Theres no slow dancing???

But you should dance with your bf/gf no matter what

For the record, swaying to the music waving a cell phone IS what people do instead of couple-dance, at events. I've done it. They aren't just waving a cell phone, they are recording the event to share later and remember it by. It's a sign of how successful the event is, not how lame it is. So that part is actually accurate for CURRENT behavior. Not behavior 20 years ago, maybe, but it is real, now.

"catloverplayer;c-17351440" wrote:

"Sk8rblaze;c-17350381" wrote:

"Oldeseadogge;c-17349911" wrote:
I've been playing TS2 since it came out and am still finding new things. That team knew how to pay attention to the details, even the little ones, and make a well-crafted game. More like a work of art than something mass produced. They cared! If the present team does, then the upper management does not, otherwise TS4 would be TS2 on steroids.

It's crazy how The Sims 2 still holds up even to this day.

Sure, the fashion trends are a little different now than they were in 2005, and that's reflected by the CAS options in-game, but that doesn't matter to me at all. I still play it because it focused on all the right things that makes sense in a Sims game. Life simulation and balanced game design, detailed gameplay, smart Sims that develop as you play them, and great game progression remains unmatched by the successor titles.

Problem with TS2 though is townies didnt age. Also if you didnt play your Sims parents and played their children the children become elders before their parents. TS2 was perfect except for that aspect.

You actually can age them up quite easily - when your sim ages up, you get a pop-up asking if you'd like to age some townies with them. So if they have townie friends you can keep them growing up alongside your sims. With mods, you can age up more than the default one or two, and you can also (with mods) just hack the system and grow everyone up pretty easily.

It's a different style of gameplay, because it's rotational. So if I have a two sims and they have kids and the kids move out, I can come back to the parents' household and play their lives without worrying about the kids. Usually, I rotate through playing a week in all of my different households.

But ideally for me, we'd have the option of letting the town progress and age around my Sims unless marked otherwise. Kind of like we have in TS4, except with actual story progression too o:)

"catloverplayer;c-17351440" wrote:


Problem with TS2 though is townies didnt age. Also if you didnt play your Sims parents and played their children the children become elders before their parents. TS2 was perfect except for that aspect.

This is the main reason that I can't go back to TS2 for long. Also, IIRC, you can't visit other Sims at home without a mod. The game is pretty closed off. However, apartments were cool. I had an entire extended family living in a multi-family building that I'd built myself. They were always going back and forth to visit each other's apartments -- no loading screens..

What's TS4's excuse?

"Cynna;c-17393769" wrote:

"catloverplayer;c-17351440" wrote:


Problem with TS2 though is townies didnt age. Also if you didnt play your Sims parents and played their children the children become elders before their parents. TS2 was perfect except for that aspect.

This is the main reason that I can't go back to TS2 for long. Also, IIRC, you can't visit other Sims at home without a mod. The game is pretty closed off. However, apartments were cool. I had an entire extended family living in a multi-family building that I'd built myself. They were always going back and forth to visit each other's apartments -- no loading screens..

What's TS4's excuse?

Wait, really i never noticed that the townies didnt age in TS2

"Nushnushganay;c-17393271" wrote:
For the record, swaying to the music waving a cell phone IS what people do instead of couple-dance, at events. I've done it. They aren't just waving a cell phone, they are recording the event to share later and remember it by. It's a sign of how successful the event is, not how lame it is. So that part is actually accurate for CURRENT behavior. Not behavior 20 years ago, maybe, but it is real, now.

Thats pretty cool

I agree, there should be not just slow dancing but maybe also some foxtrot or tango or waltz and other forms of dancing between couples!

I miss it so much. It added something special for formal dates.
P.S: That song is one of my favourite from "Collide With The Sky". <3

"MaxieMix;c-17395279" wrote:

"Cynna;c-17393769" wrote:

"catloverplayer;c-17351440" wrote:


Problem with TS2 though is townies didnt age. Also if you didnt play your Sims parents and played their children the children become elders before their parents. TS2 was perfect except for that aspect.

This is the main reason that I can't go back to TS2 for long. Also, IIRC, you can't visit other Sims at home without a mod. The game is pretty closed off. However, apartments were cool. I had an entire extended family living in a multi-family building that I'd built myself. They were always going back and forth to visit each other's apartments -- no loading screens..

What's TS4's excuse?

Wait, really i never noticed that the townies didnt age in TS2

Yep, they don't.

Later in TS2's run, they developed a feature that, when a Sim aged up, allowed them to also age three (?) friends as well. As far as I know, that was it. The rest of the world stayed the same unless you manually went around aging everyone up yourself. Otherwise, a child could have the same childhood friends as their great-great-grandparent had when they were kids. As someone who doesn't enjoy playing rotationally, I couldn't get past that.

"Cynna;c-17396808" wrote:

"MaxieMix;c-17395279" wrote:

"Cynna;c-17393769" wrote:

"catloverplayer;c-17351440" wrote:


Problem with TS2 though is townies didnt age. Also if you didnt play your Sims parents and played their children the children become elders before their parents. TS2 was perfect except for that aspect.

This is the main reason that I can't go back to TS2 for long. Also, IIRC, you can't visit other Sims at home without a mod. The game is pretty closed off. However, apartments were cool. I had an entire extended family living in a multi-family building that I'd built myself. They were always going back and forth to visit each other's apartments -- no loading screens..

What's TS4's excuse?

Wait, really i never noticed that the townies didnt age in TS2

Yep, they don't.

Later in TS2's run, they developed a feature that, when a Sim aged up, allowed them to also age three (?) friends as well. As far as I know, that was it. The rest of the world stayed the same unless you manually went around aging everyone up yourself. Otherwise, a child could have the same childhood friends as their great-great-grandparent had when they were kids. As someone who doesn't enjoy playing rotationally, I couldn't get past that.

Again never even noticed