Things from older Sim Generation you DO NOT miss

I prefer the Sims 4 aspiration system compared to the Sims 3 one. It actually gave you objectives to progresssively do, as your sim gets more skilled, and it's way more engaging in my opinion.

Toddlers drinking from the toilet. ?

A new occult with every pack, as seen in TS2. Probably an unpopular opinion because everyone loves to place TS2 on a pedestal, but let's be honest, its occults sucked! They looked different from regular sims and had one or two special properties, but that was it. As shallow as TS4 is in many, many regards, when it does dedicate an entire GP to a single occult, they usually turn out to be the best we've ever had. Not so much when they come as one of many features in an EP, see mermaids and aliens, but even the lacklustre aliens from Get to Work are still better than their green, noseless TS2 counterparts. Witches with their interesting variety of good, evil, and neutral spells were the only good occults in TS2.

(Feel free to cancel me now, but it won't change the facts.)

"simgirl1010;c-18270814" wrote:
Toddlers drinking from the toilet. ?

I came to this thread not expecting to see this lol.

Having to constantly clean up newspaper clutter (TS1 & TS2). They needed an option to subscribe/unsubscribe. At least the TS2 newspaper was more functional, with a crossword and such.

The burglar and pickpocket.

How fast needs go in ts1 and your sim constantly too depressed to anything
unless you have 2 sims constantly socializing with each other

Heads coming with hairstyles, bodies with clothes

horoscopes tied to personality points

the "fat" body type in ts2 thats not even fat
talk about early 2000 nonsense

being stuck in one world/ not being able to live in "vacation worlds"
(still annoying in ts4)

"open world" in ts3
that really just meant lots of travel from rabbithole to another
and sims having chaos while you are not playing them
and you struggling to find your sims on that dang big map all the time
nope i don't miss it.

rabbitholes in general why are they suddenly making comeback in ts4 i do not like it

the ts3 dragons that were just birds in cosplay

the store just like in general

into the future portal automatically spawning on your lot at the start
so your game crashes and all the other crash lag bug things ah fun times

and one for ts4 since i am listing:
randomized townies and endless randomized townie generation in ts4

pls give me toggle to toggle it off before this iteration is over with

"GrumpyGlowfish;c-18270826" wrote:
Witches with their interesting variety of good, evil, and neutral spells were the only good occults in TS2.

(Feel free to cancel me now, but it won't change the facts.)

Plantsims were lit in ts2 though so I feel like slightly adjusting the facts

"ClassicalSim;c-18270896" wrote:
The burglar and pickpocket.

I don't miss the burglar or the repoman.

Sims 2 toddlers. (Please don't come for me.) I hated the screaming and fussing, every. single. time. They woke up. I remember how paranoid it made me so that I was constantly checking the time to make sure I had a Sim ready and waiting by the crib for as soon as they woke up because I just couldn't handle the stress of that screaming and wailing sound animation, lol.

Sims 4 toddlers are infinitely better. I actually enjoy them, which was completely unexpected for me, and I was one who never even noticed they were missing from the game until I joined the forums and saw the hullabaloo, lol. I think they're a lot of fun now.

But I really, really wish the Occult toddlers had some supernatural aspects, or that we could at least use the glowy eyes and weird teeth to make them cosmetically creepy. Or have the unusual hair colors for them. No Occult (or toddler) love there, unfortunately. :'(