How to not get bored in The Sims 3/4?
Hi! I always loved The Sims. From the first release up to the latest, I loved it. The problem is that I play in a way that makes me get bored in 3/4 weeks of gameplay or even less. I uninstall, and ...
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@joaquito99 I can see how playing the same way over and over would get boring pretty quickly. In Sims 3, I have a few completely different styles of gameplay that I return to, with some variation, whenever I get bored with my existing game. Here are some ideas:
I've started with a couple and gotten the woman pregnant with twins right away (the boombox follows her around for the first 24 hours blasting kids' music), and then another kid right after that. It's chaos, and the fact that they have no money makes things almost impossible, but it's also a lot of fun.
On that note, I sometimes force encourage my sims to have a huge family, more even than the 8 sim household limit (mods are helpful), and let the kids each be and do something different. It's also chaos, but there's always something to do, relationships to work on or different skills to build, plus the older kids can help with the younger ones. I marry each kid off when I'm bored with them and keep the one or two I still want to play.
I sometimes make a single sim who... let's go with "romances"... half the town, and no matter how hard he works (he really doesn't), paying for all those kids is nearly impossible. You can use mods to force child support, or just transfer money directly via mod or cheat.
I haven't done it, but some people like the homeless sim challenge, which is rags to riches but with an emphasis on the rags part. Other people move out a child of their existing sims and give them almost nothing, so the process repeats with each generation.
With large families especially, it's fun to have a pack like Generations (for the interactions) or Seasons (for the festivals) to give the sims more activities to do together. I also play on normal lifespan, or 1.5 x normal (modified in game options), so there's some sense of progression. I'm almost never bored with all my sims by the time they die, that is, if I let them die the first time around.
As for getting bored with Sims 4... I can't help you there. But I doubt anyone wants to hear my take on that game, so I'll leave it at that.
Thanks a lot!
Yes! I love The Sims but I get bored and I don't want to get bored! It's weird. I know. But I love the game and how worked-on it is.
I'll give the family raising a shot.
@joaquito99, In addition to the fantatic suggestions that both @SheriGR & @puzzlezaddict have given you, I will just add a couple of my own for the future.
TS3: Whenever I was bored with TS3, I would just make all kinds of patterns in all kinds of color combinations. Or I would try to find hard to find gems and butterflies🤓
TS4: I try to explore aspects of the game that I haven't tried before. I also experiment a lot , lately with mixing things like Aliens and Vampires in one family and seeing what happens to their children. (The children are glitchy, but it is interesting.:eahigh_file: ) I even set the task of getting a male Vampire abducted by Aliens and becoming pregnant!🤨 Or sometimes I will play with Sims I don't like (Evil, hates children, serial romantics,) so that when I go back to my preferred Sims and playing style I will appreciate them more! ❤️
Please feel free to tell us how the new playing style you choose works out! 🥳 And if you think of any good suggestions for others, please include them! :eahigh_file:
Hi! I started a family in The Sims 3. I created a young adult woman and man, and made the guy a freelance painter and the girl is journalist. No children yet.
Kinda boring! It's getting monotonous. I have a few expansions like Seasons, Generations, University Life and Ambitions (and another one which I don't remember).
I find myself doing the same boring things. Making them make money with writing and paintings. I once made them go to the festivals that take place on the main park (Twinbrook) for summer or winter or whatever. It's quite boring. There are no sims in the park I mean very little. Everything gets boring and it's such a pity since it's a game that has marked my childhood.
Sincerely, if I would take just a single Sims game to my grave, but just a single one, it'd be Sims 2: Castaway. That had quite a storyline there. That was indeed fun and very addicting.
If you could shine a light in me, it'd be great!
Kind regards, Joaquin.
@joaquito99, I had the Sims2: Castaway on PS2! Yes, I had a lot of fun with that game! 🥳 But my favorite would have to be The Sims 2 for the PC! TS2 really has the best gameplay and story features of all the versions of The Sims! ❤️
Did you try any of the suggestions that @SheriGR and @puzzlezaddict suggested! @SheriGR is speaking more for TS4, but a lot of her suggestions could apply to TS3. And @puzzlezaddict spoke specifically of TS3, so there should be something she suggested that you could try! 😇
