Catherine
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Post by Catherine on Nov 17, 2009 14:40:25 GMT -5
I'm sitting here anxiously awaiting the UPS truck so I can install the new expansion pack and thinking about how I'm going to play it. It crossed my mind that although I have "used" TS3 on a near daily basis for almost six months now, I don't actually "play" it very often. (My completed legacy does not count as playing. That was exploration and documentation.)
I rarely played TS2, either. Now, TS1 - I really played it. Like a cheap fiddle! :-D
I'm curious to know if y'all are users instead of players, too.
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Post by rad on Nov 17, 2009 15:02:31 GMT -5
Well, I play through my ongoing challenges but if we're not counting those... then I started out just playing and got annoyed because it wasn't TS1 and I couldn't play it TS1 style. I loved TS1. I wasn't the most efficient player, I'm sure but I played with all the EPs (TS2 on the other hand, blurgh. I only own one EP and I barely touched either that or the base game). I came online to grump about TS3 not being playable in the traditional way, discovered that challenges and storytelling existed and never looked back.
However, with this new creating a neighbourhood tool I might create all the families I made and loved in TS1 and actually play with them... though I don't know what I'll DO with them given the Kyotis and Dayes will have done or will be about to do everything possible in the game between them.
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Post by dbloveshermac on Nov 17, 2009 20:36:41 GMT -5
I played a LOT in TS2. My favorite neighborhood was a multinational place, with families from Ireland, Kenya, Brazil, etc., and I had fun intermingling them.
I have played some in TS3, but I find that it lends itself extremely well to legacy-style play, and that has been my focus. I never finished my TS2 legacy; I lost interest after my founder died.
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Post by girlyesterday on Nov 17, 2009 21:51:18 GMT -5
I'm the same, I played TS1 all the time. I started playign TS2 but then I got into the whole storytelling aspect of it and I never played after that and I am finding the same thing happening with TS3. I did play through a single family right up to the head of the science career but that's about it. I spent more time collecting gems and trying to find those elusive rare gems than actually playing it a la 'legacy style'.
The one time I did try, my game crashed and had to be reinstalled and it seemed too much hassle to go through all that again.
These days, I use TS3 mostly for the stories. I am making a concerted effort to play though in the foreseeable future. Fingers crossed.
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Post by thelunarfox on Nov 18, 2009 0:24:00 GMT -5
TS2 and TS1, I played those a lot. I got into story telling with TS2, but I still played a lot, and I still get cravings to play it (though I've resisted, so they aren't very strong).
TS3, I don't play at all. And oddly, I'm okay with only using the game to take screen shots and play around with making sims.
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Post by rad on Nov 18, 2009 4:26:09 GMT -5
I'm feeling more and more desire to 'play' TS1 style now after thinking about this thread and about the new EP(s). I think when I've played through the apocalypse and whatever (shorter!) challenge I play with WA, I'm going to give challenges a rest other than Dayes of Our Lives, and focus on short stories and 'play' for a bit (at least until the next EP).
My aim is to keep the Dayes 'try everything' challenge going throughout the EPs and to do one challenge per EP; maybe some will be legacy/apoc challenges again in the future but something much shorter appeals right now!
I'm very excited for the new neighbourhood/world tool and having seen Heredon Cove that's given me ideas for being able to play all my old favourite families - I figure if I use epic, or maybe even long, and switch active households regularly, SP (such as it is) can't destroy my famlies too badly.
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Catherine
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Post by Catherine on Nov 19, 2009 12:02:58 GMT -5
I find it interesting that others have said that they played TS1 a lot, too.
I remember something Inge Jones said once. She was talking about a family she was playing in TS2. One of the Sims kept dropping his queue to go and do something rude because he had zero nice points. She was annoyed, and said that it seemed to her that while Eaxis seemed to think they were giving us more flexibility by creating increasingly complex personalities for Sims, they were actually cramping our style, so to speak.
In TS1, pretty much everything was a blank slate.
In TS2 and 3, if I want a blank slate, I have to constantly remind myself to ignore the Sims' pre-loaded traits and goals. I can certainly do so - we all do that - but it does require extra mental effort, and for me, I think that's why gameplay has gotten less appealing as the franchise has evolved.
And that's all I have to say about that, Jen-nay.
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Post by raquelaroden on Nov 19, 2009 14:33:14 GMT -5
I played TS1 like mad! Oh my goodness the hours and hours I spent.... TS2 I played like mad for a few weeks, then I would only play again around the time a new expansion pack was released (because I'm a sucker for new stuff). Toward the end of its development time, I discovered the online community and read a few of the stories, and started trying to make a few myself (but I never got very far).
TS3 I started out playing a bit, but then I discovered the legacy challenge (I was never very interested in them for TS2, for some reason), and blogging it, and then once I started storyblogging, well....I'm never tired of it now. But do I 'play' TS3? Hmm...not as much, really (though I do play in my legacy--we aren't very efficient at all!).
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Post by rad on Nov 19, 2009 19:24:38 GMT -5
Ugh, that points thing in TS2. HATED it. I prefer the traits system to that. I do like TS3 for challenges and prettiness, and I like the seamless neighbourhood thing and the aging throughout the town - TS1 bugged me when you couldn't age the sims, and aging was just really badly executed in TS2. I think my perfect version would be somewhere between TS1 and TS3.
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Post by lhasa on Dec 14, 2009 23:39:12 GMT -5
I played it like mad in the beginning until I discovered legacies, challenges, and stories. Now I mainly use it as a storymaking tool. I did just create a save file where I'm playing just for fun, though.
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Post by thelunarfox on Dec 15, 2009 1:29:21 GMT -5
Oh, Catherine. That's a good point actually. Hmm. I know that when wants showed up in TS2, I thought that was a little aggravating because suddenly my sims told me who they were and would go into aspiration failure.
Now I don't let the game limit me. Hacks help, and so do the debugging cheats. If I don't like a moodlet, I just delete it rather than play with it. Zap!
Since WA came out, I have actually played TS3.
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