>>1019331 >Those situations would be interesting twists if the sim had some sort of trait that made her react to cheating differently. Or if a sim had a bad relationship with his mother so her death didn't affect him much. Great for players who want drama without having to imagine most of it on their own. I was thinking more about how women don't actually care about cheating sometimes because really it just means their man is a chad. As long as she doesn't think he's gonna leave her, then it's fine. And well people grieve is strange ways. Sometimes instead of just crying all the time, a grieving person's emotions just become extreme for a little while. Plus, people adapt surprisingly fast to some emotional things.

At least it means the mods will never become outdated for Sims 4.

>>1019331 I was one of those that said 3 looked bad, but it grew on me, I still consider 2 peak. But theres so much mods for 3 it almos feels like a nonissue, except those load times fuck were they horrible. >spoiler Thats because they are thats not a werewolf

>>1019297 Amazing I believed you when you made this post, but looking at some of these sims comparison videos its clear you made zero exaggerations, 4 looks like complete garbage with its lack of animations, 0 soul. Its starting to make sense why there are so many wannabe sims clones were being made even if they failed to launch. If sims 4 is the competition they probably thought they could steal a share of the market. Part of me can't believe 4 was that bad but it makes sense why they gave it for free and why 3 is still selling for 20 bucks.

>>1019307 They did literally add cuckolding to the game though. Oh wait, they call it "polyamorous relationships". This is not a joke.

>>1019297 >Many things in DLCs don't work That surprised me when I was skimming through DLC reviews a while back. Sure I expected to see low effort content, but I didn't expect so many of them to be outright broken to some degree. Some were broken for a year+ and just left like that. I'm not sure if this is just general incompetence/laziness or if they really do lack the skills to fix their own game. The fact they have the audacity to keep adding more DLC to it when so much is left broken is crazy. >>1019358 >except those load times fuck were they horrible Yeah I have a heavily modded game that takes around 5 mins to load. Not to mention the annoying delays when you have a lot of custom outfits/patterns/hair/etc in CAS. This was also the only game I've seen that warns you to turn off DLC when you have it all enabled.

>>1019442 I heard you have to pay for that feature however, which just makes it all the more amusing that there are faggots who will pay to get cucked.

>>1019481 Maybe some of them want to cope they can form a harem in a sims game, as if the devs would allow something so problematic.

>>1019297 Correct, but I can't believe you left out the worst aspect in the game: trannies. <chest binders <surgical scars <"please select whether this sim can stand up to pee/whether this sim can get pregnant" instead of choosing an actual biological gender <tranny NPCs Anything with transfaggotry is an automatic no from me. I'll be happy with my Sims1/2 thank you.

>>1019297 Don't forget that your Sims can die if they have too extreme an emotion. This wouldn't be a problem if emotions didn't change on a dime and stack as easily as they do, so it can be very easy for a playful Sim to laugh themselves to death if you're not careful.

>>1019488 which ironically you can achieve in the sims 3 using the kinkyworld mod, although I'm pretty sure it's actually because of how buggy the game gets that you can do it I was able to get an entire household fuckin' and suckin' and as long as I kept telling sims to join in they all just lived with it (I think the only time this didn't work was when sims were married and they would end up divorcing immediately after being in an orgy)

>>1019455 > if they really do lack the skills to fix their own game. You should look a the Sims 2 side by side comparison videos with Sims 4 Its clear brain drain is what happened, the people who made the original left and now theyre stuck with people who have no idea what theyre doing. >Yeah I have a heavily modded game that takes around 5 mins to load. Definitely one of the many flaws that hold it back >>1019481 KEK

>>1018931 >>1018957 >>1018796 >>1018792 >>1018788 I think its more likely that EA is gonna send lawyers up your ass nintendo style after any game that tries to copy sims. Cities skyline showed that you don't need a superior product to eat up your audience and sales, just a viable competitor.

>>1019543 >was able to get an entire household fuckin' and suckin' That some rookie sith dude! I made half of the town an incest cesspool, seeded fantasy (not) egypt and fantasy (not) china. AND even had a whole fucking harem in 3 different future! The game family tree just gave up showing the "relatives and offspring" in my international interdimensional cluster fuck.

>>1019570 I tried man, my save file corrupted itself when a loli that moved into the household got pregnant from the man of the house and it broke the setting to not advance age and forced her to give birth to a glitched out baby that destroyed reality.

>>1019570 > harem in 3 different future You rewrote at least 2 of those future so they dont count. Whilst i liked the premise of the future expansion The decor and neighborhoods were shit. possibly the most dull. Especially in the utopia setting.

I have never played a Sims game in my life. Am I missing out? Should I start and where? I am familiar with most of the memes like the 18 hour hedge maze, the guy burning the house down with his lover in it, the ayyliums, etc. but just never got into it. I guess it's cause my parents never bought it for me all those years ago when the first game came out.

>>1019622 The memes are more entertaining than the game itself, you have to make your fun with these kinds of sandbox sims by screwing around with it, not to say that can't be fun or anything, they're basically parody social town builders in a sense.

>>1019622 >Am I missing out? Yes. But you need to start it smart. Like star with TS2 or TS 3 vanilla no expansions. Yes expansions they didnt shitted out DLCs until TS4. Character crreation beats any modern AAA game CC. Skill system on par with Morrowind. Instead of steam-like jewish braindead achievements you have in game challanges which reward you with traits and gadgets. House building is top tier still this day! Expansion are wild and i strongly suggets to try them one by one, but not all at once. They are huge with unique themes and have a huge impact on the gameplay. If you want to start with TS3 then skip the last expansion, the one with the mermaids and the boat houses on the sea. The concept is good, but the game cant handle it too long. Propably was released to fuck over every Sims 3 player before Sims 4 came oubot linkrmaids are a lost, but you can clang robots, zombies, ghosts (wide variety), vampires, werehoes, dickrider faires, witches and cumslut mummies. >>1019576 Im sure i had the option to turn it back with the time control gadget, but i played the game nearly a decade ago. I dont know. Anyway the waste land part of the city was kinda neat, and the robots just made the whole expansion worth it.

>>1019622 Start Sims 2 and then go to 3 with all expansions. Not that sims 1 is bad but it just requires a whole bunch of imagination with how lackluster the graphic is. Which is the keyword how much imagination do you have to create your own story. >>1019629 >i played the game nearly a decade ago Yeah im looking back with nostalgia, can't believe i lost Sims 3 but managed to kept sims 1 discs Except now my computer doesnt have a disc reader

>>1019628 https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=nsxoZXaYJSk&t=4200s Dollhouse Sims These games really aren't all that good but they can be fun if you can make your own fun with it.

If you have a penis and play The Sims, welcome to the LGBTQIAP, and congratulations in advance on your upcoming transition!

>>1019687 I like SimsAnt, that's about it, SimCity is ok I guess.

>>1019622 I played Sims 1 and 2 when I was a child/early teen. It is a unique experience, as there is no other game that does as good of a job as The Sims in recreating the feel of a dollhouse that Korean game hasn't released yet. Now what does that mean? Well you have a few playstiles available: >recreate your life with slight modifications Maybe you want to recreate your highschool/college experience, but now you get to date the hot emo GF childhood friend who is secretely a vampire. You can do that in Sims 2, with the University expansion you go to campus and live a campus life with the emo GF. Or maybe you want to recreate an even shittier version of yourself, who fails at everything in life and drowns himself in the end, you can also do that in the Sims. >be the director of your own slice of life or drama TV show This requires a bit more creativity and planning, and it's what most of those famous memes boil down to. Basically you either play one of the pre-generated families from the game with their own backstories and drama, or you create your own Sitcom/Drama. Maybe you want to do something like F.R.I.E.N.D.S. or Braking Bad or whatever slice of life anime you like, it is somewhat possible. Or just go for something simple like two sisters who hate each other and want to kill each other(one of the families from the base game of Sims 2), search for aliens and as a male get impregnated by one(vanilla Sims 2), maybe you want to be a landlord and see how the tenants interact( there was an expansion pack for Sims 2 about this). The game, just like a doll house, gives you a lot of stuff to fuck around with, but you also have to want to engage with it. Or again, just recreate your life, but idyllic, that's also valid. >go for a self imposed challenge run Maybe you want to run a pet store and have every Sim in the neighborhood adopt one of your pets, you can do that. Maybe you want to impregnate all the married women in the game, probably can do that even without mods. Maybe you want to do a from rags to riches story, you can do that. >fuck all of that shit, I love AutoCAD You can also just build houses, restaurants, schools, campuses, night clubs, shops and much more. There are plenty of people who upload maps and buildings on the net, so there is a target audience for this as well. As for missing our, considering how unique it is, I think it's worth giving it a try, either go for 2 or 3 if you can run it, or wait for the Korean one if you suffer from extreme yellow fever.

>>1019694 it should be noted that with TS3 there are quite a few tweaks that can be applied to improve performance, the obvious one is to have it installed on an SSD there are several init tweaks needed like changing the memory limit to 4gb, or according to the ini file: [ResourceSystem] MemoryUsageLimit = 40000000 you can't go higher than 4gb because it's only a 32bit application, it's hard capped to 4gb you also need an fps limiter because TS3 tries to run at an ulimited framerate for some reason and it makes the game run even worse there are probably more tweaks I've forgotten about that if it wasn't for the kinkyworld mod I'd never have known

>>1019900 >it should be noted that with TS3 there are quite a few tweaks that can be applied to improve performance, the obvious one is to have it installed on an SSD Better hardware improves performance? No way!

>>1019900 >you can't go higher than 4gb because it's only a 32bit application, it's hard capped to 4gb >you also need an fps limiter because TS3 tries to run at an ulimited framerate for some reason and it makes the game run even worse This explains so much

>>1020036 >you also need an fps limiter because TS3 tries to run at an ulimited framerate for some reason and it makes the game run even worse You don't need one, who doesn't want Sims on crack?

>>1020041 >on crack No thats sims 3 on some other drug that makes you feel slow as shit.. I almost never customized characters because the loading screens were that bad Of course this was 10 plus years ago

>>1020041 it doesn't make the sims feel like it's on crack, it literally slows the game down while working your hardware as hard as it can, older hardware it didn't really matter because the game was made to utilize that slow hardware best it could, but newer hardware actually gets overburdened because it wont limit itself to processing just 60 frames per second, not all frames are going to be rendered so it's literally just wasting your hardware's time by processing several hundred frames ahead of time

>>1020161 You'd probably get better performance just framecapping it and using a speedhack.

>>1019900 >you can't go higher than 4gb because it's only a 32bit application, it's hard capped to 4gb That's very bad, especially for a game like Sims 3 with it's map size and all of it's expansions. That will be a permanent bottleneck to it's performance, regardless of what new GPU and CPU you have. At this point, the best hope is for some mad lad to make some OpenSims game engine that allows you to port the assets from Sims 3, from your "legally owned copy" into the engine, same with Open Morrowind and Open Tomb Raider.

>>1020168 some of the expansions are just outright game breaking too, like makes the game unplayable broken

It finally happened. EA is nothing but a Niggerball company now! They have nothing else, no capacity for growth even.

>>1020181 Performance-wise or "balance" (in a "life simulator" with aliens and vampires)-wise?

>>1020209 Sadly performance. All this nostalgia posting made me reinstall the game. The old pirated complete edition still working. Thats good. Porn mods still maintained. Thats good. Skin and better looking sims mods need some really tiresome search. Thats okay. Launch the game and my rtx 3080 starts to scream like someone ass raping her without lube. Thats fucking bad! If it wasnt for >>1019900 anon i would accidentally burn out my card. But that not the funny thing! The fucking dog comedy is that this issue was solved by modders for years! It even has its own steam page with extra autistic wall of text guide how easy it was to fix and how the devs are fucking jews for purposely letting it in its state! If you want the game for the porn then (just like Skyrim) its not worth it. If you want to play doll house then this is your only and best option until the chinks step up.