I love that I can send the kids to the park to play with their friends while the parents are at home cooking and grandma is walking the dog. I can switch between all of them whenever I want without any loading screens. Makes you feel like you're controlling a real family.

This is kind of depressing. Sims 4 was never the game this community deserved.

We don't need a Sims 5, we need a Sims 3: Remastered edition with improved graphics, performance and everything in one package.

I just miss the open world. Actually seeing your sims travel. Have their own cars. Or getting a ride. All that. When I first saw the world in Sims 4 I was baffled. How did they take such a massive step backwards?

A small favourite in Sims 3 for me is that you actually see your neighbours go to work, come home EVERYTHING. Its the little things EA

I feel like soon as they updated their graphics to be in Sims 4 they were like: Perfect, now we can be lazy w everything else.

Remember when if you had a baby in sims 3 you would actually drive to the hospital and watch your sim go in, and come out with a baby in your arms. Now in sims 4 your sim teleports off screen, and reappears empty handed and a baby is randomly placed somewhere in your house. It’d actually be laughable if I hadn’t paid money for this.

In Sims 4 you can't just have a date or some time with your friends. Whenever you go out with someone the other sims just come up to you and start chatting. Or even more awkward when you have a date in a cafe and complete strangers just come up to your table and start eating with you. Like wtf? Everyone seems to talk to each other and everything goes together. This is really frustrating.

I feel like Sims4 was made to be watched, but the Sims3 was made to be played.

Sims 4 is the dystopian future from sims 3: into the future.

"It's evolving, but backwards."

Sims 3 felt real. I could play this game for hours and get immersed into it. Sims 4 doesn’t have that same feeling. I get bored within creating my first Sim to move in, and the worlds in 4 are kind of boring too. With how long Sims 4 has been out, I definitely expected better.

i swear if they optimized the sims 3 and maybe gave the graphics a little face lift, it'd be flying off the shelves.

I will never understand people who backlash The Sims 3 to make The Sims 4 look better! GRAPHICS DON'T MAKE A GAME!

What i absolutely love the most in the sims 3, is that you can handle multiple sims in different locations at the same time. I can check on one of my sims running the resort in island paradise, while my other sim is diving underwater, and one more sim is shopping for groceries. I can check on those 3 sims at the exact same time, with no loading screens.

9:44 Once I went to the saloon to get a new hair style and there's this woman on labor, I took her to the hospital in my car and waited until the baby was born. I even got the positive humor thing about the 'new baby' It was so random, but awesome haha

Sims 4 has turned into a “dress your sim up”, or “make a perfect life and get bored” type game. I’m thinking of going back to sims 3 for a real simulation game 👌🏾

I’ve been playing Sims 3 for years and still have stuff I haven’t tried. There’s so much depth in Sims 3. Sims 4 gets boring really fast.

I actually never bought Sims 4.... I heard about all the things they changed and decided to keep my Sims 3. So worth it.

Sims 4: Make your perfect sim, build your perfect home and live a perfect life! Nothing Matters, you rule everything, everything is beautiful, shiny and rainbows everywhere. Sims 3: Dude, are you high? Get real. I’ll make a neurotic insane sim that live in a dumpster and explode and steal things around your neighborhood, maybe he’ll be arrested.

My favorite part about the Sims 3 is the fact that the townies actually have a life, they have plans each day and their own personalities. Sims 4 townies seem to just... exist.

The sims also are very independent!!! I have a family of 5 and I am focusing in one of them. The rest of the family autonomosly prepare food, bathe, socialize and even do homework (the 3rd child entered the honour list all by themselves) while my teenager was out romancing an edgy teen in a cementery on full moon only to escape to china when her father punished her. It's really amazing

Playing the Sims 4 made me appreciate the Sims 3 all over again. My ex may have been a bad decision but his gift of the Sims 3 base game on launch is still one of the best/most thoughtful gifts I have ever been given. It's given me hundreds of hours of fun and enjoyment, and taught me new skills (creating my own items/CAS styles/the neighborhood builder/etc). All hail Sims 3.

We should remember that Sims 1-3 was done under the supervision of Will Wright, Co-Founder of Maxis game development studio. I feel he brought a lot of insight to the table to make the games have that feeling of simulation they were supposed to have. The first three games, even though graphically and technically different, still have that cohesiveness when looked at as a whole. Partly, because of common staples in the form of townies like The Thornes, the robbers, the maids, firefighters, etc, found throughout the series. But also because you get the feeling like you are in on the inside joke. The cozy anticipation that you will witness something crazy and unexpected in your playthrough every time you load your save is always worth it. The amount of satisfaction you got from taking your budding and bumbling business owner in Sims 2 Open for Business to a wealthy socialite Mogul who owns seven 5-star 🌟 spas making bank while enlightening your Townies tastes just as good as hot chocolate on a winter's night. I really enjoyed all the different aspects of the games and still play all of them at times. I did try to give Sims 4 a chance, but that enthusiasm was dead in the water when the login issues kept me from saving my game and my sims for the longest time. Then to see how empty the world felt of everything that should have been in a base game, and that there wasn't a "wink wink nudge nudge" feeling after waiting for it all day, I just shelved it indefinitely. Sims 4 is the only Sims game I didn't feel like getting any mods or CC for. It's that serious. I always get mods or CC for sims and have folders upon folders of them for previous titles. Maybe if Will Wright was also lead dev for Sims 4 it would have kept its cohesiveness, but now we'll never know. 🤔

Not going to lie, this makes me want to play sims 3 >

I really miss the sims 3 style of story progression. Random sims will get married, have babies without any input from me. That just doesn't happen in the sims 4 🙁

The Sims 3: She's got a point, She's an Icon, She's a legend, and she is the MOMENT! The Sims 2: She's got a point, She's an Icon, and a legend The Sims 1: She's an Icon Sims 4: she passed away?....awww.....Alright...

I love the neighbourhood tasks Sims 3 gives you, depending on the skills you’re working on. Like cooking a meal and giving it to a neighbour, of fixing someone’s TV. It just adds another layer of realism. (Not that I’ve ever been asked to fix a stranger’s TV haha)

I feel scammed by The Sims 4. I actually feel like I let my money go down a drain.

Thank you for reminding everyone that the technology of Sims 3 was created in 2009... surely recreating it now would use good enough technology to remove lag!! I miss open worlds and story progression

The biggest thing for me was the fact in Sims Pets you can actually control and be the pets. Not in the newer one though.

The more I play new games and old games and the more I learn about gaming in general I become more and more impressed with how ahead of its time sims 3 was, it’s truly incredible.

I love in Sims 3 that as I walk home from work, I can accidentally meet a friend and go out, or as I pass by a friend's house I just knock the door. The world of Sims 3 is so alive.

It is so awkward in the sims 4 how sims will default into a non-talking state at the table and when you prompt them to talk they all get up and hug each other like they weren't just having a family meal a second ago. And then it's like-no-no-no sit DOWN. AND THEN EVERYONE IS TWO HOURS LATE FOR WORK/SCHOOL AND THEIR MEAL BAR ISN'T EVEN FULLLLL

Also something I noticed recently playing Sims 3 when switching from a very low income family to an extremely high income one: IT ACTUALLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE. My high income family constantly have so many positive moodlets from their surroundings, even when their needs are at their lowest they've never once dropped below yellow. The kids get their basic toddler skills within 2 to 3 days, then spend the rest of that time being doted on, learning the secondary toddler skills and generally making use of the extra actions included in Generations. The low income family meanwhile were always having their appliances break, always juggling who fixed what based on if their mood was high enough to fix it, the kids barely ever got all their toddler skills or it was a rush if they did, and only had the secondary skills because it kept them busy while the adults did more important stuff. Whereas in the sims 4, regardless of if the emotion the sim is having is positive or negative, all of them have to stand there gushing about it for three hours or randomly decide to use the computer before they take care of their kids. Rich kids and poor kids get pretty much the same opportunities and skills because the game is holding your hand constantly never letting you make a mistake that has actual consequences.

Loved how you mentioned you "got lost in it". That's one of the amazing things about Sims 3, you don't just stick to one thing, you do many, you can become an astronaut that really likes to give other sims makeovers, who knows you can even switch jobs after a while so it's not just a hobby. You can be a chef with a sweet tooth for different cuisines like Egyptian or Chinese and you travel to those worlds to fully immerse in the culture and after a while, you've explored dozens of tombs! Sims 3 definitely has gameplay and a lot of things to do. Yes for those that play sims 3 for years becomes repetitive but never tiring because at the end of the day the game always has that randomness factor, strikes you when you least expect...like a meteor while you're fishing or a woman starts slapping her husband when you're talking to someone in the park. It's really fun, just like the previous game, sims 2. Random, chaotic, and really fun. I also really love the dramatic music that plays when you've reached level 10 of any skill. Gives it that "meaning". In sims 4 it's really meh. And don't underestimate, in sims 3 without mods it's challenging to improve any skill. They really nailed the difficulty, not too easy not too frustrating 10/10. Sims 4 is all over the place. And you technically don't need SSD or the newest pc to play sims 3 satisfactorily. I don't have any of those, my pc is 6yo and has an HDD. It doesn't load mega fast but at a decent rate. It depends on other factors besides SSD, like mods, amount of pointless features, etc. Loading screen can be interactive or normal. I understood why developers added an interactive loading screen. That way you could get reward points while you're waiting but it creates lag, you can deactivate those. Same with memories and the online features. After you tweaked the game, having an SSD is just convenient not a requirement really.

I honestly miss the school bus, seeing my kids get on the bus made me feel like a real parent lol

I met my sims' descendants in the future, and they were very poor that they make a self-deprecating joke about it. I remember I was so sad when I met them. I get my sims work their butt off and now they have 200k simoleons with 3 children. Their descendants are blooming and they now have mother lode status lol. I'm so proud. Never had that kind of storyline in ts4.

And for those still worried about the lag, there are mods now that reduce them significantly!

never forget that sims 4 made us pay $40 for rain

Open world is definitely the thing I miss the most. I'd rather have a slightly chunky world I can explore than sit through a 3-minute loading screen to visit my neighbor

One thing I liked in Sims 3 was when you’d buy a cheap starter home, sometimes you’d get a pop up that was like “oh no there’s cockroaches” or trash or something & you had to basically clean up your house before you really lived in it. I don’t know why I liked that but it added something to the game. Now I wanna go play Sims 3.

I never had a problem with the start loading screen, would always get it up and go and make a tea 🤣 by the time I'm back it's ready and no more load screens after that 😍😍😍

I remember the first time I played sims 4. I was SO disapointed in that game that I went back to sims 3 almost immidiatly. I have a few save files still on sims 4 but its very rarely for me to keep playing it. Sims 3 is and always will be my cuo of tea for sure😎

I missed stuff like actually being about to grocery shop and buy books at the bookstore. I liked moving to New locations to be closer to work because you got there faster. I loved how the reputation system worked. I loved how you had history in your city and people really would remember what you did. Stuff like being caught cheating and the other sim divorcing you. I also miss family in general. The minute toddler wasn't in the game in the sims 4,I never made a family. Didn't see the point.

am i the only one who actually loves ts3 aesthetics? i know the graphics may be bad in most of the computers, but i just really like it. the colors, the objects and the people feel more real, ts4 is kind of utopic . the sims 3 has a huge feeling of home for me, idk

Came back here after a year to say I upgraded my lapotp to 16 GB and The Sims 3 loads super fast and runs without problems. It's soo much fun to play over TS4.

This really reminds me of how shocked I was when I discovered that Sims4 isn't a fully "open-world" anymore like its predecessor and downgraded into a somewhat "half-open" kind of world instead by having a seperate maps for different region / city, just like how it goes with Sims2. I really missed the ability to randomly roam around the city with cars or other vehicles in Sims3.

I'm one of those players that never left the sims 3. Beyond it being a "complete game" there's just so much more substance to Sims 3 as opposed to Sims 4. In 3 the Sims actually function like living beings. They have memories, they actually react to their surroundings, and each sim serves a purpose in their society. Sims 4 is great when you want to FEEL like you're making a unique sim but the game play is so copy and paste that every sim ends up feeling pretty much the same.

Sooo glad you mentioned “fighting your sims”. Remember the “Absent-minded” trait in sims 3? ALL the sims have it in Sims 4. So annoying.

Sims 3 will always have an special place in my heart! I LOVE being able to ride horses and stuff. Plus, fairies and werewolves!!! Also, expansions really do compliment each other, they don't feel separated at all. I wish that it was possible to use The Sims 4 graphics on The Sims 3. =X

You know, some of that's what I've been saying from the start. I mean, they tried to hype the multitasking, and people were buying into it being new, but TS3 actually automatically did that when it made sense. It's not just when eating at the same table. It's also stuff like in TS4 I have to explicitly queue up listening to the music playing on the stereo while my sim is doing some work, for the music to do anything, while in TS3 it just improves the ambience like you'd expect it to. Or even talking to each other, it happens in a lot more situations in TS3, and has been since TS2 at the very least. E.g., if I have someone reading a book on the sofa, while someone else is watching the TV, while someone else is eating at a nearby table, while someone else uses the treadmill nearby, all 4 of them will just talk to each other even if I don't explicitly queue it myself. E.g., IIRC in TS3 my Sim can answer the cell phone while using the toilet, or conversely if he was using the tablet and I tell him to sit on the porcelain throne, yeah, he'll do both at the same time. TS4 did very little to expand on that. It mostly just made it an extra chore, that you have to queue up yourself instead of it happening automatically like in TS3 (and in fact some of it since TS1.) It's a step BACK in gameplay, yet they kept acting like it's some brand new feature. Or take emotions. The Sims 3 had emotions in conversation, not just the general moodlets. If you pay attention, you'll see that a conversation can now get to be awkward, or your conversation partner can be creeped out, or they can be bored, or amused or whatever. But that's kinda the thing: they kept it to where it is realistic, rather than making everything depend on it. It also was a part of the gameplay. You had to actually steer the conversation to get those results, not just hang a painting on the kitchen wall and suddenly everyone is inspired. Again, far from it being an improvement to gameplay, the TS4 version was actually a step back. It made it a mechanical and meaningless thing, as opposed to something that actually involves any gameplay.

When a 2009 game still has more stuff than 2014 game that already have 6 years update

In my opinion, Sims 3 Sims do have emotions, it's just not blatantly told to you. But you may zoom on them and see them smiling, or frowning, or looking angry, or mourning someone who's died. They don't have to tell you because the Sims show you. The only Sims that will drop their actions are ones with the absent-minded trait. Because it's done on purpose as part of that trait. They also have confused idle animations, like they're trying to remember something. If you invite a heavily pregnant sim to a party, it's inevitable that they will go into labor at the party. 😆 It's like murphy's law.

I love the Sims 3 and I believe it is the best sims yet, the endless customization options for furniture, clothes, textures, the big open worlds full of places to visit and build, the variety of well made expansion packs from this era, the more realistic-style graphics, etc., make this game by far superior than The Sims 4. I am a fan of the series and I´ve felt really disappointed of the Sims 4 since its release, it is very limited and boring to play, it almost feels like one of that mobile versions of The Sims compared to The Sims 3, which is the Sims version I still play today and plan to continue with until EA releases a new version AT LEAST as good as The Sims 3.

In the Sims 3 I play most of the whole town. I have generations of sims playing on basically the longest lifespan with shortening infants and tots a little. I have a whole story with a range of personalities and characters. When I bought Sims 4 I can't really do that and make the town as rich and detailed as I had in the Sims 3. So I still play the Sims 3 and love it. I do use NRAAS so I can customize their lives even more and can make my town bigger than the vanilla game allows. I would love to see them go back to the open world to the level of sims 3 but it would be tough to transition as I have played this town 3 years now and am quite invested in it.

I just love that they don't automatically make the bed

One of the things that I miss most about Sims 3, which I've never heard anyone else speak about, is that in 3 the first time a sim goes to school they can make friends, but after that they can talk to the friends that they made on the first day. In Sims 4 they can only make friends not talk to established ones. Its harder to establish a friend group in Sims 4, you have to use the Get Together club system and make kids socialise

something i like about the older sims games, especially the sims 3, is that it feels harder. you actually have to work to get to your goal or to fix your relationship after you cheated, meanwhile in the sims 4, you can easily fix things in just a few steps.

The ability to make insane amount of family generations in sims 3 got me playing it. And the fact that sims there actually has a "mind" of their own and do what they want to do. I just love seeing that. Truly an open-world life simulation game

I agree the goals in sims 4 are ridiculous. "I wanna kiss 20 people, have 10 boyfriends" wtf

Ah, I'd overlooked how time-consuming simply eating is in the Sims 4. Cooking too is also really slow. The Sims 4's multitasking system can actually make doing mundane tasks even more of a chore.

This made me miss Sims 3 so much :(( I'm one of those few people that actually prefere Sims 3 to Sims 2 because Sims 2 is just too overdramatic for me and Sims 3 is the perfect middle ground between full-on-drama and lifeless humans

I loved the skill challenges in Sims 3! They gave you a reason to do the skill even after you've maxed it.

Sims 4 is only pretty to look at. It has became a chore to play. And I hate that.

In The Sims 3 i didnt need mods to have fun. In The Sims 4 however, mods was a must for me. Mods are not supposed to carry a game

I can totally agree with you, It seems like EA is making the newer sims games cheaper, Not in price but in how much they are spending on the games

Im a new simmer and I started with Sims 4. Bought a ton of packs but figured it out kinda fast. Then I found out about sims 3. I thought it was gonna be bad because usually newer is better. Its now my favorite. It not too easy and theres so many details that make it enjoyable. And the open world is great for playing big households.

I missed how Sims 3 was so challenging. I revisited World Adventure quite a few times and the tombs were so...creepy, one wrong move and you will die. It gave me the thrills every time. Or in Island Paradise, I had to constantly look around for sharks when diving, please people so my resort won’t get bad reviews or pull my hair out to find that god damn uncharted island. It was so frustrating, so real and I loved it!

one thing that pisses me off about the sims 4 is when i make characters that aren’t supposed to be as “happy-go-lucky” are always smiling like idiots when they’re feeling happy. like sure i guess it’s nice to see them smiling but no normal person walks around grinning incessantly and laughing to themselves when they’re happy, maybe a closed mouth smile would suffice. it just goes to show how little personality each sim in the sims 4 has despite what traits they’re given, they all end up feeling the same moods with the same intensities at the same time for the same reasons and they express them in the same ways :/

I redownloaded Sims 3 yesterday and bought some packs on origin never got to play in my childhood- I felt the difference from the very beginning, as soon as my sim actually took a taxi to the library and I could indeed follow her from her front door to the library steps.

I always loved 3🤷‍♀️ honestly my game glitches more with 4 than 3 and I hate the build mode for the most part! Way too few options. The Sims are prettier but babies are objects so ...... not a good trade off and you can always use CC

I mean, no joke, but the Sims subreddit has been loaded with people going back to TS3 after the last TS4 pack, myself included. It seems like the Sims community finally got shown what EA thinks of us with this last one and it's hard not to finally see what we lost. I know I've been a TS4 apologist for as long as the game has been out. Well, not anymore. Now if only I could get TS3 to run worth a damn, sh*t that game still takes a while to load and has an embarrassing frame rate.

I recently revisited both 2 and 3. I was so overwhelmed by how the Sims in Sims 2 felt like actual individuals and not puppets, and how the gameplay was so rewarding in the Sims 3! I haven't play 4 in a while...don't know when I'll try it again, either.

With the nraas Overwatch mod TS3 runs SO smooth for me and I’m on a bargain basement ASUS. I have every expansion except Showtime and even Isla Paradiso runs like a dream.

The time is now to *actually* play extensive Sims 3 with advanced laptops. It runs really smooth now! Revisiting it again after failing to like Sims 4

I'll say it again and again: The Sims 4 is only good for building, and even that is often hard to match all the colors, etc without CC.

I still can't believe how complete Sims 3 basegame is. I didn't realize it back then, but having gone back to it after Sims 4, it's painfully obvious. Sims 4 with 547 expansion and stuff packs and is still lacking in basic gameplay. It's a shame really, because I love Sims 4 and there was a huge potential to it. The world, the graphics, CAS and the build mode were all innovative. I wish EA could revisit Sims 3 and learn from it 😕

I loved the story progression on The Sims 3! It gave Legacy Challenges a new level of realism because as time and generations went by on my Legacy, I could see other families and the town change and grow too. Even if I was mad when certain sims married others before my Sims could marry them 🤭

this video makes me smile . :^) you're spot-on with everything here, especially with the levels of difficulty and depth of skill-building! The skill journal made me OBSESSED with the photography skill in Sims 3 because it was more than just "reaching the next level", it was also about making your Sim get out of the house to try to capture these specific moments with their camera like "Lovers Kissing in France", and the more you achieved, the more simoleons your photographs would be worth so you could do it freelance! The goals for it even included things from other packs you'd installed, like you could seek out photographing a "Zombie Attack!" from Supernatural. Ugh, it's so rad I could talk about it for hours. And collecting things around the town and sending them off to be analyzed by the Science Facility is another obsession of mine, I miss it in Sims 4 !

We need a Sims 3 remastered. Fix the memory leaks, fix performance. Re-release.

Sims 3 is that kind of a game where I can play whole day on Speed 1 and not 3, because I actually enjoy watching what's happening around the world and my sim, Sims 4on the other hand, ... cant even play on Speed 3 XD

When 4 came out, I tried really hard to like it. It got boring really fast and that's not even addressing having to deal with loading screens almost every time you leave your home lot. I got some mods that helped a little and struggled through. It took a third or fourth game update breaking all my mods before I gave up. It just wasn't fun. I got frustrated when updates did this in 3, but I always impatiently rebuilt my mod catalog and eagerly got back to play. I went back to 3 and I never play 4. Also, as an unpopular opinion, I hate the way the charters look and move in 4. I don't want to play in loony tunes land. I liked having semi-realistic-looking sims and scenery.

sims 2 had the best eating. if they were alone they would eat like in ts3 but when sorrounded by others they would always sit next to each other and have quick chats in between bites, unlike ts4 where they would have intervals of 3 hours

you should have mentioned traits and how the traits in 3 actually change how your sims behave and interact with the world, like having a sim who is a snob and have them start off as low income is hilarious because theyll literally cry over all their cheap stuff and get happy once you buy them more expensive ones. theres one trait for sims who lack social cues and it can mess up your relationships with other sims at random as they might bumble with their words and get sims mad at them instead. i had a date go horrible because of this. (also your parties, social gatherings, dates etc are rated by a fun meter and can either be the best thing or absolute dull and it also affects your sim for a while) no matter how buggy and frustrating sims 3 gets ill keep coming back to it, as even if i have 1500 hours in that game ive yet to finish half of the stuff or seen everything there is too see. theres just too much.

The eating! In sims 4 the sims always find someone else to talk to while they eat, so the eating becomes even slower. Then they go eat by the pool when dining chairs exist.

Yesterday I decided to go back to the sims 3 and wow it’s amazing. The game has so much personality and I LOVE the open world.

This makes me want to go and try to figure out how to play S3. I've had it for years and rarely play it because I never figured out how to start. Now I'm excited to make a go at it again

I feel like I didn’t NEED mods with Sims 3. Sims 4, however, I can’t play without them. And it sucks.

I like how the sims actually acknowledge each other when they walk In the room especially when generations was added and the kid would play dress up and the adult would acknowledge the kid like this game felt like a a true sim compared to sims no personality 4

I still play the Sims 3 and consult your guides all the time (really almost every time I play I visit your site). Thank you for keeping it up!

Thanks for this Carl. I came back to this video of yours in 2021, after getting SO bored with TS4 - even with Country Living - and going back to The Sims 3. Admittedly, I only have the Supernatural expansion along with my original disc version, but I'm astounded at the high level of detail in the sim expressions, actions and reactions in comparison to the bland Sims 4! Also delighted with the many extra traits allowed that actually impact the sim (with no effing random 'Emotions' to get in the way), and the number of choices to do things with more complexity. Yes, the clothing items and the building aren't great, but the ability to re-colour/texturize everything is so good! I hugely prefer game-play over building anyway and TS3 is so much better at it. My TS3 game runs very smoothly on high settings as I have it on a second SSD (for games only), have 16GB RAM and a good GFX card in my PC. I'm going to keep an eye on the other packs to see which ones interest me and when the price is right (CD Keys I'm looking at you), I'll buy them!

Sometimes people complain about TS3's create a style saying "it takes to long, you'd never customize everything, too many options blah blah", but like, maybe the interface for Build/Buy is terrible in TS3 and it takes forever to find anything after you've gotten used to TS4's search bar, but if there's one thing that is designed to be easy and fast to use, it's Create-a-Style. Say you want everything to share a certain feature or color. You can very quickly and easily save the hex code or save the swatch in just quickly repeat across all your items. Seriously, Create-a-Style was so amazing.

I can't agree more. Sims 3 had so much more soul to it. You actually had a reason to play. Honestly, I can build in TS4, but actually playing it? No. I have no desire. And game packs that rarely have re-play value don't do it for me, either. The only thing TS4 does better is the build mode. The ONLY thing!

Sims 3 feels more like a slice of life and you get to really see whats happening on your sims and his/her neighbors. All that an open-world game will have is actually on that game

My favourite part were martial arts tournament, collecting various gems to refine and earn hug profits. Making crystal skulls that becomes huge money after some days. The moon cycle! The beautiful worlds in World Adventures and so many things to do without getting bored. I loved n miss Sims 3. Never got bored of it.

Auto roofs. I like a lot of the building in sims 4 but I really miss the auto roofs.

I really don't get why the difficulty of TS4 is so low... though I know a lot of kids play it, I used to enjoy The Sims as a kid myself and enjoyed the challenge. I recently had the realisation that though it is rated T for teen, it feels like they've lowered the difficulty to make it more suitable for a younger audience than that....

sims 3 just feels more nostalgic for me - it was the first sims games I ever bought on my own and played on my own. I got into it after I graduated secondary school and had some off time then, so I literally played it EVERY DAY for HOURS. it was so fun and it felt endless! i used to play the game with my Spotify playlist in the background and some songs still remind me of that fun carefree time I had with sims 3. I just loved everything in the sims 3, except for the lag ofc (my game would randomly crash at times) I specifically loved the University, Seasons and Generations pack. Everything about those three packs were so perfect and essential for me! The sims 4 versions of these are so lacklustre and boring. I miss the open world-ness of the sims 3 and how alive it really felt. Watching my sims walk or drive from their home to school or work was always so fun… I wish the sims 3 was made a little bit more in the future so the technology could support the excellent gameplay it originally has.

There was one problem i had with Sims 3. Save corruption. Happened twice and on both was when i had much activities with them (family, going on vacation, exploring new worlds, new jobs, maxing out all skills etc.). It happened during 2012 when i had so-so computer (which did sound like an airplane taking off). Also my favorite experience in Sims 3 was Seasons. Making angels, snowman, snow fights and actual wardrobe at the door. Plus the raining and umbrella (if you don't have then your Sim be soaked). I remember washing machine, but that was optional. It was good to use and can delete it anytime you want after you're bored of collecting clothes and feeling fresh everytime you wash Sim clothes. Personally i liked Seasons music in 2 and 3. And then i remember making Sim robot which was rng. Wanted to get clored one, like the one they promoted in trailer but mostly got silver or rusty. Time machine was nice touch. And getting Alien vehicle was awesome (instead of driving there, it teleports you to that location). I stopped buying expansions since from University was announced.