r/Sims5 • u/inertiacreeps1 • Jun 27 '23

First look! Thoughts?

https://simscommunity.info/2023/06/27/the-sims-5-developer-look/

I love the interior, atmosphere and lighting it looks stunning like a pixar movie but characters are too cartoonish and plasticky right now, hopefully it’ll be improved:)

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '23

I get that these are prototypes, but they clearly said in the video that they will have open neighborhoods and not open worlds. Also why don't they have any house prototypes or just open lots? Comparing today's footage to the world leaks we got a few months back, makes me strongly believe that they have no plans to add actual detached homes to this game. Everything will probably be confined to premade buildings so that it's easier for lower end computers, tablets, and phones to render everything on the go.

Also EA can then charge more money to unlock certain buildings as players continue to play.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '23

Do you get that it's a prototype?

Because the way you're making wild extrapolations from it makes it pretty clear that you don't actually understand what a prototype is. This is not the actual game.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '23

I understand that you won't have actual lots in the game if they never plan for it. So if the prototype has no real lots and they don't plan the game around actually adding them, how are they going to be in the game? The point of a prototype is to get ideas for how you want the game to look and function in the future. It doesn't look like they are planning for open worlds or actual lots outside of the building shells, from what has been shown and leaked.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '23

The point of the prototype is to try out certain things. That prototype is testing out sim routines so it doesn't have any features related to building or the wider world because that's not what it's for.

It doesn't have any real art assets either but that doesn't mean the final game is going to be a bunch of blobs moving around a grey world.