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Your favourite things in The Sims 3
capgal
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Hi all,
I have been a long time player of all the Sims games but have had a long break from The Sims 3.
I am planning to get back into it within the next few months but I feel uninspired and overwhelmed all at the same time. I have all the expansion packs apart from Showtime and Into the Future.
Please can you all let me know your favourite things to do in the game. Such as your favourite world, favourite pre-mades, favourite expansion packs, favourite challenges, favourite professions and careers etc. I would really love to know
Many thanks in advance.
I have been a long time player of all the Sims games but have had a long break from The Sims 3.
I am planning to get back into it within the next few months but I feel uninspired and overwhelmed all at the same time. I have all the expansion packs apart from Showtime and Into the Future.
Please can you all let me know your favourite things to do in the game. Such as your favourite world, favourite pre-mades, favourite expansion packs, favourite challenges, favourite professions and careers etc. I would really love to know
Many thanks in advance.
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Today, finding out that all the bookcases in the library had a slightly different selection of books, swimming in the sea, and I must be mad but that bobbly obscure glass in the shower cubicle seems to be adorably retro.
Ooh, house phones, and reading newspapers, and the lovely details in the animations, such as page turning a book. So much of sims 3 seems to have been done really well.
As I am such a short distance into the game there must be much more, the idea of being able to download complete new worlds seems really exciting.
@FoxInSocks I’ve had the Pets expansion since release but really haven’t explored the pets let alone breeding. I don’t ever think I’ve ever even had a pet horse. Thats definitely something to explore when I get back to playing.
@thuggishsplicer
That’s a really great idea actually. I feel like that would be good for really perusing each expansion pack. There’s so much I haven’t explored.
Bebe Hart - shown here with E-Skin; cc-eyes and cc makeup.
For a base sim... Bebe Hart was exquisite perfection and that's one of my "favorite things" about Sims 3.
Bebe as she is in the game un-cc'd.
Who's Jamie Jolina???
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
...or at least the one I play with.
Now my favorite things to do list is a whole 'nother story.
1. Achieving the highest skill possible in cooking -
2. Gardening -
3. Fishing -
4. Eating -
5. Dropping large flaming objects on sims. (meteors).
Oh and 6. (Can't forget six...) Nuking Sunset Valley.
Note: You can only do this in Photoshop. You can't do this in game.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
Actually the sims city feel is another thing that I love about the open neighbourhood, but with meaningful individuals instead of generic crowds making up the backdrop. I loved seeing one of my sims from another household leaving the cinema that I'd left him in, after I'd swapped households and was playing with another family.
Favourite expansion pack is either Ambitions or World Adventure
Favourite challenges : no challenge
Favourite Professions : Firefighter
Favourite Career : Any career
@capgal Hi, welcome back to sims 3. It is an amazing game and I love most everything about it.
My favorite world is Moonlight Falls. Second favorite Dragon Valley. Least favorite Sunset Valley.
My favorite expansion is Supernatural. I have all though and finally got a desktop and have all installed. AWESOME!
My favorite pre-mades: Marshall Flynn from Midnight Hollow (he is really Mitchell Flynn but I changed the name, bad experience with a Mitchell
Favorite challenge: I don't play challenges. I don't like rules. Got enough of those in real life.
Favorite professions: It depends on what story I'm telling. I'm enjoying the ghost hunting and detective right now and have one sim dabbling with architecture. I also like making them writers or painters or gardeners so I don't have to restrict activities to after a rabbit hole job is done.
My favorite Mods: Nraas, they enabled me to continue playing the game with the awesome mods that truly make this game mine. I was ready to quit in 2013 before I starting using them.
My absolute favorite thing is being able to tell a story with my sims.
Hope you have lots of fun rediscovering this awesome game. Happy simming!
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P.S. had to add this also, when sim children/teens are in school its realistic and they aren't out on the streets during school hours, I super duper love that about Sims 3.
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Anyway, I forgot how much fun TS3 is. It's always been my favorite of the series, and now I remember why.
To answer a few of your questions: Favorite EA world is Midnight Hollow (with Supernatural). Second favorite is Dragon Valley. Favorite non-EA world is Legacy Island 3.
Favorite mods: Everything by NRAAS is mandatory for me, but absolutely Master Controller and Overwatch. Also, Retuner lets me "fix" some interactions where I don't like the standard behavior. Another that is almost mandatory for me is No foot tapping while waiting for a route to clear", by Stevebo77 (from Mod The Sims). Others that I enjoy: Auto collect (by douglasveiga at MTS), Enhanced Witches (by PuddingFace at MTS).
Favorite thing to do: almost endless. Swim in pools, swim in ocean, run, play chess, play pool, ride horses, fish, collect insects, brew nectar, ride the fairy train, garden, cook, bake cookies, dance, break space rocks, brew potions, channel surf, cook outs, train other sims, sim-watch on community lots, spar, ... I think that's about 1 percent of it.
Edit: oh, and my favorite expansion is Pets, but sadly I can't play with pets in my sim household because the dogs in my real household go crazy when they hear the sounds.
I'm also back over from Sims 4, finally gave up hope of getting content with any depth to it. I'm starting to rediscover so much of what I missed about it, but mostly being able to send every member of your household to a different lot & still be able to play them all.
@Kkffoo - I used to be a wildlife photographer, so Photoshop was an ever-present thing for post-processing my images...now I get to "post-process" my sims images.
@capgal - Bebe Hart is one of the successes for the devs in Sims 3 who created those characters. She turned out pretty nicely even as a base sim.
River McIrish on the other hand...is a diamond in the rough.
EA Base Sim.
What I turned her into:
If you tweak her she's stunning.
There's a lot of favourite things in the Sims 3 that I like but I'd be here all night listing them.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
I love the Cornelia, Gunther and Mortimer Goth, Agnes Crumplebottom, Claire Ursine, the Frio brothers and the Wolffs. Those are my favorites.
Favorite non EA world is Cake island by Rflong7. Her worlds are awesome and she has many.
My advice is just boot up the game and start playing. Next time you look up it will be 4 am
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