#6
24th Apr 2017 at 8:04 PM
Last edited by Moraelin : 24th Apr 2017 at
8:15 PM.
*Ahem* more seriously, it boils down to whether you're already bored to death with TS2 and TS3. If you've already played those in every imaginable way, style, and scenario, and even the challenges forum doesn't make you want to start those, well, you could do worse than giving TS4 a try. Best case scenario, it'll give you something else sim-ish to do, and worst case scenario, it'll make TS3 seem worth another go again. It's the latter for me, usually, but hey, it's still soimething
I should probably mention the financial aspect, though, since I guess not everyone else afford to buy everything just to see if they like it or not. Short version: you're objectively and measurably getting less bang per buck. A LOT less bang for the same buck. Longer version, well, here's some copy and paste from another thread, because I'm too lazy to type it all over again:
Between TS1 and TS3 a stuff pack used to be about CD sized, and an expansion pack was usually anywhere between 2 CDs and DVD sized. E.g., I picked a random expansion off the shelf, and it's literally just whatever my hand stopped on, and it's TS2 University Life. It's 3 CDs. And that's back in the TS2 age, when textures were between 1/4 and 1/16 the disk size.
Or for TS3, I just checked my collection, the smallest EPs are 4 and 8, at 1GB each, the largest is about three and a half gigs.
By comparison, in TS4, the expansion packs are about CD sized, and the stuff packs are a quarter of that. So, yeah, EA better give me a bit more for my money.
And it's not just an academic exercise in counting bytes. If you look at what used to be in a pack, the TS4 ones are coming awfully short.
E.g., let's look at what I got in TS2 for the equivalent of the last two TS4 expansions.
The Sims 2 Apartment Life gave me not just apartments that I can create and edit as I wish, something TS4 STILL can't, but also witches, flying broomsticks, new places to visit (beyond just the Belladona Cove map), new potions, new crafting stuff, new skills, a spectral cat pet, etc. The TS4 City Life comes a lot shorter in that aspect.
Or let's talk vampires. Well, in TS2 they came in Nightlife, which also included a big downtown map, clubs, a whole 125 new items, drivable cars, a new aspiration, new life rewards, the party DJ, and it goes all the way to flavour NPCs like Mrs Crumplebottom. By comparison, the TS4 expansion that introduces vampires, it's ONLY vampires and a tiny world map that's got only 5 lots. Count 'em and weep. I did. It's not even the size of some of the existing sub-neighbourhoods, for crying out loud.