[Leahmic223]

Quote: Originally Posted by sleepytercel

I outright believe that people who were big fans of the N64 games and knew that the same team made the Def Jam series, that they were disappointed with the overall shallow gameplay and lack of defensive ability. I know of quite a few people. Also, I was speaking more on Simcity than Sims. EA just really tried to exploit the series (Sims) and they dubbed it down with a couple of off releases (like The Urbz), which was even more shallow. I don't see GTA being dubbed down, but I would forsee exploitation of the series.

Yeah I get what your saying now about the Sims with those silly spinoffs, but IMO as I still play the Sims 2 to this day the EPs and the game are still great to me. I love Maxis games besides all of the silly spinoffs like Urbz and Sims Stories and maybe Mysims as I haven't even played that one and don't plan to. I feel some of the EPs add a lot to the game and if they never made them I probably wouldn't care for the game any more.

I get what your saying about Urbz and stuff, but I think EA just wanted to try and get the Sims out there for Consoles and make a formula that tried to appeal to console gamers.

On AKI I loved the N64 games like No Mercy and Wrestlemania 2000, IMO though I don't think the lack of defense was a product of EA, I just feel that it was a development design and who they tried to develop it for.

On Simcity I still love that series, I know Will Wright though since I love verything he creates and I read a lot of his interviews and he always talks about making a game that appeals to a LARGE crowd. So I don't think it is EAs doing but Wright's as he wants to make games that appeals to everyone and games that last a long time.