The last time I played the sims 4 i spent so long my sim and their cute tiny home, only for them to die in a fire the first time they made mac and cheese. Good times.
As time goes by, the townies die and you end up having the town full of tombstones. At ground level you can collect them, but those in the water stay there forever. Additionally, the game generates new ones, but never takes into account the number of empty houses, so there will be entire families living in community lots. I remember that one of my sims child became friends with a little girl, and wanting to see where she lived and search through the houses, I had to use the friendship filter in the map search engine. She lived in the gym, along with other sims who didn't have the same last name.
when I tell you I had neighbors and they were always sitting outside. and one of them always had to pee but didn't go LMAOAO. or there was this little girl that literally just walked into my house. every. single. time.
One time when I was playing this game my sim got pregnant but before she could deliver the baby she aged up into an elder and got stuck in pregnancy purgatory and would not die or give birth
I played this game on the wii last year and I was actually so far in it, but one day it started to glitch out a lot so I wanted to restart my wii... well, the game just froze while saving and the save file got corrupted. man I was maaad lmao
I could not wait for you to do this video! The Sim 3 on the Wii was my first ever Sims game and it absolutely TRAUMATIZED ME. I completely abandoned the game after out of nowhere, everywhere I went with my sim, there was gravestones left and right 😭😭 ten year old little me tried to put every gravestone in the cemetery but once I got to beach there were so many just lined up against each other I got overwhelmed and never looked back.
The glitch at 25:33 was so annoying and unavoidable that the multiple cars *not* properly unloading in a save file could straight up cause corruption. I would lose so many save files to corruption when I played this on the Wii, and it took me looking through forums online to realize that the problem arises with Sims 3 on Wii never clearing its own gameplay cache when you play. What NPC cars are supposed to do is unload when they leave town through the tunnels, but they just...don't. They just pile more and more textures/car engine sound effects until your file inevitability corrupts itself when loading the save from the main menu. Oh, and apparently, the developers never coded the NPC's to replenish their needs like the sims are supposed to do. That's why there's always so many graves in the streets; they typically die of starvation. Sometimes old age...but mostly starvation. 😅
i got this as a present when i got the wii but i had already played sims 3 on pc at that point, so boy my disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined
My older sister had the sims 3 for the Wii. When we where younger we constantly played it and I remember one thing abt it still haunts me to this day. One of the premade houses you have to choose from is built so the sims can't reach the toilet. Everytime when we would have them go to the bathroom they said:'Oh bibilay'. It's a 'sentence' that is forever burnt in my memory.
Doris catching flame and passing away right in front of you then watching Tom, who you're flirting with, become an old man before your very eyes is so funny. This game is a gem
She’s finally covering my first ever sims game ❤❤ I loved it but even as a kid I knew it was limited af compared to the computer version. It blew my mind when I was finally able to get the sims 3 on pc
when i was a kid the first sims game i played for a long time was the sims castaway on psp, and when i eventually got the sims 3 on pc i had much the same experience, like mind. blown. Most of my time was spent fruitlessly trying to hunt down a money tree which my aunt said was in the game, but I couldnt find it anywhere. She forgot to mention that you had to grow it urself 💀
I WAS SO EXCITED TO GET THIS GAME AS A KID. Looking back on it, I'm amazed at how happy I was with it at the time given how buggy it is. I remember seeing the SAME townie dying on multiple saves in the same spot simply because they wouldn't stop skateboarding to get food. It was wild. That glitch where food would clip under your counters and rot was pretty annoying too. Fond memories overall, though.
I remember the build and buy was so bad in this game if the "Free Space" got full you could delete all the furniture and appliances and the free space would still be full and would never go down no matter what you do 😭
I was looking for this comment. Even if you moved the free space never went down. My saves always ended in a nice house with a single chair for furniture and the chair caught fire over and over again because the house was "too full" 😂
The fact that The Sims 3 on Wii is fully open world while Xbox 360 and PS3 Sims only allows you to explore a small chunk, and you have to select an arrow at the end of the road to go to the next area, which loads for a bit of time
And that’s why the Xbox/PS3 was superior over the Wii/PC/Mac version. In every version of the Sims 3, the open world is just falling apart 😭 Thankfully a bunch of Sims 3 mods help pick up the pieces but its just so troublesome.
And the 3DS version only had a community zone with places to hang out like the theater and gym. TS3 pets on the 3ds did improve things a bit more though, such as adding a clothing shop, and a few more community areas.
@@codezero7981 The devs who worked on the Xbox/PS version chose to do closed world because of how unreliable the code was for the game. There’s no manual work arounds when the open world starts to break like you have on PC. It wasn’t down to a hardware limitation, but a choice.
I was a huge Sims 2 fan and when Sims 3 dropped I didn't get it just because of how unbearably ugly the Sims 3 Sims looked, so I don't think it's just due to the game being old
@@bubblegumplastic it's just because sims 2 aesthetics are nostalgic now, whilst sims 3's are still cringe. 2009-2013 is still too close for it to be vintage like 2001-2008
Yasss finally!! This one was my favorite when younger, the beachy vibes and exploring all the locations in my tv was the coolest idea for me. Buutttt the no change clothes, no babies, not knowing the sex of the baby before naming it, the fire thing that you cant decorate your home and if you move it will stay like this. OOO AND NO SIMS GENERATING AFTER YOU GROWING UP, it turns into a ghost city with lots of tombstones of dead people around OMG I FORGOT ABOUT THEIR HUGE BOPS ON THIS GAMEEEE, their indie station is GOLD
i have vivid memories of starting this game over and over again because everyone in my city (even my own character) just kept dying. Either i was a stupid kid or my game was cursed lol
SAME!! My brother and I played like over 100 hours of JUST the multiplayer and when I found out the multiplayer wasn’t on other versions of the game I was FLABBERGASTED
When I was younger I could never figure out the traits system, so my sims were always supervillains or whatever. I also remember getting soft locked because if I remember right, the neighbours kid was over watching tv, I couldn’t leave my house cuz the kid was there and I couldn’t leave them alone, I couldn’t talk to them to tell them to leave because they were watching tv, and they wouldn’t leave because they weren’t watching tv. I really really liked walking around as a sim though. Sometimes I wish you could do that in the pc games
im glad this was a common experience, i asked for the sims for my 12th birthday after reading all about the game and i was given the wii version. it was WILD but i remember the catfish cheat & how it was damn near impossible for my sims to get a good relationship with anyone else
hot take, i think the sims look better in the sims 3 than in the sims 4. a lot of people think they’re ugly but i prefer how realistic it looks over the sims 4’s smooth cartoony graphics
i played this version of the sims 3 when I was really young, I genuinely thought it was a fever dream I had because I haven't seen the gameplay since! omg memory unlocked
The discs for this game actually broke my wii! I had 2 and played it on one of them and suddenly none of my other discs were working in that one. As soon as I played it on the other one the discs stopped working in that too, I looked online years later and found many other people with the disc had the same problem
I have an insanely vivid memory of playing this as a kid, making my family and watching one of my parents burn to death while trying to cook. It literally traumatized me for years 💀
I loved this game when I was a kid, I literally had so much fun! In my opinion, the gimmick that you control your sim like this is soooo fun and I was actually blown away when I played this the first time that you can just go anywhere in the town! But! Yes, it sooo glitchy...I always had this glitch that my sims someday weren't able to use the fridge anymore and I also couldn't sell it, so I always ended up having like three fridges lol
Also, explanation for the town sims all diying: This is something I also only found out a few years ago, it's actually what the game tells you in the beginning, that you have like 50 days or so to complete your sims goal - so, as the 50 days come to an end, the town sims will slowly all die, until your time is also over, that's why you cant change the lifespan. And let me tell you, when I played this as a child I was freaked out because I didn't know what was going on! It was literally so scary walking through the town and it was just empty with gravestones littering the streets! Such a weird thing to put into the game tbh lol
I HATE THE FRIDGE GLITCH!!! It was always because a plate would glitch into the fridge. Once that would happen it was done. Couldn’t be used, couldn’t be sold. It even happened in neighboring houses so the sims who occupied that house would die of starvation 😭
I remember we had sims 2 pets for PlayStation and some grandparent must’ve bought us the bargain-bin Sims 3 Wii version thinking it’d be even better… not 5 min in I was like “this is not the sims I know and this is also barely playable” but I LOVED the premade *treehouse* in the game omg I still do! I wish someone would remake it for sims 4! And the multiplayer minigame randomly included is actually the most fun part of the disc lmao me and my siblings played that minigame probably a hundred times 😂 we were always trying to pick the options that would let us become ghosts and keep playing
Omg the nostalgia 🥺 this was my first sims game that I got when I was like 10. I remember finally getting it on the pc a few years later and having a hard time adjusting to not being able to freely run around. Also that fire hazard thing is weird as hell, luckily it never happened to me
Ah, yes. This Abomination! I didn't have a 360 or ps3 at the time, but I did have a wii, and I remember being excited that Sims 3. I remember everything being buggy and slow, and I was so disappointed that I didn't know the gender of the 'baby' until after naming them and feeling even more disappointed when they appeared as a child. I also remember coming across random headstones around town and taking them to the cemetery.... This was definitely a miss! I soon got a 360 sorted and enjoyed that port.
i remembers as a kid playing the sims 2 and just aways watching sims 3 lets plays and i wanted it so badly and when i finally got it i was very underwhelmed, also what an era for cc
A new Lissy video ooooooooomg! I just discovered you 2 weeks ago and I've binged almost all your videos. I love your take on most things and it's so fun to watch you! I especially liked your Graveyard Keeper video since I've loved that game for a long time but haven't played in a while. It rekindled my need to play lmao Thank you for the time and effort you put in your videos, I watch them as I game and they keep me company :) Also your current hairstyle is a-m-a-z-i-n-g!! I love the short bangs, do you think you could do a little video about styling your hair? Thanks a bunch!
i grew up on the sims 3 pets for ps3 and it was my FIRST sims game, it has cool extras and it has a lot of content from more than just base game and pets, weirdly. but i think you should do a playthrough of it! theres interesting lore, and cats who can laser eye ghosts!
PLEASE revisit for the multiplayer! It's a text adventure game for some reason and I remember it had surprisingly funny writing and I played it a lot as a kid
Oh the memories…like many I had this before I was able to get the PC version and I’ll never forget sending my kid to school slightly hungry only for them to STARVE TO DEATH in the middle of the school day…
As a Sims 3 PS3 player, I wish the work function (where you go to work and make them do what you want them to do) was a thing on it. That would've been so cool.
i love videos about old sims ports! you should totally do the sims 3 for the DS if you haven't already! if you don't have an old DS lying around, there's online emulators that are easy to find!
This is my time to shine ! I've only ever known this game + the sims 2 on the DS so I thought for the longest time every that the Sims were always an open world game and I am still very disappointed that it is not because it was a big part of the fun for me as a child. I played countless hours on this game but had to stop a few years ago because the disk cannot be read anymore lol but typically people would do this technique that requires you to put fish in your fridge, wait a while and sell it to have infinite money so the game is actually really easy. Oh and also I was very salty about the fact we can't buy most houses because of the violation thing
the sims 3 wii was the first sims game i played. i loooooved it lol. there was no rosebud cheat or anything like that. the way you could cheat money was by buying this certain fish and selling it for a lot more lmaoo
I remember playing sims 3 on pc growing up, I never heard of it being on wii till I went over my friends house and he showed me this game when we were in high school. I'll never forget all the cheats and his weird builds
I loved this game, it BROKE my wii. i cheated, buying 99x fish and putting them in my fridge before selling them back, having infinite money. After I did this, my wii broke and wouldn't turn back on.
This gave me some weird flashbacks. I used to sit and play this and sims 2 pets all day long and no one understood why I had so much fun. Watching this I have no clue how I had so much fun either. Fun fact: I also killed a sim on the top of that same boat house roof!
I played this when i was in my preteens! The fire code message always ruined my sims' lives because it is supposed to determine and limit how much you can buy and decorate in your house because of the performance limitations of the console version, but it never resets so even when you moved the fire code threshold prevented you from buying new furniture or even making a new home. It is a fatal bug :(
Sims 3 (Wii) is such a weird game. It tries to act like it's the PC game but it's clearly just Sims 2 Castaway's engine falling to be the next game in the series. I'm thinking the time limit is there to try to hide how glitchy the game is. Everyone dies before your Sim can, and if it could last more than 50 days, Vista Beach would be a coastal ghost town. If there's one thing i like about this strange game, it's the music. Some songs on the radio aren't in the PC version (as far as I know) and at least one was changed. (Saturday Night by Jessica Mauboy is missing Ludacris for some reason, who raps in the PC version.) Also, the map music is so mysterious. I'm not just talking about how it sounds, but how 90% of it doesn't play in the game; I've never heard it in the original PC game, but you can listen to the full song on this game's TCRF page.
I played this when I was in middle school. It was my favorite game of all time except for Animal Crossing. I played it EVERY DAY after school. But looking back now as an adult, gosh the glitches were SO gosh awful. That fire code was by far the worst one out of them all. It made it unplayable for me at one point. There’s also a fridge glitch where a plate would glitch into the fridge. At that point the fridge was unusable AND unsellable. I would have to move to an entirely different lot if I wanted a new fridge. It would happen to neighboring houses too and the occupying sims would die of starvation.
Bro everyone saying they had a town full of tombstones i thought i was the only one😭 i was kinda scared to play it because of all the people dying it creeped me out when i was little💀
I had such a wild time with this game when I owned it. I had a Sim whom I wanted to get married to a townie, but he was married, so I invited his wife over, locked her in a room until she starved. Married the dude and he was non the wiser lmao. The Sims dying was really annoying though. I swear I spent like half of my Sims life just cleaning up all the graves scattered around town and putting them in the cemetery, because if I didn't there would just be graves literally laying around everywhere Another Sim I made had a baby with a townie, he never moved in to my household. One day I couldn't get a hold of him anymore, never saw him around town, and also I never managed to find his grave anywhere so he literally just disappeared from the game. I assume he just died and his grave just didn't spawn. He literally ghosted my Sim. Ended up not being able to continue my save file because my Sim had her child a little too late in life, and she died of old age like a day before my Sims kid was set to age up, so my Sim died of old age and it automatically ended my game despite everything because my Sims kid would get taken by the social worker. The fire code thing is a glitch I think. I had that problem too. For some reason even if you sell things or move houses the fire code won't go down or reset, essentially screwing you forever Also I remember that it wouldn't tell you the gender of your baby was until AFTER you named it, so it was very tricky naming kids lol. This game was a horrible buggy mess but it was so goofy it made it memorable.
im so hyped for this because since i was obsessed with sims as a child but i only had a WII this game was the only thing i had closest to the pc version😭😭.
The only thing that I hated the most about this sims, is that you can't build anything yourself and that there's no babys or toddlers, after the sim gives birth you will get an child directly (even worse than sims 4 lmao) I also just remembered, you never knew the gender of the baby so I never had any idea what to name them xD
I remember being obsessed with this game (I still have it lol) when I was around 11-12 cause my friend also had the game and showed me all of the exploits you could do in the game XD
i was today years old when i realized there were different versions for the wii😭😭 the one i had didn’t have multiplayer, the ui was so different and i don’t think we could free walk but this was like 2010 or something so i don’t remember if i could or not. i definitely remember the money fish glitch, lmaoo i lived in the biggest house with the pillars at the time. good memories 🤣🤣
I bought this game during my early stages of working as a teen. First came the PS2 for DDR games and Soul Calibur 3. And then once my family got me a Wii for Christmas (was nearly impossible to find for a while on my own) started buying myself games. I bought The Sims Wii after being Given MY Sims. My edgy teenager brain was furious. I heard about how wild The Sims were so I was just not open to the cute cute animal crossing vibes My Sims gave off. Not to say it was bad, in hindsight, while my younger self wouldn't ever admit it, I put more time and effort into My Sims, meanwhile I got tired of everyone being dead at the beach in The Sims Wii if I played "too long"
nothing more traumatizing when playing the sims 3 wii than watching your pregnant sim go off to the hospital to give birth expecting her to bring home a lil baby and instead she returns with a whole 8 year child who can walk right through the front door with her ❤
