Your favourite things in The Sims 3

I've just started playing sims 3 this week (have played 1,2 &4). Though I'm still learning the ropes there are many things I already love, such as being able to change the hue and texture of items, and just now visited a grocery store. For some reason filling up my virtual fridge was really satisfying, even though my poor sim couldn't cook any of it due to lack of skill!
Today, finding out that all the bookcases in the library had a slightly different selection of books, swimming in the sea, and I must be mad but that bobbly obscure glass in the shower cubicle seems to be adorably retro.
Ooh, house phones, and reading newspapers, and the lovely details in the animations, such as page turning a book. So much of sims 3 seems to have been done really well.
As I am such a short distance into the game there must be much more, the idea of being able to download complete new worlds seems really exciting.

I have all the expansions packs here but I play with just a few. A good idea is to install little by little. For instance, play a generation with just the base game, then install another expansion pack. Play the next generation and repeat. This way you can explore the expansion packs leisurely.

@Kkffoo Welcome to the game! There are some great details. I love the baby announcements in newspaper.

@FoxInSocks I’ve had the Pets expansion since release but really haven’t explored the pets let alone breeding. I don’t ever think I’ve ever even had a pet horse. Thats definitely something to explore when I get back to playing.

@thuggishsplicer
That’s a really great idea actually. I feel like that would be good for really perusing each expansion pack. There’s so much I haven’t explored.

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Bebe Hart - shown here with E-Skin; cc-eyes and cc makeup.

For a base sim... Bebe Hart was exquisite perfection and that's one of my "favorite things" about Sims 3. :D :mrgreen:

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Bebe as she is in the game un-cc'd.

Who's Jamie Jolina???

@Nikkei_Simmer Jamie Jolina married one of my sims. They were a cute couple, of course I toned down her make up. XD

River McIrish is #2 on my list of favorite things. :mrgreen

...or at least the one I play with.
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Now my favorite things to do list is a whole 'nother story. :D

1. Achieving the highest skill possible in cooking -
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2. Gardening -
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3. Fishing -
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4. Eating -
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5. Dropping large flaming objects on sims. (meteors).
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Oh and 6. (Can't forget six...) Nuking Sunset Valley.
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Note: You can only do this in Photoshop. You can't do this in game. :mrgreen:

@Nikkei_Simmer hah ha you got me! For a moment there thinking there were unknown *sims city* elements mixed in.
Actually the sims city feel is another thing that I love about the open neighbourhood, but with meaningful individuals instead of generic crowds making up the backdrop. I loved seeing one of my sims from another household leaving the cinema that I'd left him in, after I'd swapped households and was playing with another family.

@Nikkei_Simmer You know, I don't think I've ever played Bebe Hart or River McIrish. They're both on my list when I get back to playing. I also loved the fishing, cooking, gardening etc. I've got my eye on a few of the gardening premium content in the store. Your screenshots are great by the way. I love the meteor crash! :D

Favoruite world as of now is Evansdale County
Favourite expansion pack is either Ambitions or World Adventure
Favourite challenges : no challenge
Favourite Professions : Firefighter
Favourite Career : Any career

@capgal Hi, welcome back to sims 3. It is an amazing game and I love most everything about it. :grin:

My favorite world is Moonlight Falls. Second favorite Dragon Valley. Least favorite Sunset Valley.

My favorite expansion is Supernatural. I have all though and finally got a desktop and have all installed. AWESOME!

My favorite pre-mades: Marshall Flynn from Midnight Hollow (he is really Mitchell Flynn but I changed the name, bad experience with a Mitchell :grin: His wife is Jennifer Doe also a pre-made from MH. I don't play many pre-mades though preferring to make my own sims or beg my friends for their sims and create stories with them. I do use EA sims as friends, neighbors and will occasionally pull a favorite into a story.

Favorite challenge: I don't play challenges. I don't like rules. Got enough of those in real life.

Favorite professions: It depends on what story I'm telling. I'm enjoying the ghost hunting and detective right now and have one sim dabbling with architecture. I also like making them writers or painters or gardeners so I don't have to restrict activities to after a rabbit hole job is done.

My favorite Mods: Nraas, they enabled me to continue playing the game with the awesome mods that truly make this game mine. I was ready to quit in 2013 before I starting using them.

My absolute favorite thing is being able to tell a story with my sims.

Hope you have lots of fun rediscovering this awesome game. Happy simming!