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The Sims 1 vs The Sims 4
Fleurkween
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I have been playing The Sims 1 lately, and I have found it much more enjoyable than The Sims 4.
I'm happy that the sims actually react to cheating. If one sim cheats on the other, their partner will slap that sim. Meanwhile in The Sims 4, my sims don't react. If a sim dies the sims will react too. Plus I have terrain tools so I can change the terrain of my sims house. Plus my sims get to use dishwashers! and my sims actually get into a car to go to work instead of vanishing into oblivion! My sims can also call the police,firefighter or repairman if they are in trouble instead of having to sort it out themselves.
Does anyone remember these creepy phone calls too?
I'm happy that the sims actually react to cheating. If one sim cheats on the other, their partner will slap that sim. Meanwhile in The Sims 4, my sims don't react. If a sim dies the sims will react too. Plus I have terrain tools so I can change the terrain of my sims house. Plus my sims get to use dishwashers! and my sims actually get into a car to go to work instead of vanishing into oblivion! My sims can also call the police,firefighter or repairman if they are in trouble instead of having to sort it out themselves.
Does anyone remember these creepy phone calls too?
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He did slap her, but then she broke up with him right away, and this was his reaction.
And their reactions to when they get robbed, which NEVER happens in TS4. Because there are no robbers, and yes I do miss those guys, because as weird as it sounds I've had a couple of sims snag those guys as future husbands in TS3.
I don't have TS1 any more, lost them a long time ago.
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I remember getting a warning not to build - but since my Sim had earned some dosh it was time to improve the house/furnishings.
No sooner had I added another room, when the sink flooded in the kitchen and his TV broke.
So maybe take heed!
& remember the genie lamp? he usually wasn't much help when my sims wished for things haha.
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Me too, I miss the creepy calls and dark humor of the sims 1. The first years were exciting, because it was a new gaming concept (a life simulator.) Now the sims 4 are kinda meh. Waterslides, birds, lemonade and taking your sims to a restaurant where they end up wasting 8 sim hours, are the thing nowadays. Which is not exciting at all. Yes I get the game runs smooth on most computers, but that's not a valid excuse for this thing called "the sims 4".
After a few days he eventually left, a burglar then showed up to steal the brand new cooker!
It got me thinking though. All of the above happened within three sim days. It made me realise that actually very little "drama" to want for a better word occurs in the sims 4. I rarely get sims starting fires and I've never had a sims 4 baby removed. I really miss the firefighter NPC and the burglar. In general I think the sims 4 is just too happy. No one wants a life simulator that is all doom and gloom but the only drama that occurs in my sims 4 game is situations I start.
I've realised and playing the sims 1 again confirmed it, that playing the sims one (and two) actually requires you too play and take care of your sims as the game does throw curve balls at you. When I play the sims 4, i feel I can load the game, sit back and just watch. The Sims will take care of themselves. I could walk away and leave the game running and the sims 4 sims will still be living when I get back, they may just have forgotten they are married in that time.
I recently gave up on The Sims 4 to call it quits and returned to The Sims 2. It's quite ironic how my Sims have more feeling and reactions in The Sims 2 then the Sims 4 for example because of the turn ons and off feature there is this one girl at the campus dormitory who always acts disgusted when walking near my Sim with x's flying around her cause she's not even remotely attracted to him. She does this all the time to the point where I can't wait to make her feel uncomfortable! The Sims 4 focuses on a broad area while The Sims 2 focuses on the little moments like how you feel about a person after an argument or a conversation! Sims literally crying on and off for a day or two because they got robbed! I enjoy the little moments. The Sims 4 just doesn't cut it with small moments. Sims in The Sims 4 are "not together" they don't cuddle when sleeping in bed at night if anything there actually separated, they don't even dance together just next to each other. Sigh...I truly do feel a lot of small things were simply overlooked to meet a rushed deadline and that brings down the quality of a product pretty badly even with the positives ...
TS4 is lacking too much to be considered a game.
I completely agree!
That's why The sims 2 is my favourite if the sims series, it has me believing my sims care about each other, I don't even feel that way about the sims 3 and 4.
I think it had the most charm, and I loved the dark humour. And the silly chance phone calls (like getting 1000 Simoleons because you won a dog-naming contest).
I think subsequent games took away some of the silliness and some of the darkness - in subsequent games it was harder and harder for your Sim to die, a lot of things that were frustrating were taken away (without the realisation that 'frustrating' is just another way of saying 'challenging' in many cases). I'm not saying that subsequent games didn't add a lot of things either - it's always been a trade-off. But I actually still played Sims 1 until recently, and it always strikes me how difficult it is to keep your Sims happy and get them to the top level of their career. It does mean the reward is greater when you do get there, though...
Conversely if you get a promotion and you use the money to boost the environment score in one of the rooms you usually get a call straight after awarding you a cash prize from one of the neighborhood associations.
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you have to use a hack to make it playable
other than that
if you like pixelated games then it's a must
if you prefer smoother graphics over unique gameplay, then stay with the newer games
if you dislike hard games to play, stay away from TS1, it's the hardest to play sims game
The Sims 1 runs fine on my Win10 laptop, no hack needed. How is TS1 hard???
agree
the sims 1 is easy lol
It had some issues.. I think Sims 2 was perfect and had the best balance. Sims 3 and 4 are too easy and their needs decay too slow.
I had sims die too easily at times.. Their careers were a lot more demanding and if the kids did not get good grades, they would have to go to military school.. When I first started playing, I could not figure out how to get my sim out of the pool and he missed his first day of work and wound up drowning.
It seems like every new sim was a fire hazard.. They had to be very careful cooking for the first time, because it was very high chance they would start one on the lot. I remember getting so freaked out when one died for the first time and the grim reaper showed up. I was so scared, I wound up saving and exiting a lot when bad things happen. [Maybe it didn't occur to me I could just exit WITHOUT saving...] I never got to play that family again, but I would see them show up on lots of other families. Oh, hey, I remember you. How's it going? Last I saw you, you were dancing in front of the fire...
Their relationships would go down wayyyy too fast if they did not constantly socialize. If my sim was very busy and I sent him to bed with his wife that night, sometimes he would freak out and refuse to join her as though they were strangers. Also if your sims had a baby, they could easily be taken away. I didn't even know it was possible for them to grow up. I always thought they were stuck objects forever, because I never successfully raised one the full 72 sim hours.
They aren't like Sims 4 where a fire is extremely rare and if it does happen, they all have a fire extinguishers randomly materialize out of nowhere and are equipped to act like firefighters themselves. They couldn't just reach into their inventory and pull out some nonexistent food when they were about to starve to death.
Some of the silly more annoying things were how they would freak out on unrouteable terrain or panic if a book was in there way... They could not step over it or think of picking it up first. Well, it may have been weird, but it paved the way for future iterations we have to this day.. Hehe.
At least compared to Sims 3 and 4, it was hard.... Sometimes, it could be very frustrating. I know a really funny definition that captures the hardships perfectly, but I probably shouldn't share it just because it's on a more risque site. xD