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Different Play Styles (Sims 3 and sims 4)
Zeldaboy180
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I've noticed that whenever I go back to play sims 3 I play completely different than I do sims 4.
With sims 3 I tend to have a single sim (99% of the time they're a supernatural) who explores the world and levels up skills. They always have very few friends and honestly I get bored with them once I settle down with a spouse and kids. In sims 3 I've noticed I much more love exploring as a single sim, like my scientist who has a dungeon and keeps people trapped in there.
In sims 4 I do more family play and legacy, I'm on like heir 8 or 9 in my legacy, and I had never gotten past like 2 or 3 in any other sims game.
I just find it weird because alot of people say Sims 4 lacks in family play.
Sims 3 seems to suit my deviant play style more than 4 does. One of my favorite stories was a little boy who was frozen in the Pod from into the future for a couple of generations and all of his family were long gone or old, his mother was neglectful etc.
With sims 3 I tend to have a single sim (99% of the time they're a supernatural) who explores the world and levels up skills. They always have very few friends and honestly I get bored with them once I settle down with a spouse and kids. In sims 3 I've noticed I much more love exploring as a single sim, like my scientist who has a dungeon and keeps people trapped in there.
In sims 4 I do more family play and legacy, I'm on like heir 8 or 9 in my legacy, and I had never gotten past like 2 or 3 in any other sims game.
I just find it weird because alot of people say Sims 4 lacks in family play.
Sims 3 seems to suit my deviant play style more than 4 does. One of my favorite stories was a little boy who was frozen in the Pod from into the future for a couple of generations and all of his family were long gone or old, his mother was neglectful etc.
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I enjoy playing The Sims 4 so much. I love how the packs are linked together and complements each other, and for every new pack I get a better game. In The Sims 4 I play rotationally between 6 or 7 households, and I can't wait to get to the next. I am having a great time.
Specifically, in TS3 I am more about playing a whole world of sims. Instead of having only one sim to control and do tasks, I explore the inhabitants of my world and see what they're up to. I send them out to meet one another at parks or coffee shops. I like to get my elders out to the casino for some gambling. I like for my kids to hangout at the arcade. And the whole world is intertwined somehow because of who they know or are related to. What I love about TS3 is that I can create so many different stories at once and everything a sim does is an actual part of the story. They don't aimlessly walk around in implausible places ruining that sense of connectivity or immersion for me.
I still play families in TS4, too, but it isn't anywhere as fun for me and I get bored really easy. I rotate through a bunch of families and try to give them a story, but they all end up acting the same mostly. I get frustrated because the kids can never just be kids without the kid objects. I can't send them to play tag or have them play games like red hands or stuff like that. They don't get into mischief in the way kids or siblings do. For kids I mostly rely on them being in clubs so that they always appear to be doing kid things otherwise they will just stand and talk all day like the adults. And I have a group of teens that also hangs out at the park just to pick on the kid clubs. But then the reality of this is...there is really no story happening for me. Though they're part of the club, it's too superficial of a reason. So in TS4 I kind of just play as a see what will happen, hands off instead of intricately in design. TS4 has been the only game where I can't get past the first generation before giving up and going back to one of the older games.
I have no memory of this place. Time to start anew I guess
In TS4 it's only singles as I don't want to play without toddlers and having my sims kids suddenly looking like adults when they age up to teens. The age stage leaps are too huge, so I don't bother and I wait hoping something will be done about it. So TS4 is more an amusement for me than a serious sims game. I don't play it like other Sims games. I really like its sims and, for the type of art style, the graphics are nice and I have bent them to what I can really like with custom content.
TS3, I am all over the place with all kinds of scenarios and things to do. TS4 is played more as a break, so I don't burn out on TS3, plus it's easier on the eyes once you get use to the saturated colors. I am scratching my head a bit now as I have City Living, and I was enjoying exploring it, but I stopped to do an edit on a new Bridgeport and I've just dropped what I was doing in TS4 despite having some things I wanted to do. Eh, I'll just follow my fun until I burnout and return to TS4. This looks like it will be a long break, perhaps until the next game pack comes out.
Neither game could make me stop playing the other.
I just wish TS3 had TS4 sims and and some of its build-mode features.
@LosaruTaiyo, have you ever been tempted to play Sims 3? As much as I love Sims 4 I couldn't imagine not having experienced open worlds and the color wheel.
I have no memory of this place. Time to start anew I guess
In Sims 4 I've only played single sims so far, that's the only way for me with the game. I don't like the babies, I miss the toddlers, I do like the kids, I don't like the teens. But above all I don't like so much time passes without me being able to control (or at least give instructions to) family members. That's why I prefer playing single sims.
This is probably the main reason my sims in TS4 either don't ever go out or the whole family has to go together. You're right, leaving sims behind means you miss out on valuable, essential bits of their lives.
fish. Took me forever to raise her skills. But since I already did that in Sims 3, I don't feel like doing the same thing in Sims 4.
I play the town in Sims 4. Everyone has some sort of relationship with others. More social, party driven game. Also, I love the gallery.
I level up the current household i'm playing...use ambrosia or potions to bring them back to their start, drop them on to a master save file, and continue on a copy of that save file with the next family.
So in both versions I sacrfice their current relationships to make skilled versions of my Sims in an essentially new world. that fills up with my Sims and builds as I go.
Only difference is in TS4 they made it ridiculously hard to plop a family with their house on to a new save file for some reason I have trouble fathoming.
When I play the sims 4, my style is more similar to my sims 2 play style which is rotational. It doesn't work as well in TS4 though. Recently all I've been playing is my Legacy family, my wonderchild save and my royal kingdom challenge.
When I want to play my favourite way and create neighbourhoods fron the ground up and feel truly creative and in control I play the sims 2.
Out of curiosity you don't find the lifespan slider in Sims 4 gives you enough time?
I haven't played (S4) for as many hours as I played (S3), but to me epic lifespan mode in both games feels about the same.
Well when I'm playing challenges with TS4, many of them forbid aging on "long" I haven't played the sims 4 using my own characters and stories for a few weeks now. I find I'm getting bored quickly.
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This is exactly the way that I feel. If I'm sending a Sim out on errands or to go to the gym, I also want the power to control the other household members at the same time so that time isn't being wasted and they are being productive rather than not doing anything. In fact, sometimes I'll send different family members out on different errands, perhaps due to their jobs or what not, and I like to jump back and forth between them both to make sure that they are on the right track.
I feel in Sims 4, when you are out with one Sim, the Sims you aren't controlling are simply wasting time and not doing what they should or could be doing.
I played differently in TS2 compared to TS1 and again for TS3 compared to TS2.
Usually each new Sins game, I am four and a half years older, and somewhat wiser than before which reflects on my different out look. I now play TS3 differently than I did from the start
In ts3 I would make a single sim and focus on them only. I'd first make them level up their charisma skill because of the perks that would come with completing the challenges. Never having to worry about maintaining relationships and being able to make instant friends so great. Anyway I usually would make them a supernaturals because sups are fun. I would also focus on building their skills and their career and "explore" the world. Once i got univerisy i would usually send them to univerisy because it was a great way for me to really figure out who my sim was. Once home i'd just go back to the norm skill and career grind. I didn't care much for sending you venues because most were empty so making friends was hard so I would just spam parties until sims became my sims friends then I'd work my way completing those charisma perks i mentioned. I usually waited until they were close to becoming an adult to find them love. Once they found love and married I would still focus on them and try to build their spouses skills and such for promotions. Then they would have a kid and still they would be my main focus but I would build their kids skills for when they became a YA and finally switch my focus onto them. In ts3 toddlers, children, and teens never interested because most of the content wasn't made for them and they had so little cas to them that I was never able to really build their "personality". I'm also a single sim family and even though I really wanted to edit the other families the load time to do it wasn't worth it so I never really cared for my sims friends or neighbors they were just background sims.
In ts4 I still start off with a single sim and I again still work on building their skills and their career. Because venues are usually full of sims I found it easier to make friends and I feel like there is more of a reason to get my sims out of the house. Because of how easy it is to edit other sims and add sims to my game I found myself caring more about the friends and neighbors my sim has because my hand played a small part in them and this includes the sim my sims would fall in love with. Once married I wouldn't just focus on my starter sim but also focus on their spouse. Once the child was born it was also easier to build a connection with them because of the fact that children weren't push to the side but we're getting attention maybe not in gameplay at first but in cas and because I had more CAS option it was easier for me to form a personality for them which in turn made me care about them more. So as a whole I find myself caring more about my entire household and all the sims in my game.
I used to play with a household during a whole SimDay and replay the same day with another household.
I was able to control all my households day after day.
In TS3, I loose the control of my households, it forced me to be focused on only one of them.
In TS4, I recover the control of my households but I can't still control the time and reset the day.
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionWith TS4, I have control over absolutely nothing besides what is going on in my household of choice. When I go places, I don't know who will show up and in what state. I've absolutely no lordship over the environment outside the lot I've evanesced my sim to. Turning aging on is panic-inducing assuming I've other sims in the world that I care about who are not young adults. Culling is still a thing and the game spawning new sims at breakneck speed is truly the bane of my existence. Things are always happening that defeat me. I feel like I play for twenty minutes and then spend an hour doing damage control on whatever else in the world transpired in those twenty minutes.
Even with mods, I feel the game demands I play a specific way.
Whereas, as stated above, other iterations have truly let me run wild and free like a chuffed pony.
In sims 4, I tend to buy everything that interests me and stick it on the home lot. Game rooms, music rooms, sauna room, basically a room for every purpose. I almost never go anywhere, I occasionally go camping or let my sim couples go out on dates, but other than that I don't go out and do anything.
In sims 3 my sims are out CONSTANTLY. My kids are signed up for after school activities, or they go to any variety of venues I've set up for them. I never miss a festival and my sim families get their photo taken together every festival so I have a display of how the family changes through the years. I also have the teens get photos regularly with their love interests at the time. Vacationing is also a blast for me now that I found the NRASS traveler mod. I vacation in any world that strikes my fancy, and really loved being able to send my sims on a vacation after buying Isla Paradiso (Using the mod) instead of moving there.
I also love collecting in the sims 3, my current passion is gems in all cuts, set up and displayed perfectly. I've only managed to complete a few of the gem sets though, but I have fun with it regardless.
I also tend to avoid buying my sims everything they could ever want just so I have more reasons to get out of the house often.
I even recently set up a custom world that is packed to the brim with all kinds of things to do, I am loving it so far.
and yet when your romantic sims get married their name doesn't change
and yet your sims still have a jump bug
and yet when you hit fast forward your sims just stand there in between activities, stalling, not fast forwarding at all.
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I remember you from university, I still have your story.I usually have really small houses. I think my normal size is 12x15 for most, 20x15 for my larger homes. LoL
But yeah, my sims can't really have much extras at home so that forces them out into the world. I really like to take advantage of the community lots. I notice my sims have their own favorite activities over time, too.
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This isn't a debate which is better, this is just how you play differently with different Sims games. Obviously if you dislike one though you'll play differently.
As for the not changing names thing, I like it and I don't. I don't want to be forced to take the name, but I would like a popup that asks me to type in a new name or keep it.
I play a save where the family name is very important and well known, so females keep their last name.