comparing the sims 4 to sims 3 in content the sims 4 looks almost barren which is why i dont really like the sims 4 as much. it lacks depth and i feel other than san myshonu , delsol valley and sulani (sorry if i butchered the names XD) look great and detailed. but when ever i play the sims 3 i always feel overwhelmed by the amount of stuff i can do!
i just wanna know other people opinions on this
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I’ve played every version and I used to come to the forums to see what I’m missing, and come away with so many new things to try that were a complete surprise to me. That doesn’t happen with The Sims 4.
It’s subjective though, on this forum section you are going to have a lot of people disagree and say the sims 3 is ugly and lags. (Which it doesn’t for me and many others) Sims 3 needs mods to help it run, sims 4 needs mods to make it fun
That said, I'm excited for university and hopeful that it adds in some of the great content I long for.
I agree! It's mods that has saved my game for me. If I didn't have them...I wouldn't play like AT ALL.
But if you like playing with mods and CC there is nothing wrong with that either. My Sims 2 has a good deal of CC - Maxis match mostly to get the colors and matching build and buy things. Sims 2's only issue to me is the lack of color choice - but it is a finished game and I never have to worry about the CC breaking in a finished. That is my main object to CC and mods in Sims 4 - it's an unfinished game and I hate the hoop jumping of constantly having to replace stuff - never mind it can sometimes mess up your saves. So I have a rule never to use CC and mods in unfinished games.
Owning everything in sims 3 made mods unnecessary especially after I fixed my own game. I didn't see a need for CC I can color my own stuff so CC was pointless for me - but sure it might be necessary for others and that is okay too. There's a lot of real talented players out there so I can see why a lot of people use mods and CC.
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I got to spend a lot of time in the run-up to release and subsequent to release doing gameplay preview and review. Way back in 2008, I was lucky enough to meet the exec producer Ben Bell and have a demonstration from him prior to release in a fancy hotel somewhere in London. Later on we then got to test it ourselves prior to release.
One thing that blew me away at the time, and that I still miss today, is the Create-a-Style with the full colour palette available to the player to customise practically anything in the game. This added a lot of texture for me as a passionate builder and decorator, but I know it made a difference for those that took pride in their Sims' appearance too.
The Open Neighbourhood was also a literal game-changer and really made it much more interesting for me as a player. The lot-to-lot approach we have back again from The Sims 2 isn't a welcome change for me although I realise we have the nice communal/wild areas between them to explore to obtain collectables. On the other-hand, the transitions from world to world in The Sims 4 are much more fluid though.
I both enjoy and resent the pre-packed world content which is inaccessible by the player. Seeing buildings and houses in my neighbourhood that I have no control over makes me pretty unhappy, being the control-freak that I am. That said, it is effective in making me feel that these areas are more urban than we've normally been able to experience in previous iterations.
I also think that the building tools are somewhat more forgiving - once you know what you're doing. I dreamt of being able to pick up a building and just move it before when you'd ended up a bit too close to the boundary or misjudged the size of the lot you placed.
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I don't regret buying it all I really don't. I've had lots of great times with TS4. I just have a huge wishlist of things I want in the game.
Personally, I think its problem is that it was designed too much like the other games, but nearly everything is a lesser version of something we already had. Because it's designed so similar, we expect the same content over and over again, and then get disappointed when they're unable to either give us what we already had.
I think they really have to shake things up with The Sims 5. As long as they stay away from online connectivity, but go after improving the life sim genre, I think they'll have no problem doing it. I just don't have much hope from the studio that thought releasing snowball fights with two Sims having their backs towards each other was acceptable though, honestly. I'd love to have that trust in Maxis again, but with each DLC release, it's been going lower.
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This summed up what I was going to say! I also remember the comparisons between Sims 2 and 3 were rife while Sims 3 was still in development. Same old complaints, different target. Now all the things that were awful in Sims 3 are suddenly golden.
I think it does depend on how you play and what you're looking for, like @Sharonia said above. I also play a rotational game and I'm never bored because there's always something to do. Each family has different dreams for the future (aspirations etc) so they have different interests and hobbies and therefore, different places they'll want to go. I've never enjoyed a game as long as I am this one
I feel exactly like you do. My Sims and game are never boring so I don't get it when people talk of it feeling empty.
I do enjoy playing a lot of households and try to play everyone very differently - it's easy to do there are many options that make this possible. But one thing I don't play are mean or evil sims - but if I did that would give me even more options - I just can't bring myself to playing those kind of sims though.
My only complaint really is the small size of some of the worlds and no way to build my own or make the small worlds bigger. Like I said I love playing a lot of households and wish I had the room for more lots.
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