Does anyone use the Memories thing?

"Cynna;15488392" wrote:
TS4 used to have an incredible screenshot manager. Arguably, it was the best in the series. One moment could be chronicled for each member in a household along with a unique caption for each. This made it possible for a single moment to be remembered differently by each person. Mom, might have been sad, dad angry, kids happy, or what have you. As IRL, no two Sims saw the situation exactly the same. It was a really nice feature. The pictures also used to be in chronological order, so it was very easy to find what you were looking for and to trigger a memory.

For some reason that I will never understand, this innovative and intuitive system was ransacked and gutted by the Sims team. Why did they spend time "fixing" a feature that was never broken?

Well, it's broken now. As a memory generator, it is absolutely useless. As a historical archive, it is absolutely useless. In order to keep any kind of order, I restart the game before I switch to another family. I move the present screenshots out of the Sims folder and move in the screenshots from the other family. All of this, just so all the household pictures in the world won't be irrevocably mixed together. Oh, and don't bother deleting a screenshot because, from what I understand, deleting screenshots is what causes the other screenshots to all got out of order. Nice.

This is an incredibly broken and clumsy system. For all intents and purposes, TS4 has no memories and screenshots are useless. What makes it harder to take is that it used to be great. I ask that the Sims Team pleeeeeaaase fix this feature!

I felt the original system was too difficult to use. Could be because I play rotationally and it didn't separate the photos by households so it was a pain to go through it (TS2 photo system had separate photos). I'm really hoping they're working on an improved version.