How is the Sims 3?

For those of you who have played it, is it easy to pick up? Or does it feel complicated? Can someone tell me the bad points about the game because i've heard all of the good.

My wife is addicted to Sims, it seems to me the people who are really into it are those who design/build custom content. As a game by itself not sure if it has much leg to stand on. Just an observation though, not my type of game.

The biggest change is the open and continuous neighbourhoods. Otherwise, the basic mechanics are the same. And it's true the game is a framerate hog so you'll need a fairly powerful rig but that's the only real drawback to the game. Anybody who is a fan of The Sims should enjoy it.

I like the game, but it got flaws.

• Bugs
• Terrible ideas implemented in expansions
• Terrible ideas made worse through terrible implementation
• Expansion Pack Milkage
• Stuff Pack Milkate
• EA store milkate
• I dont know if it has been fixed, but the meteor was terribly implemented before. Basicly anytime you are outside there is a small chance that a meteor may land on your sim, your sim has several seconds to move out however, and really, unless you want the sim to die, he will not stand under the meteor, non controllable sims are smart enough to move out of the way as well. Anyway, here is a glaring flaw, which is most likely a bug. The meteors could go after your sim in a rabbit hole. This means that if your sim is at work that sim and all others in the workplace WILL die, there is nothing you can do about it. Same goes for school, if a meteor targets a child or teen at school, EVERYONE who is a child or teen in the neighbourhood will perish. Even if it hasnt been fixed, you can still avoid it by not installing Ambitions.
• The game punishes some lifestyles thanks to the omniscient community. Reputation and Celebrity status were bad ideas, to make matters worse, Reputation was included in a patch as opposed to an expansion.
• Expansions that add soo many bugs that some are just best left uninstalled.
• Generations is utterly pointless, its only redeeming feature was added in a free patch.

its a matter of taste, i like it when I want to take a break from shooters and other stressfall games.

As an owner of The Sims 2 and all its addons, I didnt find much appeal in 3, especially since most of the addons for it are the same as Sims 2....epic milkage.

they definatly try to milk their players.

obviously left out soo much content so you have to pay to get the full experience.

i still think its a good game, and my girlfriend loves it.

its most fun when you make an evil slob and a nice neat freak live togther.

it can be very funny at times.

I've heard unless you have a great computer, The Sims 2 is the way to go.

I've heard unless you have a great computer, The Sims 2 is the way to go.

CaptainAhab13

Yeah My computer is great and 2 years newer than the sims 3.

Sims 3 is the best Sims there is. It doesn't quite match the content of Sims 2 + all its expansions, but i dont think its reasonable to expect it to.

As for the system hog, its not in the traditional sense. But since it loads the entire neighborhood dynamically, the game is EXTREMELY hard drive dependant. A kick ass video card paired up with a crappy 5200 RPM hard drive will make the entire game limp around in choppy framerates. Putting this game on an SSD or a RAID setup will make the game butter smooth.