What is your favorite kind of apartment?

The Sims 2 Al building tools were the best. From tenements filled with dozens of households, to duplexes, condos, trailer parks, even just a one apartment building, where the landlord did all the work outside and your Sim paid rent etc. great for saving money. As many or as few separate units as you wanted. Closed breezeways, open breezeways, no breezeways, enclosed common areas or open fenced off common areas. Playgrounds, park areas, whatever you wanted to do. Pools in common areas, or just a place to read and socialize with others in a common area. Whatever you could imagine could be done. It's hard to top that. If you can imagine it, you can probably build it with TS2's tools.

Sims 2s apartments were incredible so its not even a contest. Between 4 and 3 though its a bit hard for me to say. You can place apartments wherever you like in Sims 3 as well as make any kind of apartment instead of being restricted to what the game provides but the routing issues they bring are painful as well as feeling like the rest of the building is completely empty and you're the only tenant so yes you have the open world with no loading screens, but you can't really even visit your neighbor.. It'd be nice to at least see people coming and going like you do in 4, make it feel alive like the rest of the world.

"Onverser;c-17923507" wrote:
They work better in my opinion in 4 as you actually have real neighbours rather than fake neighbours in your building, and the elevators are quick, but for me I prefer 3 as you can just place them wherever. I don't want to have to live in a certain world if I want an apartment, so I like the freedom.

I love 3 but half the time i just teleport my sims down/upstairs instead of using the elevator :/

"Simmingal;c-18004790" wrote:
I really like ts4 apartments too but sims 2 just had more options I feel like

ts3 I didn't really like to use them because i found it hard to move camera with the skyscrapers

Yea you have to get a mod for it to stop doing the weird jerky thing if you mean the tab mode camera

TS2s ones were the best. Four playable households. (Potentially) One roof. I always played in BDC, and having four of my favourite households walking past each-other going to walk, and being able to visit each-other was a huge bonus. With the bonus of being able to knock on your neighbours door to have them babysit without calling a Nanny.

Plus your Landlord could steal money from your money tree in TS2 then randomly insult you. Talk about realism!

I didn't like how TS3s limited you to just one building, one actual household area, and a door that spawns townies, it tends to lag a little more too or cause Sims to get stuck waiting for elevators for a long time. And it's just not as fun to live in as an actual apartment set.

To be fair I like what they did in TS2. TS3 worked differently so apartments could not be pulled off the same way although were doable

I never tried ts2 or ts3 apartments but from what I read and saw in YouTube videos apartments are really ts4 weak point. I had city living since release but probably only played in one a handful of times. No customization, no real neighbors and the grey block that covers the neighbors side would irritate me so I moved out lol.

I do really love Sims 3 highrises, hearing the neighbors' music through the walls/floor, the Sims 1 music in the elevators. Sims 2 apartments were just better though. Just more fun and customizable.

I loved the flexibility with TS2 apartments. I downloaded a duplex and it was fun sharing half a house with someone in the game. I also liked adding some amenities to the common areas, like an apartment gym. The AI isn't really advanced enough to make apartment neighbors use the gym and some items, but at least my sim gets it all to himself :D Plus weekly apartment get togethers

TS3 apartments were the worst. You couldn't really visit your neighbors' units, and there were no amenities. They were basically reskinned one-household residences in a shell building. And they lagged a lot (but this might just be because of Bridgeport)

TS4 apartments were a bit better since you could visit your neighbors, but there were loading screens so they were functionally a different lot. There were no amenities either, but they did add apartment-specific gameplay like neighbors dropping by, noisy neighbors, and giving out copies of your apartment key to your friends

The “apartments” in sims 3 and sims 4 is one of the things that make these games completely unplayable to me. First of all the builds: sims 2 apartments are real freaking buildings from bottom to top level. I can build a gym in the basement, a lobby, a rooftop with a bar and barbecue for the neighbors. I can put a freaking penthouse on top and studio apartments in the rest of the building, the _entire_ building is customizable. The sims 3 and 4 is basically shells with some space in them, in my view they honestly don’t even really classify as apartments.

Second, the way they’ve done it messes up my gameplay a lot. I always have my sims move to apartments directly after college, because at least in my country no one buys a house until they are at least 30+. People live in apartments. You go from a tiny one when you study (if you don’t live in a dorm), to a small one in your early 20’s, or maybe a shared bigger one with friends, to maybe a bigger one by yourself or with a partner, and finally maybe you’ll buy a house when you want to start a family and you have saved up money. No one buys a house straight out of home. So the fact that I can’t build and place apartments wherever I want them in sims 3 and 4 is a _huge_ dealbreaker to me.