Forum Discussion
5 years ago
It's really quite a hard choice as TS2 & 3 aged like two types of fine wine (TS1 has its own campy charms).
On one hand, TS2 really does offer an unparalleled and unified game experience out of the box, and the art-style has really aged quite well due to the high quality of the textures, while the charm of the premades persists over the years.
On the other hand, TS3 is really one of those games that gives you so much freedom as to how you want to tell your stories. It's almost broken and ugly out of the box (you will need NRAAS and some default replacements), but with mods- it truly transforms the Sims from being a household simulator, to being a community simulator. I have NRAAS Tagger (which allows you to follow sims from Map View), and I'm always fascinated at how the game simulates sims running around town, each doing their own things, living their own lives, etc.
So...to each their own!
On one hand, TS2 really does offer an unparalleled and unified game experience out of the box, and the art-style has really aged quite well due to the high quality of the textures, while the charm of the premades persists over the years.
On the other hand, TS3 is really one of those games that gives you so much freedom as to how you want to tell your stories. It's almost broken and ugly out of the box (you will need NRAAS and some default replacements), but with mods- it truly transforms the Sims from being a household simulator, to being a community simulator. I have NRAAS Tagger (which allows you to follow sims from Map View), and I'm always fascinated at how the game simulates sims running around town, each doing their own things, living their own lives, etc.
So...to each their own!