inZOI very first impressions 

Bought inZOI and played it for about 3 hours. 99% of that time was spent making one character. You can really go pretty in-depth with it. It does need a LOT more clothing options but given that it is early access, I think those will come over time. They have said that all content updates during early access will be completely free, so we'll have to see what gets added.

I popped into gameplay for a tiny bit and it seems VERY much like the Sims but with a few extra things. You can control your selected character directly with WASD for instance, and you can play around with the overall "vibe" of the town with sliders that affect things like crime, relationships, health, and more.

I was watching someone's stream of it and from what I can tell, it does appear that at least currently, the only way you're able to have a child is if you're married. NPCs have established sexual preferences, and you can't enter bathrooms that are for the opposite gender.

I'm going to keep playing it later, I'll let you guys know how it goes!

inZOI very first impressions 

@beardalaxy something something south korea one of the most authoritarian regimes re: video gaming regulations.

inZOI very first impressions 

@beardalaxy so far i've found the gameplay a bit dead. WASD is very annoying. i don't really want to micromanage a single sim the whole time, which is a mistake sims 3 expansions made. you can get traditional sims view by click-drag on the floor, and unlocks the camera, but wasd will never move the camera and will lock back to the active zoi to control them (probably cancelling their queue.)

denuvo is gone but it requires steam be in online mode, so, :/

when i played schedule 1 i went in to hyperfocus for like 9 hours. with zoi i think 70% of the time i've had it open its been in a tab and i end up doing something else
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inZOI very first impressions 

@icedquinn part of the fun for me is micromanaging sims lol, but i definitely won't be using wasd. there's the weird facial and motion capture stuff too that i can only assume means, in combination with stuff like wasd movement, the idea is to get it to an online multiplayer kind of thing eventually where you can do something like GTA V RP servers. idk if that's actually the goal or not but that's kind of the vibe i'm getting.

inZOI very first impressions 

@beardalaxy face/image capture networks could be neat. i tried one of the buttons and it told me i needed to scan qr codes and use an iphone. also can't use smartzoi because i don't have nvidia. so.

AI brained zonks pushing features that don't actually work as their headline features :blobcatgooglybadumtss:

inZOI very first impressions 

@icedquinn yeah I don't have an iPhone but it seems like that feature is literally just motion tracking which is cool but serves ZERO gameplay purpose, which leads me to believe it's only there for content creation (which is still cool) or they have much bigger ambitions.

inZOI very first impressions 

@icedquinn also I have an Nvidia card but I don't have smartzoi available idk what's up with that

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