The Sims 2: First Screensots

[Adagio]

Great pictures....





Damn Osweld... I wanted to "quote" that picture

[vovan]

Hehe, funny stuff. Any way, some more from gamespot...

[vovan]

Quite an... impressive... acrobatic stunt... Somehow I think he won't make it into the net.

[vovan]

Isn't he a little ... old?

I noted before and I want to say again: it looks like this Sims 2 deal is much more ... how should I say... love-oriented? We see lots of kissing, hugging and uh... this. Not that I mind, but I think it won't do this game any good.

EDIT: Oh wait, are they just dancing? Didn't see the way they held hands before...

[vovan]

Sigh... That's the problem I have with 3D games... They still can't make round things round...

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by vovan
Isn't he a little ... old?

I noted before and I want to say again: it looks like this Sims 2 deal is much more ... how should I say... love-oriented? We see lots of kissing, hugging and uh... this. Not that I mind, but I think it won't do this game any good.

Sex sells. Wether it's a bigger part or not, that's what is going to be in half the promo screen shots.

[vovan]

Originally posted by Osweld
Sex sells. Wether it's a bigger part or not, that's what is going to be in half the promo screen shots.

That sucks. Next thing you'll see sex in like Tetri... oh wait.

I don't know. I thought the game had such a wide appeal because it didn't have sex and violence in it. Of course that's also the reason that people who normally play games found it boring. From what I see in the promotion screens, they are aiming back towards the niche, hard-core players. That will inevitably hurt sales, I think.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by vovan
From what I see in the promotion screens, they are aiming back towards the niche, hard-core players. That will inevitably hurt sales, I think.

They're aiming it towards teenagers and the sexualy deprived, which is what their customer base has always been, I think.

[vovan]

Originally posted by Osweld
They're aiming it towards teenagers and the sexualy deprived, which is what their customer base has always been, I think.

Well, I don't agree with that. That is, indeed, the customer base for most games. But The Sims owed its huge success exactly to the fact that the customer base for it was different. The teenagers and the sexually deprived found it boring. It appealed to a wholly different audience. A much broader audience, might I add, which is exactly why it was the biggest-selling game ever. Which is also why I've been trying to say that it is a mistake for them to revert back to the "regular" gamers and risk loosing their big fan-base.

[Skanky Burns]

The game revolves around character interaction, so the new advertisements emphasize character interaction, particularly that which has improved since the original Sims. These advertisement probably will appeal to the majority of their original fan-base.

[MattH]

I wonder how fast the pixelation will be cracked

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by MattH
I wonder how fast the pixelation will be cracked

They know who they're making the game for. It'll probably be as simple as deleting a certain file.

[vovan]

Originally posted by Osweld
They know who they're making the game for. It'll probably be as simple as deleting a certain file.

I can just see it now:

Replace the file "pixel_mask.tga" with a 1x1 pixel transparent graphic.

[Adagio]

And of course this is written in the readme.txt file

[Skanky Burns]

And the cd includes a sample 1x1 pixel transparent graphic for "demonstration purposes only".