Summary of Past Sims Basegame vs TS4 Basegame

"SimAlexandria;c-17659299" wrote:

"KatNip;c-17659060" wrote:
A lot of people arguing in the Sims 4’s defense is just... ridiculous. No, you can’t turn around the argument for what 3 doesn’t have and 4 does. 4 should have what was previously offered to us for free in the games that came before it, build off of it and improve on it. A sequel shouldn’t be missing the features that made the games before it so great. Enough said.

To me it is an improvement because the majority of removed features were things that I disliked and wished weren't in the game. I don't argue one is better than the other, because different people like different things. Sims 3 is better for some and Sims 4 better for others (including myself). (For reference: I've played all of them, been playing almost 20 years, as I was an adult when the first one game out... but they others were kinda meh for me until Sims 4 and now I have trouble enjoying them when I go back to them to "give them one more chance" (I try every few months haha.))

But yeah, for me they took out the bad parts of Sims 2/3 (other than a few things) and replaced them with better stuff. The only thing I do miss is the animations of Sims 2, those were definitely superior to SIms 4 ones, but animations don't make the game for me. The deep personalities and the attraction system of earlier games are a real turn off and ruin the game play for me, causing quick boredom haha! I'm very thankfull Sims 4 has done away with that stuff. Though I wouldn't be surprised if they add it back in one day, and if they do I may have to stop playing haha. Unless it comes with a toggle off or is a lot milder.

Wow... that's why TS4 is so boring for me. I want to play with the sims and autonomy and sims' willfullness creates surprises in the game. I will be planning to marry off two sims and one of those sims will simply not be interested in the other and will fall for a townie instead--I loved that. Or when I tried to break up my sims and the one I instructed to break up, turned around, broke the fourth wall, and complained to me that he didn't want to break up... simply amazing. My TS4 sims thrive without any friends or partners whatsoever--once I complete whatever goal driven gameplay I'm focused on, the game is boring and I just shut it off. Later I create a new sim, new game and start a new goal... in TS1 and TS2, I was able to have legacies because I cared about the sims.