Topic: The Sims 2/3: (Insert Expansion Pack Name Here...)

[Didero]

Steam makes this easy, since the expansion packs are treated as DLC on there, and Steam gives a total for all the available DLC.
Even at the current 50% holiday discount it'll still cost almost €230 to get all the DLC. Even if you leave out the stuff packs, it'll still cost almost €150.
And that's excluding having to buy the base game. It's ridiculous, and it's one of the main reasons I haven't bought a Sims game since I got The Sims 1 and an expansion pack about a decade ago.

I just checked the prices in dollars, and now I'm pissed off. The base game is 22.50 euros, but 15 dollars. The DLC price difference is 20. The euro is worth MORE than the dollar, not the other way around, EA :|

[PatMan33]

Money, right?

[Hydromancerx]

And that's excluding having to buy the base game. It's ridiculous, and it's one of the main reasons I haven't bought a Sims game since I got The Sims 1 and an expansion pack about a decade ago.

Yeah back in the day with the Sims 1 I bought up to Vacation (base + 4 expansions). It was a good game and I even enjoyed the custom content people made back then. But Sims 2 was a BIG upgrade which is why I bought it when it came out and kept buying the expansions. The Sims 3 did not seem like much of an upgrade and I actually like the look of the Sims of 2 better than 3. They have sort of an "uncanny valley" look to me (similar to Polar Express).

However in the Sims 3 I do like their personality trait system and the fact they don't need to pee all the time. However in my survival game, things like peeing are actually useful and make sense to the story. In fact I don't think I have played the sims in the way it was intended to be for years now.

Note I did buy Sims Medieval, and its a good game, but thanks to many modders they have extracted most of the content from that game into the Sims 2, so I really have not felt the need to play it. But they do have some fun quests in that game.

[Didero]

I've played a bit of Sims 3 yesterday evening. Nothing interesting, just designing a simple house. But it was just so damn relaxing. It was great.
I don't know if it's because of the fact that there were no virtual people around to whine they needed to pee, or if it was just the music (which I think is great), but I don't remember having as much fun in The Sims in a long time.

[Hydromancerx]

So The Sims 4 was announced today. I still play the Sims 2 for goodness sakes. 

http://www.ea.com/news/maxis-unveils-the-sims-4

[PatMan33]

Oh look, another Sims game. I get to buy the same six expansion packs again!? SWEET!

[Raz]

They'll have to have quite a few changes to convince me to buy it, and I've been playing Sims since forever, and have even tried again and again to love the Sims 3 with little success.

[eropS]

Shamelessly, if it's the Sims 3 with more depth and better graphics, I'll probably buy it.

[Raz]

I was just unable to really get into the Sims 3 seriously. Just didn't have the charm of the Sims 2 for some reason.

[Huckbuck]

http://www.ea.com/news/the-sims-4-in-development-for-pc-and-mac

...giving players a deeper connection with the most expressive, surprising and charming Sims ever in this single-player offline experience.

He. 

[Legodragonxp]

I got around to buying Sims 3 when it was dirt cheap on Steam and was incredibly disappointed by how bad it ran. It was buggy as hell and hung constantly. While I eet that EA isn't known for 'getting it right the first time' I bought in to it so late I would have figured there was a bit more patch and polish on it than that.

Sims 2 was OK. I could not care less about anything EA makes anymore though, too many screw ups for me.

-Lego

[LadyM]

If Sims 4 was multiplayer, that would encourage me to get it. Sims 2 was my fav and the easiest to make sim stories from, I never could figure out how to do a sim game with 3. I guess I'll see what comes out and what it offers and go from there.

[PatMan33]

The Sims 3 STILL crashes when running CrossfireX. It's ridiculous. EA and Maxis have known about the flaw in their game for YEARS. YEARS!! But they still haven't as much as written a warning on their storefront to let people know this. Yet another reason to never support the crooks at EA. I'm sorry if some of us have friends that work for that awful, awful company. But that's the rub.