What The Sims 3 Does Better- Carl's Guide

He's not wrong. Everything he pointed out are things I still love and reasons why I do go back to TS3. I did have to learn to play TS4 differently to be able to enjoy it.

The Sims 3 is my ace in the hole. I don't have time for 2 games and since I'm having fun with 4 I'll wait to play 3 again when 5 doesn't make an entrance or bombs.

TS3 was great! I think that was were the game reached its peak but has now landed with a bang lol. I just need to save a bit more money and I can play TS3 again!

If Sims 3 was given a complete makeover in 64bit, with all modern uses of screen sizes, video cards catered for it could be a great hit again as it had very good ideas, too great to work with 4G memory.

Flynn Arrowstarr... says in a forum though ...."Sims 3 is a 32-bit program. At best it can access 3.5 GB memory, but there are some limits to that. When you run a 32-bit program on 64-bit Windows, the system allocates up to 4 GB memory to an "emulator" called WoW64 (Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit)."...............

https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/forum/index.php?topic=20233.msg372465#msg372465

This video isn’t wrong.

"ClarionOfJoy;c-17666300" wrote:
Everyone in the TS3 forum already knew all this! <3

I'm aware. ? Which is why I posted in Sim Franchise. So everyone gets to see how awesome TS3 is!

The Sims 3 is not a bad game despite its crashes - it take a lot of patience to get it up and running smoothly and that's what throws those who don't have that kind of patience a major loop. Frankly the constant crashes from Error 12 and the lack of optimization in the game coding is what p***** people off and so they go off and play a game where they can get "instant gratification" while slagging the hell out of Sims 3.

And that's what p***** off people who take the time and are persistent enough to stick with the game until it runs smoothly; hearing people with little patience slagging the game.

And that folks is why you get the Sims 3 vs. Sims 4 war.

Sims 4 fans: "Sims 3 sucks, their sims are ugly and it runs like poopoo..."

Sims 3 fans:
https://i.imgur.com/WWIEExY.png

"Nikkei_Simmer;c-17666357" wrote:
The Sims 3 is not a bad game despite its crashes - it take a lot of patience to get it up and running smoothly and that's what throws those who don't have that kind of patience a major loop. Frankly the constant crashes from Error 12 and the lack of optimization in the game coding is what p***** people off and so they go off and play a game where they can get "instant gratification" while slagging the hell out of Sims 3.

And that's what p***** off people who take the time and are persistent enough to stick with the game until it runs smoothly; hearing people with little patience slagging the game.

And that folks is why you get the Sims 3 vs. Sims 4 war.

Sims 4 fans: "Sims 3 sucks, their sims are ugly and it runs like poopoo..."

Sims 3 fans:
https://i.imgur.com/WWIEExY.png

I can relate to this, as much as I loved TS3 much more than Ts4 I can't point out its flaws without someone gets triggered by my post.

As for the video, I watched it few hours ago and it made me hop into the game and played it for almost 4 hours nonstop.

I prefer 4. I love Carl's videos though I usually disagree with him haha! THanks for posting this:) I look forward to watching!

(And no war intended here, I Have ZERO issue with others preferring different games than me haha, I just have a less popular play style that 4 suits more.)

"Simburian;c-17666131" wrote:
If Sims 3 was given a complete makeover in 64bit, with all modern uses of screen sizes, video cards catered for it could be a great hit again as it had very good ideas, too great to work with 4G memory.

If they ever did that, I know I would never load TS4 up again. And, I think that EA would fear that would happen with a lot of other players too. That the old TS3 players would go back to that game and never buy any more packs for TS4 nor move on to TS5. Keeping it a broken rage inducing laggy mess is a way to force players to abandon it.

If EA was smart tho (which we already know they are NOT) they would actually remaster it, include some things from TS4 that they're so proud of, update it to 64 bits, give it a little facelift with the sims themselves and rebrand it to something like "TS3 Re-Imagined - The Next Generation".

And, I'm pretty positive people are setting themselves up for severe disappointment regarding the 64 bit MAC version update because they think it will also include a 64 bit update to PC. The only reason why they are updating it is because people who have purchased the game and packs who updated their MAC can't play a game they purchased. People on PCs can still run the game, it runs like c-rap for some, but it still runs on windows operating systems.

I know there's been tweets and posts on Reddit showing conversations people have had with EA Customer Service Reps regarding the update and the person said it was coming to both PC and MAC but I'm not sure if that's really the case.

The post from MaxisJoe back in June was on the EA Help Site MAC Technical Forum and he did not state anything regarding the 64 bit update including a PC update.

MaxisJoe

Hey macOS The Sims 3 players!

Just popping in to give my monthly update to you. First is the tl;dr version:

Yes, we're still working on it
Yes, we're adapting to work-from-home. I can't say that this is a core factor in things not going as fast as we'd like, but it sure isn't helping.
Yep, that switch to ARM processors is exciting. Like all macOS developers, we're frantically assessing what this means to us and our games.

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/the-sims-3-64-bit-amp-metal-release/m-p/9257271#M7664