The open world of Sims 3. Laggy as hell (Island Paradise is on the verge of being unplayable) but being able to build the entire town and just go around is priceless.
It’s because they committed to it being playable on absolutely bare minimum computers which I understand from a player base perspective but it did lower the quality significantly
the social menu lag is exactly why I stopped after trying so hard to like ts4 😅 I couldn’t even enjoy the mods I downloaded because of the 4+ second delay when I clicked on something/someone 😭 not sure if there’s an issue making modded objects as opposed to inserting every mod settings menu individually into the social menu but surely not *every* mod needs to be on *every* thing I click 😭😭😭
So you never found a fix? It’s soooooo freaking annoying. It’s funny because The Sims 3 took forever to load but once I played it, it didn’t lag at all.
But TS4 is bad and I can’t play the game without mods. I guess many of the good mods influence the social menu so maybe that’s why. We probably just not cut down on mods, but this game is soooo boring without them
One of the more mind blowing things I’ve had happen in The Sims was when I did a factory reset and played without mods for the first time after the Cottage expansion pack came out. I was shocked by how much more stable and bug-free the game was compared to what I had grown used to.
These days I regularly switch between a completely mod-free game folder and a modded game folder, and as soon as I switch over to the modded one, things become a bit more buggy, even if the mods are all updated.
Yeah whenever I have to test a mod conflict and so play mod-free it’s crazy how smooth everything is. But I can’t play without mods because I find them boring AF. But I’m definitely going to try to reduce the number of them I have
It’s mostly script mods that I notice slow down the game.
Fair enough, but is there any sensible reason as to why did they remove the color wheel in CAS? I don't think having that will break/lag the game as much as an open-world system do. 😅
Even when they decided that they didn’t want a colour wheel, why couldn’t they have used set colour options? Light green, green, dark green, and so on. It would have been less choice than a colour wheel, but still some choice.
Giving pets a colour wheel was kind of like a slap in the face, as well. So I can make a hot pink cat with rainbow stars all over it, but I can’t recreate my own shade of brown hair? Yup, totally reasonable.
Exactly, not to mention that many of their default color swatches have a way too bright hue, and there's no way for us to modify it in a quick and easy way. 🙃 They can't expect us to use S4S to modify the color swatches every single time, can they?
Can't really have a neat color on our outfits smh.
I would have preferred open neighborhood to open world. Having to follow my Sim all the way across town was a time sink to end all time sinks. Especially when they'd switch between cars, boats, and walking depending on what was in their way.
Yes! Wish at least each neighborhood was open world! My main save family all lives next to each other in the same hood it would b awesome if the kids could visit GParents without a loading screen I can picture kids “running away” to Grammie when they get in trouble or even lils toddling to their aunts next door…would b so cute!
It was originally meant to be an online game but the colossal failure of SimCity 2013 meant they had to change very last second and they called it Sims 4. That's why the art style is weird as fuck too, because it was meant to run on lower end PC's with more intensive online features.
And the absence of color wheel in Sims4 is imo is way more ridiculous than the absence of open-world system. 😭
I fail to see why and how retaining the freedom to choose colors would make the game broken like Sims3. 😭
They should've at least keep them in the CAS.
because it would be virtually unplayable on most peoples laptops. as bad as the long loading screens were, trying to play it in an open world would be 100x worse
I don’t really know why you’re being downvoted. It’s not necessarily a laptop issue, but I think a lot of people playing now don’t know or remember how long the loading times were for the sims 3 and how buggy the open world could make things. Nowadays, nraas fixes most of the bugs and things like solid state drives cut down dramatically on the load times. I remember booting the game up, it loading for 20-40 minutes, and then something crashing or otherwise rendering the neighborhood unplayable before that amount of time had elapsed while playing—I even timed it a couple years ago when loading the game on the computer I was using in 2012 to get screenshots of a house and it was around 25 minutes to load Appaloosa Plains with one played family.
Maybe they can do it well in the sims 5. I hope they can.
Loading for a long time in the beginning was worth it, I don't mind waiting 30 mins then never see a loading screen ever again. I have no idea what you were playing on because I've never seen a house load for 25 minutes, on my POTATO laptop all houses loaded in a few mins lol what?
I loaded the save on a 2011 MacBook Pro. I’m absolutely willing to give Apple (or the really clunky TS3 mac port anyway) some of the blame for it! My load times were always horrendous lmao
I’m personally not a fan of needing to carve out hours at once to play a game. Sometimes you only have a half hour or even less to play and can’t get the game loading before you’re free. It also makes testing mods/CC to identify problems a days-long process.
None of this is to say that I *don’t* miss the open word. I totally do. I just don’t have fond memories of TS3’s performance and didn’t have much hope that they could have at all pulled it off in TS4 when the game didn’t even launch with things like the move objects cheat.
I miss being able to invest in property as well and buy up the whole town, this is something that would be perfect for a family like the Landgraabs
I felt like Sims 3 had a better personality system, the aspirations were more challenging and I miss the scrapbook memory system. I like seeing a picture to match the memory vs just having an icon. It makes it personal.
I miss actual adventures, World Adventures, we need more travel worlds with missions like that. Jungle Adventure was a disappointment because all we got were popups.
Something about Sims 3 felt more real and serious, I find myself more attached to my sims compared to in Sims 4. Maybe because they had unique personalities and their actions seemed to have actual consequences. The game didn’t feel as easy. In terms of difficulty from greatest to least Sims 2 > Sims 3 >>>>>>> Sims 4
I feel like Sims 3 was for playing as a person and 4 is for building. I would love to have more adventures and investments. I would also like the scenarios.
WA is probably the best value for money. Three new worlds and so many things to do. I couldn't believe how much fun it was. It really adds to the game imo.
Yup. I am also tired of hearing "it's for the children." Censorship is basically telling an adult that he's not allowed to eat a steak because a child can choke on it.
I did not understand this at all. A burglar is too scary, but watching your house and even Sims go up in flames is not? In other words: it is not very consistent.
It might have been better to make events such as burglaries, house fires, drowning etc. a toggle on/off option in the menu. That way players who find it scary (or have dealth with any of it in real life) can opt out of burglaries or house fires etc.
Me too. I love seeing other story mode simmers, I feel like we’ve been so neglected.
Strangerville warmed my heart although the end was kind of disappointing. Henford-on-Bagley is another world I have to pay attention to because there’s a story there.
I feel like in the later sims games there was an increased pressure on the player themselves to create all the stories. That’s why I think downloading save files has become so popular
Ok I love sims 1 it was my first sims but that shit is HARD. As a single person in one house I was struggling hardcore trying to make enough money, have relationships, can’t travel anywhere because you get tired and hungry in 2.5 seconds, and to top it all off I cooked one meal and died in a fire.
And it’s *still* my favorite sims game.
I loved that as your career progressed the carpool would get fancier and fancier. Like you’d start out being picked up by a jalopy that was falling apart, and by the end you’d be getting picked up in limos and high end cars, or for some career fields you’d even be picked up in ambulances and stuff
I miss my sims just randomly getting robbed when I forgot to lock the doors and the TV disappearing with them, or randomly getting abducted and coming back pregnant with an alien when outside at night
It’s still there! Just seems to be less likely and can be more planned out in 4 (visiting space, looking through telescope, viewing a certain poster even can increase chance of abduction, probably more I can’t think of off the top of my head). That could just be me misremembering though since the Sims 2 was out when I was younger, meaning the abductions might not have been more frequent in 2, but might’ve felt like it because abductions happening made a bigger impact on me at that age (aliens have ALWAYS been my favorite feature)
You can get abducted with Get to Work, as far as I know. I don’t know if it’s base game, but I’ve only had it happen with that game pack. Sometimes if your sim is male, he might come back pregnant!
I think you’re right, it is just a Get To Work feature (which in my opinion is the most worth it expansion pack of the Sims 4, SO much game play and stuff out of it)
Out of the three, Scientist is my favorite career, the silly gadgets and serums I can have my sim make are too much fun. I like the new Build Mode stuff and the retail store thing too!
Nah, I have a scientist mermaid who has been abducted five times and has three alien babies. His wife hates it, but they finally have a girl, so that's something.
Sims 1: the aesthetic, atmosphere, and music, actual motive decay, the adult jokes like the stripper cake, the creepy prank calls
Sims 2: the weird console-only offshoot games that played completely differently than the mainline series
Sims 3: open world, color and pattern customization, create a world
Sims 4: the in-depth CAS customization, more in-depth sim gameplay, being able to just grab a room and move or shrink / expand it in build mode
The color customization not being added to clothing and hair is also baffling because they added it to things like werewolf fur, pet fur, and makeup.
So they have the code for it already implemented into the game. They just... refuse to implement it into clothing and hair for some godforsaken reason.
CAS in Sims 3 used to take literally minutes for the preview icons to load in, and people always said the color/pattern customization was why. If that’s true, I don’t want that to return to the Sims
Right, but they've already proven that they can do the color wheel in TS4 without the ridiculous loading. The issue was the implementation more likely than anything else.
The sims 2 island game for the Nintendo ds where you had to rub the stylus on the TouchPad to start fire and tap t0 spear fish. Man, that takes me back.
It's a crime we didn't get this in The Sims 4. Business overall (and especially restaurants) were my favorite thing when I used to play 2 as a kid/teen. 4 really disappointed me with this part of the game.
omg managing a store was so fun! I made a big store on the first floor of my housse. I even had an employee making food that I would sale on the grocery section and other employee building robot and an hair dresser !! it was sooo fun !
I miss the floating sim head in the middle of the action options. It mesmerized me when I was a little girl. I loved making my sims head moved around a shit ton with it and look how pretty they are.
Being able to just straight up add lots to a neighborhood/world. I can't remember if it was 2 or 3, but at least one of them I could pick the size of a lot and just slap it right down wherever I wanted a new lot. That was nice. Really wish it were a thing in 4
>I can't remember if it was 2 or 3
Both! I have both games installed on my computer and I love that possibility.
I love The Sims 4 for many reasons, but yes, we need to be able to create and customize worlds in the Rene game.
That's right! So cool, and the game was released in 2004. We know for sure it is possible. Here's hoping they take notes for the Rene game, but this time I would like that feature within the game itself.
Honestly, Town editor. I get its impossible with how TS4 is built but i think its the next logical step, i never got to play with Create a world that much but it has so much potential.
The celebrity town/mini games of sims 1. They were hard but entertaining. Plus the unhinged prank call pop ups.
The “romance” aspiration of the sims 2… actually the entire aspiration system to me was so cute and funny. Like the secret grilled cheese aspiration???
The sims 3 I love the color swatching for create a sim and buy mode!
Sims 1: all of Makin Magic
Sims 2: the ease of creating your own careers/majors as mods. Later games got more restrictive.
Sims 3: Open world, and CAS
Also, cars.
It's such a weird aesthetic to go with for a Magic themed expansion. Whoever had the idea hopefully got a raise
The haunted themepark aesthetic is unmatched. Jumping into a hole in the ground is genius.
Magic expansions ever since have been flavorless and generic
I think I played in magic town more than in regular Sim land. Nothing made me happier. The autumnal trees with the fallen leaves was the most aesthetic thing ever and I do not think any subsequent games have had trees that look that good.
I was looking at steam bc I was bored and I got so revolted because like (using my countries currency)
TS3’s supernatural pack costed around R$80, and it includes werewolves, witches, vampires and a shit ton of content
TS4 only has separate packs, and like
- vampires costs R$109
- werewolves costs R$ 109
- realm of magic costs R$ 109
This makes me pissed on SO MANY LEVELS, like they don’t even try to hide how greedy they are it’s disgusting
>And the open world of Sims 3, would love that in Sims 5
Me too! Specially if we can create and customize worlds within the game without any extra tools or programs.
And then I hope we will be able to share and even download other people's worlds!
I would love this! I play multiple characters at a time and the idea of having one of my characters from each world meeting each other and then forming a hugely famous vampire band intrigues me....
The Sims 3 style editor for absolutely everything. The bug infestations when your house was filthy. The tiny cam when something dramatic was happening. The dramatic reactions to cheating etc. The burglars, fairies, imaginary friends, plantsims, simbots and cars. Back to the future stuff.The random chance of meteorite. The magic realm in [I want to say it was The Sims 2]. The vibe from The Sims 3. The moving gnomes.
Now I really want to launch The Sims 3.
The no shoes and utensil preference in The Sims 4 though. Also I love the CAS in this one.
I forgot about the bugs! That was such a cool little detail. Although it could get annoying when angry townies would continuously flip your garbage can over and cause an infestation lol
It's a little thing, but I like how Sims 2 had people retrieving utensils and cookware from cupboards and drawers while cooking. Nowadays it all just pops into existence.
Yeah the animations were very detailed and fleshed out. That really helped with the appeal of the game. It's a virtual dollhouse and seeing them actually DO the stuff is what makes it fun!
This is why I still play TS2. I don't even have 4 installed anymore. And for anyone who wants to know how to go about that, r/sims2help check out the wiki
I kinda miss buying and renaming businesses in TS3, and then having ghosts haunt the place. So you would get notifications like "There are paranormal happenings at The Vinyl Countdown!" or something.
The real estate system is the one thing from Sims 3 I would actually like to see come back. It was fun buying up all the businesses and building generational wealth.
The creepyness of the Sims 1 series. The sudden doom, burglars with creepy music, the grim reaper is super scary, the scary clown from the painting, the creepy carnival from Making Magic... You name it, they got it.
And I love everything about it!
The chance of failing in this game was right around every corner. You could die on a community lot because you ate 10 hours ago and now are too tired to walk to the Hot Dog vendor. It was a game under pressure!
The robot you could buy that would clean your house, repair everything and then go back into the charge station.
Activating that right before bed was amazing.
Don't get me wrong, I love servos in 4 but I miss the butler.
Sims 3's open world. Being able to play your family doing vastly different things at the same time just adds so much more stuff to do. Also it makes the world feel a lot more cohesive when distance actually matters. A Sim family in the country taking ages to drive to town plays a lot differently than somebody living just across a club.
Sims 2: The pets getting jobs as like movie animals or watch dogs, being able to place lots as I like
Sims 3: The underwater diving landscapes and house boats, open world, fairies
Sims 4: The graphics, CAS (color wheel would be nice ofc but I manage just fine without), the fact that even with all dlcs and a ton of mods it still runs smooth af with barely a loadscreen for me, also being able to switch between neighborhoods rather than just being confined to one, being able to switch/choose new aspirations
The immersive of the sims 2 & the sims 3 gameplay. I stil remember the sims 2 pet can work, couch physic, pizza delivery was actually a good features and not just spawn food. Or how hard it is to make money in the sims 2, it too much easy in sims 3
Sims 1: It's a vibe. The mood it sets is great. The whole thing is a big satirical joke on everything american suburbian. The other games have jokes, but ts1 was much more genuine about it.
Sims 2: It's somehow late 90's early 2000's, yet timeless. I love how expressive and wacky they are without being obnoxious. It probably has the best lore out of any game. Its genetic system is also one of the better ones out there.
Sims 3: Y'all already know. The color wheel and open world were bomb.
Sims 4: Honestly its CAS and build/buy might've been the best one out of any other game even if the color options weren't as infinite as ts3.
I really miss the skill challenges from 3. You know the ones where if you do X hours of cardio during your sims life (think it was either 100 or 1000 hours?) they would have a longer lifespan. Or writing 3 bestsellers in a genre made you a specialist in that genre. For me it made focusing on certain skills far more rewarding. And the chess and martial arts tournaments, i really miss those too, they were a nice fun feature.
Also burglars, nothing beats some wannabe crook breaking into your house only to have your brave sim with a decent fitness skill give them a beatdown then call the cops on them XD.
The Sims 1 - Vibrating Heart bed and stripper cake
The Sims 2 - Private school, changing tables for babies/toddlers, grocery stores, cutscenes, functioning chemistry system and hobbies
The Sims 3 - Colour wheel, daycare profession, houseboats, firefighter career, treehouses
The Sims 4 - Build mode, CAS, skiing and snowboarding, recipes and festivals.
I miss being able to build a huge row of different townhouse/rowhouse lots in Sims 2, where some of them have each building be an apartment so you actually have neighbors next to you (and some of them having a little bussiness on the ground floor, and a little garden out back), and then seeing the whole neighborhood look awesome in worldview. Just being able to build apartments in general, I really wish City Living gave us an option to create more apartments/floors because it's kinda sad to see a huge building and being able to live in just a tiny bit of it.. I feel like uni dorms in Sims 2 were also way superior to the dorms we have in Sims 4, being basically fully customizable/being able to build your own, having a chef actually cook you meals throughout the day (instead of dealing with a bunch of spoiled food all over the place as it tends to happen in 4..), and actually having your own room and other people in your dorm having their own rooms (that get darked out like apartments). I didnt get to play Sims 3 much (only got to play a little at my friend's house when I was in school), but I remember being at awe at the amount of personality traits you could give your sim, I kinda got extremely underwhelmed when I saw how little there were in 4 in comparison. I think sims 4 does roofs the best, and generally has some really nice quality of life features regarding building (which in the case of Sims 2, you'd have to use cheats/mods to get similar tools, like free-move/rotate and making items go higher/lower not just the windows).
I miss the times from original Sims, where you could build them a pool, let them swim, and while they were swimming you just sold the stairs. Then you had those nice tomb stones standing next to your pool :D
I miss cars and carpool, martial arts skill, immersive vacation worlds, playing footsie in the restaurants, burglars, and parrots. Previous iterations were just grittier and had more cool surprises.
I liked going to the future in Sim3 and the Fairies. But honestly felt that Medieval Sims was cool idea just needed to expand and grow instead of repeating the same story lines.
I could b wrong but I feel like University in TS3 was way more fun but rn my save has 4 in Ubrite and it’s boring me to death rabbit hole after rabbit hole alllllllll day then term papers n boards all night it’s killing me. Can only do so many keg stands lol
Idk if this counts as a feature but the insanely detailed ghosts of Sims 3 don't compare to any other game. The devs didn't have to go that hard with the vampire's beating heart 🥹🤟
I miss The Sims 1 Santa. It was so cozy setting up the environment for him with cookies, a fireplace, and a Christmas tree… ahhhh it was like actual Christmas. I'm so disappointed that modders haven't brought it to other games.
I really miss the custom worlds from Sims 3. I remember someone made a Dutch inspired world on Tumblr and it was the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in the game. Wish I could find it.
The sims - hardness 💀
The sims 2 - autonomously created enthusiasms
The sims 3 - open world
The sims 4 - uhhmm nothing?? :D
I love playing the sims 4 but when you asked this question nothing comes my mind for ts4
The freedom to choose colors from Sims3 is still a missed feature I'd like to to have in Sim4. Their default pallettes are just meh, still need some tweaking.
And the fully functional car + the freedom to roam around each lots in the neighborhood without having to reload every single time.
I've already reached the level of self-acceptance that we still need to reload when visiting a different house lot, but it's utterly ridiculous to still have to reload when visiting a neighbor RIGHT NEXT DOOR from a single apartment building like in San Myshuno or Evergreen Harbor. 💀
Original sims: I wasn’t around during it so I wouldn’t know but i heard its a pure crackhead energy game which is great.
Sims 2: Like op said, the cutscenes were amazing and made it special.
Sims 3: My personal favorite, open world. There is so much to do you never get bored of it.
Sims 4: Gonna get downvoted for this but the whole game is a downgrade i’m sorry. But IF I had to say something, id say the emotions? (Which are bugged af)
in the sims 2 i love the recolor feature!! you can mix and match patterns and woods and i just love how you could really personalize with out the lag of the color wheel. and of course , the town editor. You can never run out of room. I love it. just add another sub hood😂
I miss the pure chaos of Sims 1, the fact that sims needed a ladder for pools in sims 2, the colour wheel from sims 3 but I love how sims 4 has more life stages and it’s generally more immersive ✨
Remember the woodworking bench gnomes from the first game that would randomly explode, even in a chain reaction if messed with too much? That and the potions table. And having basically multiple blank copies of the same neighborhood as it were. I kind of prefer how retail businesses worked in 2. And being able to be all sorts of fantastic things like a plant sim. I miss being able to blow stuff up in 3, as well as being able to steal all sorts of things. I quite like the colleges and the degrees in 4, the group clubs are fun but I feel like they sort of fall short of what they could've been. The likes and dislikes and the compatibility system of 4 as well.
I liked making my sims run across the map to pick up seeds in the sims 3. I made them run everywhere to level up the fitness skill. I also liked how you could buy a junk car and fix it up and drive it.
Sims 1 - the unhinged humor
Sims 2 - Proper Wants and Fears, the way aspirations work, the way memories work, proper genetics
Sims 3 - nothing. I never really enjoyed that game, sorry. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Sims 4 - The extremely flexible Build and Buy mode.
Sims 3 - open world and no load screens between locations in the same neighborhood. That’s the primary reason I’ve stuck with it rather than moving on to Sims 4.
Burglars.
Imaginary friends that looks scary when you see them walking around the house, and then you can turn them human and marry them.
Why can’t we just build homes on land where we want to?
I hate that we can only choose from specific homes.
Cars.
Being able to ride in the car or watch your Sim go to work or travel, because the game doesn’t load for 20 seconds when you’re going to a different venue.
More career options. Remember, there was a tattoo artist career option? Go ahead and add a beautician/aesthetician or make up artist come on man give us some more creative careers.
Wasn’t there some type of homeless/bum option?
I believe this is back when the people at Maxis/EA where the creative fun ones who wanted and enjoyed doing these things. Now those people just add stuff for money and there’s no real creativity or fun added. Let’s charge five dollars for this and $10 for this as opposed to combining it in a big pack. 😤😤
The open world of Sims 3. Laggy as hell (Island Paradise is on the verge of being unplayable) but being able to build the entire town and just go around is priceless.
Honestly why did they remove that! I remember just expecting 4 to have the same feature and was so disappointed to learn it didn’t
If they'd even just done open neighborhoods instead of the entire world, I would have understood it. But only one lot at a time?
It’s because they committed to it being playable on absolutely bare minimum computers which I understand from a player base perspective but it did lower the quality significantly
I do admit. That it’s crazy how many mods I have in this game and it still runs. The only thing that lags for me is the social menu
the social menu lag is exactly why I stopped after trying so hard to like ts4 😅 I couldn’t even enjoy the mods I downloaded because of the 4+ second delay when I clicked on something/someone 😭 not sure if there’s an issue making modded objects as opposed to inserting every mod settings menu individually into the social menu but surely not *every* mod needs to be on *every* thing I click 😭😭😭
So you never found a fix? It’s soooooo freaking annoying. It’s funny because The Sims 3 took forever to load but once I played it, it didn’t lag at all. But TS4 is bad and I can’t play the game without mods. I guess many of the good mods influence the social menu so maybe that’s why. We probably just not cut down on mods, but this game is soooo boring without them
One of the more mind blowing things I’ve had happen in The Sims was when I did a factory reset and played without mods for the first time after the Cottage expansion pack came out. I was shocked by how much more stable and bug-free the game was compared to what I had grown used to. These days I regularly switch between a completely mod-free game folder and a modded game folder, and as soon as I switch over to the modded one, things become a bit more buggy, even if the mods are all updated.
Yeah whenever I have to test a mod conflict and so play mod-free it’s crazy how smooth everything is. But I can’t play without mods because I find them boring AF. But I’m definitely going to try to reduce the number of them I have It’s mostly script mods that I notice slow down the game.
Fair enough, but is there any sensible reason as to why did they remove the color wheel in CAS? I don't think having that will break/lag the game as much as an open-world system do. 😅
Even when they decided that they didn’t want a colour wheel, why couldn’t they have used set colour options? Light green, green, dark green, and so on. It would have been less choice than a colour wheel, but still some choice. Giving pets a colour wheel was kind of like a slap in the face, as well. So I can make a hot pink cat with rainbow stars all over it, but I can’t recreate my own shade of brown hair? Yup, totally reasonable.
Exactly, not to mention that many of their default color swatches have a way too bright hue, and there's no way for us to modify it in a quick and easy way. 🙃 They can't expect us to use S4S to modify the color swatches every single time, can they? Can't really have a neat color on our outfits smh.
They should make it so that you can disable open world or open neighbourhood if your pc is crappy. Problem solved.
And the game still can't fucken run
it woulda been cool to have an option to turn it off, idk how complicated it would be to make it like that though.
I would have preferred open neighborhood to open world. Having to follow my Sim all the way across town was a time sink to end all time sinks. Especially when they'd switch between cars, boats, and walking depending on what was in their way.
Yes! Wish at least each neighborhood was open world! My main save family all lives next to each other in the same hood it would b awesome if the kids could visit GParents without a loading screen I can picture kids “running away” to Grammie when they get in trouble or even lils toddling to their aunts next door…would b so cute!
Right! Like I can see their house from here and walk to the front door but if I want to visit I have a loading screen
It's bizzare. Even the interior is rendered, but you still need a loading screen for some reason.
Yes! I wish they’d done that. S3 open world was awful due to the lag but they pulled it way too far back in S4
It was originally meant to be an online game but the colossal failure of SimCity 2013 meant they had to change very last second and they called it Sims 4. That's why the art style is weird as fuck too, because it was meant to run on lower end PC's with more intensive online features.
And the absence of color wheel in Sims4 is imo is way more ridiculous than the absence of open-world system. 😭 I fail to see why and how retaining the freedom to choose colors would make the game broken like Sims3. 😭 They should've at least keep them in the CAS.
Same. I never really got over that.
Because it allows EA to sell $1200 worth of "expansions" for Sims 4.
because it would be virtually unplayable on most peoples laptops. as bad as the long loading screens were, trying to play it in an open world would be 100x worse
I don’t really know why you’re being downvoted. It’s not necessarily a laptop issue, but I think a lot of people playing now don’t know or remember how long the loading times were for the sims 3 and how buggy the open world could make things. Nowadays, nraas fixes most of the bugs and things like solid state drives cut down dramatically on the load times. I remember booting the game up, it loading for 20-40 minutes, and then something crashing or otherwise rendering the neighborhood unplayable before that amount of time had elapsed while playing—I even timed it a couple years ago when loading the game on the computer I was using in 2012 to get screenshots of a house and it was around 25 minutes to load Appaloosa Plains with one played family. Maybe they can do it well in the sims 5. I hope they can.
Loading for a long time in the beginning was worth it, I don't mind waiting 30 mins then never see a loading screen ever again. I have no idea what you were playing on because I've never seen a house load for 25 minutes, on my POTATO laptop all houses loaded in a few mins lol what?
I loaded the save on a 2011 MacBook Pro. I’m absolutely willing to give Apple (or the really clunky TS3 mac port anyway) some of the blame for it! My load times were always horrendous lmao I’m personally not a fan of needing to carve out hours at once to play a game. Sometimes you only have a half hour or even less to play and can’t get the game loading before you’re free. It also makes testing mods/CC to identify problems a days-long process. None of this is to say that I *don’t* miss the open word. I totally do. I just don’t have fond memories of TS3’s performance and didn’t have much hope that they could have at all pulled it off in TS4 when the game didn’t even launch with things like the move objects cheat.
Okay, but can you tell me why did they also remove the color wheel in CAS? 🤔
I miss being able to invest in property as well and buy up the whole town, this is something that would be perfect for a family like the Landgraabs I felt like Sims 3 had a better personality system, the aspirations were more challenging and I miss the scrapbook memory system. I like seeing a picture to match the memory vs just having an icon. It makes it personal. I miss actual adventures, World Adventures, we need more travel worlds with missions like that. Jungle Adventure was a disappointment because all we got were popups. Something about Sims 3 felt more real and serious, I find myself more attached to my sims compared to in Sims 4. Maybe because they had unique personalities and their actions seemed to have actual consequences. The game didn’t feel as easy. In terms of difficulty from greatest to least Sims 2 > Sims 3 >>>>>>> Sims 4
I feel like Sims 3 was for playing as a person and 4 is for building. I would love to have more adventures and investments. I would also like the scenarios.
Yeah, I played the Sims 3 for years and I still feel like I only discovered maybe 20% that there is to offer
Yo, World Adventures is the best they ever made. I still play it and love it. I went back to 3 pretty quickly after trying 4, haha.
WA is probably the best value for money. Three new worlds and so many things to do. I couldn't believe how much fun it was. It really adds to the game imo.
Literally why I abandoned 4 and continue to play 3.
I admit I never really played 4 for a long time, I like building and CAS but I always go back to 3 for actual gameplay.
Yeah Sims 4 definitely has the better CAS and Build Mode, but Sims 3 gameplay clears it by a longshot
exactly!!!! omg sims 3 and medieval are the best 🖤🖤🖤
Yes! I fkng HATE that they neighbourhoods only have one or two plots to build on.
> verge of being unplayable Ain’t no “verge” about it. It was unplayable.
I still manage to make it kinda work but yes that world in particular is a nightmare.
How hard and the adult more edgy humor of Sims 1
I hope they bring some of the humor back in 5, instead of catering to a younger audience
Give up von that dream. They won‘t. Almost 24 years ago the political correctness was on a different level, today almost everthing is restricted
Ah yes, like the banning of books in schools
Yup. I am also tired of hearing "it's for the children." Censorship is basically telling an adult that he's not allowed to eat a steak because a child can choke on it.
Taking away burglars because they were “scary.”
I did not understand this at all. A burglar is too scary, but watching your house and even Sims go up in flames is not? In other words: it is not very consistent. It might have been better to make events such as burglaries, house fires, drowning etc. a toggle on/off option in the menu. That way players who find it scary (or have dealth with any of it in real life) can opt out of burglaries or house fires etc.
I wish they would two versions, one for adults, and one for kids.
I miss the story mode from sims/bustin out/sims 2
I think they’re trying to replicate that with the Neighborhood Stories in Sims 4 but it’s not the same at all
I seen it last time I fired it up and had the same thought. it doesnt feel the same as the rags to riches story when you start at moms
What’s in Neighbourhood Stories? Oops my bad, why did I think this was the name of a new pack coming out lol
Me too. I love seeing other story mode simmers, I feel like we’ve been so neglected. Strangerville warmed my heart although the end was kind of disappointing. Henford-on-Bagley is another world I have to pay attention to because there’s a story there. I feel like in the later sims games there was an increased pressure on the player themselves to create all the stories. That’s why I think downloading save files has become so popular
Sims 2 had it a bit too When they had a fear fulfilled, they'd go insane for a bit and act like monkeys until the doctor fixed them
The cake and dancer you could order…
i miss when the sims actually earned its Teen rating.
Ok I love sims 1 it was my first sims but that shit is HARD. As a single person in one house I was struggling hardcore trying to make enough money, have relationships, can’t travel anywhere because you get tired and hungry in 2.5 seconds, and to top it all off I cooked one meal and died in a fire. And it’s *still* my favorite sims game.
I miss the fucking SCHOOL BUS
YES!! Or the carpool to work 😭 i miss those little things that make the game more realistic
the carpool car was getting better and better everytime you get a promotion
I’m sure there was one in sims 2 with a helicopter to pick you up
Politician was it? I vaguely remember this too
Military, I just played general buzz the other day and he got picked up in one
I think Politician was the limo
14 years of Sims 3 play and I deadass never noticed this. That game still has features I haven't discovered after all this time. Incredible
I loved that as your career progressed the carpool would get fancier and fancier. Like you’d start out being picked up by a jalopy that was falling apart, and by the end you’d be getting picked up in limos and high end cars, or for some career fields you’d even be picked up in ambulances and stuff
What do they have in 4?
IIRC you just walk out the door and disappear (haven’t played in a while)
Yeah, you walk to the edge of the lot and bloop
_bloop_
Burglars, career opportunities and the gossip system
I miss my sims just randomly getting robbed when I forgot to lock the doors and the TV disappearing with them, or randomly getting abducted and coming back pregnant with an alien when outside at night
They took alien abductions away from sims 4? That's disappointing.
Abductions are still there afaik
It’s still there! Just seems to be less likely and can be more planned out in 4 (visiting space, looking through telescope, viewing a certain poster even can increase chance of abduction, probably more I can’t think of off the top of my head). That could just be me misremembering though since the Sims 2 was out when I was younger, meaning the abductions might not have been more frequent in 2, but might’ve felt like it because abductions happening made a bigger impact on me at that age (aliens have ALWAYS been my favorite feature)
Phew
You can get abducted with Get to Work, as far as I know. I don’t know if it’s base game, but I’ve only had it happen with that game pack. Sometimes if your sim is male, he might come back pregnant!
I think you’re right, it is just a Get To Work feature (which in my opinion is the most worth it expansion pack of the Sims 4, SO much game play and stuff out of it)
Out of the three, Scientist is my favorite career, the silly gadgets and serums I can have my sim make are too much fun. I like the new Build Mode stuff and the retail store thing too!
Nah, I have a scientist mermaid who has been abducted five times and has three alien babies. His wife hates it, but they finally have a girl, so that's something.
Good storyline!
Carl's gameplay mod adds back in the classic burglars, but I am not sure if it works properly since I've never seen one spawn naturally.
Sims 1: the aesthetic, atmosphere, and music, actual motive decay, the adult jokes like the stripper cake, the creepy prank calls Sims 2: the weird console-only offshoot games that played completely differently than the mainline series Sims 3: open world, color and pattern customization, create a world Sims 4: the in-depth CAS customization, more in-depth sim gameplay, being able to just grab a room and move or shrink / expand it in build mode
Don’t even get me started on color customization not being in the Sims 4 smh. But CAS in 4 is by far the best.
The color customization not being added to clothing and hair is also baffling because they added it to things like werewolf fur, pet fur, and makeup. So they have the code for it already implemented into the game. They just... refuse to implement it into clothing and hair for some godforsaken reason.
CAS in Sims 3 used to take literally minutes for the preview icons to load in, and people always said the color/pattern customization was why. If that’s true, I don’t want that to return to the Sims
Right, but they've already proven that they can do the color wheel in TS4 without the ridiculous loading. The issue was the implementation more likely than anything else.
>in-depth CAS customization Best CAS, I love the push and pull mechanics. So good! Much love for the Sims 4 CAS.
What are you thinking of when you say more in depth sim gameplay?
The sims 2 island game for the Nintendo ds where you had to rub the stylus on the TouchPad to start fire and tap t0 spear fish. Man, that takes me back.
sims 2 owning and running a buisness
The in-home businesses especially!!
It's a crime we didn't get this in The Sims 4. Business overall (and especially restaurants) were my favorite thing when I used to play 2 as a kid/teen. 4 really disappointed me with this part of the game.
omg managing a store was so fun! I made a big store on the first floor of my housse. I even had an employee making food that I would sale on the grocery section and other employee building robot and an hair dresser !! it was sooo fun !
I think you can do this in The Sims 4 as well in one of the DLC.
Yeah but it isn't as good and in the Sims 4 you can't do it from home
Try littlemssam's live in business mod!
Agreed, they have some good mods.
I miss the floating sim head in the middle of the action options. It mesmerized me when I was a little girl. I loved making my sims head moved around a shit ton with it and look how pretty they are.
I forgot about that!! I did the same thing
i was just thinking the other day about how i miss the big menu heads :-(
Being able to just straight up add lots to a neighborhood/world. I can't remember if it was 2 or 3, but at least one of them I could pick the size of a lot and just slap it right down wherever I wanted a new lot. That was nice. Really wish it were a thing in 4
>I can't remember if it was 2 or 3 Both! I have both games installed on my computer and I love that possibility. I love The Sims 4 for many reasons, but yes, we need to be able to create and customize worlds in the Rene game.
You could also straight up create a world map in SimCity 4, as in make the terrain as you wanted it, and import it to The Sims 2!
That's right! So cool, and the game was released in 2004. We know for sure it is possible. Here's hoping they take notes for the Rene game, but this time I would like that feature within the game itself.
Honestly, Town editor. I get its impossible with how TS4 is built but i think its the next logical step, i never got to play with Create a world that much but it has so much potential.
Which game was the town editor in? I remember it being on of my favorite features!! New Crest world in 4 could definitely benefit imo
you could edit the world map in the sims 2, adding billboards, rocks, foliage ETC. The full fledged Editor was in TS3
I used to spend HOURS designing my TS2 world
Also, if you had Sim City 4, you could port the cities you made into Sims 2 as custom neighbourhood maps.
The celebrity town/mini games of sims 1. They were hard but entertaining. Plus the unhinged prank call pop ups. The “romance” aspiration of the sims 2… actually the entire aspiration system to me was so cute and funny. Like the secret grilled cheese aspiration??? The sims 3 I love the color swatching for create a sim and buy mode!
Im pretty sure there's still a secret grilled cheese aspiration
Sims 1: all of Makin Magic Sims 2: the ease of creating your own careers/majors as mods. Later games got more restrictive. Sims 3: Open world, and CAS Also, cars.
>Sims 1: all of Makin Magic Oh totally, best expansion pack ever. Best soundtrack ever. Can you imagine a modern version of it in Project Rene?!
It's such a weird aesthetic to go with for a Magic themed expansion. Whoever had the idea hopefully got a raise The haunted themepark aesthetic is unmatched. Jumping into a hole in the ground is genius. Magic expansions ever since have been flavorless and generic
I think I played in magic town more than in regular Sim land. Nothing made me happier. The autumnal trees with the fallen leaves was the most aesthetic thing ever and I do not think any subsequent games have had trees that look that good.
The tiny pet dragons!
The amount of content you could get from just buying ONE Sims 3 pack. And the open world of Sims 3, would love that in Sims 5
Sims 5 they gonna charge per sim probably
I was looking at steam bc I was bored and I got so revolted because like (using my countries currency) TS3’s supernatural pack costed around R$80, and it includes werewolves, witches, vampires and a shit ton of content TS4 only has separate packs, and like - vampires costs R$109 - werewolves costs R$ 109 - realm of magic costs R$ 109 This makes me pissed on SO MANY LEVELS, like they don’t even try to hide how greedy they are it’s disgusting
Oh, you mean like how singers and bands were in two different expansion packs, and the two didn’t interact at all? Yeah, that was great.
>And the open world of Sims 3, would love that in Sims 5 Me too! Specially if we can create and customize worlds within the game without any extra tools or programs. And then I hope we will be able to share and even download other people's worlds!
This is exactly it, Sins 4 is sucking out the fun out of everything! Here's a horsepack but no fucking unicorns?!?!??!
Sims2: the band. Four people playing music together was so cool.
This exists in Sims 3 as well!
This is one of those things that I'm baffled that they didn't bring into TS4. It doesn't seem like it would be THAT hard right?
I would love this! I play multiple characters at a time and the idea of having one of my characters from each world meeting each other and then forming a hugely famous vampire band intrigues me....
I miss being robbed.
EA just does it themselves now
FUCK
r/AngryUpvote
👏👏
Cut the middleman
The Sims 3 style editor for absolutely everything. The bug infestations when your house was filthy. The tiny cam when something dramatic was happening. The dramatic reactions to cheating etc. The burglars, fairies, imaginary friends, plantsims, simbots and cars. Back to the future stuff.The random chance of meteorite. The magic realm in [I want to say it was The Sims 2]. The vibe from The Sims 3. The moving gnomes. Now I really want to launch The Sims 3. The no shoes and utensil preference in The Sims 4 though. Also I love the CAS in this one.
I forgot about the bugs! That was such a cool little detail. Although it could get annoying when angry townies would continuously flip your garbage can over and cause an infestation lol
It's a little thing, but I like how Sims 2 had people retrieving utensils and cookware from cupboards and drawers while cooking. Nowadays it all just pops into existence.
Yeah the animations were very detailed and fleshed out. That really helped with the appeal of the game. It's a virtual dollhouse and seeing them actually DO the stuff is what makes it fun!
This is why I still play TS2. I don't even have 4 installed anymore. And for anyone who wants to know how to go about that, r/sims2help check out the wiki
I kinda miss buying and renaming businesses in TS3, and then having ghosts haunt the place. So you would get notifications like "There are paranormal happenings at The Vinyl Countdown!" or something.
>The Vinyl Countdown Brilliant haha
The first thing I thought of lol
The real estate system is the one thing from Sims 3 I would actually like to see come back. It was fun buying up all the businesses and building generational wealth.
The creepyness of the Sims 1 series. The sudden doom, burglars with creepy music, the grim reaper is super scary, the scary clown from the painting, the creepy carnival from Making Magic... You name it, they got it. And I love everything about it!
The chance of failing in this game was right around every corner. You could die on a community lot because you ate 10 hours ago and now are too tired to walk to the Hot Dog vendor. It was a game under pressure!
This! It was a nightmare induced fever dream for a game but it was such a staple in my childhood 😂
The series peaked at Drew Carey.
I would freak out when drew Carey appeared in game haha
🤣🤣🤣 Him showing up was so cool to me and my siblings!!!
Chaos of 1, depth of 2, ambition with 3, and certain small details in 4.
The robot you could buy that would clean your house, repair everything and then go back into the charge station. Activating that right before bed was amazing. Don't get me wrong, I love servos in 4 but I miss the butler.
Sims 3's open world. Being able to play your family doing vastly different things at the same time just adds so much more stuff to do. Also it makes the world feel a lot more cohesive when distance actually matters. A Sim family in the country taking ages to drive to town plays a lot differently than somebody living just across a club.
Sims 2: The pets getting jobs as like movie animals or watch dogs, being able to place lots as I like Sims 3: The underwater diving landscapes and house boats, open world, fairies Sims 4: The graphics, CAS (color wheel would be nice ofc but I manage just fine without), the fact that even with all dlcs and a ton of mods it still runs smooth af with barely a loadscreen for me, also being able to switch between neighborhoods rather than just being confined to one, being able to switch/choose new aspirations
The immersive of the sims 2 & the sims 3 gameplay. I stil remember the sims 2 pet can work, couch physic, pizza delivery was actually a good features and not just spawn food. Or how hard it is to make money in the sims 2, it too much easy in sims 3
CARS. Where the hell did cars go? And open worlds too.
I’d want Sims 2 style cars to make a comeback.
I had downloaded all types of irl cars on some website, it was the best!!
I miss being scared half to death whenever the burglar was on my lot in Sims 1.
That music was terrifying and always too loud!
The memory system in sims 2 where you could make a scrap book basically for each family. I forget things about each sim family sometimes.
Sims 2 apartments. I really hate that I can’t build multiple residences on the same lot like in Sims 2, I barely use the apartments in Sims 4.
Sims 1: It's a vibe. The mood it sets is great. The whole thing is a big satirical joke on everything american suburbian. The other games have jokes, but ts1 was much more genuine about it. Sims 2: It's somehow late 90's early 2000's, yet timeless. I love how expressive and wacky they are without being obnoxious. It probably has the best lore out of any game. Its genetic system is also one of the better ones out there. Sims 3: Y'all already know. The color wheel and open world were bomb. Sims 4: Honestly its CAS and build/buy might've been the best one out of any other game even if the color options weren't as infinite as ts3.
I really miss the skill challenges from 3. You know the ones where if you do X hours of cardio during your sims life (think it was either 100 or 1000 hours?) they would have a longer lifespan. Or writing 3 bestsellers in a genre made you a specialist in that genre. For me it made focusing on certain skills far more rewarding. And the chess and martial arts tournaments, i really miss those too, they were a nice fun feature. Also burglars, nothing beats some wannabe crook breaking into your house only to have your brave sim with a decent fitness skill give them a beatdown then call the cops on them XD.
Create-a-style. Nothing has topped that feature.
The Sims 1 - Vibrating Heart bed and stripper cake The Sims 2 - Private school, changing tables for babies/toddlers, grocery stores, cutscenes, functioning chemistry system and hobbies The Sims 3 - Colour wheel, daycare profession, houseboats, firefighter career, treehouses The Sims 4 - Build mode, CAS, skiing and snowboarding, recipes and festivals.
I miss being able to build a huge row of different townhouse/rowhouse lots in Sims 2, where some of them have each building be an apartment so you actually have neighbors next to you (and some of them having a little bussiness on the ground floor, and a little garden out back), and then seeing the whole neighborhood look awesome in worldview. Just being able to build apartments in general, I really wish City Living gave us an option to create more apartments/floors because it's kinda sad to see a huge building and being able to live in just a tiny bit of it.. I feel like uni dorms in Sims 2 were also way superior to the dorms we have in Sims 4, being basically fully customizable/being able to build your own, having a chef actually cook you meals throughout the day (instead of dealing with a bunch of spoiled food all over the place as it tends to happen in 4..), and actually having your own room and other people in your dorm having their own rooms (that get darked out like apartments). I didnt get to play Sims 3 much (only got to play a little at my friend's house when I was in school), but I remember being at awe at the amount of personality traits you could give your sim, I kinda got extremely underwhelmed when I saw how little there were in 4 in comparison. I think sims 4 does roofs the best, and generally has some really nice quality of life features regarding building (which in the case of Sims 2, you'd have to use cheats/mods to get similar tools, like free-move/rotate and making items go higher/lower not just the windows).
The Sims 3 open world and the fact the first 3 games all followed a timeline until the Sims 4 ruined it by not following that timeline
Breakdancing firemen that distract you while your sh*t gets stolen is pretty solid 👍🏻
I miss the times from original Sims, where you could build them a pool, let them swim, and while they were swimming you just sold the stairs. Then you had those nice tomb stones standing next to your pool :D
burglars
I miss cars and carpool, martial arts skill, immersive vacation worlds, playing footsie in the restaurants, burglars, and parrots. Previous iterations were just grittier and had more cool surprises.
I liked going to the future in Sim3 and the Fairies. But honestly felt that Medieval Sims was cool idea just needed to expand and grow instead of repeating the same story lines.
I could b wrong but I feel like University in TS3 was way more fun but rn my save has 4 in Ubrite and it’s boring me to death rabbit hole after rabbit hole alllllllll day then term papers n boards all night it’s killing me. Can only do so many keg stands lol
Idk if this counts as a feature but the insanely detailed ghosts of Sims 3 don't compare to any other game. The devs didn't have to go that hard with the vampire's beating heart 🥹🤟
I miss The Sims 1 Santa. It was so cozy setting up the environment for him with cookies, a fireplace, and a Christmas tree… ahhhh it was like actual Christmas. I'm so disappointed that modders haven't brought it to other games.
The Sims 1: the soundtrack on buy and build modes.
I really miss the custom worlds from Sims 3. I remember someone made a Dutch inspired world on Tumblr and it was the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in the game. Wish I could find it.
The sims - hardness 💀 The sims 2 - autonomously created enthusiasms The sims 3 - open world The sims 4 - uhhmm nothing?? :D I love playing the sims 4 but when you asked this question nothing comes my mind for ts4
The freedom to choose colors from Sims3 is still a missed feature I'd like to to have in Sim4. Their default pallettes are just meh, still need some tweaking. And the fully functional car + the freedom to roam around each lots in the neighborhood without having to reload every single time. I've already reached the level of self-acceptance that we still need to reload when visiting a different house lot, but it's utterly ridiculous to still have to reload when visiting a neighbor RIGHT NEXT DOOR from a single apartment building like in San Myshuno or Evergreen Harbor. 💀
Cuddling in TS3. Why tf isn’t it in TS4.
The quirkiness of 2. Like the matchmaker lady, raccoons going through your trash, the yeti
Original sims: I wasn’t around during it so I wouldn’t know but i heard its a pure crackhead energy game which is great. Sims 2: Like op said, the cutscenes were amazing and made it special. Sims 3: My personal favorite, open world. There is so much to do you never get bored of it. Sims 4: Gonna get downvoted for this but the whole game is a downgrade i’m sorry. But IF I had to say something, id say the emotions? (Which are bugged af)
in the sims 2 i love the recolor feature!! you can mix and match patterns and woods and i just love how you could really personalize with out the lag of the color wheel. and of course , the town editor. You can never run out of room. I love it. just add another sub hood😂
I miss the pure chaos of Sims 1, the fact that sims needed a ladder for pools in sims 2, the colour wheel from sims 3 but I love how sims 4 has more life stages and it’s generally more immersive ✨
Sims 1 is best for aesthetic, Sims 2 is most impressive for game play, sims 3 is most impressive for scale and architecture, sims 4
Cars.
Open world, cars, Sims2 businesses, world editor
Remember the woodworking bench gnomes from the first game that would randomly explode, even in a chain reaction if messed with too much? That and the potions table. And having basically multiple blank copies of the same neighborhood as it were. I kind of prefer how retail businesses worked in 2. And being able to be all sorts of fantastic things like a plant sim. I miss being able to blow stuff up in 3, as well as being able to steal all sorts of things. I quite like the colleges and the degrees in 4, the group clubs are fun but I feel like they sort of fall short of what they could've been. The likes and dislikes and the compatibility system of 4 as well.
A little thing about the sims 4 is that the sims that need a wee will walk as if they really have to pee and I think it’s adorable
Once one of my lady sims did that walk right after woohooing and it was so unexpected and funny, I died laughing!
I regret not utilizing sims 2 open for business more
I liked making my sims run across the map to pick up seeds in the sims 3. I made them run everywhere to level up the fitness skill. I also liked how you could buy a junk car and fix it up and drive it.
The burglar and the cops doing things like fighting the burglar, bringing home teenagers who snuck out or coming to break up late night noisy parties.
The wall phone and the newspaper. Some grandparents’ homes in Sims 4 could still use those.
Sims 1 - the unhinged humor Sims 2 - Proper Wants and Fears, the way aspirations work, the way memories work, proper genetics Sims 3 - nothing. I never really enjoyed that game, sorry. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ Sims 4 - The extremely flexible Build and Buy mode.
Being able to play other households, in the same save, without worrying about the main household progressing by itself.
Sims 3 - open world and no load screens between locations in the same neighborhood. That’s the primary reason I’ve stuck with it rather than moving on to Sims 4.
Sims 2 build mode with mods and cheats. Pretty much the only constraint was your PC's specs.
I love Sims 3 careers.. hair dresser, stylist, fireman, etc.❤️❤️
Burglars. Imaginary friends that looks scary when you see them walking around the house, and then you can turn them human and marry them. Why can’t we just build homes on land where we want to? I hate that we can only choose from specific homes. Cars. Being able to ride in the car or watch your Sim go to work or travel, because the game doesn’t load for 20 seconds when you’re going to a different venue. More career options. Remember, there was a tattoo artist career option? Go ahead and add a beautician/aesthetician or make up artist come on man give us some more creative careers. Wasn’t there some type of homeless/bum option? I believe this is back when the people at Maxis/EA where the creative fun ones who wanted and enjoyed doing these things. Now those people just add stuff for money and there’s no real creativity or fun added. Let’s charge five dollars for this and $10 for this as opposed to combining it in a big pack. 😤😤