I never had all the sims 2 expansions and i started buying them recently. There are a few cool things i liked in ts3 or ts4 i thought began with those games, but it was actually in ts2 the whole time! For example, saving your leftovers in the fridge. I thought that began in TS3. And moving paintings up and down on the wall. I thought that was in TS4. I also recently found out you can even honeymoon in TS2. I ordered Pet expansion combo with garden + h&m stuff and will be happy to play it for the first time and see what else i discover
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Glad it's your first time discovering TS2's greatness.
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And the one thing overlooked drawing a box room...like the cubes in TS3 and TS4..started in TS2. Like where have some people been? lol Have fun!
Well, drawing a box room was also in TS1, but you had to always hold down shift key. The Sims 2 was the first to have it as a seperate button.
Though a less noticed thing that first came in The Sims 2 is weekdays. The Sims 1 doesn't have weekdays, thus sims have to go to work/school every day.
That reminds me. The ability to turn off aging is also something that is in The Sims 2, though while future games have it in the options menu, it's a cheat in The Sims 2.
Creating a world is also something that some short of first appeared in The Sims 2. If you have SimCity 4, you can create road and terrain layouts for your next neighborhoods.
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• when my parent comes home from work her daughter runs hugs her
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You know now that I think about it one of the reasons some of us felt TS1 was very hard is because they never got a day off..so vacation days was also added in TS2? Because my Sims in TS1 never took a day. lol It was maddening. lol I don't recall vacation days, either, let alone working every day. ETA: Which also leads to call in sick...I can't remember if TS1 Sims could call in sick or not. (even if not really sick).
With TS4 now it's time to just really sit down with the game and have fun with it especially the Build Tools, everyone wanted all the features but it's also not the best idea to have SO much LOL, a lot of people coming into the game now are those who're now the kids and teens so a lot of them don't know but those who were long term players a lot of them seem to have strangely forgotten lol i've had to remind people the sims were still the same and used the same animations except for the accents from each Aspiration but they don't get it mainly it's those who played TS3 but now it's 50/50 you can get TS2 to work on a 64 bit system a lot of the young ones won't be able to play it so they have nothing to compare to, which is sad i wish they experienced what we did.
In TS1 i just got too irked by their Needs, how many puddles i had to mop up *sigh* LOL then TS2 came along and i was like yup... that's a lot better, i wouldn't go back to TS1 the music is still amazing i can just listen to that i may actually play it while in Build and Buy mode cos TS4s music is clearly inspired by it. Yeh a lot of things came from TS2 though definitely they weren't always there but were added with Expansions like Saving Food that was added in Seasons because they had gardening plots and a juicer so i guess they thought "Why not preserve food?" lol.
I was able to put food in personal inventory but was not able to put food in fridge as leftovers until I got Freetime expansion.
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Putting it in the Fridge you couldn't do until TS2 Seasons.
I dont have Seasons and I can put it in the fridge.
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They must have just added it in there later on because when there was only like 5 or 6 Expansions i swear there wasn't any way to put the food in the fridge i don't think even in our inventory, or maybe it came with The Sims 4 Digital Base Game which is what they do every game, it came with Happy Festive Stuff all it does is improves Game Stability, now it's Digital Deluxe for TS4.
Sometimes they include previous EP stuff in later ones for those who didn't when that item wasn't a major part of the previous EP.
Like LTW's get added with any EP and not just the first one to unlock it.
Leftovers did come with Season though for the first EP that added it.
I'm definitely so sure it came with Seasons for me, we had an inventory for fishing i think but then Seasons improved it i think and then we could add other items like they just did with TS4, before Seasons came out though i didn't have Leftovers.
I think you're getting your games confused.
Fishing came with Seasons in Sims 2.
The wiki says it came with Seasons. I guess since Freetime was a later EP they included it?
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Quite possibly. And it wouldn't surprise me.
The inventory didn't come with the base game, it came with nightlife and later expansions and stuff packs.
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Didn't they usually update somethings for sharing on the Exchange? Like they had to update everything which pets could use. That was when a lot of CC had to be updated for the new game engine. Not because they wanted to share some minor game parts but for Major game engine stuff.
Like I can have just the base game installed but once I add a later Stuff pack I get any major game updates from the expansions between. Like added neighborhood sub slots at the top but not the neighborhoods, or seeing the neighborhood from within the lot, or adding food to the fridges.
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I like the LTWs which came with TS2 and getting a new ltw when it's fulfilled, which came with later eps.
I do miss the friends handshake which came with the base game. I guess it was cut because it was very long.
Maybe, but I had two versions of base at one time. One (first with no patches on cd original release) and 2nd ( a year later) with patches (base game patch) built into the cd. I was thinking it was a base game patched inventory on that 2nd cd release around the end of 2004 or 2005.