Sims 2 vs. Sims 3? What's your thoughts?

I didn't want to buy one I just wondered why. But with expansions and other stuff sims 3 does get better, I have just been playing it and mastered the Martial Arts skill... Then murdered my sim while trying to invent something. I don't find it hard to get my sims to get with the towns people, I don't have any traits that make my character like that, apart from good sense of humor, but that's it, all I do is compliment there appearance and personality, flirt, tell a flirtatious joke, hug them, kiss them, then get lucky... It's not that hard really, you can also buy a lifetime reward if you really want them to get with someone.

I feel similarly to you. When I got Sims 3, I almost immediately noticed how different the sims looked, and it really bothered me. I was really used to the way I could shape and design every little detail of my sims' faces and I had a hard time doing that in Sims 3.

I felt that a lot of sims looked similar, too. I thought the hair idea was cool, so you didn't have to manually add highlights to hair and you could pick which color you wanted your sim's hair to be from the start, but a lot of times it didn't look good with highlights. It just looked sort of scraggly and messy.

I liked how there was a wider range of body options in Sims 3, though. A lot of times when I tried downloading custom content it would slow down my game TREMENDOUSLY to the point of where it often crashed or froze. Sometimes custom content would show up in Create-a-Sim but wouldn't show correctly in-game.

Sometimes it just wouldn't show up at all. I thought the pattern system was a clever idea, but a lot times it didn't look so great, and I had trouble making a graphic for clothing that was a repetitive pattern. I missed a lot of custom content that I was able to get easily in Sims 2 that was simply beautiful.

With the weight and the muscle sliders, along with some custom body sliders that I downloaded off MTS3, I enjoyed making my sims look unique rather than following the same mold that all sims had in Sims 2. I liked that you could collect items like bugs, rocks, and fish, which I thought was clever. I also liked how you could go to any place in your neighborhood without going to a loading screen.

But I didn't like how you couldn't see the inside of some buildings. I thought the traits were fun, but somewhat limited in their features. Those were some of the only things I liked better in Sims 3.

I don't play either game much anymore because I have a lot of studying and work I have to do. But I preferred Sims 2 greatly over Sims 3, and I put Sims 3 up only after playing for like a month or so. I never bought any expansions for it, either.

I think the reason Sims 3 feels like such a letdown is because the transition from Sims 2 to Sims 3 wasn't that great compared to Sims 1 to Sims 2. With Sims 2, the expansions packs were wonderful. University?

Never had that before. Seasons?! Holy crap.

But the expansion packs in Sims 3 .. kind of suck. World Adventures is no longer a vacationy kind of EP, which is what I, and most people, expected and wanted. What happened to the hotels and vacation homes?

Although it's fun, it just doesn't give me the whole realistic feeling. The hype of the whole "free-roaming" brought up our hopes of something greater. But after having played the game, I think some people miss the simplicity Sims 2 gave us.

I, too, used to play Sims 2 for hours. Especially during m school breaks, where I would find myself playing the game until four in the morning. Now, after a couple of hours, I get bored and exit out.

I was definitely disappointed of rabbit holes. I love how we can grocery shop but I hate how I don't get to control my Sim in the building. And I miss reading the good old stories in the Sims 2 exchange, like the Uglacy or Legacy stories.

But I rarely check out the exchange over on the Sims 3 website .. maybe that's just me? I reminisce about the sims all the time. I really miss the old expansion packs to be honest, and how realistic but fun in how they tied to our sims lives.

I think all of the expansion packs they release now don't have that same jazz. I know how you feel though. I find it weird to be bored of a game that offers a lot compared to Sims 2.

But the ability to be creative in the Sims 3 is lacking. The towns are kind of bland to. You either have a nightlife kind of town, or a family oriented one.

But never both. I really hope the Sims creators release expansion packs that actually are fun to play with .. instead of releasing EPs that don't add that much fun for me. :(.

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