Honestly... all they needed to do was improve the textures, lighting, and polygon count of sims 2. Why spend all this money creating a "next generation" base game that won't allow sims to play active roles in the restaurant due to "bugs". It was fully implemented along with a complex retail system in sims 2, a game you guys created TEN YEARS ago. Why don't you just go back to the sims 2 and modernize the graphics. Perhaps add some open world elements.
To those who will are about to ATTACK me:
Sims 4 is the best game in the world. It has sold over 3 trillion copies and is the best selling PC game with the highest rated scores from all major game outlets. It not only expands on open world it also implemented OPEN UNIVERSE allowing players to travel galaxies without loading screens. It has a better retail and restaurant system than sims 2. Sims 4 is tactile and intuitive and emotional.
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Um, wasn't that 1? I'm pretty sure my Sims in 2 disappeared under the sheets to create a baby.
TS4 is nothing but an updated version of TS2. Well, at least in my opinion.
It had a smoother progression through the life cycle of sims that was for sure. (*cough toddlers cough*) Also a lot of other nice details that made it stand out in it's time.
I also think TS4 is more like TS1 than TS2. If it had been an updated TS2 I could probably get my money's worth out of it.
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Unfortunately that won't be a TS4 thing.
They may bring it back in TS5 though, so fingers crossed!
I disagree. It's not just the great graphics, it's what the sims can do. Where they can go. I prefer the open lots. Open restaurants. Open spas. In detail. I missed those immensely in sims 3. And no, I didn't buy the half-baked content at the store for that. I was disappointed enough with what I did buy in terms of Eps and other store stuff. Everything was a let down to me in sims 3.
Graphics aren't everything. I agree with @fullspiral comments. CASt was nice but the open world to me felt like a very tiny version of sim city. I was and still do find it annoying when your sims say go to say a restaurant and your view is the outside of the building. I despised rabbit holes!
I do agree with the last part though.
Super true for the open-world part. I felt it was more eery personally? Like it was just too quiet and open for my liking. Then again, I grew up to enjoy the cozier mechanics for TS1 (console) and TS2 (PC). It made lots feel more packed and streets more crowded.
Exactly. And this is what I mean when I say they were trying to meld" the two genres. Sims 3 showed it wasn't possible. "You either have sim city, or you have the sims. I prefer to play the Sims.
"Nope, that wouldn't be enough for fullspiral, because she really needs open world and CASt more than anything and that's why she loved Sims 3, like everybody does."
Didn't say that though I was giving my personal opinion. And not talking about Sims 4. I don't think the OP was talking about Sims 4 either btw, but merely dreaming about the perfect Sims game. Which for them means Sims 2 with better graphics but for me that imaginary game needs other elements. Elements more important than graphics. For me.
Hope I made myself more clear now
For me that realistic open world simply is a very important part of feeling immersed. My sims living in a real world. Funny you mention SimCity by the way, because the very first time I had that Sims feeling was in 97 or so, when I watched my father playing that game. I loved it, but I wanted to go inside those houses, see who lived there. It was that open world experience that did that to me, I'm simply not a loading screen fan. And the teleporting system in Sims 4 is the worst for me personally, I need my sims to at least walk or drive away. But again, that's me.
I disagree. They are indeed chasing after TS2, but they are not, by any means, capturing what made it great.
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I love rabbitholes too. I never wanted to see my sim sitting at a desk at work or school. I couldn't imagine anything more mind numbingly boring.
Also, people conveniently seem to forget that you weren't limited to staring at a RH restaurant in TS3. The Bistro had an "eat outside" option where you could watch your sims and their party eating. It wasn't as great as restaurants in TS2, but nothing in the series has measured up to that game in my opinion.
TS3's open world is really nice, but I would have been thrilled with a graphical overhaul of TS2, and all the in depth play that went with it. I don't think TS4 is anything like it. It's too shallow.
ETA - If you have ITF installed, there are food synthesisers that come with it, that spawn an NPC waiter, so placing that on a lot and setting it up can give you a workable restaurant.
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Wow, way to totally insult TS2 fans. TS2 is AWESOME! So, let me ask you this. If you buy a house, and it becomes old, are you just going to dump it, or are you going to continue investing in it? Just because something is old, doesn't make it bad. Millennials. *shakes head*