Oh certainly. I have sighted friends who do not particularly care for the free roaming idea of the sims games.
Maxis, makers of the sims, has actually recognized that and made each progressive sims base game, sims, sims 2, and sims 3, more and more goal oriented, to the point that sims 3 is not really about the random events but about making them achieve goals. It is so goal based, that many critics say that you can only play one family out of a community, as opposed to several families, as in the original sims and sims 2. n the original sims, nobody grew. If you started out as a child, you were always a child, going to school, doing homework. If you were an adult, you could get a job and go do fun stuff. That's it. There weren't any elders, no teens, only adults and kids. Sims 2 expanded the number of ages presents, babies, toddlers, kids, teens, young adults, adults, and elders. People grew up, and there was only a limited time per age, meaning that you had to complete certain goals within the time alotted. I haven't actually had experience with sims 3 yet, but in it, time moves as long as the game is loaded, as opposed to time moving for each individual house when it's loaded, meaning that you can only realistically worry about one family, and you have to let the other families run via a.i., which is surprisingly complex. They have also released other sims games, not sims city, that are extremely goal oriented. Sims castaway is just one example, in which your sim gets trapped on a desserted island. You help them survive, while still experiencing, theoretically, the sims style of kind of goofy fun. The reason I bring things like this up is that there are wide ranges in the amount of goal direction you can expect from sims style games. Something like castaway would work very well for any developer or developers looking to expand the genre. Anyway, just my dollar and two cents. Signed: Dakotah Rickard On 3/22/10, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi. > > I don't hate the sims because of lack of playing. I've had friends who've > played it, and who gave me opinions, ---- I just genuinely do not personally > see the appeall myself. Even given the complexity, it seems there is no goal > in mind, no overall thing to explore or targit to reach, just a lot of > factors to constantly play with and random events to decide about. > > However many factors this involves,---- and I do very much understand that > it involves very many, far more than in alter ego or anything similar, I > just find the idea not to be appealing myself, sinse for me, gaming is > always about some form of exploration of some sort. Even in Toc, I find I > enjoy the exploration and initial attacking phase of the game most. > > As I said though, this might just be me and my preference (I have plenty of > sighted friends who are not particularly fans of the sims either, ---- > indeed my brother bought it and lost interest fairly rapidly). > > It is true that probably to get something with as many complex factors as > the sims games have would require far more resources than are available to > most independent developers anyway, ---- ut perhaps if someone was > interested they could start on a smaller scale and work up, ---- sinse > creating some of those systems might be possible. > > Personally as I said, it's not really something which interests me too > much, ---- but this is preference. I'd certainly try that style of game if > it was developed (I'll try anything), but it's not really among the > graffical games I've been longer to play. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
