I love sims 2 and have the complete game, I also have sims 3 and 4 base games with a couple of expansions. I would probably say I preferred sims 3 over 4 at the moment but as I don't have the complete game and sims 4 isn't complete yet its hard to say.
Was wondering which game other simmers prefer.
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In my opinion, TS4 is a glued-together, shambles of a game and will never live up to its predecessors as far as in-depth gameplay goes. It's pure fluffy facade.
My order: TS2, TS1, TS3, TS4.
^^^ I second this! Perfectly said.
For me, TS2 was IT. I had all of it except one stuff pack before a catastrophic computer crash wiped everything out. By the time I was ready to play again, TS3 was out. I got it and hated it. Aside from constant crashing for me, I couldn't control my sims! Births, deaths, marriages, moving - it all happened without ME!
I finally got TS4 last year and played around with it. At least I could mostly control my neighborhood. But there's a bug that shows up where my sims age when I'm not playing them (even though I have my settings right). I think I bought one expansion for it. And this week, I was really missing all that TS2 had.
And THEN I learned that if you registered your copy of TS2, apparently they dumped TS2 Ultimate into your account. WHAT? Yep. There it was. So I installed it yesterday and my only real complaint is that I have to have so many friends to advance in a career. I can even deal with the older graphics. What an AMAZING game. Maids actually come and to the work, butlers - same thing, my sims welcome one another home from work, CARS, the list goes on and on.
I'm taking a break from my MMORPG to get my newly created neighborhood established. How AWESOME that I can create my own neighborhood from scratch, name it what I want, put houses where I want, age my families like I want.
*feeling very sim-like today*
TH3 & 4 are so different from each other that i can't pick one, the two of them have good point and bad point.
A sims 2 and 3 baby sounds awesome. Its what I was expecting from sims 4 but from what Ive read so much has been left out.
That said, I just don't think TS4 was finished when they shipped it, and all the expansions and stuff packs so far feel like things that should have been in the base game or *maybe* a first expansion pack. They're just not offering the value of stuff for the price that they used to, and I absolutely despise the idea that I would have to play with an online collection or via Origin, so I'll most likely never get it.
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In TS3 they dropped a lot of the special things that make TS2 so great. It's many "little things" rather than any one or two big things, but they sacrificed some lovely gameplay for the open world.
If they had given TS2 an open world, and given the sims a bit of a makeover / redesign, I would have been in absolute perfect sims game heaven.
That's all just my own opinion though. I must admit to holding TS2 as a pinnacle of what makes the sims fantastic for me personally, despite my love for TS3 as well.
I don't even know what TS4 is trying to accomplish. It's just... "existing"
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Because the truth is, dispite its flaws, I will still boot up Sims 3 and suffer through the (admittedly not as bad) lags, freezes and crashes of it to experience the fun of exploring a festival or tomb or just walking around the town seeing the townies go about their lives. The game was great, even with its flaws but...they still don't compare to the quirkiness or just plain fun of Sims 2 though!
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University life is installed now. The vacuum is back on, but I'm taking things slower. As much as I'm enjoying Sims 3, I miss Sims 2 dearly. There's a lot I miss and still want to accomplish there. Just waiting for an opening to slip away from "Cool Guy".
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