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Acklelyte's avatar
7 years ago

Sims 2 is Amazing

You guys... I have finally been able to play Sims 2, and I'm having a blast!

Some fun moments:
1) At university, lightning caused a fire that was burning the mascot and my sim's boyfriend. My sim ran out onto the balcony to help, almost caught on fire herself. Managed to save boyfriend, but the mascot died. It was exciting to have that unexpected danger after playing sims 4 for so long.
2) I briefly played the plantsim family, discovered how easy it was to make plantsim babies and promptly made as many as I could. Too many toddlers! Spent four days raising plantsim toddlers in the yard, was glad it was a rainy season.
3) I added an arch, cake, and champagne to the love hedgemaze park and had my Romantic sim have an impromptu wedding with her fiancé there, which made everyone at the park like guests. For fun I had her scope the room, and she thought someone else there was hotter than her husband! Even more trouble was revealed when I discovered her husband liked that she was unemployed, but her dream was to top the athletic career! They, uh, might not last.

I was surprised at what objects were NOT in sims 2 that were in sims 3 and either are in 4 or people want in 4. Object wise it is not the winner for sure...
But for gameplay, it's been so much fun. I like the attraction! And the videos in special moments, I kinda wish we had that now. There are lots of other things that are great about sims 2 that I now wish they continued.

I do have some questions, if anyone knows;
1) is there a way to extend the childhood lifespan without mods? Or Is only way to freeze time for everyone? If I do freeze time, how do you age people up later? Any way to force an age up?
2) I have not found any werewolves! Any tips there?

There's no doubt a ton of things I haven't figured out, haha! It'll be fun to explore while waiting for Sims 4 seasons. ;)

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  • "Oldeseadogge;c-16696913" wrote:
    Another way to simulate a semi-open world is to plunk down an empty maximum sized lot and put several different shops, activities, parks, etc. on it. If the neighborhood in question has ocean front, do the same with a max sized beach lot. Adding the pirate ship alone will give your sims lots to do.


    I love the freedom of multi lots! I use them all the time! So happy TS2 never made us designate what type of lots to build like TS3 and TS4. It's one of the many reasons I still like TS2 better. Trick: if you also have a tiny restaurant on a lot don't add enough tables then Sims will do other stuff instead, too. Some will be eating (tables full) and some will do other things. If there are enough seats for everyone who shows up to eat, then there won't be many doing other stuff, but if you don't give them enough seats, then they are forced to do other things until they can eat. :D
  • "Cinebar;c-16437183" wrote:
    "Simsophonique;c-16430294" wrote:
    "Brindleton;c-16429437" wrote:
    Another site with cool Sims 2 clothes is Liana Sims. Great stuff :)

    http://www.lianasims2.net


    I love a couple of outfits from this site <3 <3 . But it's too much obvious when you got too graphics they are photoskinned and it's pretty disgusting.


    What do you mean? I don't understand. I have a bunch of their outfits for 'themed' Sims. And the best thing if someone donates and buys a set the oldest set becomes available for everyone. Great stuff there!

    ETA: Never mind, I now understand what you meant by photoskinning, yeah, I do a lot of photoskinning but I'm a perfectionsist, (OCD picky of my own stuff) and if it isn't perfect, size of buttons, poka dots etc, right lines for creases etc. I won't put it in my own game, but I still think they have some great stuff. I'm not really all that good at drawing on a pc, I'm better with a pad and pencil, I just didn't know pasting an outfit onto a mesh was called photo skinning. I've seen some amazing stuff, I might prefer photoskinning myself, since some drawn/painted collars etc. can look fuzzy etc. that stuff bothers me more.

    Glad I got an education of a term today. Learn something every day here. lol


    In my computer the current one ,such outfits that use true photos to recolour the mesh appears very bad because they are not real , compared to the Maxis-Match clothes who are appearing better because the textures are better.
  • modthesims.info is another site that has tons of mods and cc to download and heres a couple more http://simscave.mustbedestroyed.org/index.php?board=172.0 and https://sims2defaults.dreamwidth.org/
  • I prefer not to mod my games, though it's nice that someone wants to do that, but I'd rather just have a regular gameplay, and some of the mods don't work that well, and can cause issues with the game itself over time. That's why EA says not to install third party mods to the game itself because they aren't even sure if they are safe for the game itself. Though I do wish they'd get rid of those annoying nude patches since the sims are not fully detailed to show off anything that is needed to block, it sometimes causes too much of an issues. I know they fixed the issue with the nude patches in The Sims 2 where they can't be seen through the walls, but The Sims 3 it's still there. Not going to have a mod to get rid of those.
  • I forgot how much I love sims 2 but lately I've been seeing it everywhere and I think I'm going to hunt down my ex's and reinstall everything and play with the wonder of my young self again
  • "Cinebar;c-16705736" wrote:
    I love the freedom of multi lots! I use them all the time! So happy TS2 never made us designate what type of lots to build like TS3 and TS4. It's one of the many reasons I still like TS2 better. Trick: if you also have a tiny restaurant on a lot don't add enough tables then Sims will do other stuff instead, too. Some will be eating (tables full) and some will do other things. If there are enough seats for everyone who shows up to eat, then there won't be many doing other stuff, but if you don't give them enough seats, then they are forced to do other things until they can eat. :D


    Thanks for the tip! Am working on a mult-purpose restaurant/bar/gym/sauna/whatever lot that will have a lot of action everywhere. The TS4 one I'm basing it on has seating for 28 in the restaurant, and I rather doubt that many sims will show up. The original is one lively place, but just in the beanery part.

  • I still prefer TS2 and I'm still playing it. It is by far the better game. I have a separate world for each challenge that I've been playing. I'm still playing after all these years! Love it! <3
  • It would take too long to list everything about sims 2 I love but I think for me its the sims them selves. They have such depth of character and are always surprising you, I think their personality comes through more than in the other games. EA really set the bar high when they made sims 2.

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