"SimAlexandria;c-17663169" wrote:
"Cinebar;c-17660978" wrote:
If this doesn't apply to any playing TS4 right now, without any mods then ignore the challenge to play TS4 for several years without any mods. But if any mods installed make TS4 more like TS2 and TS3, then yes, mods and why you love TS4 does apply.
This description is just a peek at what players who love TS4 so much use to make it 'better' and more like TS2 and TS3. Note the bolded part. There are dozen others that people use for TS4 that does make TS4 more like TS2 and even TS3. As I pointed out above, without mods at all the vanilla game is as problematic as I just stated in my 'conversation' above with a Sim.
"MC Command Center (or Master Controller Command Center, MCCC) is probably the greatest mod for The Sims 4. It’s purpose is to expand the functionalities and story progression within The Sims 4. It comes with multiple options that tackle different functionalities: adjusting household bills, pregnancy behavior, time settings and many story progression mechanics. If there’s anything you’d like to tweak from the way The Sims 4 behaves – the MC Command Center mod can do it."
MCCC doesn't change sims personalities though, which is something I see a lot of earlier game fans are looking for.
But yeah I'll have to ignore the challenge cuz I've already passed it haha! I've def gone years without mods in Sims 4 and prefer Sims 4 though. i I'm more likely to try mods that make Ts2 or ts3 more like Sims 4 if there were any. I didn't know mods were a thing until 2017 and never tried them until 2018ish. So I never used mods in earlier versions of the game, but I also got (still get when I try to play every few months ish) bored very quickly on TS2 I couldn't really get into the game until TS4. Sure years ago I'd play it for a few days here, but then I'd be bored and need months long break before getting in another hour or two a day for a week type of sporadic play. It was fun but never drew me in like 4 does. Now AFTER trying sims 4 it's even worse for me. THe games all run fine on my computer but playing ts2 or ts3 now that I'm spoiled wth 4 has me bored to tears after an hour max and I shut it down. They were good games for their time, but for me they didn't age well. Maybe because I could never get super into them in the first place. I preferred Sim City to "The sims" until Sims 4 came out. (I still like Sim City a lot but Sims 4 has easily beat it to the top of my fav games list haha)
It's ok that you love TS4 more than the others. I would never discourage someone from the freedom to like what you want and have a different opinion. However, I also played TS4 bought several packs and one day I just decided I had enough of it, and uninstalled it. I returned to TS2 and still there after sixteen years. I understand people want things from the newer games in the older games, many times I wished TS2 had this or that from TS3 and or even TS4. Lol that's why I find cc that was extracted from those games and many others and put them in my game. lol
As far as mods to make TS2 more like TS4 or even TS3 there are plenty, such as the more walkbys and cars passing by mod on a Sim lot. True, those Sims only walk on the same sidewalk of the lot being played and all the cars passing by are only on one side of the street with that mod, however, it's the same as what happens in TS4, where we see Sims only walk on one side of a sidewalk and not across the street. But it's a great mod and one of the best imho. But it adds more immersion like in TS3 and TS4 to see busier streets. And it's a huge success by the fact no cars ever passed Sim lots in TS2. So, seeing all the type cars (and bussess and even cc autos/bussess etc.) passing by the Sim house is a huge deal to me. It's great. I have just recently built a row of houses that I turned into apartments, so I have dozens of Sims passing by that very long lot, including the neighbors in those apartments out on the sidewalks, (they often cross the wide street to make me think they are looking at the store fronts across the street) and many, many cars passing. It's just as immersive as TS4 in that way. So, if you love something (and it's fine you love TS4) you find a way to improve it and build it better than Maxis did. lol You find a way to bring as much immersion you can from other games, too, that bring in the dirty, grungy, and just plain gritty stuff from other games like FallOut and or SilentHill etc.
I undestand people wanted better 'imposters' (graphics) they saw across the street, but with the right installed trees and cc the houses or buildings across the streets and even further, can look as good as anything in TS3 or TS4 sometimes, you just have to know what you are doing and find those right things. Because we all know TS2's trees across the street are horrible but when you add in very good cc to replace those, man, you would know Maxis should have done better with those if they can look that great and clear from modders. Then you have to say, well, graphics are actually great in TS2 when you improve what Maxis failed to do with 'imposters'. (Probably due to performance on older machines). But these days high poly is no longer a problem when building the street lots to be seen from your Sim house.
