Here I go again! I came back to The Sims 3 because there's so little to do in The Sims 4 with limited tools for creativity that I'm literally finding myself starting to continuously rehash old storylines! Refusing to play a rehash I reverted to what I consider "The Final Passionate" Sims game in the franchise where I created a Sim named "Holiday Inn" whose looking for fame in order to fit in with masculine men in the gay community as the only way he feels he can stop being rejected is by gaining power and the best way to do that is to become a 5-star celebrity. With a new Sim in this generation comes a sudden emotion of how much I love using terrain tools. From creating ponds to hills to more options in terms of dirt/sand/etc I miss having those terrain tools in addition to the many group activities that you can do with Sims.
I miss being able to travel around without a plumbob shaking it's fanny at me and the freedom of create a style that makes my creativity limitless. I'm constantly struggling in The Sims 4 due to it's limitations but now that I'm back in Sims 3 I want to make a pimped out starter house or a retro 70's bowling alley! So my question to you Simmers that took the plunge to return to a great series what do you find that you miss when you come back?
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I just view TS4 as a completely different game all together.
The Sims has always been an important part of my life, and may it continue to be so! Long live Sims!
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That's the good thing about TS4. There are players who prefer it over TS3, for their own reasons, or players who can't play TS3, because their computers can't handle it. Those who don't like it, still have their TS3 games they can play.
What an insult to alley cats, lol!
a) they never left 3!
b) it's a completely different gaming experience.
Personally OP, I actually feel the exact opposite from you. I don't really miss build mode in 3. Yes, terrain editing would be nice in 4, but ultimately building a house is so much more intuitive in 4 than in 3. And I have come to really love the gallery. Not in the mood to build? Plop down a stunning house out of nowhere and you're good to go.
Conversely, when I load up 4 I miss a lot of the game play. I miss messy houses with laundry and unmade beds. I miss CASt. The t-word, obviously. 4 has a few miles to go when it come to live mode. But that's the thing. If that's what I want to play, then I turn to 3. If I want to build stellar houses and community lots, I go to 4.
That's why I see them as two completely different games.
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Whenever I play the Sims 3, I miss the in-game Gallery.
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I've tried to dabble with playing TS4 again, the last time right after GT came out, and now I just feel angry and betrayed over that whole mess of a game.
Where are we going, and why am I in this hand basket?!
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I liked a few features of Spa Day, but not enough. The stuff packs for me were a mixed bag. I was not a fan of Luxury Party, or Perfect Patio. I was on the fence about Movie Hangout and Spooky Stuff. I did like Cool Kitchen though.
I also do not appreciate the focus on Stuff Packs, I would take quality Gamepacks and Expansion Packs on a more frequent release schedule than releasing one GP, maybe an EP, and multiple stuff packs, too many if you ask me. I find it somewhat disturbing that The Sims 4 was released in 2013 or 2014 and we only have 2 EPs and 2 GPs. Where's the real content? I think it was 2013 or 14, but was it 2012?
CAS is well done in TS4, you can play there for hours with sim's facial features and body, and create truly unique sims. But even there, they left out a lot. I was disappointed when I saw that sims can only have 3 traits+ the one you get when you choose their aspiration. And they even reduced the number of traits to choose from. I lovet the faster house building, but that was it for the build mode. Buy mode in TS3 is so much superior. Also, te loading screens get so annoying after some time.
So, In my opinion, EA really spoiled us with TS3, its create a style ( the feature I missed the most), its open worlds, traits... So for many of us, myself included, there is still no point in leaving TS3, we have everything we need there.
Then I go back and play 3, because it actually has gameplay features where I'm not staring at my house for 6 hours while everyone is at work. Open worlds can do wonders to get rid of boredom, even if you just use it to spy on people.
When I play the other games, I miss the room tool and the ability to add a foundation to an existing building without having to tear it down, but I don't miss having that foundation affect every building on the lot.
I love challenges, I usually am playing a challenge. But with Sims 3, I use challenges as an "added" bit of game play. My sims still have lives, still have fun, still do things. In Sims 4, it was all about the challenge because that was the only way I could play it. Without challenges... there was nothing. Nothing to do. Nowhere to go (oh, yeah, you can chose between a bar, lounge, or nightclub... which, all 3 are pretty much the same plum thing).
I bought Get Together and I really loved that EP. For a period of time, I was having a lot of fun with it. I'd make clubs for my kids to study together and skill up together. I had clubs for everything from woohoo clubs, cleaning/repairing clubs, to skilling clubs. I even made a club where I had 4 people that would come to my sims house and all paint, and make my sim a ton of cash.
But, again, it got boring.
I am super freaking happy that I reinstalled Sims 3 on my hard drive (if wouldn't have been off, except I got a new drive). I've been back to playing Sims 3 for 2 months now since reinstall and I haven't touched Sims 4 since. And I don't miss it. I missed Sims 3 when I wasn't playing it.
I've thought lately, "I should find a challenge and go play Sims 4, just to give it a chance"... then I quickly decide to just start my Sims 3 game, where I know I'll have fun.
Then I got back to the Sims 3 and it was like a breath of fresh air. Everything was open to me, and I could let my imagination go crazy again.
Yup. This is me, too, in a nutshell. I'm currently going back and forth between TS3 and TS4, so there's nothing to miss.