Summary of Past Sims Basegame vs TS4 Basegame

"nanashi-sims;c-17659709" wrote:


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.

Haha yes those are exactly the things I hated about the sims in earlier versions and made me not care about them. 4 is the only version I really care about them, I play the same 3 households (neighbours to each other and best friends) for over 2000 hours, aging mostly off, sometimes on super slow and I still love it lol! I don't play in a goal driven style though, so that might be why. I just play to relax, needs cheated to the max, and play to let them have relationships with each other etc... but in a micromanaged way (to a degree, I wouldn't want autonomy off but I wouldn't want them wandering off falling in love with a sim I didn't tell them too either). It's mostly about the kids and parenting for me though.