why I don't like sims 2 as much as3 and 4
there's lots of things I like about sims 2 the wants and fears and memories which I would love to be put in other sims games as well as the fact that they can die of illness the things that I don't l...
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"SuzyCue72;c-17426733" wrote:"GalacticGal;c-17422811" wrote:
I think. like anything else, the first experience with something is the strongest. You only played 3 & 4. I began my Odyssey with Sims2 and while I preferred it over Sims3 in many ways, I can see today how it is limited in its own way. Mind you, my grown daughter used to play The Sims and loved it. She was totally and by far blown away at the revolutionary concept that Sims2 was. I hoped for as much when I made the switch to Sims3. I was grossly disappointed. The Sims, themselves, even on autonomous, failed to behave in a quirky manner. Heck, they wouldn't even chat at the dining room table without my having to do so manually. I called them wooden. So much for the smarter AI we were promised. I felt betrayed. I can do without the open world, but I can't abide the lack of animated behavior from the Sims, themselves.
Now, come Sims4, the Sims, while not the same in their quirkiness, are lively on their own again. And thanks to the mods I use and the CAS, I can't go back and enjoy Sims2 anymore. I love having the celebrity effect, which is greatly improved over the one in Sim3, as you might have noticed if you have GF.
@GalacticGal I was very surprised when I saw this, the bolded text. In my games they almost always chat when they eat together, at the dining table or sitting on the sofa in front of the TV. And they do lots of strange, funny and quirky things too.
Could it be that you're using some sort of third party CC that's blocking the normal functioning of the game, or maybe you're playing on a computer that can't handle the heavy workload it is to run a large and complex game like TS3?
I presume you're meaning Sims3. I played vanilla in the beginning, on full autonomy. My computer was a gaming rig and my video card was fully up-to-date and compatible with the game entirely. (I learned the hard way that the reason I missed out on so many things in Sims2, is that my daughter taught me to play with autonomy off. Later on, I learned, probably through the forums, that I never had a Sim swing on the door of the refrigerator because it was an autonomous action.) So, the fact that my Sims weren't having lively conversations at the dinner table wasn't third party cc or mods. I didn't really use cc, let alone mods. And in fact, it was well into the game before I started using NRaas (Twallen) mods at all. My singer Sim and his bride got trapped in one of the worlds from WA. I wrote about my problem on the forums and the man, himself, answered suggesting I use his Traveler's Mod. Seems WA was created in such a way that it didn't properly 'shake hands' with the rest of the game. Face/palm. At any rate, I followed his link to NRaas, Industries, found the mod, read up on how to install it. (Thankfully there was a step-by-step via MTS, I think it was) and voila. Got my Sims back!
It was after that, that I lost my fear of mods and I ended up with 20+ mods from NRaas. So glad that Deaderpool created MCCC, because Master Controller was one of my favorite mods in that series.
