The Sims 3
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Does anyone know when The Sims 3 is due out?? And what the minimum requirements will be??
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Any News will be published on www.thesims3.com (HERE)
LATE 2009 and you have already made up your mind thats forward planning....why would you not buy a game you obviously like because you have got the rest of the collection lol seems silly
I sm really looking forward to this as the level of control looks amazing, especially when you can have a wish that stops them form going to the loo. As i find the eating and toilet matters annoying part of the gameplay
I think it sounds pretty awesome actually. The self-contained neighbourhoods thing will save you a lot of time messing around waiting for the lots to load for one thing....:)
I suppose but I dont like the idea of a family aging whilst I am not there. I suppose it will be one of those games you don't make up your mind up about until release. I'm lucky that my load times are really quick but the sims 3 will have to be majorly spectacular to get me to part with my cash!
Same here, it's not like when we went from the Original to 2.
I've heard so much bad stuff about TS3 already, that I have already made up my mind, and I will NOT be buying it.
I suppose it gives me time to get a decent computer, or update mine so it can run the game nicely and for any problems with the game to be sorted out.
Also, I might be able to see what some of the expansion packs are like, depending on when they come out, and decide whether I want them or not..
Lol, so you make up your mind about a product before it is even released, that sounds fair!
There was plenty of negativity floating around about the Sims 2 before it was released, especially around the whole aging thing. Some people were really upset at the idea of their Sims dying of old age and so forth. Change scares people, basically....:D
I'd be willing to bet that you will change your mind at some point in the future once everyone else has moved on to the Sims 3...;)
I am sort of OK with the Sims2 on the lappy - but have missed out installing some packs (Uni, Bon Voyage and Pets)
I am concerned about the resources required for the Sims 3 - its all too vague at the moment
I think TS2 is one of the last games people are buying for the PC - people are moving towards lappys. Already Apartment Life for TS2 is not playable for most laptops .... will TS3 tech themselves out of the gaming world?
If you read up thread, it appears it will be playable on laptop. It's the way ahead anyway, as desk top pc's in the home environment are on their way to become obsolete now.
http://thesims2.ea.com/help/detail.php?help_id=401
I assume they mean the Geforce Go 6200 and greater? I have the laptop chip of the NVIDIA 8600 GT will that work?
.... which are quite often unplayable to those with lappys.
I have a 2 gHz lappy - but will not contemplate Apartment Life.
As for the link above - it does not work, but I'll see if I can find the specs.
Edit:
I will not be getting Sims 3 ..... as I suggested in a previous post, they are teching themselves out of the laptop gaming market by requiring such a high spec of PC (lappy)
OR WINDOWS VISTA
* Windows Vista (Service Pack 1)
* 2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
* 1.5 GB RAM
* At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content
* 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
For lappys specificallly - the spec is WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY too high
For computers using built-in graphics chipsets, the game requires at least:
* Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA X3000 or above.
* 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent
* 0.5 GB additional RAM
http://thesims3.ea.com/view/pages/newsItem.jsp?item=236875146
Edit (again):
My 2 gHz is a dual core - so it will probably run (and I have a total of 4 gig RAM) and my X3100 graphics card is supported - so I will probably be able to run the game, but most people won't.
A Dual Core lappy with around 2.0 ghz processor would have no difficulty running the sims 3, and since most half way decent new lappy's are Dual core i think you are dead wrong about your claim of them teching themselves out of the laptop market.
In fact from your post it's clear you ASSUMED you wouldn't be able to run it before the event and didn't even check the specs properly to begin with. It's a shame because your post is actually quite misleading as it is wrongly critical of the product to anyone who doesn't read your last sentence...;)