"Sk8rblaze;c-17448290" wrote:
"Beardedgeek;c-17447913" wrote:
"Jordan061102;c-17447909" wrote:
"Oldeseadogge;c-17445405" wrote:
Why I still play TS2!
*Hold up the hands*
I don't, but objectively it is the best game in the series, or at least the most detailed. Showing people that never played 2 or 3 the animations... The cooking one alone blows Sims 4 (AND 3) out of the water.
Just imagine it with modern graphics...
I agree with you entirely, and would love a remaster, but isn’t this what a sequel should ultimately bring in itself though? Otherwise, what is the point?
The Sims 3 didn’t capture all of The Sims 2’s magic, but it still shot for the stars and looked to bring some massive improvements to the series. It did have instability issues and I had other gripes with it, but at least it had some actual game design. The Sims 4 barely even tried.
Sims 3 sacrificed some things to accommodate a fully operational open world. It was a valid exchange and some things are clearly much better than in 2, and a lot of things are slightly worse.
Sims 4 is... a weird mix. It suffers A LOT from the sacrifices made to accommodate an online playstyle that never happened (thank God) but certain things are both better and worse at the same time. Loading screens everywhere BUT you can freely move between worlds, something not even 3 could (you had an open town, but you were stuck in it). Which is actually HUGE. I also personally absolutely love the deliberately cartoony art style.
...but then they skimped on virtually everything else. The huge selling point this time were "emotions", that does not make up for the loss of an open world at all, barely matters and has to be used with mods to even make sense (OH look I am all happy because I have a beautiful fridge, so who cares if my kid just died in front of me!). The animations are sometimes greatly detailed (the bike animations are MORE detailed than in 3, for example) while others (the cooking ones) are very very basic. The lack of a color wheel / Create a Style is painful since their swatches are so limited, often ugly, and never matches.
Come to think of it, regarding animations: Almost all base game animations are very bad, while the newer the pack, the better they are. If only they updated old animations...
