I should note that while my sister and I love the games, my mother absolutely hates them! Not because of content or even that they are computer games, just because of all the issues. We needed to get a new computer because sims 2 kept crashing out old one, then needed emergency ram because the computer couldn't run sim 3 properly. And honestly almost every game that came out seemed to have some sort of glitch or bug in it. My sister and I were in tears sometimes because the game would crash or couldn't launch it or a bug ruined something. She calls Sims the biggest scam in history LOL as much as I love the game as an adult I see her point.
I always bought a new PC every 2 or 3 years, always a desktop, never a laptop. I made sure it could run the Sims. I did that right up until the end of the Sims 3. The PC I have now is a made-to-spec, top of the line gaming rig (I simply googled "best gaming rigs", took the specs and went to my tech to build it). It's a wonderful machine and going on 5 years old now, still working perfectly and it plays Sims 2 and 3 perfectly (I don't have 1 installed).
Reading all your posts I wish I could remember with such detail how I started with the sims
But I only remember getting and playing TS2 at some point, I remember LOVING Apartment Life and Open for Business, loathing the never-ending loading screens until it eventually broke and stopped working.
Then I moved to TS3 waayyyy later and enjoyed it a lot, and then stopped again for a couple of years because of computer issues. I started back around the time TS4 was released so I tried it, I REALLY tried but although the graphics were way better, it was just too restrictive. So I ended up going back to TS3 and that's when I discovered NRAAS mods which basically saved my game and opened whole new possibilities for me, I've never looked back since
Oh I almost forgot, I played The Sims Medieval for a while and I guess I'm in the minority but I enjoyed it as well!
Well, I was a big TS1 player and then went to TS2 the moment it came out because - they had hands! not paddles - and expressions. Loved both games. Then, of course, TS3 came out and I was in heaven. An open world and a color wheel!
But what gets me most, other than it's been 20 years, is how long it took me to learn how to properly play TS3. I was so used to staying on the same lot and dealing with time consuming loading screens if I left that I was kind of lost with the open world.
Now I can honestly say, I love open world and I really get alot out of my games. I think my love of this style of sims play is why I resent TS4. It just doesn't have that community feel and you can't make over the world the way you want. I like it so much more now than in the beginning (they really have improved it - loading screens not withstanding) but it still can't hold a candle to the immersive play of TS3! I always come back to TS3. There is still so much to do.
Hope TS5 is just as much fun. These games have given me so much joy!
Oh man it's so strange. I was 12 in 2000. Had so much fun with the game. I remember reading all those old stories on the Sims1 webpage too. There were SO many stories. Mystery, horror, funny, etc. I remember some also had like "what I want in sims 2" stories, where you could like daydream about what they wanted. (kids growing up, etc haha)
Anyway. I remember bingeplaying this game and downloading stuff off of Sims+ (Inge, I believe had that website?) Sooo much cool stuff. I used a FLOPPY disk to transfer from one computer to another. Crazy!! I had SO much CC on sims1 that even when sims 2 came out, I was still sort of late to the party for that game cause I still had SO much do play in Sims1.
Also......who was stupid enough to delete their mailbox? Haha. I'm glad there was a fix to it, though. Ahh.
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I always bought a new PC every 2 or 3 years, always a desktop, never a laptop. I made sure it could run the Sims. I did that right up until the end of the Sims 3. The PC I have now is a made-to-spec, top of the line gaming rig (I simply googled "best gaming rigs", took the specs and went to my tech to build it). It's a wonderful machine and going on 5 years old now, still working perfectly and it plays Sims 2 and 3 perfectly (I don't have 1 installed).
You can't run the sims on a toaster.
But I only remember getting and playing TS2 at some point, I remember LOVING Apartment Life and Open for Business, loathing the never-ending loading screens until it eventually broke and stopped working.
Then I moved to TS3 waayyyy later and enjoyed it a lot, and then stopped again for a couple of years because of computer issues. I started back around the time TS4 was released so I tried it, I REALLY tried but although the graphics were way better, it was just too restrictive. So I ended up going back to TS3 and that's when I discovered NRAAS mods which basically saved my game and opened whole new possibilities for me, I've never looked back since
Oh I almost forgot, I played The Sims Medieval for a while and I guess I'm in the minority but I enjoyed it as well!
But what gets me most, other than it's been 20 years, is how long it took me to learn how to properly play TS3. I was so used to staying on the same lot and dealing with time consuming loading screens if I left that I was kind of lost with the open world.
Now I can honestly say, I love open world and I really get alot out of my games. I think my love of this style of sims play is why I resent TS4. It just doesn't have that community feel and you can't make over the world the way you want. I like it so much more now than in the beginning (they really have improved it - loading screens not withstanding) but it still can't hold a candle to the immersive play of TS3! I always come back to TS3. There is still so much to do.
Hope TS5 is just as much fun. These games have given me so much joy!
Anyway. I remember bingeplaying this game and downloading stuff off of Sims+ (Inge, I believe had that website?) Sooo much cool stuff. I used a FLOPPY disk to transfer from one computer to another. Crazy!! I had SO much CC on sims1 that even when sims 2 came out, I was still sort of late to the party for that game cause I still had SO much do play in Sims1.
Also......who was stupid enough to delete their mailbox? Haha. I'm glad there was a fix to it, though. Ahh.