I'm giving The Sims 3 a try

"sam123;c-17382696" wrote:
I played TS3 when it first came out and even after TS4 came out since I felt 4 was barely a proper sims game at launch. However after a few packs and the toddler update came out I decided to play it. Honestly I found 4 fun for the first time and stopped playing 3 for a few years. After many retarts I'm on my 5th generation in Sims 4 and am still not having any lag issues like I had in TS3. But I have realised that the life stages I enjoy playing (toddlers and children and teens) are missing out completely from TS4 as there is barely anything for them to do. Even with Parenthood.

I decided to reinstall TS3 a few days ago and after installing it with so many mods (new UI color, new skill gaining color and grid updates as well as heaps of gameplay mods) I am having so much fun in TS3!! Generations makes my favorite life stages so so SO fun to play. I never felt like I could do everything in TS3 because there is so much to do and I am loving TS3 again at the moment. I still feel like I have barely scratched the surface and I've been playing TS3 on and off for about 11 years now.

Oh so do i!! In sims 4 i was restarting over and over because i got completelly bored after one or two sim weeks. With 3 i'm having so much fun! I only have generations, late night and seasons. @sam123 what other expansions you recomend me? :)

"telmarina;c-17382732" wrote:

"sam123;c-17382696" wrote:
I played TS3 when it first came out and even after TS4 came out since I felt 4 was barely a proper sims game at launch. However after a few packs and the toddler update came out I decided to play it. Honestly I found 4 fun for the first time and stopped playing 3 for a few years. After many retarts I'm on my 5th generation in Sims 4 and am still not having any lag issues like I had in TS3. But I have realised that the life stages I enjoy playing (toddlers and children and teens) are missing out completely from TS4 as there is barely anything for them to do. Even with Parenthood.

I decided to reinstall TS3 a few days ago and after installing it with so many mods (new UI color, new skill gaining color and grid updates as well as heaps of gameplay mods) I am having so much fun in TS3!! Generations makes my favorite life stages so so SO fun to play. I never felt like I could do everything in TS3 because there is so much to do and I am loving TS3 again at the moment. I still feel like I have barely scratched the surface and I've been playing TS3 on and off for about 11 years now.

Oh so do i!! In sims 4 i was restarting over and over because i got completelly bored after one or two sim weeks. With 3 i'm having so much fun! I only have generations, late night and seasons. @sam123 what other expansions you recomend me? :)

Yay I’m happy you’re enjoying it. Honestly it’s a really hard choice because I found all the expansions fun except for into the future.

World Adventures is amazing if you love travelling. It comes with 3 new vacation worlds so you can take your sims on holidays there. You can also complete quests which are so fun to increase your visa level which allows you to stay longer or even buy a vacation home there! I recommend this if you love travelling.

Ambitions allows your sims to have active jobs so you can play as a private investigator, firefighter, ghost hunter, architect and stylist etc. I find this EP quite fun! There’s also laundry and some other small things to do. I recommend this if you want some more control in your sims jobs.

Showtime is similar to late night and a bit of ambitions. You have 3 new active professions that have to do with being a star. You can be a famous singer, acrobat and magician. I really enjoy this EP too it’s very creative. I love working towards becoming a really popular singer and perform at massive stadiums.

Pets is awesome if you love having pets. It’s more then cats dogs and horses it has also has tonnes of small animal pets too. Like many different birds, hamsters, snakes, turtles, etc. this is the best pets pack of any sims game.

University Life is so awesome and adds heaps more for you to do and just enhances your sims lives when they age up from a teenager! I recommend this one as well!

Supernatural is really fun too if you love playing with different occult’s like werewolves vampires witches and fairies.

Island paradise is kind of fun too I guess but the lag makes it unplayable.

Into the future is so boring for me I don’t like it at all.

Generations and seasons are my all time favourite packs though!

@sam123 - I just bought the ITF EP for the useful items not so much the gameplay AS i hardly bother going into the future. I find the soil rugs useful for my apocalypse games.
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4R3TO9MZSHw/XIsWIMBvt7I/AAAAAAAAfEE/b3Z9_Dg1ftsa9Xnlw6irYIOHGTsjTDFQQCLcBGAs/s1600/Screenshot-50.jpg
After all, you can’t grow anything outdoors with the risk of radiation poisoning.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Yo8JhO1Sumc/XB2LD-0hp8I/AAAAAAAAb4E/zTkMN6s6wn8t_0nD_RYv2N-XwnrIg7ydACLcBGAs/s1600/Screenshot-337.jpg
Not too fun when Sunset Valley gets hit with a 850KT nuke.
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VCN3xwoaKYQ/W9eZgfos2NI/AAAAAAAAZ7k/T1IJf-T17YITQPedmtCB_Gr2Z7Rnq3W6ACLcBGAs/s1600/Screenshot-127_nuke2.jpg

Sims 3 is my favorite. I've been playing the sims since sims 1 and 3 to me is the best installation. I had trouble with it when I had lower end computers, but now that I have a higher end laptop.. it runs amazingly. Yes I had to do and install some things to get it running but so what? On the sims subreddit, people have just as many issues with 4.
Game loadup takes about 3-4 minutes. I don't have a ton of cc anymore except nraas to keep my game clean.. but I do own all the store content.
I've been playing 3 since it came out, and I STILL haven't done everything there is to do.
Sims 4 just seems so hollow and plastic that I can't get into it.. everything is too easy and dumbed down.
I'll probably still play 3 even after 5 comes out.

"Nikkei_Simmer;c-17382931" wrote:
@sam123 - I just bought the ITF EP for the useful items not so much the gameplay AS i hardly bother going into the future. I find the soil rugs useful for my apocalypse games.
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4R3TO9MZSHw/XIsWIMBvt7I/AAAAAAAAfEE/b3Z9_Dg1ftsa9Xnlw6irYIOHGTsjTDFQQCLcBGAs/s1600/Screenshot-50.jpg
After all, you can’t grow anything outdoors with the risk of radiation poisoning.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Yo8JhO1Sumc/XB2LD-0hp8I/AAAAAAAAb4E/zTkMN6s6wn8t_0nD_RYv2N-XwnrIg7ydACLcBGAs/s1600/Screenshot-337.jpg
Not too fun when Sunset Valley gets hit with a 850KT nuke.
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VCN3xwoaKYQ/W9eZgfos2NI/AAAAAAAAZ7k/T1IJf-T17YITQPedmtCB_Gr2Z7Rnq3W6ACLcBGAs/s1600/Screenshot-127_nuke2.jpg

Omg I love that!

@sam123, there is a dystopian sky mod, which I used for image #2. https://brntwaffles.tumblr.com/post/88241782492/dystopian-lighting-mod-heavily-requested-and

My nuclear explosion shot of Sunset Valley was created by me as a Photoshop Edit. As a real-world photographer, I have to know my Photoshop. And I couldn’t play Sunset Valley as an apocalypse without showing it actually getting nuked.

The world I actually used post-nuclear attack is a heavily modified world called Les Sims 3 Sunset Died.

https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&nv=1&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=http://simcookie.com/les-sims-3-sunset-died-officiel/&xid=17259,15700021,15700186,15700191,15700256,15700259,15700262,15700265,15700271&usg=ALkJrhiqJAc1ICHEhfAedbBxbiGGkV73lw

http://www.mediafire.com/file/9a1ya927f6w7h9z/Sims3SunsetDied.7z/file

As with every series, I dropped the previous one and didn't come back. But for the first time, I dropped TS4 after 4 years to come back to TS3. It's been almost 2 years since I'm back to TS3 and I don't think I'll be back on TS4.

There are certain features that I like about TS4 but I also feel that there is a lot of lack not to mention the price...

Been playing Sims 3 since it came out. Wasn't enthusiastic about Sims 4 even before it was released. We saw screenshots and had news about it long before it released and it wasn't doing it for me. Even so, I bought it when it released to give it a fair shot. And just no. Some of the things I really use like the color wheel and the patterns... I spend way too much time in CAS. lol Sims 4 has the search function and build and buy are combined and yeah, yeah, yeah. Those would have been nice features in Sims 3 but... after all this time, I pretty much know where everything is. There seemed to be quite a bit of silly behavior for no reason in TS4 - and some of the humor went past silly into gag me whatwheretheythinking.

Moods overriding traits? Why? All the sims play the same no matter what and that is a real turn-off. I never needed eleventy billion sims on a lot or anything like that and I didn't really care about the multi-tasking. Shrug. The art style was not my cup of tea - too cartoony - and no CAW? No worlds by our brilliant creators? What blasphemy is this???

The babies and children in TS4... meh. Not much material for storytelling there - and all my sims have stories and lives and families. I'm not stuck on the YA stage. I like grandparents and babies and the mess that is a sims life. And what in God's name are those dolls that you collect in TS4? Very strange.

Anyway... Didn't take long for me to uninstall TS4. TS3 with a full complement of Nraas mods, thank you very much.

I've played Sims 4 consistently for the past few years. Then I played Sims 2 for a short time. I am now making a return to Sims 3. I played the same game on Sims 4 since 2014 using rotational play and I finally started a new game. Sims 4 has come a long way but the Sims behave to similarly and the game is missing variety. I spent all afternoon refreshing my Sim-self family and will play them tomorrow.

I have all of my Sims 3, saves, mods, CC etc compressed on an external drive. I’d love to play, but my laptop is fully occupied with all sorts of editing software that I need for work so...