"Benjamilian;c-18044492" wrote:
I'm surprised we're so overwhelmingly from the olden days, and so far no-one hails from the full decade of Sims 2-3.
I'll also posit: the Sims 4 has been out now for a hundred years, and has frustrated its users in a range of ways, so people who still play it in 2022 may do so for partly nostalgic reasons.
I started around 2002/2003 with The Sims 1 on GameCube. The console versions of the games were always different from PC versions. The Sims 4 is the first game I've ever played that had things like stairs, roofs, foundations, huge catalogs of build/buy items, swatches, actual neighborhoods, different worlds, DLC's, etcetera. While I loved the console games they were incredibly limited.
I was shocked when I first tried The Sims 3 on console, but unfortunately that game was so laggy and broke I never played it long enough to really create anything so I abandoned the franchise entirely. Then comes The Sims 4, the same exact game ported from PC. When I got the base game I was overwhelmed with it, couldn't believe what I was missing all along on the PC versions. Started buying DLC's and that's all she wrote.
Moral of the story, and I might be in the minority here, not everyone is from the PC era and absolutely despises The Sims 4. I started this journey on console almost 20 years ago. The Sims 4 is miles better than any of the previous console versions (minus the story modes that I miss on console), which is all I have to go off because I've never played the OG games on PC. I've tried to play The Sims 3 on PC and I can't get past the graphics anymore after being spoiled with The Sims 4 graphics. So The Sims 4 is all I've got to play until something new comes along.
