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 always play the sims 4, often returning to previous games for other features. I thought it would be interesting to list some of the previous sims games (pc, console or mobile), and the features you (personally) really loved and what you think the sims 4 has improved upon. I'll start..Sims 1: Everything about makin magic, duels and roller coasters and pet dragons. Burglars Phone calls saying "you have won a prize" and pranks! The wholesome look of the neighbourhood (with sooo many lots)Sims 2 roommates and apartments. private schools memories Sims 3 story progression, create a world!! (so much creative freedom) Open world Cemeteries! The creepier the better.Sims 1 (ps2) I kinda liked the "get a life mode", a short storyline with tasks. Sims Urbz Them fabulous clothes and subcultures Finally Sims 4 Everything about Build mode, Build mode in Sims 4 is truly a wonderful experience. Character interaction, Sims emotions. (I feel this is a major step up) The stylised look of the worlds maps. edit a sim, it is very smooth and flexible.I'd like to see what others think, I want to keep this positive, as I think all of the games have merits in their own way.

TS:Whole Makin' Magic expansion really I still get excited over itbut especially dragons and magic things and whole magic town vibeFairy Queen Mara etc. NPCs they were so cute, duelling, show magic, puzzles...if I start talking about makin' magic it never ends TS2: actually not sure its been so long since i played it I'd probably have more if i played againbut I think i really liked the aspiration rewards and trying to make my sims dreams come true in that oneand fears being a big part too its was really great era I should try and play it again :smile: I also vaguely remember getting a hula dance if my accomplished sim perished and it was really fabulous but im not sure if it was ts2+ some reason I remember apartment life very fondly but I am not sure why that expansion especially :confused: my memory really needs to be refreshedTS3: hmm I think I would say the underwater lots, world adventures and horses come up in my mind first for the positivesand some big amount of hobby items that were really coolalso in these 3 games I really loved the premade family mysteries that sort of got disconnected now-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------TS1 and 2 (ps2)edit: played these for a bit so from fresh memory now+ Story mode especially in ts1 I think I like that one better out of them+ 2 player games to see who can get more money or whatever :joy:+ In TS2 u could choose 4 ingredients yourself to make a meal and it was so much fun coming up with combos without looking at recipes I wish we could have that in ts4 because man did I have fun cooking for once also liked how you couldn't use ingredients you didn't have it just gave gardening more importance really (not sure if it was in pc version can't really play that atm)Urbzvip parties!seeing your sims face show up on those ads when they got more popularand doing different things from different ''cultures'' to become popular in the neighborhoodI probably missed lots of things tho because I always wanted to go to same places and hardly ever actually finishedI think I went to Gasoline Row most B) those motorcycle races ah the good days___________________________________________________________________________________________________TS4:- CAS I personally think sims look prettiest in this version and I have lots of fun making them- Build Mode I just feel its much easier than games before to make decent looking houses- Being able to visit all worlds whenever I like even if my sims do not live in them- Multitasking aaaaaaa finally - Game Packs are really fun though I find them hard to get because they seem to only sell bundles IRL :disappointed: - Gallery! no more searching all around web for cooler houses and sims and all its all there in your game- emotional deaths ( because um yeah)also i just realized itd be nice to hear things from sims medieval too though I personally missed that one

Sims 1: It might have been my age at the time, but I really got a kick out of watching my sim turn other sim's heads into donkey heads. Most everything about Makin Magic, except for the energy drain. Dragon Eggs and the Dragons, and how they were able to interact with everyone, including pets, sometimes good, and sometimes bad.Sims 2: How EA done such a good job giving all the families, in all the towns a back story, and really connected each of the families. How well sims were able to interact with babies, they could actually bathe them in the sink, hand them off to other sims.Sims 3: Bridgeport, I really loved that world, including all the sims who resided there. Usually, after a while, I couldn't play the city because of lag, so I would end up moving my most favorite sims to other worlds. For example, all the vampires ended up in Moonlight Falls, and several others would end in other locations as well. All the occult creatures, but I wasn't too fond of werewolves only because I didn't care for the way their faces were smashed in as if they ran into a brick wall. Open World, and being able to watch your sim travel to a friend's home or a community lot. The color wheel and total freedom we had with CAS, Buy, and Build Mode. Being able to place lots where ever we want, but because of this things could get a little tricky on hillsides. I also like this aspect with TS2 as well. How you are able to take babies and toddlers with older sims to other locations such as the park or beach.Sims 4: How easy it is to find something in buy/build mode, and the gallery, with the search options. Multitasking, this is actually my most favorite about TS4. All these console games I still have. Sims 1 & 2, Sims 2 Pets, Castaway, Bustin Out, Urbz I love the overall storyline in all of the above, pets being my least favorite, but I love having them. The ironic part was before I even played The Urbz, I never even heard of The Black Eyed Peas.

Sims 1, i haven't played in 15 years. I remember I liked it but not a whole lot about it.Sims 2, the animations. There's not a lot I like about this game but the animations are done so well. They look more human somehow, especially how the act with each other. And the family seemed to know each other. I created a family and the first thing that happened was that little boy started dancing on his mom's feet. It was adorableSims 3 I haven't played this game and for the most part I'm not overly interested in it, but I absolutely love the idea of the World Adventures pack and I like the last place I've seen of it. I really hope something like that is that it for Sims 4I haven't played any of the spin-offs and stuff like that, so right onto Sims 4. It's my favorite of the bunch, I really like the art style, the way toddlers are done, and The Sims personalities. I spend most of my time in live mode and I like that I can just download houses from the gallery so I don't have to build a bunch. I feel like the Sims 4 is the most open for using your own imagination and creating your own stories anyway you want and that's what I love about it

Sims 1 I remember having the vacation expansion and enjoyed building resorts. I haven't enjoyed building since Sims 1 because it was simpler and I had lower standards. But the live play was limited and I would never play it for more than a few weeks at a time before going on to something else.Sims 2 kept me addicted for months at a time because of aging and generations. It felt like an ongoing story that I wanted to keep playing. The things I miss most are the craft options from Open for Business and Free Time, and all of the non-object sim to sim games. Well, maybe I don't miss red hands except for how easy it was too raise the fun bar that way when my sims were too poor for a tv. But tag, cops and robbers, swinging kids around, dancing on a parent's feet, mary mack... and the small objects like hacky sack and catch. I miss memories and the fact that relationships were more messy and complicated. And I definitely miss making robots and toys, and sewing. I think my favorite expansions for 2 were Free Time and Seasons.Oh, and I also miss pet careers and that aspect of training.I loved a lot of the Sims 2 premades. I don't necessarily think they did a better job with premades in 2 than in 4, but I was attached to some individuals and I miss them. I think it's cool that a lot of them are available on the gallery.I also kind of miss the way there were gardening tasks that needed to be done if you put certain things in your yard. Weeding and trimming bushes are things I don't really enjoy in real life but for some reason I miss my sims doing them.But mostly I loved Sims 2 for rotational play over generations. I never played Sims 3 because I wasn't ready to invest the money so soon after buying the last expansion for Sims 2, and then later I heard it wasn't good for rotational play. I never played just one household in 2 so I didn't think I'd like that.Going from 2 to 4... I really appreciate that some hobbies, such as fishing, gardening and woodworking, were included in the base game.CAS is easier for me, and I think the clothing options have improved. I like the graphic style in general.I would have liked it if Get to Work gave as in-depth retail experience as Open for Business, but I enjoy the active careers that we got instead. Work from home careers have also been a nice addition that let me decide how active I want to be in their advancement. Dates and parties are less obnoxious than in Sims 2. Honestly I don't remember the system from Sims2, but I remember how relieved I felt the first time I tried them in Sims 4 and they weren't like that. I actually use both on occasion. The clubs are even better.I also like being able to live in all the different neighborhoods and travel between them. And I know people who came from Sims 3 miss the open world, but the neighborhoods are so much closer to open world than anything we had in Sims 2 that it's a big improvement for me. I find the toddlers more fun, and even though they are more effort than in Sims 2, it's a more fun kind of effort. I love the natural looking pools also. My sims seem to enjoy swimming more than they did in 2.I like the addition of game packs, and the fact that Vampires and Jungle Adventure could be given more complexity due to being their own game pack rather than part of a bigger expansion. I adore the gallery. I much prefer downloading lots that are almost what I want and doing slight edits over building from scratch. And there are a lot of talented builders out there.But when I do build, I love the option to just enlarge or move a whole room, and the floors and walls and such move with it. That has made remodeling sooooo much easier and fun for me.And once again, I'm hooked on my rotational save...

I only really have nostalgia for the Sims 2. My memory is so bad though that I don't really remember anything about it beyond the fact that at the time I absolutely loved it. I took a long break from the Sims franchise during the dark days that were the Sims 3. :D

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sikoah
Seasoned Veteran
7 years ago
The Sims 1: (It's been FORever since I played this but here goes)
Hot Date
Retail System
Paying for the taxi
Job seeking
Relationship Building
Vacation/Resorts
It was my first Sims game and I plugged hours and hours into this game. Wasted my life away building, making Sims, and making them date.

The Sims 2: (haven't play in years)
Toddlers
The first University system
Bodyshop
The Pleasants, Brokes, Goths (It is the only time I ever played them)
Building my own stores.
Dates
Being able to make all the weird hybrid supernaturals
Apartments
Free time.
The Sewing machine.
The game where I started making stories for my Sims. Many hours were spent making sure I could tell their stories. Many,many hours...
I loved it so much because as a new mom I could pause the game at any time and take care of my daughter. Also, we were poor. This provided all my entertainment back then.

The Sims 3:
Houseboats!!
Swimming anywhere and everywhere I wanted.
Fishing anywhere and everywhere I wanted.
Ponds in my backyard.
The Future! Hover boards, floating cars, the hologram trees and pictures.
My lore save where I carefully concocted a story with all the supernaturals.
Create a World. So many ideas, so little time.
Create a pattern.
Not feeling the need for custom content.
A master controller/story progression mod that I liked and used.
Random, weird events that seemed to happen all the time.
Age slider.
The ability to turn off certain seasons at any time.
I loved farms!
The turtles, snakes, and birds as minor pets.
The tree houses.
Kids that would play race car on the couch or pirate in the bathtub. SO cute!
Slow dancing.
Arcades
Comic Book Stores
Frog ponds. (yay for debug)
Oh and those pretty snail spawners.
Farms. My Sims had farms.
Pets. Controlling pets.
Being able to move my infant around. Wash them, bathe them, put them in a baby swing, rock them.
Choices. SO many choices for careers, hobbies, and leisure for my sims. So many combinations of traits for them.

The Sims 4:
I love that there is no story progression. HELLO rotational saves!!
Building.
The ability to do multiple aspirations.
The night clubs.
Making my own holidays.
Making my own clubs.
The water slides.
Seamlessly traveling through towns.
My world feels alive. There are Sims everywhere I go and they are always doing something.
Yoga.
Customizing each town with a theme to my liking.
Deleting Sims I dislike without any problems.
Writing Career.
Conservation Career (finally)
The gardening system.
bombtori
7 years ago
Sims 1

-Superstar...it really felt like you were a celebrity with the bus tours and star ranking. I worked really hard to maintain my number 1 spot! I also liked that the auditions were kind of hard and you had to figure out the pattern.
-The build mode music! I don't know if it is just nostalgia but it just makes me happy to hear

Sims 2
-Attraction system. I would love making two sims I thought would have three lightening bolts but then one was more attracted to someone else. It was kind of cool that it worked with traits but some things couldn't be explained.
-Seasons. The world that came with seasons was just so cozy. I also liked the aspect that it emphasized the different seasons as times to do different things (I think fall helped with career, spring with romance, etc.)
-Memories were always fun. It felt like you were recording your sims life. I rely on a lot of imagination for my storylines in 3/4
-The premade sims just seemed to have more drama associated. The game made it so these storylines would be triggered when you started to play the households so it felt like they were already established in their story
-Private school headmaster visit
-The bon voyage expansion pack really made it feel like you were on a tropical vacation with your sims. It was so romantic and I loved their tans.
-Cars
-Teenager interaction

Sims 3
-Being able to invest in local business. It really made you feel like your rich sims could take over the town
-The different worlds had really different vibes and I liked that you could pick which neighborhoods to buy and download. Even the sims who lived there were different from other places. The Italian one was amazing. Roaring heights was really awesome too. I feel like they hit peak creativity with making immersive worlds.
-The inclusion of werewolves and fairies on top of the standard vamps and witches was really fun.
-Season's associated festivals. I loved taking my sims on family trips to the festival squares
-Open world was pretty cool
-I liked rabbit holes
-Slow dancing (ditto sims 2)

Sims 4
-I would feel extremely limited if I didn't have the total face and body customization
-The clothing is really nice. It took awhile, but it is the most modern and pretty clothing.
-The worlds are so pretty. While it's not completely open world, you can still walk around your neighborhood which is a nice compromise

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