Ramblings

Well, all the Ning stuff today was cool, but I'll talk about that later, because OMGSIMS3WTF.

I know it's far off on the horizion, but work is already being done on Sims 3, which makes my soul cry. Anyone who's ever played an EA game, especially Sims knows that EA Games is the devil and their games are created with the sole purpose of stealing peoples souls. The games Sim City, Sims, Sims 2 and all the like are a marvelous feat of videogaming in that, there is no end. There's no final objective to be reached. There's no levelling up, no monsters to beat, no bosses to defeat. Literally, it can just go on and on forever. And I don't even want to think what Spore is going to be like.

But I'm not so sure about Sims 3. According to this article the sims are now going to be much more customizable (liking TV or not liking TV?), which is cool I guess, and more socially aware, which could have some funny results. I guess it's the fact that they're going to be more aware of thier own ambitions is what bothers me. Like, part of the point of the sims is that they need someone poking them around into doing things because they literally can't take care of themselves. They'll be dying of starvation, whine to you about it, and then go watch TV. Some of the fun of it comes from the fact that they're like nauty children: they'd rather play with toys than do homework, or write in their diary instead of studying to get more skill points. If they do that kind of thing on their own, what's the point? There's even less of a game if it plays itself like that.

I guess what I'm saying is that just because the AI can do these things on its own, doesn't mean it should.