A Positive Thread of Comparison and Nostalgia
Hey all! So I have been out of the loop for some time, and I would like to reconnect a bit more with the community, so I thought this might be some fun nostalgia and discussion. Whilst I don't alw...
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I never had the opportunity to play sims 1 unfortunately.
Sims 2
Sims 3
Sims 4
Sims 2
- the animations and light touches that went with the gameplay. Children running out to meet their parents after they come home from works, kids meeting their parents after they get off the bus.
- the early 2000's aesthetic. Hot Topic and all B)
- How mad a partner would get if they flirted with another sim
- apartments - I could build them anywhere! They weren't just high rises I could make a Victorian house divide it up, I could built smaller complexes and just let my buildings go wild! Especially when it came to live mode, could have larger families crammed into the apartments I made.
- mundane tasks like taking care of the lawn,
- I would always adopt the same dog the first few days of the game no matter what save, Buffy. She's a good doggy and I love her. She usually dies of old age not too long after I adopt her but I still have my sim play with her ghost. :,)
- Chance cards! holy cow the struggles of having my sim keep a job, so much struggle, I don't think in all the time I've played sims 2 I've reached the top of a career thanks to chance cards lol I love it tho, I love the challenge.
- wants and fears! whenever I got stuck on finding something to do or felt overwhelmed by the options available to me. Wants were there to help me continue with the game.
- also Cars... I'm a car person.
- creating our own cities/towns placing our own lots
- the death's!
- the career/aspiration rewards!
Sims 3
- the traits, my technophobe sim got mad at me for buying her husband a TV and science research station, ever change I'm not watching her she attempts to sabotage it. my evil sim can shake people down for money, my bookworm sim can learn skills faster.
- lifetime wishes, They are true to their name, they are a sims lifetime goal, its a struggle to get some of them completed by the time the sims life is coming to an end.
- Pretty much everything in the sims 3 pets pack, how they did horses, and unicorns, deer, racoons, cats, dogs. Being able to make stables, farmland, etc.
- exploring the tombs, but also being able to use them as vacation destinations. Where you can just site see with no requirement to actually gain visa points.
- wishes! again if I ever became overwhelmed or was just playing to get inspired rather than test out a plot line, then wishes were my go-to spot. The sim would let me know she wanted to use the zombification potion on the town and start an apocalypse.
- Cars.
- https://66.media.tumblr.com/43390d3f713ad0b16a4a77387ca8bb2c/tumblr_psh1dmVaSg1xi5hclo2_1280.jpg
- Create a world, placing our own lots/ creating a city entirely from scratch and being able to download player worlds and adding them to our own games.
- cuddling in bed as partners sleep :)
- the sheer amount of customization one could do within, if I wanted a neon pink house I could have it. If I wanted my sim to have neon green hair or eyes or skin, yes sir. Absolutely.
- Going around the world and finding seeds at the park, or even fishing from any pond.
- making a pond in your own yard with terrain tools!
- owning more than one lot! I can't tell you how many lots my one absurdly rich family owned in one game save they had horses, but their original lot wasn't large enough for all of them, so they got two other lots, one for the training gear (running/jumping and the dressage set) then another for the pastures/barn, all the lots close together, wasn't perfect but it honestly felt like my sims had a wild mustang ranch! lol (in fact that sounds fun I'll brb adding that to my list of things to do - train mustangs and sell them at the equestrian center.
- horse racing, trading, breeding.
- Snowdays with seasons! If there was a lot of snowfall school would get canceled, I had a family one time where the kids I don't think ever went to school until they were teens. because of the heavy snowfall that winter.
- Taking toddlers on ambitions careers was a favorite past time of mine!
- Ambitions careers like firefighter, ghost Hunter - ambitions is probably my favorite pack ever with pets tbqh
- ... I'll just move on to 4 now... there's more so much more.
Sims 4
- moving whole rooms,
- the search bar in build buy(I really love the search bar it's hard to play the older games without it)
- Build and Buy mode being the same mode.
- Toddlers
- Vampires
- The Gallery
- It's very pretty and pleasing to look at.
- planning outfits means I can mess with hair and outfits at a mirror and dresser as well, plus change the outfits for the whole family! (another thing I find hard to leave behind when I play the earlier games, unfortunately, the rest is I could live without it but I do like it.)
