Paralives - Has anyone heard of it?

[F a c t M a c h i n e]

I came across this game when I was looking for Sims 4 mods. It looks really promising. My only fear is that it becomes yandere sim 2.0

It's still in early stages of development but everything that the creator has put out looks amazing. So I thought it'd be interesting to have a thread on here about the updates and stuff.

 

[Ningen]

I don't really like simulation vidya that much because I have a social life of my own, but damn, I really hope that someone comes and fucks EA's monopoly.
I want this project to suceed to destroy EA's Sims Monopoly, EA really expects their costumers to spend 200 bucks just to have one game that is playable for more than 10 hours before it gets repetitive and tiresome.
The Sims Saga peaked with Sims 2, Sims 3 is still pretty entertaining but it's bug ridden and very unstable. I didn't even bother to play the Sims 4 because looks like shit and has a lot less content.

Cities Skylines is way way better than Simcity 2013, which was a failure and a scam that jumped over the "life services" bandwagon and isn't even fun to play to this day, I really hope an independent game company comes and steals the costumers from the Sims Saga just like Parajew Games fucked the Simcity monopoly.

 

[smallmilk]

Ever since I heard EA wants Sims 5 to be online I pray to God this thing succeeds. Sims are a part of my childhood and it's really sad to see how empty and soulless Sims 4 is compared to Sims 2.

 

[F a c t M a c h i n e]

He's promising a shit ton in the base game. Cars, pets, seasons, and house boats. The same shit EA would charge $20 each in expansions and stuff packs for. It's a lot at once, I'm worried Alex (the developer) is taking on too much. Some people genuinely expect the game to come out in 2020. I feel kinda bad for him

 

[gata]

With the amount of shilling/praises this game gets for only a small amount of gameplay footage and very ambitious promises (for an indie dev) I have a bad feeling that there's a chance it'll turn into a YanSim or vaporware or no man's sky.
I hope I'll be proven wrong in the future though, because fuck EA.

 

[Ningen]

He's promising a shit ton in the base game. Cars, pets, seasons, and house boats. The same shit EA would charge $20 each in expansions and stuff packs for. It's a lot at once, I'm worried Alex (the developer) is taking on too much. Some people genuinely expect the game to come out in 2020. I feel kinda bad for him

The fact that the developer is named Alex is extremely troublesome

 

[F a c t M a c h i n e]

New video went up on twitter on the color wheel.

 

[F a c t M a c h i n e]

Double posting-

But Pixelade put a new video up about Alex's tweets

People are asking too much of him. There's only three people on the team right now, people don't understand how hard it is to make a game.

 

[Win98SE]

Smart move to publish all the customization/house design stuff since it attracted a big audience, but it's not a good sign that I can't find any information on the simulation aspects. It sounds like an afterthought. For a game like this, good, interesting AI will make or break it. What is there to show now? A color wheel? Moving some objects around? Changing the texture on a set of headphones? None of that is "fun" - it's stuff you spice up an already fun game with.

Right now this smells of feature creep and a dev way in over his head. His portfolio is in mobile development, and although it's clear he can make games, he needs someone with excellent design skills and a vision for the game to keep him in line. It seems his "vision" is just whatever people suggest - "will there be variable grass height?" "Of course!" "What about snow of different depths?" "Yup!" This is the kind of stuff that happens when you put a programmer in charge of making something, and the end result is a game full of cool programmer shit, but nothing of value.

Pretty much all of these large-scoped indie games follow the same trend: Show off one or two well-done features, then tack on a bunch of stuff still in the works that also sounds really impressive, but isn't shown for whatever reason. This is no different - nice UI and home design stuff, but tons of promised features that aren't present in any of the posted media.

 

[Likerseld]

UPDATE: Now that the developers have shown off a brief glimpse of what's to become, how would you think about it?

Also now the team has expanded the size to 4, and 2 eventually 'çause of the people breaking the Patreon strech goals like a karate man.

 

[A Pox]

Art style of faces looks like garbage. The nose blends into the face until they zoom in and even then the accent line moves around depending on the angle. It looks weird in motion.

 

[Teadrinkr]

I hope the characters are a lot more polished when it's done, as said above, the faces are weird. The hair textures are a little muddy to me too. Doesn't suit the artstyle of the house imo.

That and any constructive criticism of the game on YT (see comments of reveal video) is met with 12 year olds reeing about "IT'S EARLY DEVELOPMENT MEANIE!!!1!" just like with Yandere sim. This Alex doesn't seem lulzy so I'll just wait and see.

I am planning to get this game if everything goes smoothly with it so I can't wait.

 

[SnowBall]

There is something really off about the art style in this game. It looks like a bad attempt at taking TS4’s art style and making it too realistic. The cartoony nature of the Sims series in general is what makes the games appealing. Even the first Sims game has lively and more expressive character models. Here everything looks lifeless including the environment. Hopefully now that more people are on board and it is a very early build the graphics will get polished up.

 

[D.Va]

Bumping because there was a Happening in that the 3D artist they had on probation was fired. She did a very intelligent thing and complained about professionalism with a twitter bitchfit







http://archive.md/U7Izt

 

[Lackadaisy]

Bumping because there was a Happening in that the 3D artist they had on probation was fired. She did a very intelligent thing and complained about professionalism with a twitter bitchfit

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I bet you she's a troon. There's not a woman alive under 50 who's actual name is Roxanne.

 

[D.Va]

I bet you she's a troon. There's not a woman alive under 50 who's actual name is Roxanne.

you know, I was suspecting the same thing since I couldn't find any voice samples and it's rare for women to chimp out like this.

lifted from Morin's LinkedIn. thoughts?

 

[Safir]

I bet you she's a troon. There's not a woman alive under 50 who's actual name is Roxanne.

There are actually quite a few women named "Roxane Morin" or "Roxanne Morin", all of them seem to be francophones.

It'd be easier to say if the twatter or tumblr were still there. Twatter is gone or renamed (it had "paralives" in the name), Tumblr (https://crispsandkerosene.tumblr.com/) is privated. It has pronouns in bio and commie sperging. Uses "pussy" as an insult (woke women don't do that), emphasizes "her" height ("a lil 5'5 girl", allegedly). Plus "she" made a shooting range for The Sims. I'm thinking troon.

 

[Brain Power]

There are actually quite a few women named "Roxane Morin" or "Roxanne Morin", all of them seem to be francophones.

It'd be easier to say if the twatter or tumblr were still there. Twatter is gone or renamed (it had "paralives" in the name), Tumblr (https://crispsandkerosene.tumblr.com/) is privated. It has pronouns in bio and commie sperging. Uses "pussy" as an insult (woke women don't do that), emphasizes "her" height ("a lil 5'5 girl", allegedly). Plus "she" made a shooting range for The Sims. I'm thinking troon.

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THAT crispsandkerosene? Damn, I have some of her CC in my game. But I'm not surprised, the Sim community is full of lolcow-ish people and troons (mostly TIFs, from what I've seen).

 

[Allen]

I think they're trying to do the building aspect first and then the simulation

 

[TVStactic]

it was doomed from the start.

i don't think it'll become yanderedev cycle nor enter development hell, it's just going to be dragged on and on and on because of troon drama.