Life by You aka Paradox Interactive is making their own version of the Sims

[universetwisters]

 

On one hand it looks pretty sh*t but, on the other hand, Cities Skylines looks phenomenal with mods and this is supposed to be just as moddable and in-depth as that. I'm genuinely looking forward to it, especially since it has the Rod Humble (the guy who led some of the Sims 2 and 3 games) leading the development. Regardless, this is gonna be one thing I'll be actively following until it finally comes out!!!!!!

[Jason]

The main issue, so far, is the visuals and the performance. Everything else is promising and there's some good ideas being brought to the genre with it, but the actual visuals are just not good enough.

[universetwisters]

4 hours ago, Jason said:

but the actual visuals are just not good enough.

I feel like Skylines had the same issue where everything looked very corporate friendly and generic and clean cut. Granted there’s mods out there that make things look much nicer (even if I’d call it sh*tty if I were looking at it irl) but idk I guess you can make the argument that a good game doesn’t need mods to look good which is a fair one I suppose 

 

But when you compare that to how Skyline looks normally, it’s like comparing night and day. If there’s this level of grunge and realistic grit in LIFE BY YOU, either officially or with mods, I’ll lock myself in my house playing it until the neighbors call the police because they smell rotting meat next door and they bust open the door to find that I’m completely decomposed and liquified, having neglected such basic needs like going to work or feeding myself to keep glued to what could possibly be the greatest game of all time (or worst flop but time will tell)

[Jason]

Skylines, and this, just don't have good art design, which is something The Sims and SimCity have always had, even the last SimCity looked great it was just littered with issues (especially the map size).

 

Mods do carry a lot of the weight with Skylines but it is still a good game despite it's shortcomings. A big issue with this though is the character design is just... not good, and given the characters are the key part of the game, that's a big oof. Hopefully things improve, mods improve them, or whatever.