lets be honest, SIMS 4 is a failure.

@TrismagistosOn the contrary, emotions are one of the coolest additions in sims 4. Feeling closed in and constricted is not . And the neighborhoods are a straight up disaster.

@bobjob113, I thought TS3 was closer to a failure.  The game was unplayable for many people, and almost unplayable for most others. 😢 Some people can play it now with Mods to optimize it and on better computers than what we had when it was the current Sims game, but when it was the reigning Sims game it was a disaster.☹️

I agree with @Trismagistos and @Psychotps!

TS3 was extremely laggy (when it actually worked) , and often either ground to a complete halt or crashed completely and often.😞  When the game ground to a halt, I often had to wait 10 min just for it to advance a few frames and then repeat the whole process. 😢 (And this was after taking at least 20 min just to load the game in the first place!).😠  The Create a Style tool was great, but if you saved a lot of swatches it would take 30 min just to get into Build./Buy Mode or CAS. 😞 
And then the open world.... a world that was often empty of Sims!!!  Take your Sim to the park, for example.  After 45 min of trying to get the game to even move, if you managed to get to your destination to meet other Sims, there was nobody there! 😬 They were all elsewhere wondering around the world or in their houses.  By the time another Sim managed to be on the same lot as your Sim, your Sim would either be exhausted, starving, or stinky and had to go home (unless it was time for work). I never have that problem in TS4!  Every time I go to a lot, there are already people there, or they arrive within 15 seconds!!! 🙌

What good is an open world if nobody else is at your destination when you get there?!? 🤨  And no matter how good the ideas were for TS3, it doesn't matter if your game is almost unplayable. 😮  I'll take a few seconds for a loading screen in TS4 any day over waiting at least 15 min to an hour to get somewhere in TS3! 😇

TS2 is my favorite version🥳, followed by TS4 ❤️, and then the original The Sims 🙂.  TS3 is last in my book! 🤨

@bobjob113  I can run Sims 3 with no problems either & I do love playing that game. This has nothing to do with Sims 4 being a failure or not. It's entirely possible to love both games.

@RandomBuzziness that being said sims 4 was a major downgrade overall. Sick of fanboys that dont know what the are talking about. You would probably defend the new sim city too.

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@bobjob113, I couldn't upgrade my computer at that time, and even people who did said that at that time they had great difficulty playing TS3.  It does seem that computers today are better able to handle it, but for the time it was the newest Sims version, most could not get it to work properly with all of the packs installed. 

Also, even with the best computer, that still doesn't help the fact that TS3 often has an empty world.  When all the other Sims are anywhere but where your Sim is, this is a problem!  If I go to the park, I expect to see other Sims there, ,and that was rarely the case. 😞

I did like some things in TS3, but it just isn't fun to play when your game grinds to a halt. 

But even when TS3 was new and only had a few packs I still didn't like it nearly as much as TS2 when it only had a few packs.  TS2 is the best at least for gameplay! ❤️🙌🥳