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TS2 as a TS4 player
thatpinkcoconut
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I've been playing TS4 on-and-off for about 4 years now and is completely aware of the environment in the community, most especially the boxing ring surrounding TS2, 3, and 4. Lately I've been wanting to play TS2 after remembering that I had a lot of fun playing it for like a few days when I was little. Although, I have completely forgotten how the game feels.
As objectively as possible, do you think that TS2 is better than TS4 and is worth playing in 2020? Or is it really just the nostalgia? Should I continue devoting my time to TS4 or should I try to get back to playing TS2? I can't decide really. What do you think? Please don't take this like some shallow "ts2 g0od, tS4 bAd" discussion (or the other way around). I want to hear your opinions about this also to help myself decide. I know that I can just get TS2 and try it myself right now but eh, i don't really want to waste my time especially that i have ocd.
PS. I own all the TS4 packs and I'm a gameplay-focused player.
As objectively as possible, do you think that TS2 is better than TS4 and is worth playing in 2020? Or is it really just the nostalgia? Should I continue devoting my time to TS4 or should I try to get back to playing TS2? I can't decide really. What do you think? Please don't take this like some shallow "ts2 g0od, tS4 bAd" discussion (or the other way around). I want to hear your opinions about this also to help myself decide. I know that I can just get TS2 and try it myself right now but eh, i don't really want to waste my time especially that i have ocd.
PS. I own all the TS4 packs and I'm a gameplay-focused player.
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TS2 as a TS4 player 86 votes
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To me TS2 is a much slower, simpler, and slightly more difficult game. By slow, I mean that the pace of the game is different because TS2 animators put more detail into the animations. Sims open cabinets when cooking and use cars when traveling. There also aren't as many Sims and they don't age together. So if you're a fast-paced, non-rotational player all of that might be annoying, especially given that there are fewer skills and objects in TS2. But TS2 allows for lots of drama.
If EA sold The Sims 2 Definitive Edition in UHD, I'd never touch The Sims 4 again.
Some of my favorite content, pets and witches, is also better in it in my opinion. You have a lot more control over things like apartments and I think aspirations are more rewarding though also more difficult.
Basically, think deeper but harder. Fun is definitely to be had, but sometimes you want difficulty and sometimes you do not. They both have their place.
Saying "not to be rude", then blatently being rude does not excuse rude behavior.
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https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/categories/the-sims-2-general-discussion
If you own TS2, do you have the Ultimate Collection or would you have to install via discs?
If via discs, do you own all EP's or what is the latest EP you own or do you own Mansion & Garden Stuff (despite being a stuff pack, it's technically considered an EP by the code).
If you own discs and have Bon Voyage or an EP released after, what OS do you have? If you have Windows 10, you'll have lag issues due to Securom as Securom is not compatible with Windows 10 and will cause lag issues in game.
If your OS is a Windows 10, it can take some work to get the game running without any major issues and more work to get it to work at your preference graphics wise. This is just due to technical differences between Windows 10 and Windows XP and what video cards the game has programmed into it. You may also have very few issues. It's a gamble.
Ultimate Collection will bypass any installer compatibility issues as it will use Origin's installer to install. If you have to go by disc, you may or may not have issues installing the game.
That all being said, I like Sims 2 more than Sims 4. I like the more challenging aspects of Sims 2 that the games have shifted away from.
But if you aren't technically savvy and/or don't want to potentially deal with all of the issues getting an old game to run on a new OS, Sims 2 may not be something you want to try. Especially if you would have to go out and buy the games to play it at all.
thats how I know I like 4 better
Right now I only play TS4 because that is what I have installed on my laptop. (my iMac is packed away right now or I would also be playing TS2)
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The May Family
Modeling Career?
best cas: ts4
best build mode: ts4
best AI: ts2
best graphics: ts4
best devs: ts2
life simulator: ts2
virtual dollhouse: ts4
Questions: what is AL; and I have not heard the term virtual dollhouse used before = what does that mean?
TINY HOUSE CHALLENGE
The May Family
Modeling Career?
She meant AI.
Well, that didn't answer my questions at all. Thanks for trying though.
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The May Family
Modeling Career?
AI = Artificial Intelligence, the one to dictate sims smartness, their autonomy.
virtual dollhouse = the easiest way to describe this, but in a virtual environment lol
but both games are life simulators. i just used virtual dollhouse because sims in ts4 have the AI of a vacuum cleaner which makes the game boring unless i create a story in mind for them.
Thank you - got it now.
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The May Family
Modeling Career?
But there are differences, if you can get over the graphics in the game and the limitations of build mode & CAS (outfits in TS2 come with shoes already attached, hats are on hair, etc) .... for me the things that sims do together and all of the animations being so detailed is amazing and I still enjoy it.
I love playing Open-For-Business and having a beauty salon to de-fuglify the townies in a gameplay function, which to me is much more satisfying than just popping them into CAS in TS4 and making them over. With TS2 you have the randomized event of failing at making them over, and that sim will be mad at you, also their look will remain that way until you convince them to let you make them over again. It's comical and I really enjoy it.
I like how kids play together.
But needs decay a lot faster, it's harder to build up relationships, you need to maintain relationships for promotions, etc. It's harder. And, like others have said, it's harder to play rotationally. I'm not a rotational player so that didn't ever bother.
But, I also miss things when I'm playing TS2 compared to TS4, mainly build type stuff ..... shrinking/enlarging objects, raising or lower objects, freely moving wall items, etc.
As I said, both are good.
I like sims 2 for its gameplay depth, cute cutscenes & so many animations that we would take for granted. It was a game where our standards weren’t set so low. You know our standards are low when simmers were praising the gurus for a new swatch on the science table instead of getting a activity table for the 6th time for SE.
Sims 4 is great if you’re just building or creating sims as the gurus are catering to builders since most of their GC are just that. It’s not so much of a simulator as the gameplay is not as rich as it used to be. The half backed packs we get is what ruins the sims 4 for me.
Both are good in their own ways. Why not play both? You don’t have to devote in playing just one series.