5 years ago

What features in TS3 have you not tried?

So, I've owned this amazing game for something like 8 years now :) Even though I don't have all the packs and I only own a fraction of the store content, there's still so much in this game that I've yet to do. Here's a short list of features that I haven't fully tried, or haven't touched at all, that I would like to try someday:

• All the active careers in Ambitions. I'm currently working my way up the firefighter and medical tracks, but would love to have a crack at the others, especially the ghost hunter one!

• The performer careers in Showtime. I've only tried out the singer career, and didn't manage to get to the top.

• The acting career in Late Night. Also the celebrity system in general, and clubs and that sort of stuff.

• Tomb-raiding in World Adventures. As fun as they seem, I haven't tried many of these at all. Same thing goes with the traveller reward system (I forget what it's called exactly).

• There are a number of skills that I've played with over the years but never managed to max out - logic, martial arts, charisma, and all the instrument skills besides guitar come to mind. Others I've never touched at all - like sculpting and mixology.

Of course, that list is not exhaustive, but we'd be stuck here forever if I was to try and type out a full one. Moving on, we have the flip side. Here are some things that I'm personally not interested in trying, or have tried but wouldn't really want to try again:

• Pretty much... the whole of Into the Future. Back when it first released, I feel like the main reason I got the pack was because "ooh look, shiny and modern and cool". But these days, I don't bother enabling it when I start up my game, because the gameplay honestly doesn't appeal to me all that much. Except dip kisses. Dip kisses rule. :tongue:

• The horseman career from Pets. I've only played it once before, and personally felt it was quite a lot of grinding. Not too different from other self-employed careers in that sense, but this one had rabbit-holes involved on top of all that grinding (taking part in racing and showjumping at the equestrian centre), which made things that much more boring for me.

• Running a resort in Island Paradise. I've tried it before and it was fun, so it wasn't really an issue with the mechanic itself. It's just that the world these resorts came in had so many issues, and I'm not sure I'd enjoy just lifting these resorts out of Isla Paradiso and putting them straight into another world. It's not quite the same.

• The social networking skill from University Life. I've tried it before, but found it quite tedious to gain skill levels. And it would always annoy me how making a "good" post could cause loss of followers.

• Quite a number of the occult life states, including mummies (I'm only interested in taking them down!), aliens, PlantSims, and genies. They might be cool to interact with in-game, but I personally just don't see the appeal in playing them.

How about you? What are some things in TS3 you haven't tried but would (or wouldn't) like to? :)

aodoherty
New Spectator
5 years ago
I’ve tried almost of the sims 3 contents but I tried Only ONE day for werewolf life. I’d like to try once but don’t know why my mouse doesn’t go for creating a werewolf or selecting wolff family. Haha
Also the fairy looks awesome but I’ve been tired my fairy sim tries to do ‘chattering teeth’? to other sims. Even she got double minus from her non fairy boyfriend sim. I had her use potent cure elixir on herself, now she is a witch. Witch is better than fairy in my opinion.
Rsandaa
5 years ago
World Adventures: Never really tried Photography and Nectar Making skills. I don't think I will ever bother with photography because it seems too tedious but I eventually want to try nectar making at some point, alongside a full farming oriented household, combined with farming stuff from TS3 Store.

Ambitions: All these years, I never had a sim that had Stylist or Architecture as their career. I do not enjoy designing sims or homes in this game. I am probably like the only person who only plays for gameplay so I don't think I will play with those careers anytime in the future.

Late Night: I had Sims Jam with all the instruments with all maxed skills but never really tried the band feature. That's the only thing really. I will get around to it eventually because I really enjoy jamming and why not gain some simoleons alongside.

Generations: Daycare career is something that seems interesting every time I think about doing it but I never actually tried it for some weird reason.

Pets: I tried every pet type at least once but I don't really care about pets or animals in general. I don't think I will return to it at any point.

Showtime: I got a computer that can at least meet the minimum requirements of TS3 back in 2012 so this pack was my entry point to The Sims 3. This was the last EP for a long while which is probably why I tried everything that came with it.

Supernatural: This is my absolute favourite pack so I think I tried everything that came with this. Still play with features that came with this pack in every single household of mine.

Seasons: Probably tried everything here as well.

University Life: Never played with a Sim that is oriented around a single social club. In fact I have them disabled in my game. They are too annoying. Also never tried Street Art skill. I tried some features of the Science skill but didn't really try every possible thing that is there. I will probably do a Science oriented playthrough at some point.

Island Paradise: Isla Paradiso actually performs better than Bridgeport on my PC (after I fixed it of course) so I got around to playing with everything in this pack like last month and I loved it. (except sims resetting when exploring underwater caves)

Into the Future: My 3rd favourite pack and because of this I tried everything except the Arena Official Branch of the Bot Arena career and Astrophysicist branch of the Astronomer career.
timurjr96
5 years ago
World Adventures : I havent explored all tombs, and some of the tombs that require backtracking, havent found the legendary item from china as well

Ambitions : havent tried most of the features except Inventing, Sculpting, and Firefighter

Late Night : Havent tried band

Generations : Daycare

Pets : Havent collected all small pets and havent tame unicorn

Showtime : All of it

Supernatural : Fairy

Seasons : Already tried everything

University life : Science and Plantsim

Island Paradise : Atm trying every features

Into the Future : the new career.
karritz
Seasoned Rookie
5 years ago
A few years ago I decided to do everything in Sims 3. I've been working on it for a long time since then and have come to the conclusion it isn't going to happen. But I've been making videos of my progress and posting them to YouTube.

I haven't done much with the criminal career or vampires. There are a few lifetime wishes I've never tired, or haven't done anything with once I had a sim with that wish.

I use the badges to find new things I've not tried yet. There are a lot of incomplete badges in my profile still.
komnumep
5 years ago
I've owned this game from the day it was released, but there is still so much I haven't done. I have never played with the horses (but I mean to try during this play through). I bought Into the Future about a year ago but still haven't actually gone. Island Paradise is the only one I don't have, but I would like to get it at some point. I'm intimidated by the issues in the world I keep hearing about. I don't really enjoy traveling to vacation worlds or exploring the tombs, but I do like the skills and items that came with it. Like one of the above posters, I do not particularly enjoy building, so when I tried the architect career, I lasted three days and five jobs before I switched to something else.
charlottekn
New Rookie
5 years ago
World Adventures : I'm working on fully completing all the tombs now, so I have to finally complete martial arts. I've never really done nectar making.

Ambitions : Never been a firefighter, architect, tattooist, or stylist

Late Night : Never had a band and I don't play musicians much other than with the violin. I wish we had an electric bass (not a stand up one) and that violinists could join a band.

Generations : I don't play a ton with kids and never played as a daycarer.

Pets : I've never done the horse career or actually tamed the unicorn.

Showtime : I've never used these careers.

Supernatural : Never played a fairy, vampire, or werewolf.

Seasons : This is one of my favorites, but I'm sure I have more to do.

University life : Working on doing all six majors on one sim, but I've never had a PlantSim or really participated in social groups (other than cheats to get the career!). I finally have a pretty social Sim, so she's autonomously getting social points.

Island Paradise : I've done a lot of this, except all the hidden islands.

Into the Future : Visited, but haven't done much otherwise.
IreneSwift
Seasoned Newcomer
5 years ago
I've never played a magician. I've played a sim in the film career in the acting branch, but I haven't played one in the directing branch yet. I've played sims in the music career in the classical branch, but never the rock star branch. I've tried all the Ambitions careers, but some of them don't work well, so I mostly avoid them now.

I have sent sims to the future, and they've learned the skills there, but I still haven't gotten around to having any of them live there long-term, join either of the ITF careers, or raise a family there.

I've never had a sim in the lifeguard career, but I've had 2 professional scuba divers. I've found some of the islands in IP, but never all of them. I've never had a self-employed photographer.

Most of these are things I want to do one of these days, hopefully soon.

I also have not had sims in all of the university majors. Most of the sims I've sent to Uni have been in Fine Arts. I really want to get around to doing more of the others, especially business, which I think is the only one I've never done.

There are a lot of LTW's I've never used, and traits I've never used yet that I would like to. I can't think of anything else at the moment that I haven't done but want to do, but there probably are some things.

Oh, I haven't had a sim repair the classic car from RH, but I'm planning on doing that one soon.
301624037
5 years ago
I have so many, omg...
Basically I have all EPs but I never actually played World Adventures or Into The Future :neutral:
When I started to play the sims it was about 4 years ago, at some point I purchased all missing EPs on a sale.
I did use items from those EPs in other saves, but I really want to explore those EPs in a special save but don't have enough time for this...
carlystur
5 years ago
I've had the game since the beginning and I've only relatively recently, like within the last year or so, have started doing stuff that I've never tried before - like both branches of various careers, like the Criminal career, the Music career, etc. There's so much that I still haven't done because I just haven't tried the multi-generational households until like 2 years or something ago when I finally tried a legacy-type of household instead of just a max of 2 sims. I currently have a 10-generation legacy challenge-style household going where I only have the base game, a few mods, and some store content active. I'm currently on generation 7 with my heir as a toddler and she's going to go into the Criminal career track (the Evil branch) when she grows up.
Mikezumi
5 years ago
Because my sims are self-employed I haven't tried most of the careers. I tried a few in the early days but decided that work took away my enjoyment of the game. Because I like big families I don't want to try hands-on careers because I like to watch what they get up to during the day without favouring one sim over another and I don't want my sims in rabbit holes either.