There isn't any thinking about it for me, Sims 3 with it's open world, seasons, university, World Adventures, Island Paradise, cars, ect. Something that has become important to me is the stylist, home decorator, babysitting, and showtime careers(although I didn't use those careers much, it gave options for gameplay) Grocery stores , I can't believe that so much time has passed and we don't have these, but have loads of party places/activities. I loved S3 grocery store because if I didn't want to hunt for or grow harvestables and still wanted them, I just had to buy them. Real stores. 64x64 spaces all over and ability to put them there. Small pets like birds & reptiles and insects to collect. Shower woohoo. The potions for best friend and the shower in a cans that you can buy as many as you want, because I'm not one to want to work at those types of things, I would rather concentrate on gameplay. Ability to use boy/girl friend & fiancée in CAS as relationships instead of starting from ground zero. I also miss favorites(color, food, music) in CAS; weird that S4 is suppose to be about emotions, but they left this out. Ability to make a supernatural for any sim in my bin in CAS(huge disappointment when I had the sim I wanted to make a vampire and couldn't; not interested in going the long way around; they should've done it right to begin with.) More grim interactions. CEMETERY Infants held, laid down, interactions with items, ect. I miss the fish tank assortment and all the playground stuff for kids. I miss the real feeling of being in a world because I can look down and find sims and go where they are or watch my sim drive. The ability to make my sim run....
I will say that S4 excels in ease of getting in and out of game and CAS. Build has roofs and the ability to move houses and add more than one thing to a lot. Lot traits. <3 Ability to add/mess with townies instead of having to befriend ect in S3 just to get them in your house ect. <3 <3 <3 CAS- not having to take of accessories one by one and look for them. :p B) I really like the stores option in GTW as well as the careers. I like that Pets do not count toward the house count. I hate that sims cancel out what I want and that they put toddlers down from the highchairs or that toddlers can get down alone.
I'm sure there's more for both.
