Go to toilet, 2% chance to hit
I like those odds.
Argue with boss, 92% chance to hit
Go to bed, 98% chance not to die in your sleep… Grim reaper appears on your first night
More like 100% chance to hit the bowl. Still miss.
Me at the bar
Better than 99%
99% chance to hit in xcom means you’ll accidentaely fill up the bathtub without a single drop hiting the actual toilet.
The more competition Sims has, the better. Maybe EA will actually try and innovate… HAHA. I’ve been keeping an eye on Paralives and Life By You, and there are a couple others coming as well, I think. It’ll be a good time to be a life sim fan in the next couple years.
For anybody thinking this new game will be anything like XCOM prepare for disappointment.
Jake has previously said that he is leaving turn-based tactics games behind.
And his tweet announcing Midsummer even says “it’s going to seem very different from what I’ve done before.”
edit: There is some good news for turn-based tactics fans. Another studio founded by former XCOM devs is focusing on turn-based games.
The Sims but you churn through characters like popcorn.
so just the sims…
Do… Do you churn popcorn?
“What! It was 95%!”
Wow, it’s like you think Sims are supposed to live long, happy lifespans. Considering the most popular Sims mods all have to do with murdering Sims, that suggests that most players already churn through Sims like popcorn.
I wish you managed a dynasty of people sort of like CK, but with more emphasis on life rather than war.
Too Many Cooks!
Uhhhhhhhhh
So… yeah I don’t know what to make of this.
Sims franchise has a dedicated fanbase but they keep getting screwed by these insanely priced DLCs. I think people are hoping for a City Skylines scenario where another studio tackles the genre and adds mod/quality of life support.
Well let’s hope it’s not a Cities Skylines scenario because the second game is a complete shit show.
And even the first one has many issues.
Cmon man… Sure it had issues, but acting like Cities Skylines didn’t completely revolutionise city builders is insane.
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It also feels like the Sim logic hasn’t really changed in a while. They still do things like go upstairs to the bathroom to wash dishes
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Before founding Midsummer, the two worked on XCOM, Civilization: Beyond Earth, and Marvel’s Midnight Suns.
Today, the new studio has announced its first game: a next-gen life sim game with former The Sims director Grant Rodiek leading the project as executive producer.
According to the studio’s press release, this debut project “emphasizes player-driven narratives, allowing communities to share memorable moments that grow out of the creativity of players themselves.” The project doesn’t currently have a title or release date.
This new game will face stiff competition in the life-sim genre, which has been dominated by big-budget games like The Sims 4 and smaller, indie outfits like Stardew Valley.
Midsummer’s developers wrote that they want to give players the tools to tell their own stories, reminiscent of the popular trend of players using avatars created in The Sims and similar games to act out soap opera-style stories that are recorded and uploaded to social media.
Meanwhile, EA is already working on its next iteration of The Sims, a free-to-play title dubbed “Project Rene,” and former Sims and Second Life developer Rod Humble set up a new studio to launch the life-sim Life by You, which is due out on June 4th.
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The Sim X: Terror from the derp. Yeah no Jake, we want a successor to X-COM Apocalypse if you don’t mind.
my only concern is that Midnight Suns was riddled with bugs and very high hardware demand, but the xcom 1+2 engine would work great with a Sims game, hell I’ll take a Sims Tactics at this point
Did it have that many bugs? The only bug I got was the whole no ancestral armor at the uhhh greenhouse area.
Which, to be fair, was really really annoying! Damn I want the last armor!
Weird change of direction but I’m okay with it, plenty of indie devs are picking up the slack for turned based games.
Striking while the iron is present.
I don’t really see how this would compete with Stardew Valley, honestly, sounds more like the initial Sims comparison is more apt. Stardew and Sims are pretty different games
Look forward to it, worst comes to worst, two new options for the sims, with this and paralives is two chances to not fail like sims 3 and 4 did. And I don’t mean fail in a financial sense, I’m sure they made money. But failed in a “worth playing” sense.
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How long before studio bought and shut down unnecessarily?
