I played The Sims 3 on expert mode. The results will shock you. 

I had one of my sims leave the lot for a few hours. When I came back home, her sleepy husband was watching TV while her starving toddler who was covered on filth slept outside. Pathetic

KayGee it’s like sims 4 sims want to die. I hate how they won’t take care of toddlers. They never feed them unless you force them to. The only thing I’ve seen parents do willingly to keep their toddler alive was give them a sippy cup. Also, when we’re off the lot you can tell a sim to ‘care for self’ but you can’t tell them to care for toddler.

So frustrating! Sometimes my sims will even be so content to stand still in the corner that they just refuse my actions when I prompt them. Like the prompt will just disappear & theyll stay still... on the opposite end of the spectrum, the other thing that pisses me off is that it cancels their current self-started action if you prompt them to do something. Like my sim will have a red bladder bar and autonomously go pee; in the middle of peeing I prompt her to change out the laundry so it immediately cancels her peeing to go change the laundry right this second. Then she pisses herself in front of the washer because she didn’t finish peeing. It’s so annoying that I have to micromanage my sims so they actually complete actions. Can they change it so the sims finish their current action before the prompt action? It’s like the sims either do too much or not enough.

uwu this is so annoying. If they’re in the shower I I tell them to cook I always mean AFTER the shower. Not get out of the shower to cook. There’s no logical reason for that. Also, I like to queue things up and they can never just do it. One tiny thing can just erase the whole queue.

@@tjg813 i feel like they know they're in the least well developed title of the series and *DO* want to die lmao

Not taken away... repossessed hahahahaha I'm dying

✨repossessed✨ I CANNOT

bojack horseman

Sims 4 : ...

Don't forget zombie children

Flashes back to The Sims 2: This is too much!

Marina and The Devil mommy i see u on every sims video

Me either.

Marina and The Devil taste in music and games i see

a great way to speed up ts3 is to combine packages if you use modded stuff. I also recommend looking into sims 3 ram usage on google, because ts3 only uses 2gb by default. I upped mine to 4 since my pc has 8gb and it helped quite a bit. I've also heard locking ts3 to a certain amount of frames (like 60 if you get more than that) can help with how smoothly it runs. ALSO, delete everything from docs > elec. arts > sims 3 > dcbackup except the ccmerged package. That helped me a lot.

It's not as smooth but it's pretty playable. I have not left my house in 14 days.

I remember this one guy did a video of the Sims 4 where he just let the Sims do what they want. The Sims were capable of taking care of themselves.

literally like its realistic i guess but... At What Cost

Oh my God I HATE it SO MUCH when my sims go for the computer...

OMG SIMS 4 AND THEIR FUCKING COMPUTERS MAKES ME WANT TO START A FIRE IN THEIR HOME AND DELETE ALL THE DOORS

My sims in sims 4 are also addicted to water

My unicorn has appeared in the nursery, just checkin' on the newborn. As they do. I think....🤔

Marta Fernandes i wasn‘t but it was still the best time in my life😂

That's a mood right there

Marta Fernandes LMFAOOOOOO

Stable.. unintended horse pun? 😆

same Marta same

Yeah. Sims 1 was an absolute nightmare. You couldn’t do anything else except care for their needs. It was a constant game of catch up.

To be fair, it’s kind of necessary that your sims take care of themselves with the open world concept. The game can’t just pause the sims you’re not focusing on anymore. I also feel that made the world around them realer because townies would get married, have kids, and age along with your own sims so there’s more of an incentive to keep up with them.

@@Iamjustherek this just made me picture sims dropping dead in the park because they haven't fed themselves, i will now be laughing at this visual forever, thank u

That makes a lot of sense actually. In 1, 2 and 4 you're only focused on one lot/household at a time, but in Sims 3, your entire town in your lot. They expected players to move their cameras all about the town and survey other sims in it and their lives. It would be impossible to play a game that has the mood decay or AI of the other games while having open world, like it would be pure chaos 🤣

I agree, it's not difficult at all. I do pause a lot to check up on everyone and make sure they're building up their skills, do their work, homework, building relationships, etc. Filling their needs is nothing

@@josse13579 that is pretty good, it gives me more time to explore the expansion packs and feautures

agree! I play a household of 4, but im only playing on 2 of the sims. The other 2 go to work and take care of themself in a great way

@@sock5016 Yeah! I like to explore new careers and things i haven't tried yet, especially because i was so late into sims 3

My current household has 6 Sims. They stand around most of the time, aside from taking care of needs. Sometimes I see my Sim's Boyfriend reading at the Dining table, and my Sim's husband cooking. My oldest son just reads. And my Simself uses his computer. The other two kids are at boarding school.

the ONLY reason i came to the comments lmfao

the fact that she said it repeatedly 😭

@@bruv7569 Had me in tears for good ten minutes while I kept on rewinding over and over just to hear haaawse again hahaha

i literally thought she was saying a host

The Sims 5 needs the sims 3 a.i. and the sims 4 build mode

Sims in Sims 4 learn from what you tell them to do. They will start or stop doing things autonomously based on what you tell them to do.

And bring back Create-A-Style, dammit!

Sadly TS3 bad lighting and graphics keep me from playing :(

@@robinchesterfield42nah, that was one of the problems with graphics

:(

She streams on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/lifesimmer

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Omg I love her!

on a side note i absolutely love this meme

Yes! I exclusively play the Sims 3 and the worst is when the mini game also lags.

ElectricStrawberries - lmao omg I remember especially traveling to another country can take literal hours 🤦🏼‍♀️ I need a nice computer to play sims 3 again I just don’t have the patience. I’m playing on a laptop lmao

I stopped using the mini game because it would freeze the loading screen 😂

OMG WHAT GAME WHY DIDN'T I KNOW ABOUT IT

Hold up, what game?

I don't have parental controls, never have.

😂😂😂😂

Fuxking finally some parents with a little bit of brain.

Ive been there before

that was I thought too? hmm

Yeah it seems that she changed the rules...

I think she didn't interact with them because she didn't need to, they literally take care of all their own needs without prompting!

Ace-of-Wands no she said she can’t touch anything, she wouldn’t try to feed or clean them

Yeah if it wasnt for the crashing/lag and long wait times, i'd probably have it as my favourite, but until i get the ideal $5000 gamer pc, it'll probably lag no matter what lol

@@twigkin3056 Sims 3 actually runs worse in modern gaming PCs

It's been my absolute fave every since the release. My laptop runs it smoothly! You just have to frame cap the game, turn on VSync, play on medium settings (although mine runs on high so I guess that is possible too). Also download Nraas Overwatch and maybe ErrorTrap. My laptop's processor is an AMD Ryzen 5 series, not entirely sure which one specifically. AMD runs games better than Intel processors. :)

Yesssss

And makes Nic Cage, Brendan Fraser, and Horison Ford sims for the adventure 😎

Agreed that's one of my favorite EPs!

Oh I didn't know this was a thing! Thank so much for this, this will make my torture way better

kerri 😂

And here I am doing everything I can to make them stay alive. I'm a boring player I guess

@@trude8073 haha I have one family that I'm keeping alive and hoping to play for several generations. But I have a couple of different families that exist just for torture

I love the gremlins lol

yes!

Jeremiah

Yesss!!!

Charlotte O'Connor I hate them. I downloaded a mod that take away the Murphy bed death😂 I have a sin where I've worked my ass off to get as many skills to ten as possible.. then she decided it was TOO FUN to tend her garden and died...Fekk no, not doing that 😂

is sims 3 better than sims 4?

Alexandra Salvador by farrr!

at least there is no chuck messing with us lol

@@nele6120 i mean ... not yet

Luckily we have cas to grip us tight and raise us from perdition when we’re in hell

@@nele6120 true, but maybe that won't even be necessary with Rowena ruling the place now we'd probably miss a really nice party if he'd get us out too early. He could stay though, totally wouldn't mind that. Party with Rowena and Cas 🎉🎊

Touché

Holly Black I would have said the same thing, she at least tried to control stuff in the first game

Yeah she was definitely supposed to be trying to control them in the first two! I'm guessing she thought ts3 would be too easy...?

@ i'm just an IDIOT and completely forgot that rule hahaha

Áine Órga Haha I could swear that was the rule

I mean, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

Maia Rostved RIP LifeSimmer

Nina Gonzalez She streams now luckily! But I do miss the good old sims 3 days 😔😔

Nina Gonzalez she’s not dead lmao

Tide Pods Mom It’s a joke

Really?

I mean the sims 4 is an absolute failure and boring compared to the sims 3 lmao

True that!

It just proves that it's...boring. What's the point of Needs if Sims take care of them without you? Might as well not have them. They are there to be a challenge.

@@APEABOUTSIMS I liked it way more that way, then I didn't have to control everyone in my household just to get them to survive lol

AJ Martinez The whole point of the Sims is the player needs to intervene. Sims 3 having an overpowered autonomy and lack of random events, means core game could basically play itself with no risk. Even in Sims 4, the Sims looked after themselves as adults, but the game generated random events that affected her game, and therefore broke the flow and that was full autonomy as well. Her Sims did look after themselves until there was a fire and the caregiver died. Which then lead to random events with the children. In 3, there was no random events and the game basically did nothing. Different between “full autonomy” and the game not needing a player. There still be consequences for no involvement.

AJ Martinez Lol you are missing the point entirely. The point is: Sims 3 fails in creating random events that keep playing interesting. The game should require you to need to play. If a game can play itself that is a problem, not that we WANT the game to play itself. But if it can, then what is the point? The game should generate random events, and need us to direct our Sims so that depending on how good the player is at remediating these events, the game varies player to player. As Sims 3 is a game focused on giving you more time to “explore the world” it then means that the core aspect of the game which made The Sims what it is takes a backseat. If there the game doesn’t create any challenge, it gets boring. It’s good for people who just want to tell stories and cheat the rest, but for people who play for the challenge and who play for the random events as part of the gameplay, 3 is simply not as eventful and disappointing. Despite having a slider, Sims 3 goes from either being Sims just standing around awaiting orders or being able to look after themselves without the player. Ironically, the Wii version of The Sims 3 keeps the same level of events as Sims 2 and requires much more player involvement.

I second this!! Tbh most of them are great it's hard to pick a bad one

Omg I would love this! I remember my best friend showing me Curse of Blackmoor Manor when we were about 13-14. We got through about 7 of them I think, her mum used to collect them all

yaaaaasss I'm playing Shadow at the Water's Edge right now

Last. Train. To. Blue. Moon. Canyon. Delightfully creepy

I take back what I said about it being hard to pick a bad one, Ghost Dogs of Moon lake is very repetitive and frustrating