>sims 1 was great
>sims 2 was great
>sims 3 is great if you spend oblivion tier amounts of time modding and fixing shit
>sims 4 runs better but lost a million things, has no content cause they have to milk it for years to come yet, and is still buggy
is there any hope for sims 5?
>>332237479
dead series.
>>332237479
no, fuck off. Sims 4 will be GOAT near the end of its life cycle, and Sims 5 will be too five years after it releases.
Does it have pets yet?
sims 3 open world sucked ass. It ran like shit and looked bad too. The vacation spots in particular, egypt made me puke.
>>332237479
>tfw you haven't made preparations
>>332237479
Still playing Sims 3, there's nothing to do in Sims 4 after 1~2 hours.
Sims 5 is dead before it even lives.
Do new PCs run Sims 3 well?
>>332237915
Aside from the technical issues (which are HUGE, I don't want to mince words), I loved all these features of Sims 3.
>The atmosphere and music of Sims1
>The interactions and humor of Sims 2
>The open world and mods of Sims 3
>>332238353
I don't play sims, what technical issues?
I thought Sims 3 was pretty solid, familial gland. It holds back a lot of content in DLC like EA loves to do in every one of their games, but who the fuck honestly buys an EA game anymore on PC. Just pirate it with all the DLC.
>>332238312
Yes. I ran it on a toaster a couple of years back. I've since built a much more up to par rig but I haven't played 3 since. The game is pretty well optimized from what I've seen.
>>332238617
it runs like ass even if you have a supercomputer
>>332238312
if you get all the fixes it runs ok. its still obviously got issues but mods, fixed routing worlds make it playable. my biggest issue is it'll get choppy when overwatch cleans stuff up and the initial load time is pretty bad.
>>332237915
i thought egypt was comfy. france was disappointing.
>>332238617
everything you can possibly imagine
ridiculous loading times, especially after you get all the DLC. like we're talking 10 minute neighborhood loading
slowdowns, feezes, crashes
horrendous pathfinding leading to the issues above, especially in the vacation spots
just a total mess.
naturally there will always be people who had no issues, but the game has a reputation for running like shit, especially damning considering this is a fucking big, historic PC exclusive franchise
>>332238617
It put Crysis to shame by hogging all the system and still ran like dogshit
>>332238932
>but the game has a reputation for running like shit, especially damning considering this is a fucking big, historic PC exclusive franchise
It's EA though anon, you really think they care about that?
>>332239069
Honestly you'd think a franchise aimed in no small part at women and casuals would care even more about optimization. Because those are the people without powerful rigs and without the nerve or knowledge to go out and find fixes.
I don't think my sister who played this installed pathfinding fixes or overwatch cleanup and I can't possibly imagine how shitty the game must run without things like that.
>>332239142
>The end is near. Make preparations
I remember having this call once and a moment later the rug caught fire from the fireplace and burnt my sim alive
>>332239359
I would have hoped so at least, I think I saw a survey once and it said that most people played Sims on toasters and laptops.
I have ran Sims 3 in it's entirety without any fixes and good god the performance was abysmal, took it fucking 15 minutes to load the world. I had an i7 and a 780
>>332239359
The problem with Sims 3 "optimization" is that it runs like shit not matter what you run it on. Which is a big sign of really, really poor programming. It doesn't really run materially worse on toasters because the problems are obviously with their algorithms.
>>332239359
theres a laundry list of things, its pretty bad.
>set to only use 2gb ram when it highly benefits from being allowed to use more (can be changed easy)
>routing so bad on (some) worlds and sims don't reset themselves, so they just re-run routing calculations thousands of times per second, making the game freeze every few seconds
>sims leave cars in their inventory and the game seems to spawn random ones for them to use, or new ones at least, leading to 30-40 cars on some maps being added to npc inventories each day
theres basically so much garbage cleanup that they didn't do, in less than an in-game month it can go from seeming to run really good, to just freezing every few seconds. by giving your game more ram (i'm trying out 4gb, its been using about 3 so far most of the time), getting the fixed routing worlds, and mods to cleanup the rest of the stupid things they forgot like homeless population, animals, tv's being left on etc, the game doesn't go and shit itself after playing for a while.
i'm enjoying it though. but this was like installing fcom.
>>332239359
>stationary sims and cars that never properly despawn hogging memory like crazy
That mod once cleaned up like 2000 useless instances of sims and shit that were kept in the memory just because they existed once. That save file took forever to load.
>>332239142
Obligatory post
>>332238484
I really wish someone just remade Sims 1 and made it have the same atmosphere.
I also remember on The Sims Online when I used to be a pimp and sold girls for money. Was dank kush fun.
>>332240360
>ea doesn't sell a sims 2 complete edition with modern os support
>ea doesn't sell mass effect trilogy complete edition
why do they hate money???
>>332240360
>create a style cut
>open world cut
>story progression cut
>toddlers cut
>terrain tools cut
>new lots cut
>burglars cut
>babysitters cut
>cars cut
>cemeteries cut
>color wheel cut
>create a world cut
>favourites cut
>inheritance cut
>rabbit holes cut
>repo man cut
>restaurants cut
>tragic clown cut
>zodiac signs cut
THEY
CANT
KEEP
GETTING
AWAY
WITH
IT
>>332241168
rabbit holes are shit though.
>>332241447
They were replaced with "your sims wanders offscreen and is gone"
>>332241168
"Streamlined".
>>332241537
that was always the way jobs and the like worked though. It's the same thing, both are lazy design.
>>332241871
It was the way jobs worked until Sims 3 gave us a better alternative which we have now abandoned again.
>>332242096
a dot on the map is hardly better.
They're both "and then work happened"
>>332242260
A dot on the map is significantly better. This is a life simulation.
>tfw shithead brother sold my discs for 1 and 2 years ago
>still over $40 on Amazon
>steam only has 3
>>332242358
Sims hasn't been life simulation since the first one, fuck off
>>332242439
What are you talking about, honestly?
>>332237479
>No Maxis
Nope.
>>332242358
>A dot on the map is significantly better
i question your definition of "significant". I bet you're one of those faggots who think wolf is a significantly different character than fox and falco
>>332242420
>Mfw found every expansion at my local thrift shop
>only a $1 each
>Will Wright is dead and will never make a game again
Is there a version of the sims 3 with everything? like a deluxe version like Sims 1 and 2 had? kinda want to play some sims 3might make a thread so you fags help me make my family
>>332242420
you can call up ea and if you get the right person, they'll give you sims 2 ultimate collection on origin.
i'd just pirate it, its 11gb for the whole thing. sims 1 has a similar release.
>>332237479
>Sims 5
>implying such a thing will ever exist
It'll be some overly ambitious online game that transcends the facebook game and it'll be named Sims World next.Sims medieval was pretty cool
>>332242420
>He didn't get the sims 2 complete edition for free when origin released The Sims 4
>>332240360
> didn't notice the .gif
Welp, i only have myself to blame.
>>332242562
A dot on the map means your Sims is somewhere tangible. There's a way to and from wherever it is you're going. You can have him jog to work, or pick up groceries on the way home, etc.
I'm probably just still too butthurt that they cut the open world. That really upset me. With that, where exactly is this series going? Sims 4 has no big innovation going for it. Even with all the technical crap and jewish DLC practices, I thought Sims 3 was going in the right direction and the future of a huge, open Sim-world was going to be bright.
Instead we got this shit.
>>332242969
>using Origin
>supporting modern EA in any form
>>332242779
>you will never participate in a Sims 3 storytime thread ever again
Do it, Anon. Make a thread.
Also there isn't a deluxe edition but there are plenty of repacks and bundles you can pirate.
>>332243060
I still don't get people getting so mad and uppity about Origin when their practices have been so much better than steam currently
>>332242969
>origin
Yeah I wonder why I didn't get it.
>>332237479
Sims 3 was shit purely due to the 200 hour load times. You say modding it fixes the game but really modding just makes it worse because it makes the loads longer too.
>>332241168
They aren't though. They sold alot less, even the casual sims community was pissed.
>>332243173
Don't bother with repacks, get individual ISOs from Reloaded, Fairlight or Vitality. I have every ep/stuff release from those 3 and they all work perfectly together with the official super patch and stuff. Repacks always have something wrong with them.
Where can I download the original sims or purchase it digitally?
I think 2 was the best. It combined all the stuff 1's expansions thought up (a lot of which was in the vanilla game) with improved graphics and not entirely atrocious load times. It was the load times in 3 that got me, holy shit. Otherwise it could have been good.
>>332243060
Literally just made an account for the sims 2, as if me being a jew a getting a free game from them will make a difference for them
>>332243173
Will do
>>332243482
Really?,damn,then i'll get it one by one.
>>332243762
Just pirate that shit, dude.
>>332237479
just wait for colossal order to make their own sims game.
>this plays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Il5aZhYy8E
>>332238932
Is there like a list of mods to fix all this shit? I reinstalled it recently
>>332245019
>http://modthesims.info/m/1515002
if you're playing a world affected by bad routing and has a fix
>http://nraas.wikispaces.com/
these are the mods that clean shit up and keep your town from having 4000 cars. basically you want master controller, overwatch and error trap. there is a lot of other ones listed there too that are good, so it'd be worth it reading through them.
also pic related. find your sims3\game\bin folder, and sims3.ini. if you have a lot of ram, make it more than 2gb. i'm using 4 here and it usually wants to use around 3gb.
>>332237479
I made preparations.
No phone in beds ever again.
And now i put the alarm outside.
>>332240360
>>332240412
>I also remember on The Sims Online
Great times. Too bad i lost just about all my screenshots but this one, and it was from after the rebrand to EA land.
>>332247050
you can still play it - http://freeso.org/
>>332247408
Oh shit, I remember being part of the mod team for TSOR when they were trying to get a private server up and running. Glad to see that somebody actually managed to make something of the sort after all these years.
>>332247050
HNGGGG all that shit on that screenshot takes me back to a far FAR better time in my life,thanks for the nostalgia trip,anon.
>>332240360
FUCK YOU FAGGOT
>>332242704
Will Wright isn't dead
>>332247967
Yeah, looking back my desktop was a fucking mess compared to today. Though I am kind of curious as to what other nostalgic goodies were hiding behind the TSO window.
>>332239998
Not to mention there is no hard lock on frame rendering. You have to force a cap so the video card doesn't keep rendering frames and explode
>>332247050
This pic made me change my theme to classic.
>>332248321
He means metaphorically anon, Wright will never create another landmark game is what he means.
>>332240360
Fuck you, anon.
>>332248610
enable vsync. but yeah thats a pretty shitty one. my video card was making a whine like a mofo during the loading screens before i did.
>>332240873
>ea doesn't sell a sims 2 complete edition with modern os support
They used to, but they discontinued it, and gave it away free on origin a couple years ago.
>>332237479
do the newer Sims games have microtransactions?
>>332248440
I want to travel back to the early 2000 with my actual age (22), i'm sure i would have a blast.
>FFXII
>Early WoW
>Old newgrounds and all those flash games/animations
>Internet being a safe heaven for nerds
>waiting millions of hours just to get a picture of that notsosureifover18 girl.
>>332248976
Only expansions and all that shit, the regular sims thing, as far as i know.
>>332249238
>going back to wild west internet with your current knowledge
>>332243029
But dude, emotions, lmao
>>332249486
I know right?
>investing in google back when no one believed in them.
>come back to 2016
>????
>profit
bump cause sims
>>332239142
>you have been chosen.
>next day robber comes.
>forever think these messages are actual omens.
anyone know any good CC worlds/towns that have good high rises? Bridgeport is an awful excuse for a downtown city.
tried sims 4 recently
cas and build mode is pretty great, the only noticeable thing they improved on
the neighborhoods are fucking disappointing, what is this a console game?
the emotions are alrigh,t i didnt feel that they need to be a part of almost everything
and about the whole loading screen-fest
dont you think they planned to put this game on the consoles but held back because nobody wanted sims anymore?
>>332240360
Have a reaction pic to soothe your nerves.
>you will never play Sims 2 with the open world from 3 and the CaS and Build mode from 4.
>>332254206
i would rather a 5 minute loading screen and know i can visit anywhere on that map and there is stuff going on rather than 20 screens for 1 neighborhood where there isnt much happening in the background.
>>332254206
Pretty sure it was actually supposed to be an online game, but after the reception of the always online sim city fiasco, they decided against it, which would explain the reason it feels so watered down.
>>332254880
That's literally what i want Sims 5 to be,what part of sims 2 are you talking about? the style of the sims? because i think the sims from 4 look pretty great, i like the cartoony style they went with, it also stops modfags to make every sim a realistic model with perfect face and chiseled abs even when they are fat as shit.
Seriously how can anyone think that looks good, they look like a second life character.
>>332255825
Of course I prefer the style of Sims 4, but the game as a whole as a lot of shit cut down.
So guys. For those who play The sims online, do you have any stories or funny tales to share? I'm curious how was
>city simulation slowly making a rise
>park and zoo simulation experiencing a big fucking boom
I think life simulation is next.
I HOPE life simulation is next, because god damn I loved being a politician in Sims 2
As they currently stand:
Sims 3 > Sims 2 > Sims 4 > Sims 1
"For their time":
Sims 2 > Sims 1 > Sims 3 > Sims 4
>>332242942
Sims Medieval had so much potential but all of it was wasted
Especially since they decided to make fucking everything rabbit holes and building/town customisation was almost non existant
Just imagine the gloriousness of a Sims clone from the creators of Cities Skylines
>>332239359
Sims 3, angling with Minecrsft are the only games I know where the shitty programming can become the limiting factor on performance.
>>332242420
Just pirate it. The CD key protection is laugable. You can literally google the keys and get them off Yahoo answersThat's what I did.
>>332255852
What is this? I need it.
>>332256978
>sims clones
Remember Singles? i always tought it was the sims but with boobies,apparently is anything but that.
>>332256630
Agreed, tough i personally found myself liking 4 more than 2, at the end of it cycle,with all the expansions and shit it will kick the shit out of TS2.
The Sims 4 is great but not as sequel, it's more like a remake of Sims 2. But i'm hoping it will have a lot of content on par with Sims 2 at end of it's life.
>>332257929
sims 3 world adventures, china.
>>332258410
>China
Oh boy, do I get to experience having my children commit suicide while the military mows down me and my wife?
>>332240360
>>332256479
>Be me
>working on body skill
>on bench next to qt3.14
>get to talking
>Start a TSO relationship
>End up getting married
>My RL brother's TSO's girlfriend's RL son's TSO girlfrend performs the ceremony
>To celebrate my wife and I take turns piledriving her, a skill unlocked through reaching 10 body skill points
Probably the only real story i have to tell besides my brother getting our account banned for a tipjar dupe exploit. Then I found out he had a second account just for himself that he was also using to mazebot with himself, and he wouldn't let me create a character on that account even though he was the one who got our main one banned.
>>332257947
>at the end of it cycle,with all the expansions and shit it will kick the shit out of TS2.
I'd have said the same thing about TS3 about this far into it's lifetime, but as they added more and more and more expansions it just became a giant fucking bloated mess.
>>332237479
In Sims 3 I had so many children as a male that the genealogical threee stopped loading. I was a genie with love magic/potions so it was all too easy to get random females off the street to seduce on the first "date" (they gave themselves in for a sandwich, a couple of jokes and a massage). The neighborhood was filled with single mothers with red children as a result. I even brought my gf's from egypt and china to the country as well.
>>332259721
>impregnate the entire town
>it eventually dies out because they can't reproduce since it doesn't allow incest
>>332260098
send help
>>332260098
The game doesnt care for cousins and beyond. I made the experiment.
>>332260615
Yeah but since they'd all have the same father, they'd be half brothers/sisters, whichwithout modswould doom the entire town.
>>332260873
Yeah, but the first generation will have non-related sims to reproduce with, the thrid generation will be filled with cousins wich are grandkids of your character.
>>332240412
According to mySignificant other, they said it's like an updated version of the original.
Anyone have the game or listened to the soundtrack to see if it's true?
>>332262796
The sims online? Yeah, it was pretty much the sims 1, but online. When they made the complete collection for the sims 1 (all of it in one package), they added some objects that were actually in TSO.
My only problem with TSO was that because there were only a handfull of items with the best stats (such as chairs or couches for comfort, showers for hygene, etc) everyone's place looked the same thematically for the most part.
>>332260873
The game finds them a random partner to be with, from another dimension or something.
Actually, i made a lot of people "become real". As in, before I got the mailwoman pregnant, she didn't really exist in the game, she was just that day's random mail worker, not even a name. After she got pregnant, the game started trating her like a real woman, and got her a house, a real in-game job and all. Same with the policewoman, the firefighter, etc.
>>332237479
>Play Sims Livin Large
>Have your Sim reach level 10 on Mechanical skill and buy a woodworking table
>Make Gnomes 8 hours a day for 1500-2000 a day
>Best paid Job in the game. No friends necessary. Can get it in a week.
That shit was so broken. Who kept buying those fucking Gnomes?!
y'all should play urbz and castaway
the spinoffs are great
>>332263363
Oh I fucked up hard on that post, I meant to say that they said Sims 4 was like the original sims but fancier graphics.
Never played TSO though, always did, but, sounds like it was nothing special really
>randomly get urge to play Sims one day
>fight urge because it takes so fucking long to reinstall that shit
>several weeks pass
>finally break and download and install
>add all the nraas shit and store furniture
>play for week
>get bored
>say to self I'm probably never going to want to play it again
>uninstall
>cycle repeats months later
>>332259149
>TSO relationship
what?
>>332240151
>installing fcom
fucking legitimately triggered
>>332263465
Huh, didn't know it would do that. I mean, I tried flirting with the maid, but she'd try to leave super fast when her shift ended and that would be it...
Same thing that happened to modern Sim City. EA went ultimate milking faggots.
I still choose to believe that EA deliberately sabotaged Sims 3 by making it run like shit with lots of Expansions.
Seriously some of the later expansions are that buggy and broken to the point where if you have everything it becomes literally unable to use that expansions content.
If it wasn't for all the broken shit that makes it unplayable it Would have been the PERFECT sims game and there would have been next to no reason to buy any future games which is why I believe that EA sabotaged it
>>332264472
I sincerely miss those gnomes. I mean, they brought them back in 3 sort of and they just moved around the house but I don't think you could make them again. I just wanted shitty little gnomes all over my palace.
>tfw you bought Sims Medieval
>>332266090
The multi tasking added in 4 was needed but it's not worth buying 4 for.
>>332266675
yeah there would have been only little things like that to improve on and if sims 3 wasn't so horribly unoptimised and broken then sims 4 would have had some huge, huge shoes to fill, but instead they can now use the excuse "we dropped the open world/whatever thing from sims 3 because it just didn't work" so they can continue remaking and selling the exact same games over and over
>>332264650
GBA urbz was the shit, how was the PS2 version?
>>332265628
Same shit happens to me, i never make it past the first generation,i always wanted to play long enough to have my backyard filled with my ancestor's graves
I like to play in what I call real life mode.
After I get married have several kids and start making them learn different skills based on what traits they get by rolling random. Then when they're YA I send them all to college for some more skill learning and when they all get back choose my favorite and boot them from the household into a starter a house and start over.
When you just give all your kids the genius trait and no negative traits it gets boring faster.
>>332267419
That's what you get when you only make perfect sims,you can make someone who is a genious and an asshole,but at the same time a pussy, or some fit as fuck, super handsome dude who is dumb but he also is the kindest dude alive.
>>332267419
I usually like to make my own little stories and give them usually sad endings
Like one time I made an inventor sim and had him dedicate his life to making himself a robot waifu.
Then 3 days after he succeeded he died of old age leaving behind a lonely depressed robot who eventually set out to make itself a friend using a diferent type of robot added in a later expansion.
But those seccond types of robots are highly customizable so I purposely kept it as being an extremely simple emotionless robot who did nothing to help the waifu robots crushing loneliness.
Then eventually after making and failing hundreds of times at making a friend a happy accident happened and I discovered the waifu robots type of robot can actually die of 'old age' after ages and she never succeeded and died lonely and depressed
>>332268102
Holy shit anon, i'm downloading and i tought about making 3 brothers, One evil bastard, One nice and handsome and one neckbeard, now i know what my neckbeard will dedicate his life to.
>>332268102
>>332268271
Also i just fiished watching ExMachina, so your post seems ppretty oportune.
>>332268271
you may need to do some fuckery if you want to use the robot types in my pic for his waifubot
because they are the harder and more time consuming of the two robot types but they are also classified as being children of the person who made them so he won't be able to do anything or get in a romantic relasionship with the robot without using mods or cheat
>>332268560
Thank's i'll keep that in mind.
>>332240360
>>332266672
How was it?
>>332269673
pretty much vanilla sims 3 with even less content and with a huge focus on doing quests n shit than normal sims gameplay.
and it was very fun for the first hour or so but after that it gets incredibly repetitive due to the extreme lack of content.
I get the feeling that it was butchered and supposed to have a bunch of DLC which never got released due to it bombing
>>332267419
I mostly just enjoy building houses.
The last time I went ahead and made a sim I mostly just wanted to see all the different ways I could kill them. Whenever Death would come around to collect the sim Death would revive them instead citing that their suffering was too amusing and Death wanted more.
Poor thing was a mess. Set on fire, drowned, crushed by a satellite, starved....
