Will the Sims ever have a competitor?

it's mind-bobbling that no one has tried to make a better The Sims. it remains the only game series in its respective genre (life simulation, whatever you want to call this). EA has screwed the pooch with this series so hard, and the only reason they get away with it is because where else would you go if you wanted this kind of game?

I still have to play The Sims for that reason. but hey, give me any semi-competent replacement and I'll take it.

>>377927014
>mind-bobbling

yep, it's time to go to sleep.

I'd say something like the Sims is why too hard and costly for any indi dev to make. I mean even the most compitent indi dev has a hard time making decent RCT clones.

>>377926484
>>377927014
Zynga made one.

>>377926484

I would definitely support an alternative, it would probably come out better and have modding capacity.

>>377927679
why would it have to be an indie dev? any competent AA or even AAA dev could attempt it. why have there not even been any attempts?
>>377927710
browser games obviously don't count as real games

>>377927847
What counts as a real game? The one with objectives or the ones without?

>>377927847

Good point but I guess the next reason is lack of interest. Sims has no competititors and making one, specially now seems like a waste. Aside from better AI (which is still hard) what more could they really do?

I know the sims is casual but 4's pace is way too slow

>>377928209
>Aside from better AI (which is still hard) what more could they really do?
better service (none of this price gouging shit), better features (Sims 4 didn't even launch with pools), better artstyle (this one only gets progressively worse with EA), deeper systems (careers are an obvious one, even the Sims 4 attempt to make deeper careers by controlling your Sim at work ended up being shallow as fuck), a unique take on neighborhoods/location (could even be a gimmick, such as having a real city/place as the setting), etc.

>>377928209

Better time controls.

Better aging mechanics.

Better job mechanics.

More customization options.

More life threats, maybe make it possible for a Sim to be a serial killer.

More life situations that make it harder to get rich.

>>377929116
Artstyle was shit in 3 but is the best so far in 4.

But somehow the new ones have lost all the coziness that 1 and to a lesser extent 2 had. I can't figure out why exactly.

>>377929474
>More life situations that make it harder to get rich.

this one is so important. handling finances/money is too fucking easy man. after a year, you're pretty much a millionaire.

>>377926484
The Sims can't even make a competitor for The Sims.
See The Urbz and Sims Medieval.

>>377928209

There could be a mechanic where instead of you buying furniture and having it be in your house all nicely, you would buy it and you'll have to wait for someone to deliver it to you and depending on the furniture you could have the need to put it together, which could require some skills or you could spend more money to get a professional to do it. And in either case the packaging would generate garbage.

>>377930213
Might as well play real life.

>>377930213
Well in that case they'd have to really balance out the monotony of the life sim with the really fucking boring monotony like putting furniture together

>>377930307

Well its those aspects of real life that made the Sims somewhat popular.

but you're right, its a tedious idea that might not be done well.

>>377930213
That sounds awful

I've always wondered why there are zero competitors for The Sims. I wish Will Wright could have built his dream games instead of going full kike with EA.

>>377929793
just like real life

>>377929943
I prefer the Urbz. Having an end-goal and, in the process, getting to see everything a game has to offer is more fun than having to try out everything myself and end up at the same point

>>377931532
>urbz
>not Bustin' Out
I thought you were cool but you're just a square

>>377931714
I've played both. I prefer the art direction of Urbz

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WoW's first competitor.

>>377931819
http://freeso.org/
/v/ server when

>>377931895
Why haven't these guys made a single player knockoff yet if they have the base sims 1 code down already

>>377932024
Disregard that I wasn't aware you needed the original game. I thought it was a recreation instead of just a server re-implementation

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>be on phone in thread
>taking shit
>wiped toilet seat with paper towel prior to sitting down
>toss it into the toilet and think nothing of it, when i finish shitting it doesnt want to flush
>i panic it is literally centimeters away from overflowing
>remembered the countless times my sims clogged their toilets and their reactions as i let out a loud sigh
>tfw i am a sim

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Cities Skylines already beat SimCity at being the superior citybuilder.
When will they make The Cims?

>>377932808
>Cims Lifelines
I'd buy it

>>377932808
Simcity 4 is still superior though

>>377931819
That's more like the ancestor of Second Life.

>>377926484
Yes, heterosexuality.

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>tfw Urbz 2 never ever

>>377932808
It did not beat SimCity 4 though

>>377936559
kill me

>>377934392
>>377936809
It beats SimCity 4 in terms of city size, aesthetics and traffic management. It's just not as challenging, so you don't need to optimize much which is a problem if that's what you are playing city builders for.

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>>377936559
Goddamn that game was comfy.

>>377936559
I never got to play it. Probably doesn't hold up now I'm thinking.

Sucks wish I can go back and try it. It just didn't appeal to me at the time.

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I mean, I guess...

The very large majority of people that play the sims are women from teen upward.
These consumers would never bother to buy another product in the same genre even if its better, simply because it wouldnt be as well known as the sims.

>>377927847
I don't think any AAA dev would bother, TS is so unique that they'd just be called out for copying it.

>>377937974
That's not even close to the same thing at all.

>>377938220
Pretty much this.

How else can you make a good life simulator game without making it exactly/just like The Sims. It's literally a fucking perfect design from the easy to use interaction bubbles, to the UI with the life stats. You can't make make it any other way. EA perfected it, and any attempting to make a life simulator would have to follow along those guidelines and would just be called out as a copy-cat. Even though you can just make up your own story and world to make it different from The Sims and avoid the copyright violation, the fans and the players will know and will ostracize your company for doing so.

>>377937974
glorified chatroom

>>377939576
>How else can you make a good life simulator game without making it exactly/just like The Sims. It's literally a fucking perfect design from the easy to use interaction bubbles, to the UI with the life stats. You can't make make it any other way. EA perfected it, and any attempting to make a life simulator would have to follow along those guidelines and would just be called out as a copy-cat. Even though you can just make up your own story and world to make it different from The Sims and avoid the copyright violation, the fans and the players will know and will ostracize your company for doing so.
>Everything has been invented, there's nothing to invent anymore.

>>377939890
>Why reinvent the wheel

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>>377939576
I just want a sims not by EA desu

>>377939576
I can see someone making it from the ground up and it being different enough, like a Sims with 2d graphics or weird shit like combat and leveling on the side. At the least it'd have different stats/items. I can't imagine the basic UI being different but then the question becomes how different do games of a same genre have to be? Some jrpgs, shooters, roguelites can appear samey. There are games that copy another deliberately too. I think it could work.

>>377940032
>>Why reinvent the wheel
Concept remains the same implementation changes a lot. Is the tire performance from 1920s the same as modern tires?

>>377940491
I do too, but unless a small dev similar to Colossal Order comes along to make a spirtual successor it's not going to happen.

>>377940032
We reinvented more than once. The concept of round thing go roll didn't change. But it went a long way from being carved rock round thing, to an internally inflated covered multi layer rubber round thing.

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>>377937614
>It beats SimCity 4 in terms of city size

What are some other comfy games where you have to take care of basic needs? I can only think of that shitty indie "Youtubers Life" from recent ones.

>>377942964
I can't autisino enough to make shit like this.

>>377929116
You could have one made by Paradox which does the game really well apart from the sim movement pathing, and you end up with thousands of sims stuck trying to go to the bathroom at the same time

i hate how in sims 4 everyone acts happy, the only time people get sad is when someone dies. its creepy.

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>>377930213
what kind of mechanic cant put together furniture?

>>377942964
>shit is separated into 40 regions that you each have to play separately

Yeah nah

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Everyone who plays The Sims wants to make their little Sim dollys do whatever they want, but I just want a more realistic life simulation.

I want there to be a mode where characters make their own decisions based on their upbringing and the traits they have. The Sims don't make their own decisions, they don't pick their own jobs, their own wives. The only thing the AI does is preserve it's own life.

This is especially apparent when you can force someone who has the "commitment issues" trait to get married and keep the same job. The only thing that happens is that the Sim will "wish" they would get divorced or quit their job, but they won't do it unless you do it for them.

Another thing that The Sims doesn't accurately simulate about life is Friendships. Time moves so fast in the game and Sims die so quickly, it's impossible to keep up a Sims social life and there is no point unless their aspiration is to be sociable. In real life, even if you're SUPER into playing Guitar, you still have other friends who play Guitar, right?

Another is relationships. The divorce rate in real life is like 50%, right? How come people in the Sims can meet someone, DAY ONE, have nothing in common and get married THAT NIGHT? There should be some kind of punishment for that, like a year after their married they realize they know nothing about each other and break up.

I could go into more details, but I know that no one cares and this is tl;dr. I guess I'm retarded because I want an idealistic videogame to portray realistic sad stuff, right?

>>377942964
I could never get buildings that high. How do you do it?

>>377942964
I don't understand the appeal of separate regions. I don't really like going back and forth. It also creates a lot of problems.

>>377945146
I enjoyed reading that anon

>>377926484

>Sims 1 is still the best game in the franchise
>Sims 4 tried to go back to the roots
>fuck up so hard that EA kills Maxis and Sims

what happend ?

I'd jump the ship immediately if there was an alternative

>>377945358
Develop a fuckton of regions, and other states.

>>377946181
Sims 4 is a great game if you're willing to spend $400 + tip.

>>377940091
>chinman
Holy shit someone post the story

>>377929474
You forgot functioning world that actually moves forward, instead of eventually being filled with characters you created in a frozen state career, relationship and ability wise after you gave control to the AI.

>>377945146
There's a mod that gives sims adjustable and up to full autonomy.

>>377946956

Sims 4 has fuck all content, even with all of those """""""""""DLCS""""""""""""

>>377947474
Sims 3 would be best if not for the loading times and incompatible expansions.

>>377947349
not him but really? link please, is it for ts4?

>>377947884
Isn't that already integrated in the game options?

>>377927679
Fuck off, an Indy dev could easily make a Sims 1 clone and as long as it had good gameplay, no lag, bugs or spaghetti code like EA's do then it'd do really well. Cunts need to learn that Gameplay > Graphics.

>>377931819
No
>>377935705
Yes

>>377947950
they can't choose to marry or jobs alone anon, that's what that anon wants

>>377937974
No, it's just a chatroom with hats and $1500 dick mods, like Gmod Tower.

>>377945146
Half the stuff you ask for would piss the shit out of 99% of The Sims player.

>OMG why did my Sim just quit his job on his own?! He was about to max it!
>Why the fuck did he broke with her wife?! This cut the household income in half!
>Holy shit, i go take a piss and my Sim decided it was a great idea to throw a party and blow half his money on it while i was away

People don't want a simulator, they want a doll house sandbox. And that's what EA releases.

>>377948209
A good dick costs like $8.

>>377945146
what will you do then if they all do things by themselves? It will be just an ant farm then, no?
I guess they could add a watch only option for people who just wanna watch something

>>377937974
I love how all the SL promotional material is so fucking deceptive.

They should have at least one werewolf model with neon accessories and a perma erect horse cock on display. Then it would be accurate.

When will nintendo make their own sims game?

>>377948305
Anyone got the screencap of the /v/ NEET who spent 15 years selling $1500 dicks on Second Life?

>>377926484
I wish fallout would have a competitor (with same thematic), just to fuck Bethesda over.

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Sims 4 is fun!

>>377945146
Isn't part of the point (in a "normal" playthrough) being able to self-insert? That's why you can tell the sims what to do

>>377926484
fucking 2017 and you can't recreate Abe Lincoln in sims 4
why the fuck!
Not only sims, a lot of games don't have the right beard model
I'm fucking mad!

>>377932808
I thought they were developing it already

I would literally pay EA $60 just for them to optimize Sims 3.

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>>377943391
>by Paradox
>neighbour declares war
>casus belli: loud music after 10 pm

Would play.

>>377946181
>release game
>release a ridiculous amount of overpriced DLC, over $400 worth of DLC total
>strip a bunch of features from the sequel because you think you can get away with it
>turns out fans who have invested hundreds of dollars and hours into a single game aren't planning on jumping ship to experience poorly implemented gimmicks like moods

>>377946181
>Sims 1 is still the best game in the franchise
?

>>377948318
He's probably talking about DF or Rimworld style autonomy.
You can give your toons certain orders but they are mostly autonomous and act based on their personalities, not yours.

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>>377946181
I am pretty sure no one is ever claiming that Sims 1 is the best game. Usually it's either 2 or 3.

Also
>that captcha

>>377949920
Yea I wish the Sims had Dwarven Psychology but few other Indy devs are autistic enough and every AA or AAA company only wants cash. Not to mention the average pleb player wouldn't notice or care about the difference.

>>377948670
I want to pork that Orc

>>377930213
>>377930307
>tfw used to fantasize about a game where you had to travel in real-time to get places while riding the bus

>>377948670
does orc have a cute face?

>>377948318
That's a good question, if they make most of their choices on their own, what would the player do?

I was thinking the player would act, basically as a god. Like the player could only get Sims to do certain actions by doing things indirectly? Like if something was broken and you wanted a Sim to fix it, you would just have to do something to remind them that it's broken, like inserting a thought into their head to think about it, and if their personality traits and upbringing aligned = they would fix it. But, if they had previous bad experiences with electronics, or they weren't a "up and go getter" kind of person, they would be lazy and not do it.

tl;dr again sorry I have autism

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>>377949240
My dream is for Sims 5 to be more like an improved version of Sims 3. Fuck this miniature house simulation shit from Sims 4. Sims 3 let me slowly build control over a town and skills / powers to fuck with people. I want more abilities to interact with the world, almost like mayor abilities in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, but more varied. So you could, for example, be in business and fund certain projects, or be very social and convince people of your vision, or be in a science career and develop something for the town.

How do we go from this...

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...to this?

>>377948718
No. I always make female characters as my start, which means I am unable to self insert. I play The Sims to create characters and watch them interact with others.

My most recent female character was a Red-Headed, Hot-Headed girl who moved to the big city to get a start in the Culinary Arts, using anger as her muse. She got married to a fat street vendor who makes considerably lower quality food but they bonded over their love of spices and finer cooking arts. They had two children and eventually her husband sadly died (probably of diabetes)

Eventually the stress of city life led her to die an early death as well. The honking cars, the loud streets, they enraged her so much until one night she woke up angrily to her neighbors playing loud music, ran to the street to pick a fight with a person midnight jogging and in her sudden burst of anger she grabbed her heart... and died on the sidewalk. Born angry, died angry. Her heart literally exploded in a fit of misguided rage, and left two children to pick up the pieces.

>TS4
>Create a Style gone
>Open world gone
>Some fans glad they are gone because they think it was those causing lag and not the devs just being shit at optimization

>>377952873
>the devs just being shit at optimization
Mostly this. I remember them giving up in fixing the issues and just released more content with more incompatibility issues.

>>377953206
>>377952873
>implying anyone can fix that mess
even the fix we have can't do it properly

>>377931819
I played the beta of this game as a 13 year old kid and I remember cybering with a woman who turned out to be in her 20s.

>>377952873
Didn't the game just completely fuck itself when you installed too many expansions? Like your characters breaking because the game can not handle all the memories that your characters are getting from doing all the new things.

>>377953791
There's a fanmade "fix" for that. Though playing with all the expansions installed is still a bad idea.

Make a new Sim City 4, but make transitions between regions instantaneous

>>377932808
Did they ever fix the traffic WITHOUT the need for mods?

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>>377952407
>sims 3 was too much for the fans PCs
>dumb it down for sims 4
>game is dumbed down as well
>sales tank

I like how they released a sims 4 CITY LIVING expansion, but you can't even walk near the buildings that make it look like a city.

>>377953791
>>377954321
I can run sims 3 on alright frames with all expansions(except pets, that causes problems, also pets are annoying) and with the nrass mod. You also have to turn off memories. All on my shit $500 PC.

>>377954676
Yeah they just came out with a traffic management themed dlc. The free patch covers the new mechanics though so you don't have to buy it if you don't want the new buildings that allow ferries, cable cars, monorails, and blimps.

>>377937614
>aesthetics
God, no. Graphical fidelity, sure, but Skylines is painfully bland.
>traffic management
Traffic simulation, maybe. SC4D offered more as far as actual transportation options and their implementation went. I haven't bought the new Skylines DLC, though, which would probably put it ahead there. In terms of overall services and simulation goes, SC4 is a lot more robust. Agent-based shit doesn't adequately cut it for the scale of these games.

>>377956221
Well maybe I'll give it another whirl then. Thanks anon.

>>377955984
>All on my shit $500 PC
>implying it's a really shit pc
here where I live $150 are shitty pcs, it's common to have mobile cpus in desktop builds so it can be cheaper. the majority of people actually buy those things because the international standard pcs are priced like highend pcs over here

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>>377951335
i have no pictures where you can clearly see her face besides that one but she's wearing sunglasses

Anime Sims when?

>>377957187
By now all the hardcore sims fans(which alot are females and female youtubers) should have alright PCs. But Maxis just assumed everyone still ran crap and just made sims 4 way too friendly.

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>>377957332
Never

>>377957670
Senator Armstrong has seen better days.

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>>377957332
now

>sims 4 traits
>they're just perks that determine which emotion they get the most
>they don't affect how the sims 's gestures and personality like in sims 3

>>377934392
Simcity 4 is old and archaic.

Cities Skylines easily beat Simcity 2013 when it came to modern city builders.

I want the open world of Sims 3 back, but with better optimization so the game doesn't run like shit.
Even with the mods to improve performance Sims 3 runs terribly.

EA tried to go beyond it with spinoffs.
Failed every single time.

The Sims are too successful for their own good.
Nobody will ever be able to compete with it.
If someone ever tries to make a Sims-clone that doesn't get abandoned after a few weeks - He needs to make sure that its quite different. Because even its really just a pure clone nobody is ever going to drop Sims for it.

Sims has all the support. Be it official or from the community. Mods are important.

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What The Sims needs at this point is a Cities Skylines for itself. Make it feel like the original Sims with it's "for everyone" feel and it's sense of humor but have most if not all the things the actual sequels added.

>>377958581
the urbz was fun

>>377955792
The dumbest shit is that Sims 3 could work perfectly fine on everyones PC if only they would release a 64bit version of it plus framelimit update.

The ultimate Edition of Sims 3 with all DLC works pretty damn well nowdays even with shitloads of mods as long as you cap the frames.

I mean - They still sell that fucking game in every store together with Sims 2 addons.
EA is just mega jewish

>Sims 1 is too old
>Sims 2 is also dated tho not as much as 1
>Sims 3 has everything The Sims needs but the game is broken and it has the ugliest character design
>Sims 4 downgraded many important parts

They will never get it right

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>>377957875
I was really disappointed by 4's new emotion system, especially since now every career reward and all the items you can craft are focused on giving sims a specific emotion that you can already get in a hundred different and more convenient ways

>>377936559
>The Urbz

So that was like the Sims but for black people?

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time to binge again

>MySims
Flopped hard
>Sims Medieval
Also flopped terribly
>The Urbz
People liked it but apparently it also sold like shit so no sequel ever

>>377959209
I stopped playing the sims 4 after I noticed that emotions basically made every sim have the same personality.

In sims 3 the sims had a neutral feel to themselves, until their traits kick in like different traits like coward or grumpy. Sims 4 doesn't have that shit. They were also more amusing to watch. Everyone in sims 4 seems too polite or something.

>>377926484
Just literally take the dims 3 and mod it. It becomes a totally different and much better game that way.

>all these idiots missing the point of the sims
Its the most successful franchise of all time because of its appeal to women, not men.

You're not the target audience. EA has been successful in making the series better for its audience.

>>377959891
>Sims 1 got made to be a building sim
>Sims 2 got made to be a family sim
>Sims 3 got made to be a town sim
>Sims 4 got made appeal to women and girls and trannies

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>go out at night in the OPEN WORLD
>graffiti shit in public areas
>get invited to party
>graffiti the guy's garage

Sims 4 lacks fun shit to do.

>>377960057
Nope. It has always been a female dominated series my underage friend from sims 1 to 4 it has always sold more to girls than boys.

>>377960057
>family sim
>not realizing that is for women and not guys
You go ask any girl if they've played the sims and they'll say yes. Its the most common female vidya followed by Zelda and Pokemon.

>>377960186
Have you ever read the Will Wright interviews?

Sims was all about building originally. The whole family stuff originally had the purpose to help you design your house in an effective way.

Of course EA pushed that but its not like the games did not evolve only in the social part. Building also got better with every new game.

Well - Until Sims 4 happend.
I am not saying girls weren't the target audience. They definitely were. But not the only one.

>>377959483
MySims just wanted to be Animal Crossing. Kinda liked the chibi anime artstyle though.
Sims Medieval didn't do enough. Way too limited to actually be compelling.

>>377936559
The Urbz for GBA and DS was fucking great.

One of the best hidden gems for those consoles.

>>377936559
LETS

>>377959042
They didn't get it right... because time passes? Are you a fucking idiot or what?

>>377959104
I don't know if it's the nostalgia, but I have the best memories of my gaming childhood with Sims 2. It was my first sim game, and I remember playing it all the time. The story mode was very good, and even the free mode was really fun. The controls were amazing, I admit even better than PC. The only downside was that sims didn't age, and that you, obviously, couldn't use custom content.

>>377960775
The problem is that old games lose value once new games surpass them in certain ways.

I can't go back into Sims 2 after experiencing the open world of Sims 3 despite hating its artstyle.

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>>377960547
This is what I'm talking about, I had the DS version and at the time I was blown away at an
semi open world sims with objectives.

I remember falling in love with it 100% at the bayou. So much mystery and confusion thinking where the fuck am I.

God I miss that game.

>there will never be a Sims game with the music quality of Sims1, the mass of content and open world of Sims3, the graphics of Sims4 and the charm of Sims2

>>377960987
That doesn't mean they didn't get it right though it means your opinion on what makes a sims game great has changed, if you didn't play them when they were new I can understand, but man at the time they were so special.

The Sims 1 was so original at the time and nothing else was like it in terms of quality, and then the jump between 1 and 2 was MASSIVE.

I cannot look back and think they are too old, they were amazing games at the time and they still hold up today if you look at them on their own merits and don't compare them to the rest of the series.

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>>377959042
>>377960987
>tfw never played beyond sims 1 so it's still a masterpiece
>decide to illegally pirate sims 1
>it breaks on my machine

>>377961518
>sims 3 content was perfect
>sims are ugly as shit and the game laggy as hell

>sims 4 sims are super good
>game is boring and has nothing to do even with add ons

its not fair

>>377961518
Someone just needs the balls to make their own version combining all that like this thread suggests.

>>377961631
Sims 1 has its flaws despite still being good.
The graphics aged hard and the addons aren't really balanced. I think some were even conflicting.

Sims 2 fixed that and its good but there really is no reason to play it with Sims 3 existing which has even more content. But sadly Sims 3 runs like shit and has the worst artstyle ever with everyone having the same fatface.

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>>377945146
Lain a cute!

>>377948281
Yeah, I suggested pretty much what >>377945146 is saying in /tsg/, and they started whining about it--the women mostly. Fuck. Teenager girls and soccer moms wasted this series' potential, and I'll never not be mad.

>>377961872
>and they still hold up today if you look at them on their own merits and don't compare them to the rest of the series.

Good games can still have flaws anon, they don't have to be 10/10 masterpieces to be considered good. What you said is that they didn't get it right, which is wrong, they got it very very right.

>>377946181
>Sims 1
>the best
I understand your nostalgia, anon. I really do, but it's either 2 or 3 that is the best. Though I still play every few months because the OST and graphics are still fantastic.

The main thing I hate about the new Sims games is that the music isn't as good as the first game's.

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>>377962281
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNizVO8WBYw

It will never be this good again.

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>>377962281
>mfw sims 4 music

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>mfw finding out that the sims 2 Open for Business had a Sims 1 themed radio station

>>377962646
Sounds like shit from High School Musical or Glee.

Best song in The Sims
https://youtu.be/lqwXVOO0gl0
VAGINA PINEAPPLE

I played Singles.
It was awful but it had titties.

>>377960924
Are you me?

>>377960093
If sims 3 wasn't such a resource hog it'd be perfect. It's still my favorite.

>>377962281
OFB was a good expansion in so many ways:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkGhtO49I2M
I hope The Sims Studio realize that what we need for sims to interact with each other and the environment that actually spawns long-lasting gameplay. Getting tired of muh vampires and other shallow mechanics.

>>377962281
>first played sims 3 as my first sims game back in 2014
>already get nostalgia from listening to the music

its that good

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>Sim starts writing sci-fi books
>They flop hard
>Journalist daughter goes through trash cans on the neighborhood looking for stories
>She comes up with lots of useless trash and several copies of her father's books

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>sim has a daughter
>daughter grows to to be a lesbian
>invites her gf to live with her with the dad at the house
>the daughter goes out to buy stuff
>the dad and her gf is at home
>the dad seduces and impregnates the daughter's lesbian gf at home

Lots of precum was had.

>>377926484
>Will the Sims ever have a competitor?
The guild 3 is coming out this year.
Its very much like the sims if it follows the previous games, except you actually get to do stuff that matters.

>>377931895
>http://freeso.org/
Looking at the work they've put in this game makes me pine for a remastered version of the original game

>>377944015
have you played my summer car

If EA would have simply hired a group to make sense of Sims 3's spaghetti code, renigger it so it doesn't leak memory like a whore and contain dozens of infinite loops for AI to get stuck in to and release it with Sims 4's Create-A-Sim it would be an amazing game.

Something I've always wondered.

In the Sims 3, if a household you aren't controlling has a fuck ton of babies will they buy cribs to furnish the house or can they not do that?

I never played past 1 or 2 generations but I would assume other households would start getting wonky after long enough.

>>377966595
AI controlled Sims in The Sims 3 are retards. Constantly getting stuck in AI loops and making terrible decisions.

All I wanted was a improved version of Sims 3, with better optimization, aka, full core utilization and 64-bit. But instead we got a shitty ass Sims 4.

Also:

>tfw we'll never get another The Sims 2: Castaway

>>377959104
>>377960924
It might just be nostalgia, anon. I remember The Sims Bustin' Out for the PS2 being a-fucking-mazing, but I went to look up footage of it now and I can see it's a piss-poor version of a Sims game.
It has some quirks to it, and I could probably play it for an hour or so, but it did age poorly.

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>>377966730
Didn't they pretty much always die after a couple of hours if you left them alone? I do remember quite clearly that the characters in Sims 1 were completely unable to live on their own.

>Sim gets hungry
>starts cooking something
>walks away in the middle of it to watch TV because his happines is slightly lowered
>oven catches fire
>Sim runs directly next to fire
>burns to death soon after

>>377966746
Instead of reworking The Sims 3 they just decided to start from scratch and make a game for the female fans that don't care as much and so they can play it on their shitty work laptops.

>>377966595
>>377967096
The Sims 1 and 2 had terrible freewill AI for sims, but it wasn't so bad since AI sims only had to fulfill their needs when on an active lot. 3 bringing in full story progression made them smarter, but yeah, they will fuck up their lives if left on their own completely. Nraas' Story Progression fixes that though.

>>377967635
Don't you need that and AwesomeMod by the same guy to actually make the game playable at all? Plus I guess running it off an SSD.

>>377967768
>AwesomeMod

Nraas and AwesomeMod aren't compatible. Nraas utilities still continue to be updated and those that weren't were left in a mostly finished state. AwesomeMod hasn't been updated in a long time and it wasn't very complete. Nrass fixes a lot of EA's problems and mainly expands on existing content and features. AwesomeMod changes a lot of game mechanics entirely.

I'd recommend Nraas over AM tenfold.

>>377968098
Oh I thought they were by the same guy. Disregard that then.

>>377926484
I'd just be happier if they tried to model the sims like LIFE, and not some happy make believe world. I would love some DARK and scary life shit happening.

>>377936559
Controls in consoles were fucking obnoxious.
Handheld versions was pretty good tho.

>>377959483
This is actually so sad, because I loved MySims at the time. The game only needed to be a little longer, and add more content, but it wasn't really that bad. The characters were cute and I loved to build things in the game, which is tedious as hell for me on the regular Sim games.

>>377969552
The artstyle was one of the main things it got right. It was like anime-ish but not in an obnoxious way and it was really pleasant. It's a shame it's gone.