Attention casual gamers: The Sims Medieval is where it's at

[The_Harlequin_King]

Question:

I've heard it's more RPG like than the sims 3.  I love the Sims 3, and basically use it like paper dolls whose lives I can mess with.  Is RPG element needed, or can you focus on other aspects?

At the very least, it's quest-driven. You need to accept a quest from the main menu before you even enter into Live Mode. The other Sims games are way more freeform in comparison.

Then again, I'm a little sick of having to tell my sims to change their babies' diapers and make dinner.  And sitting here, watching them clean.  So I use the motherlode cheat to get money to hire servants.  Gosh, how I wish that worked in real life.  :p

Here, you only need to worry about food and sleep, and Sims seem to be able to do these automatically. I have a servant to cook for my monarch. I noticed there's breastfeeding in the game. Don't know if that was a feature in previous games, but I thought that would arouse some trad interest.

[OCLittleFlower]

Sounds kind of fun.

Are the quests fun or are they this sort of quest:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TwentyBearAsses

The later kind of quest is part of why I quit WOW.  That and long periods of riding on a horse or waiting for a bloody bird to take me where I needed to go.  And guild drama.  And grinding.  And...

Well mostly because I'm a casual gamer.  And because there are only 24 hours in a day and too many of them were gone to WOW.

[The_Harlequin_King]

I haven't run into inane fetch quests yet, but I haven't played  the game extensively enough to say they aren't there. There are some games I'll play until the crack of dawn or beyond, but this isn't one of them. I like it a lot, but I I couldn't play it obsessively.

As for World of Warcraft.... LOL. Well, don't judge all RPGs by that one. I'm mainly a hardcore RPG player, but WoW is, frankly, an awful game in my opinion. It's only good if you really must play with other people online. I stick with single player games, but I have friends come over to watch since many of these games are like watching epic movies.

[OCLittleFlower]

I don't mind a fetch quest or two.  I mind a fetch quest every two seconds.   ;D   

[Robert De Brus]

They need to make more religious simulation-type games.

I remember some game from back in the day where you got to play God.  It was called Black and White, I think.  Pretty cool.  Civilization was kind of fun like that too.  But I'd play for a little bit and then find some cheat codes.  Then I'd nuke every country but Ireland.  After that I'd get pretty bored.

It looks like Paradox's Crusader Kings 2 will have a heavy religious simulation portion to it.

[The_Harlequin_King]

It looks like Paradox's Crusader Kings 2 will have a heavy religious simulation portion to it

I was gonna say, actually, that war games set in the Middle Ages or Renaissance are generally the closest you'll get to "religious simulation". Medieval II: Total War and Europa Universalis III both involve meddling with the College of Cardinals, for example.

[Scythian]

oh cool! i want Captain Picard narrated it too! i put so many hours into Stronghold in middle school back in the day just building medieval towns and castles in the sandbox mode, this seems like something i would really enjoy

[Robert De Brus]

It looks like Paradox's Crusader Kings 2 will have a heavy religious simulation portion to it

I was gonna say, actually, that war games set in the Middle Ages or Renaissance are generally the closest you'll get to "religious simulation". Medieval II: Total War and Europa Universalis III both involve meddling with the College of Cardinals, for example.

Yes, although in EUIII my Cardinals never seem to live long.  Hilariously, one game I played the Papal States became Protestant.

[miss_fluffy]

Would you believe they don't have it at Best Buy 

That sucketh mucheth.  I wonder if it's sold out.

[The_Harlequin_King]

Would you believe they don't have it at Best Buy 

That sucketh mucheth.  I wonder if it's sold out.

I can believe it. PC games are currently a very small share of the game industry in general. I'm actually more surprised your Best Buy had a PC game section at all. Many Best Buys's, Wal-Mart's, and even Gamestop's around here just forget about PC, or have extremely limited selections. Your best bet would be ordering online.