With Sims 3 - I became more obssessed with how the worlds *looked* then the story that was going on in it.
I just quoted that because, well.. because...
Graphics aren't everything.
Anyway.
In S1, I just played it. I didn't have a pattern. I just created a numerous amount of households and built my own homes and rotated whenever I felt like it. I still play it that way. I get bored of a family, I move to another, and another, until I eventually get back to them.
In S2, I played in my usual style. I mostly just experimented until I found what suited me for that game. I play in rotations of 1 day per family. I'm thinking of changing it up again though. My rotations play a crucial role in aging the neighbourhood together.
S3. I'd play for about an hour a year (maybe every few months) and then wonder why I even bothered. Pretty. Yes, but that was it.
S4. I did the same as I did with S1 and S2 at the beginning. I experimented. Then I settled on one-week rotations. It works for the game structure, for me. I micro manage far less than I did in the past, and I continue to experiment with families and gameplay options.
In the end, for each game, I just play them. They all have something different to offer, but when boredom kicks in, I play something else. EA really needs to get to work on fixing issues though--that's all I'll say about that.
Dissatisfied with Sims 4 and hoping for a better Sims 5
I play the same way I did when I started with The Sims 2. Work hard, play harder, and live to tell about it as long as I can.
"That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero." - Stan Lee
Of course it changed some with each new sims series game. With each new series the way I played had to change because the game itself changed so much. TS2 was the big one for me. It was just such a fulfilling game. The sims were so funny and real and the addition of babies that were not tied to a crib, and toddlers and the great teen age. Then there was the young adults added. And here is where I played rotational as I needed my families to age together. All the silliness and the little surprise things that the sims would do kept me so entertained.
TS3 brought another big change with the open world concept. I actually liked it as I did not have to play rotational unless I chose to. The game did it for me (but not so well at times).
But the one thing that I have always done is play families. It has always been about the sims relationships and happiness. It is their story to tell me. Now with TS4, it is like there is no story to tell as it is all written in stone, and I have no found a way to play. I was bored so very quickly it scares me. The sims is the only game I play, and the new series has not been able to hold my attention or give me any enjoyment. I am just glad I still have the prior games to go back to.
kim
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
I have pretty much played the same way since the Sims 1, except for the Sims 3 as I couldn't play the way I wanted so I stopped playing and went back to 2.
I am continuing to play the same way as I usually do with TS4 (rotational family player), but for the first time I did try a Legacy Challenge. I reached only the 3rd generation before I put it on hold. I find it hard to play just one family. I may go back to it one day because I would like to finish it
My playstyle changed a little, due to exposure to the internet simming community.
Before I never even considered playing the premade sims, but I use them regularly now and generously retcon their backstories to fit my neighborhood story.
Second I used to put in the most efficient pieces of furniture and care for aesthetics or expressing the sims´ personality only secondary. Nowadays I care more and also clutter a little, mostly in households that I plan to blog about.
And third ever since Making Magics I favoured crafting over traditional careers. This tendency has increased over time, especially with all the cc that´s floating around.
It's pretty much the same.
I played Sims 1 for one day because I got it by accident instead of TS2.
TS2 I was more cheaty. I used money and motive cheats, but I played family style. I never did rotational play, even in TS2. So I loved the idea of story progression for TS3.
TS3 I stopped using cheats, but still family style. I liked fulfilling my sims wants and aspirations.
And now with TS4, I still play family style, but I don't have as many kids in my games as I used to. I don't really like how the aspirations work in this game. That there are 4 steps to each one. I also don't like the "whim" system.
Yes, absolutely. I've been following the franchise since the original game was released, so naturally gameplay has changed in that time.
When The Sims came out I was more focused on making up fantasy situations and playing them out, rather than what was actually going on in-game. I'd use the photo book (?) feature to write stories using it. I had a habit of making boarding school type set-ups, where all the kids would study from home in a school I custom built. Other than that I tended to play a lot of the default households and I created myself / my friends / etc in the game. I struggled a lot with playing it (I think I only once ever even succeeded in having my Sims marry!) and relied on cheats a lot.
The Sims 2 I was part of TS2UK community, which had a board dedicated to story writing: this originally covered Sim "diaries" that basically just dictated the life of your Sims; and then these later evolved into bigger pieces of fiction. I personally specialised in fantasy stories. Other than that, I had a single legacy family that I managed to hit 10 gens with. Other than that one family, playing "just for fun" didn't really exist for me this gen - it was about the community /storytelling aspect. I also spent a lot of time building and uploading houses, and created quite a bit of CC.
The Sims 3 I spent most of the time focusing on a single family. It was an alphabet legacy and when I stopped playing (due to computer troubles) it was my second go around with the alphabet. By the time I stopped playing them there had been over 40 generations of the family. I had no interest in building nor creating my own CC this time, I stopped using cheats altogether, and I just focused on gameplay - although I did still like posting updates of my family.
I think every generation of the game has been different and changed the way I play. That's one of the most exciting things to me about when a new Sims game launches. That's why I never really understand the people who get upset about how one game is different from another, and how they "destroy" one play style or another. As the game grows and adapts and evolves, I think so should the players. That's just my philosophy though, but it has kept me a much happier Simmer than some (including friends who refused to switch to TS3 when it came out).
The original The Sims is a bit foggy because I was so young. I think my style in that game was all about finding what my style was. I enjoyed the mayhem of torturing Sims, but then I also liked building happy families. I liked playing "normal" households, but also made some wacky characters. When magic was introduced I loved to keep things realistic, but I wanted to have magical stories as well. I was all over the place. I think the only thing that was consistent over the run of that game was that I loved families. I came from what might be considered a "broken" home, and I liked the escapism of playing other families who didn't have the problems we had.
In TS2 I became fully focused on raising Sims to fulfill their dreams and be happy in life. No more mayhem, no more wackiness. I had to adapt to the fact that time meant something now. Sims got older and they died of old age. I remember that was a weird thing. TS2 made me a control-freaky micromanager. To this day I still find old notebooks in my horrible teenage writing with the names of babies born, who they would marry, where they would live, and the jobs they would have. Matchmaking was my favourite part. I hated making Sims, so I had these intricate diagrams making sure everyone would get a "mate" from the existing town population without it leading to "inbreeding" (which was hard after more than two or three generations).
And then there was TS3. This was the most radical change for me. I had to focus on ONE family? If I play another family the one I just played will go on without me??? That was such a blow. Add to that the fact that the Sims themselves had lost their souls and sense of connection to others. Families just felt like a bunch of roommates. After purchasing it, TS3 collected dust for a long time because I was having a hard time figuring out what to do that was fun. My play style changed in that I played a lot of the game in fast-forward, because I never felt like I'd miss anything (and I realized eventually that I was always waiting for the NEXT life stage, or the NEXT generation for gameplay to become unique, fun and interesting). I also became a decorator. I loved renovating and decorating homes (I'm hopeless at actually building things from scratch) with CASt. If I could break down the time I spent playing, I'd bet 90% was spent decorating homes or coordinating outfits for my Sims every time they advanced to a new life stage, and 10% actually playing.
In TS4, my play style has gone back to its roots more. I play almost exclusively in live mode again, which I enjoy a whole lot more. I find that I play the game at a slower rate than than I even played TS2. I don't think I've hit the fast-forward button once (it only happens when the computer does it for me during sleeping or work hours for my Sims). I'm just enjoying the game too much, and all of the little details and moments are something I don't want to miss. I also find that I move on to the next generation much slower. I have long courtships because I think they are the cutest they've ever been and I enjoy them so much. I get too attached to my Sims to rush their lives along. I want to tell each and every one of their stories fully and well.
So that's my essay, I guess. Yeesh, sorry if that was a bit long.
If you want a summary instead:
The Sims: Try ALL the play styles!
TS2: Time means something now. Also let's micromanage the heck out of everyone!
TS3: I guess I'm a designer now, because the rest of the game has cool stuff but is deep as a puddle!
TS4: My Sims matter to me so much more now, so let's live their lives fully and appreciate the little moments that make up a life.
My style hasn't really changed. I have always been a storyteller, ever since ts1. When I'm not telling stories, I have random families.
In depth: With TS1, I was a child...I killed a lot of my sims for the enjoyment of it. Most of my stories were childishly dark (killer clowns, child stars and rebellion, lots of death)
With TS2, I was a preteen, so my stories shifted to romance, but there was still dark things. I made a lot of videos set to Evanescence. For game play, it was mostly OFB and simself related.
TS3 is when it changed the most. I was too caught up in making the worlds perfect, the houses perfect, the sims perfect...to tell what I thought would be the perfect story. It never happened. I have spent most of my time in ts3 building and rebuilding worlds...total I probably have maaaaybe 2 months of actual gameplay.
With TS4, I can tell stories again. They're still dark and romance filled. I have also tried rotational and like it. I've tried things I haven't done before...just with the base game and a gp. My "relaxation" family are all mean sims; the child is in a bear suit for everything excluding pjs. The mother is the town bully...and the dad is the town babymaker.
Ok I do admit I do want to use my deviant play style on the Sims 4 more than other games, then disappointed in finding it harder to kill my Sims.
Both hubby and I always had tons of fun killing Mortimer off. In a variety of ways. One of our favorites is to put him on a lot in about a 3x3 enclosure with a stove and a trash can, nothing else. No windows or doors...
Another favorite way of killing Mortimer off was to build a pool (this was TS2) get him in it then delete the pool while he is in it so that he drowns in the ground.
Ok I do admit I do want to use my deviant play style on the Sims 4 more than other games, then disappointed in finding it harder to kill my Sims.
Both hubby and I always had tons of fun killing Mortimer off. In a variety of ways. One of our favorites is to put him on a lot in about a 3x3 enclosure with a stove and a trash can, nothing else. No windows or doors...
Another favorite way of killing Mortimer off was to build a pool (this was TS2) get him in it then delete the pool while he is in it so that he drowns in the ground.
We really had it out for Mortimer. lol
And yes I am ignoring the ramen noodles.
LOL Oh good I'm glad I'm not the only person that enjoys killing my Sims off. I don't usually save the games when I kill them, but it is a play style that hasn't left since the Sims 1. So many fires in that game. I actually like Mortimer, but Don I wouldn't mind letting die. It would be entertaining killing him off by woohoo in the Sims 4. Punishment for his flirty ways.
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” –Helen Keller
Ok I do admit I do want to use my deviant play style on the Sims 4 more than other games, then disappointed in finding it harder to kill my Sims.
Both hubby and I always had tons of fun killing Mortimer off. In a variety of ways. One of our favorites is to put him on a lot in about a 3x3 enclosure with a stove and a trash can, nothing else. No windows or doors...
Another favorite way of killing Mortimer off was to build a pool (this was TS2) get him in it then delete the pool while he is in it so that he drowns in the ground.
We really had it out for Mortimer. lol
And yes I am ignoring the ramen noodles.
LOL Oh good I'm glad I'm not the only person that enjoys killing my Sims off. I don't usually save the games when I kill them, but it is a play style that hasn't left since the Sims 1. So many fires in that game. I actually like Mortimer, but Don I wouldn't mind letting die. It would be entertaining killing him off by woohoo in the Sims 4. Punishment for his flirty ways.
LOL
Neither hubby or I could ever explain just what it is about Mortimer that makes us kill him off. And yes part of the fun is not saving so we can kill him off all over again. That and finding new ways for him to die. What is it about pre-mades that make us want to kill them off and yet we turn off aging for the ones we create? Don't answer that. I already know just how devious and vindictive I can be when I want to.
But I think if I still continue to play Sims as the year passes, my style would be the same. Although for S4 I do play rotationally a bit, so I guess yes. But the main style I play is still there.
Ok I do admit I do want to use my deviant play style on the Sims 4 more than other games, then disappointed in finding it harder to kill my Sims.
Both hubby and I always had tons of fun killing Mortimer off. In a variety of ways. One of our favorites is to put him on a lot in about a 3x3 enclosure with a stove and a trash can, nothing else. No windows or doors...
Another favorite way of killing Mortimer off was to build a pool (this was TS2) get him in it then delete the pool while he is in it so that he drowns in the ground.
We really had it out for Mortimer. lol
And yes I am ignoring the ramen noodles.
LOL Oh good I'm glad I'm not the only person that enjoys killing my Sims off. I don't usually save the games when I kill them, but it is a play style that hasn't left since the Sims 1. So many fires in that game. I actually like Mortimer, but Don I wouldn't mind letting die. It would be entertaining killing him off by woohoo in the Sims 4. Punishment for his flirty ways.
LOL
Neither hubby or I could ever explain just what it is about Mortimer that makes us kill him off. And yes part of the fun is not saving so we can kill him off all over again. That and finding new ways for him to die. What is it about pre-mades that make us want to kill them off and yet we turn off aging for the ones we create? Don't answer that. I already know just how devious and vindictive I can be when I want to.
Ok I do admit I do want to use my deviant play style on the Sims 4 more than other games, then disappointed in finding it harder to kill my Sims.
Both hubby and I always had tons of fun killing Mortimer off. In a variety of ways. One of our favorites is to put him on a lot in about a 3x3 enclosure with a stove and a trash can, nothing else. No windows or doors...
Another favorite way of killing Mortimer off was to build a pool (this was TS2) get him in it then delete the pool while he is in it so that he drowns in the ground.
We really had it out for Mortimer. lol
And yes I am ignoring the ramen noodles.
LOL Oh good I'm glad I'm not the only person that enjoys killing my Sims off. I don't usually save the games when I kill them, but it is a play style that hasn't left since the Sims 1. So many fires in that game. I actually like Mortimer, but Don I wouldn't mind letting die. It would be entertaining killing him off by woohoo in the Sims 4. Punishment for his flirty ways.
LOL
Neither hubby or I could ever explain just what it is about Mortimer that makes us kill him off. And yes part of the fun is not saving so we can kill him off all over again. That and finding new ways for him to die. What is it about pre-mades that make us want to kill them off and yet we turn off aging for the ones we create? Don't answer that. I already know just how devious and vindictive I can be when I want to.
@WolfEyes @Scobre
I just have to mention ladies...........you two are seriously twisted!!
kim
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
Interesting read. It seems most people loved Sims 2 the most. I know I was in awe when I got it - after Sims 1, that I loved but never really got expansion packs for. I made myself and all my children and loved playing families altogether.
Sims 3 - troubled relationship - so much to do and yet I had a hard time feeling like playing. I did play fairies and witches a lot and enjoyed that somewhat, but never got into it like Sims 2.
Sims 4 - when I first played it - I hated it. The controls; the lack of story progression, the missing children - and I left it alone for a while. Then I played again and I was obsessed. Playing 5 hours straight... lol - I am still hooked even though there are a lot of things that annoy me; like the same person ringing your doorbell 10 times every day? 🐸🐸🐸🐸? lol... I've never been much of a house builder before - but with Sims 4 I love it.
My play style has varied with the games; I feel that with Sims 3 and 4, I focus more on playing one Simmer rather than families. I tend to obsess with leveling up skills and work.
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I just quoted that because, well.. because...
Graphics aren't everything.
Anyway.
In S1, I just played it. I didn't have a pattern. I just created a numerous amount of households and built my own homes and rotated whenever I felt like it. I still play it that way. I get bored of a family, I move to another, and another, until I eventually get back to them.
In S2, I played in my usual style. I mostly just experimented until I found what suited me for that game. I play in rotations of 1 day per family. I'm thinking of changing it up again though. My rotations play a crucial role in aging the neighbourhood together.
S3. I'd play for about an hour a year (maybe every few months) and then wonder why I even bothered. Pretty. Yes, but that was it.
S4. I did the same as I did with S1 and S2 at the beginning. I experimented. Then I settled on one-week rotations. It works for the game structure, for me. I micro manage far less than I did in the past, and I continue to experiment with families and gameplay options.
In the end, for each game, I just play them. They all have something different to offer, but when boredom kicks in, I play something else. EA really needs to get to work on fixing issues though--that's all I'll say about that.
TS3 brought another big change with the open world concept. I actually liked it as I did not have to play rotational unless I chose to. The game did it for me (but not so well at times).
But the one thing that I have always done is play families. It has always been about the sims relationships and happiness. It is their story to tell me. Now with TS4, it is like there is no story to tell as it is all written in stone, and I have no found a way to play. I was bored so very quickly it scares me. The sims is the only game I play, and the new series has not been able to hold my attention or give me any enjoyment. I am just glad I still have the prior games to go back to.
kim
Abraham Lincoln
I am continuing to play the same way as I usually do with TS4 (rotational family player), but for the first time I did try a Legacy Challenge. I reached only the 3rd generation
LOL mine too. well I killed them off that is. it was fun to do in s1.
Before I never even considered playing the premade sims, but I use them regularly now and generously retcon their backstories to fit my neighborhood story.
Second I used to put in the most efficient pieces of furniture and care for aesthetics or expressing the sims´ personality only secondary. Nowadays I care more and also clutter a little, mostly in households that I plan to blog about.
And third ever since Making Magics I favoured crafting over traditional careers. This tendency has increased over time, especially with all the cc that´s floating around.
I played Sims 1 for one day because I got it by accident instead of TS2.
TS2 I was more cheaty. I used money and motive cheats, but I played family style. I never did rotational play, even in TS2. So I loved the idea of story progression for TS3.
TS3 I stopped using cheats, but still family style. I liked fulfilling my sims wants and aspirations.
And now with TS4, I still play family style, but I don't have as many kids in my games as I used to. I don't really like how the aspirations work in this game. That there are 4 steps to each one. I also don't like the "whim" system.
When The Sims came out I was more focused on making up fantasy situations and playing them out, rather than what was actually going on in-game. I'd use the photo book (?) feature to write stories using it. I had a habit of making boarding school type set-ups, where all the kids would study from home in a school I custom built. Other than that I tended to play a lot of the default households and I created myself / my friends / etc in the game. I struggled a lot with playing it (I think I only once ever even succeeded in having my Sims marry!) and relied on cheats a lot.
The Sims 2 I was part of TS2UK community, which had a board dedicated to story writing: this originally covered Sim "diaries" that basically just dictated the life of your Sims; and then these later evolved into bigger pieces of fiction. I personally specialised in fantasy stories. Other than that, I had a single legacy family that I managed to hit 10 gens with. Other than that one family, playing "just for fun" didn't really exist for me this gen - it was about the community /storytelling aspect. I also spent a lot of time building and uploading houses, and created quite a bit of CC.
The Sims 3 I spent most of the time focusing on a single family. It was an alphabet legacy and when I stopped playing (due to computer troubles) it was my second go around with the alphabet. By the time I stopped playing them there had been over 40 generations of the family. I had no interest in building nor creating my own CC this time, I stopped using cheats altogether, and I just focused on gameplay - although I did still like posting updates of my family.
The Sims 4... still yet to be decided. (:
The original The Sims is a bit foggy because I was so young. I think my style in that game was all about finding what my style was. I enjoyed the mayhem of torturing Sims, but then I also liked building happy families. I liked playing "normal" households, but also made some wacky characters. When magic was introduced I loved to keep things realistic, but I wanted to have magical stories as well. I was all over the place. I think the only thing that was consistent over the run of that game was that I loved families. I came from what might be considered a "broken" home, and I liked the escapism of playing other families who didn't have the problems we had.
In TS2 I became fully focused on raising Sims to fulfill their dreams and be happy in life. No more mayhem, no more wackiness. I had to adapt to the fact that time meant something now. Sims got older and they died of old age. I remember that was a weird thing. TS2 made me a control-freaky micromanager. To this day I still find old notebooks in my horrible teenage writing with the names of babies born, who they would marry, where they would live, and the jobs they would have. Matchmaking was my favourite part. I hated making Sims, so I had these intricate diagrams making sure everyone would get a "mate" from the existing town population without it leading to "inbreeding" (which was hard after more than two or three generations).
And then there was TS3. This was the most radical change for me. I had to focus on ONE family? If I play another family the one I just played will go on without me??? That was such a blow. Add to that the fact that the Sims themselves had lost their souls and sense of connection to others. Families just felt like a bunch of roommates. After purchasing it, TS3 collected dust for a long time because I was having a hard time figuring out what to do that was fun. My play style changed in that I played a lot of the game in fast-forward, because I never felt like I'd miss anything (and I realized eventually that I was always waiting for the NEXT life stage, or the NEXT generation for gameplay to become unique, fun and interesting). I also became a decorator. I loved renovating and decorating homes (I'm hopeless at actually building things from scratch) with CASt. If I could break down the time I spent playing, I'd bet 90% was spent decorating homes or coordinating outfits for my Sims every time they advanced to a new life stage, and 10% actually playing.
In TS4, my play style has gone back to its roots more. I play almost exclusively in live mode again, which I enjoy a whole lot more. I find that I play the game at a slower rate than than I even played TS2. I don't think I've hit the fast-forward button once (it only happens when the computer does it for me during sleeping or work hours for my Sims). I'm just enjoying the game too much, and all of the little details and moments are something I don't want to miss. I also find that I move on to the next generation much slower. I have long courtships because I think they are the cutest they've ever been and I enjoy them so much. I get too attached to my Sims to rush their lives along. I want to tell each and every one of their stories fully and well.
So that's my essay, I guess. Yeesh, sorry if that was a bit long.
If you want a summary instead:
The Sims: Try ALL the play styles!
TS2: Time means something now. Also let's micromanage the heck out of everyone!
TS3: I guess I'm a designer now, because the rest of the game has cool stuff but is deep as a puddle!
TS4: My Sims matter to me so much more now, so let's live their lives fully and appreciate the little moments that make up a life.
In 3 and 4, I find I prefer to play just one household, although I regularly delete them and create new ones.
In depth: With TS1, I was a child...I killed a lot of my sims for the enjoyment of it. Most of my stories were childishly dark (killer clowns, child stars and rebellion, lots of death)
With TS2, I was a preteen, so my stories shifted to romance, but there was still dark things. I made a lot of videos set to Evanescence. For game play, it was mostly OFB and simself related.
TS3 is when it changed the most. I was too caught up in making the worlds perfect, the houses perfect, the sims perfect...to tell what I thought would be the perfect story. It never happened. I have spent most of my time in ts3 building and rebuilding worlds...total I probably have maaaaybe 2 months of actual gameplay.
With TS4, I can tell stories again. They're still dark and romance filled. I have also tried rotational and like it. I've tried things I haven't done before...just with the base game and a gp. My "relaxation" family are all mean sims; the child is in a bear suit for everything excluding pjs. The mother is the town bully...and the dad is the town babymaker.
That's all I can say.
This is the truth.
Mitakuye oyasin.
To all my relations, keep dancing.
Believe or you will not see.
Both hubby and I always had tons of fun killing Mortimer off. In a variety of ways. One of our favorites is to put him on a lot in about a 3x3 enclosure with a stove and a trash can, nothing else. No windows or doors...
Another favorite way of killing Mortimer off was to build a pool (this was TS2) get him in it then delete the pool while he is in it so that he drowns in the ground.
We really had it out for Mortimer. lol
And yes I am ignoring the ramen noodles.
This is the truth.
Mitakuye oyasin.
To all my relations, keep dancing.
Believe or you will not see.
LOL
Neither hubby or I could ever explain just what it is about Mortimer that makes us kill him off. And yes part of the fun is not saving so we can kill him off all over again. That and finding new ways for him to die. What is it about pre-mades that make us want to kill them off and yet we turn off aging for the ones we create? Don't answer that. I already know just how devious and vindictive I can be when I want to.
This is the truth.
Mitakuye oyasin.
To all my relations, keep dancing.
Believe or you will not see.
But I think if I still continue to play Sims as the year passes, my style would be the same. Although for S4 I do play rotationally a bit, so I guess yes. But the main style I play is still there.
@WolfEyes
@Scobre
I just have to mention ladies...........you two are seriously twisted!!
kim
Abraham Lincoln
Thank you!
This is the truth.
Mitakuye oyasin.
To all my relations, keep dancing.
Believe or you will not see.
All Ramen tastes the same. Show me something authentic
My point exactly.
Sims 3 - troubled relationship - so much to do and yet I had a hard time feeling like playing. I did play fairies and witches a lot and enjoyed that somewhat, but never got into it like Sims 2.
Sims 4 - when I first played it - I hated it. The controls; the lack of story progression, the missing children - and I left it alone for a while. Then I played again and I was obsessed. Playing 5 hours straight... lol - I am still hooked even though there are a lot of things that annoy me; like the same person ringing your doorbell 10 times every day? 🐸🐸🐸🐸? lol... I've never been much of a house builder before - but with Sims 4 I love it.
My play style has varied with the games; I feel that with Sims 3 and 4, I focus more on playing one Simmer rather than families. I tend to obsess with leveling up skills and work.