This game has aged horribly compared to its prequel and sequel, and i'm saying this as a middle child
>>729210839Just play the custom music on the radio. It is pure musicka
>>729210839Somehow the characters in 2 look better than 3.
Game shits itself when all expansions are enabled, but at least it has true open world unlike Sims 4It actually has some good mechanical improvements over Sims 2 but soul's lacking a bit compared to its predecessor
>>729210839I remember when i got this game on release it ran at like 15 fps on my pc at the time. Ended up going back to sims 2
>>729210919Artstyle is kingThat era's realism aged like milk
>>729210839What the fuck is the sims 3 prequel? I guess medieval? But that's going back really far.
>>7292112382 and 4
>>729211356How is 2 a prequel when it came out before 3 was even made?
>>729211385Anon just used the wrong word, he meant 2 and 4The meaning of the word prequel has been changing slowly over the years to also mean "the preceding piece of media in a series" even though that isn't what prequel means on paper
>>7292108394 is worse than 3 for everything but the sim creator.
>>729211778Would predecessor be the correct word for that then?
I was playing Sims 1 and thinking how far this series has fallen, even if there’s not much to do once you’ve become a superstar and made magic
>>729213171Yes
>>729210839nah, it is still the best one
>>729210839When will a computer be good enough to run it
3 has problems but there is nothing redeeming about Sims 4 except for porn mods, and that credit goes to the players and not the developers
>>729213603Sims 1 with Sims 2 aging mechanics would be a perfect game.
>>729210839Woman game.
>>729210919I always thought the opposite. Sims 2 sims look like they have hamster cheeks and the eyes are creepy
>>729210839What a coincidence for a thread, I just spent a week reinstalling and modding it and played for like three hours and now I don't want to play anymore. The cycle continues.>>729216247Everyone in Sims 2 has gigantic Maoi heads for some reason, but 3 goes the opposite way and makes them all fat/pudding faced. The worst part is that I found in my quest for "make sims less ugly google" that all the custom skins are DOGSHIT and have awful compatibility with everything else, the default skin textures and face models are actually fine, and the part that's actually shitty is the really limited facial sliders and the eye textures. Sims 3 sims are all ugly 'cause they have hyper dilated eyes and giant irises that makes everyone look like stoned babies. Replace that, add custom sliders, and honestly they're fine.
>>729216359Also>jaggiesANTI ALIASING DOESN'T FUCKING WORK it doesn't fucking WORK fucking shit garbage game this is, it completely ignores EVERYTHING you do in the Nvidia panel or even forcing compatibility through Inspector because it's so old it supposedly still supports SGSSAA, well it DOESN'T and it has the ingame edge smoothing option and if I set it to any form of on, all the hair textures' transparency completely fucking breaks i hate this fucking shit FUCK
>try to play a sims game>micromanage everything and pause constantly to ensure not a minute is wasted and only ever play with one sim and turn off aging until i get boredhow do people play with like. whole families and autonomous sims and stuff. how do they do it
>>729216679Sims 1 is really the only game you have to micromanage, the other games are a lot more lax with how fast the needs decrease
>>729211205I really wish there was a mod out there just to make the game more stylized, 3 is easily the "goldilocks" of the franchise mechanically but it's objectively the worst to look at
>>729210839True. 2 and 4 even have better optimization. 3 on the other hand runs like hot garbage because it runs on spaghetti code.
But 3 has the better porn mods
>downgrade>requires an expansion to get another instrument (the starting instrument isn't a piano)>(bad) new music direction>object price tiering wonky>lighting engine was fucked up (post-release?) so now all lamps are blindingly bright AND don't light up their rooms>ultimate customisation mechanics... make everything incredibly fiddly to place and take 5 years to pick out the pattern, palette, material and so on>post-advent of smartphone addiction era mechanics: newspaper has no purpose; could have been a "Walk in there and give a firm handshake" boomercore job application system because workplaces ARE REAL NOW but instead click sim, click phone, click find-a-job; sims constantly shitpost on MySims/Simbook/Simmer/4Sim as a default activity which is just using a computer; writing is a dedicated mechanic which is just using a computer>an amount of character and environment animations equivalent to the Sims 1, and with none of the endearingness or fun>constant graphical glitches>constant bugs>couldn't edit the neighbourhood for so long, it breaks if you do so later because half of the functionality is invisible ploppables, all player placed trees float above the ground>sims can't handle the DEFAULT neighbourhood geometry and will fail to path with baby strollers, equipping/de-equipping them on the slightest slope>want/fear system is now just wishes>skintone is a slider between white and black, caucasians look like bloodless ghouls, blacks look wrong>despite a hundred hair, clothes and face options, every sim looks the same>most personalities are just "Oh you can now click your sim to go to [place]!">skill, collectable and happiness point systems have only a few interesting parts and are 90% filler>game balanced around normal sim lifespan, completely breaks if playing shorter or longer>weird pregnancy mechanics, e.g. eating apples gives your conceived baby a penis>retaining friends harder than 1 and 2, no long term relationship bar
>>729218389i always wanted to make a whole town from scratch but unless EA was paying you, that shit seems impossible
>>729218807I did too until the point where I found certain lots have ploppables underneath, like the garbage dump lots, which are used to spawn items and block placement of new lotsThat and being worried I'd fuck up the scripting with town events if I replaced or moved major lots made me give upOh and some lots used the rock sculpting item to place "unique" objects that I couldn't find ways to spawn using cheats and I didn't want to grind an artist character, cheat money, and buy community lots, just to place those sculptures
>>729210839The gameplay is better in my opinion than 2 and 4. Sims 4 is absolutely horrible but Sims 2 does come close. Biggest issue with Sims 3 is how horribly it runs. This game has more comparability issues with modern computers than Sims 2.
>>729214894Never. It's not your PC. It's the game's bottlenecked architecture.
>>729216537>he's sperging about the AA and not the awful pixelated textures and nasty shading on everythingcome on broseph this game looks fucking awful in generalthe sims franchise is a lot like skyrim/bethesda's games for me, no matter how much i try to add sprinkles to this turd, its still a turd. one of a kind franchise no one's bested and no one ever will probably. Sad!
>>729221713Yeah, Sims 3 runs literally on one core and 2GB of RAM at most, even though when patched the executable can technically address up to the 32-bit maximum of 4. My GPU is basically at idle when I play the game and you can crank the graphics settings to max on just about any old laptop to much the same effect. It still hitches all the time because the engine wasn't built for an open world, although the smooth patch at least helps the UI and camera movement related slowdown.
