Things from older Sim Generation you DO NOT miss «1234...Next Go

OkayLazySim

There's a current post by @Smellincoffee on Details from older games you miss which is always a fun discussion to have.

But what are the things from older generations you definitely DO NOT miss and don't ever want to return, you know just so EA doesn't get the wrong idea...

I'm thinking

• being locked within a world is a feature I don't want to return to. I love that my sims can travel to all worlds

Ps. sorry for snatching the idea, but I'm too curious, also because I don't seem to remember too much myself

sn4ph

I prefer the Sims 4 aspiration system compared to the Sims 3 one. It actually gave you objectives to progresssively do, as your sim gets more skilled, and it's way more engaging in my opinion.

simgirl1010

Toddlers drinking from the toilet. 😱

GrumpyGlowfish

A new occult with every pack, as seen in TS2. Probably an unpopular opinion because everyone loves to place TS2 on a pedestal, but let's be honest, its occults sucked! They looked different from regular sims and had one or two special properties, but that was it. As shallow as TS4 is in many, many regards, when it does dedicate an entire GP to a single occult, they usually turn out to be the best we've ever had. Not so much when they come as one of many features in an EP, see mermaids and aliens, but even the lacklustre aliens from Get to Work are still better than their green, noseless TS2 counterparts. Witches with their interesting variety of good, evil, and neutral spells were the only good occults in TS2.

(Feel free to cancel me now, but it won't change the facts.)

Ersa_Middleton

simgirl1010 wrote: »

Toddlers drinking from the toilet. 😱

I came to this thread not expecting to see this lol.

OkayLazySim

Ersa_Middleton wrote: »

simgirl1010 wrote: »

Toddlers drinking from the toilet. 😱

I came to this thread not expecting to see this lol.

haha I guess there's a reason why I don't remember too much from the older generations

Smellincoffee

Having to constantly clean up newspaper clutter (TS1 & TS2). They needed an option to subscribe/unsubscribe. At least the TS2 newspaper was more functional, with a crossword and such.

ClassicalSim

The burglar and pickpocket.

LeGardePourpre

Crying toddlers everywhere in The Sims 3

Simmingal

How fast needs go in ts1 and your sim constantly too depressed to anything
unless you have 2 sims constantly socializing with each other

Heads coming with hairstyles, bodies with clothes

horoscopes tied to personality points

the "fat" body type in ts2 thats not even fat
talk about early 2000 nonsense

being stuck in one world/ not being able to live in "vacation worlds"
(still annoying in ts4)

"open world" in ts3
that really just meant lots of travel from rabbithole to another
and sims having chaos while you are not playing them
and you struggling to find your sims on that dang big map all the time
nope i don't miss it.

rabbitholes in general why are they suddenly making comeback in ts4 i do not like it

the ts3 dragons that were just birds in cosplay

the store just like in general

into the future portal automatically spawning on your lot at the start
so your game crashes and all the other crash lag bug things ah fun times

and one for ts4 since i am listing:
randomized townies and endless randomized townie generation in ts4

pls give me toggle to toggle it off before this iteration is over with

Simmingal

GrumpyGlowfish wrote: »

Witches with their interesting variety of good, evil, and neutral spells were the only good occults in TS2.

(Feel free to cancel me now, but it won't change the facts.)

Plantsims were lit in ts2 though so I feel like slightly adjusting the facts

Mariefoxprice83

ClassicalSim wrote: »

The burglar and pickpocket.

I don't miss the burglar or the repoman.

LeGardePourpre

About TS2 :

• Rod Humble NPC
• TV never turned off
• Final exam at night (University)

LiELF

Sims 2 toddlers. (Please don't come for me.) I hated the screaming and fussing, every. single. time. They woke up. I remember how paranoid it made me so that I was constantly checking the time to make sure I had a Sim ready and waiting by the crib for as soon as they woke up because I just couldn't handle the stress of that screaming and wailing sound animation, lol.

Sims 4 toddlers are infinitely better. I actually enjoy them, which was completely unexpected for me, and I was one who never even noticed they were missing from the game until I joined the forums and saw the hullabaloo, lol. I think they're a lot of fun now.

But I really, really wish the Occult toddlers had some supernatural aspects, or that we could at least use the glowy eyes and weird teeth to make them cosmetically creepy. Or have the unusual hair colors for them. No Occult (or toddler) love there, unfortunately.

Puddinroy

The tragic clown!

ChadSims2

For me it would have to be supernatural's in every pack and Sims 3 pudding faces

LeGardePourpre

Cutscenes in TS2 even if it was nice in a specific context, they were annoying the rest of the time.

vossims

Must have a certain number of friends for a promotion

OkayLazySim

LeGardePourpre wrote: »

Crying toddlers everywhere in The Sims 3

I just played infants for the first time and had three at once, it was horrible.. so I feel this for sure lol

hellohannah2

burglars! They were funny for the first while but when they kept showing up it got so annoying. Really? I have to drag myself out of bed AGAIN so that I can jump around screaming and pointing at the burglar? I have work at 8

FreddyFox1234

vossims wrote: »

Must have a certain number of friends for a promotion

Yes I definitely do not miss this! Such a pain having to work on improving the required skills while making sure your friends level didn’t drop away - on top of just managing daily life which could itself be challenging, given the fixed time to Sims’ lifespans! So much pressure!

GrumpyGlowfish

FreddyFox1234 wrote: »

vossims wrote: »

Must have a certain number of friends for a promotion

Yes I definitely do not miss this! Such a pain having to work on improving the required skills while making sure your friends level didn’t drop away - on top of just managing daily life which could itself be challenging, given the fixed time to Sims’ lifespans! So much pressure!

How could I forget about this atrocity? Must have been in denial. I hated that feature with a passion! TS1 had it, TS2 used to have it until they toned it down (or even removed it completely, unless that was a mod?), but that's something that definitely doesn't need to come back.

Maybe because I'm a hard-working introvert in real life, my playstyle is very goal-oriented and less relationship-focused. My sims tend to spend most of their time working on their personal goals, be it a career, a skill, an aspiraiton, or (usually) a mix of everything, until the social need inevitably gets in the way. I don't even want to imagine how much more annoying that would be if interactions with others weren't enough and I also had to cultivate friendships in order to climb the career ladder. It's unrealistic as well, at least for anything other than maybe the politician career. Everywhere else, connections could provide advantages for all I care, but shouldn't be a requirement for promotion.

Jotaerre3D

Sims 3 pudding faces.

Ravager619

That cow mascot knocking on your Sim's door at 3am screaming "Chowla!" just before finals in Sims 3. That was quite annoying.

EgonVM

For me, it's how hard it was to edit townie's appearance. In the previous games, you either needed expansion packs (TS2 Open for Business or TS3 Ambitions) or cheats (boolprop testingcheatsenabled true). In The Sims 4, you can just do it through Manage Households through Manage Worlds easily without careers or businesses.

Oh, and in the previous games, you had to use a mirror to change hairstyle, makeup etc and a dresser to change the outfit. It wasn't that bad in The Sims 2 for one reason: when you wanted to make a hairstyle different for each outfit, you just had a handy button for it in the hairstyle chooser. The Sims 3 was way worse. You had to use mirror to change hairstyle and make-up, then exit CAS to change outfit, reenter CAS to change the hairstyle and make-up for that and repeat until all the outfits are done. There was only one way to bypass it: the Stylist Station, but it took a lot of room and came from The Sims 3 Ambitions (not to mention that this won't help with toddlers).
Oh, and you could only add more outfits in one category in The Sims 3 through Change Outfit or Stylist Station.

And don't get me on how the outfits in The Sims 1 worked. You can change the everyday outfit at any time through a dresser, but to change the other outfits, you needed to go shopping (which required expansion packs). Plus you could never change the face.


And some other features I found annoying from the previous games:

• That cow mascot from The Sims 2 University. They even ruin your romantic relationships!
• In The Sims 3, taxis in the future were slower than taxis in the present.
• How I played The Sims 3 muted because at any rare moment a meteor could fall (Ambitions).
• Stuck in one world in The Sims 3. You could move worlds, but all those previous things will be gone forever. Move back there and it will be like it used to be at the start. I have to make my own worlds so the world has all the expansion pack features!
• In The Sims 2, let your pet chew/scratch your furniture long enough and it will be gone. The replace feature is a really convenient feature! Just it would be great to have it for stolen stuff (otherwise I can't stand kleptomaniacs in The Sims 4)...
• How difficult playing rotationally was in The Sims 3 without mods.
• How presents could actually be rejected from time to time. Yay! What do I do with that thing now?
• How roaches made sims cry in The Sims 2.
• The Sims 1 dragons that set things on fire. After all, in The Sims 1, once your sim catches on fire there, they are dead for sure.
• In The Sims 3, when a NPC sim dies, their new gravestone just disappears. If they were friends, you could find their grave in the mausoleum, but otherwise they'd be gone forever. What if I wanted to put it somewhere in the graveyard?
• How needs in The Sims 1 left a dire consequences in breaking the strict routine you had going on.

Ellupelluellu

vossims wrote: »

Must have a certain number of friends for a promotion

So super annoying,