you expect from EA Trah? Only game which looked close to Medival and not Disnayland was Witcher. So no whorewhouses, sodomite priests and raubritters for you.

You have never played the Sims have you.

It is nothing, but whores houses and sodomite priests.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Installing this at the moment. From the little bit I've read about it it sounds like a better RPG than DA2.
Also,

 

[XenomorphII]

Will you do an LP, or at least come back and post some impressions? I find myself increasingly interested in this.

 

[Metro]

I'll admit it... it interested me somewhat... Although basically there is no persistent world/improvement to it. You just play a game that consists of a few chapters and get a score at the end. Depends on how long said games are and whether or not the 'quests' are interesting. I'm guessing it's same-old-same-old Sims junk, though.

Edit: Funny as I was looking for an early let's play on youtube the first three pages of results were for cracks/key gens.

 

[MetalCraze]

I'm interested in knowing how much worse is this game compared to Guild 2 which is Sims done right game without all that eat-piss-shit bullshit and with a gameplay instead?