Little Things You Miss and Don’t
A thread for little things from previous games that you miss, and things you’re glad they left out/hope stay in the past. I miss the large paintings from The Sims 3, I know some got resized and suc...
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Things I miss:
- Ghosts from the sims 2
- Getting married and actually getting a ring (didn't have to going into CAS to add a ring to a married sim)
- Actually using the cabinets to take out cooking utensils and pots and pans to cook with
- The attraction system from the sims 2
- pie menu selections from the sims 2 and 3
- CASt
- The pets from the sims 2
- Intimacy with couples in the sims 2/3 (cuddling in bed while sleeping and before waking up, lying in bed together talking etc.)
- Dancing with each other face to face
- Cut scenes from the sims 2
- Babies from 2 and the interactions with them
- Prom, after school programs, boarding schools
- school buses (sidenote: I would laugh out loud at the way the buses would make a u-turns when picking up your child in The sims 3)
- Hobbies and Interests
- how hard it was to make friends in the sims 2/3 because of personality differences (neat sim vs sloppy sim or a sim who had different interest than another sim)
- Optional cellphones (sims 2), optional newspapers (I believe you could call and cancel the service in 3 possibly 2)
- Shopping for Groceries, clothing, fragrances, Jewelry, etc in the sims 2
- Wants and Fears
- Burglars
- Firefighters and Police officers (as a service not like the detective career)
- being able to select more than 3 traits in CAS
- online dating
- unscripted Dating from the sims 2/3 (I don't like the game telling me what to do on my date)
- a Biography area to give a background to individual sims
- Memory system from the sims 2
- family portraits
- careers like education and military
- landlines
- pool tables
- lounging chairs
- Story progression (the sims 3)
- social bunny
- therapist (?)
- midlife crisis
- interactions with other sims depending on age (for example kids playing cops and robbers)
- University
* I will end it there to say I miss a lot of things mainly from the sims 2 but are many things I also miss from 3*
Things I don't miss:
- overpopulation of supernaturals (sims 3)
- babies from the sims 3 (I didn't like the burrito babies)
- The zodiac point system in the sims 2
- CAS in the sims 3 (despite me loving the color wheel it was very annoying for me to go through)
- Friendships to gain career levels
- not being able to use the alt button to move furniture around.
- hats, shoes and some accessories being attached to outfit or hair
- The sims 3 memories (talk about a memory hog)
- disciple in the sims 3
- Ghosts from the sims 2
- Getting married and actually getting a ring (didn't have to going into CAS to add a ring to a married sim)
- Actually using the cabinets to take out cooking utensils and pots and pans to cook with
- The attraction system from the sims 2
- pie menu selections from the sims 2 and 3
- CASt
- The pets from the sims 2
- Intimacy with couples in the sims 2/3 (cuddling in bed while sleeping and before waking up, lying in bed together talking etc.)
- Dancing with each other face to face
- Cut scenes from the sims 2
- Babies from 2 and the interactions with them
- Prom, after school programs, boarding schools
- school buses (sidenote: I would laugh out loud at the way the buses would make a u-turns when picking up your child in The sims 3)
- Hobbies and Interests
- how hard it was to make friends in the sims 2/3 because of personality differences (neat sim vs sloppy sim or a sim who had different interest than another sim)
- Optional cellphones (sims 2), optional newspapers (I believe you could call and cancel the service in 3 possibly 2)
- Shopping for Groceries, clothing, fragrances, Jewelry, etc in the sims 2
- Wants and Fears
- Burglars
- Firefighters and Police officers (as a service not like the detective career)
- being able to select more than 3 traits in CAS
- online dating
- unscripted Dating from the sims 2/3 (I don't like the game telling me what to do on my date)
- a Biography area to give a background to individual sims
- Memory system from the sims 2
- family portraits
- careers like education and military
- landlines
- pool tables
- lounging chairs
- Story progression (the sims 3)
- social bunny
- therapist (?)
- midlife crisis
- interactions with other sims depending on age (for example kids playing cops and robbers)
- University
* I will end it there to say I miss a lot of things mainly from the sims 2 but are many things I also miss from 3*
Things I don't miss:
- overpopulation of supernaturals (sims 3)
- babies from the sims 3 (I didn't like the burrito babies)
- The zodiac point system in the sims 2
- CAS in the sims 3 (despite me loving the color wheel it was very annoying for me to go through)
- Friendships to gain career levels
- not being able to use the alt button to move furniture around.
- hats, shoes and some accessories being attached to outfit or hair
- The sims 3 memories (talk about a memory hog)
- disciple in the sims 3
