witch one is easy to play sims 3 or sims 4 i am new at everything now that i am adult lol

Both games are easy to play. So it all comes down to which appeals to you more.

@Rashel1456 if you want a game that doesnt leave you feeling enpty and bored, go with sims 3. sims 4 is better looking graphically, but gave up alot of features to make it happen. which leaves each pack addition feeling stale in a short period of time. if you want a game that will give you tons of customization and smarter sims, go with sims 3.also you can save alot of money if you get sims 3 packs thru 3rd party sites, ask around and you will find them.last night i happened to get my hands on a free 10$ card for one of one of those sites and i bought 2 expansion packs (seasons and island paradise) for 9$. just stay away from the site called G2A, they use illegal methods to get their games and lots of people dont even receive the items they try to buy from them.If you can afford it, go with Origin, but if money is an issue, their are cheap alternatives.

I wouldn’t recommend going thru 3rd party sites unless it’s one that ea has approved such as steam.Like the above post sims 3 offers more content and feels more complete.There are still things I haven’t done yet.Sims 4 I find myself getting bored quite easily.However I do disagree with the comment about sims 4 looking better: sims 4 is too cartoony for me and I find sims 3 is visually pleasing; but that is all in the eye of the beholder.as for what is easier; which ever you decide to play first will probably be easier.I got hooked on sims 3 so I find the controls in sims 4 a little difficult to use

Hi :)TS4 will always have your heart. Play what you love and Enjoy life. :cookie:

The Sims is not a very hard game. It's not an obstacle course, it's a dollhouse. People who are really good at the game and know all its secrets can optimize their household to make insane amounts of money in very short amounts of time, or befriend entire neighborhoods like lightning, or finish the game under an absurd number of self-imposed restrictions that disallow them from interacting with half the game's features, but people who are really bad at the game can just play normally and their Sims will still be pretty successful, even if it takes longer to get there (and even then, it doesn't take *that* long).So far as which is better, the Sims 3 or the Sims 4, it depends on what you want.The Sims 3's alleged big selling point is that the entire neighborhood is loaded at once, so you can then play the game with no loading screens, able to move organically from one lot to another. This is a technological achievement, but it hardly affects the play experience at all. It's not completely unnoticeable, in that having the neighborhood be a real neighborhood and not different lots silo'd off from each other means your neighbors feel more like neighbors because it is much faster to reach them for a chat, but that's not really a big deal. The lack of loading screens when changing locations is swapped out for the initial loading screen being an absolute monster, taking 2-3 minutes even on modern hardware.The *real* big selling point for the Sims 3 is the breadth of content available to it. The Sims 4 is still playing catch up on the Sims 3. For example, the expansion pack coming out soon for the Sims 4 will introduce magic into the game, which the Sims 3 has had for seven years. The Sims 4 will probably get werewolves eventually, but it doesn't have them yet. The Sims 4 still doesn't have as many vacation spots as the Sims 3 does (although it does have vacation spots that the Sims 3 doesn't). And so on.The Sims 3 also has a Create A Style system that allows for more flexibility in designing Sims and their houses than any other game, including the Sims 4. This is the kind of system that's only really useful in the hands of a really dedicated player, though, so if you're looking for something to play on autopilot, you probably wouldn't use this system anyway.The Sims 4's big selling point is that its emotion system is a minor but noticeable iterative improvement on Sim moods. All the different events that can happen to your Sim don't just add up to being in a good or bad mood overall, but contribute to specific emotions like "angry" or "excited," giving your Sim a dominant emotion, which affects their behavior and performance. It makes the Sims' emotions and behavior just a little bit more immersive, but it's not really a big difference.Ultimately, the differences between the two games aren't actually very big. There's very large differences in the underlying technology, but the game built on top of it was basically the same, so we, the end users, don't have much reason to care. The main reason why you'll get people giving such die-hard defenses of the Sims 3 is partly because the Sims 4 had a very rocky launch (critical elements of the game like the ability to build pools were missing at release, but it's been fixed), and partly because people who *already* own the Sims 3 and all its expansions have *still* not been given much of a reason to look at the Sims 4, even years after release.

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UlanDhor
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
Just to add regarding the prior post: if you use mods with Sims3, you can at any time just switch between households with a simple right-click on any of the hundreds of sims in the city, play them for a bit, buy stuff for them, rebuild their houses, then right-click on a member of your original household again and continue with that one. I think quite a few Sims3 players play the whole town (or at least some subset) at once this way. It's not perfect, as some of the LTR's may not be active in families that you don't play at the moment, but it works well enough.
OldeSimsFan
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
Personally prefer TS2 for way too many reasons to list here. In reference to the subject games, if you want gameplay depth and customization go with 3. If you're OK with shallow gameplay but pretty everything, then 4. Be prepared to get bored quickly and wonder why you got it.
HurricaneDeclan
6 years ago
the sims 4 was solely made to be played easier, and run smoother. imo the sims 3 is honestly 10x better than the sims 4, the only problem with the sims 3 is that it hasn't been updated in several years, and is slowly decaying.
UlanDhor
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
It's funny that, now that The Sims 4 has a 64-bit engine, it is actually fit to support a game like The Sims 3. At the moment, it looks like an over-correction of all the issues The Sims 3 had. From today's point of view, the main issue of The Sims 3 is that it doesn't have a 64-bit engine.
emorrill
Hero
6 years ago
"igazor;c-17165869" wrote:

I have zero interest in playing TS4 and it's not because I don't want to purchase EPs for features that I already have in TS3. I wouldn't want to play TS4 even if the packs were all available to me and all of the content matched up because the game does not live up to what I want (and already have) as a life simulator where the entire world progresses at once. There are others who feel the same way in reverse, and there are those who are able to appreciate and enjoy both games for what they are, quirks and all, while still recognizing that they provide very different long- and short-term play experiences from each other.

^Ditto. :star:
Joanne_Snow
Legend
6 years ago
"Turjan;c-17204227" wrote:
It's funny that, now that The Sims 4 has a 64-bit engine, it is actually fit to support a game like The Sims 3. At the moment, it looks like an over-correction of all the issues The Sims 3 had. From today's point of view, the main issue of The Sims 3 is that it doesn't have a 64-bit engine.

TS4 still didn't get the 64-bit update actually - but I agree, I wish TS3 had gotten one, it would have indeed fixed many issues.

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