Sims 2 vs Sims 4

"SimsFur;13137595" wrote:

"HollowVoid;13134730" wrote:

"SimsFur;13134642" wrote:

As long as people rate a game in the time it was made, based on the technology in that time and what if offered us, theres nothing wrong with comparing. it goes wrong when people think others rate the game in the same year. Ofcourse when you rate the sims 2 in 2014/2015 it isnt good and outdated, but for then IT WAS AWESOME! the sims 4 in 2014/2015 doesnt even come close.. Thats why we say the sims 2 is better..

Actually, TS2 today, in 2015, is extremely fantastic. Outdated graphics? Sure, but I personally rarely care about graphics and more about gameplay, and even then TS2 has to this date fairly decent graphics.

To say that it was good in 2004-2009 but isn't good in 2014-2015 doesn't make much sense in my eyes. What happened during those 5-6 years to TS2? Nothing, the core gameplay remains the same as it was back in the day and it is quite telling that a lot of simmers actually prefer a 2004 game to a 2014 game. Functionality wise, specially if you take into account CC/mods, the game is far from outdated.

Technology baby.. In those few years a lot changed and they could add a lot of new features that weren't possible for them in 2009. Like now, the routing ways of our sims, their looks (for you its an opinion, but come on there is a big difference between game in those years and now. Look at other games).. somehow they couldnt make the routing correct before, but in ts4 it is very good. I mean those things. Ofcourse there is always a difference in technolgy in a few years. They surely dont sit on their a.s.s, but there are a lot of things they dont tell us.. dont forget.

Ts2 is still good in this year, i agree, but it COULD be lot better if the would use the technology from now.. They just didnt do it with the sims 4.. such a shame.

It's a misunderstanding older games ought to be worse than newer ones. Old definitely doesn't mean worse. In fact I think overly focussing on graphics even can spoil things in a game.

Back in 1989 I loved playing this game:

http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2005/03/043-emulatoren/sarien2_lsl1.png

When they made this out of it it turned out to be a huge disappointment (at least for me):

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--KV7V-QtZ--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/1996y2uywcwqajpg.jpg

It just wasn't the same game. It lacked the humour and the surprise of the original.
In fact I think they did a great job by turning Sims 3 into something completely different. No, not everyone is happy about that, but people who like that different approach have a complete and mature game. Instead of a sad rip off.

Simple doesn't mean worse.