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In Honor of Sims 4 Outrage - A Look at the Lacking Sims 3 Base Game
Wilderwolf
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Since everyone is making Sims 4 out to be an awful game already before it's even released, I'd like to take us all back in time for a second. The year is 2009. Sims 3 is about to be released and everyone has lost their chill. Why's that you ask? Because compared to Sims 2, Sims 3 looks terrible. I mean look at everything the base game is missing.
Missing Gameplay Elements:
No interactable fully functional restaurants
No interactable fully functional grocery stores
No interactable fully functional clothing shops
No aspirations
No lifetime aspiration meter or anything to show how fulfilling your sims life has been
No fears
No private schools and wooing the headmaster “minigame to get into private school”
No dating system and dating “minigame” to get a perfect date
No interests
No turn ons and turn offs
No memories
No aliens
Hedges, flowers and trees never require maintenance (trimming, watering, etc.) and they never die
Environment and comfort needs removed
No illnesses
No inheritance when family dies
No need to buy clothes
No cockroaches for dirty homes
No zodiac signs
Can’t bathe babies and toddlers
No cleaning skill
No yoga or meditation skills
No car animations or interactions
No unlockable secret lots
No basements
Teens don't get acne
No need for friends to get promoted
No chance cards from work
No lifetime relationship bar
Less control over inactive families because of story progression
More difficulties in rotational play
No personality points
Only one world to play in
Cartoon charm graphic style lost and replaced by more realistic graphics
Sims have "pudding face" which a lot of people don't like
Missing Items:
No pianos
No recliners
No diving boards or pool slides
No hot tubs
No magazines
No wedding arch
No changing tables
Miscellaneous:
No cinematics for moving, woohooing, etc.
No underwear clothing category
Missing NPCs: Exterminator, headmaster, social bunny, tragic clown, therapist, gardener, butler, or nanny
No body shop application
Can’t create new neighborhoods in-game
Couldn't add new lots to towns
Difficult finding space for new lots when function was added
Each job doesn’t have a career reward
Most community lots are rabbit holes that you can't see your sim in
Hair doesn't move
Anything I missed?
Missing Gameplay Elements:
No interactable fully functional restaurants
No interactable fully functional grocery stores
No interactable fully functional clothing shops
No aspirations
No lifetime aspiration meter or anything to show how fulfilling your sims life has been
No fears
No private schools and wooing the headmaster “minigame to get into private school”
No dating system and dating “minigame” to get a perfect date
No interests
No turn ons and turn offs
No memories
No aliens
Hedges, flowers and trees never require maintenance (trimming, watering, etc.) and they never die
Environment and comfort needs removed
No illnesses
No inheritance when family dies
No need to buy clothes
No cockroaches for dirty homes
No zodiac signs
Can’t bathe babies and toddlers
No cleaning skill
No yoga or meditation skills
No car animations or interactions
No unlockable secret lots
No basements
Teens don't get acne
No need for friends to get promoted
No chance cards from work
No lifetime relationship bar
Less control over inactive families because of story progression
More difficulties in rotational play
No personality points
Only one world to play in
Cartoon charm graphic style lost and replaced by more realistic graphics
Sims have "pudding face" which a lot of people don't like
Missing Items:
No pianos
No recliners
No diving boards or pool slides
No hot tubs
No magazines
No wedding arch
No changing tables
Miscellaneous:
No cinematics for moving, woohooing, etc.
No underwear clothing category
Missing NPCs: Exterminator, headmaster, social bunny, tragic clown, therapist, gardener, butler, or nanny
No body shop application
Can’t create new neighborhoods in-game
Couldn't add new lots to towns
Difficult finding space for new lots when function was added
Each job doesn’t have a career reward
Most community lots are rabbit holes that you can't see your sim in
Hair doesn't move
Anything I missed?
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*tears up*
Moving hair
hidden lots
The Silverdust Legacy
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Add to List:
Two relationship bars (In TS2 and in TS4)
Chance cards (work)
Exterminators
Nanny
Butler
Gardner
Nope, they continued to add more and more rabbitholes with almost every expansion.
I have the missing NPCs all listed together and I just added chance cards right before you posted. haha Good call on the relationship bar though! I completely forgot that wasn't in Sims 3.
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~Kaleb
Oh, and of course, the pudding faces. Pudding faces are unforgivable. I will NEVER buy this game, it's going to sell terrible and there'll never be another sims game and anyone who doesn't agree was #boughtandpaidfor.
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Um opportunities are chance cards. They serve the same basic function. So yeah.
No grocery stores
Base game TS3 had both of these things. They were rabbit holes, but they still served that function. *eye roll*
No they don't, chance cards can get you fired/demoted/paid/raise/friends/gifts, opportunities you don't have to do, and are lagged out/glitchy.
Nope, opportunities and chance cards were completely different. Opportunities in Sims 3 were things our sims had to do, such as read a book or collect gemstones, but chance cards were funny things we had to choose an option for and it had a random affect such as giving out a promotion/demotion, filling the sims needs, firing them, etc.
OP, change it from what he said to "No open restaurants, and no open grocery stores", yeah, they don't serve the same purpose @fadingaudio... sorry...
~Kaleb
Agreed and opportunities were not work orientated but centered around everything. from food,to travel to lot visiting.
Origin: Damian_Nyx
Did you ever play Sims 2? They're completely different from Sims 3 restaurants and grocery stores.
Yup. You go and get yourself a table and even order your food from a waitress.
then you would know that he ment exactly that. they were rabbit holes..NOW. there was no walking into stores and seeing anything *eye roll*
Origin: Damian_Nyx
TS2 had chance cards that were random and didn't affect your work too. I know I hate getting them all the time. Kids and teens also got them. So yeah they served the same basic function. The whole thing is disingenuous at best, we both know this.
"A chance card is a randomly-occurring game event, happening usually while a Sim is at work. Chance cards present the player with two choices, with both choices having positive and negative potential outcomes. These outcomes can result in a Sim receiving a bonus or getting fined Simoleons, gaining or losing skill points, getting promoted, getting demoted, or getting fired. Chance cards were introduced in The Sims 2 and The Sims Stories, and appear - in a much more limited form - in The Sims 3 and The Sims Medieval. "
I don't even like TS3 and I still think you are being disingenuous. Should be a hint
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