Comment on EA reportedly shelves Need For Speed completely to focus on other projects

tonytins@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think the saddest part was observing a clear wind down of Sims 4 then last second “lol JK we’re not releasing another sims game” and the entire player base seemed to release a collective sigh that some of the structural problems that have plugged TS4 are here to stay

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  • Naz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Project Remora or whatever the hell Sims 5 was supposed to be was suffering from significant takeoff, vision, conceptual and design issues.

    Every day, five or six designers would argue about if a feature was inclusive enough, a gesture was offensive, a Simlish term or phrase was close enough to a real life slur. If a neighborhood had enough representation or diversity.

    What they learned was that reality is actually quite cruel and biased and creating their perfect garden hedge-maze of a game removed the essence and life out of it. Sims 5 did not reflect the reality that players actually experienced or had day-to-day, and it was entirely the designer’s fault.

    They had created the very thing they despised, a cookie-cutter suburbian barbie doll house. With multiplayer, ripe for trolling.

    So yeah, I’m not surprised Sims 5 was cancelled.

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    • other_cat@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      …What? Where in the world did you pull that from?

      what?

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Do you have a source for any of that rage bait so we can laugh at it?

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      • Naz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s difficult to find, Project Rene is over two years old now, this is some early test demo footage:

        youtu.be/IKn3mskT5yM

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