Do sims 2 fans prefer sims 3 or sims 4?
I love sims 2 and have the complete game, I also have sims 3 and 4 base games with a couple of expansions. I would probably say I preferred sims 3 over 4 at the moment but as I don't have the complete...
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Sims 4 is my favourite, though I'll admit it's flawed and more often that not new content is being released unfinished and full of bugs. And yes, it lacks content in certain areas (I would like more traits, more jobs etc) but I love the emotions system even though it could use a little tweaking and I love how easy to use CAS/CAP and build mode are now. As a family player, the toddlers are my favourite from all the games so far and are genuinely fun to play with and teach (although of course, like everyone else, I agree they should've just been in base game but hey, we have them now at least). Also I think it's the prettiest game by far. I know that doesn't matter to some people but it sure is a bonus to me.
Sims 2 would be second favourite. It lacks some things (like traits, emotions, many skills) but does really well in others (like careers to choose from and having control over your neighbourhoods and world building). Family play isn't quite as fun as sims 4 simply because it's so difficult to stop everyone dying/being taken by the social worker, particularly in large families. However, it is more fun to see families over generations because of the awesome genetics system and it's awesome that sometimes babies will have different colourings to their parents because of recessive genes and whatnot (compared to sims 4 in which they always have the colour of one of the parents, and sims 3 in which it was that or a totally random one). However that being said, it does lack variety in the sense that there's only 4 skin tones, 4 hair colours, 5 eye colours and 2 (3 if you include what you can achieve via gameplay) fit/average/fat states, "fit" and "fat" not even being that fit or fat. I find I have to use CC because asides from the fact I don't find the Maxis skin/hair/eyes appealing at all, I also want more variety for them.
Sims 3 comes in third. There's plenty to do and the idea of having an open world and no loading screens is awesome, but not at the expense of control over the neighbourhood. I like to control all my sims and play rotationally, something which even with a heavily modded game is near impossible with TS3. As I've mentioned before, I'm a family player, and I like to play all the kids when they move out too. In sims 3 of course this means that I have to keep everyone living together in one household and can never play more than 8 sims at a time. Raising the kids isn't that fun either, I hate that it's a requirement to teach toddler skills and get good grades in order to get a choice of traits and it quickly feels like a chore to do that. TS3 is also very difficult to run just because it's such a big game. I had to upgrade my computer in order to play it and it still takes forever to load. Also, in my experience TS3 was the buggiest game by far. I swear I couldn't get past a generation or two without my save file blowing up, or some glitch that was just too annoying to deal with (almost every save I deleted was because a horse ended up trapped indoors). I don't think the sims are very visually appealing either, and when my sims did have kids it felt like they always looked the same. TS3 I'm sure is amazing to those who love the open world and play single households, it's not that it's a bad game, it just doesn't suit my playstyle.
Aaannnddd I never played sims 1, so can't comment on that :tongue:
Sims 2 would be second favourite. It lacks some things (like traits, emotions, many skills) but does really well in others (like careers to choose from and having control over your neighbourhoods and world building). Family play isn't quite as fun as sims 4 simply because it's so difficult to stop everyone dying/being taken by the social worker, particularly in large families. However, it is more fun to see families over generations because of the awesome genetics system and it's awesome that sometimes babies will have different colourings to their parents because of recessive genes and whatnot (compared to sims 4 in which they always have the colour of one of the parents, and sims 3 in which it was that or a totally random one). However that being said, it does lack variety in the sense that there's only 4 skin tones, 4 hair colours, 5 eye colours and 2 (3 if you include what you can achieve via gameplay) fit/average/fat states, "fit" and "fat" not even being that fit or fat. I find I have to use CC because asides from the fact I don't find the Maxis skin/hair/eyes appealing at all, I also want more variety for them.
Sims 3 comes in third. There's plenty to do and the idea of having an open world and no loading screens is awesome, but not at the expense of control over the neighbourhood. I like to control all my sims and play rotationally, something which even with a heavily modded game is near impossible with TS3. As I've mentioned before, I'm a family player, and I like to play all the kids when they move out too. In sims 3 of course this means that I have to keep everyone living together in one household and can never play more than 8 sims at a time. Raising the kids isn't that fun either, I hate that it's a requirement to teach toddler skills and get good grades in order to get a choice of traits and it quickly feels like a chore to do that. TS3 is also very difficult to run just because it's such a big game. I had to upgrade my computer in order to play it and it still takes forever to load. Also, in my experience TS3 was the buggiest game by far. I swear I couldn't get past a generation or two without my save file blowing up, or some glitch that was just too annoying to deal with (almost every save I deleted was because a horse ended up trapped indoors). I don't think the sims are very visually appealing either, and when my sims did have kids it felt like they always looked the same. TS3 I'm sure is amazing to those who love the open world and play single households, it's not that it's a bad game, it just doesn't suit my playstyle.
Aaannnddd I never played sims 1, so can't comment on that :tongue:
