All This Beautiful Landscaping...

"Writin_Reg;c-16474906" wrote:


I never have crashes or lag in Sims 3 (Many of my sims 3 friends can tell you the same thing by the way) - so that obviously was not a problem all simmers got - and does not really help Sims 4's cause for many of us if that is your only reasoning - and not a reason at all to me - then technically we've only lost and not gained a thing by having world building and neighborhood editing taken away.

Just to clarify - I did see many complain of at least lag in Sims 3 - but do not recall many complaints of crashes - but anyway - I do also see just about as many complaints here in Sims 4 of lag, time lag, and freezes - as well - again like in Sims 3 I also do not have those issues in this game either - and you say you do not have the issues either. So that just goes to prove not everyones pc plays the game the same - or as badly or better than you or I do. So for people with issues - well they aren't happy and I am sure they also probably would not agree this game plays better either - because to them it does not.

In fact in both cases I do feel it is more to do with the pc being used and less about either game that would explain why some have issues and others don't - in either case it's apparently not the game with an issue - so in that respect wouldn't they be pretty much equal in actual play-ability? I'd have to say yes from my experience.

I do recall complaints about crashes in TS3, especially when Island Paradise came out.
Although I had a really really high end gaming pc back then, TS3 with all the expansion packs still was hard to handle. I had a lot of crashes and the game lagged a lot near the end with the "future expansion". I felt the game was really high maintenance due to corrupted saves I had do erase manually and I installed the game more than once with all expansions. *sigh* Still I loved TS3 for what it was and I do miss some features, but I don't want to go back.

TS4 doesn't seem work for some people either, but still it is game that doesn't seem to need a lot of resources like TS3. I play it with my normal "working" computer (not on ultra but on high graphic settings) and it works fine for me (and for most of the people I know).
Yes, there are bugs and issues but there are lots of features I really like about TS4. One part is the surroundings and the neighborhoods. This is the first time in a Sims game I actually send a Sim to stroll around town like San Myshuno or Brindelton Bay to admire the landscaping or the city life. Never felt like this in Bridgeport. Although I loved how big it was, it still took the Sim forever to go somewhere to use an elevator or the subway...
Maybe a new expansion will give us more to do with all the landscaping, but until then I simply enjoy it.