Ts4 destroyed my ability to enjoy ts2

"jimbbq;d-977969" wrote:
I wonder if this happens to anyone else. I launched TS2 today (mac super collection) played for a short while and got frustrated and closed it. Going to a community lot Down town is a drag, pick up the phone wait for the taxi then two loading screens. When you come back the time is all messed up. Getting a job promotion requires keeping up with friendships ... it is rather illogical and irritating ! And CAS omg without CC there are like 5 clothes for kids lol. Building and placing items is rage inducing. Yea ts4 has a lot of problem but it has made some significant improvements too. It makes gameplay very streamlined (sometimes way too much though) CAS and BB items are amazing. Building is super fun. We just need some long term gameplay like harder aspirations (This is where ts2 shines) and Ts3 real estates system to spend your money. Hopefully the sims team is listening to us and make ts4 an amazing game it is meant to be.

Do you use a userstartup.cheat file for TS2? You can use that to either enable cheats by default when the game loads or you can create shorter nicknames for each cheat so instead of having to type out moveObjects on each time I just type moveon and moveoff. The SnapObjectsToGrid cheat lets you freely place items (I use snapon and snapoff ) and if you put boolProp allow45DegreeAngleOfRotation true into your userstartup file you can rotate objects eight different directions instead of the standard four and you don't need to turn the cheat on every time, it just works once you put it in the cheat file.

The friendship needed for promotions I ended up using a mod (no friends needed for careers by twojeffs) to stop the requirement because it's just not realistic.

For the community time difference with the home lot there is a mod for that as well.

The loading screens don't bother me now as it loads quickly on this computer. TS4 has loading screens so it doesn't feel that different to me.

The graphics don't really bother me that much. I look for upgraded textures for things that do bother me. (There's mods for sharper looking speech bubbles, updates to the neighbourhood terrain/trees etc) The only thing is some CC that looked a little janky back in the day looks really bad now so I either get rid of it or I may get around to updating the textures myself but there's some really quality stuff out there and people are still creating for the game.
Most annoyances or outdated graphics can be solved with CC and mods but if you don't like modding your game I can see where things could get irritating.