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Posted by SteveB on Jan 15, 2009• TS3 Creator's Camp: Day 4, 12:30
Time for me to spill the beans about another feature of the game for those folks hungry for more juicy details about the game. Ok enough clues.. Food! Food and groceries actually, another deep feature of the game for which details are only just starting to emerge.
I already blogged about gardening so you know that Sims can harvest fresh ingredients already, but they can also obtain them from the grocery store. They can also buy goods for the home and fish to restock their goldfish bowl should 'swimmy' meet an untimely end. The list of ingredients that you can load into your cart at the store is impressive. I listed 24 so far which include anchovy, links (sausages), cheese, potatoes, steak, roast (turkey), tuna, eggs and all of the harvestable items too.
After buying all these ingredients I sent my Sim to stop by the library on the way home. Here I was able to acquire 3 skill books; Cooking Volume 1: Too much salt, Cooking Volume 2: Why you need baking soda and Cooking Volume 3: Yummy and delicious. I also picked up recipe sheets for some popular dishes like Fish & Chips, Cookies, Fruit Parfait, Cheese Steak, Eggs Machiavellian, Baked Angel Food Cake and Ambrosia. Some of these require higher cooking skills as well, but once your Sim reads one of these recipe books they have the required knowledge to be able to make it in their kitchen, as long as the current food stocks allow.
The Sim food looks great, and there are far more variants of dishes that can be prepared than in previous base games. I think the process of obtaining individual ingredients rather than just stocking the fridge with an undefined $50 worth of food is a welcome detail for my game too.
Other items that you can buy from the store for your home include Worlds Brew Bubble Bath, Mood-Lite Candles, the Birthday Inferno Birthday Cake and the Ducksworth of Bathington (a little rubber ducky).
/Steve
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Im so excited....Cant wait!
This is the biggest game since Pac-Man...LOL
Mr. Ducksworth your the one.... you make bathime lots of fun....
In US real life, young people are making very leisurely grocery shopping trips on Saturday evening to meet friends and make new social connections, with whom they may arrange to meet at a movie, club, bowling alley, or perhaps the library after they put their groceries away at home. I discovered this when, one Saturday night after supper (around 6:30 p.m.), I needed a few things at the nearest supermarket. It was fun to discover a group of attractive young folks in the produce dept., all gussied up, discussing the best way to cook a rutabaga. My grand-niece says I should check out when the old geezers are shopping. LOL Anyway, looks like TS3 is going to provide some really nice new social situations. Thanks so much for the tempting reports, Steve. Looking forward even more with each one of then to the arrival of my copy.
I don't suppose Sims can finally bake their own birthday cakes now instead of always buying one, can they?
After reading a lot of different post, its my understanding that you can't enter your job sight, or the school or the hospital. What about other places? Like the store? can you actually enter the store and buy things, go to the cashier and pay for it, like in Sims 2? what about the library, can you enter that building? and your neighbors homes, Can you enter them? or is everything done on the outside by clicking on the building?
Hey, thank you for keeping us updated. You are our lifesaver till the game comes. I for one, thrive on new info about the whole game, any topic of the game, as long as its Sims!
But one topic in particular I REALLY want to know about is a sim pregnancy. Could you tell us how this works and if its any different?
I AGREE! I don't know how I would cope if it were given and then taken away! I am waiting with baited breath for every little scrap of info about the game and absolutely cannot wait to get my hands on it. The thing I do want to know though is all about the babies - what can they do? can we still not change their clothes? REALLY
can we play with them in different ways? and are there things like baby mats and mobiles that they can play with?? I really would love more interaction as in sims 2 I have just started to be happy with all the cc I have accumulated for them but would love for the babies to be more interactive.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! for all the gorgeous info that you have shared with us
I agree about the food. The Sims 2 on PS2, you could mix n match different food items and ingredients and not know how you're dish was gonna come out. This was neat because if you were a horrible cook with no skills then the food was a crappy mess with some kind of messed up name to go along with it and it made people vomit
And if you mixed the wrong ingredients then it was the some outcome. But if you were good in the kitchen then you made a really good meal of course. And it seemed like alot of variaties from what I remember. That's neat that The Sims 3 will finally have that also.
I absolutely adore this food idea. I've always wanted something like that for the Sims 2, but the closest they ever got was with Seasons.
No matter now, though. I am super excited for TS3!
That was my absolute favorite when we had Sims 1 and had makin Magic with the recipe books and getting all the ingredients, baking breads, pies, cakes, and all those other things. I used to pick up the flour, sugar, and some ingredients through bartering with the gypsies. Often they would send you on a quest and your payment when you completed it was whatever goods you were there to buy. Hopefully Sims 3 will have some of those quests as I enjoyed those a lot too. I have missed Makin Magic way more because of all these kind of things than I did the Magic so much. Now if Sims 1 witches were like sims 2, then that would have been a different story. hehe - So Steve, if you think about it, ask them if we are going to be able to barter for goods and if there will be little quests like we had in Sims 1?
Thanks
Its very interesting.
*huge victory dance* I swear there is not enough food customization options even with this blessing. The Sims 3: Bon Appetite anyone?
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