The Devolution Of The Sims... 

TS4 is essentially a doll house simulator, not a life sim You build pretty homes, you dress up the dolls, but there isn’t really anything to do with them except imagine the gameplay was better

The Sims 2 was made with passion, the Sims 3 was made with ambition & the Sims 4………..

This video convince me that sims 2 has a lot of details and the amount of stuffs make the game feel more alive. It's the only one which has pool physic and a full car animation.

Truly sims 2 feels so much more "alive" than than the others

While Sims 2 was limited in some ways (Closed world, and limited customization), a huge advantage to this is the fact that the devs now had all of the time they wanted to flesh out the games with tons of details, many of which weren't even necessary but they still put them in anyways. This really shows how much passion the Sims 2 devs had for the game. I guess Sims 3 could be excused for some things due to how they had to make the game's larger scale and Open World work on 2009 PCs, though some things like Couch Physics, Microwave physics, repair animations, and Pizza Physics have no excuse due to how little they impact the game's performance. At least they did make up for it with the huge breadth of content, unparalleled customisation, and other small details not present in Sims 2. Imagine what Sims 3 would've been like if they spent 1 - 2 more years on development though... Sims 4 on the other hand... it felt like they didn't even try at all, the most performance heavy parts of Sims 3 were removed in this game yet there's a severe lack of details compared to Sims 2 and 3, you would expect a game built on later tech to have more details... Also, it's not like Sims 4 gave us anything to make up for it, sure improved build buy and improved CAS are some things but this is a life sim and this is by far the worst live mode we've ever gotten, plus there's a severe lack of content compared to Sims 3 despite having 70+ DLCs already.

ts2 strikes the perfect balance between realism and quirkiness. Plus the modding community is STILL active and amazing. It just has a soul that the other games lack in some way.

Sims 2 and 3: * Sims actually fix electronics * Sims 4: "Remote controller"

Invisible garage in Sims 4 looks super cool

2 by far had the most love put into it. 3 replaced some of the love with ambition, cutting tiny corners to reach for the stars. 4 just cut corners because it could.

Sims 2 wins hands down, Sims 3 has similar animations but there is a slight corners are cut. Sims 4 is a whole lot of NOTHING. Even the most mundane things Sims 2 did it so well.

And to think it costs $1,175 for all DLC in SIMS 4.

And Sims 4 has more packs than Sims 1-3 combined, it's wild. I honestly feel like Project Rene/Sims 5 will be even worse.

Sims 3 forever - to be fair with cars in 3, they can be put anywhere on the lot. So, putting your car on a roof or wherever would be weird to animate

Sims 3: with the expansion pack of ambitions, you could actually play as a firefighter. Too bad you did not show that.

By far Sim 2 is my favorite in the series. The love and passion they put into that game can still be felt and seen. That being said, I'm not entirely against the idea of cutting corners, *if* it's in exchange for something better, new or innovative. Sims 2 knew what it could achieve and gave 100% within those boundaries. Sims 3 may have cut corners but it's because it was trying to be so ambitious. I'm not going to be too upset about missing car animations when I can drive my chosen vehicle around the world to any chosen destination. The animations of grocery shopping is something I'm willing to forgo if it means my sim can actually walk/drive/bike to the grocers without a loading screen. It's a fair exchange for some. But with sims 4... I don't see what the 'cutting corners' served outside of saving the company money. There was a time when I could argue that it was the easiest game to play, the least fussy. But not anymore. It's complete bugged out mess with many of the features players have paid for not even working. What was the point of cutting all those corners? Can't even give it credit for being prettier when that's something any game can achieve with time.

The sims 3 with sims 1 vibe (grew up with sims 1 and 3), sims 2 details animation etc, sims 4 cas, build/buy and gallery, and with better-looking sims (not uncanny) is my ideal sims game...

I love Sims 3, and it deserves it flowers. Some of its shortcoming you can blame on the change of gameplay loop (live in an open world and explore a town vs. help the Sims complete their Aspiration in life while avoid tragedy in Sims 2) and technical limitations to bring that to life. But in some ways, I can't help but feel it was the delayed flop of the Sims series. Cars popping in and out, loss of animations and interactions, the STORE (what, $72,000 vs. Sims 4's $7,000).

To be fair, if the price for an open world is less animations, it's completely fine. Sims 3 for ever ❤

Sims 3 will always remain my favorite sims game. I agree that some of the cool details that where in the sims 2 weren't implemented back in, but I think it was for the best since sims 3 is an open world. It wasn't out of laziness but more like for the sake of optimization. And it's still a fun game nonetheless althrough I fully undersand why people would prefer sims 2. Sims 2 and sims 3 are both good for their own reasons. Sims 4, however, has no excuses.

glad you touched on the walking animation

i am so glad i'm a sims 2 girly, grew up playing it so much in my childhood and i still play it from time to time now. it's the best sims game!

I'm curious to see how they want to dumb down Sims 5 / Project Rene compared to Sims 4. I know it won't be easy. But if anyone can do it, it's EA...

Sims 2 will always be the winner, no doubt! Sims 3 has its own charm too, but Sims 2 is so memorable and paid so much attention to the smallest details, it's unmatched. Sims 4 is just an empty husk, so lifeless and unfinished...

helicopter was such a flex

Sims 3 lacked animations, but at least the world felt alive... sims 4 fails at both things 😩

Man.... We had it so good with TS2.... We really need a port of it. Also, I'm only slightly okay with TS3's car teleportation because then I can put my car wherever and it can be used. I don't have to worry about pathing and making sure it's fully accessible. Though if TS2 got ported, I'm sure someone would make a mod that does the same thing.

That Sims 4 guy waiting for something all day 😂

I like how there's different hidden traits in the sims 3 and it's very nostalgic for me. It's also very fun to play without the loading screens like the sims 4. The relationships between younger sims also had some life to it to be able to go to different lots and run around them without being limited to a square box of a lot. There's some other animations to that are great in the sims 3. It feels a bit more alive to me and I myself don't really remember what the inside of stores look like or care about those animations. It gives a great setting for family activities. 😅

The repair animation, cooking, and the teleporting plates and glasses in ts4 makes me so mad, couldn’t they just borrow animations from previous games if they were gonna be so lazy?

Loss of detail at least made sense in TS3 because the game made up in other ways, more customization, bigger worlds, more variety. TS4 is just a step back on all fronts

a dream come true would be a game with sims 2 animations, sims 3 content, and sims 4 graphics

Sims 4 team could make Vlad behave like a burglar and evilly drink blood out of your Sim but couldn't get Burglar NPC to work. FML

Ts4 sucks...

I started playing the Sims 2 again thanks, to @Keeyuh on here, and I forgot just how much fun and alive that game is ! I mean I made my sim start off in college, she got engaged while on her senior year of college on Twikki Island, graduated, had an engagement party, got married (and all the sims actually sat and clapped at the wedding) got careers (drive themselves to work they, both have cars ❤) got a pet dog, fish, and a bird, 3 kids, and one on the way 😊, and my game runs so smooth, and loads so fast, and the DETAILS make it so much better. Like the Sims 4 COULD NEVER 😂, You would think that the Sims 4 would be equal or better, and it's the WORST in the franchise. Yikes. I've always said if the developers gave us the entire Sims 2 game, but gave it Sims 4 graphics and CAS items, the sims team could've retired YEARS ago 🤷🏽‍♀️

Sims 4 Is basically teleport ing

The Sims 2 had love. The Sims 3 had ambition. The Sims 4 had greed.

It's true that Sims 3 doesn't have a lot of the animations, but it was also in an open world. Plus it's in the base game whereas in Sims 2. It was introduced in 'NightLife' EP.

I never understood why sims 3 didnt just add driving out of the parking lot if they’re gonna drive around the town to a location anyways 😂

If you have For Rent, the Sims 4 has burglars, but they are the player's sims. Also, there is a mod that brings them back as NPCs.

It is to underline that some animations being cut in the sims 3 and rabbitholes did fit since the open world system couldn't become THAT heavy. Like ok, you don't show me all the starting the engine process but you show me a car crossing a whole city. To me both 2 and 3 are cool

love your vids!!! it's insane how the sims 2 came out 20 years ago and it's still the best game in the franchise

I just played the Sims 2 for the first time in ten years and honestly it’s so chaotic and hilarious. I loaded up the game and my sims instantly started brawling.

THANK YOU. As much as I LOVE sims 3, i think it has started a lot of shortcut trends in life simulation game design! Obviously, for sims 3, it was a product of its time that had less to work with, but the excuses for sims 4 and the games that follow its blueprint, it is lazy work!

I mean, for my, Sims 3 are the best, for all they have and how they combine that

The Sims4 is embarrasing at this point

I don't want the sims 5, I want a sims 2 remake! Same game with latest graphics.

Sims 2 and Sims 3 had a lot more game play. I have to use mods to keep me interested in playing Sims 4.

In The Sims 4 : They also have different walk styles

Sims 4: I would say with the grocery store thing the closest you would have is either 'get to work' ep, In which you can sort of have a grocery store. By selling it. You also have those tables that you can do for yard sales. There's also the market in cottage living.

The Sims 3 is a great game, but I find it disappointing how many people are ignoring the laziness EA displayed with the car animations. I didn't like how the Sims would teleport in and out of the car and for the car to disappear from the driveway. The Sims 2 was spot-on with the car animations and other aspects as well. Even though it may have had some limitations, it was still a great game and still is. Other than that, both games are good. Unfortunately, I find The Sims 4 boring.

This what you get of firing experienced workers for so called cost-cutting-but-CEO's-belly-filling strategy and hiring multiple freshers for the same cost

I can forgive the Sims 3 having less specifc details since they did have to make it "work" on open world, yet, the sims 4 has no open world, and yet has worse details than sims 3!! Like jeeze, you scaled back the world, and didn't even add anything back.....well they did...in dlcs and packs, and junk for like 999.99 for like a set of three chairs.

Sims 4 is deliberately that way because it gives the developer excuse to create separate features as dlc

The perfect Sims would be the one that has TS2 gameplay depth and non-buggy DLCs, TS3’s open world and TS4’s QoL features. But alas, the game industry has no passion anymore… due to laziness and/or corporates greed that kills any devs motivation to hone their craft.

Mind y'all, Sims 2 came out in 2004!

The only reason I can play sims 4 for hours now, it's because it has tons of gameplay mods, and yet, it deson't have the same amount of details as 2 and it shows sometimes (even with heavy mods)

The reason why I stayed for Sims 4 is for the community.

It’s really sad seeing this and thinking that the Sims 4 could have been so much better if it didn’t cut corners so much.

A devolution, indeed!

Oh how I love ts2.

unpopular opinion but the car animations for sims 4 is probably my favorite

To be honest for the sims4 u need so many packs to stuff u want to do Frr without packs the sims4 boring fr but with the sims3 without pack is fun and u can do so much i never played the sims2 so i can’t say much on it but sims2 seen like really fun and a lot of detail compared to the sims4 i would definitely try to get my hands on the sims2

This video would make much more sense and be much less confusing if the three different screens were labeled

Sims 3: The grocery stores are a rabbit hole, however It was the base game, Sims 2 Open for business.

The walking animations in sims 2 look natural. In the other 2 it looks unnatural. I liked the graphics and cartoon style of sims 2, it had a great balance between quirky and realistic and with mods it can be made even better looking if someone wants to modernise it. Love the wants based system, don't really like the moodlets from later 2 sims games. Open world was nice but loading screens don't bother me. Do house stuff during loading screens and stretching legs.

in my opinion cooking in the sims 2 was badly devolved in the sims 4 because you see him getting the pans and different utensils out whereas in the sims 4, things kinda just teleports into their hands

sims2 was more detail than sims3 and sims4

You know of they bring cars back you'd have to pay for it

You are on EA’s NECK with these videos I am living

the sims 2 is the most detail ever and made by heart not profit , the sims 4 is only made for profit with the tons of dlc

Sims 2 - has better animations, physics, interactions, some models and textures. Sims 3 - has better shadows Sims 4 - more cartoony than other parts of the Sims (however, Sims 4 overall graphics obviously looks better, but it uses less details than Sims 2)

So basically for the next game they should merge the 3 games. Sims 2 for all the details that feels realistic, open world and fun from Sims 3, building features from Sims 4.

The devolution of the pizza is so sad.

Sims 1 will hold a special place always. Out of the whole franchise Sims 2 was better imo. I played a lot of Sims 3 as well and it was in its way also good. I will not spend a dime on Sims 4 - sorry.

At this rate the Sims 5 will just pull fully cooked meals immediately from the fridge. Then Sims 6 will just click on the fridge and automatically fill hunger meter. Then Sims 7 will just not have needs to take care of.

Sims 2 Will always be the BEST🙂

2:30 that burp caught me off guard 😭

Con mis sims 3 no te vas a estar metiendo 😂 bueno igual encantan los sims 2 y 4, pero la dos de verdad que esos detallazos lo son todo❤ This is a good video!

the chopping anims for ts4 pisses me off sooo bad bc these are adults but theyre cutting like absolute babies??? in ts2, even if ur culinary skills are low, they dont cut like absolute children handling a knife for the first time

They should've taken their time with The Sims 4 it mightve been better if they did

Sims 2 guy stole the shopping basket and put it in his fridge brooo 😂

After the sims 2 was made. They became very lazy with gameplay specifics and details. They care more abouy packs and money than they do the actual game play experience.

The Sims 4 is $h¡t and the people who made it know that. They just wanted to make the least efforts and make a max of money. They knew they just have to smack "The Sims" on it and it will sell with no problem even if it's trash (same with Pokémon, but with Pokémon it's slightly less worst).

If TS2 had a search bar and tags on the bb, I'd 'never' play TS4 again...

I got a new idea for sims4 1000th DLC!! Call "Real Living". The gameplay is : buy groceries, robber and school bus!!

Sims 5 would be great if it had graphics and build mode like 4, open world, some CAS features that aren’t on 4 such as zodiac, color wheel, and the materials and designs, and all the love and extra animations like 2. What else can you think of? I hope paralives does all this and much more us sim players aren’t familiar with.

This is actually devolution of humanity itself :) Everything faced the same faith. Unfrotunately, this is how it suppose to be in our times. Stay strong, people Sims 2 is the best Sims game. That's it.

8:27 - Proof that TS3 has the best looking sims. TS4 ones look like clay figures with the stupid grin most of the time. 😩

SIMS4 is absolute laziness they didn't even give a damn about repairing animations a bit he just literally pull out a imaginary component and starts fixing it while in SIMS 3 at least he is fixing the thing and in SIMS 2 he is rotating and playing with it which suggest he is trying to find and fix a problem more believable. Also kids interactions in 2 look better more alive in 3-4 it's like "...." so boring.

They reused alot of the animations from sims 2 in the sims 3 why couldn't they reuse the cool cooking animations and pizza delivery in the sims 3.

My sim rides a bike everywhere in the sims 4 😂

I wonder if EA-people are watching such videos and will think over the devolution of The Sims ... I'm afraid they don't

the sims 4 footage, im dying kkkkkkkkkkkkkk

the car animation though...

Справедливости ради: симс 3 с открытым миром, там не на одном участке кипит жизнь и такая проработанность, как в симс 2, просто бы не позволила запустить симс 3 вообще ни на каких пк

yes wow sims 2 has garages how revolutionary sims 3 has much more gameplay content compared it definitely not a downgrade

That poor baby girl spinning like her life depended on it, and not a single nod in appreciation! Here's to more years of Sims 2!

Me, someone who has only played Sims 4, Medieval, and 3 CAS: THERE WERE GARAGES IN THE SIMS??

Try Simple Living lot challenge in sims 4 just to see a thing

Sims 2 was ahead of its time