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The best Sims game turns 20 today, calling forth a wave of warm nostalgia in the face of the franchise's uncertain future (www.vg247.com)
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[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only thing that stops me from playing the sims 2 as my main is that Sims outside of the current household don't age and if you ever achieve platinum status (which is surprisingly easy) there's no challenge in the game anymore. Because needs barely matter anymore.

I was once trying to do a "realistic" run with my sim starting in a trailer park and eventually working my way up the property ladder. I got platinum before i moved out of the trailer.

3 would be the best if it was stable and had the moodlet system of 4. At least for how I want to play the Sims.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, pretty much. The best Sims game doesn't exist, it's a Frankenstein monster that would take bits of the 4 games.

I love the idea of 3 with the open city and NPC progression, but wow this game's an unstable glitchy mess. It's not even close to be playable without many unofficial fixes, and even then, it runs like shit.

The only things I'd take from 4 would be maybe moods (nice to have, I guess) and the more organic body models, with more seemless morphs. 4's gameplay is boring as hell, nothing interesting ever happens. And they got rid of create-a-style which is a huge creativity downgrade.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The best sims game is The Sims Bustin' Out.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

And maybe Project Zomboid

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Wasn’t it the last Sims games made by Maxis as a separate studio? Isn’t that why everything after it felt so lifeless?

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It was the last major Sims title released while Will Wright was still with the company. That would explain it.

Maxis continues to exist as a studio under EA, but most of the original people are gone, including the founders.