http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/blogs/360522-kelborn/ The home of Electronic Arts Community en Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:42:57 GMT vBulletin 60 http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/images/ea_images_main/misc/rss.jpg http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/blogs/360522-kelborn/ http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/blogs/360522-kelborn/241-sims-3-massive-let-down.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:29:21 GMT When the Sims 2 was first announced back when I still had trouble growing a moustache and my voice wavered tentatively between alto and baritone. I... When the Sims 2 was first announced back when I still had trouble growing a moustache and my voice wavered tentatively between alto and baritone. I was very excited about the change, it was so revolutionary.

Let's see why:

1. Complete 3D graphics. Which frankly, still look superb all these years later.

2. DNA, life stages, old age, death. Life stages, transition from one age to another.

3. Aspirations, fear, career opportunities, wants. Personality types.

4. Something I've surely forgotten.

Now the Sims 3 has been announced, I don't see anything too revolutionary. It seems like a step sideways instead of the massive leap forward that The sims 2 was. Maybe I'm more cynical in my old age and expected much more. But I'm not feeling the same vibe.

Basically, as it is. I have no plans to buy the Sims 3. There's nothing I can't do in the sims 2 except the persistent neighbourhood. Which frankly, isn't worth spending 200 euros on another 8 expansion packs.

Basically nlm EA. ]]> Kelborn http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/blogs/360522-kelborn/241-sims-3-massive-let-down.html http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/blogs/360522-kelborn/184-pc-gaming-dead-long-live-pc-gaming.html Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:01:33 GMT I've been reading a lot lately of the death of PC Gaming, the dirty assassin Piracy has crept up behind the king and stabbed him in the painful bits.

Honestly, it's complete rubbish. The problem is that the retail stores are seeing their PC Games sales drop because people are using services like EA Link or Steam to download their games. These sales figures are not included in the Retail figures so the statistics are skewed. Making the PC market look about as strong as the Sega Dreamcast market!

Anyway, I've always been a PC gamer, except when I had my Sega Mega Drive. (I was only 6!) and although I see the advantages of both, I also see all the platforms heading in a direction that I like. The downloadable content and games direction.

Also, while I'm on here, I'd like to ask you all the rhetorical question of why I have to pay 50 euros for a game on EA link when the American Link users get it for just 50 dollars.

Worse off are the British users who have to pay in pounds. ]]> Kelborn http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/blogs/360522-kelborn/184-pc-gaming-dead-long-live-pc-gaming.html http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/blogs/360522-kelborn/180-release-date-speculation-pointless-futile.html Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:53:30 GMT I think the sims will be released on April 11th 2009 I have no evidence to back it up, I may have read something that led me to believe it, I may... I think the sims will be released on April 11th 2009

I have no evidence to back it up, I may have read something that led me to believe it, I may have checked my horoscope and believe that Is Laurus or Trabdo is in the ascendent or some such trollop signifies that said date is the correct one.

Do you know how much it matters? Not one bit and I find the whole thing all rather tiresome. The game will be released when the production cycle is over and the game has gone Gold, then it will be produced, put on DVDs and shipped out all over the World where you will buy it.

Maybe on April the 11th. Probably not.

So please old chaps and ladies, stop with the speculation, it's just wasting your time and ours.

I understand, it makes you feel better to believe that the game is less time away than the other release date that you saw.

I used to spend days wishing away my hours and days and weeks until the release date of a game. (like September 17th 2004 for the Sims 2, that was a long summer).

Heed my advice young people, your lives are worth more than a release date, enjoy your hours, enjoy your minutes and enjoy your seconds. Because you'll never get them back. ]]> Kelborn http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/blogs/360522-kelborn/180-release-date-speculation-pointless-futile.html http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/blogs/360522-kelborn/174-sims-3.html Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:14:41 GMT I have come to the conclusion that the average sims fan is a girl of between 14-17 years of age. They play lots of families and don't like ugly sims. They would never play online because they're far too protective and like complete control over the events in the neighbour hood and they don't want any more violence or sex in future sim installments.

All of this added together means I will never see my optimum sims game, because I'm pretty much the opposite. That said, I'll probably enjoy the sims 3 because any game that allows me the freedom of playing "my american dream" is going to get my 30 quid. ]]> Kelborn http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/blogs/360522-kelborn/174-sims-3.html http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/blogs/360522-kelborn/171-blogs-so-much-fun-they-make-my-eyes-bleed.html Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:44:32 GMT I was perusing the sims earlier and life in general. I don't know why, it just seems that doing something a bit philosophical would give my blog an air of importance that philosophy does tend to lend to things that are as banal as blogs are.


Now I've decided I can't even be bothered to say anything, because none of you are even going to read it. So this is me, signing out, off on another mission over Italy. ]]> Kelborn http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/blogs/360522-kelborn/171-blogs-so-much-fun-they-make-my-eyes-bleed.html