TS3 2.0

I wish I could take what I like about each game and combine it into a whole new game. LOL

"BatmanFanGirl;c-15764929" wrote:
I wish I could take what I like about each game and combine it into a whole new game. LOL

That'd be great! I wish I could develop that.

I can see a little bit of stuff from previous games but I like the idea of new concepts too.

I wish successive Sims games would start out at the place the previous Sims game left off -- make it a new game, yes. But if the previous Sims game had Pets, Seasons, University, etc., create the new Sims game with all of that upon release. Then, each new expansion/game pack/whatever could actually ADD something new to the series.

"Sk8rblaze;c-15765049" wrote:
I have never seen a single person on these forums ask for a TS3 2.0. What I commonly see, however, are people asking for the best of TS2 and the best of TS3 mashed into one with plenty of other improvements. To me, that's very reasonable to expect out of the fourth iteration.

With that said, I do think TS4's direction isn't exactly the worst possible direction they could have headed in. In fact, there are many positives to TS4 that I personally enjoy when I play the game. It was certainly different from what I was expecting, but I don't think it is completely bad, or anything like that. My main hope is that the game delivers top notch quality through game and expansion packs to redeem what I felt was a poor launch for the game, and some select packs which I felt were a bit on the weaker side.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing how TS4: Parenthood expands the game. I thought Generations really fixed a lot of things I found broken within the gameplay of TS3, and I am by no means expecting the same pack again. I don't want that, and nobody should expect that with any pack.

This week alone I've read several posts listing majority of TS3 EPs as requests for TS4 as a response to the new GP announcement. I also see the requestsame like you mentioned but I must be clicking on all the threads with the hardcore TS3 lovers this week.

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First, they want a feature which was part of an expansion in a previous ideration (doesn't need to be TS3, but it is most of the time), then, when said content will be released, the same people complain about it being a repetition of an older ideration...it happens with every single pack for TS4 that releases. And then, when finally something new releases that wasn't in any previous ideration, people complain AGAIN, mostly things like "where are pets? Where are seasons?"

The ultimate solution would be that the devs just add things like seasons and pets already in the base game, but these packs make so much money everytime that I highly doubt they would do that.

ETA: I think the reason for many players to wish for content that was already in previous games is that they liked this content and want it to be improved on now in TS4. That's just my guess, I feel the same about TS3 Into the Future, I hope the same or atleast a similar theme will be part of a future gp or ep, but I see that this pack for TS3 wasn't so popular, so I don't set my hopes too high.

From what I played in the trial version of The Sims 4, there were a lot of new changes I loved (one of which is the search bar, oh god, THANK YOU), and some changes I didn't like (not as open world as Sims 3, e.g. loading screens everywhere). Regardless, it was still fun because it felt like a new game, rather than just an old game with a new coat of paint.

Granted, I would love to see features from older games transcending into the newer game, but I do understand you can't just cram every imaginable feature and function into one game. It's just unrealistic. I am saying this as a web developer, and the same can be applied to websites and web apps, but I digress.

TL;DR I honestly think The Sims 4 is great as it is, despite a few of its flaws, and I am glad that it's different than The Sims 3. Change is good. Gotta learn to adapt and move on.

*Walks in.... thinks I"m in TS4 section and runs out* :mask:

And So what? People can ask for what they want in the game. I would want weather, I would want more pets with horses and unicorns and bigfoot... so what? Let them ask, it takes nothing off you nor puts anything on you.

Now that this thread is on the TS3 side of the forum (I assume it started elsewhere), there will likely be some very different perspectives added to it. I am a "hardcore" TS3 lover. Actually I'm not really sure what that means, but sounds like it fits. And I never expected or wanted TS3 2.0 out of this new iteration nor did any of my peers at NRaas.

We knew from over a year before release that TS4 would not be anywhere near the same game as its predecessors. I'm not talking about incidental things that have historically been developed as add-ons like occults, pets, and weather, I mean the core gameplay is vastly different as its programming. Slapping the same kinds of EPs onto it that we've already had is never going to change that and should never be expected to.

The reason many of us remain hardcore TS3 lovers, and I mean many of us who don't really spend any serious time participating on the TS4 side of the forum or talk about what it's "missing," is that we just prefer the TS3 style of play and what it brings to the table as a platform for our designs and the stories we weave through it. It's not really much more complicated than that. But then I don't think we are the audience the OP meant to be addressing here.