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Should previous Sims 1, 2 and 3 be updated to play easily?
PrincessrozeeS
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As I move on and up in age, now retired for sometime, and been playing PC games for 30+ years and been playing the Sims since the Sims 1. I wonder what others think about previous Sim games and wanting to play them on newer technology?
Films and Music is digitally updated so we can continue to listen and watch them. We can still do that much of the time. Shouldn't this be the same for PC games? Why don't games get updated to play on newer systems? Why is it so hard to update them to play on newer systems and do the publishers think the effort is not worth it? Do people no longer have desktop PC and rely on pads or phones? I guess I am wanting to play my older games on my new computer desktop! There is nothing like a good PC desktop with a good monitor for a point and click gaming experience! I feel sorry for the younger generation who have missed out on so many great point and click adventure/puzzle/simulation games on the PC.
The worse thing about bringing out newer software, updating operating systems, is that we can no longer play our beloved games easily. Not without most of the time jumping through hoops to try and get them to work, or having the old technology to play them. I used to love buying a game with a disk, installing it and not having to buy online and downloading. Downloading can at times take forever! There was something about owning a box with a DVD in it and being able to install it. I understand that they can get damaged and appreciate a way not to play without a disk in some ways, but having a disk to me outweighs downloading. So much faster when things go wrong and an full install needs to be done.
For me there is nothing like the older games, especially the point and click. I loved playing the Sims 1 and 2 and although I can play the Sims 2 on my EA App is is not quite the same as having all my EP's and other stuff installed for the Sims 2. I went back to playing the Sims 3 for a time because I found the Sims 4 had too much depth, too much content, and it wasn't how I wanted to play my game. I keep up to date as much as I can with my Sims 4 but lack the mojo at times to play it!
I would love to get back to playing the Sims 4 as I did with the Sims 1 & 2. Maybe I just have to accept those days are gone. Less is more or so they say. There is something for knowing a game inside out to make the game how you want to play and not how we are directed to play.
Funny enough when I was playing the Sims 2 I wanted more expansions, more things added but it wasn't to be. And then the Sims 3 was brought out, not the same as the Sims 2, and for me not as addictive as the Sims 2. And now we have the Sims 4 with all this content, but not half as addictive as the Sims 2 was. It's a shame as being a Sim player all this time I wish I had the motivation to play more!
We are forced into accepting things that makers of newer technology dictate. We have no say and this ultimately has an impact on waste and our environment, with companies continually updating technology for us to buy new and upgrade. We should be able to play older games and those companies responsible should update so we can contine to play them on newer technogy.
Films and Music is digitally updated so we can continue to listen and watch them. We can still do that much of the time. Shouldn't this be the same for PC games? Why don't games get updated to play on newer systems? Why is it so hard to update them to play on newer systems and do the publishers think the effort is not worth it? Do people no longer have desktop PC and rely on pads or phones? I guess I am wanting to play my older games on my new computer desktop! There is nothing like a good PC desktop with a good monitor for a point and click gaming experience! I feel sorry for the younger generation who have missed out on so many great point and click adventure/puzzle/simulation games on the PC.
The worse thing about bringing out newer software, updating operating systems, is that we can no longer play our beloved games easily. Not without most of the time jumping through hoops to try and get them to work, or having the old technology to play them. I used to love buying a game with a disk, installing it and not having to buy online and downloading. Downloading can at times take forever! There was something about owning a box with a DVD in it and being able to install it. I understand that they can get damaged and appreciate a way not to play without a disk in some ways, but having a disk to me outweighs downloading. So much faster when things go wrong and an full install needs to be done.
For me there is nothing like the older games, especially the point and click. I loved playing the Sims 1 and 2 and although I can play the Sims 2 on my EA App is is not quite the same as having all my EP's and other stuff installed for the Sims 2. I went back to playing the Sims 3 for a time because I found the Sims 4 had too much depth, too much content, and it wasn't how I wanted to play my game. I keep up to date as much as I can with my Sims 4 but lack the mojo at times to play it!
I would love to get back to playing the Sims 4 as I did with the Sims 1 & 2. Maybe I just have to accept those days are gone. Less is more or so they say. There is something for knowing a game inside out to make the game how you want to play and not how we are directed to play.
Funny enough when I was playing the Sims 2 I wanted more expansions, more things added but it wasn't to be. And then the Sims 3 was brought out, not the same as the Sims 2, and for me not as addictive as the Sims 2. And now we have the Sims 4 with all this content, but not half as addictive as the Sims 2 was. It's a shame as being a Sim player all this time I wish I had the motivation to play more!
We are forced into accepting things that makers of newer technology dictate. We have no say and this ultimately has an impact on waste and our environment, with companies continually updating technology for us to buy new and upgrade. We should be able to play older games and those companies responsible should update so we can contine to play them on newer technogy.
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There are SimCity titles that are older than TS1 on EA/Origin, so age is not an excuse.
I have the 2009 Double Deluxe issue of TS2, and even that's a hassle on a modern PC. First of all, I have to use an external disk drive, and I have to set up Administrator mode to even get it to install, and even for Windows to run it
Plus disks don't age well.
(yeah they had the promotion that made ts2 available for some but rest of us for some reason cannot have it? at all? so frustrating.)
at least my ps2 still works *knock wood*
so I can play the old sims ps2 games i have
but yeah I don't have any way to use my pc game discs anymore with not having the disc slot and i doubt it would run too well on new computers
I kind of wonder if creating mini consoles (like how theres the mini nintendo now) would bypass the issue of machine - game incompatibility but yeah idk i doubt that will ever happen
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Also, I just remembered that Sims 3 was updated for Mac users about 2020 so that it can still run on newer machines — although I wouldn’t say that Sims 3 plays well. I play it a lot still, but it does require a lot of careful handling, some essential mods, and a load of patience.
> Mac users can get Sims 2 Super Collection on the App store and it’s updated to play well on current Mac models (at least it does on mine). It’s not the complete collection because not everything was released for Mac, but it does have all the packs that were made for Mac. I love going back to it from time to time — it’s still so good. But it’s owned by Aspyr and not EA.
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> Also, I just remembered that Sims 3 was updated for Mac users about 2020 so that it can still run on newer machines — although I wouldn’t say that Sims 3 plays well. I play it a lot still, but it does require a lot of careful handling, some essential mods, and a load of patience.
They can, but iirc it's only a few of the expansions and not created or condoned by EA?
Well that and you'd basically break every mod in existance and might *also* have to rework all the store content.
I've played the other versions but I like my TS4 game. I would probably play 4 and Rene simultaneously if the new version interests me and if they don't "end" TS4. It's too early for me to commit with certainty to Rene because I don't have the details. I don't plan to move on from my 4 game for a while longer but who knows? I do think they should come out with a new open world version since there's so much demand. I agree that it probably makes sense to remaster the old games for players who still want to play those versions. That makes more sense than making a new version that just copies older ones.
Nowadays Microsoft just admits airily that some of our games won't play on Windows 10 or 11. Grrh.
Also, I wouldn't mind if EA App brought back Sims 2. I've only experienced Sims 3 & 4, but have heard that Sims 2 had way more fun gameplay than Sims 3 & 4.
I would love a Sims game that plays like 2 with the best parts of 4 thrown in - like some of the building and CAS tools, the way the Vampires were done, etc.
I wouldn't say it's aimed at a younger generation, It's just aimed at a different generation and kind of gamers. You probably have heard more then one person say "i disliked the older games because you were so busy keeping your mood up that you couldn't do anything else", even tho largely that wasn't even the case past the initial start where you had to live off of appliances with a low score in whatever you needed from it.
And personally i prefer needing to balance needs and things i want to do. Being able to fill all my needs in the span of 5 sim hours and then have them not decay down to minimum in less then 20 hours would not feel good to me.
You have heard correctly. In addition, TS2 gives you almost complete control over the world itself, the ability to make new ones, and you can do things in build mode the TS4 one can only dream about. TS2's Body Shop is essentially a make your own CC tool when in comes to the sims themselves & attire.
Am a veteran of both DOS and just about every Windows version released and can say from experience that XP is the best of the bunch. User friendly, runs just about everything regardless of age, and not overloaded with apps that not everyone wants.
Sims 2 Ultimate Edition is not available now, but is still playable for those who got it. Unfortunately, newer graphic cards are still not supported.
But relatively easy to make work. It's more that the cards don't support the game, not the other way arround.
Those games were a lot less bloated and buggy then the sims is. They'd need months of fixing to not make it just a crappy port to modern systems. And alledgedly most devs who deeply understand the old games are gone
I really loved the cd's as well. So much faster for me to install a game. In my case, I have satellite internet. My house is deemed unserviceable for cable. So when I have to download a game off the internet it literally takes hours. These days, I just start the download before I go to bed and it's ready for me the next morning.
I have been playing since Sims 1 as well. I have owned every pack throughout 1,2,3, this is the first sims (4) that I do not own all of the packs, and do not plan to own them all and regret buying many of them. I have not tried to play the Sims 1 since the second was out, and I have tried to play Sims 2 several times, even a couple of years ago and the graphics are so bad, plus after playing 4 where you can multitask it is hard to go backwards lol,
I think it would be awesome if they made all of the sims series available on EA so that us sim lifers could enjoy them if we want to and so the newer simmers could see where it all started, even if I personally would not play unless the graphics were updated.