The cows in here are small. The cows outside are far away.
|
|
|
EA pre-announces the Sims 3
EA IS ANNOUNCING the pre-announcement of the announcement of the Sims 3, coming in 2009. Maybe. You do know how these things go.
In any case, they promise you can create a new Sim (this is new?) and inflict an open, living neighbourhood on it, or possibly the other way around. They will also have new personalities. Be still by beating avatar heart.
If that isn't enough, how is this for a draw, "Now, The Sims 3 is being designed to be the next-generation flagship game from The Sims Label."? If that isn't enough, they promise you can customize anything in the game and fine tune anything about Sim.
Call me crazy, but I doubt they will follow through on this one. The first person who creates a one-eyed, peg-legged priest with toilet paper dangling from one shoe with a shirt that says 'I lurve children', along with a handful of lollipops will end that trend shortly enough.
Whatever happens, several things are assured. First, the Sims 3 will sell 73 billion copies in a week, and half that every week for the next four years. Second, it won't run quite right on Intel integrated graphics, but the next driver revision will fix it, really. Third, it will be heralded as the greatest thing in gaming for years, but make anyone who self identifies as a gamer suicidal in under 37 minutes of gameplay.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. µ
Share this:
Share
EA needs to stop making crappy games thats what!!! The screwed need for speed, which used to be one of the most fun arcade racers around, now its just like any other generic racer trying to copy everything from checkmybadactingfurious!! Not to mention all these carbon copy yearly/barely updated games. I really hope that the smaller dev can survive but it looks like every one will soon be bought up by a big name publisher eventually. EA SUCKS!!
How many gamers committed suicide during the software testing before you came up with the statistic of "suicidal in under 37 minutes"? Do the gamers get a rebate if they survive the first 37 minutes of playing the game? Mark Twain quoting Leonard H. Courtney, "There are three kinds of lies - Lies, damned lies, and statistics."

AT adds: I think that's 'Lies, damned lies and benchmarks'.
What is it with Intel and graphics? First, the G915 that according to Microsoft, turns the Vista machine into a $2,199 email machine. Next the G965 magic "vertex shader driver" that would revolutionize integrated gaming? And of course that also "supports DX10" any day now for the last 18 months? The entire industry is confident that Intel can deliver Laterbee to compete with Nvidia and ATI. Right.....
Yup, besides hating and always slamming the Mac (OS X Unix) platform the inquirer now hates EA games. Funny, because EA games is almost a complete monopoly like Microsoft.
EA games does have hard support for the OS X platform, so Freak off inquirer!
You are a bunch of Microsoft sluts and Linux can kiss my ass because I tried to install it on a new x38 motherboard with a 8800 GTS 512 card and it will not go on and XP will not either! Vista has control but I don't care because Vista is for my DX10 games and I will run any old stuff under boot-camp with XP on a MiniMac.
Long Live OS X