apartments in The Sims 3 make The Sims 4 look bad 

As someone whose dna was changed by the sims 3 as a 12 year old, “Based on how it runs, you could almost argue this game doesn’t want to be played” is SO real

Let’s just admit every thing about the sims 3 makes the sims 4 look bad 😂

Am I the only one who doesn't mind the TS3 graphics bcuz they feel cozy but cannot stand how absolutely lifeless sims 4 sometimes looks (like, different characters doing the same poses bcuz their traits and subject of conversation don't affect them as much)? TS3 just feels nostalgic like drinking cocoa with your family when it's almost Christmas while sims 4 feels like those play dough suprise eggs videos some if us watched as kids

The whole of the sims 3 makes the sims 4 look bad-

Honestly I’m not mad at the fact that I cannot edit pre-existing apartments, because I live in an apartment and I cannot change windows, so it’s realistic.

Sims 3 makes Sims 4 look bad by default... and that's coming from someone who didn't play on the Sims 3 era entirely xD

Ok So you say the sims 3 store is soo expensive but pay over like 900 dollars for the sims 4.. each to there own but the sims 4 is a money grab game now

Lets be honest - the sims 2 will stay the gold standard of apartments. You should give them a try.

as someone who plays the sims 3 all the time, the sims 4 seems so bright to me 😭

Speaking of Generations, the one thing I missed from TS3 Generations that didn’t make it to TS4 is the Imaginary Friend. I had such a great time making my Sim kids’ imaginary friends real.

TS4 did one thing right and it was CAS and BB. Building in Sims 3 has the most customization, but it’s definitely less enjoyable to use and can be slow and tedious.

the sims 3 ran like a brick through a window, but it just had so much and sims 2 & 3 are constant reminders of how much they've taken from us

Can we just talk about how cool the debug tools were for sims 3. The whole World Adventures pack functioned off them and it was so intelligent and well made. You could rig your own dungeons. I loved it, there is nothing quite like it in the Sims 2 or the Sims 4!

When you said the Sims 3 is just this dark I finally understood. I always thought about the Sims 3 as I was always playing at night (like in memories I always imagine my Sims at night). Now I understand why, because the game itself is always dark. This would have been a huge adjustemnt to just brighten it. But you know, now we have TS4 and I liked it so much when I first started the game in 2014 and it was sooo light.

In build mode, with cheats on, you can shift click on your neighbours’ doors (doors between a room with a public marker and a room with a hidden marker) to “allow NPCs” so you would have non-playable sims show up and live there. They would go in and out and you can knock on their doors and chat and hangout with them and befriend them. And no, your sim doesn’t own the whole building, only the rooms with neither public nor hidden room markers.

i used to LOVE bridgeport because it’s so gloomy and cozy 😭 now i love when it rains in san myshuno so its all cloudy and it reminds me of sims 3 :))

The Sims 2 really does have the gold standard for apartments... even compared to whatever's coming in For Rent, based on what the community has seen.

I loved Bridgeport so much! The worlds in Sims 3 were SO GOOD

TS2 really has the gold standard for apartments. You can have multiple playable families live in the same building as separate households (in TS3 it's only one apartment and the rest are townie generating doors with no apartment attached to it) and sometimes they'll make noise and wake up your Sims, so you'd have to bang on the walls for them to stop and things like that. Plus you could interact in cute ways with your neighbors like visiting them and throwing parties in the common areas and asking them to watch your kids while you're out... If TS4 is bringing back this kind of experience then I'm guessing it's gonna be good.

Loved making a whole apartment building in sims 3 from scratch & placing public markers for community spaces like a gym/laundry & lobby