What is the deal with Sims 3?


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I haven't heard anything about this game for weeks! It is set to release in little over a month and a half there is no buzz at all. I find it kind of a nice change because instead of something getting over hyped (thus more disappointment), this has a fair shot.

What's the buzz?

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they are not that high http://thesims3.ea.com/view/pages/newsItem...?item=236875146

FOR WINDOWS XP

	* Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
	* 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
	* 1 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 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

I'm really looking forward to this game, I'm a big fan!

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they are not that high http://thesims3.ea.com/view/pages/newsItem...?item=236875146

FOR WINDOWS XP

	* Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
	* 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
	* 1 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 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

I'm really looking forward to this game, I'm a big fan!

There much higher than the specs for The Sims 2.

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Thanks Hani those are really low! Obviously they want to get as many people playing as possible so the specs. are kept pretty low but jeez. :p Does the latest Intel Integrated graphics come with pixel shader 2.0?

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Those are minimum specs, I'll bet recomended are quite a bit beefier, but typical of the franchise still failry mainstream.

I really want to see what they have everything looking like when its turned up to the max. It won't be a Crysis, that's for sure, but the Sims has always had a bunch of things going on screen at once.

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I really want to see what they have everything looking like when its turned up to the max. It won't be a Crysis, that's for sure, but the Sims has always had a bunch of things going on screen at once.

You like The Sims? :p

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Those are some hard stats :p Isn't the sims target audience people who don't have great spec laptops etc tho ?

Dude, nothing is "hard" at those requirements. I personally don't know anyone that still using a single core CPU processor bellow 2.4ghz, got less than 2gb of ram (the standard these days) and got bellow 128mb of vram. Oh, and the huge hard disk drives are damn cheap these days. I doubt a lot of people don't have 7GB of free space.

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I guess this means no support for Mac OS X Leopard yet... I was really hoping too. No specs for it, just Windows. Anyway, maybe they might surprise us Mac users. What am I saying, I have seen the videos that show their computers and stuff and I still see Windows XP, they don't even use Windows Vista yet. I wish the team would take advantage of Windows Vista, obviously the game is going to have some bad graphics because they didn't feel like using DirectX 10 or something. They need to start taking advantage of the platforms's possibilities and working with them, like building a program for building the Sims but designing it to use OpenGL or DirectX 10 or 9, and making it work across the platforms but still take advantage of the technologies. So a program made to work on Mac OS X Leopard would use OpenGL and technologies related to that on the Mac OS X platform, and on Windows Vista, it would use DirectX 10 if it was there or just use 9, and on Windows XP it would use DirectX 9, and then the program would be able to port to all the other platforms, and depending on your platform, it might be beautiful graphics or if it is Windows XP, maybe ****ty graphics or beautiful but slow graphics.

I have a thing with taking advantage of the technology you can, and when people use Windows XP to make something for XP and Vista, I obviously don't think its going to take advantage of all of Vista's great features. Yahoo Messenger 9 vs. Yahoo Messenger for Vista is my example.

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Wow... once again the sims graphics look like ****

Why can't they at least make better graphics for people with more high end computers?

Don't get me wrong sims is not a bad game, gameplay is very well done

but the look of it compared to most games now is ancient! 2.4ghz P4?? What is this the year 2004???

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