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waterywatermelo's avatar
5 years ago

Return of Story Mode from The Sims 2?

The Sims 2 had an overarching neighborhood story about the entire neighborhood as a whole and family stories. Each playable household would have its own household story album. And back in the day, players could upload stories to the Sims 2 Exchange right from inside the game!

The Sims 3 Exchange does allow the ability to share stories and movies, but arranging the pictures and writing the stories and editing the movie clips are all done outside the game and on the website.

Is it possible to add a Story Mode function to The Sims 4?

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6 Replies

  • EgonVM's avatar
    EgonVM
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago
    This goes back with that fact that The Sims 4 had a memory system (of only the pictures you took) where you could only see your sims' memories. Right now we have the large collection of all the pictures we have, but now it would be great to have it filtered so only the household pictures show up.

    I'm beginning to feel like an activist. I should stop before I become too annoying...
  • @EgonVM please don't stop! this is important feature that would greatly improve the game. Someone need to post about it.
  • EgonVM's avatar
    EgonVM
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago
    "Leaselmary;c-17716717" wrote:
    @EgonVM please don't stop! this is important feature that would greatly improve the game. Someone need to post about it.


    Ok ok. I'll be asking it back then whenever it's mentioned.

    Speaking of story mode in The Sims 2, you know what would also be awesome? Grouping memories in categories (so you have for example childhood, university times, adulthood etc).

    Anyway, here's how the memory system used to be like in The Sims 4:
    https://simsvip.com/2014/12/15/the-sims-4-memories-emotions/
    Nowadays the memory system still exist, but it's... terrible. First of all you can't set the emotion anymore (for example, I take a picture of sims dying as a memory picture, but the game marks it as a happy memory). Second (and the main problem) is the fact that if you want to find the pictures you've set as your sim's memory, you'll have to find it in-game among all the other photos you've taken (it is especially annoying when you have taken so many photos).

    Well, the old system did have a bug. If you split a sim out from a household, they still keep their memories, but can't reminisce about them.
  • EgonVM's avatar
    EgonVM
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago
    Well, The Sims 2 story mode did have many ways you can have it.
    I have used it as a newspaper in neighborhood screen and in some households, I had a sim's blog there.
  • 4Siiri's avatar
    4Siiri
    Seasoned Rookie
    5 years ago
    > @waterywatermelon
    Oh, I have never played a sim 2. It would be a fun variation of this huge hustle and bustle in sim day. the sim hour system is too fast

  • Hm. Not sure here. Of course anything could always return, but I really just want all my text boxes back! I miss being able to write individual sim bios on top of the family bios. I'd certainly dabble with this story feature, but I'd never share anything.

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