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Sims 4 to Sims 3
aaronrulz
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I just moved in with new roommates and one of them is allowing me to install Sims 3 on his PC. The reason I don't play Sims 3 was because I always had a MAC and it was crashing all the time. As of now I'm much more motivated to start from scratch with Sims 3 than wasting my time being disappointed in Sims 4. I can't think of a single thing i'll be missing when I go back. Has anyone gone back to Sims 3 and missed something about Sims 4?
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In all seriousness, it's better to have both for the full experience it provides. Add in TS2 for a good retrospective, and you definitely appreciate the pains it took to make some of the preceding games.
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In 4 I missed having my plumbots around, being able to spend copious amounts of money on things, and the variety of job tracks. Going to work gets pretty boring after a while in 4. I also wish there was university or boarding school in 4 where your kids would just come back with traits you haven't thought of picking and neat skills.
I can't win, so I play both often. LOL. Both games have their ups and downs for me, but to each their own.
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There are a lot of things new to the sims 4 that I wish was in my sims 3 game: easy build tools; ability to make sims of different ethnicities; improved genetics; face and body shaping tools; electric and water being 🐸🐸🐸🐸 off instead of the repo man; and breastfeeding. I also like how kids can play instruments again, and how they have more skill building toys and more toys in general, and I like the added excercise equipment - very minor things. These are the things I miss from the sims 4 when I play sims 3.
I hate the sims 4 mostly because it doesn't have an open world.
The sims 3 can have lag and long load times. I know over time, they patched the game to the point that mine no longer lag. If mine did lag then it was because of programs running in the background. Like my browser, that I had to close b4 playing. Long load times before I could play the game was a problem. Once inside the world, I had no probs. There are a lot of bugs, too, that they didn't fix. Not surprisingly, the sims 4 has a lot of bugs right out the gate, too. But, I'd rather deal with all the sims 3 bugs and other prob and have a open world, than have tons of bugs still and lots of load screens added on top of it.
Going back to sims 1 or 2 is just too old for me, and I can't deal with the load screens, especial the long load screens in sims 2. Plus, the games are just too old-school for me, and sims 3 is getting there, too.
Here are some things I miss from TS4:
- TS4 seems to be generally more stable, and data files are kept cleaner. I encountered less game-breaking bugs in TS4 than TS3. When I did, exporting the household to the gallery and starting a new save helped. In TS3, the corrupted data would get exported along with the household. That's just from my own experience, and YMMV.
- I prefer the lighting of TS4.
- Create-a-Sim.
- Modding is much easier in TS4. More things are tunable via XML than having to write custom scripts from scratch.
- The aging options in TS4. Love to have immortal sims watching the rest of the town age. There's a potion for that in TS3, but I prefer it as a game option.
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This so much.
I remember the first week when The Sims 4 came. It was a strange time, a mixed bag of feelings.
Won't lie: I enjoyed it A LOT for the first three days.
Here is why:
- The game was new (after playing The Sims 3 for thousands of hours It's just natural that you get burned out. LGR said in one of his videos: The Sims 3 is like a very good friend you can always come back to. This is so true. However I felt it was time for something new)
- If you don't understand it's gimmicky nature you will enjoy playing with "emotions". But after you realise the consequences they brought to the table (making all the sims uninspired, flat and boring since they have absolutly NO character) you'll learn to hate them.
- Multi-Tasking felt amazing
- It was a very nice game to look (!!!!) at. The Team did a very good job with the animations. Playing (!) got boring very fast though
These were the main reasons why I had to do three attempts to go back to The Sims 3. It was not easy. But after a week I got back into it and since then The Sims 4 felt like a huge disappointment. In The Sims 3 I rule. In The Sims 4 I... play a mobile game.
Sure, Multi-tasking is nice but it often caused an immersion-breaking gameplay situation (just look at the "OFB" aspect of the game for example).
I learned that I need my sandbox, my town I can fully control and manipulate (in other words: where I am able to play GOD) without loading screens, limitations and dumb, uninspired flat sims. Multi-tasking is not this important to me.
Absolutely.
It's a great mobile game - indeed.
The routing is better in TS4. There is a lot less standing around waving, stomping and yelling because they can't figure out how to get around the couch in TS4.
edit: one exeption, the kitchen when you order more of them to eat
I still have lots of things I haven't done in Sims 3 :-D
I missed the expressiveness of my Sims 4 sims... their multitasking... the build mode... and how they can slip through narrow spots inside their homes and don't require full tiles for movement, and I missed TS4 CAS deeply! There were other things too, but those are the primary ones. TS2 is my all time favorite Sims Installment, but I couldn't stay playing that either. I like the smoothness of gameplay in 4... but 4 has a lot less content than the other games since it's still new. So only time will tell if it can maintain that smoothness as more SPs, GPs, and EPs pile in. TS4 has things that need fixing, but I appreciate how it runs for smoother for me than TS3 did. TS2 always ran fine for me, I just can't play it without A LOT of CC. hahahahaha