sims 2 is so nostalgic for me; it was the first sims game i ever played and i loved it so much ; v ;
anyways, about sims 4. i think one of the main reasons it disappoints me so much is because i'm a generational type of player. i like to make families and then let them grow up & have their own families, their kids grow up, etc. for me, sims 4 doesn't really give me a lot of room to do that. first off, there's no toddlers, as everyone knows. that was such a giant blow for me, because kids aging up from babies to children just looks stupid. also, the babies are terrible?? you can literally only interact with them from the crib. they're stuck in there. sims 3 babies are kinda weird and motionless, but at least you can move them out of their cribs and use cc to change their outfits. but sims 4 babies are these weird little creatures confined to an ugly cradle thing. so the fact that there are not only no toddlers, but a terrible excuse for babies made me super mad.
another big problem i have is that the towns are soooo small. there's like...12-14 residental lots? maybe? and i think three community lots? obviously if you have several generations of one family, a town that small ends up being filled with ALL one family. so that's been a huge issue with me from the start. not to mention you've got to deal with loading screens almost as frequently as you do with sims 2. i understand that one of the reasons sims 3 is so laggy is because it's a giant open world, but i'd almost rather deal with lag than deal with constant loading screens. it makes the world not only feel small, but disconnected.
don't get me wrong, i like a lot of the new things they added -- multitasking, the new create-a-sim, (which is awesome btw) emotions, and better routing. all of those (probably a few more things i can't remember too) were great additions. but to me, it just seems like they added a bunch of really cool small things, but missed the really important things that make the other games great. there's also no story progression in sims 4, (which is something i personally like in sims 3 even though i use a mod for it, because i don't have to constantly go into the other families in town and age them up or make them get married, blah blah blah. they can live their own lives without me) so you can go through six generations of a family while the rest of the town doesn't progress at all, other than aging. eventually you end up in a town full of randomly generated townies and all the original families are long dead.
this is getting long and i'm sorry lmao, but to me, sims 4 almost feels like an incomplete game. while some things like CAS can't be added into the game, there's still a chance they'll release a patch with toddlers/fixed babies/other better stuff that might make me like the game more. but for now, i've stuck to sims 3, even though it really is a broken mess half the time. 4 just doesn't feel as whole as of the other base games felt. :<
Wow! Thanks for the detailed reply haha.
I don't mind that it's long at all. c:
I always assumed The Sims 4 was mostly like the older games with new features, but from what you said, it sounds like it's been stripped down a lot. D:
I mean, no story progression?! No toddlers?! Both of those made the game seem more realistic and story progression gave the game life.
/sigh
You gain some and you lose some I guess. u_u
Random Question: Do you make Sims movies? Does anyone still do that?
I've been really wanting to make a movie with my Sims in Sims 2 lol. I watched several on Youtube that really inspired me.
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i'm trying to do the 100 babies challenge in the sims 2... it's going pretty slow, this far i've only had 8 children... i don't play with that family that often because it's such a pain to take care of them, haha ^^
what do you people enjoy the most about the sims?? I personally like making houses the most!! you can do a lot of different things and aa i just love it. I mostly build in the sims 2 and I don't even have all expansions or stuff packs, but it's still a lot of fun.
I also loveee the gameplay of shops in the sims 2. It's just so much fun!!! the most annoying thing about owning businesses is that you cant sleep on public lots, but i installed a mod that lets you do that ssOoo yye!!
imo the sims 3 is just Too Laggy... it is really laggy with all expansions, even if you have a good computer. that's why i mostly play the sims 2.
I love the process of creating Sims lol.
I swear I spend like days customizing a Sim to perfection. I probably spend more time making Sims than I do playing with them. o_o;
But anyway lol, if you play mostly 2, you should download (for free) the rest of the expansion and stuff packs you don't have yet.
Origin was offering it all free-to-download a couple years ago and some sites still have the files up for you to download for free.
Just letting you know. c:
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i tried downloading custom content for the first time in the sims 2 and i was able to install a mod but then when i tried to add custom content i totally failed .... smh...,, i'll have to try to fix it but i am rly bad with computers )X
it's good that they made custom content so much easier in the sims 3 and 4.
Ugh yes.
I've had so many complications with getting custom content to show up in my Sims 2 game. x_x;
The game just seems less organized overall compared to The Sims 3.
For example, when you download makeup and skin/body mods (freckles, piercings), they don't always show up in the same place when you're creating your Sim. Like some of my skin/body mods will be in the makeup section and the rest is in the accessories section?! I never had that happen in my Sims 3 game; the way the game works prevents it from happening I think.
It lacks a lot of the convenient features that were introduced in 3, too (ex: saving your created Sims). Playing 2 made me realize how essential those features were, to the point I was like, "How could they not think to include it in this one?! It's an older game, but still!" :')
