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What does TS2 have that TS3/4 doesn't?
dw4518
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I love love TS3 and not planning to buy TS4 anytime soon. I'm curious to give TS2 another go because it seems to be a lot of people's fav version.
When I tried it I felt like it was a harder game, i.e realising fears and keeping needs up. I'm just interested to know, what is there in TS2 that's unique? I'm looking for reasons to give it another try but it just seems like all the EPs and content I can find in TS3.
When I tried it I felt like it was a harder game, i.e realising fears and keeping needs up. I'm just interested to know, what is there in TS2 that's unique? I'm looking for reasons to give it another try but it just seems like all the EPs and content I can find in TS3.
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I love the fact the sims have the most character, I feel they act the most realistic in terms of behaviours good and bad. Unlike in later versions if your Sim is angry you don't need a pop up telling you so and why, sims 2 sims will express their own feelings and thoughts very well. If their needs are low they will point blank refuse to do certain things. If they are angry at other sims they can be furious which can last a few days. The attraction system is brilliant and I really miss it.
I prefer children in TS2. Toddlers are so well done and I like having them but disliked them in 3.
From a gameplay perspective as a player who plays rotational I feel TS2 is the best for that. It's a nightmare in 3 and needs a little work in 4.
I like that it's not just moodlets.
I like their face structure- I like the different Sims and not all 'Beautiful' like in TS4. So many just don't get it. It's not about how cute my Sim is, it's the Sim and their personality.
I saw someone trying to do an Uglacy in TS4 and TS3 but they can't without making Sims that have exaggerated faces. In TS2 the faces are from real people, not just dolls; ts4 perfect little dolls.
It's the stores, the money, the jobs, the lots, the business, the restaurants, the families, the toddlers, the kids, the teens, the fears, the wants, their like and dislikes .... it's the game I want them to expand on and open up.
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If I left TS2 running overnight I know I'd awaken to find all my sims dead. That's the difference.
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Sims 2 is amazing. There are a lot of things I like about Sims 3, but Sims 2 fits my rotational, multi-generational, sandbox play perfectly.
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Sims 2 has a lot more detail put into animations. For example:
Cars actually drive out the driveway. If you have a cheap car your sim might have to slam the door a couple of times to close it. When you get to your destination, your sim will park the car on the road. Yes there is a loading screen, but the screen will show a car driving if in a car or a pedestrian if on foot, etc. I like that, it's a small thing that makes a big difference to me. Sims 3 the car just teleports to the road. If they are out and about it just teleports in and out of their inventory. No loading screen is kind of nice, but on the other hand driving from one end of the map to the other can also be a tedious process. Sims 4 no playable cars at all.
Sims 2 you can't shop from your refrigerator. When your food runs out you have to buy more. You can either go to a grocery store and purchase a basket of groceries or order groceries to be delivered. In a truck. By an NPC who will ring the doorbell and wait at the door with a basket to hand to your sim to put in the fridge. Sims 3 you had the option of going grocery shopping. Sims 4 you just buy stuff from your fridge.
Family play is so much more detailed. Toddlers have a lot more that they can do than in TS3, but a lot of it is autonomous, not user directed. If left unattended they will think up their own solutions to things. They might dance to music that's playing, or play in the toilet, or eat the dog's food or eat some sand or splash in a puddle. They can huggle with each other and bother the cat or dog. They need to be bathed (babies in the sink/basin, toddlers in the bath). There are family specific interactions such as "groom", which is basically picking lint of the other person's clothes in the manner of a picky, but affectionate spouse.
No rabbitholes! Sims 2 you can actually take a date out for a romantic dinner and propose during the meal. Grocery stores have fridges and produce displays and a register. While having CASt is fun for customising clothes in TS2 you have to go out and buy them. Or you can learn to sew and make them.
Time doesn't pass in unplayed households. Not everyone likes that, but for rotational play it's perfect. You can play whatever family you like and know that your other families aren't having affairs or getting old before you get a chance to play them.
It's not so much that there is a lot of different things to do in Sims 2 that aren't in Sims 3, but that they things you can do are much more detailed. Sims 3 is the game with the most to "do", but I think Sims 2 is the game with the most depth.
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- the game has much more animations and they are all hilarious
- the sims's moods are very well expressed and varied
- the fact that meals can be served by the person who cooked them for the whole family
- family interactions are awesome
- you can drive your get into your car and drive it out of the parking lot
- restautants and shops
- the different sub districts that can make the world huge
- hobbies that highlight a sim's personality (i LOVE Free Time)
- the attraction system
But there are also things that make TS3 the winner:
- TS2 is UGLY and the furniture is not nearly as smooth on the edge
- the surrounding trees and houses are blurry and awfully pixelized even if the tree is basically 1 feet from your lot
- TS2 doesn't have that many furtinure even with all the packs installed and that surprised me
- no CAS
- TS2 sims are just as ugly as TS3 CC free but at least in TS3 the CC skintones are beautiful whereas TS2 sims tend to be pink and shiny
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- no ability to switch from sims in a household like in TS3
- no story progression (i'm not a rotational player so i don't care about all those unplayed households)
Those are "details" but they ruin my fun. Everything that annoyed me in TS2 was actually corrected in TS3 and even though I play with a heavily modded TS3 game it brought me all i ever wanted in a Sims game.
As for TS4 apart from its great graphics, this game is a joke. It's already dead anyway.
TS2 had detailed animations (like in chess or while playing in the PC)
TS2 had much more fun interactions (making out in the couch or in the hot tub was best in TS2)
TS2 is really, really fun but the fact that I have to wait loading screens drags me into TS3. Once you play it, its difficult to go back.
TS2's nightlife spots were so much much more populated than in TS3, those were real partying!
When I watch TS2's trailers I want to play it, but once you've tasted TS3's freedom its difficult to chose.
But TS3 is also lots of fun and Its best when you have all TS3 expansion packs except the Katy Perry ones because you know they suck