Sims 2 vs sims 3

You can ride horses in TS2 by mods by Echo and forgive me I forgot the person who created the lovely horses. Of course the animation is custom so it's more like scooting along but it can be done. If I think of the other person who created the meshes for the horses and all the recolors of different type horses I will try to post a link.

It's nothing like TS3 horses, though as far as riding. MTS doesn't have as many mods as they used to for TS2, many, many, many have been removed over the years I guess to make room for TS3 and TS4 stuff.

I think I would enjoy Sims3 and Sims4 despite any banter. I don't like to compare as they were all developed by different people at different times. In fact, I have owned Sims3 (still shrink-wrapped) since it came out but there was so much in Sims2 to do that I never got around to even trying Sims3. I'll probably try them out when they are passé.

"Cinebar;c-16045461" wrote:
You can ride horses in TS2 by mods by Echo and forgive me I forgot the person who created the lovely horses. Of course the animation is custom so it's more like scooting along but it can be done. If I think of the other person who created the meshes for the horses and all the recolors of different type horses I will try to post a link.

It's nothing like TS3 horses, though as far as riding. MTS doesn't have as many mods as they used to for TS2, many, many, many have been removed over the years I guess to make room for TS3 and TS4 stuff.

The horses might have come from Rebecka over at Affinity. She also posted on MTS often.

http://affinitysims.com/files/file/2247-22-recolors-for-my-rideable-horse/

Erm.. why does it have to be versus? They're different games; same as Sims 4 and Sims 1. Given time, they'll likely have more additional content for 4 and users will continue to add their own custom content. Legacy titles have a plethora of CC available over teh interwebs.

HI. I'm still a "new member" and can't start new threads. But I want the Sims 2. I've played the Sims, TS3, and TS4. Does the original Sims 2 games (what you would buy on ebay) work on Windows 10? I have been watching youtube Sim Supply channel playing the Sims 2 and I have the itch and I am not a fan of TS4

"Dawn767;c-16059457" wrote:
HI. I'm still a "new member" and can't start new threads. But I want the Sims 2. I've played the Sims, TS3, and TS4. Does the original Sims 2 games (what you would buy on ebay) work on Windows 10? I have been watching youtube Sim Supply channel playing the Sims 2 and I have the itch and I am not a fan of TS4

Your best bet would be to contact EA and ask for the Ultimate Collection. You may have to buy a base game of Sims 2, so you have a code to give them. Some people get it without owning it, some people can't get it until they own it. It just depends on which rep you get. It does work on 10, but it does need some tweeks to run on newer hardware (whether it has 10 or not) Windows 10 may require a couple more tweeks, for some it does, for others it doesn't. I have it working on 10 just fine.

Instructions for contacting EA in the first post here: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/814708/how-to-get-ts2-ultimate-collection-windows/p1

"JULES1111;c-16046313" wrote:

"Cinebar;c-16045461" wrote:
You can ride horses in TS2 by mods by Echo and forgive me I forgot the person who created the lovely horses. Of course the animation is custom so it's more like scooting along but it can be done. If I think of the other person who created the meshes for the horses and all the recolors of different type horses I will try to post a link.

It's nothing like TS3 horses, though as far as riding. MTS doesn't have as many mods as they used to for TS2, many, many, many have been removed over the years I guess to make room for TS3 and TS4 stuff.

The horses might have come from Rebecka over at Affinity. She also posted on MTS often.

http://affinitysims.com/files/file/2247-22-recolors-for-my-rideable-horse/

Yeah, Becka used to have all her horses on MTS. Echo created the animation.

I don't understand why you guys are having issues with how The Sims 3 look? The instant Rendering kind of does makes the game low quality so I have it turned off. Plus it doesn't perform that well on my laptop. Without the instant rendering you actually get to see the skin textures on the sims. I am not able to show screenshots at the moment, but I would if I could and show you the difference it makes to have the instant rendering turned off.

"Tayra;c-16666311" wrote:
I don't understand why you guys are having issues with how The Sims 3 look? The instant Rendering kind of does makes the game low quality so I have it turned off. Plus it doesn't perform that well on my laptop. Without the instant rendering you actually get to see the skin textures on the sims. I am not able to show screenshots at the moment, but I would if I could and show you the difference it makes to have the instant rendering turned off.

I don't understand what you mean by 'instant rendering'. I don't recall that sort of setting in game options. I remember Nicolas advised people back when TS3 was released to set their game controls to a 4 (how many things you can see at a distance) to cut down on lag/stutters etc. At the time that worked great for me.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/340551045811929088/477920096837173268/unknown.png?width=533&height=473

@Cinebar The advanced rendering allows your game to instantly render your game during gameplay and causes your game to perform really slow.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/451172527851700234/477929730201354250/unknown.png?width=284&height=473

With it turned off, all sims looks less plastic like and more visually appealing to look at. And this image is set to Very High.