Ways the Sims 3 Build Mode is MUCH better than Sims 4 (sorry not sorry)
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- The Sims 3 vs Sims 4: Build modes compared. I compared the build mode between Sims 4 vs Sims 3 to see which is better. This is why I love The Sims 3 build mode compared to The Sims 4!
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One thing that you didn't mention regarding the sims 3 bookcase. I love how the state of the bookcase depends on how much books is in the book case. You got Barely Filled -> Partially Filled -> Fully Filled bookcase.
I forgot about that! Loved it
yeah! and each bookcase had their own storage space so you could have them specifically for children/toddler books, cook books, skill building or whatever else!
@@thesims3girlie Yes but I hate when you delete a bookcase, all the books didn't get deleted along with the bookcase. They all been moved to your family inventory.
That was so good feature. At least for a bookworm like me
is this.. what Book Nook Kit supposed to be?? Ok i'm nitpicking on Sims 4 now.. but that function is awesome..
we just need a Sims 3 remastered at this point, not 5... it just needs better performance and less crashes, and arguably graphics
Looking at Sims3 graphics you'd think Sims4 was poised to be some mind blowing, hyper realistic game.
Well there's a game that is 100% a sims 2 and sims 3 remastered coming out on september 12th, it's Life by You, it has been developped by Paradox and and Rod Humble the creator of Second Life and the sims 3 :D I can't wait !!!!
There's also Paralives, but still in development
@@DiscoTimelordASD yea ngl the sims3 models were impressive for their time, just that some assets has really low res textures, and the game’s lighitng bortheree me at times
@@KatsyKat Oh agreed. I just expected that Sims4 would have taken the realistic quality sky high given the new quality of graphics and improvements they had so much time to make.
It would have been glorious.
@tandtmusic I'm actually excited for those.
I'm a retro gamer, so I'm used to older games but I won't shy away from these👍
Each texture of the color wheel has a different sound. For example, if you make a countertop stone it will sound different than wood when a sim places something on it, sims 3 is just so cool...
yes!! the sims 3 was so realistic and ambitious ♡
That's so cool
@@ReginaTrans_ Because of the sounds? Yeah, no.
@@ReginaTrans_ I don't think they were trying to be smart. It's not the little details that made it a problem, it's the fact the game itself was so expansive and ambitious.
@@ReginaTrans_ I know what you mean. But you answered to a comment mentioning the sounds. So I replied to that. And having different sounds for each counter surface doesnt make your game lag. How would it? A sound is played when something is put on a counter top. It doesnt matter how many different sounds there are, the game only plays one each time the Sim interacts with it. So there is always a sound being played, no matter if its just the same one over and over, or if its a different sound being picked each time. Its a pretty simple math. Now, even if it causes delays due to the sound taking too long to load, you would just have those sound delays, but the game wouldnt lag, it would just keep running smoothly. I know that because I have such sound delays in Fallout 4 with weapons and music on my pip boy due to HQ sound mods being installed in my game. The game doesnt lag, only the sounds take longer to load and theres a delay before they are being played.
1:40 You actually can sort by packs, store content, and CC. It’s a little star looking symbol by the catalog 😊 TS3 just has all the little nitty gritty stuff that 4 seems to have omitted.
I've been saying all this stuff since 2014 when Sims 4 was released... It was a big step backwards. It's like you go from "total freedom" in Sims 3 to "limited freedom" Sims 4. Sims 4 took out the ability to truly be original.
You could also save the color/texture you created to slap onto other furnishings. Makes it easy if you want to repeat a theme in the house. I made one of the prettiest dresses once using a metallic texture and an old gold that wound up looking like raw silk. Textures in the color wheel saved a lot of Sims 3 base game clothing which always looks like plastic to me.
Yeah, some of the fabric was... questionable lol
@@DiscoTimelordASD I think they had their light reflections off. My only CC in Sims 3 was game mods and meshes. Saved so much room.
I used to do this in cas to get unique hair colors
@@sarahni I made a shade of brown I liked & switched out all the default green-brown NPC hairs!
You forgot the columns! It's unacceptable that in the sims 4 they are attached to the grid and although I don't know what you can't give them without a cage, meanwhile in the sims 3 they are not attached to the grid ;)
I used to build for hours in Sims 3, I think I was more in build mode than live mode. Then there was the CAW tool, omg. This thing was so frickin amazing. You could make your own custom world, and people were sharing their creations on the internet.
I've never spend as much time in Sims 4 build mode. And the lack of the CASt tool was a huge bummer.
I have sooooo many worlds downloaded in Sims3 - Halloween, dystopian, Strangetown, Candyland...
The fun never ends!
Also on the water lots, you can manipulate the terrain so you can have more beach or less beach based on what you’re trying to do. Can’t do that on water lots in sims 4
I miss the çreate-a-style feature of TS3... the Sims 4 could never
Damn now this is making me want to play sims 3. Putting build mode aside I love in sims 3 that the aspirations are SOOO much better
The idea behind the Sims 4 is to make it more cashgrabby. They want us to buy more packs to more content where in the Sims 3 you have abilities to create more yourself. They outdid themselves in the case of needing to purchase cats and dogs to get 1st pet stuff. The list goes on and on!
This is true! I played the Sims 3 for years without purchasing any other packs. The base game was all I needed. But I’ve bought several for the Sims 4! They made the Sims 3 so good that DLC wasn’t needed
The reason there's no create a style tool in ts4 in my opinion is so they can force people into buying new packs and kits just for one item/swatch they really want... unfortunate but it is ea's cashgrabby tactics that have ruined the game after all 😪
They did because it was supposed to help with perfomance, as a lot of people said create a style indeed lag in older noteboks and they just wanted to avoid that.
Bro they split sims 3 packs into different sims 4 packs this isn't news, they ain't hiding you'd think they would at least hide their shame but the actual gall is insane.
Exactly, the customization was really everything even if u didnt have a ton of items in the sims 3.
In the sims 3 you bought packs to get the gameplay. In the sims 4 there is barely any gameplay in the packs so the only reason for buying them is pretty items
agreed! and even if they dulled the game for performance purposes, sims 4 packs are so hit or miss. they usually bug out and even more so after a patch update.
"I detest EA's builds more so than I detest all of my exes" - genuinely LOL'd
Which is why in the recent packs EA outsources their builds...
Either that or they're trying to get free labour...
Let's also address how TS3 create-a-style allows you to save your own creations! Sheer genius! 😮
ur like the only sims channel that keeps it real love it
Stach spitting facts as usual 👌
Dude just saying anything to make that youtube money dude can't even build
@@ojerico6097 nobody cares
Even the Sims 2 (a closed world game) had a 3D map and ability to add lots to the world. The Sims 4 is such a downgrade.
One thing that’s better in ts4 is how you can move the walls, rooms and build easily basically, it just lacked the other stuff from ts3
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You definitely can grab walls to push and pull them in sims 3. You just can't move the whole room around (which I find annoying anyway because when I'm editing and turn the camera the whole damn room rotates)
about the kitchen counters when you changed texture of it it comes with different sounds when you gonna place the plate on it
😂amazing. I never noticed that
Of course the Sims 3 build mode is superior. Especially the create a style tool 👌 I still can't understand why we didn't get colour wheel in next game.
I live for Sims 4 slander
it's a breath of fresh air.
The sims 4 could never
I see no lies in your claims, only hard truths here ❤
The Sims 4 worlds are basically The Sims 1 world but prettier.
Even in Sims 2 you can place lots with various sizes anywhere as long as it's connected to a road.
When Sims 4 came out, that part is a big turn off for me. Regressing back and forcing people to buy Expansion Packs to get more space to build in felt so cash grabby. I can create my own world since Sims 2 and now they're taking that away.
Also if Create-a-Style tool existed in Sims 4, how could they sell Kits and Build/Buy & CAS item reskins - they'd have to do more work.
If you also owned Sim City 4, you could even create new neighbourhoods for Sims 2 in that game. Yes, you could do a lot more in Sims 2 and definitely in Sims 3.
They aren't forcing anyone to buy their packs. People are buying them because people want them.
@Oozaru85 because the options in base game are so limited and ugly that a lot of people feel like they have to spend money to get the enjoyment out of a game they want. If they had a create a style mode then people would at least have more options, especially those that can't afford to personalize their games the way they should be able to. Why would a company regress in their features if not to gouge the fan base. Feels icky to me and a turn off after so many years supporting the game.
@@HDGamingPlus Yes, they gouge their customers. But they aint forcing anyone to buy their stuff. Thats a big difference. You dont need the game to live. Its not something your life depends on. If you dont like EAs business practices, dont support them. Dont buy their stuff. And if ur on PC, there are tons of free mods to improve your game.
A first ever let's play I've seen of ts4, I maybe watched like 4 minutes of it. Just because I wanted to see what the game looked like. From the very beginning, I knew I'm not going to get ts4, ts3 was more than enough, and honestly, I was really upset they stopped supporting the game.
I watched through the cas, which I thought was really nice, and then the "world view" appeared... Ugly, small, grey. I listened to the monologue of the creator of the video, saying there were no pools, cars, and plenty of other different things. After she finished talking about all the things missing, I just turned off the video.
Once in Sims 3 I saved a custom colourway of a pattern, black background, (like a stark #000000) and then circles in painfully bright shades of blue, pink and purple… then I made a child sim and her head-to-toe outfit was this pattern. Then her bedroom… the floors, the walls, every part of every single piece of furniture was all the same pattern. And the colours were so crazy intense, and she basically looked like a floating face when standing in the room. It was ridiculous, stupid and chaotic, but I absolutely loved it.
this is *exactly* the type of stuff that made sims 3 amazing! we could just be totally free in our own weird expressions
More please lol... also being able to have hybrids in sims 3 i know thats not build mode. But being able to place a column down and automatically having the floor tile outline appear above it was everything in the sims 3
And the fact that not everything is stuck together in a “rooms” structures you can’t even place a single tile or a single piece of foundation/platforms
You know it’s a good day when Satch uploads a sims 3 video
Plus, those custom colors on that counter, you can save and then just grab and drag onto other pieces. EDIT: AND you can upload swatches to TS3. So if there isn't a swatch already in the game you like, you can add your own!
I'm glad the sims 4 exists, because it made me appreciate the sims 3
And there is a Create a pattern tool for Sims 3 too which you can make your own patterns.
The only thing I would say is better about the sims 4 is the building tools. It's easier to build in the sims 4. But that's literally it. The sims 3 wins on everything else
Idk the foundation tool is annoying in s4. It’s all automatic. Only thing it has going for it is the ability to move the rooms & whole lot imo
The camera functions alone make building absolutely miserable. Edge scroll but only on 3 sides. The key for rotating the camera also turns the whole damn room/roof you're working on. Tilt function requires 2 keys. Like tf were they thinking
Sims 4 was supposed to be an upgrade from Sims 3 but no it went backwards. I understand if EA didn't want to do a rinse and repeat with Sims 4 but they could have found a compromise Hopefully Sims 5 or whatever it's called doesn't turn out to be another SimCity mistake.
I feel like something bad happened to ea after sims 3, hopefully sims 5 will be more like those games and not sims 4
It 100% won't lol, don't get your hopes up
Also the build mode items are normal items and make way more sense than some of the crazy stuff in sims 4. I recently switched back to sims 3 and idk if I'll ever go back to sims 4.
I mean, yeah, building in TS 3 is a bit cumbersome and restrictive, but the objects are much more usable. In TS 4, as you highlighted, many, if not most, objects are so weird and cartoony, and they are virtually unusable in any normal house. We've essentially paid hundreds of euros/dollars/pounds to have a catalogue of mostly unusable items and swatches.
this is why cc is a life changer
When I played ts4 the first time I was so shocked you couldn't just put lots anywhere, I mean even sims 2 let you drop lots anywhere along the road 🤦🏼♀️
satch never liessss
also wanted to put out that in one of the sims 3 builds you showed there was a base game playground for children already placed for gameplay, the sims 4 could/would never, sadly.
Tbh anyone who thinks Sims 4 has a better build and buy mode need to try building anything that isn't a suburban house with an upsized toy car since vehicles do not exist still.
What does this mean?
Sims 4 players be like "create a style and open world cause lag" while Life By You just walks by in the background.
Literally started watching your videos 3 days ago for sims 4 and bought sims 3 just bec of you and don’t regret my purchase not one bit🤠
And in Sims 3 you could make your own textures and import them. I imported so many different patterns in Sims 3 and made rooms where everything matched. Not great actual style, but I had fun. I guess that is the most important point. In Sims 3 I had fun.
I think the reason for swatches was so that the colors/textures would load faster in the Sims 4, after having a whole open world with all the colors and patterns imaginable available in TS3, it just felt like a step back. Like I would rather wait a couple more seconds for something to load in TS3 than have such limited customizations.
Create a Style & THE COLOR WHEEL 💐💯 both need to comeback.
What i miss : the different size lots to place wherever you want, the create a style and the customisable collections
There is a cheat in Sims3 where you can add extra tiles/squares to the lot sizes as well (I think it was just called Edit?? I can't remember) by using the mouse and clicking where you wanted the extra tile/square. So I would always extend my 64x64 lot size as far as I could. I can't remember if there was a maximum amount that you could do, but I remember I made them huge.
*Edit - it may have been Sims2 - it's been too long for me to remember...
In the sims 4 base game, you should be able to create a lake with the terrain tools and build over water anywhere. it’s still not the same as a beach though
Yeah I think The Sims 3 build mode it was just so much better even if the only thing we had was the create a style mode cause you can make ANYTHING
I love your videos 😂
This video made me launch the Sims 3 so quickly again 😂
Create a Style was one of the best things about Sims
No no, as a sims 4 passionate builder, I agree. I switched to sims 3 and I'm learning it, and enjoying it now. All the preexisting builds are awesome enough, most are unique swatches, etc. And are highly entertaining to renovate.
Gg Sims 4, you have officially made mods a requirement for actually satisfying gameplay.
Not forgetting in the Sims 3 you can purchase multiple houses, which is not possible in the Sims 4, I also loved the house with water, was my favourite
Building in the sims 3 is so fucking fun no one will everrrr change my mind ab that thank u satch
I don't hate you, I adore you for saying this!! I have always loved sims 3 build mode, I'd say the build tools are clunkier than sims 4 for sure but not as clunky as sims 2 lol, and the create a style or design aspect of sims 3 is incredible, and custom textures are super easy to include in the game if you want. And the best thing no limits in the world and placing all our lots we want lets you build freely on any large lot without worrying "oh no im wasting this lot and what if i need it for something else"
Loving how many sims 4 simmers are doing more sims 3 and 2 content recently
no way!! i’ve been playing the sims 3 for about 13 years and i never knew about creating your own collections!! definitely going to be doing that from now on
I know you said who asked for the library kit - ME! because of exactly what you said! TS4 bookcases are just garbage. I used so many in TS3 because they look like normal bookcases anyone would have in their house. I hate the TS4 ones with a passion. They're all weird shaped or too big or too fancy. And I love that TS3 bookcases actually fill up when you put books on them. There were so many nice little touches in that game that are just gone now.
And here's the problem, requesting yet another pack when the previous game of the franchise was better...
You're just giving EA more excuses to rip you off...
I miss create a style. I loved making my own clothes, changing furniture and other household items. I had a zebra car for some reason lol, but I loved it and I miss locking my camera to my sims and watching them drive their cars around the lot
I really miss being able to put small lots next to each other. Everything is so far apart in sims 4, Britechester has townhouses in the middle of giant lots and I wish Mt. Komorebi came with an area that had many tiny lots close together. I know it makes sense for suburbian houses but it doesn't work for everything. Of course none of this would matter if we had the ability to place lots like in sims 3 but they couldn't even give us a day/night cycle in the map view
The video maybe just for fun, but let's admit it, The Sims 4 is a shit show. The Sims 2 had better customization when it comes to buy mode objects AND world customization.
I get so damn mad when I see videos like this. We got so ripped off with The Sims 4.
Theres no create a style for everything because they cant code. Thats why the color wheel was causing problems, spaghetti code
I never knew a bunch of this stuff! Ugh makes me wish ts3 still worked on my laptop
I mean... curved pools & stairs 🌠
And this is why so many of us still play Sims 3, but I also still play Sims 2, lol.
ts3 has normal sofas and couches, trying to find a normal cozy couch in ts4 is an absolute nightmare! I hate it! And the base game couch looks like someone made it out of Legos cause its so..stiff and firm
Can you do a video on which Sims 1 items you would love to see in Sims 4?🙏🏻🌸
And I'm not talking about the vibrating bed and all. That's commonly known. I mean like other legendary stylish things 🥹🥹
The biggest discovery for me watching this video was learning how Americans pronounce urinal 😅😅😂🤣🤣
The color wheel and texture selection will forever be OP.
everytime i watch a new video of yours highlighting all sims 3 can do, i'm tempted to switch back again and just play on there. i swear i had a lot more fun on there too, less about the cc and mods and more about the actual game.
Wow. I’ve not played Sims 3 in like 10 years! I forgot how much I miss the Create a Style. My builds and Sims are so limited now. The Sims 4 is actually embarrassing looking at this video
I prefer the Sims 3 than Sims 4. My top favorites are the Sims 2 and the Sims 3. In last times sometimes i play with the Sims 3. :-) And i really like in the Sims 3 the zebra (zebra is 1 of my favorite animals) and cow patterns. Plus i agree fully, the Sims 4 build options and areas are so limited, but in the Sims 3 not.
I can only agree with a lot of your points. In fact I can only think of one thing that makes Sims 4 slightly better... it's the click and drag to increase/decrease roomsize, in stead of having to delete/rebuild walls to do so. In many ways I miss sims 2 and 3
What irritates the crapola out of me is when you use the room tool and it gives you the size in TS3 - 10x6, etc. TS4 gives you the price. It costs what it costs, I don't want to do math and count how many I go over and down. Do that for me please. I'd rather it give me the size. I don't want to count.
I love downloading patterns too
Sims 3 without a doubt was peak build mode. Create a style and color wheel is enough to cover thousands, if not millions of swatches and designs.
Oh how far EA fallen in the Sims 4, and it hasn't gone back up after nine years in the making.
tbf the only thing i love about sims 4 build/buy is how easy it is to actually build. it was so refreshing to finally be able to rotate the whole lot, copy rooms, adding foundations AFTER adding walls just by “raising up” the lot. i can’t go back to the sims 3 build mode without these things. i still play and decorate. i just don’t build LOL
We have a colour wheel, textures and patterns for a potential create-a-style in how we paint and customize cats, dogs, werewolves and (soon to be) horses ...👏THE 👏CAPACITY 👏IS 👏RIGHT 👏 THERE 👏
But if we don't get it, there's more incentive to buy DLC and especially kits
and the argument that it would cause lag is stupid, if that's the case then why do skin tones, makeup, and the aforementioned pets not cause lag despite being customizable? This game is closed world to prevent that and it still lags anyway and there's mods which lets us freely recolour hairs and clothes and even furniture using the makeup and skin tone sliders and there's zero performance difference - its just about monetization and general laziness at this point from whoever is in charge of this scenery simulator
1:36 what do you mean you can't sort by packs in specofic category? Ofc you can do that, I would die without that feature 😂
I went into this video disagreeing that Sims3 is better than 4, but after you break it down I understand your reasonings (I’m not a fan of sims4 and play 2 & 3 mostly). Sims4 is better in terms of being modern, user friendly, easier to understand and build with but that’s pretty much it lol. Yes, Sims4 has more items, but like you said half of them aren’t practical Clutter items do absolutely nothing. One of my favorite things about Sims3 is some of the pre-made builds, they’re genuinely so pretty and creative! I don’t even really build much in 3 and prefer to start with the homes already there. I enjoy Sims4 build mode because it is miles easier and I don’t mind the swatches, but being able to build wherever and make your own world in sims 2/3 feels so good! I think Sims4 really ruined the game with a 2d world, limited lots, and a closed world.
I have not played Sims 4 since pets dropped
I play Sims 3 like atleast once every so often
I really wish that they bring the detailed furniture customization into The Sims 5, whenever it'll be released.
Then my houses wouldn't look so similar to each other. 😅
I hated the swatches I'm sorry 😂 people were so mad when Sims 3 came out and swatches were a thing, they felt the furniture was terrible compared to the Sims 2. I remember spending hours trying all the swatches and hating them and longing for my 5000+ items of custom content from sims 2 😂 I think the basic shapes of the couches and counters just felt incredibly boring.
Just watching this is giving me flashbacks to the lag in create a style 😂
Do you like them more now, considering sims 4 has even less choices?
@@creativecutieprincessd ehhh no I still hate swatches because I always felt like they looked too fake and poor quality. Sure you get more options of wood and carpet and fabric but I just never thought the fabric swatches or wood swatches looked realistic or nice and a lot of the patterns were kind of tacky and not something you'd ever use on a real couch. I own a lot of the packs, so I feel like I have plenty of options lol I love the couches with the blankets and pillows, or the kitchen counters that have the cottage kitchen vibes(I think I usually use the ones from that stuff pack country kitchen or whatever it's called)
@@Juwlz it was 2009 after all and I think sims 3 was going for a 1950's - 1970's style sitcom aesthetic and the style of that time was horrid I know I might get hate from boomers for this but it was really bad, hence why the swatches suffered the only good thing I can say is if you want to build a vintage style house using 70s, 80s and 90s stuff pack it really fits I won't lie.
@@Juwlz Fair enough
You know almost all base game objects (and some store downloadables) were basically conversions of Sims2 objects...
To add, they were more specifically the colonial, club, and quaint from base game, mission from OfB, country from seasons, and a modified glamour bedroom from glamour life stuff. The store had tiki from seasons, storybook from OfB, 50's diner from nightlife, old town from TS1 UL, and a "secret" one: the hotel theme from BV...
I prefer playing sims 3 and sims 2 sorry EA
yeah ea has probably ruined maxis's good name.
I honestly love that EA doesn’t update their old builds because every time there is an update, my mods break… An update I wouldn’t mind is an objects overhaul in which they add neutral swatches THAT FREAKING MATCH to all the objects. Why are all woods different shades???
Sims 4 is just ...too childish, and in the most cringiest way possible.
yes! the games positivity can be a bit toxic. there's no realism, no burglars, no consequences, just smiles and goof.
Sims 4 is such a letdown, the backgrounds of the worlds are so fake and copy and pasted, atleast make it make sense
I plan to get a gaming PC just so I can install TS3 and TS4 on it. I may actually play TS3 more often for gameplay compared to TS4. I find it hard to play TS4 when I have to constantly updated infinite numbers of mods whereas with TS3, I only have to wait for 30 minutes to 1h for the game to load. I'd rather wait than having to update for days.
new here, this was hilarious & excellent
and what about placing pillars on fence? How come in S4 I can have 50m long glass fence with only two pillars on two ends and nothing in middle????
I do agree with all your arguments but one, you can build over water in the sims 4 base game using the water tools
I really wish i could find my pets for 3. I would so be staying more with it
Um, you can sort by packs in Sims 3. But I do love collections. I've made one that has aaallll the bathroom clutter stuff and one for kitchen clutter stuff so I don't have to sort through EVERYTHING to find them. Yes! the color wheel! I like making all my woods in a room match. Oh, for the carpets, try some of the "paint" swatches and the "rock" swatches, some of them make lovely carpets.
Don't get me started on Sims 4 swatches, Sims 1 had a better swatch system, you could at least mix and match the counter and the counter top. Sims 1!!!
Yeah, the lots in Sims 3 are sooooo much better. I love some of the ones in the store worlds so much that I took them and put them in other worlds. Like I've put some of the bars from Sunlit Tides in Isla Paradiso because they are so wonderfully beachy and its mostly basegame stuff recolored. Love that color wheel!
I hated nancy's house in TS3 but now it looks good from all TS4 ugly builds😂
Didn't know alot of these features in the sims 3
Now compare Sims 2 to Sims 4 build mode!