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Everything looks really authenticwell, except maybe Jerry's hairin IanRoach's The Sims 4 version of the cast of Seinfeld and their places.

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After five years, Electronic Arts has finally released a new Sims game but the reception hasnt been the best so far. Gamers and reviewers are extremely disappointed with the functionality and content of the game. But some go even farther claiming that The Sims 4 is a huge failure. But why exactly, whats so wrong about Maxis new game?

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The Sims 4 brings a whole lot of new improvements to the table and also removes a lot of what we believe made the Sims games. Every developer wants to improve on their previous games and make their game better while adopting new technology, features, and improvements to avoid making the same game, different name mistake.

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If youve played and liked the series before, youll probably like this, too -- if you can get past the changes Maxis has made. Even so, if youre expecting something groundbreaking...this isnt it.

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This week on the Paranerds Podcast: The Paranerds speak about Dark Escape 4D (arcade) House of the Dead 3 (Arcade), Metal Slug, Metal Slug 2, Castle of Illusions, Tales of Monkey Island, Resident Evil: Code Veronica, and The Wolf Among Us along with news (See below), new releases and deals of the week. The two then discuss the New Nintendo 3DS. NEWS Customise your 3DS or 2DS with new themes Total War ROME II Emperor Edition Minecraft on Xbox One Gets A Release Date Red Dead Redemption 2 Development Gearing Up? GTA VI- Vice City in 2015? Sony waiting for the right moment to reintroduce The Last Guardian P.T. Official Website Suggests that Silent Hills is a Long Way Away from Release Resident Evil: Revelations 2 Takes Place On A Much Larger Stage Than The First Game Mario Kart 8 DLC: Legend of Zelda and Animal Crossing content coming soon Capcom Offer Free Content for Resident Evil Remastered The Sims 4 pixellates pirate copies Deals of the Week Super Smash S...

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Some people treat The Sims like a god game. They create the homeliest and most emotionally troubled little computer people imaginable and trap them in rooms until their sims wet themselves, collapse in hunger, and ultimately die, presumably in a pile of their own feces. Those same people stand back and cackle with glee as they watch the world burn and their sim families burn with it, a destructive approach that recalls the alarming behavior of Toy Story's sociopathic neighbor boy, who enjoyed using rockets to blow apart his toys for his evil amusement. They're not here to simulate life--they're here to manipulate it, test it, destroy it, and create it anew.

I'm not one of these people. I don't play The Sims to exercise my own cruel tendencies (which isn't to say I don't sometime suffer from such tendencies), but rather to project myself into a digital world and playact events and stories that I may or may not have access to in my real life. I will probably never have a child of my own, and so The Sims allows me to experience the delights and travails of parenthood, though on a very shallow level, and always on my own terms; such is the value of video games, after all. The series is occasionally derided by those that see games as a form of escapism, and wonder how a game that makes emptying your bladder a key mechanic can be fun for anyone. But boiling down The Sims to this level omits the joys of everyday fantasies. Some games let you fulfill your fantasies of being a powerful soldier or an important space traveler; The Sims lets you fulfill your fantasies of punching your snotty next-door neighbor or becoming a virtuoso violinist.

Much has been made already of what is missing in this game in relation to previous games in the series. There are no swimming pools, or toddlers, or so-called rabbit holes like restaurants and grocery stores. There are no cars and no carpool, no bicycles and no schoolbuses; there is no create-a-style feature that lets you personalize clothing and carpets, and you cannot terraform the terrain. I'm deep into The Sims 4 at this stage and not ready to deliver a verdict just yet, but I can say that those missing features in turn lead to diluted storytelling. I'm not worked up over the fact that mechanics have been streamlined or removed; I am, however, worked up by how those losses inhibit the daily digital stories I used to be able to craft.

The greatest loss is that of the seamless neighborhood. In The Sims 3, I created a sim that developed a surreptitious relationship with a townie that lived far enough away that I would bike to his location, where we would play video games and canoodle, perhaps going so far as to woohoo (that is, to engage in carnal relations) before I biked back home, basking in the moonlit sky. The Sims 4 allows me to create the same story beats--the canoodling, the video-game playing--but those beats lack the connective tissue that made them special. There is no longer a bike ride during which to contemplate where this relationship might be going, just a loading screen that ends with my sim standing in a predetermined position, staring straight ahead.

And so it goes. I can eat meals with my wife, and I can serenade her on the guitar, but I can no longer take her out to eat at a fancy restaurant, and then make music for the locals on the sidewalk in front before heading home. My yard is so small that I don't have room for the starter telescope and all the plants that my green-thumb wife enjoys watering and harvesting, so I placed the telescope on a public lot, in front of the gym. The loss of a seamless and connected world means I am less likely to be spontaneous. I have to make a special trip to view the stars; I no longer happen to pass by it and stop to express my wonder of the Milky Way. My connection to work is essentially gone now; there is no mad dash to eat and bathe before the carpool leaves me behind. I just walk off the lot.

This isn't to say that there haven't been special moments, only that they lack transition, and thus sever the emotional connection I might otherside have developed. The manner in which sims multitask may be one of my favorite aspects of The Sims 4; my favorite laugh-out-loud moment thus far came when my child genius of a sim sat down on the toilet with her tablet and played games while pooping. Sadly, neither of her parents walked in on her, which might have caused all involved parties to be embarrassed, which opens up new communication possibilities and other actions, such as being able to talk to yourself in the mirror to calm down.

I also appreciate that the condensed scale allows the game to run flawlessly on the three PCs I have played it on. I have heard terrible tales of bugs that cause babies to contort in disastrous ways, but I have yet to create a baby--and actually, I have yet to do any woohooing at all, as I have learned that you could make a baby even when you're just woohooing for the fun of it. (Perhaps we can look forward to a downloadable contraception pack?) And I certainly can't deny the charm that pervades The Sims 4--the jaunty tunes, the silly nonsensical chatter between friends, the way my resident cook throws a tantrum when he cuts himself while chopping salad. Such superficial delights are forever appealing.

The volved delights, however, don't run as deeply as I would have hoped. Mind you, the basic are sound; The Sims 4 is a joy to interact with, and relationships take various quirky twists and turns as they develop. But these are stories I have already told, and the stories I most want to tell seem just out of reach.