Customization is king, in my eyes, and each of the games has an advantage over the other in that respect. The Sims 3 has the popular Create a Style feature, which allowed you to tweak the appearance of… well, just about anything to your liking. In The Sims 4 , this is only available as a mod, unless you count the Create a Pet feature. So, yes. As I say, though, a lot of the appeal of The Sims lies in the ability to create sim-likenesses of real people. Maybe you like having real relationships play out in the game, and seeing if you and your new beau have any chance in the sim-world.
Whatever the case, The Sims 4 arguably offers more scope to create sims to your specific requirements, through the grab and pull system.
Of course, with the mighty EA being the publisher of The Sims , it was inevitable that the series was going to be rife with money-grubbing opportunities. Expansion packs have been a huge part of the experience since the original game, offering all kinds of brilliant and bizarre new gameplay mechanics, items and other options.
The Sims 4 added a new focus on the emotions and personalities of the sims, though, and a lot of hype surrounded these new elements in the run-up to the launch. While these features may not have proven to be as ground-breaking as they sounded, it was a crucial step. Hopefully, this will be further enhanced with the next game, helping to make the primo life sim more immersive than ever. Titles like The Sims can often disguise this sort of thing, by virtue of all of the content packs you knew were coming anyway.
On launch, the fourth game was missing some fundamental content. This is yet another area that ardent fans of The Sims are going to have differing opinions on. Which version gives you better tools to do so mods and such notwithstanding? Have it your way, as Burger King likes to say. Another element of The Sims that has become super-important to the players is the concept of sims aging. We want to watch newborns grow, sims age, generations advance and such.
This is a life sim, after all, and these are all fundamental parts of life. The open-world thing was a bold move, and many fans loved it, but it did come at a cost.
For one thing, it was a big strain on a lot of systems, causing all manner of slowdown and glitches. Nintendo's masterpiece has influenced Elden Ring in ways that can't be denied. Via Gametactics. Sims expansion packs are literally game changers. When The Sims 4 first came out, it lacked fundamental items like pools and the toddler stage of childhood.
Both things were later introduced but the Sim fandom never forgets. Unfortunately, the answer to that question is not a simple one. Both games have their strengths and weaknesses.
You may recognise a few from The Sims Get the best gaming deals, reviews, product advice, competitions, unmissable gaming news and more! See comments. Gaming deals, prizes and latest news. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands. Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors. You will receive a verification email shortly. There was a problem. Please refresh the page and try again. It totally changed game play for Simmers who were used to waiting for loading screens between any sort of travel in The Sims 1 and Sims 2.
Sadly, Sims 4 removed the open world from its game. The Sims 3 has an open world, free for your Sims to explore without encountering loading screens from lot to lot.
In The Sims 4, you must wait at the loading screen when you enter a new lot. World customisation is pretty up to you in The Sims 3. You can place lots of all sorts of sizes and even use a mod to fully expand lot sizes and place them pretty much anywhere you can find flat land on a map.
Further, you can sculpt land and make it flat or suitable for a lot and plop it down. You can plop down a 64x64 lot and build a big cinema, or a 30x40 lot and build a family home. That level of customisation really gives the player the ability to make each world feel unique and their own.
Sims 4 has pre-designed maps with designated plots for lots. While you can demolish lots and place the lot of your choosing in its place, you're still only limited to so many lots per world. Which brings us to You can place all sorts of lot sizes in The Sims 3, and completely customise the world to your desire.
Again, in The Sims 3 , because you can place lots wherever you'd like, you can have a world crowded with lots. I suppose your gameplay might suffer depending on the kind of computer you have, but hey, at least the option is there to have lots in your world, if you so desire.
Most of the Sims 4 maps are very limited in lots. The Sims 4 comes with flat, pre-defined maps. You can only place lots in the specific spots on the map, and they can only be the sizes that the developers created- nothing larger than whatever the space allows for. Speaking of lots, The Sims 3 has way more variety of locations for your Sims to visit. From the beach or a comic book store, to a tattoo salon or the grocery store, there are more community lots and locations for your sims to go to throughout each world.
Once all the expansion packs are factored in, there are over 80 different lot types in The Sims 3. The Sims 4 is pretty limited in comparison. To date, there have only been 29 new lot types introduced in the game with all DLC included. In The Sims 3, your Sim can go grocery shopping! A small, but more realistic touch which is lacking in The Sims 4. I remember how revolutionary it was when The Sims 2 introduced the ability to own and drive a car in the series.
Driving is such a part of everyday life for most people, that it feels normal to have cars and driving in the game It's not even the lack of driving in The Sims 4 that's odd; it's the fact that cars don't exist at all except for background deco. Sims don't have to carpool to work, they simply walk out to the pavement and then disappear. They appear back on the pavement when work is over. Same for any other sort of travel. In The Sims 3, your Sim can own and drive a car.
Even if they don't own one, they still get picked up by taxis or a carpool to go to different locations. The Sims 4 has cars, but only as decoration.
The Get Famous expansion pack features lots of cars parked on the side of the road pictured above , but you can't interact with them. Numbers 5 and 6 combined with other bits and pieces really lend to The Sims 3 's overall experience, making it a more fully fleshed out, immersive game. If you want realistic gameplay, you can have it. There's a variety of places to go, things for your Sims to do, there's cars for them to drive and even bicycles for children to ride , there's crime, after-school programs for kids, part-time jobs, different worlds to visit, and no loading screens beyond the initial one to start the game.
The Sims 4 still doesn't have things everyday things, like crime no burglars or law enforcement careers to go with them, no open world, no story progression without player-created mods, just a few supernatural creatures just aliens and vampires. The "world is your oyster" in The Sims 3; the city can be fully explored, with a variety of lots to visit, things for Sims to do, jobs for them to work at, and so on It's beautiful but most of what you see is simply "set dressing"; you cannot go into these buildings, interact with the cars, even some of the people on the street are fake.
It's almost unanimous: Anyone who has played both versions knows that The Sims 3 is simply a better game overall. The Sims 4 is still lacking a lot of content and doesn't compare yet in terms of available gameplay compared to The Sims 3.
I've noticed over the years that every time I start playing, I get bored after a few hours; truly, the last time I felt really obsessed with The Sims 4 was when Dine Out was released June , and I had a lot of fun building new restaurants and visiting them. Even with new DLC added to the game, that feeling still lingers; as none of the new content adds to the things listed above, things that make The Sims 3 such an amazing and memorable gameplay experience.
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