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I've really been enjoying getting back into the Sims 2
FlamingoKicker1
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Of course I played TS2 for years when it was first out but then it got where it was running really slow cause I had so much custom content clogging it up. Then about that time that I was getting fed up with it TS3 came along and I just sequed to that game.
Now though since TS3 is kind of over but I'm not yet sure I want to get TS4 unless I start hearing more positive reviews I went and grabbed the free Origin Sims 2 Ultimate collection which is sweet. True I don't have all my old saved sims but it is like a rebirth. And since I the company I'd worked for more than 25 years just closed its doors I have a lot of free time (when I am not looking for a new job which does take up a good deal of the day) but the time I spend with the sims is great at reducing stress. Ah well...if only jobs were as easy to find in real life I'd just go become a brain surgeon by picking up the daily paper. It is funny when I try to do something in TS2 that I could easily do in TS3 only to realize you can't do that but then there are lots of things you could do in TS2 that you could never do in TS3, especially romantic dating interactions.
Now though since TS3 is kind of over but I'm not yet sure I want to get TS4 unless I start hearing more positive reviews I went and grabbed the free Origin Sims 2 Ultimate collection which is sweet. True I don't have all my old saved sims but it is like a rebirth. And since I the company I'd worked for more than 25 years just closed its doors I have a lot of free time (when I am not looking for a new job which does take up a good deal of the day) but the time I spend with the sims is great at reducing stress. Ah well...if only jobs were as easy to find in real life I'd just go become a brain surgeon by picking up the daily paper. It is funny when I try to do something in TS2 that I could easily do in TS3 only to realize you can't do that but then there are lots of things you could do in TS2 that you could never do in TS3, especially romantic dating interactions.
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Oh, sorry to hear about the job closing.
So, true- I'd have me a lovely job of Game Programmer, or some such that sounds like I could never do it.
I love t2. The last time I tried to play 3 it crashed and I haven't been back since. It's just not worth the trouble.
Sorry about the job FlamingoKicker. That's a bear :-( We went through that a few years ago, that's how we ended up in Wyoming. But now we are home again and even though we are older, both of us are working again. Hang in there!
I am literally addicted again lol. I have to force myself to exit the game so I can eat, sleep, and other important things lol.
"CamJam1995" is what I used. I used to play TSO and TSBO Online daily until they both shut down in 2008. I still have my network login info for TSBO on my PS2 memory card, and on my old PC I have my EA Land (TSO) stuff still downloaded.
Best wishes on the job search.
I hope things go well with the job search. What, exactly, is a gourmet party planner? It sounds really foo-fooish. LOL.
My username was the same as now but I was more of a lurker on the old boards. I don't have the energy to want to change it.
That is similar to my story!
Like you, I got Sims2 Deluxe(has Late Night) just before Sims3 came out. After playing Sims3 with multiple expansion packs (and lots of store content) I picked up TS2 Best of Business, Fun with Pets, and University Life downloads for five bucks each before they stopped selling them. I even picked up Seasons but never reeeeally explored any of them. I was hard core Sims3 with a serious store content habit. Then I got the email about Sims2 closing down support of disks. All of the content and expansion packs that came with that super download are freaking me out. I haven't opened my Sims3 since. (ha ha!, that came out "Sims three cents" and I had to correct it, got to love Siri :-))
I checked immediately to see if there was a new Sims2 forum, but there were only a few posts asking about it. I didn't visit the community for several months because there was no place to talk about Sims2. I came back today to check the store. Hadn't seen the redesigned forums. Love it! A Sims2 group? Yay! But the store is closing?? I have a lot to catch up on it seems if I can tear myself away from my Simmies in Pleasantview
But now I have a dilemma. Just before all this hoo-ha, I bought a brand-new computer and installed and downloaded all my TS3 games from discs. It played much more smoothly and I was starting to add store content. My Sims play got interrupted with the Sims4 demo. I wanted to give my honest opinion about it. Lots of pros, lots of cons. Not interested. The Super Duper Sims2 plays like it never did before.
So do I play Sims2... or Sims3... skip Sims4 and go straight to 5?
I've also started playing TS2 again. I had forgotten how many of those little nuances there were missing in TS3. Just little things - things that made TS2 seem so whimsical. I've had a blast playing it again. I don't think I realized how much I had missed it.
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I too am enjoying the Sims 2 with all the EPs & SPs. I'm using Bluewater Village as my home base neighborhood and
just added the downtown neighborhood. I sent my sim out to buy new clothes and he got hungry and had
dinner at a restaurant, it was nice, 'cause in my old installment my sims could only be in town for about 15 real time
minutes before my game would crash, I don't know why.
FlamingoKicker1, good luck with the job hunt, been there, done that, not fun.
Maybe one day (in you know, 10 years or so!) they will give out TS3 free and it will be another fun stroll down memory lane!
I was pretty excited last night, because I got Don Lothario alien impregnated and he has his little baby boy now! hahaha
I'm finding it amazing. I've been exploring Strangetown and the stories it involves. Funnily enough, I never played the Beakers in all my years of simming. Last night, Loki died from an accident, and a few hours later Circe and Nervous Subject were in bed... Which wasn't my original storyline. I was planning to have him move in with now adult Ophelia (now that Olive has passed away) and get to know his cousin before she marries fiancee Johnny Smith. Maybe not... Circe and Loki did have a nice house that Nervous might just fancy hahaha
I'm a bit upset there isnt a 'Sims 2' section on the forums... but I guess this section will do!
I definitely like The Sims 2 better that 3, it was so ahead of its time. It's fun remember what I can and can't do in comparison to S3. I also haven't used cheats yet
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AND while you're at it, here's my simblr!