Sims 4 feels exhausting to play.

"spend4zen;c-18075442" wrote:
I agree Sims3 and Sims2 was much more fun and I have thought about reloading three and playing it again. That said, Sims3 is so buggy with the Terrain and routing issue's I am hesitant to do it. I basically have all the routing issues memorized to go in and fix them all but it is a big job to fix and You must have mods to make it work. The reason the Sims4 is so boring to play is because they took all the surprise and more adult content out of it so they could get away with attracting 12 year old's to play it. There is no Zombies, no scary ghost, no burglar, grim is not scary and nothing really bad ever really happens unless you freeze to death in seasons. Even Vampires are not really a problem. Now how do I get around this, I invent my own scary stuff and sometimes if I am really bored with it I will make a mean Vampire that go's around attacking Sims or something, still don't really get the reactions you want but until something better comes along or I get the gumption up to deal with fixing Sims3 its all that's out there...for now.

If you tried Sims3 these days you might be pleasantly surprised. I do use the suite of NRAAS mods designed to keep the game running smoothly, as well as clean out the 5 cache files that should be deleted after play each time to again, keep it running smoothly. And last but not least, I never overwrite a save, but do a new "save as" with a new unique name each time, often related to what is happening in the game at that point.

But following those simple rules, Sims3 runs better for me than Sims4.

Well, especially now: after this last Origin update, now, none of the keys for zooming in and out work, on the keyboard (arrow keys, + or -, and z or x all fail to zoom in or out) and shift+tab no longer opens first person view, just scoots my POV backward far and fast til I'm out of the lot. On that, I've now tried everything including game repair, uninstall and reinstall, switching camera modes, testing my keyboard on other games (it's not my keyboard) so my last hope is that if I uninstall and reinstall Origin, and then have to redownload all my Origin games, this will be fixed. But that's nothing to do with Sims3, which is still working fine, keyboard controls are fine, etc.

Just saying Sims3 runs better than it ever did in the past, now, for a lot of us, using those steps and mods, but it also depends what you're running. My laptop can run Sims3, all packs installed, max resolution and details, and it's pretty breathtaking for graphics, and the gameplay is smooth.

I do wish I could get Sims2 to work still, because that gameplay was the best of all. But Sims3 is still better than Sims4 for gameplay.