My grievances with each game in the franchise
Ive been playing a lot recently, but losing the motivation to stick with any one family or sim or group of sims long term. The issue is, there's no such thing as the "perfect" sims game and it's becau...
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> In Sims 2 i don't like at all how going out stops time. It makes no sense at all for me that my sim stays out all afternoon shopping until it gets dark and comes back to home to find that it's still bright day, the time he left...
Well, it makes sense given the closed world (if you leave but your children stay at home, is he somehow put in a vortex and jumps forward in time?), and given the loading times, I don't think they could have managed open world at that time.
> The lack of story progression is also a negative for me. Im a legacy player. I focus on my family and i like that the game can hold the story progression for the lifes of the other families.
I think that also fit into the things improved in more recent games for which it's unfair to criticize them. Compared to TS, TS2 do have a story progression, it's just for the active household. It's only logic they didn't try to do all at once when close world lends itself more for rotational play anyway.
But yeah, not being much of a rotational myself, my prefered sims is 3 and lack of SP is what keeps me back from jumping back into TS2, despite all the love I have for open for buiseness, the sims and their wardrobe.
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> In Sims 2 i don't like at all how going out stops time. It makes no sense at all for me that my sim stays out all afternoon shopping until it gets dark and comes back to home to find that it's still bright day, the time he left...
Well, it makes sense given the closed world (if you leave but your children stay at home, is he somehow put in a vortex and jumps forward in time?), and given the loading times, I don't think they could have managed open world at that time.
> The lack of story progression is also a negative for me. Im a legacy player. I focus on my family and i like that the game can hold the story progression for the lifes of the other families.
I think that also fit into the things improved in more recent games for which it's unfair to criticize them. Compared to TS, TS2 do have a story progression, it's just for the active household. It's only logic they didn't try to do all at once when close world lends itself more for rotational play anyway.
But yeah, not being much of a rotational myself, my prefered sims is 3 and lack of SP is what keeps me back from jumping back into TS2, despite all the love I have for open for buiseness, the sims and their wardrobe.
