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What is your favorite kind of apartment?
waterywatermelon
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What is your favorite kind of apartment? 66 votes
The Sims 2 style
72%
48 votes
The Sims 3 style
15%
10 votes
The Sims 4 style
12%
8 votes
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However, in terms of flexibility and customization, I'll pick The Sims 2 apartments. The Sims 2 apartments have the ability to customize the lots however you want, and they are extremely flexible. As long as the room is properly recognized as a room, you can convert anything into an Apartment Lot. Plus, you can play multiple characters in those apartments and live their lives. The Sims 2 also comes with Family Albums (Story Mode), and you can take pictures and write little captions about your Sims' everyday life.
I like penthouses and what not, but the apartments feel so limited otherwise with building restraints. Plus I cannot save them when I go through all the remodeling trouble. And the neighbors ended up pretty annoying in 4, but I won't bash it too much.
I consider lot traits an addendum system separate from apartments, though I do enjoy them. Just going off of my experiences I had more fun with 2's because of the creativity.
The fact that we, the players, who paid for this feature, can't even create our own apartments any where we want is a serious turn off. I refuse to even play in, that's how irritated it makes me. See I don't live in a big city in RL that has skyscraper apartment buildings, so that's not something that is familiar to me. We apartment complexes or ground floor condo type apartments, or huge victorian houses that were split up into multi-family homes.
So, yeah once again in TS4, I can't play myself if I wanted to playout my RL life because I can't build the type of apartments that I have lived in. (And have it actually be functional).
So yeah, TS2 was the best in my books!
If you had played The Sims 2, then you would find that The Sims 2 apartments would have real neighbors instead of random NPCs in the extra rooms. You can have up to 4 playable households per apartment lot. Once you get pass 4, and there are more apartments on the lot, those extra apartments will be filled in by random NPCs. Furthermore, the NPCs that live in the apartments may be classed as Upper Class, Upper Middle Class, Middle Class, Lower Middle Class, and Lower Class. The exact names for those social classes are Socialite, Jock, Bohemian, Gearhead, and Tech. Sims can build relationship and reputation, as well as decrease relationship and reputation, in romantic and non-romantic ways, while reputation in The Sims 3 is closely associated with fame reputation or romantic reputation. The Sims 4 also takes on the Sims 3 approach.
You can build your own apartments from an empty lot and install elevators. But in case the elevators break down (and yes, they can and will kill your Sims!), you may want a real staircase on the side for safety purposes. You can place apartment lots in the Sims 2 anywhere you want like a residential lot; however, unlike the Sims 3, they must be placed alongside the road.
One last thing, because everything is on one apartment lot, you can easily visit your playable households that also live in the apartment building. This is all without a loading screen (unlike The Sims 4).
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I love 3 but half the time i just teleport my sims down/upstairs instead of using the elevator
Yea you have to get a mod for it to stop doing the weird jerky thing if you mean the tab mode camera
Plus your Landlord could steal money from your money tree in TS2 then randomly insult you. Talk about realism!
I didn't like how TS3s limited you to just one building, one actual household area, and a door that spawns townies, it tends to lag a little more too or cause Sims to get stuck waiting for elevators for a long time. And it's just not as fun to live in as an actual apartment set.
TS3 apartments were the worst. You couldn't really visit your neighbors' units, and there were no amenities. They were basically reskinned one-household residences in a shell building. And they lagged a lot (but this might just be because of Bridgeport)
TS4 apartments were a bit better since you could visit your neighbors, but there were loading screens so they were functionally a different lot. There were no amenities either, but they did add apartment-specific gameplay like neighbors dropping by, noisy neighbors, and giving out copies of your apartment key to your friends
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Second, the way they’ve done it messes up my gameplay a lot. I always have my sims move to apartments directly after college, because at least in my country no one buys a house until they are at least 30+. People live in apartments. You go from a tiny one when you study (if you don’t live in a dorm), to a small one in your early 20’s, or maybe a shared bigger one with friends, to maybe a bigger one by yourself or with a partner, and finally maybe you’ll buy a house when you want to start a family and you have saved up money. No one buys a house straight out of home. So the fact that I can’t build and place apartments wherever I want them in sims 3 and 4 is a _huge_ dealbreaker to me.