Agree, 2 and 3 have a different tone.Sims 1 also had a bunch of free dlc on the website without ever needing to buy the xpacsI blame Sims 2 bandwagoners for being consumer whores
>>10858737I wanted to download it the other day but couldn't find a single torrent because there's trillions of torrents for the sequels.
>>10858751here you go anonhttps://oldgamesdownload.com/the-sims-complete-collection/
As someone who played the entire series as it released, I'd agree. The first Sims really felt like a proper Maxis game complete with great music and a sense of humor with its simulation. It's a damn shame the series changed target demographics, but I guess it makes sense.
>>10858756thank you anon
Sims 1 Xbox is the best version of the game but you faggots let the console sims thread die and now nobody is going to talk about the superior game because so many people think it's just a port when it actually is in 3d and has a story mode
thread themehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2MFv2xe8yQ
>>10858794Counterpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=399YneFTwh0
If Freeso was combined with sims 1 and just played normally when youre alone on your lot with random events and access to the expansions, it would be peak sims 1
>>10858772>actually is in 3d and has a story modeThe PC graphics are based, console has no soul, just play Sims 2 at that point
>>10858794>>10858820you're both wrong it's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsW1LL2j7Lc
>>10858848Okay but the Get a Life mode is based
>>10858737it's way too hard, time is always pressing....
>game
>>10858737>borrow an expansion pack from a friend>install it>have fun for a couple of weeks >return it to friend>go and play the sims again>game cannot start because the borrowed expansion back was newer than the one I had>uninstall the sims, losing save data >reinstall it so I can play (from scratch)Why did they do that?
For me, it was Drew Carey.>>10858737Is that fucking Kramer on that big screen TV?
>>10859324Forgot the damn pic
>>10858737I only played the first one. It was ok but I got board with it pretty quick.
>>10859324No it's eraserhead
>>10858737First one is the only one that had that same irreverent sense of humour other maxis games before had. Guess it's cause it's the last game Will Wright directly had a hand in.
>>10859363
Posting my cuckshed. 1 definitely mogs all others in soul and aesthetics, but it's too unforgiving with its gameplay.>>10858751https://github.com/voicemxil/TS-Starter-PackCheck this out. It downloads and setups the game for you. Worked perfectly on windows 10.
It has some of the best atmosphere/humor but it's just so difficult compared to 2, which IMO was a really good follow-up. Different atmosphere, kinda more wistful/melancholic with sunshine poking through?
>>10858737Without the expansions. All the garbage gimmicks and supernatural elements they spew on top of the OG is disgusting
>>10859464If you played when it released I guess it was alright, because the expansions came one at a time and you had time to digest themRight now I agree they're overwhelming when you get everything shoved at once
any torrent to the base game without expansions? iirc you cant pick and choose which xpacs you want in the complete collection right?
2 is my favorite but i would love to see the effort of 2 in the frame of 1. fully fleshed out cars, grocery shopping, aging children, college. also basements plz.id imagine thats a pretty common desire. are there any ambitious sims 1 hacks of similar vine on radar? 1 has code for a ton of ambitious ideas like laundry and dust pile up on objects
>>108595212 is my favorite as well, but I played 1 the most when younger. Everything about the first game is top-notch except for the limited gameplay. Without aging and other progression, it becomes stale. Someone should go Dwarf Fortress mode on it and make it completely insane with features.
>way too hard>unforgiving>difficultwait what? I didn't remember it being that hard.
>>10859478I heard it's ridiculous difficult to play nowadays on modern machines, can anyone confirm this?Tempted to emulate the janky PS2 version for some cheap nostalgia
>>10859429>TS-Starter-PackHoly fucking based. There's even one for 2.
Is there any way to play the Get a Life mode on the PC version?It's the one draw of the console versions.
>>10858737FOR ME TO POOP ON
>>10859454>Different atmosphere, kinda more wistful/melancholic with sunshine poking through?like the mid 2000s in general?
>>10859628Yeah, I just discovered it today. Pretty awesome.
>>10858846THIS.That was exactly how I imagined The Sims Online to be before I could play FreeSO. FreeSO/TSO is not bad, but the farming system is tedious and the random events from TS1 are absent. Also, who the hell thought paying simoleons to unlock building more rooms would be a good idea?Also, the game felt like playing Habbo. Even Will was worried that most people used TSO as a chat room at some point.
>>10859324>it was Drew Carey.That fat fuck made burgers on my inside bbq and started a fire, and since it was the cool party house they didn't care for smoke detectors. Wiped out half of my neighborhood.
guess I won't be nostalgiafagging
>>10859813Shut the fuck up and try gdvoodoo wrapper or ddrawcompat.
>>10859798Ne'er forget>>10859813What are you trying to run it on? Would the link >>10859429 posted help you along?
>>10859880I will try later
>>10859429don't do this, it installs bitcoin miner on your pc
>>10859813I think you have to enable ddraw legacy option in windows
I love Sims 1 much more than 2. I think the difficulty keeps it interesting and it has the most necessary expansion packs in the series in terms of adding fun and interesting content.
>>10859813you can also look at pcem/86box which emulates a pc from that era
I remember always trying to game the system by having the most inhuman "house" with like a couch and tv outside surrounded by stat training items and 8 little windowless sheds with a bed in them for the 8 sims on the property to sleep inDid the room rating of your exterior make the sims happier at work?
someone should recreate this room in Sims
>>10859906I bitcoin mined your mother last night.
>>10859906Thanks for the tip friend. I reinstalled my OS and changed all my passwords just in case.
I loved Sims, and Sims 2 was a lot of fun also. I never touched anything beyond.
>>10859906sweet, free bitcions :)
What should I theme my 8 neighborhoods after?
>>10858737True
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37312-3INjEI always get the urge to reinstall Sims and play again but it never quite feels the same
I remember reading a discussion here about which expansions should be considered or avoided. When I was a kid I remember my sister got Living Large first and then Hot Date much later, but most people nowadays seems to be playing with all expansions.
>>10858794>>10858820>>10858849>tfw played the cracked pirate version with no music so there's no nostalgia for thesethey sound mid tbqh
>>10859798Haha that's just like him.
>>10858737why would you ever play the sims when you have honey select and koikatsu party?
Anons, please stop making topics about the Sims. Everytime I see one I get the urge to play it again. I saw a topic of it a few days ago and randomly loaded up whichever version I had gotten for free on my PS4. Before I knew it, several hours had passed.It was nice to check in on my old version of me though. He's a super rich and super ripped chad that takes a rocket ship to work. He's married to a bombshell wife who is a best selling author and doesn't have to have a job, so she's always around to take care of our 3 wonderful children. Oldest is a girl, the other 2 are boys. We sat down to eat dinner together. Then the wife read a book to our youngest boy while I played chess with our older one, while our daughter would alternate between practicing her cooking, writing, and video gaming. She's just like her mother. On the weekend I grilled hotdogs and hamburgers for everyone while the family swam in the pool. I wish that was my real life. Anons, I hate the Sims.
>>10861590There's no reason to actually avoid the expansions in any of the games except for 3 where they cause the engine to shit itself even harder than it normally does. Anyone claiming that you should ignore the expansions in 1 or 2 are turboautists who never had them and require a very specific install to sate their nostalgia.
I downloaded the sims 1 crack in the thread and it was my first time experiencing anything with Superstar or House Party. Studio Town is weird/lame
>>10860990South African apartheid
>>10858737YesIt received a remaster version for the PS2/XBOX/GC and then a remake (aka Bustin' out)I like the console version more. Everything is balanced and not bloated.
>>10861936>>10861590The later expansions for sims 1 change too much. the magic one changes the neighborhoods AGAIN which is too much for me. And they fill the build inventory with useless crap for wallpaper and flooring.I had all the expansions individually and later the Complete Edition. But I prefer to play with just Livin Large, House Party, Hot Date, and maybe Vacation. Unleashed is okay too but the pets are too much of a chore for me.
>>10862153Yeah, I fucking hated pets. I think it was about that point that Maxis (i.e. EA) realized a large percentage of the playerbase was women who just wanted a virtual doll house rather than a witty simulation/parody of the average American household.
>>10859521>>10859579Agreed, Sims 2 was the best one. The improvements were insane. 3 had the open world gimmick which was nice but besides that it felt like a downgrade on almost everything.The amount of detail that is on sims 2 still amazes me. toddlers sleeping in dog houses, sims smelling the pizza, the tip of the slice of pizza dropping down etc
>>10858737Why did you post a pre-release mock-up of an in-game screenshot instead of an actual screenshot? No way search results returned that as a first result
>>108617814 is the only one that's decent for porn anyway...and that's literally the only thing it's good for lol, 3 had a bit of stuff and I remember there were some very primitive sex mods for 2 but you had to fuck on a rug and the animations were super janky, if there was ever anything for 1 I'd be amazed.
>>10861915That's what you get for playing TS4, if you played 1 or 2 this wouldn't have happened
>>10862273I like Unleashed but the Superstar one tonally clashes with Sims 1 the most for me. The 50s Hollywood theme isn't bad but overall it feels like some MTV executive's brainchild. Makin Magic was too far for some people but I never felt it was out of place with something like Livin Large, and the haunted carny ride theme it had going for it felt consistent with the Americana vibe of The Sims.
>>10858849The fragment from ~0:25/0:26 of this track was later reused as a sound of fulfilling a want in The Sims 2
>>10863068Why's that?
>>10863297cuz they're better games, simple as
>>10863393Why, though. I've only played 1 and 2
Like every other Maxis game apart from SimCity, The Sims is only interesting for about an hour or two
>>10859630you can play the ps2 version of the game on pc using pcsx2>>10859813you can use dgvoodo + dxvk to translate the super old graphics calls into modern ones, that's how I play sims 1 on win11
>>10863434The Sims 4 is actually pretty boring, there's not that much to do. The base game is barebones (and was even worse at launch, believe it or not) and even with ungodly amount of expansion packs and other stuff it isn't much better, and you have to spend hundreds of dollars to get them. There are no burglars (because they're are "rape coded" or some other nonsense), there's still no drivable cars and many other things that were present in every previous The Sims game. Emotions, the big part of the game's marketing, are extremly overrated. Also the gay and tranny shit, but even without it TS4 would still be awful
>>10863453So which one would be the best, in your opinion? 2?
>>10863441>dgvoodo + dxvkshouldn't it be one or the other?
>>10863453Anon, I don't think playing a different version would help with the underlying problem of there being a sim version of me living my ideal life while I'm... here.
>>10863453>rape codedWhat the fuck does that even mean?
>>10863486it's the women/leftist equivalent of "that's a bit rapey mate"
>>10863456Play 1 until you think you've seen it all, then move on to 2. Don't bother getting sucked into how ambitious Sims 3 sounds on paper, in practice it's a piece of shit thanks to the terrible game engine.
for me, it's Singles
>>10863496I've been playing both actually, but I have never touched 3 nor 4.So far>1 has the most soul, but tedious gameplay>2 has more content and is more relaxed
>>10863506That basically sums it up. They tried open world gameplay with 3 but it's a nightmare mess of gamebreaking bugs and poor optimisation. 4 dropped the open world idea but everything else is extremely stripped down and the devs spend more time pandering to minorities than making interesting content, the only reason anybody plays it is for porn mods
>>10863558What a sad fate. Why don't they hire the people that made 1 and 2? It seems like every game franchise has gotten worse with time, ironically.
>>10863763Because as shite as Sims 4 is, women, who have firmly cemented themselves as the buying audience (coomers who are in it for the porn mods pirate everything, naturally) buy every single bit of horrendously overpriced DLC for it no matter how little it adds to the game. There's no incentive for them to do anything else.
>>10863808>Hunger: 3Accurate
1 and 2 are the only ones that matter. by 3 it got EAafied and just make you rebuy key features that should have been included in the core game. i got like 70% of all of sims 4 from that games4theworld site the threads here used to link before it seems to have gotten caught?theres so many reasons 3 and beyond are soul and effortless but ill mention some here-2 had fleshed out custom music, being able to apply your own mp3s to any radio station, build, buy or neighborhood catagory and choosing which official track to remove from circulation. 3 dumbed it down to a custom, isolated radio station. thats it-the graphical leap from 1-2 was pretty massive. 3 feels like half that. sims have this weird cherub looking faces-cars were such a visual treat in 2 with elaborate interactions with the character and world. 3 your character just uses the same animations as taxis. you walk to the curb and the car just fucking teleports from driveway to street completely defeating ANY satisfaction to own a car (granted in 2 owning a car didnt make things easier either. taxis should have required fares and take longer to get places). but instead of leaning from this mistake in 4 they just GIVE UP and REMOVE cars altogether. fucking mind boggling-i get all expansions cant be integrated into the next core game but basic features like weather, seasons and pets being in at release is a no brainer but they just make you pay for the same stuff then fucking 4 does the same shit all over again.-2 had great interactions like cuddling in bed, each slice taken from a pizza will visually show on the pizza and sims shunning sims while seeing them steal. i was excited to see MAXIS series evolve further with more interactions in the next games but instead EA do the POLAR OPPOSTE and REMOVE that stuff. i barely played 3 cause of disappointment so idk if its that bad but 4 has none of this. i wanted to see crap like a sim will autonomously rest their heads on the other sim on couch
>>10863778Sad. Like many other franchises, then.
Why are there no mods for Sims 1 that make it a little bit less janky? I picked it up again about a year and a half ago and played it a good while, but after a while, having to constantly micromanage your sims so they don't block each others' paths or decide to go to the bathroom that is both further away AND occupied gets tiring. Not to mention their needs dropping so fucking fast. If just those two issues were fixed, I wouldn't even think of playing 2.
>>10863838granted 2 made you rebuy a lot of content that should have also been in the core game but at least they have an excuse. they lost like 30% of base game features in a massive fire, having to have to reapply it in expansions. you see early footage with rain and lightning.another neat feature in 2 was when cooking sims will interact with cabinets and reach down opening them and taking out pots and utensils. what i like about this was it was only there if you wanted it to be. if there are no traditional storage it just teleports to their hands so the interaction is only there for those who want it and not a hinderance if you dont. its just gives satisfaction to the one looking for it. this could have been a start of a good system. 3 and 4? gone. well at least 4 has sometihng similar where you only have to deal with washing clothes if you place laundry based objects on the lot as an optional difficulty increase. place a washing machine, now your sims gets worried about wearing dirty clothes. i support this feature. more of this2 has volumetric snow. in 4 the grass texture just turns into a white texture
>>10858737Takes me back to when I played with my friend at his older brother's house, good, simpler times
I've only ever played the console versions.Does the PC version have any sort of goal, or is it one of those "make your own fun" games?
>>10864231The latter, they're sandbox simulation games, but the first two games were engaging enough to where you couldn't just sit there and watch it play itself unlike the later titles where they completely tanked the difficulty of everything to appeal to otherwise non-gaming women.
1 just feels so charming, I love the art and music it all comes together perfectly. Regarding the difficulty, there surely must be mods somewhere to nerf relationship decay or just remove the job relationship requirements altogether
>>10864260I'd just be fine with something that made needs decay at a slightly slower rate.
>>10864260There is, I found one.https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=657300On an unrelated note, somewhere out there (I forget where) there are dragon skins for cats. So now I have these little guys roaming around meowing and purring.
>>108642601 will always have my heart, but whenever I go back to play the Sims I play 2.
>>10859630the real draw to the console sims was local co-op. My most fond experiences on gamecube wasn't mario kart or smash but fucking around in sims 1 and 2 splitscreen
>>10864287http://corylea.com/EliminateNeedDecayMod.htmlThis might also work for needs.
>>10864287>>10864320Fucking based, might have to try some of these.
>>10864287Does that mod also turn the dragons from makin' magic into fire-breathing cats?
>>10864361It does not lol
>>10863883you can just turn off free will.you have to realize the core progression is so much more anal in 1 because thats the whole game right there. skill up promote, get married get space filler child. there isnt much else to do beyond keeping them happy. if it was relaxed as it is in 2 you will get sick of 1 a whole lot faster. with each expansion they could have dialed it back slightly
https://tcrf.net/The_Sims_(Windows)/Revisional_Differences#Original_Female_Walk>>10860990MOAR Mashuga
>>10864556https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzpDq9k6S-Alooks like they're trying to not shit themselves, I can see why they changed it
They all get fucking boring like an hour in.
it would be nice if the games had a hard(core) option. switch it on and you have to deal with watering plants or they die like in 1, need to do laundry like 4, have to go to grocery store like 2, need to buy clothes or sim gets depressed. something to switch on for higher immersion, long time players or masochists
I hated how the console versions added needing to replace lightbulbs to most light sources. They'd start burning out after a single day, so eventually I just gave up and put garden lamps everywhere since they didn't do this.
How did gameplay work without mouse and keyboard on consoles? I'd imagine it was a pain in the ass like when you have to enter a name in a game by individual letters and the letters are in alphabetical order.
It's the most gamey, but Sims 2 has the best simulation and 3 is the only one that's open world. Project Zomboid (not retro) is better
>>10864957In 1/Bustin Out, you had a cursor you could move around the world. If you needed to cancel a specific queued action you'd hit Select or whatever you had on the console. I never had any issues with it, but the biggest issue was no third tier of speed unless everyone was asleep/working.Sims 2 has the above method as an option, but you can take direct control over the sims if you felt like it. If you got into interactions with other Sims like this, you'd have a chance at getting a better result from the socializing based off factors i never understood. Sometimes you'd get lucky and get shit like a +7 to each interaction, meaning that even a failed joke would get you closer to friendship.All these games had a sort of mission structure to them, based on what lot you're in. Bustin Out had stuff like "throwing a good party" "stealing something from another lot" and even torturing a specific sim by trapping them with furniture and watching them starve
some of the simlish songs are a bophttps://youtu.be/DdY-MRR2P1E?si=QXq-8rI-_Ug4w4w2
>>10864985The home console games had missions, sure, but they ended up being just things you'd normally do in your regular The Sims game, like throwing a party, etc. Meanwhile the handheld versions, which were completely different games altogether, had their own full blown storylines and little quirks. The stories were wacky and weird, but also fun. You know, I kinda miss the times when console/hanheld version of a game was something completely different and new, overcoming hardware limitations or even using them to the game's adventage, instead of being just a poorly optimized port.
>>10863490What the fuck? Having somebody break into your home and take your belongings is meant to be violating. Lots of things feeling violating. Sexual violenxe is violating, but not all violations are sexual violence. Why are they like this?
>>10865063it's a shame Sims 2 GBA is such a shit game when the other two were decent.>combined needs bar that telegraphs nothing>needs randomly flare up so you could have just eaten and suddenly the hunger need flares up>conversations are a luck-based hell where you have to pray something actually works, with the later chapters KOing you for 5 "misses"Still, it's kind of funny the shit that goes on in the game, like the main antagonist bombing a nuclear power plant just for show ratings
>Sims 1 >Sim gets depressed because fun need decayed way too fast>Hang out in downtown, buy things, go on vacation, play videogames>Guy is still depressed and won't do anything>Uninstall and play sims 2Sad.
>>10864961>Project Zomboid (not retro) is betterProject Zomboid has nothing in common with The Sims apart from the stolen art style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ_RkyXQxVEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opY7UpQ3BVUPOV it's 2003 and you just got the game for Christmas.
>>10864961funny cause that game has me wanting features from the sims for reasons completely unrelated to the fact it looks like it. that game has so much down time and punishing death that it needs to make mundane tasks more engaging to stay home and away from zombies like more involved cooking and home micromanagement. they keep teasing npcs so sims elements are inevitable. its heavy rain is already cozy as fuck and makes you want to stay in and watch.
Damn I can get it to run on wine but there's no music. Although Ive never played sims 1 on pc before.Is it normally just ambient sounds? There should be music playing from the radio right?
>>10865886Have you tried watching TV and reading books?>>10866081>wineCan't help you with that, but yes, your game is not right. Every song (stations, neighborhood screen, buy/build mode) is an mp3 file.
>>10866129Yeah. It's an accurate representation of real life depression, but it doesn't translate into fun gameplay.
Sims 1 is the best piece of art. The visuals are really nice, the music is amazing, it has a really strange, somewhat dark vibe, playing it as a kid it always felt a bit like an "adult contemporary" game. Sims 2 is the better game, it has (more or less) all the feature of the first but improves it with big things like lifespan and aging. The atmosphere is more accessible and as a result of that less interesting. The Sims 1 is a much more interesting experience and has made a much larger impression on me. The Sims 2 however is a game that I can still play for hours because it has actual progression.
>>10858749>Sims 1 also had a bunch of free dlc on the website without ever needing to buy the xpacsSims 1 also has a lot of user generated content. I miss playing Sims 1. It still is my favorite of the series.
>>10866524The Sims CC community never died, but the later scene was made by tumblrinas (literally, TS4 sims content was exclusively hosted on Tumblr) and TS1 cc is kept alive by 60 year old women who don't know how to keep their websites from being compromised. Still though, I think The Sims has the longest running modding scene next to Doom maybe?
>>10866081Tried using wine-ge-proton?
>>10866574It says proton is not compatible with 32 bit prefixes.
>>10859630no, but since this will never be relevant anywhere else, i'll mention that some dude found out years ago that you can technically load lots and sims from ts1's console port in the pc version:https://drew1440.com/2020/11/29/fun-with-the-sims-console-version/https://drew1440.com/2020/12/07/fun-with-the-sims-console-version-part-2/https://drew1440.com/2020/12/20/fun-with-the-sims-console-part-3/there are also several sims that go completely unused, and console-only sims that have defined appearances on pc for some reason:https://s1ndle.tumblr.com/post/738916290397356032/unique-pc-appearances-for-console-simshttps://s1ndle.tumblr.com/post/720768075406966784/the-lost-sims-of-the-sims-for-consolehttps://s1ndle.tumblr.com/post/747435225163939840/the-lost-sims-of-the-sims-for-console-part-2
>>10866371Imagine 2 with 1's aesthetics. It would be a masterpiece. If people in companies actually loved the games that made them successful this would happen, but I'm guessing the original sims 1 team doesn't even work there anymore
Why cant i play sims 1 on my phone yet. This is bullshit!
>>10867235It's a 32-bit program, right?Look into winlator and mobox.
>>10867243nicee
>>10865063GBA games also have great ost (made by pic rel, who also made a some great tracks for other handheld games):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA5HZthfU9Yhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFzrwmYuQVEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv114p0YjC8
>>10858737imma just stop you right there senpai but there is no good sims game
>>10868571Wassamatta wid u, huh!? What's wrong with you!?
>>10868571>filtered by a simulationlol
>>10863503>The game, very strangely, has kind of an independent set of options associated with romance and sensuality, as if those things had no relation to each otherhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e_AG5h98Ig
>>10869265>The relationships don't make any sense at all... these characters are presented as 'swingers' in their 20's or something, but they'll never leave their house except to work, they can call their friends on the phone but they can't have company over, they never go out, they're very reluctant to actually get into an intense physical relationship. If the goal of Singles was titillation it doesn't even really succeed that well at that level, again, there's really one specific animation for any of the actions, and the actions themselves are limited.
Sims 1 is literally a wagecuck simulator until you cheat money in or use other methods like genie lamps and such
>>10869284that's nice dear
>>10866995Cool. I love hidden shit like this.
Loveable, unpredictable, programmable. It's the Sims!
I want to see a sims 1 speedrun of getting an 8 sim household from empty lot to all sims having reached a different max tier job at least once
Goddamn this thread got posts. I assume it's one of the few threads where female posters would start sperging aboutI only built houses, I didn't care about the family upkeep part very much. I would just make cool looking houses and then save them
>>10871841The solo max job record just exploits the fact that if you bulldoze your house and move back into the same lot the sim has all its needs refilled to the starting level, pretty lame
>150 repies>no chad pyramid posted yet
>>10871851>I only built houses, I didn't care about the family upkeep part very much. I would just make cool looking houses and then save themAre you me? This might be the biggest different in inclinations between male and female sim players. I love building shit.
>>10871851>>10872296Based, I reinstalled it recently just to build houses
>>10871851>I only built housesBest part of the game, really. Followed by Get a Life mode, albeit by a hefty distance.
I find it hilarious that there's a whole genre of "The Sims 2 is better than 4" videos on YouTube. And some of them have over a million views lol
Can’t believe it’s the only one with volleyball
>>10873643the only thing 4 has is a great artistic style. you can make your characters look realistic or stylized and they blend well. you can copy real people or yourself with ease. certainly explains why the porn mods are so big for it. that and the fact there is so much dlc for the game that it forces itself to be decent by default. still doesnt hold a candle to 1 or 2.
I tried to get sims 2 working last year but nothing i was doing was working, anything i should know if i try again?
>>10858820this sounds just like the homer in the land of chocolate music
>>10874556What's your OS, what method were you using to install, and what exactly was the problem?
>>10874709i dont remember exactly what happened, but it was called sims 2 rpc i think, on win10. Whenever i'd try loading the game i think it'd just hang on the opening and never progress, but again, this was awhile ago.
>>10874735There shouldn't be any problems installing on Windows 10 if you visit https://github.com/voicemxil/TS2-Starter-Pack
>>108736434 exists only as a vehicle to sell endless expansion and what used to be available for free as mods (see: "stuff" packs).2 genuinely has more content than 4, and even normies realized it fairly early on.
>>10859429This is nice. I got the Sims 2 running on Linux with Lutris and it works pretty well apart from a bit of lag if you speed things up in-game. I think Sims 2 might just be my favorite in the entire franchise till this day. Like it's especially more fun to play than the Sims 4, that's for sure.
>>10874739Seems like it's working now, but the load times are pretty long. I might have gotten it working back then but didn't know it because task manager always said Not Responding or the game outright closed if i clicked around enough on the title screen.I've only ever played the console version, what should i know about this?
>>10875067>Seems like it's working now, but the load times are pretty long.If I remember right, they're long for the first time and then faster after that. Are you playing on an SSD?
>>10875139nope, only got a hard drive.
>>10875067The console version of Sims 2 was like an extremely watered down version of the PC original. To make up for that, they changed the console release to be focused on completing goals and stuff like that, more missions-based to try and make up for everything else you were missing out on. The original PC release is more of a sandbox simulation with a ton more content and mechanics to work with, especially with the expansion and stuff packs and store content you should have grabbed from the link above.
>>10866995absolutely incredible find, anon
>>10875173That's a specific mode that PC releases never got. The console versions still have the sandbox mode as well.
>>10858794>>10858820I feel the sovl drip off of these tracks, why don't the new games have tracks this good? All the new stuff is like bubblegum pop songs.
>>10876117the post says the PC version is more of a sandbox simulation, and that’s correct, as the console port is more of a story-based game focused on a single sim stuck in a single life stage as a selling point, since the sandbox gameplay had to be weaker for inferior hardware
What the FUCK was his problem?
>is the most unfaithful wife in all of fiction in your path
>Nobody ever talks about 3>Been playing it off and on since like 2013 >Only thing that has ever annoyed me is save games getting bloated and taking like 10 minutes to load
>>10880683>since like 2013Late to the party, huh? Would explain why you might like it more than other people. A lot of those problems were being slowly patched out, although not all of them. Early versions were as unstable as a fat man walking on a tightrope, it took more to load than your 10 minutes and often times the game would just crash during loading. I remember once, it must've been in 2009/2010, while playing with World Adventures EP I loaded a save from Shang Simla and... my sim was gone! Just like that. I could not access life mode, nor any other mode, because it was a destination world. So the game on that save became unplayable. There's more stories like that that I could recount. Since then I started backing up my saves.I mean, for Christ's sake, there are so many recurring errors in The Sims 3 they started giving them their own unique codes!
>>10858737I used to make my bullies have gay sex in the heart bed.
>>10858749>2, 3>different toneI agree with 3 having different tone but not 2.2 is 1 but with 3D graphics and motherlodes worth of DLCs
>>10866524You miss it? Why aren’t you still playing it?
Is there no way to toggle dlc on or off? This is my first time playing a pc sims game and its kind of overwhelming. Like whats the point of magic? Whats the point of getting an agent?
>>10881913Sims 1 right? Find Agent is if you feel like going for the celeb route, and magic can help out around the house or with interactions. If you don't want to engage with either, you can simply ignore it.If you're bothered by random pets wandering by, there's a No Pets sign in the decor section of Buy Mode. Extra buyable items aside you can simply ignore all the expansion stuff until you're ready to.
Sims 1 isn't my favorite but the art style is the best. Sure, the Sims aren't very detailed and are fairly simple, but all the objects and buildings look so well. It will never get old for me>>10873643Is hard to disagree. The biggest problem with Sims 2 is that the Sims are ugly in general, but if you can ignore that, it is the best one by far.
>>10882753Agreed. It's fucking incredible and timeless, the music too. Hasn't been recreated to this day
>>10873643TS2 is when Maxis put their pure unfiltered soul into the game
>>108748762 has more content and have more effort put into the content
>>10883520actually this could be a whole thread on its own.by traditional standards 1 would have more soul due to its stronger expressive distinction. 2 is more raw energy of effort and thought in its mechanics but also loses its visual identity.the sims 1= love child= charming. quaint. distinct.the sims 2=brain child= calculated. detailed. endless.i felt like a fucking genius typing that
>>10858737I barely remembering playing sims 1. Somehow, if your cooking is bad and your sim sits down for a bowl of cereal - you set the house on fire... and I have a problem with that. Hilarious, but also, fuck you Maxis.
>>10874739>>10859429wow I didnt even know about this, EA's version of TS2UC cant even play offline
>>10883569No thats the simpsons.
>>10858737>Sims 1 is the best Sims gameProof that /vr/ rates the music used in games as the overriding factor Not gameplay Not graphics The soundtrack NOT WORTH ARGUING as you've already made your 'argument' /vr/ loves the music in games beyond anything else
>>10884259The Sims 1's gameplay and graphics are also great, what are you on about?
>>10884259I like mark mothersbaugh's soundtrack.
>>10858794pleasant music, sets a miserable/depressing tone however
>>10877308SimCity 3000 is composed by the same guy and has nearly the same feel imo, but I never played it so I dont have that nostalgia keen
>>10871992
>>10874704It's a genre of music called "Light Music" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-kPWGfF5UU
>>10884350Its called melancholy.
>>10880661Blame the red potion
>>10859464>>10859470iirc Maxis released a version that was TS + living large expansion. I remember saving up money from my paper route to spend 40 bucks on the hot date expansion because i heard from my cousin you can go into Sim City. Then like 5 years later they sold the complete colleciton which felt like bloat. I still remember firing itup and seeing random cats and dogs just walking near my house or witches for some retarded reason.
>>10859429I downloaded this and it works flawlessly, but is there a way to disable the expansions or just not install them at all? They only fill the buying item list with useless crap that breaks the immersion of the game.
>>10885301If you want autism mode, you'll have to install the base game from a cdrip and find a no-cd executable and wrapper that works with it.
>buy ultraexpensive china vase to bait thieves>put it as far into the lot as i can>thief caught before he can even get to it>easy $1kWhy wouldn't this work?
>>10885306I don't think it's autism mode, I just don't want magic items and medieval doors in my new millennium doll house simulator.the dogs and cats loitering around are fine, the rest is not.
>>10885368Out of curiosity, why are you okay with the base game having ghosts but draw the line at other supernatural stuff?
>>10885406the short answer is nostalgia. the long answer is that ghosts are part of the base game, and they don't come with dozens of medieval decorations clogging the buy mode.another example is the family creator, to create a single, humble sim you have to scroll through what looks like a Roman emperor, a solider straight out from half life 1 and other sci-fi costumes.it's nice to have options, but in this case I really don't think they go with the base game
>>10883549wow, look at mr diogenes here.but yes i agree with your post
>>10858737It's actually pretty cool that there are a ton of C&C outfits in this game, wish there weren't so much grind though, not too long ago I played it the entire fucking day going to work and fixing the needs and I didn't even notice how it became dark outside.Also, TS2 is great when it comes to the 00s atmosphere, and helicopters are the best transport in the entire series, by the way.
>>10859628link?
>>10886907>>10874739
What are some good mod sites for Sims 1? /tsg/ doesn't have much and some of the mods sites I've seen are kinda busted.
>>10880791Yeah 2 still had sovl.
>>10858749TS2 DLCs weren't that many when compared to TS3, the DLC fest gets worse as the series progressed.
I've posted this in previous threads, here is a collection of over 1k of new objects/items for sims 1https://gofile.io/d/iDdpIqPlace it in "The Sims\Downloads\Around the Sims Objects"
>>10888882Thanks anon. Saving for a future playthrough.
>>10888882Interesting. Thanks for sharing :3
>>10858794>>10858820>>10858849>>10877308Jerry Martin, the composer of these wonderful tracks, was also supposed to make The Sims 2's soundtrack, but that changed unfortunately. Thankfully some of the tracks he managed to make for TS2 leaked, so we can imagine what could've been while listening to them...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0NCvUac_B8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O94-EqnJIK4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ly5odnrX2A
>>10887691these are the two largest ts1 cc archives that i know of:https://simfileshare.net/folder/144507/https://archive.org/details/sims-1-ccassuming you just want site recommendations: it depends on what you want, but simlogical, simwardrobe, somesimthings, oddsim, corylea's site, gnohmon's and some others i'm forgetting have tons of hacked objects (aka the closest you'll get to actual "mods" in ts1), simslice has lots of old goofy shit (slicecity, that one zombie mod, etc.) another anon posted stuff from around the sims 1 which is solid, the secret society of woobsha has great build/buy objects, there are plenty of abandoned major sites like 7 deadly sims and simfreaks that are worth looking into - i'm not an expert on ts1 modding and you'll have to wade through tons of ancient cruft on old forums and wayback machine pages to find certain things, but if you're an autist on /vr/ then hopefully that's your idea of a fun saturday night anywayfor an example of what hacked sims 1 objects can do, there's this calendar object that gives employed sims actual days off if you put it on your lot: https://white.leadpipecollection.net/?q=node/200#dd_domcal
>>10889542i just remembered i was subscribed to jerry's mailing list a few days ago, and apparently he just finished another jazz album? hopefully it actually gets released, he randomly popped back up to do the soundtrack for simcasino (aka a cheap indie game that had nothing to do with ea/maxis) a few years ago alongside some other sims 1 musicians, and it genuinely isn't half bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOm9SSXyQ_g
>>10859324Avril Lavigne. Though how the fuck did the Sims know what a celebrity is, if they only get four channels of JPEGs on their TVs?
>>10863808I don't remember this item, but I love how every item in TS1 has five paragraphs of lore associated with it. Every item your buy is an SCP.
>>10889838They also have computers and the radio, maybe they saw a webpage with fake nudes.
>>10889842Sims 1 has a mid-late 20th century american consumerism theme, every item description is written like it's being sold to you in some magazine advert
>>10889542eh these are good but I still like the soundtrack we got for the final ts2 release
>>10877308>All the new stuff is like bubblegum pop songsYeah, no kidding. You know, I used to like listening to the radio, but there's really nothing to listen to nowadays, apart from some stations dedicated solely to a particular genre
>>10889842>Every item your buy is an SCP.
>>10893207yeah idk what hes on about
>>10859251not on purpose bro
>>10885352probably
>>10859429What's up with the high def graphics? Is that official or fanmade?
>>10882753I wish that The Sims 2 went with this graphical style, but with more renders so the screen would move into more positions and with, of course, better models/more interactions. I understand the decision though, they needed something to put the game apart from this one and 3D was very popular at the time.
>>10858772I was just a kid with no PC playin' Bustin' Out (and Counterstrike)I never beat the game I would just decorate my houses till I lost interest and then do it over again later
>>10858820Never played Sims 1I prefer this one
>>10858737I downloaded a bunch of orchestral versions of the original SimCity tracks, so now when I go to build mode I get to listen to a relaxing version of the Town theme.
