Wich sims game do you like the best?
Wich sims game you like like the best, 1, 2, 3 or 4? I like sims 3 and 2 comes sort of close. After those sims 4. I love open word and colour wheel in sims 3. Currently I play sims 3 and 4 both, they...
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The original game deserves some credit for being a pioneer all those years (decades!) ago. Not to mention, it spent a large chunk of its development as one man's passion project. At the same time, if you take it on it's own merits, it's objectively the worst iteration in the series. Very limited, a lot of the EPs were shallow and gimmicky. Unleashed was the first really in depth EP that we had in the series and it ended up setting the standard for EPs in the Sims 2.
I like Sims 2 and 4 equally, but for different reasons. My play style was completely different in 2 versus 4. In Sims 4, I can take advantage of the enormous flexibility in the mechanics to play and invent fun challenges. In Sims 2 I just played generic legacy rotational play. The game itself had a lot more personality, so it felt like a back and forth. The EPs were so detailed and complex. Not to mention, you didn't need a "challenge" to make it challenging.
My feeling for Sims 3 is pure hatred. Three reasons. One: it replaced the Sims 2. Instead of getting fun new content for the Sims 2 for several more years, it was shoved aside for Sims 3. Two: it's unworkable for a rotational player. You lose household data when you switch between households. You can't put one household on ice while another household progresses (an option they brought back, and even improved on, for the Sims 4). Three: the graphics are dreadful. They were going for greater realism, but they took a wrong turn and ended up in uncanny valley.
1 definitely deserves praise but if you didn't start with it, you can't truly appreciate it. You can see the progress, but you will never get the wow factor of loving the game then having the next in the series blow it away. 1 was the blueprints, 2 was the built project.
Unfortunately, according to some of the higher level modders, 2 could not continue on because the coding was breaking down. I remember this being discussed on the BBS. If they would have added more, the game would've become unplayable. At first I didn't like 3, but I changed my play style and saw things differently. I rotate and play all the households in 2. I wasn't really into creating my own. In 3, I created my my own and didn't touch premades. I started playing homeless Sims, starting them with nothing and building them up. And of course, I was creating my Occult sims. 😃 Rotational play didn't matter to me in this iteration. Once I changed how I approached playing, I loved it. But it needed the EPs. Unlike 2, I could not go back to just the base game or a few EPs. It would be too boring for me. Yes, the sims in 3 are ugly, especially the children.
Totally agree on the graphics for Sims 3. No matter what, I never managed to create a Sim that looked nice. I did like the overall gameplay and the open world(s), though, and when I started to play Sims 4 I was very confused at first because it looked so different and felt kinda empty. Now it's my favourite Sims game but then, I have never played the very first, and Sims 2 was such a long time ago that I hardly remember what it felt like playing that one. Having said that, Sims 4 is the only one in the serious that I spent a lot of time with, and still do.
