"randy2355;c-17133841" wrote:
"Zussage;c-17133060" wrote:
Eh, I love it. I'm sympathetic though to anyone who doesn't. I'm just not sure what it's being compared to. TS3 Island Paradise was my favourite, and that thing was basically unplayable. You had to mod the heck out of it, delete a bunch of stuff like house boats and hotels, several families... and then maybe you could play without crashing. I did love diving but that also was eventually explored through. I've explored every dive spot to death, the mermaids had so few interactions. The hunger bar for the kids was messed up.
Eventually all of the content in every pack will be "explored through". To me, the beauty of the sims is how you can play the same career on the same world but with a different personality and sim, and you have a whole different game, or vice versa. It's about recombining. I just don't think it's possible to make a pack with content that "never ends". The replayability of it is based on something else.
TS3 definitely feels more "full" at this point, but it's also had a full run of expansions. TS4 is still going, and is just gonna keep adding more. It's also why I didn't buy it at launch, but only got into it a few months ago. That's always how I've done sims, I don't buy the latest until it has a lot of expansions under its belt. When sims 5 rolls around, I'll do the same thing. It's always gonna feel like a bare-bones game in the beginning when compared to years of expansions. I'm also one of the rare few that like the world system on TS4 better than the open world in TS3. It's just way more playable for me. I don't miss TS3 now and just uninstalled it on my computer. Even with less expansion packs, TS4 is at a place where it outshines TS3 for me. There are definitely things here and there that I'd like to see. I wish we had house boats for example, and controllable pets, but I also find the list of "pros" for me personally with TS4 vastly outweighs the cons and few things that I miss from TS3. And, again, even those things I miss I know would eventually be "old hat" anyway. Dive spots will be explored through, house boats will just sit on the water.
But everyone plays their own way! For those of you disappointed, I'm sorry. I hope that you can find other games to enjoy and not waste anymore money on things in TS4 that will disappoint you. Here's hoping that when The Sims 5 eventually comes out, it better suits all of our needs.
While i understand how the OP and others feel, as I used to feel as they do about the sims4 myself. I tend to agree with you. Awile back, I went back to playing TS3, and I forgot how buggy it was. IP worked at first, then as next ex-packs came out, it got buggier and buggier, until it was unplayable, World Adventures had the same problem...and those were my two favorite packs. And we (myself included) complain about the bugs in TS4, but in ts3 when a new ex-pack broke an old ex-pack, EA did very little to try to fix it. We only got updates just before new packs came out and they addressed maybe 10% of the problemsfrom the previous pack. If it didnt get fixed then, it wasnt going to get fixed.) TS4 is less buggy, and EA seems like they are working harder to adress problems with much more frequent updates. People also talk about the animations not being what they want. Doesn't anyone remember how the fairies flew in ts3....I forgot, and they were my favorite occult in ts3. Could EA do better? Of course they could. I no longer feel as bad about ts4 though, after going back and playing ts3 for awile again.
I tend to agree with this. I love the Sims 3, had all the expansions and stuffs as well as every piece of store content. It was a very long wait to load & even then was buggy. I turned to modders to get bug fixes & master controller to catch errors. Even still that game was far from perfect. And yes indeed quite buggy.
Like you I did the same. I'd go periods of months playing the Sims 3, the stories I could create were endless! So many & I'd spend so much time doing it. Then I'd hit a bug after a couple of months and decide to load up the Sims 4 (I also have all the content for, except IL), and it was a much better experience bug wise, and graphically beautiful. I'd play for a few weeks but my stories always ended too soon & I was limited in what I could do much more. I'd quickly finish the story line & go back to sims 3 again. And repeat.
There was just so much more in the Sims 3. And if they could somehow take the Sims 3 and give it bug fixes, graphics of the Sims 4, I'd literally pay for it. Tbh. At this point even if they literally copied everything from the Sims 3 and brought it to the Sims 4, I'd still buy it!
Sims 3 series is my favorite.
