/v/ - Video Games

Absolutely not. Sims II is a straight upgrade in every way and Sims III is a sidegrade to that, losing some stuff and gaining others.

>>15799540

This. Sims 4 is absolutely irredeemable dogshit, however.

>>15799531

It still has the best music. TS3 has the best gameplay.

>>15799649

This and it has one of the best expansion. Makin Magic.

The Sims 2 is definitely the most complete Sims experience. Sims 3 was so close to being the best, if only it had better expansions and wasn't so shittily optimized. Open world actually worked great in The Sims 3, I thought it was going to be a staple feature going forward in the series, but 4 was a massive step back.

Oh and it was also somewhat challenging. The newer ones are way too easy.

>>15799553

Never played one of these. I've heard about all the DLC for the DLC bullshit in 4, but I assume there are significant faults to the game compared to 2, even after pirating every bit of content?

>>15799540

>>15799531

Sims 2 is better in every way. If you want classic sims go hunt down a copy of the sims 2 and some of it's better expansions.

>>15799779

>The Sims Online 2 was almost a thing

Interesting, it probably would have gotten fucked up somehow though. Wonder how Sims 4 could have been if the devs fucking cared. I still think that weather and pets should be base game things. At least weather.

>>15799531

In terms of comfiness. Yes, absolute maximum comfy. The perfect Sims game would be:

-Comfiness/atmosphere/music of TS1

-Playfulness and core gameplay system of TS2 (with borrowed optional story-system/NPC self-advancement system and free roam of TS3)

-Create-a-style and advanced building tools of TS3

>>15799553

How so?

Did anyone else play the Sims Online?

So, how many expansions can you install before the game fucks up in a modern computer?

>>15799656

The only thing The Sims 4 had going for it is that they managed to make the Sims not look as doughy and fat even at low fatness.

So you could make a big tiddy harem without their heads being flabby fatties

>>15800123

I played it with all expansions without any issue, has to be played in compatibility mode (windows XP), though, if you are on more modern Operating Systems.

>>15800123

I pirated the game and all 20 bullshit expansions and add-ons and it slowed my rig massively both due to the insane file bloat. Had to uninstall almost immediately and it went back to normal.

>>15800138

*I pirated The Sims 4

The Sims still works great.

>>15800123

For Sims 3 you can do all of them. But you shouldn't because of feature bloat (did they really have to not give me the option to disable zombies?) and memory leaks in some maps (notably bad in the tropical island expansion)

I really loved Vacation since I could make my own Hotels and resorts. Combined with Hot Date you could make restaurants for maximum vacation.

>>15800143

That's a shame, I wanted to make an Hotel.

Is the ambitions expansion worthy? Also the future stuff one.

Also, is the map editor in the base game? To make my autistic county.

>>15800147

>making the most extravagant vacation resorts and BAYAYA BAH-YAH-YOH-ing my sims into a permanent vacation.

Fun times they were.

>>15800141

>>15800138

What's your rig? I heard TS4 is actually fairly well optimized, and can run with all the expansions without issues, unlike 3, which legit would corrupt your save or crash the game.

>>15799658

TS1 isn't very challenging, from what I remember. You just have to struggle to micromanage all your Sims needs because they go down so fast, there's basically no time left to do much else. That and the fact you have to work everyday, and are expected to make tons of friends(whose friendship decays back to normal after some time) to advance jobs make it a chore.

>>15800230

Where there any serious mods that changed the gameplay in Sims 1?

>>15800175

I could never find the map editor's in any of the games, unless I'm just straight up retarded. All I could do was play on stock maps. I could place trees and landmarks and shit but not make my own town from dirt.

>>15800252

I can't understand why people doesn't put map editors in games anymore.

>>15800251

I don't think modding was even a big thing back then, and it's not like many people are interested in modding a 18 years old game when the sequels offer a deeper experience

>>15800294

>I don't think modding was even a big thing back then

It was, zoomer, but 99% of the mods were content packs and didn't change the game when it came to the first Sims.

>>15799531

Video games aren’t movies. They usually get better each installment when they have competent management/development.

Sadly most gaming franchises seem to have dreadful management these days.

>>15800151

>That's a shame, I wanted to make an Hotel

You'd be surprised how many times I've heard someone say that after learning about the memory leak; running a tropical resort is apparently high on the list for Sims 3 players

Sims 1 was always the comfiest one to me (a lot of it thanks to the music, but it's not the only culprit). That's probably my nostalgia classes being too tight, though.

Anyone tried the fan-recreation of Sims Online? How is it?

No. Sims 3 was the best.

Is this really the only house/life simulator in the market?

What I liked the most about the game is that some characters had a back ground. In Sims 1 everything was hand crafted (same with simcity 4).

>>15799540

>>15799967

>>15800359

There was also Singles.

>>15800359

Stardew Valley?

>>15800353

It'd be fun if there was a /v/ house in the new Sims Online.

>>15800366

theres no sims online

>>15800376

http://freeso.org/

>>15800376

orly?

>>15800384

>>15800383

/v/ would get banned thats what i meant

>>15800389

I highly doubt it.

>>15800389

Are you like drunk or something?

>>15800404

>china

not even once

>>15800420

Don't forget about potion making. Shit was great.

>>15800444

probably the funnest thing in 1 that for some reason was never added to the sequels

Did the expansions improve Sims 4 at all?

>>15800466

You can't improve barebones shit.

I worry what 5 will bring or rather, what it won't.

>>15800469

>implying there will be a sims 5

they said they're milking 4 until 2020 or so

>>15799962

This is one hell of an escalat-GHOST BLOWJOB.

My sides!

>>15800404

Jesus fucking christ.

Sims 1 complete is probably best in my opinion.

But if we're only talking, base game no expansions I'd probably give it to sims 2.

>>15800477

No harm in it then. A new Sim City would be nice, especially one that works.

>>15799649

Open World is an awesome feature. Habit Hole was a shit idea, a big step back. I prefer loading screens and shoppings, stores, play arcade with other sims…

Would you niggers care to play SO together?

Sims clone when

>not making a fat slob woman who braaaaaps all day

>>15803575

Please tell me that's a guy

Sims 3 would be the definitive version if it didn't run like a total pile of shit. As it stands, most others are right in that it's your choice whether 2 or 3 is better.

Kinkymod is mandatory.

>>15803597

It doesn't run that bad on an SSD

>>15803596

Your posts reeks of reddit.

>>15803602

Maybe it's just because mine's 4 or 5 years old, but I'm not installing 60+ gigs of life simulator pornography on there. Not again.

>>15803596

He just wants to fuck man ass, anon. It's very obvious.

>>15803596

>being this new

>>15803643

>and fuck

There was no woohoo in the first game. Babies just popped up out of nowhere after kissing a lot.

>>15803653

There was, but there was only 3 locations to do it, the vibrator bed, the heart-shaped bath tub, and the changing station in oldtown. None of them in the base game, tho. Not sure if they could have babies by woohoing either

>>15803659

You could. I would jerk off to it when I was 12.

the real question is which one has the best porn mods?

also I enjoyed the handheld games greatly

>>15803688

>>15799657

>>15799962

I think I played it. What's the name again?

>>15803659

I got detention for discussing woohoo on the bus. Fucking bus girls being snitches.

>>15803862

Did you fuck those bus sluts and turn them into your schoolyard cum slaves?

>>15803870

Sounds like a personal problem.

>>15803896

Wonder why no sequels got something like that

>>15803896

Highly disliked that expansion ruining all the atmosphere of the past games

Although i have to say it was fun as hell, had a separate installation for it

>>15803897

Supernatural for TS3 is the closest I can think of. Although it wasn't just witchcraft, but werewolves, pixies, vampires and zombie crap too.

>>15803866

No I think I was like 10 my man. They were assholes to me on a regular basis and I would have preferred putting their heads on a pike.

>>15803912

That's when you bully them back with your dick.

SIMS 2 SEASONS AND OPEN 4 BUSINESS ARE THE BEST EXPANSIONS IN THE FRANCHISE. PROVE ME WRONG FAGGOTS.

Even if you can, running a store in your house selling shit you found and made was comfy as fuck.

>>15800314

Straight upgrade of the original. Has a great selection of expansions Only 2 I didn't like were FreeTime and Apartment Life , actually functional unlike Sims 3 most of the time, has functional cars (Sims 3 had cars but they were basically just objects in Sims pockets), has the funnest cheat codes of any Sims game, and tons of mods and CC to be found.

>>15800453

to me the funniest thing was looking back on my memories playing it as a child and being scared shitless of the random phone calls.

>>15803925

The only thing I didn't like of 2 was the loading times.

>>15804220

2 is just too lonely. Your own lot exists in a separate world, nothing else in the town will age or advance, which creates weird situations like where your descendants are befriending the exact same people their ancestors did.

I know some people like to play multiple households at a time, so it's good for them, but 3 fits my playstyle more.

>>15804260

Do many people play with aging turned on? Makes the whole game feel like it's in a timer, you only have so much time to get your career up, your skills up, have children. The opposite of what a comfy game should be.

>>15804275

I do. I like seeing how the generations change over time. Seeing new characters show up and then realising they're the kids of someone your sim went to school with. Also seeing the combination of genetics spawning new sims. I like seeing the family trees spread out and grow. And slowly over time my house becomes haunted with all the previous generations urns or tombstones filling up the lot

>>15803681

Reminds me of that cheat I looked up that let you move stuff around even when it was "in-use". Which of course, since I was also around 11-12 at the time, the first thing I tried was moving the shower while a Sim loli or shota, I wasn't picky, but the former made more sense because they all had ken-doll crotches was in it, and you could see their nude model when at any time they would otherwise be covered with a censor blur. Then let time run again and they would rub their hands all over their naked little bodies like washing. Dropped a few loads looking at that, until the internet got more widespread and I could find better stuff.

>>15804260

>weird situations like where your descendants are befriending the exact same people their ancestors did

>TFW you're playing the protagonist of an anime where you are the only human family in a world of immortal vampires

Yeah, never played with aging on. Gave me too much anxiety.

>>15804289

did you grow up to be bi or something?

>>15803843

I meant for the handheld game you idiot. I linked him to kinkyworld because he asked them.

<<15804624

>the first 5 posts samefagging or bots.

>london, this place is a fucking dump.

is this a bot?

>>15804624

The fuck you on, nigger

>>15799540

The Sims 2 was The sims 1 but with shitty aesthetics. The Sims 3 is an upgrade in every way

>>15800101

Imagine the Sims 3 but without everything that made The Sims 3 good. There's no overworld anymore, just some shitty preselected areas to do gym stuff. The only upgrade is the need system and even that was slightly casualized.

Sims 3 (With Mods)>Sims 2>Sims 3>shit>Sims>Worse shit>Sims 4

>>15805650

What does 2 even have that 3 doesn't?

>>15805689

Acceptable loading times.

>>15803896

>cute skeleton maid

>magic duels

>casually brew potions in your house as a hobby

Why did they remove fun in the sequels?

>>15805650

>shit>Sims

Shit doesn't have good music and good models

>>15805689

Well, it has no 10-minute loading times, for starters

And it also has gameplay above 20FPS

>>15804344

>grow up to be bi

>implying a 12-year-old doesn't know what side of the plate he bats on by then

>implying fapping to vidya kids can alter sexual orientation

If you remove the tastiest part from a dish, it's still edible, especially if the food is very fresh. It's not perfect or even ideal, but a starving person will take what is available.

>>15799531

Nostalgia would say yeah it is.

>>15803896

Can i fuck that skeleton maid?

>>15806254

>setting foot in the bone zone

>>15806984

>You only age slower than other sims, but you still eventually age up and can die of old age I think.

I remember I modded that so that vampires and ghosts are immortal. Dunno why they gave them aging.

>>15807006

Probably to future-proof the town. If vampires and ghosts continued to persist as other sims died or joined the ranks of vampires and ghosts you would eventually have an overflowing town of undead and the game would start to choke (more than usual) from tracking every vampire/ghost/living sim and all their generations.

I actually didn't know about the ghosts following the same rules though, but now it makes sense that even they would eventually be culled.

>>15807061

Story progression sets a limit on the maximum amount of certain supernaturals though.

How do I have fun with The Sims? I'm currently playing 2 because I was told it's generally the most complete, but I kinda get bored too easily.

>>15800383

There was a thread where we tried this awhile back and the regulars on FreeSO were having meltdowns over how horrible all the new people they were seeing joining their server/houses.

>>15814825

The Sims thrives on players setting arbitrary goals for themselves:

you might want to help your sims fulfill their arbitrary ambitions

you might just want to build their house up into a mansion (you might even want to earn money to do so via ingame means instead of cheating)

you might just want to have them sex eachother up (in which case head to /hgg/)

you might just want to find creative ways to kill them

The series is the most casual of the casual, and yet incredibly complex in design. Find a way to direct your sims toward the end you've decided on or relax and let your virtual goldfish family surprise you with how it develops.

I've only played 3 in-depth so I don't know if you can do this in 2, but see if you can't make a thief and send them out to steal everyone's shit

>>15814867

So you're advocating doing it again?

>>15814893

you might enjoy 3 with the kinkyworld mod

more than just a sex mod, it expands features to the point that it may as well be an expansion pack. The interior schools alone are worth a look

First Sims is best in terms of atmosphere. Or maybe not the best, but the most special, It's been almost twenty years and I still can't properly explain how it feels to play that game. I think the only way I can describe it is "engaging melancholia".

Sims 2 is the best in my opinion, compared to The Sims it's an improvement in every way. If you do a complete install the game suffers from feature bloat, but that's par for the course with Sims games. The major flaw of the game is the world not really being connected, lots being separated by loading screens and NPC sims not aging. They somewhat fixed the latter with Apartment Life, but that's not perfect either.

Sims 3 is a bit of a mixed bag for me. I like the persistent world, they added a lot of interesting little things, but, at the end of the day, it wasn't well-suited for my playstyle from Sims 2. In Sims 2, I autistically managed multiple households at once, Sims 3 is more geared towards playing just one family at the time. Not bad, but I couldn't get used to it.

That, and I dislike the fact that it's nearly impossible to create a sim that doesn't look like a potato, and the fact that they gimped the character creation to be able to sell you hairstyles for IRL cash is a travesty.

I feel like giving Sims 3 another chance right now.

Are there any breast slider mods for Sims 2?

>>15814825

Legacies and other challenges of that sort are always enjoyable, I've always liked the asylum one where you create 8 sims, thrown them in a house with not enough furniture for everyone and directly controls just one of the 8, the entire thing becomes a clusterfuck of yelling and crying by the third day.

>>15815750

Is that what a furry looks like, or is that an oven escapee?

>>15799540

Fpbp. Sims was good but Sims 2 was where you thought the series was going some where. Sims 3 polished some parts but remove some of the others made everything awkward until it finally got on it feet.

>>15799553

Second post not bad either

>>15799665

>>15800101

The lack of content, fewer neighborhoods, fewer lots to build houses, everything is online, Content that were featured since Sims 1 were removed and then added in as dlc. All in all a huge stepdown.

>>15816057

That is why you don't let children play with household chemicals.

>>15815750

>or I think if you have a certain expansion you might give birth to a furry (aka: dog girl).

With the supernatural expansion, if you get knocked up by a dog you have a chance to give birth to a werewolf. Also on werewolves, a recent addition was added to kinkyworld where they can sniff out fertile females and mark them on the map. Handy for impregnating the whole town.

>>15815817

There's also a challenge called passing the torch, where you play only one sim, letting the others be controlled by the ai, and when your first alternating gender kid (allowing some randomness to the amount of siblings each generation) reaches the child state, you switch to playing them, raise them up, have kids and repeat. It's a good mix of playing with genetics and seeing a family grow while also seeing what the ai does for amusment. Especially with kinkyworld horniness system helping the ai to do interesting things.

I started playing the daughter of my sim, and only realised when she was an adult that her brother had somehow gotten into an incestuous relationship with their mother once the dad died. He started sleeping in her bed and everything.

>>15818472

>There's also a challenge called passing the torch

Which games does this even work on? The AI kinda sucks on most of them, Sims won't even find a job on their own.

>>15818956

I do it on 3. Yeah they can't find a job on their own, but if you break the rules briefly to get them a job, they can at least keep it and get promotions. Otherwise the challenge is just trying to earn enough to keep your unemployed family fed

>>15818511

A lot of problems with loading are circumvented with an ssd, seriously.

TS3 caches so much data because of the memory limit that disk i/o becomes one of the biggest bottlenecks to it.

>>15818956

I was going to try and let the game run on auto pilot for a while, but forgot that there are random prompts that pause the game waiting for user input. Was pretty disappointed I didn't wake up to see a couple years pass in-game without user influence.

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>>15819469

cringe

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>>15819469

Thank you based dubs bot.

>>15819556

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cringe

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