Sims 4 seasons vs. Sims 3 seasons

Eh, I don't find one to be better than the other since there's some things each one will do better than the other but both are still pretty enjoyable. Weather is just so dynamic in all the games.

I enjoyed Seasons for every installment of every pack because it definitely added that level of immersion in the game. Same with Sims 2 I enjoyed that as well got some favorite items in there I like.

Items in Sims 3 I enjoyed was the Kissing booth, slow dancing and eating contest in festivals when they rolled around.

Sims 4 there's A LOT more weather related clothing in this pack compared to earlier ones like a lot, holidays are more involved, and more things for children to do without them feeling so restricted.

Since it is my current iteration of the sims I play I do like it more especially with more customization options, but both versions did do seasons very nicely.

Sims 4's is better in my opinion because there is such attention to detail and the holiday system is top notch. I loved Seasons in 3 but there is something "extra" about 4 that makes me enjoy it even more. It's like I actually feel the temperature they are feeling and in Sims 3 I never felt that.

I like TS4 with the create your own holiday feature, and the weather effects are amazing! I liked TS3 version with the ability to cancel out a season entirely. The festival lot market was fun as well. I do prefer TS4 version though. TS3 seasons did bring online dating in the patch just before it’s release but I don’t mind it being excluded from TS4 seasons

I prefer the holiday-creation in Sims 4 Seasons to the set festivals in Sims 3 Seasons, and I like that Sims 4 Seasons acknowledges that weather affects indoors, but I think they're both great packs.

Overall I prefer Sims 4 Seasons.

The CAS, Build/Buy, holiday creation, calender and the big focus on gardening makes me really love it.

I think we are starting to get to the point where its hard to compare 3 and 4, they are just getting so different.

Festivals in 3 were neat, but I hated winter so much I would just edit my options and leave it out. If you ever even thought about winter, your plants would dormant and never come back. Snow and cold weather leaked too much before and after winter. It felt like you had Summer, maybe fall, and then two winters because it just ate up most of your spring anyway.
I am loving Holidays in 4 so far. And winter actually works how it is supposed to work. I'm a little sad there aren't igloos to build though.

I think for the first time I'd say 4 beats any of the other games in this expansion.

They're both good packs, and I definitely like them both. That said, my own preference leans more toward the TS3 pack. I just feel it has a greater variety of activities that I'm interested in and find enjoyable.

The calendar & holiday system in TS4 is very nice and definitely a neat new feature. The snow also turned out better than I'd expected. While I think multi-depth snow could be even better, I wouldn't want to give up any of the other TS4 Seasons features for it (well, okay, I'd give up the gnomes and probably the flower bunny, to be honest), and the snow we do have is really beautiful. I love the way it glistens and sparkles in the light.

For me, The Sims 4 Seasons focuses on the Seasons more than Sims 3 Seasons.

The Sims 3 focused too much on Festival gameplay objects which left almost none for everyday gameplay. If you didn’t play with Festival objects, there wasn’t really a lot about Seasons that impacted day to day life as much as 4.

Also, I prefer the Create Your Own holiday as we can basically have our own Festivals.

Alot of the content for Sims 3 Seasons could have been done in other Packs.


That said, Sims 3 Seasons does have more interactions with Snow and more depth in Summer. So that was a plus.
But saying that, it was sacrificed by a lack of Seasonal content.

It’s hard to explain.


They had the same name but approach the topic very differently. I do prefer Sims 4, but Sims 3 wasn’t bad by any stretch.

I just think Sims 3 maybe took too much content from other potential packs and then left itself with no room to move when it came to developing how Seasons effect day to day life.

I think they focused too much on new festival activities and maybe could have sold them as a store set or something instead. Or drip the objects throughout the Packs and let Seasons create the Festivals but use what is there.

Both are good packs but I prefer the sims 3 because the sims 3 has more weather elements (fog and hail), there is a lot more detail I feel in the seasons like rain dripping off the roof, hitting the puddles and the ground and all surfaces not just some, icicles on the roof.
I love that each season is customisable. If I want 3 days of summer, 16 days of summer and 7 days of fall I can have it. It’s my game and my stories and being able to customise it how I want is important to me.

Sims 4 seasons looks good though, I love the thunderstorms in particular.

With game play I think the sims 3 added more, spring had love day with the love tester machine, the kissing booth, egg hunting. Summer gave us tanning and sun burn, sprinklers, the soccer net, face painting, tanning booth, water balloon fights, skating and the eating contests. With the Fall fest we got a lot of the above but we got a haunted house, trick or treating, pumpkin carving, apple bobbing. We also got the raking leaves.The winter fest gave us the snowboard half pipe, ice skating, snow angels, snowmen and building igloos. Not to mention the sims 3 also came with allergies and the ability to treat it with a shot.

I like that seasons really impact our sims. Doing a homeless challenge and it’s autumn or winter is brutal, the sim will be soaked, they will be miserable and it’s a challenge. Likewise in winter they risk freezing to death or bursting into flames come summer if exposed to the elements for too long.

Now of course sims 4 has given us some of the above and I’m very glad we got the items we got. I prefer the sims 3 in terms of game play in terms of quality. I think the sims 4 water balloon fights look really awkward and unnatural for example. I like the holiday system too but I think i prefer the festivals as they lasted for longer and it meant all my sims could get to the festival at one point. I also love the festivals as it’s a great way to meet other sims and hang out and do things they don’t often have on their lot. For example few of my sims have a skating rink or ice cream machine on their lot.
With the sims 4 if my sims go to a festival or holiday it uses a day vacation so I’m mindful of that.

I feel that sims 3 seasons all the seasons got equal treatment by way of activities and seasonal events. With the sims 4 the main focus I think was Winter and the festive holiday there and I really like it don’t get me wrong, but I think spring and summer feel a bit bare by comparison.

I don't compare TS4 with TS3. Both games are unique and awesome in their own way, and so are the Seasons packs.