Poor Paralives Devs

[SirKappy, First of His Name]

The people making Paralives have spent years crafting and perfecting their competitor to The Sims, and then out of nowhere this game shows up and beats them to the punch.

Though to be fair, I do like the way the Paralives characters look more than the characters in this game. It's a little more cartoony but it's a style that stands out.

[Xautos]

引用自 Whiplash：

Paralives can beat them out by not being woke trash. The first video on the store page showed me I want nothing to do with this game.

There is no telling if Paralives will too have the same thing going for it. i mean there is a fair chance it will because i don't think the developers would want to be seen as the odd one out
to lack any empathy for others.

[Mojohosavich]

Para what? lol

[WhiteKnight]

引用自 Mojohosavich：

Para what? lol

It's a game made by a solo developer.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1118520/Paralives/

https://www.paralives.com/development

[Tiberius]

I dont really have much faith on paralives after they showed the free placement of objects. Its gon be a nightmare to develop an ai and animation that can interact with those objects.

[Octavus]

It's about time we get more life sim games. I'm tired of the cringe-fest the Sims 4 has become.

[spielerinchen]

引用自 WhiteKnight：

引用自 Mojohosavich：

Para what? lol

It's a game made by a solo developer.

it's not a solo dev, it's a small team.

it was already hard enough to make games like Banished, Minecraft or Stardew Valley as a solo dev, but a life simulation is multiple times more complex & difficult to make than any RPG, city builder, settlement manager, sandbox builder.

[IcedCoffee]

To be honest, I have higher hopes for LBY than Paralives as a life simulation game. So far, it seems like Paralives' development has been focused primarily on build/buy and not so much on actual simulation. The way they are implementing build/buy, I'm concerned how they plan on implementing certain things like routing.

I feel like LBY will have better simulation whereas Paralives may have better build/buy. But of course, there is no knowing until they are both released.

[Meadow]

I hope LBY will excel in its buy/build mode too, because - besides some things I would love to see for immersion - that part actually has my ONLY interest. In the past I played The Sims solely for that mode too (and now I play House Flipper for that, since I really do not like how TS4 looks and I want (an option for a) first person mode; the big question for me is whether LBY will have such a mode).

[Haruspex]

引用自 IcedCoffee：

To be honest, I have higher hopes for LBY than Paralives as a life simulation game. So far, it seems like Paralives' development has been focused primarily on build/buy and not so much on actual simulation. The way they are implementing build/buy, I'm concerned how they plan on implementing certain things like routing.

I feel like LBY will have better simulation whereas Paralives may have better build/buy. But of course, there is no knowing until they are both released.

Yeah, for me gameplay/simulation is king. Build/buy is secondary, and graphics are a distant third. What I'm really excited about though is the open modding capability. I didn't expect that, and my hype went from "Yay! Sims competition!" all the way up to, "ZOMG! This game is revolutionary!"

[REVERIE]

I wouldn't worry. Alex Masse and the entire team has their own dedicated fan base for their own game. Most sims enthusiasts would guarantee to buy both products because why wouldn't they? The only concern for it, can these two games prove their customer's expectations? Would they pleased their own market or they only care about their own shareholders?

[JCA]

1) More The Sims competition is good for all. 2) They are at tech business: if you are not quick to create a competitive product you are out of business. 3) The race isn't over. Non of the 2 games went out yet so everything could happen.

[Mysticalmaid]

The more Life Simulators the merrier, it's good for the player base, I believe all 3 of them will have something to offer that is different from the others and I look forward to trying them all.

[EagleHunter]

引用自 Tiberius：

I dont really have much faith on paralives after they showed the free placement of objects. Its gon be a nightmare to develop an ai and animation that can interact with those objects.

Their annual income return are very high will that help? I posted a thread on paralive they will have most things that Life for you will have at a smaller scale.

[peep]

I think Paralives is suppose to be small scale. More intimate experience. Life By You seems to be wanting to be even bigger than The Sims. They're different games for different people.

[EagleHunter]

引用自 이동혁：

I think Paralives is suppose to be small scale. More intimate experience. Life By You seems to be wanting to be even bigger than The Sims. They're different games for different people.

That is what i been posting in my thread they are going bigger but how did you notice that? Their gameplay does not show they are going bigger just open world it could be small open world.

However going bigger is not official yet. I do know their whole reason for starting this game but i think the public need to hear it from them. They have not really explain it like they did with cities skyline. Why did the CEO leave EA to make this game? What did he wanted in the sim 4 that was not there?

Like with Paralives we know its small scale cause the dev have said it and have said what they want for the game.

But we need to hear from Life for you on are they going big and features included in it.

Dont look down on small scale they got such great features you be playing paralives too features you been wanting in the sim 4 but never got cause of the backlog of expensive kits and tiny kits just to enjoy the game.

Yes Paralive is small but dont its annual income is massive its not going to be a small game it will be bigger then the sim 4 in terms of quality features. You just name a feature you been looking for in the sim 4 and i can tell you whether they are thinking about it or it will be in the game?

Then there is Sim 5 which promises mutiplayer where you can join your friends and invite them so that is going to be big thing too. And Life for you need to be in this game right away!