Make-yourself-simulator vs dollhouse simulator

"ClarionOfJoy;c-17451716" wrote:

Hi, just wanted to point out that you are NEVER locked into a TS3 world. Without mods, all the worlds have access to China, Egypt, France, the university town, and three versions of the future world. With the Traveler mod, you can go to even more - just install any or all the worlds made for the TS3. That would be hundreds of worlds of all sizes and environments. In TS4 - you're stuck with whatever EAxis made which isn't a whole lot compared to TS3's worlds. And those TS4 worlds are TINY. Don't call them worlds - they're really just small neighborhoods.

1. Mods doesn't count.
2. None of those worlds are interesting. I never liked the World Adventure and only used it for two things: Go to China ONCE per family to learn martial arts and get the training dummy and use the plants for build mode.
3. Again, mods doesn't count when discussing game features. I also don't like using them in general (I only have two mods in Sims 4: MCCC and Meaningful Stories. No CC, no other mods).

"ClarionOfJoy;c-17451716" wrote:

All TS3 worlds are editable! I don't know why you had so much trouble with it. Someone else managed to revamp Twinbrook and added in all the expansion packs except Into the Future. But TS3 being highly editable, you can add new lots to this world most anywhere you want. Here's what someone did to update Twinbrook to give you an idea of what TS3 can do.

Yes they are editable if you have the time and find it interesting to learn the modding tools. For us who only deleted lots and put in new ones... You had very limited space.

"ClarionOfJoy;c-17451716" wrote:

Yeah, that's the false mantra being touted about TS3 now but I have proven this to be untrue. The benefit of being able to jump from one world to another for TS4 is hollow though because those worlds are not even worlds, but tiny, TINY little neighborhoods with only a few lots each. So you would HAVE to jump from one world to another because it gets so boring just staying in one TS4 neighborhood. Moreover, you can't create new neighborhoods or even add lots of any size - you can't even move the current lots around to different areas of the neighborhood or change their size!

if you can't do it without mods, it is not "false".
Also again, the vacation worlds are not proper worlds, so I don't count them.
As for the rest, agree to disagree. I vastly prefer Sims 4's world system over Sims 3's. Sims 3's was (again, without mods) trapping you in one world. Yes it was editable, but if you didn't have the skill or the patience... And of course even for me that had a mid range gaming PC, the game ran like it thought it was Crysis or something. I did try a number of custom worlds but most were... not very good, or suffered from bugs (because not supported properly) or empty, which meant nothing but potato heads in random clothing showing up.

Now, if Maxis had expanded every world with every pack and added all the buildings in (like creating new lots in Sunset Valley like a fire station or a nightclub when those packs came) that would have been awesome. As it actually functioned you basically (again, without mods) had to chose between "In this game my family will never ever ever visit a nightclub" or "in this game my family will never ever ever be a fireman, or build a Simbot, or..."