Hopefully EA will step up their game when they have actual competition. Paralives looks so good already and it's not even in alpha. I mean - I'd buy it if it was just a building simulator. I can't wait to see how the development goes on. So excited for this game!
exactly. EA has got away with a lot of stuff purely just because it doesn't have any real competition. it's about time they had something that's going to make them step up their game
I do hope that Paralives does do well outside of the whole "EA needs competition" crowd (I'm in that crowd), but I am excited for EA to finally have some competition. I mean it's sounding like it, since we now have bunk beds and raised rooms, but I don't know how long that's been in development for.
I feel like Paralives as already had an impact on features we now have in the Sims 4. The Split level tool looks quite similar to Paralives. Also being able to moves door and windows independent from the grid was added after it was known Paralives would have this feature. They have gotten more adventurous with exploring new build mode features, which before they simply stamped as not doable. They might have gotten away with this excuse before but Paralives is showing that it is doable.
I agree, I do expect that EA should step up their game. The Sims is part of our childhood, and I wouldn't want it to be such a disappointment in the future.
Competition is healthy for business, I think it hurt the Sims that there was no real competitor for all these years. It's kind of ridiculous if you think about it, with all the variety we have in the world, that there's only one life simulation game around.
i don't like the idea of using paralives as a way for us to force ea to do better - it's not fair on paralives! ea should already be striving to be better with the extensive amount of resources they have on hand (not to mention the amount of negative feedback they get fairly regularly). time after time again, it seems like they simply choose not to because they'll make their money regardless. paralives looks like a good game, and i think we should focus on it as its own entity rather than solely comparing it to the sims 4 as a way to stick it to ea if that makes sense!
I 100% agree! It’s hard not to compare the games because there really isn’t any sims competition out there, but I like to try to see Paralives as a unique game as best I can.
Unfortunately, it's either this or we go to every single one of EA's cash cows or Whales and make them stop paying for everything and hit them where it hurts. The bank account. I admit I have spent an exorbant and shameful amount on their content if only because I've been a fan of Sims for so long but I've been trying to curb my addiction and pirate as much as possible.
@@TheBlackAntagonist I own almost all the sims 3 packs and every single sims 4 pack besides a couple unmentionables because I have an unhealthy obsession with sims content. I can honestly say though, even if paralives is so incredible and arguably better than the sims, I’ll still play the sims because of how much it’s held a special place in my heart. And that’s exactly why I’m trying to see them as 2 entirely different games so I don’t feel as though I have to directly compare them and decide between them, if that makes sense.
I honestly hate the comments that start with “I hope EA steps up their game/tries to improve when they finally see they have competition when Paralives comes out”
If I wanted to try to be fair to EA, I would say that the Paralives team has the benefit of learning from the mistakes that EA made on launch. But then I'd also have to talk about how EA had their own previous games in the series to learn what their fans liked and didn't like and how they squandered that knowledge, so I don't know if it's the kind of "fair" EA would want to see.
@@sleepythemis Well u dont need to be genius to just know u need to sell the actuall game to somebody. Ppl are buying stuff which they like. No like=No buy, simple as that. Eventually buying and complaining, cus no other brand new alternative, and too cool and fancy to play just old-good Sims 3/Sims 2- This kind of ppl i cant understand. if something is bad im not using this. Ea could just listen to the fanbase since Sims 1 and 2 were huge success, even 3 were still quite ok, but most complains were about stability of the product & progressing monetization ;). What they did? Released totally bugged Sims 4 and shortly after started producing even more micro-pacs and stuff which u can hardly call DLC. EA logic.
This game is that kind of game that you can't wait for but at the same time you wish they take time so it will be a great finished game instead of... A lot of packs and mini packs for years. I will totally wait for this and give them my money on release date. EA had such potential with Sims 4 and it wasn't what I wished for. I still play Sims 3 because it has so much gameplay that I never discovered.
@@katandromeda17 Oh wow! I had no clue, but I'm super glad! I played and bought the Sims and their expansions my whole life, but I'm excited to switch over to Paralives!
I remember "playing" SketchUp when I was about 12 in my sister's computer because she didn't have any games lol. Obviously everything looked bad and for some reason I included Miku and Pikachu models in every build
My sister is currently pursuing in Architecture and one of her complaints about The Sims is that, unlike professional Architect tools like SketchUp, it doesn’t have a “real” measurement system for more precision building. Thus, she and I are very excited about how powerful the building tools are going to be in Paralives 😁
I studied architecture several years ago, and I always wonder, why did professional architecture software did not have same feature as The Sims have. I want to just pull the wall and make the room bigger, but I have to delete the old wall and make a new one and then move all my furniture one by one.
Another professional designer here, I've often thought using pro software as a basis makes a lot of sense for these games. It just needs to be slightly less powerful and it looks like these guys maybe have a good balance? I also agree with @Дар'я... pulling walls in pro software would be so nice sometimes for small adjustments! 😂
I was thinking about this with the chairs at the table - you can freely rotate and place them at whatever angle, but how to the parafolk sit in them? Do they pull them straight towards the table to eat or do the chairs always remain at that angle? Edit: Whoops just realized James said the exact same thing later on in the video.
they're experimenting with that currently and they hope they could get Paras to adapt to situations like that. it's called procedural animation and it could fix problems like different height Paras interacting physically and interacting with objects of different heights.
In the beggining of the video, the top left corner said "walls - half walls - separator". I'm guessing the separator is the tool used to separate the floors into rooms without using a wall (as shown in the kitchen)
This will be so helpful to people that love trying to re create house blue prints or me who wants to see how I can change my own home and have a closer scale unlike in the sims 🤣👍
Yes oh my gosh. Love doing blueprint builds but I go a little crazy when Sims sizes don't work---and especially the walls not being able to sit on a half tile. I think it would also be very cool if Paralives made it so you could change a wall's thickness, so that columms and cabin and castle walls for example could be the correct thickness.
This. I tend to remake houses from anime I watch, and it's always so annoying not being able to change or add certain details because of all the restrictions in The Sims 4.
Finally!!! I've been waiting for you to talk about Paralives since 2019!! When I saw the building video earlier today, I thought of you immediately. 😄😄
It is a bit sad this game is constantly compared to the sims. It should be it’s own thing but everyone is so dissapointed in the sims the expectations are for it to be like the sims but better. Proves there’s so much want for a simulation game and sims has been the only real thing out there for way too long. No real competitor ruined the game.
Is not so much compared to the sims as it is compared to the current standard in the market, which is the sims as it is the only on the market. It is unavoidable, new products are to be compared to the standard in any market, it just happens that it is entering a market that until now has only had one real player.
@@kaedeshirakawa1979 i don't doubt it, but from what ive seen (both in little development bits they've shown and responses to players) i'm not that worried honestly. the things we want to see are clearly a high priority to them, and thats already shone through in the build mode and paramaker, so it stands to reason that the same will be true of gameplay, even if it takes longer
I think this so far is a cool building/decorator simulation, but that is the easy part really (in as far as any part of game development is easy) getting the “live mode” part to integrate flawlessly will be their biggest challenge, I really do hope they make a great game, but I also hope people don’t kill the potential success by hyping it up way too much.
This is my exact concern and I feel like a lot of people don’t see it due to their disillusionment from The Sims 4 due to EA’s really negligence of the game. I think this game looks charming but it still has a lot to go and I hate how much pressure the small team is getting. I also think the comparisons are really unfair.
@@grim_56 It shouldn't be that complicated, for detection you can just do it by radius and for animating it you can just plug in procedural animation and you have that. Not saying it is easy, but it is far from non feasible or extremely hard.
I saw this video yesterday and I am SO excited! I love the fact you can drag your walls as much or as little as you want, so you can create nooks and alcoves, it shows real world measurements, you can curve walls, drag their height and drag the floor. Edit: There is snapping, I read about it on the April 2021 update notes. And apparently you can edit text on items, too!
Cool to see your reactions, totally agree on the curiosity/concerns on how it’s all gonna work out with gameplay and snapping and all that, but I hope they make it great, and I’m sure listening to helpful feedback will help too
What I want to know are the limits of a Parafolk's interaction with the objects? Since everything seems to have a "move objects" style of placement but on steroids there has to be a point where a Para cannot use them, correct? It's a great feature for the freedom it brings but that is a worry I have. Perhaps they're already working on it, but an indicator (if possible) would be cool to have. I can imagine that the square or the outline of the square goes red telling the player that Paras can't properly interact with the object but that doesn't necessarily mean you can't place it anyway.
Anna one of the programmers shared a public post on the paralives patreon about generic animation. if seems kind of complicated but it looks like they know what they're doing
I think you can see items snapping on to a grid pretty often in this video, I wouldn't worry about that too much! Looks like there will be a grid if you want to use it, but you can place everything freely too, kind of reminds me of the roads in SimCity
It has already been confirmed that grid placement will be in the game. They are just showing in this video that everything can also be freely placed for anyone who does not want the grid.
I'm really looking forward to seeing the gameplay. The build mode looks AWESOME, I just hope that the gameplay won't be lacking because of all the work they have to put into all these build features. But it's very exciting to see something that was originally started by one person become such a big project 😁 at worst, a little competition could light a fire under the Sims' asses 😂
Personally I like his content but I dont really watch his reviews of packs espiecally trailers as in my expierence hes usually like oh yeah! Thats so cool and doesn't question how good it will be or anything. But this by indie developers? Every little thing was nitpicked, the even have a disclaimer at the beginning. He didn't even think to check if they posted any further info on their twitter. Maybe I'm too sinnacle but I just wanted him to let the team show what they had and how cool it was without him pulling apart nearly every aspect. Give these guys a chance yunno, he didn't watch tell the end before he decided it didn't have a roof! Sorry I went off on a tangent
@@thejazzy6012 same, it’s fun to watch the building or some let’s plays but I can’t watch reviews or reactions of game changers anymore except Grimcookies. They just blindly support everything EA puts out when they have a 7 year track record of not great content. It’s not totally their faults, it’s a whole cycle. But so far Paralives looks like they’ve been extremely thoughtful in what they’re creating and since they rely so much on Patreon they have to make sure it’s good. EA knows they don’t have to do shit and will make millions lol
@@thejazzy6012 These are rightful concerns though. And I think it's good that the team hears these concerns to further improve their game early on. Yes, customization is nice, but players like me would also like a grid to snap to, making it easier and faster. Will "paras" interact properly or will gameplay glitch and lag? Will there be a gallery or rooms to easily plop down items? Some criticism is valid, and besides, I'd rather James be honest than fake a positive reaction. not to mention it's not that often that we see such a small team to do this kind of programming, so of course people will be doubtful/hesitant.
@@yayag.8990 but if he bothered to check out their twitter you'd know that quite a few of his concerns have been delat with. There is a grid snap thingy in. Most youtubers when they do a review check out their posts on twitter just like when he does a trailer review he checks what the sims confirmed on their website. Don't get me wrong I was happy with his review I just felt he was down on it a bit at certain places (when he was told it was a work in progress) and just compared it to the sims 3/4 of the time instead of seeing it as its own game
Can't wait to render my uni projects on Paralives! Build mode is shaping up really nice, though I'm a bit worried about pathfinding and stuff like that, but hopefully not long from now we will see more gameplay. The Sims needs competition so bad!
Wow, I can see a lot of potential if modding is incorporated easily into this! I could even see it being used as a design tool for stuff in the future.
They've said that there will be steam workshop support to allow modding which is great because it means they'll be building it into the game from the start so it will be well integrated as opposed to adding it on later which in other games can make it a bit clunky.
In the top left of the 'build mode' when the walls are being put down, there appears to be a tool called separator. I wonder if that's how they separated the kitchen from the rest of the room.
I've loved seeing the progress this game has gone through. And my fav thing is still the picture frame in how we can customize it and adding our own pictures too. What wasn't shown in the newest video tho is how we can add steps on a curved floor/platform, whichever Alex wants to call it. This game will be amazing, as it is already blowing our minds. The table lamp where you can change it into a floor lamp within seconds, is also amazing.
Yep! I’ve spoken about Paralives on streams before, it looks really good. Was just waiting for some big juicy content before talking about it on the channel :)
I can't wait to play Paralives and see other games doing amazing creations in this game. The customisation already in pre-alpha stage is amazing! I don't have much expectations, but I love it already!
They've already released the answer for how they're gonna handle stuff like unaligned chairs, seats with cushions on them, counters and tables at differnet heights, etc. The game is going to be built with procedural animations in mind. So depending on the height of a seat, the game will run a super quick AI the adjust the base animation slightly so the parafolk wont clip in with the seat. This allows them to have height sliders for the parafolk, aswell as far, far smoother animations overall.
Apparently there is grid placement options. Also they said in a youtuber’s livestream yesterday that the music will be copyright free for RUclips videos. I agreee that it’ll be interesting to see how the parafolk interact with all the objects. There is a clip of one sitting on a kitchen counter I think
This game looks SO good. Just like you, I'm really interested to see how the gameplay is going to work with the free placing of objects and all that. It just looks like so much fun and so creative and intuitive to play.
@@TheKD108 so does paralives, its just not being sold yet because it's still being developed, since they're actually listening to the people who want to play their game and aren't just tossing out cheaply made money grabs. There is room for more than one life simulation game on the market.
@@TheKD108 games, especially indie games, take a long time to make and perfect. i mean deltarune has been in development for a few years and is nowhere near being finished yet. similarly, undertale took multiple years to complete. and look how successful that game became.
Every time I watch this Paralives video, I'm seeing something I hadn't noticed before. I know it'll be a while before this is released, but man I can't wait!
I was also wondering about the gameplay/animations when seeing how certain things were placed. but I'm honestly super hyped for this game, i've been following it since the beginning. It's so exciting to watch the team grow! not just game developers, but other people who love the sims and simulation style games. they're not just paying attention to what people of the sims community want - they ARE the sims community that wants these things actively themselves. I think that makes a difference in the end result, so I'm stoked.
I've been obsessed with paralives for forever now. I am too very curious how animations/gameplay works, I know they're using a certain kind of animation that will kind snap to it's environment - can't remember what it's called but you don't have to sit and animate every single thing exactly because the model can tell when it need to hunch etc. This is just my basic understanding. Also just wanna be a bit of a Debbie downer here and fellow reminder: as much as I want paralives to give competition vto the Sims (and so do all of maxis predecessors) if sims drops enough, EA will let it did like sims city 2014 and many others. EA just does this. I don't have much faith in the Sims seeing as sims 5 will likely be on console first or perhaps online only (their CEO Andrew Wilson said this). But as a flagship series, perhaps they actually will give a damn for 2 seconds and remember who lines their pockets.
When Paralives uploaded a video showing the platforms, it was before Sims 4 dished it out. (As far as I recall.) Because I remember that, after that vid drop, suddenly sims threw the platform out. Same thing with the bunk beds. Paralives uploaded a video, Sims suddenly pushed it out. So that's a lot of tea to drink.
This game would be SUPER awesome for interior designers to come up with a 3D model of something they're building- or for writers who just cannot find anything else that perfectly does it!
I really love the way off-the-grid placement seems to work, the way items are randomly aligned, but I will say when we haven't yet seen a single video involving Para's moving around and doing animations at length, I really don't trust this is the sort of thing you'll be able to do and have it be functional. Like I love the item scaling-- I really think it's a brilliant idea for a life sim to have less objects but just make them more adjustable-- but again, it'll entirely depend on how these customizations will function for the actual paras. I know they have big ideas about these things working, but I'm a little antsy to actually see it in action. Personally, seeing build/buy gameplay isn't interesting to me until they've shown me the limitations or lack thereof in actual gameplay with those items.
LETS GO JAMES FINALLY I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR AGES FOR THIS. God I'm so excited for this game! It's everything I've wanted, especially as a builder and storyteller in the Sims! Looking forward to spending all my money here :)
Its not built in the clunky resource hungry way the sims team build sims 4. The entire framework for how objects work is just totally different & utilises techniques which have been available in architectural design programs for decades. The sims handles things in a very peculiar way compared to other games out there too, making it way more resource hungry than it needs to be.
@@MiloKuroshiro I've been a patron of theirs for awhile and it's still early days but because of customizable furniture and different heights of parafolk they're designing an animation system that individually reacts to the thing they're interacting with, whether that be a different animation like hopping up on a chair instead of sitting down normally or just organically snapping to the points they need to actually connect to. Even the early iteration looked very decent for pre alpha so I have faith even if it's not a simple process. I don't remember if that was secret tho I think one of their devs shared that on their Twitter.
I think and hope that the developer from Paralives will give more attention to what the people want from the game than EA does Of course, many things are probably not easy to make, but I think they would be the type of team that keeps people updated on problems they face too
I am so excited for this. I've been following Paralives for about a year and a half now and I really can't wait for this game to be released. I am so in love with the aesthetic! ❤😭 Thank you for doing this video.
I know that we all want our things to snap perfectly to the center but it brings to mind something I learned in 3D modeling, imperfection is the digital perfection. Meaning nothing irl is actually 100% perfectly alligned or exact.
5:42 good guess! they show, in another video that you can put your own image on picture frame AND pillow! And you can make bunkbed and sectionnal couchs IN the BASE game!! ho! I fogot, you can also edit the lot!!
It's so exciting to see you react to the Paralives video. The build mode already looks so good for not even being done yet. I hope that their team continues to take their time polishing the gameplay because I feel that EA needs some healthy competition so they start listening more to the Sims community. I will definitely be playing this when it comes out!
I love what I am seeing at the moment - yes, they are taking a very long time to create all this, but they are working on all the little bugs now, and if this is a sample of just the base game, comparing to what we got for Sims 4 base game, then this wins hands down - this game is worth keeping a close eye on for further developments - thanks for sharing
I am only at 3:26 and I am full of equal parts wonder, excitement and pure unadulterated rage. I have spent nearly a thousand dollars on the sims 4 content over the years, I have supported them, vouched for them; Ive given them the benefit of the doubt for years now. Seeing this much possibility in the first 3 minutes of alpha gameplay footage, with features and functions that we have been begging for, paying out the rear for, and being ignored for years about is basic in this game... I am at a loss for words, other than excellent work to this dev team. I can not wait to see where this goes. I may never buy another EA title.....
honestly im just happy The Sims have some competition so they can finally push themselves to do better either in development or make it more affordable to attract people to the game. So far the sims is wayyyyyyy too expensive with little depth although i do love them :( Excited to see what Paralives will be like once it is released
Coming back to this a year later. I can't wait until paralives comes out. I am sick of EA taking advantage of the sims community and giving us unfinished and glitchy products. Especially after the disaster of the latest update and high school years pack
I have some pretty high hopes that paralives plays as good as it looks right now! I'm wondering if the little decorative things like the pillows would be able to be interacted with? Like, they pick up the pillow on the lounge and hug it or whatever, just to get it out of the way when sitting. I also have no idea how much work would go into something like that as a feature though
They show the build with a roof at the end, but I want to know what fresh hell that would have been to roof😅. If it was the sims, it would have been impossible.
My ocd with the fact some stuff ISNT placed perfectly definitely bothers me but the fact that you can do SO MUCH with a single item is facsinating. I can’t wait for more updates on this.
I think they were showing off how you can place stuff freely so exaggerated the placements on purpose. Like things not being lined up "properly" can bug me too, but in our bedroom, my boyfriend and I have our bedside tables different amounts away from the bed (partially space constraints, partially I need mine closer so I can easily reach my glasses when I wake up as I'm basically blind without them) and its never bothered me in real life that they aren't even.
@@AlexaFaie true! Good point, it is impressive. I can’t wait for paralives to be complete and i can play it. I love building in TS4 but i would prefer more freedom like this. PLUS imagine new items? they wouldn’t have to release multiple designs of everything because you can adjust it. Amazing.
Hopefully EA will step up their game when they have actual competition. Paralives looks so good already and it's not even in alpha. I mean - I'd buy it if it was just a building simulator. I can't wait to see how the development goes on. So excited for this game!
exactly. EA has got away with a lot of stuff purely just because it doesn't have any real competition. it's about time they had something that's going to make them step up their game
I do hope that Paralives does do well outside of the whole "EA needs competition" crowd (I'm in that crowd), but I am excited for EA to finally have some competition. I mean it's sounding like it, since we now have bunk beds and raised rooms, but I don't know how long that's been in development for.
I feel like Paralives as already had an impact on features we now have in the Sims 4. The Split level tool looks quite similar to Paralives. Also being able to moves door and windows independent from the grid was added after it was known Paralives would have this feature. They have gotten more adventurous with exploring new build mode features, which before they simply stamped as not doable. They might have gotten away with this excuse before but Paralives is showing that it is doable.
I agree, I do expect that EA should step up their game. The Sims is part of our childhood, and I wouldn't want it to be such a disappointment in the future.
Competition is healthy for business, I think it hurt the Sims that there was no real competitor for all these years. It's kind of ridiculous if you think about it, with all the variety we have in the world, that there's only one life simulation game around.
I believe the Paralives team said you wont get copyright claimed for the music in the game, which is great. The game is shaping up to look really good
That's also because they hired their own musician!
i don't like the idea of using paralives as a way for us to force ea to do better - it's not fair on paralives! ea should already be striving to be better with the extensive amount of resources they have on hand (not to mention the amount of negative feedback they get fairly regularly). time after time again, it seems like they simply choose not to because they'll make their money regardless. paralives looks like a good game, and i think we should focus on it as its own entity rather than solely comparing it to the sims 4 as a way to stick it to ea if that makes sense!
I 100% agree! It’s hard not to compare the games because there really isn’t any sims competition out there, but I like to try to see Paralives as a unique game as best I can.
Unfortunately, it's either this or we go to every single one of EA's cash cows or Whales and make them stop paying for everything and hit them where it hurts. The bank account. I admit I have spent an exorbant and shameful amount on their content if only because I've been a fan of Sims for so long but I've been trying to curb my addiction and pirate as much as possible.
@@TheBlackAntagonist I own almost all the sims 3 packs and every single sims 4 pack besides a couple unmentionables because I have an unhealthy obsession with sims content. I can honestly say though, even if paralives is so incredible and arguably better than the sims, I’ll still play the sims because of how much it’s held a special place in my heart. And that’s exactly why I’m trying to see them as 2 entirely different games so I don’t feel as though I have to directly compare them and decide between them, if that makes sense.
Thank YOU!
I honestly hate the comments that start with “I hope EA steps up their game/tries to improve when they finally see they have competition when Paralives comes out”
Still in early alpha, yet has more features than The Sims 4 did in 2014.
...has more features than sims 4 in 2021 🤣
If I wanted to try to be fair to EA, I would say that the Paralives team has the benefit of learning from the mistakes that EA made on launch.
But then I'd also have to talk about how EA had their own previous games in the series to learn what their fans liked and didn't like and how they squandered that knowledge, so I don't know if it's the kind of "fair" EA would want to see.
@@sleepythemis Well u dont need to be genius to just know u need to sell the actuall game to somebody. Ppl are buying stuff which they like. No like=No buy, simple as that. Eventually buying and complaining, cus no other brand new alternative, and too cool and fancy to play just old-good Sims 3/Sims 2- This kind of ppl i cant understand. if something is bad im not using this.
Ea could just listen to the fanbase since Sims 1 and 2 were huge success, even 3 were still quite ok, but most complains were about stability of the product & progressing monetization ;). What they did? Released totally bugged Sims 4 and shortly after started producing even more micro-pacs and stuff which u can hardly call DLC.
EA logic.
True. Now I just want snooker tables, swimming pools and maybe ghosts in the base game to show EA how it's done! lol
This game is that kind of game that you can't wait for but at the same time you wish they take time so it will be a great finished game instead of... A lot of packs and mini packs for years. I will totally wait for this and give them my money on release date. EA had such potential with Sims 4 and it wasn't what I wished for. I still play Sims 3 because it has so much gameplay that I never discovered.
I hope they have very little packs/no packs at all. I don't want to spend over $2,000 for a full game.
@@tayk.t.523 check out their website! Last I checked, they said minimal packs if any, a lot of updates.
@@katandromeda17 Oh wow! I had no clue, but I'm super glad! I played and bought the Sims and their expansions my whole life, but I'm excited to switch over to Paralives!
@@katandromeda17 that sounds like a subscription game
@@HouseFlipperJenn they said it will be one time purchase. Minecraft does the same thing???
so this is a playable SketchUp, basically right? I'm an architect and this makes me happy lmao
I remember "playing" SketchUp when I was about 12 in my sister's computer because she didn't have any games lol. Obviously everything looked bad and for some reason I included Miku and Pikachu models in every build
My sister is currently pursuing in Architecture and one of her complaints about The Sims is that, unlike professional Architect tools like SketchUp, it doesn’t have a “real” measurement system for more precision building. Thus, she and I are very excited about how powerful the building tools are going to be in Paralives 😁
I studied architecture several years ago, and I always wonder, why did professional architecture software did not have same feature as The Sims have. I want to just pull the wall and make the room bigger, but I have to delete the old wall and make a new one and then move all my furniture one by one.
Another professional designer here, I've often thought using pro software as a basis makes a lot of sense for these games. It just needs to be slightly less powerful and it looks like these guys maybe have a good balance?
I also agree with @Дар'я... pulling walls in pro software would be so nice sometimes for small adjustments! 😂
omgg, i remember using SketchUp when I was younger, i couldn't remember the name of it for so long! u just unlocked so many memories in my brain
With all the customisable options for the furniture, I’m really intrigued to see how it affects how the para peeps interact with them 🤔
I was thinking about this with the chairs at the table - you can freely rotate and place them at whatever angle, but how to the parafolk sit in them? Do they pull them straight towards the table to eat or do the chairs always remain at that angle? Edit: Whoops just realized James said the exact same thing later on in the video.
they're experimenting with that currently and they hope they could get Paras to adapt to situations like that. it's called procedural animation and it could fix problems like different height Paras interacting physically and interacting with objects of different heights.
@@GABE_is_here Ooh, that's interesting. If they can pull this off, I could see it pulling a Cities Skylines...
The bug reel is going to make Cyberpunk look like a polished game
@@christophero3869 stop you don’t know that. they’re trying their best
The non-grid placement feels more organic and life like imo, it's like a person decorated that home instead of a robot.
Personally, I’d like to use a grid for building and large furniture then no grid for decor and things like chairs
@@scofieldvictoria A grid is confirmed by the game developers if you so wish to use it ;)
In the beggining of the video, the top left corner said "walls - half walls - separator". I'm guessing the separator is the tool used to separate the floors into rooms without using a wall (as shown in the kitchen)
Oooooh! I finally understand what that might be, thank you
@@the.rest.is.confetti you're welcome! I'm just guessing as I was wondering the same thing when i first saw that
Paralives music isn't copyrighted so you can use it. Devs said so.
Paralives is an architect's dream for real. I'm so excited for it!
😂 Why do we want to do our job for games as well. It's so true though, I'm the same
This will be so helpful to people that love trying to re create house blue prints or me who wants to see how I can change my own home and have a closer scale unlike in the sims 🤣👍
My first thought when I saw metres
Yes oh my gosh. Love doing blueprint builds but I go a little crazy when Sims sizes don't work---and especially the walls not being able to sit on a half tile. I think it would also be very cool if Paralives made it so you could change a wall's thickness, so that columms and cabin and castle walls for example could be the correct thickness.
This. I tend to remake houses from anime I watch, and it's always so annoying not being able to change or add certain details because of all the restrictions in The Sims 4.
Yes!!! I love re creating houses I find on Pinterest but the Sims is so limited sometimes. No diagonal stairs has screwed me multiple times
Finally!!! I've been waiting for you to talk about Paralives since 2019!! When I saw the building video earlier today, I thought of you immediately. 😄😄
I was just waiting till there was lots to see! It looks really good!
Yeah, same. Just talked about this yesterday 🥰 So happy! I literally scream when I saw the notification, my girlfriend was so spooked 😂
@@JamesTurnerYT It does. I'm so excited! Also, thanks for replying to me! 😄
It is a bit sad this game is constantly compared to the sims. It should be it’s own thing but everyone is so dissapointed in the sims the expectations are for it to be like the sims but better. Proves there’s so much want for a simulation game and sims has been the only real thing out there for way too long. No real competitor ruined the game.
Is not so much compared to the sims as it is compared to the current standard in the market, which is the sims as it is the only on the market.
It is unavoidable, new products are to be compared to the standard in any market, it just happens that it is entering a market that until now has only had one real player.
tbf it's not gonna take much for it to be better than the sims 4
@@moonandstar6467 we have to wait for the gameplay tho, that's gonna be the real challenge for the developers
@@kaedeshirakawa1979 i don't doubt it, but from what ive seen (both in little development bits they've shown and responses to players) i'm not that worried honestly. the things we want to see are clearly a high priority to them, and thats already shone through in the build mode and paramaker, so it stands to reason that the same will be true of gameplay, even if it takes longer
ts4 should be compared to PL, tbh
I think this so far is a cool building/decorator simulation, but that is the easy part really (in as far as any part of game development is easy) getting the “live mode” part to integrate flawlessly will be their biggest challenge, I really do hope they make a great game, but I also hope people don’t kill the potential success by hyping it up way too much.
This!
This is my exact concern and I feel like a lot of people don’t see it due to their disillusionment from The Sims 4 due to EA’s really negligence of the game. I think this game looks charming but it still has a lot to go and I hate how much pressure the small team is getting. I also think the comparisons are really unfair.
they have shown off two characters in live mode before, they're very pretty and expressive
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They haven’t really shown them interacting with things though
@@grim_56 It shouldn't be that complicated, for detection you can just do it by radius and for animating it you can just plug in procedural animation and you have that.
Not saying it is easy, but it is far from non feasible or extremely hard.
the + on the color palette was on the walls too so you can customize them.
I saw this video yesterday and I am SO excited! I love the fact you can drag your walls as much or as little as you want, so you can create nooks and alcoves, it shows real world measurements, you can curve walls, drag their height and drag the floor.
Edit: There is snapping, I read about it on the April 2021 update notes. And apparently you can edit text on items, too!
Cool to see your reactions, totally agree on the curiosity/concerns on how it’s all gonna work out with gameplay and snapping and all that, but I hope they make it great, and I’m sure listening to helpful feedback will help too
Yeah, the build tool for sure looks great. But other than that, it's to early to know if the gameplay would live up to expectations.
the old sims 4 wish list :
EVERY ROUNDED thing (pool, pond, wall, sky light ceiling, bed...)
We're about to get ponds!
@@EroDhika if you watched the trailer they were actually swimming in the ponds. So they can.
@@stephanienichole7548 No they confirmed it was a river in the world that you saw sims swimming in, not the new ponds.
@@BellaWella717 But a toddler kind of played in the pond. I know it is not the same, but still more than nothing. 😊
@@cs.abouttheatre that's true :)
What I want to know are the limits of a Parafolk's interaction with the objects? Since everything seems to have a "move objects" style of placement but on steroids there has to be a point where a Para cannot use them, correct? It's a great feature for the freedom it brings but that is a worry I have. Perhaps they're already working on it, but an indicator (if possible) would be cool to have. I can imagine that the square or the outline of the square goes red telling the player that Paras can't properly interact with the object but that doesn't necessarily mean you can't place it anyway.
Anna one of the programmers shared a public post on the paralives patreon about generic animation. if seems kind of complicated but it looks like they know what they're doing
they are working on all that. their AI is different from the ts4 one, its made to adjust to things as they come
I think you can see items snapping on to a grid pretty often in this video, I wouldn't worry about that too much! Looks like there will be a grid if you want to use it, but you can place everything freely too, kind of reminds me of the roads in SimCity
It's still pre-alpha so they will totally fix that before it's finished :)❤️
It has already been confirmed that grid placement will be in the game. They are just showing in this video that everything can also be freely placed for anyone who does not want the grid.
I'm really looking forward to seeing the gameplay. The build mode looks AWESOME, I just hope that the gameplay won't be lacking because of all the work they have to put into all these build features. But it's very exciting to see something that was originally started by one person become such a big project 😁 at worst, a little competition could light a fire under the Sims' asses 😂
i agree! also memento mori!!
@@emeliasversion memento mori! 😄
I wish James was this in depth and I guess hesitant with new Sims pack reviews as he has been with Paralives.
Personally I like his content but I dont really watch his reviews of packs espiecally trailers as in my expierence hes usually like oh yeah! Thats so cool and doesn't question how good it will be or anything. But this by indie developers? Every little thing was nitpicked, the even have a disclaimer at the beginning. He didn't even think to check if they posted any further info on their twitter. Maybe I'm too sinnacle but I just wanted him to let the team show what they had and how cool it was without him pulling apart nearly every aspect. Give these guys a chance yunno, he didn't watch tell the end before he decided it didn't have a roof! Sorry I went off on a tangent
@@thejazzy6012 same, it’s fun to watch the building or some let’s plays but I can’t watch reviews or reactions of game changers anymore except Grimcookies. They just blindly support everything EA puts out when they have a 7 year track record of not great content. It’s not totally their faults, it’s a whole cycle. But so far Paralives looks like they’ve been extremely thoughtful in what they’re creating and since they rely so much on Patreon they have to make sure it’s good. EA knows they don’t have to do shit and will make millions lol
@@thejazzy6012 These are rightful concerns though. And I think it's good that the team hears these concerns to further improve their game early on. Yes, customization is nice, but players like me would also like a grid to snap to, making it easier and faster. Will "paras" interact properly or will gameplay glitch and lag? Will there be a gallery or rooms to easily plop down items? Some criticism is valid, and besides, I'd rather James be honest than fake a positive reaction. not to mention it's not that often that we see such a small team to do this kind of programming, so of course people will be doubtful/hesitant.
@@yayag.8990 but if he bothered to check out their twitter you'd know that quite a few of his concerns have been delat with. There is a grid snap thingy in. Most youtubers when they do a review check out their posts on twitter just like when he does a trailer review he checks what the sims confirmed on their website. Don't get me wrong I was happy with his review I just felt he was down on it a bit at certain places (when he was told it was a work in progress) and just compared it to the sims 3/4 of the time instead of seeing it as its own game
@@thejazzy6012 so you're upset just because he didn't check their Twitter? He didn't know, its nothing to be upset over
that building gameplay video was amazing. im so excited for what else is in store!
Can't wait to render my uni projects on Paralives! Build mode is shaping up really nice, though I'm a bit worried about pathfinding and stuff like that, but hopefully not long from now we will see more gameplay. The Sims needs competition so bad!
Wow, I can see a lot of potential if modding is incorporated easily into this! I could even see it being used as a design tool for stuff in the future.
They've said that there will be steam workshop support to allow modding which is great because it means they'll be building it into the game from the start so it will be well integrated as opposed to adding it on later which in other games can make it a bit clunky.
In the top left of the 'build mode' when the walls are being put down, there appears to be a tool called separator. I wonder if that's how they separated the kitchen from the rest of the room.
Alex Massé confirmed there will be a snapping to grid system.
for people curious, the team said they'll also be adding a grid mode you can toggle on/off
I've loved seeing the progress this game has gone through.
And my fav thing is still the picture frame in how we can customize it and adding our own pictures too.
What wasn't shown in the newest video tho is how we can add steps on a curved floor/platform, whichever Alex wants to call it.
This game will be amazing, as it is already blowing our minds. The table lamp where you can change it into a floor lamp within seconds, is also amazing.
yesss i've been waiting to see if you'd ever react to them! so excited!
Same
Yep! I’ve spoken about Paralives on streams before, it looks really good. Was just waiting for some big juicy content before talking about it on the channel :)
Can we just appreciate the daily videos? Thank you James! 💜
Pixelade covered them extensively. He posted a video some time ago where one of the developers showcases working on the animations.
i haven't paid for a sims pack since seasons. even as it stands now, i would pay for everything the team puts out
Me too! Since after SEASONS.
i feel like they would also make it a little more affordable tbh
I can't wait to play Paralives and see other games doing amazing creations in this game. The customisation already in pre-alpha stage is amazing! I don't have much expectations, but I love it already!
They've already released the answer for how they're gonna handle stuff like unaligned chairs, seats with cushions on them, counters and tables at differnet heights, etc. The game is going to be built with procedural animations in mind. So depending on the height of a seat, the game will run a super quick AI the adjust the base animation slightly so the parafolk wont clip in with the seat. This allows them to have height sliders for the parafolk, aswell as far, far smoother animations overall.
Apparently there is grid placement options. Also they said in a youtuber’s livestream yesterday that the music will be copyright free for RUclips videos. I agreee that it’ll be interesting to see how the parafolk interact with all the objects. There is a clip of one sitting on a kitchen counter I think
Oohh, I just talked to my girlfriend yesterday that I wanted to see James reaction to the paralives video.😍😍
This game looks SO good. Just like you, I'm really interested to see how the gameplay is going to work with the free placing of objects and all that. It just looks like so much fun and so creative and intuitive to play.
The best thing about this game is that it's engine is not a crappy engine like the sims 4's
The best thing about sims 4 is that it actually exists.
@@TheKD108 so does paralives, its just not being sold yet because it's still being developed, since they're actually listening to the people who want to play their game and aren't just tossing out cheaply made money grabs. There is room for more than one life simulation game on the market.
@@TheKD108 games, especially indie games, take a long time to make and perfect. i mean deltarune has been in development for a few years and is nowhere near being finished yet. similarly, undertale took multiple years to complete. and look how successful that game became.
but it looks crappy still lol I dont really like the cartoony aesthetic at all
@@chloerene7858 hyping a game this much when it's far from being out sets it all for failure. haven't we learn a thing from Cyberpunk?
Every time I watch this Paralives video, I'm seeing something I hadn't noticed before. I know it'll be a while before this is released, but man I can't wait!
I absolutely love the ability to place clutters anywhere I want, if I play this game and it holds, my house is gonna be a mess, and I'm gonna love it
finally, a competitor towards the sims. finally, a even playing field, so happy
on top of it all.. paralives actually looks pretty good
I was also wondering about the gameplay/animations when seeing how certain things were placed. but I'm honestly super hyped for this game, i've been following it since the beginning. It's so exciting to watch the team grow! not just game developers, but other people who love the sims and simulation style games. they're not just paying attention to what people of the sims community want - they ARE the sims community that wants these things actively themselves. I think that makes a difference in the end result, so I'm stoked.
I've been obsessed with paralives for forever now. I am too very curious how animations/gameplay works, I know they're using a certain kind of animation that will kind snap to it's environment - can't remember what it's called but you don't have to sit and animate every single thing exactly because the model can tell when it need to hunch etc. This is just my basic understanding.
Also just wanna be a bit of a Debbie downer here and fellow reminder: as much as I want paralives to give competition vto the Sims (and so do all of maxis predecessors) if sims drops enough, EA will let it did like sims city 2014 and many others. EA just does this. I don't have much faith in the Sims seeing as sims 5 will likely be on console first or perhaps online only (their CEO Andrew Wilson said this). But as a flagship series, perhaps they actually will give a damn for 2 seconds and remember who lines their pockets.
When Paralives uploaded a video showing the platforms, it was before Sims 4 dished it out. (As far as I recall.) Because I remember that, after that vid drop, suddenly sims threw the platform out. Same thing with the bunk beds. Paralives uploaded a video, Sims suddenly pushed it out. So that's a lot of tea to drink.
Now the customisation of items and curved walls is awesome. I like a good colour wheel as well.
I’ve never heard of this until now.. and bOY AM I ALREADY SO EXCITED I’m only like 2 mins in lol
This game would be SUPER awesome for interior designers to come up with a 3D model of something they're building- or for writers who just cannot find anything else that perfectly does it!
I kept thinking of the game play everytime they placed something like the comfort items. Glad you brought it up
I really love the way off-the-grid placement seems to work, the way items are randomly aligned, but I will say when we haven't yet seen a single video involving Para's moving around and doing animations at length, I really don't trust this is the sort of thing you'll be able to do and have it be functional. Like I love the item scaling-- I really think it's a brilliant idea for a life sim to have less objects but just make them more adjustable-- but again, it'll entirely depend on how these customizations will function for the actual paras. I know they have big ideas about these things working, but I'm a little antsy to actually see it in action. Personally, seeing build/buy gameplay isn't interesting to me until they've shown me the limitations or lack thereof in actual gameplay with those items.
I’m not so excited about gameplay but the building aspect is soooo exciting! Can’t wait to get my hands on it🤲🏾
LETS GO JAMES FINALLY I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR AGES FOR THIS. God I'm so excited for this game! It's everything I've wanted, especially as a builder and storyteller in the Sims! Looking forward to spending all my money here :)
Can’t wait for you to get your hands on this game and build some awesome houses
I love the UI and the fact that I can see the whole picture of what's being built, without a bunch of build mode bullshit in the way.
Interested to see how all the customizable dragging/resizing affects playability and lagging/frame rate
Its not built in the clunky resource hungry way the sims team build sims 4. The entire framework for how objects work is just totally different & utilises techniques which have been available in architectural design programs for decades. The sims handles things in a very peculiar way compared to other games out there too, making it way more resource hungry than it needs to be.
That's not the biggest problem with resizing.
Player routing, animations and interactions tho...
@@MiloKuroshiro I've been a patron of theirs for awhile and it's still early days but because of customizable furniture and different heights of parafolk they're designing an animation system that individually reacts to the thing they're interacting with, whether that be a different animation like hopping up on a chair instead of sitting down normally or just organically snapping to the points they need to actually connect to. Even the early iteration looked very decent for pre alpha so I have faith even if it's not a simple process. I don't remember if that was secret tho I think one of their devs shared that on their Twitter.
i'm worried that it will be somewhat like the sims 4, where build mode is great, but gameplay is lacking/broken
I think and hope that the developer from Paralives will give more attention to what the people want from the game than EA does
Of course, many things are probably not easy to make, but I think they would be the type of team that keeps people updated on problems they face too
I'm so excited for this game. I can't wait to get this and start building.
Drink every time James talks about the grid/adjusting
The same way Cities Skylines listened to the fanbase of SimCity and built upon it, I'm hoping this turns out the same
I am so excited for this. I've been following Paralives for about a year and a half now and I really can't wait for this game to be released. I am so in love with the aesthetic! ❤😭 Thank you for doing this video.
THIS IS SO SO SO SO SO GOOD.
so glad you're giving Paralives some love and attention!! it genuinely looks so promising, and the Devs are really open about their project
They haven't shown gameplay because they don't have any yet. They're not at that stage in development yet. Chill people.
I know that we all want our things to snap perfectly to the center but it brings to mind something I learned in 3D modeling, imperfection is the digital perfection. Meaning nothing irl is actually 100% perfectly alligned or exact.
5:42 good guess! they show, in another video that you can put your own image on picture frame AND pillow! And you can make bunkbed and sectionnal couchs IN the BASE game!! ho! I fogot, you can also edit the lot!!
I'm so hyped for paralives. I'm so looking forward to you building in it!!!!!
Every time they post an update I get even more excited for its release! I cannot wait for this game!!
It's so exciting to see you react to the Paralives video. The build mode already looks so good for not even being done yet. I hope that their team continues to take their time polishing the gameplay because I feel that EA needs some healthy competition so they start listening more to the Sims community. I will definitely be playing this when it comes out!
Building in this game just seems like so much fun! So glad you reacted to this James
Can’t wait for it to come. I love the color wheel, and how you can make things any way you want to.
Ohhhh this looks like so much fun!
it was also confirmed that there is a grid option for those who prefer it !
I'm so excited about this game I been following them from day 1
I love what I am seeing at the moment - yes, they are taking a very long time to create all this, but they are working on all the little bugs now, and if this is a sample of just the base game, comparing to what we got for Sims 4 base game, then this wins hands down - this game is worth keeping a close eye on for further developments - thanks for sharing
Paralives makes me so unbelievably happy 😊
This game is showing so much promise, I hope they keep going strong.
I am only at 3:26 and I am full of equal parts wonder, excitement and pure unadulterated rage. I have spent nearly a thousand dollars on the sims 4 content over the years, I have supported them, vouched for them; Ive given them the benefit of the doubt for years now.
Seeing this much possibility in the first 3 minutes of alpha gameplay footage, with features and functions that we have been begging for, paying out the rear for, and being ignored for years about is basic in this game... I am at a loss for words, other than excellent work to this dev team.
I can not wait to see where this goes. I may never buy another EA title.....
haven’t really been playing the sims or buying packs since island living but now my passion for life simulators has been reignited
James' reaction in the thumbnail: 😯
James' reactions in the video: 😕😐🤔🤨
The build mood reminds me of the game called Home design 3d on mobile or the better version on the computers.
Great Mic Quality. Nice vid James!
honestly im just happy The Sims have some competition so they can finally push themselves to do better either in development or make it more affordable to attract people to the game. So far the sims is wayyyyyyy too expensive with little depth although i do love them :( Excited to see what Paralives will be like once it is released
Coming back to this a year later. I can't wait until paralives comes out. I am sick of EA taking advantage of the sims community and giving us unfinished and glitchy products. Especially after the disaster of the latest update and high school years pack
Yes! I was waiting for your reaction to this!
I love that it shows the size in meters!!! Helps with building more realistically
It took me until 11 min in to realize he wasn’t doing any building and the mouse moving was him pausing then gesturing 🤦♀️
James the tenets was my favorite series until the legendary series dream home decorator but this game is cool too
I have some pretty high hopes that paralives plays as good as it looks right now! I'm wondering if the little decorative things like the pillows would be able to be interacted with? Like, they pick up the pillow on the lounge and hug it or whatever, just to get it out of the way when sitting.
I also have no idea how much work would go into something like that as a feature though
I honestly would love this even if they just released it as a building game lol
I'm so glad you are reacting to this!
They show the build with a roof at the end, but I want to know what fresh hell that would have been to roof😅. If it was the sims, it would have been impossible.
Yeah I realised after letting it play longer! Shouldn’t have paused 🤣🤣
I really like the concerns and questions you brought up in this video! I hope the team watches it
My ocd with the fact some stuff ISNT placed perfectly definitely bothers me but the fact that you can do SO MUCH with a single item is facsinating. I can’t wait for more updates on this.
The bed after it was made into a double bed got me for real
I think they were showing off how you can place stuff freely so exaggerated the placements on purpose. Like things not being lined up "properly" can bug me too, but in our bedroom, my boyfriend and I have our bedside tables different amounts away from the bed (partially space constraints, partially I need mine closer so I can easily reach my glasses when I wake up as I'm basically blind without them) and its never bothered me in real life that they aren't even.
@@AlexaFaie true! Good point, it is impressive. I can’t wait for paralives to be complete and i can play it. I love building in TS4 but i would prefer more freedom like this. PLUS imagine new items? they wouldn’t have to release multiple designs of everything because you can adjust it. Amazing.
I think I would love this game just for the building aspect of it also. Watching you build in this game will be awesome.
I've been waiting for this game for so long! Great to see you making a vid about it :D
Finally I'll be able to build the house I lived in as a teenager with the angled hallway in the half basement!
James really pointed out and asked the right questions here 👏
I'm with you there, from the earliest bits of paralives, I questionned if the gameplay was ever going to work with that item customisation
If EA let you change the size and textures of items in The Sims then how would they be able to sell you all of the reskins in their game packs?