I liked Sims 1 when I was a kid. I like Sims 2 even better & still play it. I played Sims 3 & I really wanted to like it, but it was not really my bag of chips. I have liked everything I've seen so far about Sims 4! (Been stalking the preview posts since it was announced, you better believe I'm pre-obsessed with it.)
I've always been more into the content creation side of the game than the actual playing side, & even with my very favorite game of the franchise thus far--Sims 2--I create much more than I play. I'm currently sitting on somewhere around 3.5Gb of original or modified Sims 2 content made by me, most of which I've shared online. For those of you who never got into the Sims franchise... that's larger than most people's entire Downloads folder & is the accumulation of me being bored in front of the computer for about the last 10 years. The game has an interesting & reasonably friendly online community going on as well, which is always fun.
I absolutely just cannot wait for Sims 4 to release, & for people far more talented than I am to make content importation tools so that I can do my thing all day long. Gonna make ALL THE THINGS for Sims 4.
'Scuse the obsession. Talk about Sims, all of them, because I love them.
Sims 2 and 3, however, didn't really catch my attention.
What I loved about Sims 1 is that you could constantly improve a single sim. Sims 2 and 3, your sim has a lifespan measured in days. I know there are hacks to change that, but I still like Sims 1's approach.
I also like Sims Mideaval. Except for the teeny tiny microscopic font. Reall,y the game is more plot-driven than other sims, but the font is so small that you can't read it? Urg.
I also liked the urbz for the PS2. Except fort the looooooooooooooooooading time. Seriously, 10 minutes? I thought if I put the data on hard disk, it would improve loading times. Nope.
Castaways I played on the PSP. I liked that, too, but it had little replay value.
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"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
What I loved about Sims 1 is that you could constantly improve a single sim. Sims 2 and 3, your sim has a lifespan measured in days. I know there are hacks to change that, but I still like Sims 1's approach.
Oddly enough, that's what I didn't like about Sims 1 as compared to other games in the franchise... & I mean it was actually a REALLY GREAT game & it got me hooked on Sims in general, but...
Sims 1 had more whimsical stuff, which has always been a fun part of the series (death by embarrassment, celebrities showing up at your house party, the clown that popped out of the painting, Marky Sharky etc.) but you were trapped in an endless loop of work-sleep-eat-don't die-work-sleep-etc with nowhere to go. Sure you could hit the top of your career, max out your skills, go on vacations, throw parties, get a few pets, but eventually that one Sim has seen it all & there's nothing left for them to experience. (Not that Sims 1 Sims were programmed to care.)
The Sim people in Sims 2 & Sims 3 (& soon, Sims 4) have a finite amount of time to spend on the things they want to do, they actually tell you what they want to do in some cases, & it's up to you to make the most of the time they have. I find that a much more interesting gameplay mechanic than being in an endless loop of existence.
Plus, you know, Sims 1 was rendered in 4-point fixed perspective. That's a huge thing right there. I like me some real 3D, thanks.
I also like Sims Mideaval. Except for the teeny tiny microscopic font. Reall,y the game is more plot-driven than other sims, but the font is so small that you can't read it? Urg.
Yeah I don't even know what was up with Medieval. It was decent but it got dropped pretty quickly & didn't get the full range of Expansions & Stuff Packs that a Sims-series game normally does. Sims 3 Dragon Valley seemed like kind of a shout-out to Medieval in a way though... far after Medieval was dead & buried, of course.
Looking for info on The Sims 4, and right now it sounds like a slightly slicker version of The Sims 3 to me, minus some large number of expansion packs. What's the difference / why is The Sims 4 attractive to you?
Looking for info on The Sims 4, and right now it sounds like a slightly slicker version of The Sims 3 to me, minus some large number of expansion packs. What's the difference / why is The Sims 4 attractive to you?
That's normal, each Sims version starts off with a base game that includes all the core functions of the game & several Expansion &/or Stuff Packs to increase the amount of clothing/items/functions/etc. in the game are added at regular intervals. The reboot is actually a good thing, because at the point the next game version comes out the current one has been ongoing for 4-6 years & is large & outdated.
The difference between Sims 3 & other games in the Sims franchise is that Sims 3 missed the mark in a lot of key areas that hardcore fans had come to expect from the game. Considering that there's still a large Sims 2 fanbase this long after the release of Sims 3 (where the same wasn't true of Sims 1 after Sims 2 was released), it's safe to say that I'm not alone in feeling that Sims 3 is less enjoyable.
The Sims 1 was a fun game to play but I could live without it. Sims 2 has been my favorite thing since it existed; I never wanted to play Sims 1 again from the moment I loaded the game because it was just so. much. better. in every possible way. Sims 3 was kind of fun to play, but there were serious problems with it & I just can't get into it for very long before I decide that I have better things to do.
Sims 4... I'm hoping is the same contrast to Sims 3, as Sims 2 was to Sims 1. & from everything I've seen, it looks like it very well might be, & that is VERY exciting to me.
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I've always been more into the content creation side of the game than the actual playing side, & even with my very favorite game of the franchise thus far--Sims 2--I create much more than I play. I'm currently sitting on somewhere around 3.5Gb of original or modified Sims 2 content made by me, most of which I've shared online. For those of you who never got into the Sims franchise... that's larger than most people's entire Downloads folder & is the accumulation of me being bored in front of the computer for about the last 10 years. The game has an interesting & reasonably friendly online community going on as well, which is always fun.
I absolutely just cannot wait for Sims 4 to release, & for people far more talented than I am to make content importation tools so that I can do my thing all day long. Gonna make ALL THE THINGS for Sims 4.
'Scuse the obsession. Talk about Sims, all of them, because I love them.
Sims 2 and 3, however, didn't really catch my attention.
What I loved about Sims 1 is that you could constantly improve a single sim. Sims 2 and 3, your sim has a lifespan measured in days. I know there are hacks to change that, but I still like Sims 1's approach.
I also like Sims Mideaval. Except for the teeny tiny microscopic font. Reall,y the game is more plot-driven than other sims, but the font is so small that you can't read it? Urg.
I also liked the urbz for the PS2. Except fort the looooooooooooooooooading time. Seriously, 10 minutes? I thought if I put the data on hard disk, it would improve loading times. Nope.
Castaways I played on the PSP. I liked that, too, but it had little replay value.
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
Oddly enough, that's what I didn't like about Sims 1 as compared to other games in the franchise... & I mean it was actually a REALLY GREAT game & it got me hooked on Sims in general, but...
Sims 1 had more whimsical stuff, which has always been a fun part of the series (death by embarrassment, celebrities showing up at your house party, the clown that popped out of the painting, Marky Sharky etc.) but you were trapped in an endless loop of work-sleep-eat-don't die-work-sleep-etc with nowhere to go. Sure you could hit the top of your career, max out your skills, go on vacations, throw parties, get a few pets, but eventually that one Sim has seen it all & there's nothing left for them to experience. (Not that Sims 1 Sims were programmed to care.)
The Sim people in Sims 2 & Sims 3 (& soon, Sims 4) have a finite amount of time to spend on the things they want to do, they actually tell you what they want to do in some cases, & it's up to you to make the most of the time they have. I find that a much more interesting gameplay mechanic than being in an endless loop of existence.
Plus, you know, Sims 1 was rendered in 4-point fixed perspective. That's a huge thing right there. I like me some real 3D, thanks.
Yeah I don't even know what was up with Medieval. It was decent but it got dropped pretty quickly & didn't get the full range of Expansions & Stuff Packs that a Sims-series game normally does. Sims 3 Dragon Valley seemed like kind of a shout-out to Medieval in a way though... far after Medieval was dead & buried, of course.
Looking for info on The Sims 4, and right now it sounds like a slightly slicker version of The Sims 3 to me, minus some large number of expansion packs. What's the difference / why is The Sims 4 attractive to you?
That's normal, each Sims version starts off with a base game that includes all the core functions of the game & several Expansion &/or Stuff Packs to increase the amount of clothing/items/functions/etc. in the game are added at regular intervals. The reboot is actually a good thing, because at the point the next game version comes out the current one has been ongoing for 4-6 years & is large & outdated.
The difference between Sims 3 & other games in the Sims franchise is that Sims 3 missed the mark in a lot of key areas that hardcore fans had come to expect from the game. Considering that there's still a large Sims 2 fanbase this long after the release of Sims 3 (where the same wasn't true of Sims 1 after Sims 2 was released), it's safe to say that I'm not alone in feeling that Sims 3 is less enjoyable.
The Sims 1 was a fun game to play but I could live without it. Sims 2 has been my favorite thing since it existed; I never wanted to play Sims 1 again from the moment I loaded the game because it was just so. much. better. in every possible way. Sims 3 was kind of fun to play, but there were serious problems with it & I just can't get into it for very long before I decide that I have better things to do.
Sims 4... I'm hoping is the same contrast to Sims 3, as Sims 2 was to Sims 1. & from everything I've seen, it looks like it very well might be, & that is VERY exciting to me.