Little Things You Miss and Don’t

Starting with stuff I don’t miss:

The max harvests for garden plants. I don’t really care that a strawberry plant living for years is unrealistic or whatever, I hated having to constantly replant stuff.

Snow days. Playing on normal lifespan? Enjoy your C/B grade because school got canceled multiple times!

Toddlers needing either a bottle or baby food. I like that they can eat almost anything grown sims can.

Things I miss:

The toddler xylophone. The peg box was whatever.

Ghost babies.

The Vampire ghosts. I just liked the thirst ghosts more because I liked how they looked.

The Omni Plant. I don’t really care if a plant growing fish or whatever is silly, I liked it.

I remember sims being better about reading skill books, especially since you could make them read until the next level, or indefinitely.

Things I miss:

-Create a Style
-More frequent random deaths
-Private schools
-Being able to play without my sims relying on technology
-The variety of jobs in the previous games
-Magic
-University
-Swimmable oceans
-Sun loungers/indoor loungers
-Sewing machine
-Pottery wheel
-Attraction system

Things I don't miss:

-Cars
-Zombies and werewolves
-Memories
-Social bunny
-Constant gnome spawning

I played very little of TS2, but I still miss the turn ons and turn offs thing. I also miss the variety of traits that TS3 had. It kinda feels like the personality in TS4 is much more bland, and waaay to based on emotions. The sims don't do stuff based on their traits, they do it based on their moods. I also miss the variety of family interactions that we had, specially with TS3 Generations.

What I don't miss:
- Path issues. Sims move around so much better now.
- Cars
- The toddlers from TS3, TS4 are way cuter.
- Open world. I like the neighborhoods.
- Having to do groceries
- The old graphics. I love the cartoonish look.
- Zombies. I love Supernatural sims, but ugh.
- The Vista meter in TS3 World Adventures. It was very annoying having to do those in every new save.
- Birds and other small animals (though they have included hamsters now).

"SimsAddict_244;c-16804179" wrote:

Don't miss:
- The store

Why does the store get such a bad rap? I personally loved the sims 3 store and wish they had something similar for the sims 4.

"worldofdrakan;c-16804604" wrote:

Don't Miss:
- Unplayed Sims autonomously becoming supernaturals beyond your control

OMG yes! I hate this. I always have supernaturals and stray pet population turned off in my games (unless i'm playing them at the time.) and mermaids and stray horses always appear no matter what. Drives me crazy.

Things I miss:
-University
-Attraction system from ts2
-Bands
-Cars

"fruitsbasket101;c-16805656" wrote:

"SimsAddict_244;c-16804179" wrote:

Don't miss:
- The store

Why does the store get such a bad rap? I personally loved the sims 3 store and wish they had something similar for the sims 4.

"worldofdrakan;c-16804604" wrote:

Don't Miss:
- Unplayed Sims autonomously becoming supernaturals beyond your control

OMG yes! I hate this. I always have supernaturals and stray pet population turned off in my games (unless i'm playing them at the time.) and mermaids and stray horses always appear no matter what. Drives me crazy.

Things I miss:
-University
-Attraction system from ts2
-Bands
-Cars

I liked some store stuff, but a lot of it was either overpriced (like some of the clothing) or sorta cheaty, like the tablet with the skill podcasts/the baby swing and toddler items like the playpen.

Edit: I miss the glass/grass rugs from Into the Future. I also miss the all-in-one bathroom because I’m lazy.

I miss having playable cars and the color wheel.

Miss: Everything in TS2 that is not in TS4, much of which has already been mentioned. Don't miss: The blah vampires - not keen on them, but at least TS4 does that right. Probably more, but I should have been in bed about 2 hours ago, so am bailing.

Miss
- Slow Dancing
- Turn ons/Turn offs
- Unleashed babies
- Cars and all that comes with it
- Teen sized teens
- Swimmable oceans
- Body hair
- CAW
- Editable worlds
- Pool tables
- Diving boards
- In-ground hot tubs
- Landlines
- Option to buy cell phones or not to buy
- Lounge chairs
- Normal sized items like telescope
- Newspapers
- Having to make the bed
- Having to buy groceries
- Wants fears
- Burglars
- Bands
- Personality points
- Retail and clothing stores with cash registers and useable objects like clothing racks
- Ticket machine
- Cuddle in bed
- Snow depth
- Sims actually getting things out of cabinets
- Pond tools
- Police and Firemen
- Mrs. Crumblebottom
- Being able to play as waiter and cook in restaurants
- Military career and obstacle course

Don't miss
- Any Supernatural we're missing
- Path issues
- Zodiac (I do like personality points just not it being stuck to the zodiac)

I miss:
- cleaning skill
- zodiac signs
- memories
- witches
- spiral stairs
- cats being able to learn tricks / interesting cats in general
- education, military, fashion, and paranormal careers
- smaller versions of pianos, telescopes, and other ordinary items
- little animations (opening a drawer or a wardrobe, getting into and out of an elevator, etc.)
- building own apartments
- ability to choose colours of multi-coloured objects independent from each other
- seeing the owners of a public lot work there when you visit as another family, instead of random sims

Do not miss:
- being stuck with only four default eye, hair and skin colours (TS2)
- predictable and horrible genetics
- previous versions of toddlers
- empty worlds that all look the same
- university
- zombies

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