Things you thought before playing The Sims?
Is there anything you believed would be a thing in The Sims that turned out to be totally wrong? For an example, I believed that sim’s pyjamas changed with their career.
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I can no longer remember what I expected of the original Sims! Everything was a surprise.
Over time, I learned to expect bugs. Sim-eating bugs. Game-eating bugs. Time-destroying bugs.
I no longer expect my Sim games to...y'know, survive intact. Over all those years, I learned to expect my gameplay to be destroyed by bugs.
So TS4 surprised me, because until the relationship-culling bug wiped out all my sims' relationships (which I cheated back as best I could), I didn't basically lose my game to bugs. And because I'd learned long ago to save often using multiple save files, the hilarious (Seasons) winter sim-die-off that wiped out most of my neighboring sims didn't cause me any trouble. I lost maybe 30-45 real-life minutes watching the bodies pile up before I simply went back to my previous save.
So...the expectation I developed from The Sims, TS2, & TS3, that all my games would eventually be destroyed by bugs, has finally (so far) turned out not to be a thing in TS4. Hurrah!
I'm sorry that hasn't been true for everyone playing TS4, and hope more bug fixes come soon. :)
Over time, I learned to expect bugs. Sim-eating bugs. Game-eating bugs. Time-destroying bugs.
I no longer expect my Sim games to...y'know, survive intact. Over all those years, I learned to expect my gameplay to be destroyed by bugs.
So TS4 surprised me, because until the relationship-culling bug wiped out all my sims' relationships (which I cheated back as best I could), I didn't basically lose my game to bugs. And because I'd learned long ago to save often using multiple save files, the hilarious (Seasons) winter sim-die-off that wiped out most of my neighboring sims didn't cause me any trouble. I lost maybe 30-45 real-life minutes watching the bodies pile up before I simply went back to my previous save.
So...the expectation I developed from The Sims, TS2, & TS3, that all my games would eventually be destroyed by bugs, has finally (so far) turned out not to be a thing in TS4. Hurrah!
I'm sorry that hasn't been true for everyone playing TS4, and hope more bug fixes come soon. :)
