What's your favorite part about The Sims 3?

That's like asking what is your favorite part of a piece of chocolate cake! The cake? The icing? The filling? The sprinkles! Truly I love it all and same with Sims 3. It's the best game ever made.

Having said that, I have a desktop that runs it well with rare crashes, and I've learned how to avoid the pudding sims (the sims whose slider values are all set to zero). I don't think they're unattractive. I just don't want a town full of clones. The maids are always pudding and I don't mind that either cause who doesn't want a clone cleaning for them!

My favorite part of the Sims 3 is building houses it’s because I like to be creative with my builds and trying new design styles.

My favorite things are the open world, endless gameplay possibilities, the random unexpected situations that occur, the humor and the complete immersive experience I get. My least favorite would be building. I’m not a great builder and find the tools a bit wonky for me.

"PalmArrow;c-18154400" wrote:
The open world, definitely. Not only the ability to go from one end of the world to another without loading screens but, even more importantly, the fact that life goes on on all lots at the same time, that while my sim is sleeping or reading a book I can move the camera to a community lot and observe what the sims there are doing.

To illustrate what I mean by life going on on all lots at the same time, here is something from my current game:

I noticed that, when school was finished, my teen didn't get on the school bus. Instead she remained on the school lot and started doing her homework. At the same time on the neighbouring lot, her dad who works in the political career walked out of his workplace. I cancelled his car pool and directed him to join his daughter.

https://i.imgur.com/ODHZ0xv.jpg

He played a game while she finished her homework (I actually wanted him to help her, but he has the Absent Minded treat so he forgot).

https://i.imgur.com/XciUdlK.jpg

After she finished, they went to play basketball in front of the school.

https://i.imgur.com/QMw8Jsz.jpg

Then they took a taxi home together.

https://i.imgur.com/bCnFI9I.jpg

This does not sound especially interesting: nothing dramatic happens, it's just a little slice of life event. But without open world it wouldn't be possible to view two sims on two different lots at the same time and to converge their stories together. (Also, the festival lot is visible in the background and there are sims there as well, living their own lives.)

"KingofSims;d-1001388" wrote:
And your least favorite?

Favorite: The open world
Least Favorite: We can't travel with time passing in the home town. If you leave town on a Thursday and come home on a Sunday, it'll still be Thursday.

favorite: visiting simmer made custom worlds to let my sims go on vacation, attend custom private schooling, see their relatives/friends and/or complete business trips

least favorite: the save game BLOAT having more than one world creates in your save game folder. I've yet to successfully complete all 3 worlds in WA after a irl decade because of this poor game design >,<

Favorite: Everything about it.

Least Favorite: When I play for quite a while and forgot to save, and the game crashes, erasing the progress. But I don't have crashes very often because I use mods.

My other favorite thing now is the fast loading time of Sims 3 as compared to the other one... when I play it on SSD. :p

My favorite thing about Sims 3 is open world.

My least favorite thing is how long clothing takes to load in CAS.

I love that all the creatures I create will have different likes and peculiaralites. I can place that same sim in a different game and her preferences and personality quirks change. Not all sims with the same traits behave exactly the same.

I love that I can create 2 sims with 3 out of 5 matching traits and no conflicting tratis that have absolutely no interest in talking to or hanging out with each other, even after they find out they have something in common. And that my sim might not be able to break away from a sim that she has almost nothing in common, but those sims have fun together.

I love being able to make crazy swatches for items and clothing. I love the tons of cool mods for this game. I can't play this game without mods.

I hate that the game is so broken that I need mods to play. I hate that this game needs maintenance with mods/ tools to be/ remain playable with complex/ long-term saves, which is all that I play. I hate that the saves break sometimes anyway. I hate that I've had to spend hours redoing world maps because of routing issues. Build mode is terrible. I play with the sound on, and I can't stand that the sims scream so often. I could turn the sound off, but then I may miss a fist fight or something :)