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wickichick
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i have felt happy with the sims 4 overall but some things i miss so just for fun, I thought i would share mine and hope you share yours.
I miss slow dancing so much. Remember how lovely that was for weddings ..anniversaries....romantic moments?
I miss bed cuddles....sims should be able to cuddle and comfort each other before going to sleep. Was it sims 2 that had that? it was so awesome!
I miss nursery furniture like cribs and the changing table..bathing new borns in kitchen sinks and going for walks in a stroller. I miss the "free" babies.
There is a few more things ..but how fun to see what other folks miss and would love to see. maybe we won't ever see that in this series but we can dream.
I miss slow dancing so much. Remember how lovely that was for weddings ..anniversaries....romantic moments?
I miss bed cuddles....sims should be able to cuddle and comfort each other before going to sleep. Was it sims 2 that had that? it was so awesome!
I miss nursery furniture like cribs and the changing table..bathing new borns in kitchen sinks and going for walks in a stroller. I miss the "free" babies.
There is a few more things ..but how fun to see what other folks miss and would love to see. maybe we won't ever see that in this series but we can dream.
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Being able to interact with babies beyond the bassinet.
The crib for toddlers and babies. I love toddler beds, but bring back the crib!!
Bunk beds.
I also miss teens from Sims 2/3. Teens could get acne in Sims 2. I have a mod that adds that, but it’d be nice if there were more for teens in Sims 4.
—A family player
Drums, Bass, Guitar...plus bringing a band together!
Police.
Frat and Sophomore houses.
Building Apartments TS2 style.
Neighbourhood Album per World...plus Family Photo Album. Without these, my Simming is less of a story.
Cars!
- doing groceries (sims 2)
- having a limited wardrobe and buying clothes, not an unlimited free wardrobe (sims 2)
- bathing babies (sims 2)
- the need for a changing table, diapers lying around if you don't use it (sims 2)
- small telescopes (sims 1, 2 and 3)
- pet dragons (sims 1 making magic and sims 3 store)
- real plantsims (sims 2 and 3)
- editing neighbourhoods and adding lots (sims 2 and 3)
The Sims 2 has been the best version of this game, by far 😔
It was good because it had a very solid base to start from and a lot of attention to detail (sims opening drawers and car doors) . But when I return now, there are things from sims 4 I will miss like CAS, rooms, search bar in buy mode, the ability to walk off lot in the neighbourhoods...
Sims 2 style memories
The difference dancing types (slow dancing, bar dancing, children dancing on toes)
Pillow fights, catch and other easy games sims could play that were well animated (unlike the Sims 4 water balloon fight)
Nectar making and how insanely complicated/open-end the process was
Ballet skill
Bands
Showtime careers
> I miss
> - doing groceries (sims 2)
> - having a limited wardrobe and buying clothes, not an unlimited free wardrobe (sims 2)
> - bathing babies (sims 2)
> - the need for a changing table, diapers lying around if you don't use it (sims 2)
> - small telescopes (sims 1, 2 and 3)
> - pet dragons (sims 1 making magic and sims 3 store)
> - real plantsims (sims 2 and 3)
> - editing neighbourhoods and adding lots (sims 2 and 3)
All that, plus teen acne and the cuddling and romantic dancing stuff they had in sims 2. those interactions made the romance aspect so special, especially when they snuggled on the couch autonomously. I miss needing to save up to buy clothes when you wanted to do a makeover on your sim, and buying food. i loved the plantsims in sims 2.
Real babies.
Snow that had depth and looked realistic to the weather conditions.
Slow dancing.
Cuddling.
Children dancing on parents feet.
Proper holiday destinations with hotels and fun things to do.
Teens that look like teens and not just skinny young adults.
Proper family relationships, cousins, aunts and uncles. Sims knowing who their family is even if they don't live in the same house.
All the little extra details that we never get in TS4. Things like opening cupboards when cooking, NPC's appearing with their vehicles parked outside, none of this rubbish teleporting nonsense we have now.
I miss the effort and quality that was present in the earlier iterations of the Sims games before EA came along. It's missing from TS4 and it's real shame because it could be so much better than it is. I enjoy the game very much but at the same time it frustrates me that I know they can do better this, because they have done better in the past quality wise.
2. Movotti...your sim could have a right proper band. There was the piano..drums..guitar and was it a chello or a violin?
3. i do recall in the sims 2 how you could go shopping and purchase an outfit that then would appear in your cas ..i did like the store system a lot then as well.
4. it is lovely recalling the things past packs could do and thinking of what would you choose to be in the current version...lol who would not want them all?
Create-a-World(Sims 2 style)
Create-a-Style(Sims 3)
Horoscopes(Sims 1)
Meaningful traits(Sims 1-Sims 3)
Having REAL apartments(like in Sims 2)
The multi-purpose community lots(Sims 1-Sims 3)
Sims with actual personality(Sims 1-Sims 3)
Sims taking only 10 seconds to eat(Sims 1-Sims 3)
Having well-made elders who don't drop dead if they do activities(Sims 2 and Sims 3)
Controlling your pets(Sims 3)
Having well-made neighborhoods that actaully have more than 4-5 tiny lots(Sims 1-Sims 3)
Neighborhoods that don't have pointless decor buildings everywhere(Sims 1-Sims 3)
Having a game that isn't so childish and immature(Sims 1-Sims 3)
- I miss cars and motorcycles and scooters in that open world.
- I miss houseboats in that open world. I miss cruising around on the ocean visiting different islands on my houseboat in that open world.
- I miss underwater scuba diving.
- I miss customizing my worlds/neighbourhoods.
- I miss worlds large enough that you could build several homes PLUS each type of community lot to make each world feel complete.
- I miss building my own apartment buildings and multi-home lots (like trailer parks).
- I miss multi-use lots.
- I miss terraforming tools that let us make our own ponds.
- I miss colourwheels and customized pattern options.
- I miss controlling my pets and knowing their needs.
- I miss chickens and cows and horses.
- I miss in-ground hot tubs.
- I miss pool waterslides and diving boards.
- I miss bunk beds.
- I miss spiral staircases.
- I miss pool tables and normal telescopes.
- I miss pizza ovens and baker's stations and trash compactors.
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." ~ Mark Twain
LOL.
I miss my sim being able to watch a movie,
.... and have that movie not get stuck in an endless loop,
.... forcing me to manually end that movie before my sim dies of starvation.
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." ~ Mark Twain
Tons of stuff from Sims 2: different styles of dancing, kids playing tag or Mary Mack with each other, being able to start a completely blank neighborhood and add any size lots, the plastic surgery machine (sure, I can do it with cheats, but ...), actual telescopes rather than the observatory.
From Sims 3: The open world, being able to raise or lower the ground right up to the walls so you could make a walk-out basement, all of the supernatural options from the Supernatural pack (I really miss werewolves and fairies), the wide variety of worlds.
> the sims 3 was a lot of fun i would agree there is lots of things from that series that i miss but the sims 4 seems to work better for the majority of folks where with the sims 3 that wasn't true
Absolutely. The thing I definitely don't miss from The Sims 3 was that the load times made the game almost unplayable, since eventually I think the game was creating memory leaks left and right, and it took--no lie--almost an hour to load a game. I couldn't just play; I had to plan ahead to play the game.