Things The Sims 4 actually did better than The Sims 3// Sims 4 comparison
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- I’m in the brace position and ready to be disagreed with! It’s no secret that The Sims 4 has a lot of growing to do and a fair bit of improvement still needed, that being said, there are still a few things that the Sims 4 does better than the Sims 3…and we’re gonna talk about it!
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Sims 4 definitely looks better and building is much more easier but gameplay wise the other games did it better in my opinion.
I love a lot of aspects about the sims 4 but i think the game would have so much more life if they added the small touches that made the sims 2 and 3 feel so special
For some gameplay comparisons we can leave opinion aside and be objective. In Sims 3, if my sim completes a good LTW or evil LTW, what's the difference? Serious question.
There's no difference. (And just imagine the outrage if they did this with Sims 4.) All LTWs have the same reward: points. That's how superficial Sims 3 is. If your goal is to buy things with those points, it makes sense to simply do the easiest available LTW every single time, on every single sim.
@@stephengalanis you really want to go the LTW route? Aspirations in the Sims 4 are mere game pack tutorials, that's the main annoying thing there. No one cares about the number of reward points, most care about the storytelling aspect of it... In the Sims 3, LTW are difficult to achieve and there are soooo many different ones. In the Sims 2, they're difficult to achieve, and you get a platinum aspiration for the rest of your life. In the Sims 4, they don't mean anything and can be completed in a week at most...
@@oceanegougeon3025 You've described advantages of TS4 aspirations, not disadvantages. I do the Beach Life for the trait. It's good that it doesn't take too long, and my sims gets benefit from that trait most of their life. I do the Nerd Brain of for the trait too. Some are more tutorial than others, but the game gives an incentive to do them, a reason to choose one over the other. Completing City Native, however stupid the reward trait, is not functionally identical to completing the Bestselling Author that unlocks the Book of Life.
It's bad game design to earn a sword that can defeat the final boss for completing the game... because you can't use it if it comes too late. The difficulty in Sims 3 aspirations detracts from their value. By the time you finish it and get the points, you don't need it and the sim is nearly dead. TS3 is guilty of this not only with pointless LTWs but skill challenges. The 200 bottles of nectar comes to mind.
But you do agree that Sims 3 LTWs are essentially different in name only. At least we agree on that.
@@stephengalanis hum I see we have very different gameplay styles... You take the Sims as a game to win, but that's not what the game is about. As I said, it's the storytelling aspect of it that is important. What's the point of those traits in the Sims 4, when we know they're not even that meaningful gameplay wise?
Also, you seem to like your game to be easy, good for you, but that's not the same for everyone else. I like challenge, living stuff alongside my Sims in a way, telling stories... Not doing the same thing over and over with no depth attached to the Sim. I never really used reward points in the Sims 3 anyway, I just like a good story... Do you see now how empty the Sims 4 are for players like myself (and I'm far from being alone in this case, especially since the Sims is not a game where you "win", your sword analogy makes little sense here)?
"with the sims, if I'm playing, I'm cheating"
- this is also me
I know this seems shallow, and this is completely subjective, but I just love the graphics of the Sims 4. Sims 1 & 2 have lower quality graphics but they still look good and have a charm to them IMO, but somehow Sims 3 just looks really outdated to me. And graphics is really important to me which is why I’d still prefer Sims 4 with mods than Sims 3. Although I do love and miss the open world of Sims 3! Also, I mainly look at The Sims as a building tool first and life simulation game second, which is also probably why I still enjoy TS4, I completely agree that it has the best build mode (TS3 beats it with the swatches tho).
Exactly. As a builder, TS3 just have weird lighting to me… the lamps are so bright but the room are somehow still dark.
I’ve always found that TS4’s graphics is too cartoonish for my liking. But that’s my opinion
Unpopular opinion: I agree sims in TS3 are quinda weird sometimes but the worlds and the environment in general are the most beautiful of the franchise.
I agree! even when ts3 just came out I thought it looks like a different game in a bad way. I don't like how sims and their hair look. same with the overall look of the worlds and builds. also I prefer multitasking in ts4. on the other hand I miss the quirkiness of previous games like a psychiatrist coming from the sky and trying to cure a devasted sim :D also the lore!
I had the same problem until I found good default skin/eye replacement. It honestly makes a hell of a difference. I can’t speak of the Build/Buy issue because idc about that as much so I can ignore it 😂
The sims 4 gallery is amazing. I am not a builder so it helps me get great creations in the game.
I do think sims 4 has the best build buy and CAS customization. Besides tattoos. I did like the sims 3 tattoos which has a scale and opacity. And of course the tattoo chair or getting it in the spa 😂
You can turn off the Ads in the Sims 3 in the settings. Granted, I do agree with you in that they should not be on by default.
Turn off Store mode in the game settings, then when you're done playing empty the Featured Items folder (Documents > Electronic Arts > Sims 3 > Featured Items). That folder is just thumbnails for store content I don't want to see and it's just clogging up space. If Store Mode is disabled, it won't generate new thumbnails.
I enjoy the sims 4. I don't get how everyone hates it but still seems to play it, and the fact that CZcams channels that focus on the game, hate it, yet they still play it.
Because we need to play to give our ideas and complains. How the hack would the game improve if the only people who were playing were all the people who thinks the game is perfectr without a single flaw? It's not that we hate. We don't hate but we don't love it either. We just need the franchise to comeback to its days of glory otherwise the future will be worst!
I find TS4 to have basic huge problems that keep me frustrated and the worst part is that they don't seem to care to fix it. Emotions, whims, aspirations, traits,worlds... I find all of this things poor and for me are the worst aspects and a downgrade from the past games.
@@renatopereira810 first of all, I never said the game was perfect, and just like you said, your complaints doesn't mean you hate the game, my enjoyment doesn't mean that I blindly think it is perfect, no game is perfect. Second, everyone has the right to complain, I never said that you couldn't, but when all someone does is complain, it gives the impression that they hate the game.
I used to enjoy it aswell until I played the sims 3 lol
Many youtubers play sims 4 because its updating and sims 3 is not updating since sims 4 launch...
I hate sims 4 and I’ve deleted that goddamn game months ago, no regrets
I agree with almost everything except the issue of the ‘quick buck’. Yes, the individual items in TS3 would add up to a hefty sum if you bought them all but, realistically, no one would do that. Whereas a lot of people have bought many or all of the packs for TS4. Even people who hadn’t done that with previous games. And part of the reason for that is why I have to disagree.
The Sims 3 store was an entirely secondary feature. I would hazard a guess that the vast majority of players only ever snagged a handful of items--personally, in the 8 years I played TS3, I think I spent maybe 40 bucks in the store which is a high estimate. But let's estimate a bit higher than that. Let’s say that, somehow, people blew as much as $200 in the store. Even then, it’s still less of a cash grab than what they’ve done with TS4.
Because at least with TS3 the content in the store was truly supplemental and each pack was a complete product in and of itself. With TS4, they're withholding gameplay and features previously available and putting them in watered down packs and kits (the fact that there are now two additional types of pack says a lot as is). This is already getting a bit long so I’ll just use two examples here: First, TS3 Ambitions. In that one EP you received 6 professions, 1 new rabbithole career, and 8 self-employment jobs. That’s 15 new jobs in one pack, not even touching on all other gameplay features. Compare that to TS4: Get to Work where for the same $40 bucks you get 3 interactive careers and retail opportunities. Or look at TS3: Late Night in which you get apartments, vampires, a fame system, the ability to form a band, the film career, updates to the music and sports careers, group outings, club dances, along with new traits, skills, and even zodiac signs. To get even close to that in TS4, you need the City Living EP, Get Famous EP, Vampire SP, and Get Together EP. So again, that’s $40 for one pack, and a whopping $130 in TS4 for gameplay that *still* isn’t equivalent.
And it’s been that way since the start. There were 63 traits in TS3 base game. There was also a favorites system, burglars, cops, firefighters, wishes that were pertinent to the sim's interest/mood/and current state (I miss pregnancy cravings/wishes to this day), create-a-world, rabbithole venues for variety, and, of course an open world with *97* lots. Yeah, yeah, they wanted to make the game ‘more accessible’ but that really meant ‘make more money by selling more units’. More units that offered less product (let’s not forget that on launch there weren’t even toddlers or pools) at a higher price. The main good things there are to say about TS4 bg aren’t even about gameplay. Just the graphics, build/buy, easy CAS, and better looking Sims.
If you get all the packs currently available (plus Cottage Living) for TS4 at MSRP, you’ll spend more about $800 and still be missing significant chunks of gameplay, items, abilities, and features available in previous games. For TS3 if you spent MSRP on all of those packs it’d be about $600. Add in that overly high estimate of $200 bucks in store content from earlier and you’re hitting about the same amount you’d pay for TS4 but have received way more for your money. There are 42 packs/kits for TS4 and they *still* haven’t caught up. In TS3, there were a total of 43 careers in 20 packs. TS4 has double the amount of packs but somehow 10 less careers (this is counting each track of the freelance career to directly compare to the self-employed careers). TS3 wound up the game with 86 lifetime wishes, whereas TS4 has almost half that in aspirations (and they’re not even half as in-depth). And traits? Um, TS4 doesn’t even have 63 traits *total*.
So yeah, the Sims 3 store was definitely there to coax the players into spending a bit more cash and, sure, the pokes to use it were annoying. But TS4 is a massive cash grab. There’s no comparing the two.
Well...I didn't meant to write an essay, lol. And now I'm just annoyed at how much I've spent on this stupid game just to get it to be moderately enjoyable. I think I'll be reinstalling TS3 tonight.
I disagree, I don’t think ts4 is worse in the quick buck just because a lot of people buy all the packs. The difference is more that before a lot of people bought packs on CD, while buying it online makes it easier to buy a lot on a whim (if you’re an adult with the card information).
And the audience was younger in ts3, while now sims fans that have grown up can afford all the packs and buy them. I don’t think all the teenagers and kids playing ts4 has all the packs and you can see it easily on the gallery how much more downloads you get from uploading a base gane build than one with a lot of packs. I think it’s CZcams and the adults in the comment section than skews your opinion that everyone buys all the packs
Ts3 and ts4 differs in gameplay with that the sims 3 has more one off “things to do”, while the sims 4 has systems like the club system, holidays, vampire, sorcerer and get famous skill trees, the whole parenthood system, and the sims 3 just … does not. I miss generations from the sims 3, but I prefer playing with the sims 4 and all the freedom it gives and all the systems you can use with it. The sims 4 feels deeper than ts3 because emotions are more than good and bad, likes and dislikes which we got now ACTUALLY matter in gameplay. But I feel this is an unpopular opinion
Also I didn’t start playing ts4 until 2019 so a lot of the unfinished things were fixed for example toddlers are a lot better (and cuter) in ts4 than ts3. So I didn’t get the bad first impression that a lot of people did when starting in 2014-2016
@@windycitydreaming I’ve been playing the sims 3 for about a year now. It’s sooo much interesting than the sims 4. You really don’t realize how much you’re missing out on until you go back
Skills can definitley be cheated in sims 3 so could the traits. Skill cheat...open cheat bar and type in...for example stats.set_skill_level Major_(skill name and level) "Fishing 7" and for traits traits.equip_trait Steel Bladder
Omg thank you, I was wondering if there was a cheat for lifetime reward traits
Controversial opinion, but i absolutely love The Sims 3 little pudding potato faces 🤗 It doesn't bother me as much because there's sooo much gameplay, i don't really care what they look like because in the end, the gameplay is what will keep me coming back, each Sims personality feels different.
With the Sims 4, i care much more about how my Sims look, because when i get i to the game, i know I'll be bored as hell, personally. I pretty much play Sims 4 to make machinimas and photoshoots.
Exactly!!!
Yeah, I actually also liked it, but my favorite thing about The Sims 3 in CAS was the color wheel, which made it easier to create my hair color in-game. I also liked it gave more traits (Sims 3 me was: Good, Family-Oriented, Absent-Minded, Insane, and Creative with Surrounded by Family lifetime wish). For a long time, Sims 4 didn’t have my hair color until they added a few more colors, BUT I like recreating characters in The Sims 4 and one character from another video game has dark purple hair.
I think that I did fine on her outfits and her dark makeup (ESPECIALLY the eyeliner), but her lavender hair is just off-putting and doesn’t make her look like the goth she is (yes, she has the Gloomy trait, but visually speaking, she doesn’t look gothic enough). Instead, she looks like an edgy emo instead of the gothic, gloomy, musical prodigy on piano she actually is. Personally, it took HOURS on both games to make a single character but I remember Sims 3 being easier to get the hair colors you desired. Sims 4, unless you want mods, too bad!
I love them too! It gives me flashbacks from like me first playing the sims, I started playing during the sims 3 time but I stopped playing for years until I bought the sims 4 a couple months ago, the sims 3 faces look fine to me, I don't know what we expected from ea in the 2010s but the gameplay in the sims 3 is just so good, I've never gotten bored playing sims 3 but on the other hand with the sims 4 I make my cute sims with tons and tons of cc and then build a small home and play for 10 minutes and leave the game, I think sims 3 worlds, gameplay and packs with sims 4 graphics and cas would be a best seller!
Sims 4 feels like the successor of sims 2. In a perfect world sims 4 would be sims 3(with the sims 3 graphic) and sims 3 would be sims 4(with the sims 4 graphic and all the quality of life improvements).
i feel like the sims 3 sims just all look the same
They so do. And as someone who loves cas that was always my problem with sims 3 :/
Yeah also the lighting is so flat no matter what you do in every single world. They look almost ok in create a sim but then real life lameifies them.
True, I try to make my sims as unique as I can (like giving sims thinner lips, a nose with a hump, skinnier cheeks, etc, but mods and cc help a lot). The pull & push feature in the sims 4 is much better, Although I feel like that's all the sims 4 cas has got (the voices, and walk styles are pretty good too but I have more fun in the sims 3 cas)
i feel that way about sims 4 sims tbh. like there are the same 5 or so faces for every sim lol
I think reason why in Sims 3 you cannot move to other neighbourhoods without losing relationships is cause of size of those worlds. Imagine that your game must keep in one save multiple over100lots places. It just wont load
As huge fanboy of Sims 3 and person who really dont like Sims 4 I must agree with most it you said. I guess Sims 3 would look 'better' if they wouldnt try more realistic style but cartoony like in 4. But to be honest I prefer cute puddings than.. um.. that thing from 4 >XD
A sims 3 world is basically the same size as ALL of the sims 4 worlds combined, hence why you lose relationships
@@ajhare2 exactly
@@ajhare2 sims 4 world is huge but its districts is small so they did'nt loose relationship when moving to other neighborhoods.
I may be misremembering, or I may have been using a cheat to do it, but after getting sims 3 world adventures, I’m pretty certain you could “vacation” to almost any other world. Unfortunately I think you still lose the relationships if you actually move, but the vacation mode still allowed for some inter world mingling, albeit on a much smaller scale
@@k.k.7797 I think only to those from world adventures, I never saw option for vacations in other places. It sounds like mod cause its like you are allowed to 'move' to other world just for some time but its like in game when you move you lose all relationships
I really miss resorts in the sims 4, they were so fun in the sims 3.
"Can't be bothered to spend time building a water park or a restaurant? Don't worry! Just *STEAL*"
I laughed more than I should've
Very fair breakdown. I think I would add ‘ease of gameplay’. Compared to past iterations, sims 4 is remarkably easy to launch, play and maintain (unless you play with a lot of mods that require constant updating). I absolutely LOVE sims 2, but the amount of time I spent ‘fixing’ my game so it would run smoothly or meet my computer specs. I legit became a computer guru because of that game 😆 I dreaded every loading screen or pink flashing glitch.
Didn’t really get into Sims 3 but it sounds like for some players it was a nightmare to run after awhile. Too ambitious for its own good I suppose. With Sims 4 I can honestly say that I’ve spent little to no time trying to ‘fix’ it. Aside from bugs that come with it, whenever I run into a glitch it’s almost always a matter of removing a mod or piece of CC. It’s easy to repair. Glitches don’t have a domino ripple effect on your save files so you don’t have to panic about something not working right. I haven’t lost a single save file in all these years of playing nor lost any sleep over trying to fix something. That can be really appealing to players who just wanna have fun.
completely agree. While I loved Sims 3 the amount of times it would crash and quit erasing all my game progress was enough to put me in a constant state of paranoia where I had to save the game every 10 minutes of playing.
the problem with the sims 3 and its loading is it was too ambitious for the hardware available at the time it was supported. I've been researching and there are a bunch of people with good computers who can run the sims 3 with all eps and sps pretty well with minimal loading time. the main problem (I have gathered) is its a 34 bit game. if they released a 64-bit version of the game now, I'm sure it would run about the same as it did circa 2010 and have similar loading times to the sims 4 even. unfortunately, I doubt this will ever happen unless windows stops supporting 64 bit applications like apple did to get this to happen.
1- Gallery: Agree. The Gallery is super convenient and easy to use. I love that you don't have to quit the game to install a new lot or Sim.
2- Build/Buy: Agree about Build Mode. It's never been easier to build whatever you want and the tools are powerful and easy to use. I disagree about Buy Mode because the lack of Create-A-Style limits my creativity, especially when it comes to combining stuff from different packs.
3- Hair: Disagree. I don't think TS3 hair looks good by any means, but I LOATHE the play-doh looking hair in TS4. I use CC hair for both.
4- Cheats: Disagree. The Sims 3 has one core cheat: "testingcheatsenabled true" and that pretty much allows you do drag relationship and needs bars without having to do anything else. You can even edit Sims in CAS without having to enter the CAS Full Edit mode cheat. The only thing Sims 4 has over TS3 is the ability to quickly cheat skills.
5- Faces: Agree. The Sims 3 suffers from the "potato face" syndrome. It's really hard to make unique Sims without custom sliders and mods. The Sims 4 allows you to create all kinds of Sims and faces are overall more pleasant-looking.
6- In-Game Ads: WHAT? You do realize you can disable the in-game store from the options menu, right? RIGHT? Oh, dear...
7- Pumping Out Content: Partially agree. Both games are guilty of this, and at least TS3 EPs give you more content and gameplay for your buck, but the Store was overpriced and there was too much content (some of it of dubious quality). I don't think any game wins this round.
8- Travelling to Other Worlds: Agree. Though, as you probably know, it's possible to travel to any installed world using NRaas Traveler and not lose anything from your home world.
If it's not illegal in your country, I recommend to just pirate the store content from TS3.
3. As someone who loves cas sims 3 hairs are atrocious. They are an eye sore for look at. I do think sims 4 early hairs look bad, but their newer hairs are so well done and textured. I think it just boils down to the fact that sims 3 has bad graphics compared to all the other games.
Personally, I don't find the sims 3 faces ugly. They just require more work to look good and unique. You have to find your way through the sliders and experiment a lot. Once you get used to it, everything looks fine.
@@bria8481 Agree, I actually really like the Sims 4 cartoony style
i agree with you on the hair. i do prefer the sims 4 hair to the sims 3, but i don‘t like this clay look.
I love the multiple tasking ability of the sims and that there are actually sims at the community lots because there is no open world. And CAS in general, for example putting accessoires on the sims!
Yes I saw my sim grab a glass of water, hop in the tub and while taking a bath continue to drink the water. I was amazed, I had never seen that before.
I'd like for the sims of one neighbourhood not to show up in the other worlds, but I like that I can move my sims easily idk like for an afternoon at the beach or something like this. But, actually, I removed the game from my PC a couple of days ago because I just got too bored
I did the same thing. Uninstalled sims 4 because it bored the hell out of me.
now im just thinking to remove it 😅
I find it esaier to switch households in the the sims 4. I mean in the sims 3 you can switch household but even if you have story progression off other sims the sims can still do stuff when you are away. I’m a bit a control freak so I prefer the sims 4 when you can easy jump between household without them do stuff like adopting a dog when you don’t play as that family.
4 is definitely the winner when it comes to rotational game play, although 2 was the best.
I've been playing since 2019 and recently picked back up The Sims 3 and just today started with The Sims 2 as well.
Now everything is subject to opinion but one thing I saw that told me a lot about what 3yrs of the sims 4 has done to my series outlook is when a couple I was playing just had a baby and the father autonomously walked up to the crib to change a diaper and then went to feed the dog like it was nothing.
I don't know if anyone can get the sentiment of what that means but in The Sims 4, every time the babies cry a kid or adult, a parent the fecking nanny, would coo in their sobbing face and then just stand there for 20sim minute before MAYBE changing the diaper or someone else comes to coo and then there's 3people crowded around the crib.
So far I've never felt stress or anger with my sims in 3. If they have an accident, are too tired to fix the sink, are late to work, or are tired or hunger it feels like my fault. Not like they were hungry and decided to eat cereal instead of making a meal for their family even tho they have max cooking. Now their daughter has to have yogurt for dinner because they're off playing their 7th round of TERIS.
In The Sims 2 if someone is using a sink and they can't wash a dish they don't just put the dish on a shelf, they reroute the SAME action to the nearest sink after waiting a bit.
Everyone talks about 2 and 3 are better than The Sims 4. They quote interaction(by the way it's true the sims 2 is cute as heck) or how much you get in an expansion. But no one told me how much it feels like they're a family and care for each other as much as you're supposed to. in the sims two, they seem genuinely happy to see each other and not like 4 people who share a house. Sims 4 families feel like roommates that happened to have started living together or neighbors in a common house. In the other games, I feel like I'm watching and aiding a family to grow and adding slight drama here and there.
In the sims 4 it feels like they're pets I can't train and have to keep from imploding constantly. A house cat that walks around dances, uses the computer then takes constant naps even tho it's 2am.
I love all sims games I just mentioned but I have to admit, Sims 4 is not a game, just a sandbox or simulator. And a stressful one, maybe a boring one too 40% of the time
I totally agree with most of this, especially the "Sims 4 families feel like roommates," and "It feels like they're pets I can't train," bits. I've been playing Sims 2 a lot myself lately, and usually all I do is make sure they don't starve to death and just watch what they do on their own. When they're related they really do seem like a family. Like John and Jennifer Burb interacting with Lucy and her dancing on their feet?? Dustin Broke tucking his little toddler brother Beau in and kissing his forehead?? Absolutely adorable!! I feel like I have to force cute autonomous Sims 4 family interactions and that even then they still aren't as fulfilling for me as they are in Sims 2. (No hate to the Sims 4 or its super-fans of course, I know some people love it more than the earlier games and that's totally cool.)
I totally get what you mean. I didn't really realize how much better autonomy is in the prior games--or at least TS3 which I reinstalled it the other night. I made a quick test household and was spending some time reminding myself of how things worked with the pets. While I was playing as a horse, the sim took care off all his needs and indulged his interests (a novel concept in TS4) without me having to click a single button for him. He didn't starve or pee himself or just stare at a wall for six sim-hours. In TS4 they just stand around with that stupid ass smile on their face, waiting. I can't tell you how many times I had to check to see if I'd accidentally turned autonomy off.
@@windycitydreaming I can’t even tell you how many times I double checked if autonomy is off. I’ve been playing 3 only base game with story progression (and maybe I sailed the digital seas for store content) having a ball the last few weeks
the calendar is an absolute game changer. Summer vacation, winter vacation, public holidays, etc. You couldn't control that in Sims 2 or Sims 3
6:01 Huh? I'm pretty sure you can switch off the ads or not be logged in while playing so you don't get the ads. I've almost never even seen them.
8:25 twallans travelled mid fixes that! You can travel to nine vacation worlds on vacation, live in vacation worlds, move worlds at any time without cutting old relationships or wiping memories
this is obvious, but the sims 4 style looks so much better. it just looks cleaner and fresh, obviously it’s a younger game compared to the sims 3, but the sims 3 just looks “dirty or greasy” the sims 2 style is outdated but doesn’t have the dirty/greasy look like the sims 3! i also do agree with all of your points, great video karla!!
I wish the sims don't run everywhere like just walk and an option for your sims you just walk around like the npc sims
I like multitasking, did you mentioned that?
The social interactions were a massive step up in The Sims 4. I forgot all we used to once have was 'Talk', 'Joke' and 'Say Goodbye'. My, what gripping, realistic conversations our Sims once had! :D
Sims 3 has tons of conversation abilities...lots to "enthuse" about😅
I'm too much of a visual person to be appealed by sims 3 looks, so playing that version of the game is almost impossible for me. Sims 4 lets us down in various aspects, but I still prefer it over the other games
$2.500 for every purchasable thing in the Sims 3!? Damn! and I thought I would be better off with this game with more traits and stuff!
You def don't need to buy all of the extra sims 3 things luckily! The store is still full priced to this day and there is a lot of items so it adds quite a bit to the price lol
Use CD keys for the packs and cc that just happens to look and work like the store items 🤫👀
The total is like $100-200
Right now in Steam it's only like $80-100 bucks for all the packs and game.
Just 🏴☠️ it
I'm still thiking Sims 3 is the better game with cc then the sims 4, but I agree with your points there
Would love to here about you reaction to the new cottage living pack advert and thoughts! Especially since you've had the farming mod.
Finally someone who agrees that sims in 4 look better.
Are you kidding me sims 4 is the most overrated sims game ever sims 3 is just more better
nice to see a positive video about Sims 4 as I believe it's better and play it all the time. Especially graphics and build mode.
I just like those two games.. quite like open world in sims 3 but what a waste even with a gaming laptop and good spec the sims 3 do have problem aand slow when there many cc
i absolutely love the gallery in the sims 4. i’m not only trash at building community lots, but i have to really be in the mood to dedicate time to build houses. some houses are so bad that come with it and you just want good builds on your map even if you don’t plan on playing in them. the gallery is a god send
I really prefer deep and rich gameplay over ''easy'' things. And also personal and unpopuler opinion: I dont like style and aesthetic of sims 4 that much is it better then the previous games YES but still not my style, lil bit childish too me.
I like the sims 3 better if you're starting out with a single sim and having them go through life and explore the world, since it's open world. I like the sims 4 better if you're controlling an entire family and spending most time on the home lot.
So for playing sims as most people do, suburbia simulator, Sims 4 is better. Sims 3 is an interesting vide game, and I enjoyed that exploration, but it's not as good as a life sim.
@N A Well, I'm a man with degrees in philosophy, and I'm not bored by it. The trait system in Sims 4 is far superior and a clear evolution of the LTW system in Sims 3 -- where every reward for every LTW was the same. I enjoy raising supersims, with all the childhood aspiration traits, and all the positive parenthood character traits. I enjoy stacking rare traits like Sulani Mana and Father Winter's Baby on aliens. (Seriously, the Sulani Mana / Elementals / Child of the Island system is very good, it's good game design.) Sims 4 doesn't have to be a nostalgia trip that just retreads older games. It's allowed to be it's own IP. Older sims games basically have no feeling of progression like Sims 4 does with adding more and more traits over a sim's life.
If you have Pinterest, find me. My very own Sims 4 House Designs --> The Foam Residence. That's my first save, started back in 2014, which involved seducing Nancy Landgraab. When I realised I didn't know how to pay the bills, I created a new family. One day I saw my first sims children walking down the street, and clearly I hadn't started a new save. So I went back to save them. There's no cheats involved there. Every item was unlocked, crafted, fabricated, earned, dug up and authenticated in game. I don't know how other people play, but I enjoy Sims 4.
@@stephengalanis idk what your degree in philosophy has to do with anything. You're entitled to your position no matter what.
Sims 4 is all better and I’ve played the sims sence I was 8 . I maybe be born dissabled abs was born in 1995 but I did grew up in the old 2000s generation and I know what’s better and graphics. People that’s from the new generation right now need to stop thinking they know things but they do not . There’s a reason why sims 4 is different because the other 3 older games were badly broken and stoped working and lacking
Whoa. So, I love the way vacationing works in Sims 4. I never, in my entire adolescence, got to take a Sim on vacation with Bon Voyage. I really don't like cheating in my game, so it was super hard. I had some of the Sims 3 stuff too, but it always froze so I never used them. Accessible vacations feel nice to me, because, I mean as an American, I can't take vacations well-- it's nice to take someone else on one easily.
Refreshing video! Nice to see what TS4 did well instead of everyone always harping on it. TYFS!
Oh! And one more thing TS4 did better. Gardening! When you upgrade quality in TS3, you have to replant. In TS4, you just evolve. So much simpler!
Just what I was looking for. This evening 💘
I definitely think the sims 4 is the best looking game too!! I think maybe the sims 3 is the worst of the sims franchise, not that it's ugly, but out of all of them...it doesn't look as good.
just coz it looks bad to you doesn’t mean it’s the worst you have to think about the gameplay which sims 3 wins by far
@@ollievoice3922 sorry, I just meant visually, not game play wise! I don't think it's the worst gameplay wise, sorry I didn't word my comment very well!
The worlds look so great in TS3.
Sims 3 has the best looking worlds by far.
Sims 3 is not good in textures but not in graphics... Its nit the worst gane in franchise i think its your only opinion..
I'm pretty sure you just click and drag the skills bar for TS3. Also you can disable the store ads in build and buy mode
What told me quite early on that TS4 has good CAS and build items was the fact that I stopped being excited about new clothing and objects, in TS2 and 3 I was always loathing to get more clothes because a lot of them were not that great lol
I would like more neighborhoods/worlds that we can live in that AREN'T American/Europe inspired. How about sims 4 give some love to other cultures, Yeah we have snowy escape, but it's not always enough. They could gives us a latin american world that isn't a vacation world.
Yes! Any world on or south of the equator, please! I often play in Strangerville because it looks the most like my town (I live in Australia) but I’d love another semi-arid world that isn’t straight up desert, or a rainforest world like Selvadorada that you can actually live in, or any world with a climate that doesn’t involve endless rain and snow. A world themed around Australia will literally never happen but I’d settle for anything that isn’t a standard suburban neighbourhood
Sulani is crying in the background..
The only gameplay feature I love in The Sims 4 is ths ability to go wherever you want and moving wherever you want without losing your relationships
I think they should just put the same effort they put into vacation worlds in Sims 3/2 in all worlds in Sims 4, 5, 6 and so on. Real life cities all have culture to explore, unique foods to eat, places to relax, etc... Just like Mount Komorebi. Look how cool that world is (ignoring the amount of lots, of course).
personaly i don't really see how sims 3 hair is so ugly, i think it looks alot nicer while sims 4 hair looks really plasticy and toyish to me
I never thought of the costs the way you pointed out before
This video is good and I think the create a Sim is the best in the Sims 4 compared to the other Sims games
You mentioned alpha hair but you can download maxis match hairs online. They look just like the ones in the game.
Yeah I know, I have quite a lot of maxis match cc too, i do prefer the look of Alpha though!
@@WhinyBrit oh! I had the feeling you didn’t. Lots of people do prefer alpha. Anyways. Have a nice weekend!
Hope you are having a great day!! 💖 great video as always💖
Maybe they could implement a charge to travel to other worlds so it cost sums money like a “plane fair” so then you would choose vacation instead of instant travel to their?
Girl I love your accent. You don't sound whiny at all; you sound sort of like Mary Poppins.
The most you can do with skills in the sims 3 is making a lot full of those crystal looking trees and just having your sim eat the fruit continuously to get a bunch of skills. It takes a long while and you dont really get a say in what skill you get but if you learn what type of skills each color gives you can just keep eating from that specific colored tree. At least this is what id do back when id play w/o mods..
The only build specific thing I miss from previous games was the auto roof. Like I love that we can create our own roofs piece by piece now but, sometimes I just wanna click a button and be done with the roof. They can get really annoying to build sometimes.
About the moving around part, I believe that happens because TS3 treats each neighborhood as its own savefile, while TS4 does not
I'd like if the sims 4 hair was not claylike. Like maybe a bit less claylike. Some hair does look less clayish as well to be fair, they're making the hair look so much better compared to launch. Its just I'd like more texture at the ends rather than just big blobs.
I'm finding that build buy mode in ts4 is starting to get as laggy as ts3 build buy mode
Can you do the sims 2 and the sims 4 version? 😊
Tell me about it I literally was able to build the Landgraab s mansion from moonlight bay in the sims 4 it came out really good
love ts4 for building and CAS AND ts3 for gameplay that keeps you engaged with each household and the lore they already have , in ts4 i like to start fresh with new sims and upgraded townies with custom home but in ts3 i love the in game sims and the homes they already come with . like them both even tho they are two whole different vibes .
6:35 you actually can disable this crap in options menu.
Oh my I had forgotten about the sim point ads in game. That makes the ads when loading the sims 4 nothing compared to ts3. Oof that was a terrible time
You know you could disable that in the options right?
I just started calculating how much I have invested in the SIMS 4....yeah's $804.60. That doesn't include 1 game pack, 1 stuff pack, and I only have 4 kits. I must really love this game, and EA.
so far i've only spent $5 since it got in a huge sale 💀
@@nevadaite I got it for free
honestly, i always preferred ts3 over ts4, but not anymore. sure, ts3 has a lot of stuff i miss in ts4, the 2 main ones being open world and better gameplay. but i think the outdated graphic and look of ts3 is what doesn’t speak to me anymore. i still love it endlessly, but i think ts4 has taken up the #1 spot at last.
Only thing they did better was: graphics, pregnancy, building, gallery and clothes.
Sims 4 is broken. The glitches makes it unplayable *for me* my game been broken since dine out and they refused to patch it. I brought dream home decorator and I can’t build anything because everything is unclickable 🤦🏽♀️
I like the sims 3 store bc I wanna customize my game and get individual items that i want without soending too much. I don't want to buy a 10 dollar set because I think 1 thing looks cool in it. I bought patio stuff bc of a stupid wind chime.(or was that backyard stuff..idk) Still. I want to customize more and I'd be more than happy if they brought it back(without the constant advertising and keep the prices in the sims 3) I'd rather pay 75 cents for a hair than 2 dollars for a hair.
You're the only simmer I've ever seen wanting more vacation packs haha
In sims 3 you can turn off the selling items thing. I love Sims 4 actually.
i agree with you on all of them
In sims 4 you have the mod mccc or in other words mc command center and you can do so many cheats with it
i agree with most of the video. but the thing is sims 4 is a life simulation game. not a house building game, not a barbie dress up game. they need to include more gameplay, more of that life simulation.
as for the worlds. in TS3 you didn't really need to travel to other worlds because they were so massive. and you can place as many lots as you want. So EA instead of making better worlds. they decided that your are able to travel to all of that to make up for the size anf the limitations. but it makes no sense, like are this "worlds" just neighborhoods, boredering each other? are they supposed to be in different countries or within simnation. if they want us to play with life than why dont they make it possible to actually play with it
I think your number is off with TS3 store. There are over 3000 objects in the store, at an average of 233 sim points. A sim point is about $0.10...which means that it's over $74000 to own everything from TS3 store + base game + DLC.
what about story mode sims 3 vs sims 4 ?
I don't think that the Sims 3 Store Content should be taken into account when trying to determine which game is more expensive because the Store Content does not alter gameplay that much, whereas the Expansion Packs and the Game Packs do. TS4 has so many packs that could have been just one merged pack, but EA decided to sell so little for so much. There are 40-something packs all together in TS4, and the content in a couple of those packs combined (especially Game Packs) would barely equal to the content on one TS3 EP. Personally, I don't mind seeing the store content I can purchase during build and buy modes, as long as EA doesn't try to shove shallow and glitchy content down my throat for 20-40 bucks a pack.
I agree with your other points though, especially about the TS3 base game hair. They look off.
I feel like in the sims 2 you could also click and drag the skills so i would expect that might work for the sims 3 as well
Agree with hairstyles and pudding faces. TS4 just has better looking sims.
Agree with World Travel in TS4. I hope TS5 will bring back sims being able to go to multiple worlds without losing relationships.
Agree with Gallery it's better then the TS3 Exchange.
Looks, vs. Playability and true to life gameplay. Sims 3 Wins !!!!
Sims is nothing without mods scenarios are boring aspirations have nothing to do with traits or even careers really everyday wishes and whims in sims 4 are nothing like sims3 that relate to what they’ve done for the day or is still doing sims 4 honestly is aesthetically pleasing like you can go camping and do the same exact thing camping as you did home sims 3 never put out packs so low in gameplay and with regurgitated buy items we always got something new
I understand that they didnt want to make Sulani just a vacation world and give the island culture substance but I think leaving out hotels/vacation/leisure is really a missed opportunity cause it could have made for some great storylines and depth to have that very reals conflict between preserving culture and nature and gentrification play out - with family rivalries, maybe some landgraabs literally landgrabbing to build tourist attractions and the traditional households and elders protesting, and it would have given the pollution aspect and the conservationist career which they did put in the game would make a lot more sense
I really miss the style of kitchen cabinets in Sims 3! They were so beautiful and had the style of cabinet I really love!
I never played sims 3, just 1 and 2 and now 4.
Sims 4 seems like an updated sims 2. I love it.
ngl I came in here skeptical, but YOU ARE SO RIGHT !! you shared opinions I agree with that I didn't even know I had lol. It's been soo long since I've played Sims 3
It's really great to see someone that doesn't only complain about what's wrong but istead, talks about and even compliment what's right and what's cool about the game, there are a lot of bad things in sims 4, but there are a lot of other bad things in sims 3 too, you can't deny it, that's why I just play them all 😂😂
The biggest negative with the sims4 to me is that it is a cash grab game. The only reason sims4 is better in any way is bcuz it is a newer game. The sims 2 was focused on gameplay and realistic sims. The sims3 focused on the open world and lots of hobbies and objects. The sims4 is focused on making money by doing as little as possible. The sims4 is only “better” bcuz it’s newer than the others so it looks better and performs better.
Personally, there's a lot the Sims 4 does right, but imagine if it was actually shipped with or added everything that the Sims 3 did right as well. I think we'd see a much happier fanbase than what's been witnessed since the release of the Sims 4. Honestly, I'd be happy with a remaster of the Sims 3 that has the graphical style and quality of the Sims 4, with as few of the glitches possible from either.
Edit: forgot to mention, I don't mind a couple graphical errors. If a sim happens to look like a long-necked psycho every now and then, that's fine. I'll take graphical glitches over extreme framerate glitches.
Can we please just smush Sims 2 and 3 together with Sims 4 graphics and build mode? Please? That’s all I ask.
i love your accent, are you australian or something?
I think she's british
You can just turn in game store off in the Sims 3 you know
The gallery was AMAZING until that update where players with lower graphics cannot access it or other packs. 🙃
they did that?? omg that sucks :/
Sims 4 is great for building and style but the sims 3 is great in personality and realism
only the cas and the buy/build mode
I find that sims 3 is more fun to play i regards how much options you have sims 4 the world conections are good to me and i stil play sims 4 my main family and my younger brother has his in my world too its easier to switch if he wants to play with his sims i only buy the packs i want and know i wil use
Tbh. I play sims 3 with a lot of alpha CC, new sliders and mods. This game has now a great Grafik, amazing gameplay and CAS us pretty okay
Sims 3 characters don't look too ugly if u set them in Very High setting.
I like those types of videos and your video too. But please research things better next time. There are a lot of things you got wrong here. Especially with TS3. But I agree of course that not all 4 does is bad or worse than what previous Sims games did. Hope I don't come up as rude, it's meant as constructive criticism :)
I never liked building, and in the sims4 that’s all I do so I would say building is def better
Nah show the sims 4 base game hairstyles 😂 how you gonna compare the two but use literally the oldest hairstyles in the game. From 2009. There are better hairs than that but go off
Bro, the hairs sucked. Even if they showed “newer” content, they all still sucked. I always used the same hair on all my sims, it was the only one I could look at without hurting my eyes lol
Likes and dislikes to me are actually better than sims 2 because i love how your sim will be doing something and it will randomly ask you to add that to likes or dislikes. It adds so much character. Graphics too. Im sorry, i know sims 3 has so much but i cant see half of it cos its slow and dark. Careers that you can join in like acting, detective etc. I love them. And the new pack with bunnies and cows? I mean.. Im really beginning to love sims 4 more than any other pack now. Sims 1 is still the top but.. Sims 4 is the runner up
Sims 3 is the only version of the sims I never played (regretfully)cause I remember not liking how they looked when it was announced , so the pudding people description has me cackling 😂😂😂
Sims 2 had the best vacations.