Frankly, IMHO, Sims 3 is boring. I actually found Sims 2 very boring before they started adding the expansion packs and stuff packs. I'm not very good at playing the game just to watch relationships develop, kids be born and the generations pass, and since I have yet to figure out a good way to play multiple families, I can't even see my Sims make friends among other families I've created and grow together through the generations.
I've said many times that by the time EA added Apartment Life and Mansions and Gardens, TS2 had actually become a near perfect game.
I had no interest, whatsoever, in TS1 until Making Magic came out. From that point, I was intrigued and very quickly hooked. That, of course, explains why I feel that Apartment Life was the icing on a dark chocolate cake. :)
Someday, TS3 may, hopefully, be as good, but for now, I'll continue to play when the mood strikes me, I'll keep you all updated on Sireta and Tris, but really, my TS2 stories and gameplay do come first.
I would suggest you check out these TS3 stories:
Mao
World's Apart Sims 3 Tales
Take care,
Lachesis
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Aww, thanks for the link! TS3 is a mixed bag. No way I could play it without Awesomemod. It just wouldn't happen.
As for gameplay, for the sims franchise, I've always loved the gameplay, way back to base game TS1. I've been obsessed ever since. I think I am one of the few remaining "storytellers" who still sees it at a game first, LOL! I clock a lot of gameplay hours.
TS3 is DEFINITELY lacking in this department, but I'm slowly, but surely, bending it to my will. Especially with the help of the wonderful mods coming out! I can't wait for JM Pescado's Story Progression rewrite. For right now, I'm using the Indie Mod.
While in our travels, hubby picked up Sims 3 (only a few bucks cheaper in the States, not worth buying) he said, 'Are you sure you don't want it?' I nodded quite quickly and stated again, I am in no hurry for Sims 3.
Believe it or not, I got BV cheaper in Canada. (18.93 at Wal-mart) THAT I am anxious to try out, I will be sure to pick your brain Lachesis over BV gameplay when I get home!
Meanwhile, I am going over to check out your blog, even though I have no desire to get the game at this time, I am curious about what it entails!
cheers mate!
Well, I'll try this again. I can't say how much I regret not getting another iMac for work, this PC is a giant piece of crashy junk. Needless to say, it crashed right in the middle of this and I had to start over. :(
Anyway...
Mao, No problems, I actually feel quite bad about being so crappy about putting this together. :/ Maybe if I played with the cc, hacks and mods, but I really wanted to see what EA had to offer straight out of the box.
I have a TS2 play neighborhood that I still very much visit. Unfortunately with my two main stories finishing up over the past couple of months, I haven't had much time to spend in it and I'm actually missing them. During my break, though, I'll be back at it. :)
Drew, With everything you haven't experienced with TS2 yet, really, you have so much to explore, TS3 can more than wait until it has more to offer. :)
Just ask, I'll try to remember what I've found out. Mostly, I remember visiting Bigfoot once and thought, this is it? :D But I love the crazy hermit and the wiseman, they're fun.
I spend a lot of time in gameplay, and I enjoy it immensely. A LOT of time.
Sort of happy where I am right now. I still have too much to learn. If it becomes impossible to continue storytelling using TS2 (everybody runs screaming in horror), I'll tackle TS3.
S.B., I'd love to spend more time, but I've kinda tossed my extra time into the storytelling, I have to figure out how to moderate that. :P
I really want to have more than two generations of a family and I'd love to see all the kids in the 'hood grow up together and be friends or lovers for life, and then have their kids and so on. And I'd love to do it so everyone owned businesses, etc. Obviously these are TS2 goals, not TS3. :)
I rarely have enough time to play in TS2 and there is a lot I am only just discovering about it (jungle gyms?? who knew?) I have seen some incredible creations from TS3 but until there is more synchronicity with it, more CC, expansion packs, I am still content with TS2.
But it has been fun following the stories from writers I know using Sims3. I just don't know if I will go there or not. But it took forever for me to get TS2 so you never know.
Hey Gayl! I spent the better part of last week playing my TS2 play neighborhood and like you, there's tons I don't know. I got AL after I started storytelling so I actually played it very little. I thoroughly enjoy it, though.
Then the 2nd patch came out for TS3 and my graphic driver updated so I thought I'd check that out. After four days of playing TS3 I'm surrendering and heading off for the hacks. There are things I really like about TS3 and I'm actually rather enjoying it at this point, but frankly it can't hold a candle to TS2 and I'm really starting to miss my families there, once again. :D
Frankly, I don't think it's worth rushing out for even though I did. And there is the first EP announced for it, as well. The TS3 version of BV, so EA is moving along. But of the two, I still love my TS2. :D
I confess since my latest reinstall, I have not entered any of the neighborhoods except my custom NB. I have never played Riverblossom or the AL NB whose name I don't even know that is how bad I am. Or the FT neighborhood...maybe one of these days...but I am too wrapped up in the goings-on in South Beach...still you writers that have it and have used it to tell stories have done a great job. I just don't know if I could recreate my people in TS2 or if I would even want to try. I am happy with them the way they are.
Hehehe Gayl, I play "The Unstructured World." A custom hood I created and threw everything EA into. I have all the subhoods and all the weird characters. There was so much I'd never seen in the game, I wanted to finally get it all. As for EA hoods, I've only played Pleasantview and Riverblossom - Riverblossom because I wanted what to see what a plant sim was like.
Thank you, there are enough weird things in TS3 to make writing about it easy. I'll never recreate my SoM characters three (or at least I very highly doubt I will) I've been with them too long to even begin to think of them looking different, so unless at some future point I can make them look exactly the same, it won't happen.
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