I've been playing since the beginning! So much has grown XD
I have everything except like... get together and the island one. And i'm missing a bunch of stuff packs. I really love building and CC~ I do go through binges too XD I just binge it for a month or so then leave it, then repeat later on. Silly stories, challenges and deaths keep it fun for me haha!
has anyone kept up with the new sims 4 expansions/game packs/whatever? i haven't been playing lately but tiny living seems to have come with some nice new furniture and realm of magic seems to have a cool vibe. i have no idea what the university gameplay is like either, i might have to check it out on youtube or download it.
I played the original sims and loved it, even though it was an utterly buggy mess on the PC I was using. Sims would eventually stop listening to me, stop interacting with certain Sims, sometimes they would spontaneously die, stop using certain items. Reinstalled it a couple times, checked the computer itself, whatever, I still liked playing it though probably because nothing else like that existed at the time (or arguably even now really).
Skipped the Sims 2 since I didn't have a consistent way of playing it at that point.
Got the Sims 3 and I still occasionally reinstall it, spend an ungodly amount of time on it over a few days and then forget about it again. It's always a fun time sink to load up and just waste a few hours on.
Not going to bother with the Sims 4 though.
For one, I just don't really want to download Origin or give EA any of my money. I've got Steam, I've got GoG Galaxy for the few older games not on Steam and I've reluctantly got the Blizz Launcher since I was already playing most of the games it supported when it was released...Oh, and one for FFXIV, as well as the physical authenticator, of which I also own a physical authenticator for WoW since I've played it so long. I have 4 launchers and it's already an inconvenience.
I don't particularly want to start downloading multiple launchers with multiple sets of details with different games on different launchers which at the rate publishers are releasing and gating games to their own unique launchers we'll soon need friggin' spreadsheets to work out what I need to do and where to look in order to play a game. If it ain't on the three I have, it may as well be on a system I don't own.
I also don't and never really have agreed with the Sims pricing and content structure. It's the shining example of what's wrong with additional content and expansions and how it can be abused by greedy publishers. I caved a bit on 3 since I had never played two and I got them all for like ?1 each, so I wasn't really out of pocket. Things like 'pets', 'vacation', 'seasons' and 'university' though? Why aren't these things in the game by default? Why has the 'Pets' expansion been released 4 times with each version doing pretty much the exact same thing but for the newest base game? Why is it a thing where players buy the newest base game and sit there thinking "I can't wait to have dogs again, a feature we've had and had to wait for 4 times before"?
And EA just suck. They're one of the few publishers that I just flat out refuse to give any money to anymore...Well, I refuse on the extremely rare occasion they even release a game that interests me.
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- I don't want any more stupid launchers messing up my desktop and segregating games I own.
- The Sims additional content model has and always will be ridiculous.
- EA are awful and I would rather give money to somebody to kick me in the face than line EA's pockets.
I played Sims 1, 2, and 3, but Sims 3 the most. Spent so many countless all nighters on that game. I’m really tempted to get it again mainly for house building and designing. That was my favourite part of Sims despite owning all the expansions at the time. Towards the end I played my families very rarely and only focused on making cool looking houses haha. I still watch a lot of house-build time elapse videos on YouTube and it’s making me really want to download it again.
Began with The Sims 2 that I collected all the exp from thrift shops, then soon after The Sims 3 came out and easily spent my entire life playing it. 10 years of playing it that's just under half my life ;;;;;; Still getting a hold of the expansions though! I've got Sims 4 and although the graphics are better and runs smoother, Sims 3 just has so much more heart in it. Used to be an avid CAS simmer but find myself preferring the architecture side of the game now!
I've also repeatedly tried to 100 baby challenge but each time get too distracting with careers or making my house look nice to complete it haha
I've been playing since the Sims 1 and I still play the Sims 1 occasionally. Tried the Sims 4 for awhile but for some reason it's just not as good imo. Lately I've gotten back into the Sims 2 and here's two of my current sims:
I played Sims 1, 2, and 3, but Sims 3 the most. Spent so many countless all nighters on that game. I’m really tempted to get it again mainly for house building and designing. That was my favourite part of Sims despite owning all the expansions at the time. Towards the end I played my families very rarely and only focused on making cool looking houses haha. I still watch a lot of house-build time elapse videos on YouTube and it’s making me really want to download it again.
omg ts4 is probably the best in terms of build mode! go get ittt! get the bundle sets on discount first and then get the other packs using the build your bundle option for the best price. if you plan to get all the stuff packs, I discovered that they sell different stuff packs at 50% off every week!
The Sims 2 is the only one still worth playing imo. I don’t play it often anymore, but it runs well, even with many gigabytes of custom content. The Sims 3 would be fun if it actually functioned properly, but I have no interest in The Sims 4.
I'm pretty sure I've played them all (the base games, not all the ridiculous expansions). But, the only one that really holds a special place in my heart is the original. I still remember acquiring a copy of that and just playing it all the time on the old Gateway 2000 or whatever piece of junk we had back then. Hahaha. It was definitely part of the core-rotation of PC games...Sims, Quake, Hexen, Command and Conquer, X-Com, Quake 2, etc. Some strong early PC memories for sure.
I used to be an avid Sims fan back when the original game came out. Also bought the first few expansions. Had a lot of fun. After that... I kinda lost interest because it just became more and more complicated (or so it seemed to me at the time).
I have played all of them but my game time played on sims 2 definitely outranks the rest! I actually reaaally enjoy the sims castaway too (anyone else) ?
I think I played all of the Sims games, but I'm not sure about the first game. I really like Sims 3, but its so laggy on my laptop because I install lots of cc and how it was programmed. But, Sims 4 is kinda incomplete in gameplay for me. I wish to play the first and the second one again though.
Edit: Some old screenshots
I loved the Sims 2 and 3. The Sims 4 is a mixed bag, however. It's one of those games I pick up for a while and then stop for a long period of time. It's nothing compared to the previous installments imo.
However, I will say that the Sims 4 looks better and it's much easier to make better looking sims compared to the potato faces in the Sims 3. In fact, I even prefer how the sims looked in the Sims 2 compared to the Sims 3.
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