For Those Currently Playing and Enjoying Sims 4

"Cinebar;c-16209217" wrote:
I think it would be more interesting to ask everyone here which game they started playing. I can't take your poll because though I bought just about everything for TS4, except some stuff packs, I'm not currently enjoying it. And I didn't start with The Sims but with Sim City 2000 (1999).

Sims 2 was my first Sims game. But if we include other games made by Maxis then I started with the original SimCity game which Maxis released in 1989 a long time before EA bought Maxis in 1997 ;) If we also include other games then I also played several games even before that ;)

I don’t really remember my very first game. But AFAIR it was a classic adventure game. Those games were very popular until the first RPG game was released. The classic adventure games had only one story line. But it was very tricky to play through the story and you were stuck all the time. The adventure games lost their popularity when the first RPG games had been released because RPG games gave you much more freedom to play through their stories in many different ways.

I tried SimCity 2000 too. But I didn’t play it as much as the original SimCity game and didn’t really think that it was better. Also the SimCity games never became my favorites.

I don’t vote because I don’t play TS4 anymore. The voting is interesting because I don’t know if I would still play TS4 if it had been my first Sims game? The problem with the voting though is that the very young (about 12-13 yrs old) girls who were EA’s main target group usually aren’t in the forum even though they most likely still play the game too.

I started with Sims 1. I enjoyed and played that through it's run. Did the same with Sims 2. I didn't enjoy Sims 3 so opted out during that time span. Now I'm enjoying the run of Sims 4.
Since Sims City has been brought up... I didn't enjoy it at all. I think I tried it after Sims 1 though or about the same time. I want to be involved in individual sim lives, not be a city manager. I don't think of it on the same level or even the same type of game as the Sims really. My son enjoyed playing that game for awhile though. Different strokes...

"Hermitgirl;c-16210374" wrote:
I started with Sims 1. I enjoyed and played that through it's run. Did the same with Sims 2. I didn't enjoy Sims 3 so opted out during that time span. Now I'm enjoying the run of Sims 4.
Since Sims City has been brought up... I didn't enjoy it at all. I think I tried it after Sims 1 though or about the same time. I want to be involved in individual sim lives, not be a city manager. I don't think of it on the same level or even the same type of game as the Sims really. My son enjoyed playing that game for awhile though. Different strokes...

Thank goodness Will Wright decided to add Sims and make them more of a focus or else we would have been left with an architecture simulator, which was what was originally intended.

I never understood the fascination of SimCity even though I played the 1989 quite much anyway because I preferred the other city building games (like the Caesar series) where there were more goals to play for. My favorite among the old Maxis games was instead SimAnt which I played quite much too. But SimAnt was a very small game.

"Erpe;c-16210252" wrote:

"Cinebar;c-16209217" wrote:
I think it would be more interesting to ask everyone here which game they started playing. I can't take your poll because though I bought just about everything for TS4, except some stuff packs, I'm not currently enjoying it. And I didn't start with The Sims but with Sim City 2000 (1999).

Sims 2 was my first Sims game. But if we include other games made by Maxis then I started with the original SimCity game which Maxis released in 1989 a long time before EA bought Maxis in 1997 ;) If we also include other games then I also played several games even before that ;)

I don’t really remember my very first game. But AFAIR it was a classic adventure game. Those games were very popular until the first RPG game was released. The classic adventure games had only one story line. But it was very tricky to play through the story and you were stuck all the time. The adventure games lost their popularity when the first RPG games had been released because RPG games gave you much more freedom to play through their stories in many different ways.

I tried SimCity 2000 too. But I didn’t play it as much as the original SimCity game and didn’t really think that it was better. Also the SimCity games never became my favorites.

I don’t vote because I don’t play TS4 anymore. The voting is interesting because I don’t know if I would still play TS4 if it had been my first Sims game? The problem with the voting though is that the very young (about 12-13 yrs old) girls who were EA’s main target group usually aren’t in the forum even though they most likely still play the game too.

@Erpe, there is no problem with the voting. The poll is for forum members who are still playing and enjoying the game. I'm not trying to extrapolate to the entire simming community.

I just noticed this is now in general discussion.

The original got me through bedrest without me loosing my mind :) (well the rest of my mind anyway :) )

"simgirl1010;c-16210434" wrote:

"Erpe;c-16210252" wrote:

"Cinebar;c-16209217" wrote:
I think it would be more interesting to ask everyone here which game they started playing. I can't take your poll because though I bought just about everything for TS4, except some stuff packs, I'm not currently enjoying it. And I didn't start with The Sims but with Sim City 2000 (1999).

Sims 2 was my first Sims game. But if we include other games made by Maxis then I started with the original SimCity game which Maxis released in 1989 a long time before EA bought Maxis in 1997 ;) If we also include other games then I also played several games even before that ;)

I don’t really remember my very first game. But AFAIR it was a classic adventure game. Those games were very popular until the first RPG game was released. The classic adventure games had only one story line. But it was very tricky to play through the story and you were stuck all the time. The adventure games lost their popularity when the first RPG games had been released because RPG games gave you much more freedom to play through their stories in many different ways.

I tried SimCity 2000 too. But I didn’t play it as much as the original SimCity game and didn’t really think that it was better. Also the SimCity games never became my favorites.

I don’t vote because I don’t play TS4 anymore. The voting is interesting because I don’t know if I would still play TS4 if it had been my first Sims game? The problem with the voting though is that the very young (about 12-13 yrs old) girls who were EA’s main target group usually aren’t in the forum even though they most likely still play the game too.

@Erpe, there is no problem with the voting. The poll is for forum members who are still playing and enjoying the game. I'm not trying to extrapolate to the entire simming community.

I know. It was just me who would like to know how the very young simmers see TS4 and compare this to the attitude among the forum users. But of course this is impossible for us to find out and see.

I learned more about the Sims when Sims 4 came out (watched some Youtubers play it), but my friend gave me a copy of Sims 3 to start with. Loved it and then eventually got Sims 4 for myself.

technically, I started with ts1, but after a tragic accident that left every male in my little family drowning in a pool I became scarred & never played sims 1 again.

I picked ts4 since it was the first sims game that I truly immersed myself with since I played the original sims that didn't leave me wanting to constantly start over every five minutes.