Now you've got Sims 3, do you still play Sims 2?

[Nukael]

I was wondering that. I remember when I had just installed Sims 3 I grew enormously bored after a couple of weeks of irregularly playing it and I fired up my old Sims 2 saved games. And after I FINALLY managed to load my neighborhood (ye gods, the loading screens!) I was so fed up with the loading screens that I quit the game and never looked back.

Though I am getting restless with the Sims 3, I just don't seem to get into it that much as I used to be able to. Yes I know it's only two expansions in, but still...

I remember thinking back when Apartment Life came around "all this needs now is an open neighborhood". So I was floored when The Sims 3 was announced. And we have a lot of improvements, but something's missing for me and I can't put my finger on it.
So do you still switch between the Sims 3 and 2? Or exclusively the Sims 3?

My fantasy is if we could have the Sims 2 with the open neighborhood and the new CAST.

[severedsolo]

After all of the "bring back the cool stuff from TS2" talk thats been going around since LN was announced, I actually reinstalled TS2+NL+AL last night. Ye Gods, I was so annoyed with it after just half an hour. EVERY time I want to go somewhere, Loading Screens.... people phoning you CONSTANTLY wanting to go out on Group Outings. LEAVE ME ALONE! The only thing I actually quite enjoyed about it was the Butler.... God I miss him in TS3....

I don't claim to be TS3's biggest fan, there are things I don't like about it, same as in any game/movie/book I read. (I have a habit of picking holes in everything, even if I generally like it) but I won't be playing TS2 again for a while.

[Beer76]

No. I knew immediately that TS3 had a lot more to offer than TS2 and a lot more possibilities. TS2 had its limitations and I would grow bored quickly with it from those limitations. Whereas with TS3 there are a lot more things you can do not just from playing it, but also from a creative aspect too.

We're only 2 EP's in and the only thing that I wish we had right now were pets and weather. Mostly because with a perpetual world I would love to see how strays and how weather affects things. Particularly with firefighters as an active profession. Forest fires from a particularly hot summer, or a fall thunderstorm lightning strike.

But really, the sheer fact that you can visit pretty much any place in the Sims 3 world is probably one of the best things about the game and probably the most overlooked when comparing it to its predecessor.

[Nukael]

EVERY time I want to go somewhere, Loading Screens.... people phoning you CONSTANTLY wanting to go out on Group Outings. LEAVE ME ALONE! The only thing I actually quite enjoyed about it was the Butler.... God I miss him in TS3....

I know, right? :rofl:
I couldn't stand the loading screens anymore as well, not while I knew there was TS3 beckoning me with its open neighborhood. Aren't they bringing back the butlers in Late Night? That would be cool...
So I'm in limbo, I'm bored with TS3, but can't go back to TS2. Maybe I could ask my budding indie game developers to whip up our own version of the Sims, maybe call it "The Virties" (as in "virtual", get it, get it? :anime: ).

[appelsapgodin]

I played Sims3 for a while, but it is back in the closet and untouched atm. I'm totally playing Sims2 again (with an independant economic system alike Isle of Thyme). I really didn't like just basic sims3. So I'll wait until there are some more EPs and might try again in a year or so.

[Robodl95]

I play both pretty regularly, both are great in their own ways

[Nalia]

I do play TS2 actually. Three weeks were enough to get bored of TS3. Open neighbourhood is wonderful as well as the landmark, but the fun of TS2 is irreplaceable. A few months back I built a new quad, so the game takes only 2-3 minutes to load (thanks to CC) and the loading screens between main neighbourhood and Downtown are really fast, so I have no problem with it.

Like appelsapgodin, I'll be waiting for future EPs to see how much they'll add to the game.

My fantasy is if we could have the Sims 2 with the open neighborhood and the new CAST.
This pretty much sums up my *ideal* game.

[Fernweather]

When I first got TS3, I figured I'd keep playing TS2 for a while. I had all the EPs installed and had a long-term neighborhood that I had invested a lot of creative energy and time into with sims that I really enjoyed playing. I didn't have any interest in giving up apartments, night clubs, weather, hobbies, and everything else.

After playing TS3 for just a couple of hours, though, when I went back to TS2, I just found the lack of a seamless world and some of the other new features too confining.

With TS3, I also went back to my TS1 style of play, which was to play just a single household. In TS2, I rotated through multiple households so that the neighborhood would age evenly. But, since even with mods TS3 just isn't well suited for multiple household play, I've gone back to single household play which was always a better fit for me anyways.

[severedsolo]

Actually, I'm glad there is a thread on this over here now... there is a similar one on the TS2 discussion board, but its all "Nooo TS3 sucks i'm never ever gonna buy it or play it" So how are you going to make this decision if you don't play it? Annoys me so much when people base an opinion on something they have never actually seen/done for themselves....

At least here the majority of people would have at least played both so can make an informed decision.

[el_flel]

I play TS3 more but I do still play TS2 for my supernatural sims and businesses.

[mangaroo]

Actually, I'm glad there is a thread on this over here now... there is a similar one on the TS2 discussion board, but its all "Nooo TS3 sucks i'm never ever gonna buy it or play it" So how are you going to make this decision if you don't play it? Annoys me so much when people base an opinion on something they have never actually seen/done for themselves....

Nalia's posted in that thread, I believe. As have I. So it's entirely possible for people to play TS3 extensively (I have both EPs and HELS) and still prefer 2. Annoys me so much when people generalize.

[bassoon_crazy]

It's funny because for the first 7 months that I had The Sims 3 I was too intimidated by it to even play it (it seemed slow, the graphics were kind of weird, and I didn't like the way the Sims look). So The Sims 2 was still my most played. Recently I got into TS3 and played it for real. I really enjoyed it.

Just yesterday I loaded up The Sims 2 again, thinking that it might be weird to me now, but it isn't. The loading screens don't bother me at all. The Sims 2 is timeless and has not been outdated. I love it and I don't think I'll stop playing it. I can play them both side by side.

Funny I also just installed The Sims 1 and played it for the first time in six years, surprisingly it wasn't too intolerable. Just weird, and quite hard compared to The Sims 2 and 3.

[calisims]

I got bored with Sims 3 pretty quickly at first. and went back to Sims 2 for awhile. It was great to have real romantic dates again, the animations in 2 are so much better for romance socials. But the loading screens were a real drag, I missed the open neighborhood.
So, I stopped playing Sims entirely got obsessed with Dragon Age for awhile.
Just before Ambitions came out my husband got his hands on a new-used PC and start disassembling them and rebuilding all the PCs in the house. So, I got a new-used PC to play with, and installed Sims 3 & WA, and the addedAmbitions to that. Sometimes I miss TS2 and would like to play, but I just can't make myself install it and all the eps & sps and find default replacements and my favorite CC all over again. I am having more fun with Sims 3 now than I had at first, in part because of Ambitions, and in part because I'm involved in a challenge game, which helps keep me interested.

[Nalia]

Actually, I'm glad there is a thread on this over here now... there is a similar one on the TS2 discussion board, but its all "Nooo TS3 sucks i'm never ever gonna buy it or play it" So how are you going to make this decision if you don't play it? Annoys me so much when people base an opinion on something they have never actually seen/done for themselves....

At least here the majority of people would have at least played both so can make an informed decision.

Come again?

I really long for a Sims 3 that is merely a Sims 2 with open neighbourhoods.To me 3 can never ever take the place of 2 wich is an absotutely fun game After 2 months of playing 3 I got fed up.I spent most of my time downloading hacks to make it run smoother and CC was hard to find for free and I wouldn't even consider buying anything from the EA-store.IT'S A RIPP OFF !!!!
one of the things I dont like about sims 3 is the community lots, its nice to walk around the hood but then I cant see whats going on in the community lots.
Sims 2 had waaaay more options right from the start, I feel like sims 3 is a step back, I cant really customize my hoods the way Id like to.
Sims 3 feels like sims 1, I have sent my copy back and I will be sticking with sims 2 as there is nothing I cant do within the game. :D
I prefer TS2 by a long shot...

Pro-TS2
- That game after TS1 with its isometric camera and rigid movements was a godsend
- You can walk around in the community lots and actually do something with your sims there
- The EPs made it so much more enjoyable than just the base game. It feels frighteningly real for a simulation game.
- The sims' expressions when they do things like observing ants (favorite! :lol:)
- Lack of PUDDING FACE :faceslap:
- Smustle. My heart tore in two when there was no Smustle option on the radio for TS3 :( (unless there is and I've gone mad)

Pro-TS3
- SO many design options for CAS, it's so wonderful
- Seamless continuum, so you don't have to play in cycles... but for TS2 I got so used to just doing it, and so I never miss anything
- The traits feature is like the next level of personalities :up:

I'm sure if TS3 keeps on having EPs released for it, it will continue to get better and might even beat out TS2 someday
The Sims 2 is definitely better.

The only good things about The Sims 3, in my opinion, is that you can openly explore your town, and the character customization. It takes an unfathomable amount of time to max out a skill, and even then, you're still not professional with it? I had a Martial Arts Sim, and I maxed out their skill and went to battle other people or whatever and lost every single match. What is that?! Also, the people look like mannequins, and how can you be "Leader of The Free World" when there are under one-hundred people in your town?

The only reason I tolerated The Sims 3 as long as I did is because I spent the money on it, so I might as well have played it. Right? WRONG. World Adventures HONESTLY got old in two days, and I keep coming back for more with The Sims 2 expansion packs.

HOORAY FOR THE SIMS 2! :þ

- CandinFat(:
I am just way too attached to TS2 to get involved with TS3. I tried playing it for a while a little after it came out. I was so excited for the sims 3 to come out and when I started playing it, it was a major disappointment. It took me over an hour to create a family and their houses just because of all the options and I got very distracted.

Something I also realized while playing is that if you choose a career for you're sims in TS3 the whole gameplay revolves around their career.

Bottom line, I reinstalled TS2 :)
When EA or some clever modder fixes the problem of ugly toddlers and children, or when EA releases an EP that makes me want to play one eternally unaging neighborhood, I will try TS3 again. Many of its features are undeniably superior to TS2. Until then, I am one of the lucky ones: I still love playing TS2 and there's more I want to do in the game than I have time to. I want to play my custom hood, the uberhood, a BACC hood, another Asylum, an Apocalypse challenge...
I actually played TS3 first, then went to TS2 to see what it was like. At first I thought "Why are there loading screens? AND WHY CAN'T DELETE I MULTIPLE THINGS!?" so I had thought "Oh, TS3 is much better because I don't have to wait for loading screens." (It also took me awhile to comprehend that ALL CC in TS2 goes in the dl folder)
Then I played 2 for a little while longer, and loved it. For me, there's more too love in TS2 than three. Because with 2, I don't have to worry about body sliders that'll make my Sim's shoulders look too wide when I put skinniness all the way down.
Sure, TS3 is loading screenless, but all or most of the EA sims look kinda the same(as someone had said earlier).
I also noticed TS3 focused more on graphics, while TS2 focused more on socials. EA took away a lot of the interactions when they made 3, and I love how difficult it is to make friends in 2. In 3, you can be their best buddy, or even wife/husband in a DAY. No EA, that's NOT how it works! D<
TS2 for ever!

...and these are only a small sample of the said thread.

In my opinion the players there have made a very informed decision.

[Nukael]

I really don't know what to do... Maybe I should get a brand spanking new PC that's all pimped out so that the loading screens zip by (which is one of the main reasons I can't go back to TS2). It's just that after a while I run out of things to do in TS3, it doesn't grab my attention like it used to.

The biggest hurdle would be to find all of the CC again I used for TS2. Many of which the creators have left the community. So I'll just hope I get more interest again. Maybe when we get vampires I'll start to tell epic stories once more!

[severedsolo]

Nalia's posted in that thread, I believe. As have I. So it's entirely possible for people to play TS3 extensively (I have both EPs and HELS) and still prefer 2. Annoys me so much when people generalize.

:rofl: Ok I take it back, not EVERY post on that thread is like that.

I wasn't saying "How could anyone possibly prefer TS2" because that would be a stupid statement. Everyone is different, and I'm sure that plenty of people prefer TS2 as much as I prefer TS3.

My point was that people should actually try both before they make a decision about which is better.

Different Horses for Different Courses ya know?

[CleoSombra]

I've found the glitches in Sims 3 to be more severe than those in TS2.

In TS2, I never downloaded a patch (because they were like 30 MB and I'm on dial up). But even then, I never had a glitch that forced me to start over.

I've had two separate glitches happen to me in TS3 to do that, and a variety of other glitches that suck the fun out of things. Like I'm doing the Klepto King challenge, but items disappear from my family inventory if I don't put them down within the same day (I was trying to collect a few lights before putting them all down).

[Nalia]

My point was that people should actually try both before they make a decision about which is better.
And my post proves that most people there have actually tried both bloody games. How long are you going to pretend you don't get it?

[mangaroo]

Whoa...before a fight breaks out to take this thread off-topic, I think we can agree that there are some people who posted in the TS2 forum thread who declared they had never tried TS3 and didn't like the look of it so didn't plan to. severedsolo already admitted not every post in the thread was like that.

Of course responses in a TS2 v TS3 thread will tend to be biased based on the subforum where the thread is posted.

[Nalia]

My apologies.

[kennyinbmore]

After experiencing the open world in TS3, there was no way I could go back to TS2

[aeval99]

I have only loaded up Sims 2 once since the Sims 3 was released and don't even have it installed any longer. I do play the Sims 1 once in awhile, just to get my Makin' Magic fix; churning butter, bee-keeping and visiting the magic lots will never get old for me.

I think a lot of the choice comes down to play style. I spend more time decorating and landscaping than I do playing, so CAST is just the best thing ever in my books. I never really bothered much with dating and mating or storytelling, so omissions like scrapbooks, genetics, dates, baby crap, woohooing in cars, nightclubs and many of the socials don't faze me at all. OTOH, I love RPG's, so additions like Opportunities (quests) and the Seamless hood (open world) make me froth at the mouth. I could never go back to the 2 minute driveway shuffle (stop slamming that *%$#@! door) and 5 minute loading time to take my house of 8 to a community lot! I also could no longer live without the ability to match the appropriate shoes to an outfit. Death to Hookerwear!

That's not to say that I don't miss things because I do. I miss hearing the wind howl in winter, or the rain on the roof (although the ocean and the swamp have some awesome sound effects). I miss swimming in the ocean, male pregnancy, all the crafting items and their associated skills and of course, restaurants. And there are many items that I would love to have back, like the violin, half walls, community showers and 3 years worth of amazing work from the community...but most of these things will come in time. The ones that don't I will just have to learn to live without, just as I learned to live without many things I loved from Sims 1.

[justin1010]

Nah I gave all my Sims 2 EP's and SP's to my sister so she plays those. It would be too difficult for me to go back to the Sims 2 without things like CAST, Open World, and *gasp* I actually prefer how the sims look in 3 as opposed to 2. You just have to work at it and it is actually possible to make decent looking sims :P

I'll always have many fond memories of 2, but people need to realize that the Sims 3 is still growing, and like 2, it will eventually have as many, if not more, features than the Sims 2 once all the EP's and SP's are released. I actually get kind of excited when I think of the possibilities that can still be unleashed with this game, so I'll just be patient as the Expansions come rolling out.

[jodemilo]

Well I'm currently pretty fascinated by the Create A World tool available for Sims 3, and have spent all my simming time just creating worlds in the past week or so. For me it's a great way to combine building houses alongside developing hoods, because you can make it look so personal and customised.

Having said that, I miss my Sims 2 families and will play them again soon. Actually I think from a building/creative point of view I've got ideas from building in Sims 3 that I want to transfer to Sims 2 anyway. And I worked hard developing my TS2 hoods, so am loathe to give them up now as still only on 3rd generation.

So for me I like both equally, although that may change with further TS3 expansion packs coming out. It's taken me ages to catch up with this simming thing as I only started playing last November, so I think I'll be playing more TS3 than TS2 for the moment.

[101ita]

I still think Sims 2 is a better game, even though I love some of Sims 3's gameplay elements. I find it much harder to get into Sims 3 and I don't feel attached to the Sims at all. It's not only the looks but they lack the charm of the Sims in 2. Also, I haven't been able to create even ONE Sims exactly like I want them to look, and yes I have CC, slider hacks and such. I just found it much easier with Sims 2. It's the bubbleness of the heads and some missing sliders or lack of precision...

But I'll see how it changes, when more expansions come out.

[Nukael]

OTOH, I love RPG's, so additions like Opportunities (quests) and the Seamless hood (open world) make me froth at the mouth.
I'm very happy for you that you love those features! And it also points out to me that no two Simmers are alike. I actually am kind of sad that they are taking the game more in a direction of goal based gameplay, as I feel it hampers the freedom of the sandbox a bit. (In Bon Voyage we could make our own world. In WA we couldn't, I'm guessing because it would be deemed "too hard" to actually make missions spawn from scratch in a user made world.)

I do liked the mini-games in TS2 once in a while, but mostly I used it for telling stories, and TS2 was just so good for that. Especially if you rotated households a lot. But I've been struggling with TS3 to tell interesting stories as you're either limited to one household, and if you do switch, Story Progression does all kind of weird stuff. I know, I can turn it off, maybe I should try that next time :anime: .

[christx101]

I play both TS3 and TS2 its pro's and con's with both games they bring something different.

[joof]

For some reason I felt like I had a lot more things to do in TS2. I think that's just because there were so many more expansion packs, so I was making all these different kinds of supernatural sims and stuff, and trying all sorts of challenges and trying to run my businesses. I definitely liked the animations better in TS2, and all the different kinds of interactions. It was really nice how each interaction had a different animation - to me it was a lot more visually appealing. Also I miss all the different kinds of custom content I had. I know TS3 is a lot more realistic in terms of sims - they can really throw me for a loop sometimes with how human they look. Sometimes I prefer this style but sometimes I prefer the "plastic" look of TS2. I dunno, I really like how some of my sims look (CC definitely helps with that). I also really miss the genetics system from TS2.
For me the best part of TS3 is the open neighborhood. It's easy to visit the gym, and it's really fun visiting the library and seeing all the different book. I love how they have individual books now and not just the trashy maid book, and how you can write books and actually read them at the library! This just isn't possible without the open neighborhood (well, maybe it would be, but i don't htink it would be as fun). I like seeing them bike down to places, and stuff. I also definitely love the traits system.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that there's good parts of both games. I don't think my computer can handle both being installed htough, and TS2 is installed on my old computer so it's a bit troublesome to play. I'd definitely like to go back and try it again someday, though. Heck, I even have TS1 on it, and it's great! To me there's a lot more "charm" in the first two Sims, but TS3 is fun too. I think it'll get better when there's more expansions out.

[BagofPoop]

I don't.

[geallach]

I agree with Kaospilot, there is a charm and quirkiness about TS2 that TS3 just does not have. I played TS3 for a while after I installed it, and I found gameplay sort of...rigid, I suppose, in spite of the open neighbourhoods and all. I also cannot seem to endear the Sims themselves; I think it is because I liked the fact that TS2 Sims were a bit crazy. TS3 is well suited to some player's styles, but I am all about my Sims and socialising, and socialising in TS3 is a little too stiff for me. I miss male pregnancy, the humour, and the cute interactions and all the little quirks that make TS2 great. The loading screens never bother me now. I play TS2 much, much more than TS2.

Not that I have completely given up on TS3, I just hope some later EP's make it more exciting to play. Also, the amount of trouble I have had with the game since I bought it makes me wonder if it is worth the effort. I really wanted to give it a chance, but the glitches and constant failings to load for no reason make me lose heart. I would much rather be playing TS2 than trying to force this game to work.

[J. M. Pescado]

I play the Sims 3 all the time. I re-installed the Sims 2 because I want to continue creating my comics. The Sims 2 is ideal for movie making and story telling.Truth. Much of the game in TS2 has been beaten to death, but TS3 just remains manifestly unsuitable for stories.

[jenieusa]

No.......

[stygia2002]

I have to admit that I got bored with Sims 3 fairly quickly and didn't care for it much at all. However, I didn't uninstall it, even though I went back to playing Sims 1 and 2 for several months after WA came out and I installed it. I love the open neighborhood, the graphics are gorgeous but I just couldn't get into it, which bummed me out in a big way. I finally broke down and got HELS and Ambitions couple of weeks ago and tried it again...and I'm really enjoying it now, and I'm looking forward to the next EP. Sims 1 and 2 are still on my "playlist"...like someone above me said, "I gotta have my fix of Makin' Magic"...and I never get tired of Sims 2, even with all the load screens (gives me time to go get a cup of tea).

[grumpybum]

After a week of playing Sims 3 I sold all my Sims2 games as I couldn't imangine going back to it. I tend to play rather than create buildings, stories etc and have found Sims3 more fun and easy to play, especially without cheats.
I do really miss being able to go out on dates though and I hope that comes back with Late Night. I have to admit though that if I play Sims3 too often, I tend not to play for a month or so. BUt I think that can happen with any game really. Too much of a good thing and all that.

So no I don't play Sims 2 anymore.

[ilovewcms00]

I think I'll stick with Sims 3. Sims 2 is better, truthfully. But the Sims 3 has so much potential and with EA banging out EPs, no way am I stabbing my computer in it's already half-dead heart by re-installing my Sims 2 EPs. The open world and endless posibilites in Sims 3 is just so..amazing. The personalities are simply genious. I love it when an evil sim breaks out in manical laughter after a stack of money in a thought bubble appears in her head, or a snob turns up her nose, or a handy sims throwing a wrench up in the air and mean mugging the closests sim. Also, I'm on a Mac so anything past Bon Voyage isn't installable for me, which means FT and AL are out of the question, and IMO those were the most awesome looking EPs. That being said, the Sims 2 memories keep gnawing away at me, making me reach for the CDs. If the Sims 3 incorporates that, I'll definatley jump on the Sims 3 wagon and declare it just as good, if not better.

.........But trust me. Counting on the fact I'm upgrading my 1GB RAM Mac to 4 gigs, most likely I'll install TS2 again and see how well it runs.

[Meowster]

I don't play the Sims 2 anymore (though I did, in fact, try.. too many difficulties resulting from a botched uninstallment earlier and losing my Seasons key code). The seam-less neighborhood really changes things for me. Pudding is better than the base Sims 2 faces and skins, in my opinion.

However, I do think I am the only person that plays the original The Sims every now and then.

[Cameron.]

Actually yes.
A while back, when it first came out, I got The Sims 3: Ambitions. I tried playing but on my Macbook Pro because it has to use Cider or whatever it is to load up Sims 3 it takes forever. It's quite laggy and gah, I just don't like it.

So after that, I actually reordered all my Sims 2 games, I had Sims 2 but they were the PC versions, and so now I have all the Sims 2 expansions, that are offered for Macs, and I love it more than the Sims 3.

I like the design, and features of the Sims 3 but it's just too slow to run on Mac OS X. I don't know why it's like this for me, considering I have a lot of space left over as well as very minimal custom content, but it is indeed slow. And it really makes my fans run and gets my computer hot, so that's annoying as well.

Like posts before mine, I'd prefer a Sims 2 with an open neighbourhood.

But until I either get a version of Windows, a Windows computer, or a faster Mac, don't expect to see me on Sims 3. :(

[aeval99]

Anyway, I still play TS1 just for good old times and memories of being young and the biggest care in the world was having to go to school the next day.It's fun with all the very weird but funny things :) Actually, the only thing that annoys me with TS1 is the 4 camera angles (not being free to rotate as you wish) It just has something that TS2/3 is lacking. So it's keeping it's charm!
I agree. I don't notice much of a difference with the atmosphere or humour from 2 to 3, but neither of them have that "something" that Sims 1 had.

And as I said earlier in the thread. I still play Sims 1 from time to time. In fact, I'd given a few of the packs away to a friend's daughter when Sims 2 came out, so I ended up buying them again for a couple of bucks on Amazon marketplace.

...and stop making me feel old! I was in my 30s when the original Sims came out. :blink:

[stygia2002]

The "something" that Sims 1 had was "atmosphere" in the EPs...and it was campy and funny. I still play it, as well as 2 and 3. They're just different games even though they're all still the Sims. :)

[charmed14]

I like to play both off and on. Since work and school distract me for most of the time, which ever game that is handy when I get a chance usually gets played. I still have a prosperity challenge going on from like two years ago that I'm slowly working on, along with a legacy in both games, so I try to balance out the game playing time between the two.

I would absolutely LOVE to go back to the original game, but I've had so many problems with it in the past that I don't know if I can. I still have all the CDs and since I was so young when I played TS1, I didn't really check EVERYTHING out in detail :/

[Robodl95]

I never really got to play TS1 in detail either... I believe I was 9 or so when i got the original game and I had a lot of computer issues so I switched to TS2 pretty quickly... My memories of the original game are "OMG THIS IS SO HARD! They're starving and he won't get a job cause his mood is too low and they have no money because I just bought a new fishtank!!!! Ooh look the Goth seniors are rich I'll go play them now....."

[ani_]

When I first started hearing about TS3 I didn't really want it, because I was so much in love with TS2. But more and more I started liking what I was seeing, so when it came out, I brought it and un-installed TS2 after the first play session. I was a bit heartbroken for the Sims I had, because I was really liking the stories I had going on, but even with all EP's for TS2 I felt it couldn't match the fun I was having in TS3 which was just the base game.

Some people say they don't like TS3 because they can't get attached to the characters, for me I'm more in love and attached to my TS3 characters than I ever was attached to TS2 Sims. The Sims themselves are just so more in depth, individual and quirky than TS2 Sims (their quirkiness might bot be as exaggeratedly animated as it was in TS2 but it's still there). The open neighbourhood brings so much more possibilities and fun into the game than having static lots. My legacy generation 6 for example, her parents died in a fire when she had her teen birthday, her LTW is to have the perfect aquarium. In my head she meant by the perfect aquarium that she wanted to finish up her dad's photograph collection of all the people he killed, so my girl spent night after night stalking her victims until she got the opportunity to kill them without having any witnesses around. In TS2 you couldn't do this, a community lot was never empty, so your only option was to invite the people over and then kill them. Now that if anything is limiting game play. Or just playing loving parents, you feel the love between the Sim's much heavily than you could in TS2. I love asking my kids about their day than just general chatting, or talking about the game or a book or a friend, instead of queuing the same chat interaction four times in a row. I know the end result is pretty much the same, gain relationship points, but the Sim's reactions are not. Yesterday I was playing with my inventor and thinking how amazing the game is, I never had that much fun with a toy bench, or the robots that came from it. Skilling is no longer the same linear path it was in TS2. You could max a skill in both games, but in TS2 you couldn't master it the same way you can in TS3. You could have a storyline about a painter and a rock star, but in the end what made them different as the rock star could easily paint a masterpiece as well as the painter could rock the club even if he had never seen a guitar or a drum kit in his life. Now you can have a rock star who can give out autographs, and who has mastered his skill by learning different songs. He can get teen girls all exited by his rock star status, or go and have a concert, in TS2 being a rockstar was just a lable in your job description, but nothing really set you apart from a doctor, or a laywer or a teacher. When we get more instruments, your drummer is going to be an important member of the group because he has practiced drumming, so you cant replace him with just anybody who has a few general creativity points.

When it comes to the looks of the Sim's, just the day before I was reading a very good TS2 story, but then when I saw the pictures, my first reaction was "God, somebody please slap some CC on these people", they were the default Pleasant view characters, and at least looking at them now, is not an enjoyable experience. Pudding face is not pretty either, but that was mostly a base game problem. The first thing I did when I got TS3 was create my legacy founder, and there was no pudding to be seen in him (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/aniradeth/Sims%203/Screenshot-7-1.jpg?t=1281068819) (or at least I fail to see it) even thou I suck at making Sims. I'm also not a builder. I have built a few shops and houses for my Sim's but 90% of my simming time is spent playing, so the game play aspect is the most important thing for me, than CAST or CAW. CAST is great thou, as most of my CC in TS2 was hair, makeup and furniture recolours. I still remember my first day playing TS2 and my disappointments. For example I was really exited about hair and makeup, but specially when I tried the base game make-up for the first time, my reaction was extreme disappointment due to how ugly and blah the makeup was.

The open-neighbourhood is amazing. Knowing where my Sim's workplace is physically situated, beats not knowing anything at all. I love sending my Sims on a jog and following them while running, instead of sending them on a rabbit hole jog and catching up with them two hours later when returning home. The same with rebellious teens. Breaking curfew in the local bar dancing, is much more satisfactory to me than sending them on a rabbit hole sneak out with a friend, same with traveling abroad. Actually going to a monument and taking a picture there, beats rabbit hole tours, going to the forest and picking up that bug or just putting my tent on the gournd, eating an apple then going to sleep beats having the game tell me I went on a nature walk.

Do I miss some aspects of TS2 like clothe shopping, wedding arch, Mary-mac, open restaurants or more insane getting caught cheating situations? yes I do, but not enough to downgrade my gaming experience or the amount of fun I'm having with TS3.

[Shoosh Malooka]

To be fair, I have TS3 alone and TS2 with all expansions and some stuff packs. It is a fact to me that TS2 outshines its own child in this situation. Today my sim rode his evil broom to his business and, thanks to a mod that allowed skill-ups for sims on community lots, he imparted charisma to his employee. He worked the DJ booth for awhile until he noticed some new person eyeing him with disapproval. This sim, Amin Sims, then got into the jacuzzi naked, freaking out the other customers. Out came the magic wand casting Spiritus Poultrious, and the Amin mindlessly degenerated into a chicken while everyone laughed at him. But he wasn't ready to leave, so my sim used his reputation to peer pressure someone into fighting Amin. This sim poked Amin in the chest and Amin cried and left soon. By now, Janine(?) Picasso was tired working so my sim sent her home. He then got into his Action Traveler's Action Tent and slept while the business ran itself, attracting customers, and generating money through a ticket machine.

^The above read intends to illustrate a taste of the options and situations TS2 ( with expansions ) has keeping it alive. TS3 still needs more to rekindle my interest in playing the game for the game, not just for building. But I'm counting on Late Night to tempt me, but it will be tough with its medieval competition.

[Vannen]

I have removed the sims 3 from my computer and i just play the sims 2

[wlionrjl]

Lol seriously how many threads are there of Sims 2 vs Sims 3 on the internet? Anyways, for me I went back to Sims 2 with a bigger appreciation for its charm after playing Sims 3. My biggest problem with Sims 3 is that I can't get attached to the sims in Sims 3. I've tried making a self sim, an extremely hideous sim, a sim with all the worst traits possible (all which I've never need to do in Sims 2) just to see if they could alleviate my boredom with the game, but nope, don't care for them at all. So much that I don't even bother making a house.. just a bed on the lawn and a toilet against a single wall is enough for you! It's like they're just a vessel to do something be it gardening or exploring the neighbourhood. The funny thing is I used to balk at Sims 2 pictures decipting beds on a lawn. I used to think "how could you let your sims sleep outside??" In sims 2, I love them the moment they step out from the taxi lol. I don't even need a story for me to love them, their story will come later as I play.

From my lack of affection for the sims, I guess all the other features that were supposed to be an improvement in Sims 3 doesn't mean much anymore. What good is the more advanced building and colouring tool if I don't have a sim that I like enough to want to build a house for her/him? Also, I don't like customizing sims to every single detail; I'd rather play dress up (it's more like shopping with clothes in different colours and seeing which clothes look good). So I actually think Sims 2 CAS is funner than Sims 3 CAST. Add that to the fact that I find collecting pixel rocks or gaining skills/money/challenges pointless, there really isn't anything much for me to do in Sims 3. tl;dr all the things I love to do in Sims 2 has become too OCD, tedious or pointless in Sims 3. But ultimately it depends on how you play.

IMO the types of treads made in the forums are quite telling of the types of players that play each game. The sims 2 forum is full of stories of the sims themselves like a proud grandparent rambling to a stranger about their grandkids - full of affection even when complaining, while the sims 3 forum is full of, um, everything else but their sims. I mean I still keep Sims 3 on my computer when I want a quick game that loads in 2 minutes, but Sims 3 is the kind of game I play when I've bored of all the other games, while Sims 2 is the game I truly love.

[tjstreak]

No, I do not plays Sims 2 anymore.

[wlionrjl]

@ Kaospilot, I'm sure there are Sims 3 players who love their game. I was just making a point that they both are enjoyed best in very different ways. Unless someone already plays in a goal oriented way in sims 2 then they'll have no trouble adapting to sims 3.

[babaji_mendez]

I actually installed sims 2 + NL + OFB a few days ago, on an older laptop. I'd been getting a bit bored with sims 3 for a while and am absolutely loving sims 2 ( open for business especially ) Even though the neighbourhood isn't open, it feels so much more alive, with shops, businesses, restaraunts all over town. This is what sims 3 is missing for me

I've got over the lack of Create a style by retexturing objects, which barely takes a few minutes for most of them.

with cheats you can free place and diagonally rotate objects ( I actually never knew this the last time sims 2 was installed )

So all in all I'm not missing a ton from sims 3

[Elyasis]

Haven't played much TS2 since TS3 came out. In particular I haven't played TS2 since CAW was released. For me Sims 3 is a much easier to get into game. I loved Sims 2 like you wouldn't believe but Sims 3 is just more dependable. It's like your first big love that you always had huge rows with and would sometimes not speak to for weeks at a time only to come back to with profuse apologies and on the other hand is the person you just clicked with and married. You'll always have the fond, and not so fond, memories but the one you are with can't be substituted.
And now that I wrote that it's seems a tad bit creepy.

[TheGuySim]

I love them both equally tbh.. . . . When I play Sims 3 I have all the things like Create A Style, CAW, Open-ended world and so on. But when I play Sims 2, I have all the things the expansions brought to the game, storytelling, and even memories. When I get bored of Sims 3, I usually play Sims 2, and back to Sims 3 agan :P I just cant wait for all the things future expansions will bring to the game, but I miss the simle features of Sims 2 like the storytelling, memories and better machinima making. So if I want to make a machinima, I would make it with Sims 2. Both I really do love them equally, and I wish people would stop bashing Sims 3 of being boring, they really need to wait until more expansions come out.

[Fernweather]

I agree. I don't notice much of a difference with the atmosphere or humour from 2 to 3, but neither of them have that "som
ething" that Sims 1 had.
TS1 was freaking brilliant. The developers of TS3 should be forced to spend a couple of months in a monastery where they aren't allowed to do anything but play TS1 and meditate on its awesome charm.

...and stop making me feel old! I was in my 30s when the original Sims came out. :blink:
Hi, my name is Fernweather. I'm 43 and I still play with virtual dollhouses. :|

[CleoSombra]

TS2 pros:

- More clothing options. There are a lot more styles to choose from. Despite the create-a-pattern feature in TS3, I prefer TS2 CAS.
- Better, fully EPs. I only had two EPs, but they felt well done and not. . . halfassed.
- Clothing stores. Srsly, I loved these. D:
- Facial structures. Unless your graphics are on high in TS3, they look like crap.
- Memories. I love to look back on my sim's lives every now and then.
- Story telling.

Sims 3 Pros
- Open neighborhood
- Neighborhood aging
- Story progression (even just the capacity for it)

I'm wondering - is there a mod that ages the entire neighborhood in TS2? Or a mod that lets you edit the ages of sims, much like Twallan's supercomputer does in TS3?

[donnellhouse]

I loved Sims2 but when I tried to go back, the things that irritated me slightly back then (screen loading waits, game lag when witches appeared, shopping areas that looked interesting but were rather boring, fridges running out, werewolf dogs attacking mine, recolors, badly designed apartments) irritated me even more now. So I packed it up, along with the expansions and gave them all to my nephew... cleared up a TON of computer space too :)

I agree it depends on your play style, I never got into the aliens, witches and werewolves or the University and I never even looked at "memories". I do miss the changing seasons, but that's about all ... and I figure we'll get that eventually :)

[Craggles]

Brilliant, after reading this i had to get sims1 and MM installed just so i could sodding churn butter and make all the charms. Cheers guys hahaha!

I enjoy 3 more than 2, I have no idea why though. I do miss uni though, which no one else seems to haha

[Alixen]

Well, for me I sadly gave up on the Sims 2 around BV. I don't own the expansions past it; but honestly I have no desire to. I loved the Sims 2 for a long time, with it's boxload of features added by expansion after expansion. I loved weather. I loved supernatural sims. I especially loved memories and they are one of the most painful losses in the transition for me. There was a lot to love about the Sims 2.

Only... the fact that the neighborhood never changed a bit, it's resident's locked in stasis, with Mortimer Goth still coming to yell at your 8th generation Elder the same way he did that Sims 1st generation ancestor... Well, that always ruined immesion for me. The fact that if you wanted anything more than a hermit Sim it was load screen after load screen after load screen to go anywhere. Little annoyances like having a Vampire in a basement with no windows still getting scorched by the 'sunlight'. How memories would reset under certain conditions, so that you could have an Elder married with six kids 'Woohooing for the first time'.

Sims 3 has the three things that always seemed glaring in their absence in TS2. Things that the lack of killed TS2 for me.

Open neighborhoods; having an entire town at my Sims fingetips. Being able to pan around the towns while my Sims sleep, watching the stars and looking at Sunset Valley lighthouse. Being able to take my Sims on hikes, or just pop next door. Soon this will be taken to new heights witht he ability to walk down the street to a local club and party. And. No. Loadscreens. In. Sight. Sure, we still load into holday destinations, but once you are there it's the same deal.

Story Progression; I know some people hate the default one and use mods, but personally i'm over the moon with it even existing (faults and all). The 'hood is always packed with old and new faces. New children are born into the world to mix with my own sim-kids. Best of all... no grumpy old Mortimer coming over to bug my Sims throughout three centuries thanks to universal Aging.

Not to say it's perfect, it's just that TS3 fixes all the paticular gripes I had with TS2. I'm always annoyed that the supernatural creatures all in in some manner, soon enough including vampires. Only; mods and effort can fix those paticular gripes. It's also justifiable in some manner. Ghosts return to the netherworld. Mummies, no longer in a sealed enviroment (such as a tomb), will rot over time exposed to the air. SimBots arn't as advanced as Servos; so their parts either eventually malfunction beyond repair, or the 'life core' eventually runs out of whatever power the life-fruit gives it. Liberal use of life fruit can help with the Mummy, and soon Vampires i hope.

If all your Sims start to look the same with Story Progression adding 'default' look Sims it's a pain yes, but you can always spend half an hour making outragously odd looking Sims and planting them around your town to add more deversity over a few generations.

While TS3 will never be TS2 with an open world, after all it's expansions are out it should be just as substantial. Right now we have, basically, what TS2 was with Uni and Nightlife. It felt pretty lacking then too. It wasn't til around Pets that it really came into it's own in my opinion.

I'm actually about to start an experiment with an alternate save and my current family. I'm going to have the cook create as many Ambrosia as she can (some with the replicator glitch) and put them in a chest (where they don't seem to rot, despite becoming 'normal' quality food). I'm then going to make one of my Teens into a Mummy using the buydebug (getting the Cursed Sarc) menu and have it 'sleep' in the Sarc until it needs to eat it's Ambrosia, and then again. I'm going to put aging onto Short, and fast forward time. I'll keep this going as long as I can, and then i'm going to see how the neighborhood looks, under the 'care' of Story Progression.

Off topic I know, but just wanted to mention it.

[alyash94]

I play both of them, but more so Sims 2 than Sims 3 because the Sims 2 works amazingly on the family PC even with all of the expansion packs installed. Unfortunately the Sims 3 is so slow on that PC, so I put it on my MacBook because even though it was technically bought through my school for school and is already 2 years old, I have more than half the memory left on it. Unfortunately it's still slow, but it's more tolerable than on the PC and because I don't have all day to wait for a sim day to pass, I play the Sims 2 more often so I can actually make some kind of progress and get past generation one.

[emino]

I cant go back to Sims 2. I've tried, but it bored me to death.

[spotlight-shure]

The Sims 3 is pretty slow on my macbook pro, so i installed The Sims 1 for old time's sake. lmao. I'd love to get the Sims 2 again and install that.

[lazzybum]

The main thing I miss in TS2 is OFB, and I miss it quite alot, especially when I see booming businesses in RL. So I might go install TS2 with OFB and a few other packs. But it seems weird going back where townies never age on their own xD

[Shishisim]

I love my sims 2 because of all the packs but after I got my new laptop and the sims 3 worked on it, I haven't played it since ^ ^

[Captain THPS4]

Nope, haven't touched TS2 since I got TS3 at launch. Although I very much miss pets/weather/OFB/the slap dance from BV/restaurants, I know we'll get these things eventually (okay, maybe not the slap dance but I can hope), all I need to do is be patient. I've been hoping for a seamless neighborhood since TS1 so that's one thing I can't live without now that TS3 has it. Plus, by the time TS3 was out I was tired of the graphics and loading screens so I was open to change.

[spotlight-shure]

But it seems weird going back where townies never age on their own xD

Lol I agree with this, but my Sims 3 townies either age extremely fast, or extremely slow. My active family can all go from toddlers to elders and the townies will only change to one other stage, or die before my sims even hit children. It's insane.

Better, fully EPs. I only had two EPs, but they felt well done and not. . . halfassed.

YES! Finally someone else feels the same! I have felt nothing towards the Sims 3 expansions so far. I HATED World Adventures, and really find nothing exciting but wasting time with Ambitions.

[vhanster]

I agree that the gameplay in TS3 is better than TS2 in many ways, but I've got MUCH more CCs in TS2 than TS3- some of which I haven't even tried yet. This is what makes me reluctant to let go of it.

[aeval99]

TS2 pros:
- More clothing options. There are a lot more styles to choose from. Despite the create-a-pattern feature in TS3, I prefer TS2 CAS.
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I think that one is a matter of personal taste. I find that Sims 3 has more decent clothing options in the base game alone, than Sims 2 did with 7 expansion packs.

Yes, Sims 2 had page after page after page in the catalogue, but it was all crap IMO. The outfits were either dowdy, dorky, or hookerware. I love not having to slog through 80 pages of chicken suits, diving gear, kilts, togas, and just plain hideous crap to find the handful of outfits that I deemed usable (most of which were from the H&M pack). I had so much cc in Sims 2 that it took 20 minutes for the game to load. In Sims 3 I have 2 pairs of downloaded pants and a few odds and ends from the store, and yet my Sims never want for something suitable to wear. :D

[CleoSombra]

I think that one is a matter of personal taste. I find that Sims 3 has more decent clothing options in the base game alone, than Sims 2 did with 7 expansion packs.

Yes, Sims 2 had page after page after page in the catalogue, but it was all crap IMO. The outfits were either dowdy, dorky, or hookerware. I love not having to slog through 80 pages of chicken suits, diving gear, kilts, togas, and just plain hideous crap to find the handful of outfits that I deemed usable (most of which were from the H&M pack). I had so much cc in Sims 2 that it took 20 minutes for the game to load. In Sims 3 I have 2 pairs of downloaded pants and a few odds and ends from the store, and yet my Sims never want for something suitable to wear. :D

One of the things that bothers me the most is men's adult wear.

In the base game, there are three full outfits for men. Three. That's it. And they're all dressy type. Female children had more full length outfits then adult men.

In TS2, there were dozens to choose from. I didn't have 5 people wearing the same shirt. Even if you don't like something, it's still okay to have variety because someone else will.

[jodemilo]

I'm getting more and more into TS3 the more I play it (although mostly still creating a world at the moment). I keep saying I must go back to continuing unfinished projects on Sims 2 as well as playing as my families as I loved them, but it's just not drawing me back at the moment.

I think from a building/creative point of view TS3 is so much more flexible and homogenous, even if it doesn't have the amount of CC in it that my TS2 game has. I mean, you could be playing a sim, take them to a comm lot you've built and then notice something in that comm lot that might need editing/tweaking, so instead of the tedious process of taking your sim back home, saving the game, going to the neighborhood view and then loading the comm lot to edit it - as in TS2 - it takes all of 10 seconds to do it in TS3. I really like that aspect. It's like you're creating your hood "in situ".

I miss the memories aspect of the game but I can see why EAxis didn't do it this time - potential corruption etc. It makes TS3 sims a little less soulful I must admit, but there's no worry about saving a copy of a favorite sim you're playing in the library and then putting them in a new or different hood to interact with other characters.

[aeval99]

One of the things that bothers me the most is men's adult wear.

In the base game, there are three full outfits for men. Three. That's it. And they're all dressy type. Female children had more full length outfits then adult men.

In TS2, there were dozens to choose from. I didn't have 5 people wearing the same shirt. Even if you don't like something, it's still okay to have variety because someone else will.
Given that full outfits are generally going to be dresses or suits, I'm not surprised that little girls kick ass in that scenario. How many suits can you possibly have compared to dresses? Plus, little girls kicking ass is cool! :)

And I've never yet had two townies show up wearing the same thing in Sims 3 (which was a common occurrence in Sims 2). Maybe the same outfit, but I would never know it, not given the different sizes, colours and designs.

This is probably one of those "agree to disagree" things, but it's most certainly not an automatic pro as far as Sims 2 goes. In my opinion (take that for what it is worth) quantity does not equal quality.

I do agree though, that men are ignored in the Sims fashion world, as are elders.

[Ladyhawke976]

I had the Sims 2 installed for a while after I recieved the Sims 3. At the time, I was just so disappointed in the Sims 3, that I would go back - and often.

However, I decided to give it a try and forced myself to play for about a month and soon enough, I really began to enjoy it.

There are some things I truly miss from the Sims 2, such as seasons and pets (Pets did need a little tweaking though). I miss the thousands of custom content downloads that made my neighborhoods and interactions unique. I miss babies with legs and brightly colored eyes from birth, not the cookie cutter version in the sims 3. I miss the snow, my kitties and changing tables. I miss that big teddy bear that came with OFB, lol. I miss the bunkbeds I had downloaded - badly.

Even though I miss all this I realize that some of it came out years after the initial game came out. Like all good thing's, one must wait. I love the customazition in the Sims 3, from the traits, to being able to get my entire household covered in one theme. It saves me from having hundreds of downloads. I also like the fact that you can have natural triplets and can travel to egypt to explore tombs and customize your neighbor's looks by giving them a makeover.

So far the expansions for the Sims 3 have been a little "so-so" for me. Ambitions is great, but as a bit of a family oriented player it's hard to play someone on the job while also minding their spouse and five children. Traveling is fun, but it's more difficult with a family in tow, and going alone on vacation sometimes seems pointless, lol. Don't get me wrong, they are great. I just hope for something a little more...mainstream. I know the upcoming expansion is akin to Nightlife for the Sims 2. Of all the expansions for the Sims 2, that was my least favorite. I enjoyed the vampire arc - for about 10 minutes - and the town, but it wasn't my favorite by far.

I'm looking forward to family oriented XP's. Season's and Pet's added to my gameplay and incorperated fun interactions and goodies, such as snowball fight's, raking, building a snowman, kittens and puppies, and rain. I love stuff that the children and parents can do together. And I want bunkbeds back! (I really need them, lol).

I'm the kind of simmer that likes different interactions within my family, items to improve my home and looking out my window to see rain (Just maybe not ever 5 seconds like in the Sims 2). I want my toddlers to interact with each other, not just over the play table.

I know good things are in store for the Sims 3 and I can't wait! As for the Sims 2, it is sitting on my shelf with all it's expansions and quite a bit of dust. After getting so involved with the Sims 3 it's impossibe to go back now.

Until I can see the rain and have a houseful of cats, I'll be content with what I have now. I love the Sims 3 and can't wait for more!

Happy simming!

[magic cookie]

No, because I enjoy TS3's new features too much: open neighborhood, collecting stuff, improved skill system, and most of all, traits!

I also agree that TS3's base game has much better clothing than TS2 base game with the ugly flat jeans and attached sandals, or that wonderful pair of female trousers with flames drawn on them lol. Plus all the possibilities opened by CAST!

Now what I miss from TS2 are all the touches that made the game more special, and made you more attached to the Sims: the memories, cut scenes, which made first kisses, woohoo and marriage feel special. The cute cuddle interactions which made for great and easier to take pictures, the kid and toddler interactions. Of course, I also miss some objects, though I bet we'll be getting most of them in upcoming EPs (no bowling though *sigh*).

But now I couldn't go back to the loading screens and aspirations instead of traits, so I'll wait for TS3 to be improved, and am hoping for a great Late Night EP as Nightlife was my favourite TS2 EP, with Seasons.

[kennyinbmore]

I agree it depends on your play style, I never got into the aliens, witches and werewolves or the University and I never even looked at "memories". I do miss the changing seasons, but that's about all ... and I figure we'll get that eventually :)

It sounds like you and I play the exact same way. I don't think I ever played with a vamp or even saw a werewolf the entire time I played TS2. I don't think I ever looked at memories either. I do miss the cinematics though.

. I do miss uni though, which no one else seems to haha

That actually makes two of us :up:

[stygia2002]

I play University all of the time and my daughter can't get enough of sims "college life"...we'd both miss it horribly if we didn't have it. :)

[ani_]

I do agree though, that men are ignored in the Sims fashion world, as are elders. Very true, it always takes me for-ever to figure out what to chose for them, as there are barely no options. Thankfully I found some basic elder clothes through mysims3blog and dressing elders is easier now, no easy, just a bit easier.

Other than that, I have to say I like how elders are now. In TS2 I had to use the adult clothing for elders hack, because EA:s version of elders was way too saggy for my taste. I also like that they don't become elders so young like they did in TS2, I think it was 50 or 60. Elders are much more viberent and active now.

I do miss uni though, which no one else seems to haha
I miss the idea of uni, but not the way uni was implemented in TS2. Hopefully they will bring it back in some form.

[jgfg]

I still play The Sims 2 and even The Sims 1 :) TS1 have something in it that makes it special and I really love this "something". I can't get enough of Open for buisness and Univercity :)

[suzetter]

The open neighborhood is over rated. You can't take your Sims from place to place like you could in TS2. If you go on vacation (WA) there is a loading screen like in TS2 but at least your Sims in any one of your neighborhoods can visit those destinations. The rest of the neighborhoods are limited to residents only which since everything has been a town of some sort until now (WA excluded) it didn't really matter but now with the next EP we will finally have a city and in order for your Sims to utilize any of what they have to offer--they have to live in that town. If not having loading screens means impeding the Sims freedom of movement from place to place and giving up active community lots for RHs then I would rather have loading screens. TS3 Sims are flat and lifeless compared to TS2 and TS1 sims. The new TS3 EPs tend to grow old and boring within a month so...what's the point?

[Roseblossom90]

I love TS2 and have been playing it since shortly after it came out. I also have all the expansion and stuff packs.. I bought TS3 a couple days after its release and loved it but it just didn't hold the same charm for me that TS2 did. Not to mention that fact that it loved to randomly turn my computer screen black for about ten seconds then return to normal.

In TS3 I love the fact that you can catch more than just four types of fish and the open neighborhood, the neighborhood again, and common things like that, but there wasn't much else that caught my attention like TS2 did and still does.

In my personal oppinion, I think that if they were able to combine the idea of TS3 (like the aging, fish, collection, and so on) with the graphics, memories, and all out awsomness of TS2, then that would be like the best sims game they could have. Plus if they add the beautiful magic charms of TS1 in the mix there would be nothing in the world better. Of course, that is just in my oppinion...

[Waterstar]

Got Sims 3, then a half a year later got Sims 2 Seasons. I still play it every once in a while. :3

[des-demmonia]

I'm thinking about buying those EPs and SPs for TS2 that I never got (cuz TS3 came out) and getting back to TS2. All teh time I think that if they made TS2 with recolor box and moodlet system it would be way better than TS3 we got.

[Hyleath5560]

I cam into the Sims series during sims2. I swear I was finding new downloads everyday. I couldn't leave it alone. With Sims3 yeah it can be fun. But I can take it or leave it.

[bluetexasbonnie]

For a period of time, I thought my Sims2 would languish under the dust. However, at some point I began to get bored of play and wanted to create. When I was just sort of randomly making houses, all was well, ... but when I had a specific 'vision' I wanted, then Sims3 was too limited. Sims3 Object creation was too confusing to my tired old mind -- and simming is supposed to be fun.

So I dusted off my Sims2 disks and Simpe and am have a joyous time making houses, wall, floors and objects for those houses. There are some things I miss in my simmies when play testing, but the freedom of expression in the lots makes up for it.

(Note: It took me well over a year before simple SimPe use got comfortable. I'm not ruling out the possibility of object creation in Sims3 at some future date.)

[starved4pizza]

For a long time, I didn't. I was strictly TS3. This was before I got Ambitions, or World Adventures, so after a while, I got bored with the game, and decided to be more open to re-trying TS2. I spent about 25 minutes re-installing everything, plus CC. Then after thirty minutes, I was extremely bored with it. :/ Even with all of the extra CC, the expansions, stuff packs, TS3 was still better. So I'm back to being strictly TS3 on the PC, but I play The Urbz and Bustin' Out on the PS2, too.