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Would you rather build in The Sims 2 (base game) or play The Sims 4 on first release date?
Would you rather build in The Sims 2 (base game) or play The Sims 4 on first release date? 86 votes
Build in The Sims 2 (only base game allowed)
Play The Sims 4 (only base game, release-date version)
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Thanks for your opinion.
The common opinions are that the Sims 4 is the best at building while the Sims 2/3 are the best at gameplay. So, I reverse it and ask people whether they would prefer building in The Sims 2 (base game, so no extra build mode cheats or cool objects and functionalities) or The Sims 4 gameplay at launch (highly controversial).
Nice approach
But this is coming from someone who just started playing TS4 since April 2021. Si, I wouldn't know what the release date version of TS4 is.
And then afterward, I can play live mode in TS2, where everything works as they should without a ton of mods and has so many more gameplay features! A lot more fun than the newer TS4 and more bang for your buck than TS4 ever could!
Anyway, considering building isn’t my favorite thing to do i guess I’d have to suck it up and play TS4.
That would be a hard one for me. Sims 4 basegame had no pools, no ghosts (meaning dead sims were gone forever), a very small sims limit (180, I already have 150 played sims) and very aggressive culling. Also that stupid system that overrides the free will off setting when motives drop into the red.
Sims basegame had only painting as work from home option, not even fishing yet. No inventory, therefore no easy transfer of objects between households (without mods that is important). And toddlers couldn't get customized (changing clothes was, I think, possible, if you had bought outfits before the baby aged up, but changing appearance only came with an expansion), therefore never really felt like my sims. No calling aliens via the telescope, you were subjected to chance. And also no dating yet, therefore no cheesing the wants/fears system.
On the upside rotational play is much more relaxed with time passing tied to households instead of globally.
The only thing I know is that I prefer both over Sims 3 basegame.
Technology was different back then than what it is now. There were not that many patches to begin with, and most of the patches were associated with the expansion packs. The patches were mainly there to fix bugs/glitches that some users reported. If you wanted a specific feature like split foundations or lockable doors, then you had to buy Open For Business. By the time the Sims 3 arrived, people could update the base game without buying any expansion pack.
Actually, it was later in TS3 when they started added patches to the base game and not the expansion.
Plus, the point would be, base game to base game play or build - imo.
I would still rather build in the base game of TS2 than play in the base game of TS4.
In TS2 base game I could make my own maps and have so many different neighborhoods which all look different.
Thanks for the correction. I got into TS3 pretty late, in 2013, right before the start of TS4. At that time, I did remember some patches.
My own sentence is weirdly worded, too, because "arrived" would suggest the beginning of The Sims 3, not the entire The Sims 3 heyday.
Also, I didn't want to include Sims 4 build mode, because too many people would say "Sims 4 is the best at building!" Rather, I wanted to make it harder by suggesting Sims 4 live mode (considered weak by some players) or Sims 2 build mode (considered too difficult by some players).
4 at launch could not keep me interested at all basically. I still nearly exclusively played 3 when it first launched, hoping it would shape up in the meantime. If I had 2 installed, I would have played it instead of 4, too. My playstyle had not adapted yet either, so I could not properly appreciate CAS and BB in light of the live mode deficiencies.
One upside, though, the emotion system wasn't as unhinged at release. It actually took a little effort to get your sim into a certain emotion before they started dumping buffs and moodlets into the game with DLC.
I think I'mma go with building in TS2, assuming it wouldn't crash. Because I like building, I guess. TS4 basegame could still be fun with cc, though.