Sims 2 vs. Sims 3 vs. Sims 4 - Create a Sim (CAS) Basegame Comparison
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
- In this epsiode, I'm comparing Create-a-Sim (CAS) in the Sims 2, Sims 3, and Sims 4 base games - appearance AND personality.
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Thanks for watching everyone! This series became much longer than I first anticipated. So there will be a FOURTH part to compare the careers in the base games. Let me know if there's anything else from the BGs you want to see compared. :)
Would you compare universities? Is it too niche to ask? Idk it's my favorite pack 😁
maybe.. skills. Love you 💙
I will add it to my list of requests! Thank you!
@@PleasantSims thank YOU
Maybe compare the actual gameplay?
Let’s be honest, If Sims 4 didn’t have the pull and drag option in CAS and easy build mode, it would’ve been cancelled since 2014.
That's a very good point.
oh god, the sad truth.
@André Alcântara I don't understand. If there's one thing sims 4 does right it's the building. What does being a sandbox have to do with building?
André Alcântara I understand! Constrain floorelevation was a big golden cheat😂😂😂 Plus Though we got updates on windows in Sims 4, I’ve always had bad times choosing, I never had problems with Sims 3 windows.!
I know for a lot of people, it was canceled. I was a long time simmer and so were many of my friends, and after hearing the reviews, I was not interested.
Then they released the base game for free (in 2017/2018 I think?)
Then I ended up buying all of the expansions anyways cause the base game had so little gameplay by itself 🙃
I had a sim in sims 3 that had the no sense of humor trait, and he autonomously bore a sim to death, and that sim fell flat on their face and asleep on the sidewalk 😂😂. that is what sims 4 is missing
That's hilarious lol
ive never seen that before 😭 imagine all the things i missed
This made me chuckle lmaooooooooooo
Man, in sims 3 my sims has clumsy trait and she sometimes fell down after out of elevator.
I miss that... 😂
😂😂😂😂😂
the best feature in the sims 3 was BODY HAIR
Yes, I love the body hair! That came with generations and not base game - but still a great addition!
@@PleasantSims I believe body hair was added in the generations patch, so if you have updated base game you have body hair!
@@GodReadingCrafts yeah lol
@@GodReadingCrafts also with nightlife patch they added muscle definition 😎
So true!
even with the sims 3 base game , I had so much fun I just don’t understand what happened to the sims 4 💀
I think it was a combination of things - namely the scrapping of the online model and the rush to put out the game - that resulted in a poor foundation. And now, the team has been pushed to create more packs as quickly as possible to make EA more money instead of being able to fix what's broken. I've given up on it ever being fixed and I'm looking forward to Paralives.
Pleasant Sims same I’m so excited for paralives! I just don’t see any sim games doing well in the future, if it continues like this
agreed, totally looking forward to paralives. theyve already put in so much more effort into listening to suggestions and ACTUALLY putting them into the game, never knew such down to earth game devs before
Literally, I've been playing the sims 3 with only the base game. In only three days i played for at least 5 hours each. And rn I have the sims 4 paused since one hour
K A Y EA happened to the Sims 4.
At times, create a style can be quite horrifying. Why oh why can I make brick pants with a grass shirt and wood shoes
LOL! Those brick pants might be the new trend in Sunset Valley. 😆
My opinion on create a style depends on my mood. Sometimes I too ma like 'why in the world can I make brick pants with a grass shirt and wood shoes?' and sometimes I am like 'I can make brick pants with a grass shirt and wood shoes!'. Ultimately I can live without it if there's enough variety in the items and their swatches. I do miss skin color slider and the color wheel for hair and eyes.
Well it's hilarious how Sims 3 tried so hard to be realistic in all the aspects and in the end we are getting these crazy swaches.
I mean,if create a style caused at least a bit less lag for me,i would definetly use it more!
The power of The Sims 3... I LOVE IT!
Well you know. depending on the type of World. you could make a Fitting style. for example. using Rough Fabric on lower class clothes, but quality almost Silken textures on higher class clothes, if your world is more, Medieval styled. or using a almost Grass Texture on a "Island" Setting. i quite find the freedom of TS3 lovely. but TS4 is like "You want Pink Matching Stuff? Pfff...Match WHO? here have these 3 Different Shades of Pink that will make your face turn purple with Frustration XD" lol
I feel like all the best things in The sims 4 are only on the technical side. Of course build & CAS would be better than they were in The sims 2, ts4 came out 10 years later, game engines evolved so much in that period! We all expected those things to be better, it just made sense. But the gameplay did not go along with that... The game just feels like a pretty shell, inside it's empty. You play it for a few minutes and get bored, the sims just feel dull and have no personality. I remember watching the trailers and feeling super excited, but now thinking about the sims 4 just makes me sad :/
Sims 4 is really weird. A lot of the EP are legit good. Seasons in Sims 4 is amazing, the snow is beautiful and sparkly, the holidays are actually fun, weather changes. Some people didn't like Cats and Dogs only having...well cats and dogs, but I'm OK with that. Their personalities are a lot of fun, running a vet is expensive but rewarding, and the puppers and kitties are so cute.
But...the base game and core gameplay just sucks. No soul. No depth. Its so disappointing because they came so close to having an amazing game and just didn't deliver becauae so many little things are so wrong.
Sims 4 feel like a program for designing houses with a life simulation game play as a side feature.
If you play rotationally in ts4(I remade ts2 fams and spin round em) their shallow personality system shines glaringly that you realise the traits are essentially random emotion buff generators with no overall effect on their interactions, desires, autonomous actions. This is my biggest problem with ts4. It's a great build/cas(modeling the sim, not its personality) simulator, but a shallow life sim in gameplay
@@pachocharoenzo3678 exactly hahahah you can make your houses very unique but your sims will have like 3 different personalities at max
Yeah, Sims 4 is always going to win out on so much (outside of gameplay) simply because it's a newer game and things have been upgraded and some things that were simply not possible back then are possible now. However, if all these games came out this year, Sims 4 would be dead last, that's including Sims 1, and that's very sad to think about how stripped down this game would be if it wasn't for the technical side of it. It's so pretty to look at and has made some things much easier, but very little under the hood.
Worth noting for The Sims 3, if you saved custom clothing designs, you could catch sight of them out in the wild. After playing a save long enough with loads of saved custom stuff, you could see other autogenerated sims sporting duds that YOU designed which was rad
Sims4 only has that in the style influencer career
Yas!
wait fr?! never noticed!
Sophie I didn’t have Ambitions for the longest time and I still experienced what this person is saying.
that happens with sims 2 too, i install custom content and other npc sims start wearing custom hair, custom clothes etc though it's always out of place and doesn't look good haha
You and I disagree heavily on the personalities. I understand where you're coming from, but with literally millions of possible trait combinations, Sims 3 wins for most unique sims. I always had fun trying to figure out other sims' traits when my sims met them and they all felt very different from one another. I'd occasionally catch kleptomaniac NPCs swiping things in public areas or evil sims laughing maniacally at random and that always cracked me up. It also let me adjust their natural interests, which is where I felt the Sims 2 lacked (like I wanted a sim to be extra drawn to creative activities but couldn't do that in 2). I absolutely understand where you're coming from when it comes to basic behavior but when you want your sims to have specific interests, Sims 3 is by far the best game for that kind of customization. I do agree about the basic set up being the best in Sims 4 though.
100% agreed. The Sims 3 trait system is by far the best and most immersive, imho.
In sims2 free time you had all the Hobbies and all sims got different hobby they were best at. They also would get more interested with ofc them over time and the "talk subjects" would increase.(i think the talkin system was in base game) That system was awesome, u could see whatev sim likes to talk about and it would show up in their interactions with other sims that might not like that subject that much leading to them dissagreeing and makin interaction negative. And when they talked with someone who also likes that subject they would get stronger relationship boost. Ofc you couldnt choose sims convo subject soo it depended on their characters, and it was awesome, felt very real... I miss it (eng is not my native sorry)
@@heder232 Yeah, but the difference is that they wouldn't do it autonomously like in TS3, where the sims were hardcoded to act a certain way depending on which traits they had. I love the hobby system in TS2, but it wasn't as autonomous (at least not without mods, as far as I remember correctly). Also, the hobby system was not included in the base game but came way down the line of TS2's lifecycle.
@@D0MiN0ChAn... I think you didnt read my comment correctly... I Am speaking about INTERESTS/Conversation Subjects not Hobbies. They were autonomus, they were about conversations. Not the hobby enthusiat system. Those are two different things.....Also i specified at stary that HOBBIES came with Free Time?....
@@heder232 Ah my bad, I thought you were referring to the "talk about hobby" interaction specifically, but you're right, the sims could talk about their different interest in conversations -- I totally misread your comment, sorry!
Guys did you notice that in the sims 2 WE DONT SEE NPC WALKING WITH RANDOM WEIRD OUTFIT IN THE STREET, as in the Sims 4 🤣
I could make a whole video about that tragedy. LOL
@@PleasantSims yeah !! I'll keep my notif on 😅
When i have a lot of cc in the sims 2 it can get pretty wild espically my teen sims becuase i tend to go overboard with them 😅
Formal gloves with ski goggles and 5 tribal bracelets
@@SimifyMe 🤣🤣🤣🤣 OMG SO TRUE. IM DYING HAHAHAH
The Sims 5 should have:
-The Lore, Gameplay and the CAS Personatity as The Sims 2.
-The Worlds and Buy Mode as The Sims 3.
-The Built Mode and CAS Appearance as The Sims 4.
-Story building and ages that actually freaking make sense (AKA, babies not being objects and teens not being literally young adults but worse)
hell ye! I love to build own cities. I HATE HATE HAAAATE sims 4 cities and how little there are available slots for buildings. I want to make a lot of shops and houses without making a new game. So annoying
Nah, I think a combo of TS2 and TS3 would be good.
Have TS2 personality sliders for a basic character outline, use TS3 sliders to give them unique little quirks.
I would be totally fine with the gameplay from The Sims 2 and Appearance from Sims 4.
@MajorComplainer I've got a massive multi-paragraph essay too lol.
She should rank expansion packs for all sims games
I might take a look at some expansion features in the future! 💙
@@PleasantSims if #1 isn't Generations for Sims 3 you're a coward
sradac Nah late night is the Star pack for Sims 3 ⭐️✨
nick2000 yess I love bridgeport soo much 💕
@@nickenhead500 Yep, I think the same
what i really missed in sims 4 cas, was the "lock for all" option. I wanted to be able to choose the same makeup and accessories for all styles, it took so long time to chose them all one by one
Lord, I always thought it used to be if you picked the makeup for everyday, it would set it for all, and THEN you could edit the other outfits to change theirs
@@SimsAllAround There is a mod for that, unify h m t, hair makeup and tattoos, it's on modthesims. People in the comments there updated the mod, mod basically copies all makeup from everyday 1 to all other outfits. Note that if you want it to work on nude outfit and special outfits you have to have your sims change into those at least once and bathe. Yeah there is updated versions of that mod on the pages comment section, very useful mod. Can make CC or makeup naturally part of the sims look. If you do download it I'd get the most updated from the comments, fans keep the mod alive, I wouldn't download the main one from the downloads page.
this is what I ask for😭 as a cc user, I also use custom eyes and it NEVER carries over to another outfit
One of my Uncles actually worked on The Sims 2 early in its development, and when I asked about some of the pre made face templates, he told me their goal was to make unique and diverse facial features inspired by real life nationalities. I believe the most outlandish face (the one with a very wide face nose and mouth) was inspired by the Australian Aboriginal. Along with this, another face was inspired by the New Zealand Maori people. There was even a whole face tattoo in the whole face makeup section that was inspired by the Maori culture. On another note, right clicking on a pre made face template will slowly morph your characters face into it, instead transforming into it completely.
Right-clicking an archetype will also reset the positions of the individual sliders. It's technically a bug, but it's how I once made a cat with ears longer than its tail.
😳 Right click?! Ok... I've never heard of that... I play ts2 almost since 2004... I am going to try it tonight 😁
Yep, it's a really nice feature! I make all my Sims in body shop, but if you use CAS you can blend faces together to make the look you're going for. It makes things less extreme for sure! I only found about this about a year ago from reading the Prima Guides. It's not very evident unless you stumble upon it by accident. :)
Well that’s interesting
Cool Uncle
basegame sims 4 now includes hot and cold weather outfits although they are more or less pointless (unless you want to pretend the seasons change) without the seasons pack
That is really strange!!
I've wondered about that, too. I don't have seasons and don't plan to buy it because I'm not spending money on Sims 4, anymore, but I always wondered why I have clod and hot weather clothing when I can't use it? Like, what's the point? Maybe it's there to always remind us that we could have seasons or something.
@@BooDotBoo genuinely I would believe its because the teams that were set on coding/making it either didn't care to take it (the hot and cold categories) out for people who don't buy the pack or had a deadline for the update that launched it and couldn't make it (taking them out for people without the pack) in time. However the latter doesn't make sense since its STILL in the base game, even though it's completely useless without seasons attached to it lol
i just use them as alternate outfit slots
@@PleasantSims As far as I know, it's because of the tags. Like for examplle female, male, formal, party and so on, all clothes got tags for the seasons. With these categories in the basegame, the devs made sure that clothes from packs after seasons also got the respective tags.
Which is actually sad that they have to rely on that.
I can understand getting rid of Create A Style since all those patterns would be taxing on the game, but they should have kept the colour wheel, it would really go a long way in improving the Sims 4 so much 😭
Dude, what if you could then optionally with each game pack, get a few patterns for create a style. That would be nice, since then it wouldn't be super laggy.
@@bluebird1914 Even if they just included basic patterns like gingham, polka dots and stripes, it would still be good
But pets have colour wheel
@@kpop_liner not sims though.
30:25 actually, romantic sims don’t get a sad moodlet as it states in the description. It gives them a tense moodlet. 🤦🏻♀️
It’s been 6 years and they never fixed it. We have to rely on modders once again to fix that simple mistake.
I just really hate the personality system in TS4. Yes, CAS is objectively better in Sims 4, but the sims themselves are so shallow. It doesn’t matter what traits you give them.
Gloomy sims don’t feel the weight of the world on their shoulders. They just occasionally get a sad moodlet. Sometimes I forget that I have given that trait to a sim, so I’m like “oh, i forgot that you’re gloomy”.
Genius sims sometimes feel focused for a couple of hours. Oh, and they also can get some elusive non-existent “brilliant invention” out of their butt and give it to another sim, for it to be never seen again.
Loner sims will get a tense moodlet when near strangers, but it can be easily overridden by a “happy environment” moodlet.
Creative sims get inspired for a few hours.
Active sims get CONSTANTLY tense about not exercising, even when THEY’RE EXERCISING.
Cheerful sims are just happy (as if it was hard to achieve in the first place).
I have a clumsy sim and I’ll be honest, I never seen them to do anything related to their trait. Never seen them trip and fall, they don’t break objects (or they do break stuff, but at the same rate as non-clumsy sims). The most I’ve seen them get is a playful moodlet like “oh I’m so silly I nearly fell” and I’m like “where????”
Jealous sims, oh my freaking god. I liked this trait because it at least made them feel a bit more like they have a personality. BUT jealous sims will get a tense moodlet the second their SO leaves the room they’re in. Also, jealous sims will get jealous when their partners interact with their OWN CHILDREN.
My sim with a jealous trait has a husband and two kids and whenever the husband dares to talk to one of their sons, she freaks out. Just..
I have nothing more to say.
I’m sorry for my long ass rant but I just can’t with the sims 4. It has so much wasted potential.
If anything sounds incoherent I apologize, as English isn’t my first language. I just wanted to air my grievances this bad, my grammar just went out of the window.
I saw my clumsy sim trip ONCE on a treadmill and laugh about it. ONCE
Also your English is fantastic
You're English is fantastic! I haven't actually played the sims 4 much at all just because it feels so bland and soulless compared to the sims 3, but from what I have played, I %100 agree with your observations.
@@Smoll_Beanie I just wish I could get the Sims 3 or 2 but I'm stuck to playing Sims 4 on console :(
@@pumpkinpickle4202 what console you use?
in my opinion, sims 3 is the best in each category! I never understood why simmers say their sims like potatoes in-game, mine always looked great (I also have my graphic settings up to the highest for the sims and default skin), I think sliders worked well and the ability to customize was so good I could deal with the lag! Whilst for the traits, I loved how it gave you unique special social or not social interactions compared to the sims 2
I also loved the additional social interactions from the traits! It's a very good system!
I didn't really understand the 'pudding face' comments of sims 3 sims either. I love my sims 3. I think the sims and their worlds were beautiful! :) It's my sims game of choice so maybe I'm just biased.
@@ladyatlarge3844 i recently started playing sims 3 again and i have the highest settings on. the sims don't look as terrible as i remember, a little odd, but not downright atrocious. but the downside is that its only better on those really high settings which are super harsh on the lag.
@@deepspace385 I feel really lucky because I'm one of the unicorns that doesn't have the lag in the game. And it is just luck as I've got so many mods, and cc, my sims inventories filled to the max, along with a bunch of chests filled with stuff from world adventures, huge gardens...it should be horrible but it's smooth like butter. haha
I do save often though and use the save cleaner mods etc. so maybe that's why? I also pray to the sim's gods hourly so maybe that's really why. ;)
@@deepspace385 someone posted a guide on steam to fix the sims 3 lag, it takes a while to do everything but afterwards it works like a charm and it's so worth it
People always forget (or perhaps never knew) that that the Sims 2 came with the "body shop" which functioned a bit like create a style and allowed you to customize your sims with a similar level of detail. It was clunky and difficult to use but I believe is the reason modding became such a huge part of the sims community.
I only create Sims in body shop because I like the extra sliders and the ability to use a randomizer (which I use to create unique Sims for my custom 'hoods). :)
Yes, I LOVED body shop!
Lol, I can NEVER forget me trying and failing to make CC in there
TS3 (specially with all the packs) is by far my favorite out of all of them, even with the glitches, corrupted files and lags I still have waaaaay more fun than i've ever had with TS4 (except when building!)
True, true
So true.
7:48 those skirts were really something o.o
Btw I really love the early 2000s vibes that Sims 2 brings back
It is very early 2000s! And I like the nostalgia too, even if I do have to get rid of those awful pants. 😆
Yes, I love ts2 clothes, especially the crop tops and cargo pants. Ts4 clothes aren’t it😂 Idk they remind me of clothes my mom wear😭.
omg you're going to force me to install sims 3 and all of my 10 expansions if you keep doing this
Do it!! LOL. I've been playing a lot of Sims 3 lately. Come and join us....
i n s t a l l i t
Haha 😁 I never played 3 in my Life , Just 1,2 and 4. But I did order 3 yesterday 😁😁 coz I want to check it out now 👍🏼
Keksdich you will not regret it!
already have everything installed 😁 ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US !
For story purposes, I made Sims 4 parents with the mean, evil, and hates children traits. Every time I turned around they were hugging their kids and helping them with homework. I wasn't expecting anything that wasn't inline with a PG-13 game....but I couldn't get my Sims who were evil, mean, and hate children to stop hugging their children! Sims 3 Sims would have been constantly shooing their offspring out of the room.
You know what’s funny as I play with the sims 2 I love the clothes! Lol it’s so retro I feel like I’m playing in a time capsule and it’s nostalgic. Plus a lot of these clothes are back in fashion like the bucket hats and low cut jeans 😫.
LOL. It is definitely like a time capsule!
I keep all the original ugly clothes in my game because I enjoy the nostalgia it brings
I feel like the sims 4 and 3 should have switched engines or something. The sims 3 was amazingly ambitious and I think had it been released later with more modern hardware and engine design, it probably would look and play amazingly
Oh damn even in base game of Sims 4 we couldn't escape Star Wars 😂😂😂
Even tho Sims 4 has a very cool system of drag and drop... that's about it that i like here.. i hate how skintones and hairs look,also many of the swatches are yuck ... Also personalities,WHERE ARE THEY?
Sims 3 sims didn't look really the best but the amount of customization is wow!
So Sims 3 wins CAS category...
And Sims 2.... well we had to start somewhere ...
So overall Sims 3 wins
Sims 3’s graphics were weird af
@@Alex-zi8eh it's good considering it came out 11 years ago
I really like the custom gender options in TS4 but i wish the traits had a larger effect on personality
I honestly really love the look of the sims in the sims 3, I thought the less cartoony look was so refreshing and I love the way they look in cas and live mode! I always felt like I had more control over what kind of look I wanted in sims 3
I really loved the CAS in the Sims 3. The color wheel is such a great feature and i literally lost me in this. Love to create tons of hours style my Sim and make a new personality in my city.
Also loved the Sims 2 and the easy system to create a nice looking Sim in like 5min.
Tbh i am not very much into Sims 4, even the CAS is boring and gross for me. Tried it a few times, but never got into it. Hate the art style and the childish moves the Sims do. For me it feels like EA wants to annoy me in a very bad way.
But thanks Cindy for doing this vids. Enjoy them very much and love your passion for this series.
Yeah sims 3 sims are... ugly and all, but my favorite is sims 3, i love the "mesh" of sims 4 but sims 3 takes the cake thanks to trait, aspiration and of course COLOR WHEEL
I still love the Sims 3 too even if they aren't the prettiest.
I must be the only one who finds sims 4 sims to be ugly too.
They might be potatoes but they’re the potatoes in my heart.
It is no joke when people say there was a Sim design for each gender. As much as I reaaaally tried and modified every single bit on a Sim in 3, they always looked like something I had done before. In 4, it felt like I really had to make an effort for two Sims to look alike.
not to mention the open world.. wich actually makes me an introvert want to travel around with my sims where as in the sims 4 it just feels like too much of a bother
"It really depends on the personality of the sim"... Only if they had any
Sims 2 is proof that a System of personality can be simple and effective!
I feel the same with your ranking. TS2 was lacking with clothing, but great with personalities. TS4 has great customization, but non-existent personalities. And TS3 is a nice, happy medium.
I play the sims 3 mostly and one of my favorite things that happens is when sims discover they have matching or mismatching traits.
Like when you tell a joke to a no sense of humor trait. Or propose going steady to a commitment phobe, but your sim is a hopeless romantic. I love that depth.
Edit: Oh and favorites! I had a sim (family oriented and natural cook) get the wish to cook her grandson’s favorite meal. And it was so satisfying to fulfill that wish.
Yeah, Sims 3 sims really had a personality but Sims 4 sims has... emotions lol
Seeing the base game makeup section of Sims 2 reminded me of the first Sim I ever created, with the blue hat and blue lipstick😂 Thank the lucky stars for the wonderful CC creators and modders for improving TS2 CAS😁 I’m loving this series, I’m not a player of the later games so interesting to see the comparisons!
I agree! Thank goodness for all the lovely makeup we have now thanks to CC!
Sims clothing and makeup were the main cc I would download in Sims 2. I really didn't need much else.
One of my biggest complaints with Sims 2 was what they considered "fat". Girls got more curvy, guys got the beer gut, and a scary gut at that! A couple of the sims in Uni start out "fat" but even if they lose weight and get fit their face will stay the same because the faces do not get fat with the body. I will say I feel Sims 3 did fat sims right. I did like the fact that the whole sim looked bigger and not just curvy because woman are supposed to be curvy anyway. And, yes, I'm still playing Sims 2 in 2020!
The make-up in Sims 2....ugh. The eyeshadows were horrible! Thank god for custom content! Even with custom content I still have trouble finding blush I like for my darker skinned sims though.
I never use make up on my sims. brandi would just look weird with that squiggle.
This series made me realize just how protective I am towards Sims 2. It’s just so important to me because I was living in an abusive household at the time it was being released (I think I was playing around the time Open for Business came out) and it was my only escape. I adore it too much I think. Oof.
Magnum Jesus Thank you. It’s still tough at times but I’m doing better.
Unrelated but I just uninstalled TS4 the other day because I realized that I deserve better. I'm now playing a family that I made using the Prima guide and it's going shockingly well!
I have totally adored this series so far. And for some reason makes me even angrier at EA. And happy of what Maxis gave us from TS1 to TS3. Not that there's anything inherently bad on TS4 but mostly me thinking how they have SHOWED UP in the past and now it seems like they're either too greedy or lazy to do so.
I keep seeing you everywhere in every sims video.
I love the color texture of the sims 3 eyes. The eyelashes in the sims 3 was amazing and is definitely missed
i like the eyelashes but i hate how female sims have long eyelashes no matter what you do.
I honestly think using sliders and custom sliders in sims 2 and 3 is easier than the pulling and pushing in sims 4 when creating sims
I actually think sims 3 is better in terms of character style and customization. I like the realistic look, their eyes have soul, their skin is glowing, and their facial expressions look more nuanced. I LOVE create a style, I loved that I was able to customized pretty much anything to a great amount of detail. I never found the minor lagging annoying bc it was so worth it to customize. I actually don't find the drag and pull sims 4 customization that much better then the sims 3 slider system; often times it's hard to tell how something is moving and you need to be super precise with your mouse which I found to be frustrating. the slider system was more defined and easy to use.
What computer do you use to play?
I HATE the fact that Zodiac signs were tied to personalities in Sims 1 and 2. I'm an Aries and according to the game I'm supposed to be outgoing but I'm actually shy. I could never make myself with both the appropriate Zodiac sign and personality in 1 and 2.
You can still change it with hacks or Sim PE, but yeah. According to their system, I'm a Romance Sim and let me tell you...I AM NOT. Lol
I'm a Cancer and it specifies that I'm a Family Sim, I love my family to death but... I NEED MONEY🤑 I see myself as a Fortune Sim tbh. But with hacks like Sim Blender andor SimPE, you can easily change your sign without changing your personality😁
Aries are shy as f lol
My thoughts exactly.
Same here. I'm a Virgo who is NOT naturally neat. Let my Sim be playful and nice!
One of my least favourite things about TS3 CAS is that it took forever to load each change of option for me. I only ever had 2 expansions, so it wasn’t too overloaded and my PC was decent enough, but damn, creating detailed sim could take 30 min +, most of it waiting for the game to accept my choices.
Yeah I liked the color wheel but I think it might make more sense to have it as a separate included program like Create a World that would be easier than all the stuff you have to do to make basic CC but would hopefully be more stable and wouldn't lag the game as much. Most of the time I used the color wheel I had a pretty clear idea of what I wanted to change and often used it more than once (such as the kids bed sheet patterns- those were so cute!). Want this table to match this chair? Go exit and open up create a style. Maybe with the option to "import" a certain Sim to view in the program if you wanted to see what shade looked best on them before you put the item into the game
0:32 I mean it's literally the BIGGEST SIMS MEME and running gag ever to drown your sims in the pool. How can you (edit: from the point of view of the development team) think that it's a good idea to leave that out?
What??? Lol. I didn't think it was a "good idea." I just felt it was less important than the other stuff, which is why I addressed it here.
@@PleasantSims Oops, sorry. My statement wasn't regarding your video but rather the development of Sims 4. More like " why would the developers leave that out?" Sorry if I offended you. It wasn't my intention.
@@dust2k13 I'm sorry! I thought you were asking me why I thought it was a good idea to leave that out of the video. Oops! Didn't mean to be rude! I see what you're saying now and I apologize. And yes, I agree with you! It was a bad idea on their part to leave it out. Sorry again for misunderstanding!
@@PleasantSims It's all good! :) I really could have been a little bit more specific in my original comment. I'm glad that we solved that misunderstanding.
Even Mad magazine touched on the meme of drowning a sim in a pool lol
But apparently the sims CAN have a favorite food in the Sims 2, it just only comes out when you take them out to eat at a restaurant. They'll think about their favorite food once they sit down and that's how you know what to order for them. Unfortunately, the only reason I know about this is because the Sim Blender has a function that lets you know their favorite and then change it if you want. Unless you get them the Grilled Cheese aspiration, they almost never ask to eat their favorite food. Still, it is kind of neat for when you take them out to eat.
Yes, you're right! But I was only referring to the options in CAS here. There's so much to talk about with all the games! I always order chef's choice at the restaurant which automatically orders their favorite foods (because I'm bad at deciphering the thought bubbles).
This is literally one of the best comparisons I’ve seen for the sims in a lloooonnnggg time! I actually went exclusively back to the sims 3 after journey to Batuu and recently went back to the sims 2 because of your let’s play and this series!
Yay 👍🏼 Same
idk whatcha talking about with sims 3 sims looking fugly in gameplay, my sims look absolutely gorgeous in game 😍😍😍 with or without cc
I came to the conclusion that whomever created the cosmetics for TS2 had never worn any nor knew anything about it. Some of the cosmetics looked like they had undergone an makeover fail, I was expecting neighbors to ask "did you pay for that?" or "Have you considered filing charges against the person who did that to you?"
Your channel is growing at such a quick rate that you are about to hit 20K, it has grown like 4K in 2 weeks. Congratulations 🎉
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Being alive in the middle of the 2000's i can confirm that people actually wore makeup like this 🤣 espically middle school/early high school
DonnieInRealLife I was out of high school then. However I never was one to use cosmetics, so I think that the trends must have passed me by.
@@MagickShadow blue eyeshadow and frosted lipstick were all the rage back in the day 😂😂
Sims 4 skintones: "okay we got pale af, we got straight up YELLOW, we got weird red tan, and we got ASHY. Whadda want?" (am I the only one who noticed the asian premade faces are literally yellow. Like. Yeah some people have yellow undertones or red undertones but that's YELLOW yellow it's so ugly)
I agree. I was trying to make a Asian sim recently and no matter what she looked off
@@rainbowspirit1984 it sucks cause you CAN get CC skintones and they're really nice but they cover up tattoos and any other skin details :[ I can't believe EA is making excuses for not putting in proper skin colors
It’s a shame and basically embarrassing that it took EA about 7 years to add and more diverse skin tone system. When nothing really stopped them from adding a color wheel for skin-tones(and even hair color).
@@kalync.8232 Right? I feel like they could've just easily added a slider for each undertone of the skins instead of a bunch of different swatches with optional brightness. Seems like they did way more work than they should've.
when I was playing sims 2 as a kid, I couldn't make sims faces. So unless they were downloaded from a website, all my sims had the one decent face template (the one primarily used in the video). Definitely made my game look like I was just playing with virtual barbie dolls, lol
Am I the only person who actually prefers sliders before the ”clay-face” system in TS4? XD Idk I just feel like I have more control and can be more precise when I have a slider, but maybe that is just an illusion. TS3 have the best CAS in my opinion anyway :)
I agree, in ts4 you can drag but if you want specific features you still have to use premade ones
I hate the sims 4 grab tools I prefer my sims 2 sliders.
I also miss sliders! I wish we had both options because sometimes it’s hard to manipulate the specific area you’re trying to get + to pull it in the right direction, especially when you have a lot of custom sliders and are using a track pad
@@karolinak7140 I read it as "specific creatures" and it cracked my shit up bc some sims do be looking like creatures.
Yes!! I completely agree with you and I was hoping to find a comment like this. The body sliders on Sims 4 are great. Being able to adjust calf size, biceps, hips, etc...but I find it difficult to customise their faces without having sliders. With Sims 3, I could take the time to work through each slider - chin depth, face height, bridge width, face profile, etc. And idk if it's bc I don't know how to use Sims 4's CAS properly or what lmao, but since playing TS3 again recently, I feel like I found it a LOT easier. Like, I can do really obvious things on sims 4 like make a nose wider or a face longer, but it was way more precise on TS3
cas is probably the only thing in sims that has developed with each new part, but the character system is the best in the sims 2 and in sims 3 there is a color wheel and that's what I miss in the sims4
Ok but I dont like how the sims 4 like the beanie the original girl was wearing was originally from get to work but was later added to the base game but if you have get to work you get more swatches same goes as a pair of city living pants, a get famous jacket, a dine out hair, and a couple others (and those were only for females)
I agree. They didn't even notify their players of this until it had already occurred, and seemed to just assume that everyone would be satisfied. Clothes are some of the quickest elements to create in the sims, and they easily could have created a few simple pieces so Everyone could have something truly new.
Am I the only one that doesn't really like the style of the Sims 4. It just feels very plastic to me, like an unfinished project.
True, it's too saturated and cartoony for me. I much prefer Sims 3.
I don't dislike Sims 4, but Sims 3 is my favourite, although I may be a little biased as it was my first Sims game and I more or less grew up on it.
Sims 4 came out around the minimalistic design time, when everything was minimalist and simple, and I think you can see that in the CAS setup, the game launcher and the worlds really well. Base game is incredibly boring, I only got it because it was free for a while. But when I look at UA-cam videos where the players have all the packs, it still looks incomplete somehow. It's missing personality. It's too sterilised and serious to me.
I know people are saying it's too cartoony but for me it's the opposite. Sims 2 and 3 had humour, sims 4 seems like they were trying to be more "professional" or something.
The graphics are like that bc sims 4 was meant to be an online game, so they had to sacrifice the graphics 💀💀
Nah, I will always prefer what people call "pudding faces" in TS3 xDD I don't, though
I miss the sims 2 conversation subjects. When your sims could be interested more about talkin about one subject, and would dissagree with others while conversating, or get a good relationship quick with someone with similiar interests (not Hobbies) it was sooo coool 🥺🥺 gave them a character
I miss when traits in TS3 could pass as a selling point. In TS4, it just like, "Oh btw, there's a new trait that'll make your sims sad sometimes or better at a certain skill. Have fun." I bought some packs in TS3 because the new traits convinced me. Of course, the gameplay kept me, though.
I love how much traits and aspirations there were in the sims 3
I think an interesting one you could do would be comparing the genetics system in each game.
I agree! There's a lot to unpack there!
Marticore did a video on that!
I love how simple CAS is in TS2, and me personally I can’t leave the 2000s, so I like the clothing options 💀
Sims 3 has the best CAS! And I don’t think they look ugly...
My Ideal Personality system would have been the personality bars from 1/2 COMBINED with 3 of the traits from 3/4, of course the traits would have to be reduced, since a lot is already covered by the bars, but stuff like cat-lover, vegan, paranoid, kleptomaniac etc, would stay and definitely help further redefine sims' personalities.
Think of it like 'general behavior and lifestyle' combined with 'quirks and traits'.
One thing I found iffy with sims 4 is that they got rid of preffered colours, which would have worked great with the clothes swatches :/ but oh well!
Oh and based on the skins in sims 4. Some people say they should've gone the same route like sims 3, but gradient picker colours are always so 'dull' and the skin looks dead.
You just have more shades to work with. I guess that's fine for some.
Sims 4 could have made bank with swatches by actually not making their skins flat recolours of eachother, but instead added realistic skin hues all in one skin. Like you know how some people have countershaded skin? Or gradiented skin, skin that's dark warm brown, but yellowish on the nose etc? Pale skin with a rose undertone but the chest and palms are yellowish?
I mean, not only would the skins be more realistic, they'd be more realistic, and with proper abstraction, they'd fit in the game just fine too, if not, make it look even livelier.
They’re referred to as undertones!
Thanks Brandon!
Pleasant Sims, no problem!
One of my favourite additions to the sims 3 CAS was being able to randomise names, I really struggle to think of names for my sims at times 😂 also I distinctly remember the breast and muscle definition sliders being added in the Late Night update, they weren’t part of the base game on launch :)
Also I’d love to see a video of you comparing all the occults across the games!
I personally like sims 2 CAS. It’s quick and easy to use and you can still create a beautiful sim. Well, if you have tons of CC and defaults then yes! I’m not looking to take too long in CAS. In the sims 3 CAS there was a lot more customization which is awesome and I love it, but I feel like I take too long creating one sim and loading time takes forever for me when changing outfits. The one thing I do wish Sims 2 CAS had are body sliders and being able to pick individual shoes, but I don’t care too much about the shoes. I honestly prefer sims 2 CAS. Obviously, I’m not fond of the sims 3 sims and the sims 4 sims look too cartoonish for me. If the sims 2 CAS had traits like sims 3 that would be the cherry on top for me!
The sims 4 is literally a dress up/architect simulator, nobody can deny that without the great CAS and build mode, the game would basically be unplayable
GIRL, so much content this week. I love you!
More to come! 💙💙
"it can get quite laggy" that's just the sims 3 in general lmao
Pleasant Sims,
One of the things in the Sims 4 CAS that I really love, that you didn’t mention is how they let you choose any piece of clothing for any type of clothing. You could make a sim that sleeps in their formal wear and goes to the club in their sleep wear.
I was faster than my notifications!
LOL. Thank you for watching Hendrik!
There are definitely things that I miss about the sims 3 (I went back to playing sims 2) such as being able to adjust weight, customize everything and change shoes separately.
I'm biased towards Sims 2 because that is my go to Sims game but Sims 3 would have to be number 1 for CAS if I'm honest.
I'm totally the Sims 3 person and I do like how sims looks like there. I even like the eyes and don't use CC lenses as many players do. I prefer CC hairstyles though, but some of original looks good and I use them too. As for the Sims 4, sims there are too cartoony and make me feel as they are absolutely shallow. I don't play the Sims 4 at all.
And I don't play the Sims 2 anymore, but I spent a few years of my childhood there, it was so fantastic to play. Unfortunately, the open world and story progression are something I can't play without, but sims looked pretty good, with CC even beautiful.
One thing I really like about the Sims 2 personalities is that you only had a finite number of personality points to give your Sim. It kind of forced you to balance out very positive traits with negative ones, so you always ended up with interesting characters
That's a great point, Noah!
That’s not true at all because not all the traits on the left are negative traits. That’s something I really dislike in the Sims 2: people who are active, outgoing, tidy, nice do exist and they deserve to be created as well as people who are serious, lazy, shy and grungy.
Carolina Rosa then you can give them more points in outgoing, neat and active and less on playful and nice? I mean it ain’t hard.
Louisania TheMagnificent I can’t create a sim that is all the way to the right in the 5 areas, which is what I’m saying, because you will run out of points. There is a limit, so you end up not being able to create all the sims you would like. “It ain’t hard” Yes, it is because it’s literally not possible.
Carolina Rosa You don’t have to get them all the way to the right, though. But I get your point.
9:40 As an introverted, very playful/excitable, somewhat lazy Aries, the zodiac sign system of TS2 always infuriated me because I never felt like I could create myself properly. I couldn't be any more different personality-wise (didn't we all love to create our simselves when the game first released?) -- one of the reasons I appreciate the zodiac signs in TS3 coming separately and not influencing the trait system at all.
Just found your channel and it's amazing how kind and enthusiastic you are about your videos/the Sims series. I can see the work you put in these videos and they are sooo relaxing to watch after a long day of school. Glad the algorithm gods made me found your amazing videos !
“Give your sims hot pink eyes if you want to” me to literally every single female sim I make in the sims 3 😭😭😭😭
I just discovered your channel. I love your honesty and that you’re a sims 2 and 3 fan. They’re the best.
I honestly love the sims 3 and the sims 4 but if I had to choose one to play for the rest of my life it would be sims 3, the reason is, is because the sims 3 has color wheels for almost everything yes I know the sims 4 came out with a new skin color update or wtv.
Before watching this, I’d have to say that The Sims 3 had the superior CAS. The color wheel for the outfits and hair color, the body/skin tone/voice pitch sliders, it was all great and revolutionary at the time! I remember it being a huge step forward from The Sims 2. Can’t really say too much about CAS in The Sims 4 since I haven’t played it in a while. It may be better, it may not be, I honestly don’t remember! 😅
Sims 4 CAS is the best in my opinion, because of all the opportunities. 😊 I do however miss the turn-ons and turn-offs from Sims 2, and the fave food/music/etc from Sims 3. I wish we had something similar in Sims 4.
Me too! Maybe some day they'll bring favorites back and I really hope there's a chemistry/romance system on the horizon.
Honestly man, I don't actually see why they can't do that. It would also be a nice opportunity to expand on the chemistry system, as much as I like it, I always felt like ti could use more variety.
The Sims 3 is the most "neutral" sims game lol
It’s consistently great
It’s the best hands down
Sims 3 is addicting. I love the create a style tool.
@André Alcântara exactly
@@juh1648 i am
I feel like I've said this before but I just LOOVE how The Sims 2 just oozes the early 2000s/oldie times vibe. I can't really visualise my sims living like it's the 2020s and following all those modern trends. Hm.. don't know... maybe I like old school music and sitcoms way too much! :D
Cindy we need more of these! This type of video is great, I really love them!😍 Thank you for all your work 🥰💪🏻
Ya, I don’t have seasons and still get the pointless hot/cold weather outfits 🤷🏻♂️
That makes no sense. Lol
@@PleasantSims I think it's also like the walk style at the very end which was added in with vampires same as some of the darker and very pale skins, but I dont get why they included them in the base game, I mean if you dont have seasons hot and cold weather outfits could kinda function as extra outfits like oh I want 6 everyday outfits but the game only let's me have 5 lets go to hot weather and make one, but that only works if you dont have seasons
I love the vampire walk especially matched with costumes i have a few creepy hotdogs wondering around in my game to make me laugh
Yeah... I think its because there are some base game clothing tagged in those options!
They are there without seasons because otherwise it would break the gallery. They added the outfit categories in with the base game patch because if they didn't than people with seasons couldn't download sims from players who didn't have seasons and vise versa. Pretty much it was just easier for the sims team to patch it in and have them as useless outfits rather than reprogram the whole gallery
Idk why but i Always Loved the Hair physics in the Sims 2. For example: You get cassandras Hair for a Sim and that Sim gets slapped, her Hair will move too! Not Like in the later games
love these comparison vids so much! great content these last couple of months 💖
Thank you so much!!
traits and aspiration in the sims 4 is really bad. i get bored around that area.
babygirlatwell they all end up feeling the same. Who thought only three traits was a good idea?
Your videos made me want to play Sims 2 again, I never realized how nice and detailed the game play was! Considering I was like 6, 7 when I first got in touch with the game (in like 2006 lmao) I only considered it was hard af gotta try your gameplay style when school ends
Also the skin tones aspects you were talking in Sims 3 are called undertones (if your skin is more pinkish you probably don't tan that easily but gets very hot after sunbathing, yellow undertones tan easily etc)
Video Idea: Items from the sims 4 that where missing on base game that the other versions of the game had!
I can’t believe I just discovered you. You’re an absolute gift and I love your content so much already. 💖💖
Omg that goofy animation when you change the sims 2 face template brought me back to childhood!
the thing with ts4 being so pretty and easy to use is that i'll take my time making sims, then i'll find super cute builds on the gallery and.. get bored. but with the others since the customization isn't as nice or as pretty i'll quickly make my sims and just go straight to gameplay lol.
It's kinda sad with sims 4. The creation tools are fantastic and the best we've had, bar the swatches, but theres no real gameplay. It fell so short and you can have the best creation tools in the world but if theres no gameplay then what's the point. And it continues to fall short. The expansion packs are so bland and empty and repetitive. Theres no real creativity any more. They just remake the same items again and again (looking at you kids drawing table)
Choose shoes - that is a tongue twister haha. Love the video as always, would love to see future comparisons
I only have experience in the first two games and I like both sims 2 personality points and sims 3 traits equally:) Great job doing these, there is a whole bunch of stuff i didn't even know!
Ive been getting back into the sims 3 recently, and the customisation is on a next level :) I agree it can be overwhelming at times. I think the sims 4: even if they added a simple colour swatch system it would make it a lot better and a more acceptable negotiation:)
I would love if they did something a bit more simple than Sims 3 - kind of how they compromised with the open neighborhoods instead of open worlds. Maybe just a color wheel but not all the patterns or something.
I love the Sims 3 for personality; there were so many traits, and combinations to make truly unique and weird Sims!
I am loving this series. At one point today I had one of your videos playing on YT on my t.v. another playing on my mobile phone and the game open on my laptop.....all at the same time. I'm obsessed! 💜❤👍🏻
LOL! Thank you Jenn! 💙💙
i love the fashion in sims 2 it SCREAMS 2000s and i miss that 💔 loved ya vid!
The sims 4 gender options are such a great addition to CAS 😍