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A few years back they gave everyone the TS2 Ultimate Collection for free on Origin; it's a shame you missed out on that. That was the "end of life" giveaway for the game.
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Yeah I was having other life stuff then so I never noticed I don't understand why they couldn't just keep it on origin or at least do the promotion again for anniversary or something
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Funny but my lap top has the "disk thingy", but my games were loaded via the internet.
Be careful Stormkeep. Big brother and all!!!
I asked the question to see if of all the games that we have or play, where does TS4 rank among them. For me it's #1.
In truth, I actually prefer table top games with friends, both RPGs and boardgames, but that's been a bust with the pandemic.
Anyway, I made a video a few months ago showing my load times and performance.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kTDTCzI_r38
But if your to lazy to watch, from pressing the play button in the launcher to actually playing is less than 2 minutes. The same can’t be said for TS4 on the other hand, at least for me.
And as to which game I like better than TS4, well I think 3 is, I mean what doesn’t it have? It has amazing graphics (with the help of mods and Reshade of course), endless possibilities with NO limitations. Oh, and cars.
But TS4 doesn't take anywhere close to that long for me. It's about a 15 second load time. So it sounds like the real difference is that TS4 loads a lot slower for some people, not that TS3 loads fast.
Also worth mentioning that both games load quite a bit slower the first time that I run them after a reboot of my PC. That has to do with how Windows 10 handles file management and caching, I believe.
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I watched the whole 8:59 of the video and I liked it. It brought back memories of the cars. I loved the cars and the ability to drive them anywhere in the "world". Why did they take them out I don't know. Also, your girl needs some real hygiene lessons. lol. Pizza boxes and dishes all over her place. Can somebody say "maid service". But your point of 2min load time was on point. I guess some pc's have higher processing speed than others. Duh!!!
Lets just say that no matter how long it takes to load, we'll wait because we love the game.
Warcraft huh??? Amazing game I heard!!!
Lol!!!
Big brother doesn't like any reactions that aren't rainbows and bunnies though, though to be fair that is because so many members had paper-thin skin.
At least it's not like the old, old, old days where half of the people posting were, literally, begging for karma...or whatever it was called...i don't honestly remember what it was called, just that people would outright ask for you to give them the upvotes.
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@Stormkeep Both collections on SSD can load pretty speedy around the same time without a massive hoard of mods to bog the game down. I've seen it myself Always turn that loading screen game off in settings to help boost load times for TS3. There are things you can do to keep up with save file bloat as well.
@Simmingal USB optical drive is the answer. $25-$30 USD
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I play several other games, but the other game that I've been playing a lot recently is Stardew Valley. I've played & loved it since it was released and I always play it in cycles until I get enough and then I won't touch it for months. Sims 4 never does it, I always want to play it, I don't take breaks on playing it like I do with other games.
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VeeDub whazzup missed you during my "resting period" but you are right about this game being 4 years old and still at the top of games played by us gamers
"massive hoard of mods". Couldn't have said it better myself. You can feel the affect of them during the game itself. One way I can tell if I have too many mods is to watch the "plumbob" during loading. If it sputters a lot while it's spinning, I'll remove a mod or two to stop it from sputtering.
Sometimes I get "Sim Brain" which is like Brain freeze from playing The Sims too much.
Don't get me wrong, I've had my fun with TS4 in the past, and I really do love certain aspects of the game. It's just not for me, lol.
@Darstep0301 I hope you left me a 'like' on the video. :P
Yes, it really sucks that a game that came out in 2009 needs a decent (by today's standards) pc to make it run somewhat smoothly, I think it's worth is putting in the effort to make the game run well. I've probably put a few thousand fun-filled hours into this game, so I've more than got my money's and times worth from it.
I'd kill for a game that has the gameplay of TS2, with the graphics, Sims and performance (for me) of TS4 in the worlds of TS3.
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Meanwhile, I have tons of games that I like as much, or more. Fallout 4, Stardew Valley, Persona, Assassin's Creed, sadly I have more games I want to play then free time to play them.
I still have interest in the Sims, and come to the forum once in a while to see if anything interesting is happening, but I do believe there are tons of other games out there, some are better in my opinion, some are just newer.