anyone wanting the sims 3 on a modern computer if you're having problems downloading it or getting it past the launcher get the alderlake patch and it'll work fine
I suggest getting smooth patch instead and editing the text file that comes with it to cap the game to 60FPS. And there's also graphics rules and graphics cards files on one reddit post that make the game run super smooth.
I agree! I can play TS3 for hours on end and I don’t use any mods or cc. I own all packs for TS4 and have a mass amount of cc and mods and it is still not nearly as fun
I watched the entire call me kevin sims series which I thought was hilarious but when I actually went to go play sims 4 I realized really quick that the reason I thought that entire series was great wasn't because the game was great but because kevins humor and editing were great and they covered up all the repetitive slop.
Im a Family Game player and sims 4 is so lacklustre even with the amazing mods from creators, it’s just still not fun and the loading screens. But sims 3 you don’t need horse ranch, my first pet stuff, dogs and cats all you need is pets, that’s it, and in world adventures (THREE WORLDS) you can have pet crocodiles, they’re tiny, and other pets too. And even tho the sims3 has rabbit holes at least it’s entertaining like the school it’s still all decorated and has sound effects of kids playing and teachers talking it’s cool. The kids too for once have personality and the teens unlike sims 4 where you also need high school years to slightly make them better. I also love in the sims 3 the different animations when they’re working on their homework. Just so much to it . I still have sims 4 just to play around in cas and cc but yeah .
Sims 3 superiority! And the sims 4 stans on twitter are MAD about it lol. Their go to about sims 3 is "it's ugly", okay, and?????? I can make it prettier but y'all can't make sims 4 more fun with all those mods, I would know, I tried lol
Sims 3 sims require more experimentation in CAS to have good looking faces. But I don't Think 3 looked ugly. Now 4 on the other Hand looks like a mobile game (esp. The grass/water textures and the extremely xartoonish looking sims)
i like sims 3 for gameplay but i really do wish it had teen gameplay like 4 has. 4's all about the teens which sucks because unless you turn off aging they never have time to enjoy all their fun mechanics.
@@jaydock1then mocked any and everyone who called the company out the CEO quite literally saying "Devs who don't like microtransactions are the biggest fucking dumbass's" so you know... There's that lil bit of info.
Pro tip - put the burglar alarm on the OUTSIDE of the house. It goes off as soon as the burglar enters the lot, instead of when they enter the home, giving you much more time to catch them!
@@queenkarma2490 It's also helpful for when the robber is stealing your outside stuff. If the alarm is inside the house, it never even goes off, and they can steal your grill or your bike or whatever and not get caught.
@@piperbird7193 I always place my alarm outside but recent saves I took it in because it looks more sense. Until the burglar got my 45k simoleons car parked outside. I will move it out again. Thanks.
I've played Sims 3 since it came out and there is still SO much content in it that Ive never experienced or played with yet. It's truly such an underrated masterpiece❤🔥
Tawni 😱 how‘re you holding up? And yes, I‘m still playing Sims 3 since early 2022🎉 I loved it back in 2009 and now with all the creative mods out there it‘s better then ever before!
I’ve got a Sim that’s doing all the World Adventures exploration, and it’s literally hours upon hours of gameplay, and I still haven’t even touched Egypt.
Literally the only thing holding it back is that it wasn't optimized as well performance wise compared to both 2 and 4. I miss it so much and kinda resent that TS4 actually runs better on my computer.
There is actually a 7th trait too. 5 starting traits, you get one for either completing a degree at University or getting the honorary degree through the aspiration points, then you get another trait from gaining popularity in your social group.
You get +3 if you get to level 6 of each social group, +1 for degree so thats a total of 9 traits IF I remember correctly, and the UL LTW is also tied to leveling all 3 social groups, Also rebel social group is the best if you want to make money through painting once you max our the rebel social group you can get to do the art appraisal opportunity chain (which is learned in a crime rabbithole BTW) you can paint any type of painting of any skill level on demand its silly but holy is it handy
@@lesslighter no unfortunately if you choose one for increasing another social group it will override the previous one. I wish you could have that many tho.
It’s honestly so nice to hear someone so hype about this game. I remember when they announced sims 4 initially I didn’t even bother buying it for a few years bc it was such a blatant step backward. Hope you get to play with Island Paradise! That world is super fun.
Same here, it took me FOREVER to buy the Sims 4 and I bought it on sale. I had to immediately install mods to make the game fun cuz it was lackluster. I think I bought it when they brought pools and toddlers back...
7:22 and the crazy thing you left out is that the Sims 3 is way more flexible when it comes to your options as a player. Calling the police yourself is also an option if you don't have an alarm. If your sim has the brave trait and a high enough athletic skill, they can even try to apprehend the burglar themselves!
will wright left when the sims 2 last expansion packs were releasing, but if i'm not mistaken the sims 3 was developed with a few OG maxis members, that's why it's so full of details lol
I'm an avid TS3 player since its launch and all these years later I am STILL discovering gameplay features I had absolutely no clue about! It's crazy how loaded with content this game is. And I don't even have all the expansions, just a few of my favourite ones. One thing I've found out recently: if you go to the cemetery and launch fireworks, the ghosts will come out of their graves, thank your sim for the show and give them tips. It's hilarious! And it's such a minor detail most of players won't even discover! But they still went ahead and added it to the game. The sheer dedication! Not to mention all sorts of crazy stuff you can get up to in TS3. In one of my favourite saves the family I played with had the philosopher's stone. I used to invite townies to move in and make them use the stone until it turned them into gold statues. I then used them to decorate the family's garden. And in the same playthrough I locked one of the children in the basement, where he grew up without ever going outside. It was so fun! Anyways, love the review! I'm so happy you've discovered the joy of playing TS3. Truly one of the best sims games TS4 is not egregiously bad, but... it's so sanitized. It has virtually no flavor. The sims there have no character and are basically a blank slate. I prefer my sims games with a little (or not so little) craziness and unpredictability in them.
Bruh, I'm so glad to see this video! OG simmers that have played Sims 2 and 3 kept telling the new simmers coming to Sims 4 that they were getting scammed! Lot of the new players ignored us, said we were haters, we should be more positive and we'll never be happy with anything and we're just complaining to complain. Now that Sims 4 is imploding like we warned, folks are trying older Sims games and FINALLY seeing the light! I'm happy but pissed off too, because had others listened earlier and stop throwing money at EA for a subpar game, maybe the game would be in a different state, or at the very least we'd get a bigger bang for our buck instead of being nickled and dimed for gameplay and features that should already be in the game, or having to buy a dlc for a dlc!
ive been playing sims3 since 2012 - its been 12 years and nothing compares! its so fun, so many possibilities, really "play with life"! i love it so much and ive tried sims4 a bunch of times - not even close to what sims3 or even 2 are able to offer. glad to see more people joining the club!
Omg, I love that ! That is goals. 🥰 I wonder what my total play time would be. It's hard to know cuz I played the Sims 3 on 3-4 different computers (mostly laptops) since I've owned the game. I lost so many amazing save files cuz I didn't back them up 🥺 then my laptops would die....
For as long as you can install it and play it, The Sims 3 is always worth it, unlike its so-called "successor". Many people complain about the graphics quality in TS3, but I say f**k the graphics quality: I own each and every dlc, except for that Katy Perry thing, but the graphics were the last thing I worried about. There are so many little things, as well as not-so-little things, the sims can do that it will always amaze me! TS3 truly is one of the best life simulators ever created! 😀👍👍 I just remembered two of my most favorite activities in TS3: the "hold your breath" challenge and "peek through the window", which is always fun to do because someone who lives there would run outside to shoo my sim away, but my sim would apologize and become friends with that angry person, which is absolutely not how it works in real life... 😥😥😥
I play sims 3 for the first time in my life for 3 days and i like the graphics, because they feel more realistic, only the faces are not that good but i dont care that much for this!
@@Caelumization Personally I prefer the more cartoony graphics from TS4 and TS2. Ideal game would be something similar to Sims 3 but with Sims 4 type graphics.
With new computers now it runs way better than it did back when it was launched. The more powerful the computer the better the sims 3 experience. I’ve had multiple computers since I first got the sims 3 in 2010 and with each newer one it runs better and better
@@ChristmasMorning1995 I dont have a good pc, i play sims 3 base game atm only for the first time in my life and with some mods i got for performance its smooth ! ( without was not that laggy too) Im gonna take seasons for sure first this exp is a must. I like this game so much i played 8-9 hours in a row yesterday xD
@@Caelumization honestly when I first played it back in 2010 I had a 2009 model hp laptop at the time and it was perfectly playable. However I also had a 2006 gateway computer and lord it struggled if I tried to play sims 3 on there. Most modern computers will give a playable experience. Either way it’s my favorite game ever. Have fun.
It's still really funny how The Sims 4 is basically a game where you come back like once or twice then get bored and play a different game like The Sims 2 or 3. I honestly don't know how other people are enjoying it, even with the DLC's and EA still acts like it's the best Sims game. It's just crazy.
Crazy to think TS3 came out in 2009! I've been playing the franchise since 2001 on the original game, and the jump from TS1 to TS2 in 2004 was INSANE. Some aspects in TS3 were nice (open world, which was a bit buggy on most 2009 machines), the color wheel, etc, but my personal favorite was TS2 with even more abilitiy for neighborhood customizations and more realistic genetics. It blows my mind how much that came in TS4 base game that had to either be patched in (toddlers) or added in numerous packs just to match was in the base games of TS2 and TS3. I feel like EA took a MASSIVE step back with TS4, and it felt like a half-finished TS1 base game with better graphics.
@@ImpurplieMostly complaining it crashed a lot and the sims were "ugly." But now you have mods to make your game crash far less to not at all and you can use cc to improve your sims look.
I went back to TS3 weeks ago and I have no regrets. If you want to build stuff, play TS4, if you want a game then play TS3. You'll never run short of things to do, there is a TONNE of good content on the store, mods are safe to use as the game code will never again be updated by EA AND finally, TS3 actually runs. TS4 has been broken for years but since Crystal Creations it's impossible to play. I havent opened my game for fear of my save corrupting and being lost forever which has happened to many others since this SP released. Go back to TS3 people.
The Shit 4 as a total is still bare bones compared to the previous installments. It may have the looks but it's shallow. Island Paradise made my PC blow up back in the day but you know what? IT WAS SO LIT!
Island paradise (Isla paradiso) has so many routing issues. 😂 but it's genuinely a fun world to play in. Before it turns to lagfest due to sims getting stuck wverywhere
@@keit99 I finally fixed my issues by going into every house and boat and rearranging things to prevent that. Usually, the bathrooms are the problem. Then I saved the game, and I only play in versions of that saved world. It took awhile to do it, but I've only had to do it once, and I've been playing for years without any problems ever since.
Regarding the lighting: dude, get yourself some mods for that as well ;) There is one that increases the lights coming from Maxis windows, it's game changer. And get the Core Game Fixes mod!
My absolutely most beloved expansion is Adventures - and I can't stress enough how disappointed I was with Sims 4 attempt to do the destination worlds, which in comparison feel just empty and pitiful. Sims 3 gives you three open worlds with LOADS of exploration, logical puzzles, secrets, labirynths and TOTALLY stunning sceneries! I like to connect it with other gameplay elements, like photography. I don't know if you already discovered that, but there is something like a photo-album diary for players that like more "completionist"/"achievers" approach, which just kinda guides you to take your Sim into certain locations and certain situations to take photos of different objects, places, buildings, actions, social behaviours etc. etc. So what I usually end up doing (in pretty much every gameplay bcuz I'm addicted haha) is to take my Sims around the world, explore these open worlds and take stunning in-game pictures, which you can later hang on the wall and make a gallery :) In Sims 4 you also have photography, but come on, let's be honest: if a playable area of one neighbourhood consists of like 5 lots and you just cannot move outside these boundaries, then the sceneries are incredibly limited. Photography in Sims 3 is a way to go! I'm really happy you liked the game (as a massive S3 fanatic I take that personally 🤣lol joke joke), I hope you'll feel that urge to keep exploring and have fun with it :) Also good luck with expanding your channel 💗 Best wishes!
the difference between the sims 4 and the sims 3 is that in the sims 3 you don’t need hundreds of mods to make the game fun. Its already packed with so much content that it never gets boring. The only mod i need for the sims 3 is the mod that adds more sims to lots because open world causes most lots to be dead or empty.
You don't NEED mods to make Sims 3 fun, but I LOVE my mods. There are a million of them out there to fix just about anything you don't like about the game, and they are free. Sick of only 1 lifetime wish (my pet peeve) - there is a mod that allows you to choose a new one after you complete the first. Hate the way your sim looks? There are tons of hair, clothes, eyes, make-up options. Looking for new animations? Yep - you can find them too. Want new neighborhoods? There are hundreds of user-created custom worlds. Want more jobs to choose from? Want your kids to be able to do more things? Almost anything you want to change can be changed to customize your game EXACTLY the way you want it. Once you get used to having your mods, you'll never want to go back to playing without them. LOL.
This is a very good first video! It's so interesting to hear the perspective from a player whose starting game was Sims 4! I'm also very glad you enjoyed the game, and that you actually were able to get it running well :> That is definitely the downside of trying to get people to actually enjoy the game, because not everyone has the ability to get it running properly! Also, just a few tips: While I know it may not matter since the video is already made; you can get an application called Borderless Gaming which will allow you to run your Sims 3 in borderless mode, this way when you screen record, it won't have that filter over it that makes the video look so dark. Just in case you're ever up for making more vids in the future! Next, you may have already done this, but I always urge people to make sure that they limit their FPS to their monitor's refresh rate (typically it's around 60 if not more.) This is because Sims 3, unfortunately, can be really harsh on your graphics card no matter how good your system is, due to the framerate being unlimited. The unlimited framerate can end up causing your card to burn out, but as long as you limit it, it's all good! I just can't help but get worried when I see people possibly playing without limiting their fps. (Also, doing this just makes your game typically play even better anyway lol) Also, as someone already said in your comments, getting a lighting mod you vibe with is a gamechanger!
Thanks alot! Def gonna look into Borderless Gaming. I swear new games always come on ultra settings with unlimited fps so I got used to switching that off immediately haha. Gonna go look at some lighting mods now, I appreciate all the suggestions!
I used to play Sims 4 because it was free, but I had to mod the crap out of it to make it interesting. Finally, I just bit the bullet and bought Sims 3. Best decision ever. I'm only playing the base right now, but it is so much fun.
Same as you and runs even better with 3 mods i got ! 9 hours in day for 3 days in a row i played, what an amazing game, i play it for the first time. Cant w8 to get seasons and play an alien with my ufo xD
I went back to sims 3 and no regrets. I don't have all the packs but I don't feel like i even need them, sims 3 is a complete game on its own, the expansions just do that, expand.
You will be in for a shock, I believe, when you play The Sims 3 World Adventure, because it has 3 famous destinations to travel to. There's a lot of content to have fun and so many adventures to explore in each destination, it's a very huge expansion with lots of beautiful scenery to admire.
Only thing I didn’t like about sims 3 is that the worlds were low key empty. Like it wasn’t live with bustling sims. But I own every expansion and shop item from this game lol. I purchased everything during its initial release when I had a potato computer. Now with my monster rig it runs so smooth and I still love it and prefer it. Just wish it had better population mechanics and BUILDING mechanics. I won’t lie sims 4 has such easy tools to use but it felt more rewarding being a house on sims 3 and it was looking good lol.
I still play Sims 3 too. Sims 4 was boring from jump I could never get into it. It's like going backward in time to a waaay less interesting Sims 2. I have played Sims 3 for years and still don't know everything it can do.
I would not have spent the past year or so happily replaying TS3 if it wasn't worth it. Nraas is a lifesaver for playability My current expansions are Supernatural, Ambitions, Late Night, University Life, World Adventures and High End Loft Stuff
Today I actually noticed that for some reason I can’t use my world adventures☹️ can I ask what device you use? Personally I play it on a mac laptop and everything else works fine (I also have a few more packs and they work)
Keep up the good work :) The sims 4 is a rough game, especially with the game breaking bugs. I gave up on TS4 2 years ago, and haven’t looked back since. Ts3 is addictive. I have a household of 11 sims, with 3 generations. The games are worlds apart.
I went back to Sims 3 after watching the Life By You trailer, remembering how much I liked the open world. It runs like butter on my laptop with AMD Ryzen 7, but if you have an Intel processor you need a fan-made patch. Lazyduchess is awesome, she also made mods for Sims 2. Highly recommended. Oh, and make sure to set refresh rate to 60 to not melt the video card. (Or run in windowed mode, that works too.)
Yes, i love to see new players switch over to TS3! The gameplay is literally top tier and the drama is straight up perfect! I can also vouch for the replayability as someone with over 2000 hours in this game 😂 You earned a new subscriber homie!
I have been playing the sims 3 since 2009 when it came out and have never dropped it And yet, i am still discovering small details and additional gameplay.
I went back to the Sims 3 literally two days ago- and I find myself actively going out of my sims house and going to lots. In the sims 4, I find that I typically hole up at home.
i bought all of sims 3 expansions as they came out way back. i played vanilla the whole time and was never bored, i've clocked something close to 14k hours and swapped over to sims 4 in 2021, i was so sad that create a style was gone, i loved that you could customize to such a specific degree in sims 3, the fairies also not coming back and plant sims not being a full occult life state were big things that bugged me. the cartoonish maxis style took a minute to grow on me but the cas for sims is great in sims 4, and some of the build buy options are things i wished i had in sims 3. but the commitment to having dedicated sims populate a world and not have a whole lot of over lap helps with immersion. the careers were a blast, being an interior designers was fun. owning like half the town was fun if you wanted to explore all the side hobbies. the last full expansion was into the future which added an entire new neighborhood that was in the (you guessed it) the future. but how you played in the present affected how that world looked. you could have descendants, and based on your household income they could be rich or poor, it could be one or 2 sims if you had a small family or it could be a full house if you have a bunch of kids. the future could be neutral-starting state, good-an eco paradise literally sunshine and rainbows or bad-dystopian with trash everywhere and sad beige and brown over tones and filters in the world. all of that doesn't even cover the new robots they added, with their own life states, skills, create a sim styles and build buy features that added life in new and fun ways. all the big expansions felt like they had something huge to offer with new worlds and sims, even seasons which didn't come with new map brought the seasons festivals (and aliens). sims 3 is a massive game with so much to offer and so many things to do even if you don't want to mod it, but there's still more out there if you do! i can't recommend it enough.
Well, some of the original hair and whatnot is a bit rough in Sims 3, but there is so much great user-created free content available, that it isn't really a problem for me. My sims look great with their new hair, eyes, make-up, nails, clothes, jewelry, shoes, etc.
One thing I completely forgot about until I went back to playing TS3 - You can add additional empty lots into the worlds there. There are multiple sizes to pick from.
one of my favorite features! not only can we make our own worlds, but we can edit existing ones too! Wish we had something like this in sims 4 besides newport lmao
I agree on the build buy fromt, the ability to move your entire house and choose wall heights in sims 4 is really good and I wish we had that in sims 3
I looooooove the sims 3 so much! My only cons are how much you gotta tweak the game for it to run well and the rabbit holes. But there are mods that help you create actual dine in restaurants and all.
I love the Sims 3 it has a special place in my heart, I always go back to it. Never ever understood the hate for the graphics I love it so much it feels cozy like staying inside on a raining day.
I recommend using a mod called smooth patch by a modder known lazyduchess. It makes the game run so much smoother. Also a bunch of the nraas mods (master controller, story progression, error trap and overwatch being the main ones) just make sure that you either don't use mc integration with smooth patch. The two mods do not like each other.
The base game of The Sims 3 is AMAZING simply because of all the patches they dropped throughout its lifespan to add base game compatibility with each of the expansion packs.
@@ThiskidKnowledge yeah i had to go on a google after that. i had no idea it came to console. ps5 has this thing where you can play older games on it and i thought maybe sims 3… but nope supposedly ea wouldn’t bother.
sims 3 is one of the greatest games to ever exist^^ when you still have trouble with the lighting indoors, check out the debug menu. In there they have great lights, which are invisible in live mode
RE: Playing the Island Paradise map - Don't. It's broken. Like game-brakingly broken. The only way to possibly unbreak it is to delete the correct lot. Also, there's a mod which allows you to choose another Lifetime Wish once you've completed the one you start with. Useful if you want to turn off aging, or play as a vampire or plumbot, as they don't have a lifespan. There's also an Immortal Lifetime Reward. But if you have Supernatural, you can make potions which make you effectively immortal, and fairies, while mortal, have a lifespan at young adult and older much longer than human sims.
@@Playloi That is the easy way to do it - but I just fixed the obvious problems in the houses/boats. Most of the time, it was the bathrooms causing routing errors. Simply moving a toilet was enough to fix the problem in some houses. Honestly, I don't know how that expansion got released with all the stupid mistakes made in decor that cause all those routing problems. All I can think is some disgruntled employee must have deliberately screwed up the game as a parting FU to the company. Anyway, after going into each house/boat and correcting potential problems, I've played the game for years without any issues.
@@firstinthedance Hmm, i’ll give that a try. I replaced a few of the houseboats a couple of days ago because there weren’t enough uninhabited houses in the neighborhood for my sims to live in, and I haven’t ran into any lag YET, but I will definitely keep this in mind if it starts up again. Thank you!
Hey so I'm back to playing Sims 3 again. It came out when I was in college and I couldn't afford any of the packs. My computer doesn't have a disc drive anymore so I bought one for $8 on ebay. I also bought ALL of the expansions on Ebay and spent around $100 total. Maybe slightly more but I tried to buy packs in cheap bundles. I recommend installing these games and saving the money. It's so worth it. It's even worth it to buy a USB dvd/cd drive for it honestly because those are also dirt cheap. Compared to the sims 4, I enjoy this game so much more. It provides hours of detailed gameplay. When you level up on guitar it sounds so good and all the stuff was recorded in studio with professional musicians. Nothing went to waste on this game. The sims 4 is a money grab. And also! The graphics really aren't THAT bad. I hate how close up everything is in TS4! It takes forever to load anything once you have the packs installed and it's honestly just not as funny.
oh yeah! as for glitches - I hardly ever experience them and have a theory that they're mostly present when you download the games. also if you do BUY the packs on ebay, don't register online with EA.. it gets weird.
So glad to see some love for the sims 3 this gen of the sims definitely deserves praise for its gameplay and innovation!!! I wish EA wouldn’t abandon it tho😭😭
One of the biggest strengths in sims 3 having an open world is that you can have sims doing a bunch of different things at once. You can have a sim at home, while another is at a party or a community lot, and while another is shopping for the family, compared to sims 4 where you have to follow your sim into the loading screen.
@Luavyy I mean it depends honestly, both games are great in their own way (ts2 has some huge advantages though and it's an amazing game, but so is ts3).
I loved Sims 1 and Sims 2, and I played them both a lot in their day - but Sims 3 is by far my favorite. I paid like $70 for Sims 4 when it was first released, but I hated it so much that I returned it the same day for a refund and went back to playing Sims 3. A few years later, I picked up Sims 4 on sale really cheap with an expansion pack because I heard it had improved - but it still sucked, so again I went back to Sims 3. Sims 4 shows that EA no longer cares about their customers gameplay experience. They are just a soulless, money grubbing corporation. It started in Sims 3 with the online store, but then they took it to ridiculous levels with Sims 4. They doubled the price for a quarter of the content in the base game, then they sold pathetically bare "expansion" packs to add in content that should have been included in the base game to begin with. Sims 5 is going to have to be incredible, offer something different, and have great reviews by long time players of the Sims franchise for me to bite the bullet and give EA another chance.
Create a style > Sims 4 building improvements. I think I would call the Sims 2 the best in the series, sure it is dated but if you compare them on what year they were made then it is no contest, Sims 4 was dated when it came out.
just uninstalled the sims 4 + expansion packs + deleted all my cc, boutta crack the whole sims 3 game because i suddenly realised, when you get down to it, it's SO fucking boring. and so, so buggy. i just was not having fun at all, it felt like a chore. then i remembered how wacky and fun the sims 3 was and knew i wasn't sitting thru that shit anymore. the problem with the sims 4 is that you have to imagine that things are happening that just aren't, in the sims 3, choices feel like they actually matter and effect the game. the sims 4 is pretty, yes. but it's all so surface-level. in the sims 3.,i dont even need mods or cc because im so excited for the gameplay itself. ofc i love making my sims look cute but it doesn't really impact my game all too much, i dont spend hours in CAS.
Another thing I love about TS3 is the skills challenges! Even if you max out a skill, you can focus on the skills challenges instead of just learning a new skill. I reallyyyy miss that in the sims 4. My sim shouldn’t have to master a bunch of skills, why can’t my sim be a true master of one? Great video, this made me want to play TS3 immediately.
I'm 40 sims 3 is by far the best one and once you mod it it's a really good experience you can even mod most of the benefit of 4 into the game. sims 4 a useless broken mess and sims 3 is the best.
When people ask why Im so critical of Sims 4, I say its because I played Sims 3 before. Sims 4 players are in such a toxic relationship with EA that they dont even realize how good they can have it in Sims 3 base game
8:32 also there is the TS3 WORLD EDITOR which is still usable today if you want to just create your OWN world. And by that I mean you place and build everything. From the elevation and landscape to the roads and street lights.
ive tried it a couple times, but i find it difficult to get past the tutorial phase because its so confusing to me and there’s so many buttons. the sims 2, however…i downloaded the sims 2 and i play it more than sims 4 at this point. its so fleshed out and alive! build mode is garbage, but ive never been a builder. im sure ill give ts3 another shot when i get a computer that can handle it lol
I wouldn't say the sims 3 is that different from the sims 2... Probably in CAS only. The Sims 4 is totally in another world and "alternative universe".
This is exactly sims 3 players are talking about. How did an OPEN WORLD possible back in the last decade and a half using only 3 gigs of RAM now with sims 4 i have a pc with 64gb of ram to give and it still CHOKES. that technological feat alone blows the technical genius of the sims 3 creators way above the sims 4 ones.
Here's the performance issue: The game engine doesn't recognize your graphics card so it thinks you don't have one and runs on the lowest possible performance settings. There's a few lines you can change in one of the ini files that fixes that (probably what the duchess patch does). Acottonsock has a very detailed guide on how to get the game running well, and another explaining the whole NRAAS mod suite (which is pretty much mandatory as well - think SkyUI for Skyrim).
this is so stupid for the devs to do this, other old games don't have this problem they allow the game to try to run the best it can, but EA always did this in the sims, the sims 2 have the same performance issue but it manifest differnet, it fails to recognize the cpu you have, in the file called graphicalrules.crg it has a lot of code to check if you cpu is amd or intel and the core performance blablabla and the code check that to limit the sims on the lot, guess what? if you install the sims 2 nowdays with a modern cpu you can't make a party with more than 2 sims its so stupid...... need to manually fix the file to get the correct amount of sims, (the normal amount is max 8) this is so stupid to code the game this way so stupid, because it limit the gmae on modern hardware, its much SMARTER to od the inverse, make a list of all know cpus/gpu that have issues running some setting, and disable it for those, any unkow hardware should be able to go max settings, lmao because newer stuff is likely to be better than old stuff.
The biggest issue with Sims 3 is how awful it plays on modern (and even period accurate hardware). That and the eventual saving issues caused by engine limitations. That and the insanely long loading screens.
Great video. I must say congratulations on getting The Sims 3 to run well on your modern computer because it usually does not run well on modern hardware for majority of people. But I will say if it wasn't for performance issues I agree with all of these statements, especially for the fact that there is more content in The Sims 3 than 4. One thing though is that the fashion and furniture in The Sims 3 is a little dated but Create a Style (that will make your PC C H U G lmfao) or mods could possibly fix this. But the open world feel makes those feel not so bad anyways. Again, really good video and keep up the great work
thank you! it’s a shame we have to put in so much work to make the game run half-decent. The create a sim screen slows me down criminally 😭 i always think im gonna crash
when it comes to lightning in ts3, there are some lights with huge range, and some with lower range, so the best way to light your house is to just put that one square light all around the house, or you can use "buydebug" mode and use lights from here
I didn't realize that the opportunites are such a small but important detail. It constantly gave you something to aim for together with the whims and career goals. Something they tried to fix with scenarions in TS4 which... well, it didn't work out really, did it?
I got Sims 3 when I was a kid but was never able to really play it a lot and I had 2 expansions. Started playing Sims 4 when I became an adult and fully immerged myself into it but you could really sense how lackluster and empty the game actually was compared to its predecessors. I tried to make it more fun with mods and cc but it was honestly just a placebo effect since no mods or packs could fix the game at it's core. I started playing Sims 3 again a year ago with all the expansions and packs and I've been having the most fun I've had with a Sims game, could never go back anymore.
I remember playing Sims 3 for the first time it released. The features are already cool as a base game. Interracting with ghost is always my favorite. And seeing colorful ghosts to silently tell their cause of deaths, and the glowing eye added the creepy. Even in the early version, you can have ghost baby by woohoo with the ghost (which in later version, that feature erased). Meanwhile in Sims 4 early version od base game, once you died... well, only tombstone. No ghost yet. And when ghost applied in later version, all are in same colour since it based on emotions, and they don't look scary at all except being transparent.
I play sims 3 a lot of years (since 2014). Sims 4 runs smoother (with a lot of cc as well) , but I LOVE the open world and the colorwheel in sims 3 and so I miss it in 4. So I started a project a few month ago to put the most of the sims 4 worlds in one sims3 world. You can see the progress on my channel. I am very exited how it will be, when everything is done... but in 4 the build mode and the CAS are much better , things I miss in 3 😀 A mix of both would be nice... But I think it it stil possible , to make an open world in 4 , it would be a big update 😀 It must not be like my project - it can be parted like now. just an open world in - for e.g. Willow creek - would be nice. The map would not be as bigger as the Battle Royal Map in Fortnite....
Have you played The Sims 3 World Adventures DLC yet? They literally added three new worlds in one expansion pack and gameplay that makes it feel like a different genre game. You should also try out the town Twinbrook from the Ambitions DLC.
@@jakobeyplays Definitely make a video about it next. It's fun making your own vineyard and also exploring the tombs for treasure. It's one of the best ways to make money in the game and also gives you some cool stuff to display in your house.
7:22 another thing you didn't point out: if your sim is in the criminal career they can get in jail for a couple of hours and lose some job performance bc they got caught. with ambitions you can invent a drill, and if you use it in the police office you may get a bunch of criminals who are escaping the prison through the hole you made in the ground!!! there's a lot of things i can't possible share, it's so much funnnn
Really thorough and thoughtfully done video! I think The Sims 3 is a great experience in retrogaming for people who have never really done that with PC games. There's tons of documentation for any problem you might have. Definitely go slow installing expansions though, some of them are notorious for bugs.
It's so fantastic to watch people play the Sims 3 for the first time after playing the Sims 4. I've been bingeing this game myself the last couple of weeks. FYI: if your sim doesn't have a burglar alarm, they can use the phone to call the police when getting robbed. Same goes for the fire alarm.
anyone wanting the sims 3 on a modern computer if you're having problems downloading it or getting it past the launcher get the alderlake patch and it'll work fine
thank you!! i forgot what it was called i downloaded it so long ago
@@jakobeyplays lmaoo I only remembered because I updated my graphics card the other day and had to rerun it to make sure there was no glitching
I suggest getting smooth patch instead and editing the text file that comes with it to cap the game to 60FPS. And there's also graphics rules and graphics cards files on one reddit post that make the game run super smooth.
Never mind, I see lazy also made alder lake for intel based cpus. A sims godess
thanks man! it would crash everytime but now it works!
I've gone back to Sims 3 also. I don't find Sims 4 fun at all, no matter how many expansions, packs, and kits I buy.
I agree! I can play TS3 for hours on end and I don’t use any mods or cc. I own all packs for TS4 and have a mass amount of cc and mods and it is still not nearly as fun
@@WinnieRoea quarter if not half of game time goes to loading screens in the sims 4 whereas I actually get to use that time to play in sims 3
I watched the entire call me kevin sims series which I thought was hilarious but when I actually went to go play sims 4 I realized really quick that the reason I thought that entire series was great wasn't because the game was great but because kevins humor and editing were great and they covered up all the repetitive slop.
Iv played sims 3 on off since its release, its just a good game, the bugs are part the charm ngl its like fallout new vagus@@WinnieRoe
Im a Family Game player and sims 4 is so lacklustre even with the amazing mods from creators, it’s just still not fun and the loading screens. But sims 3 you don’t need horse ranch, my first pet stuff, dogs and cats all you need is pets, that’s it, and in world adventures (THREE WORLDS) you can have pet crocodiles, they’re tiny, and other pets too.
And even tho the sims3 has rabbit holes at least it’s entertaining like the school it’s still all decorated and has sound effects of kids playing and teachers talking it’s cool. The kids too for once have personality and the teens unlike sims 4 where you also need high school years to slightly make them better. I also love in the sims 3 the different animations when they’re working on their homework. Just so much to it . I still have sims 4 just to play around in cas and cc but yeah .
Sims 3 superiority! And the sims 4 stans on twitter are MAD about it lol. Their go to about sims 3 is "it's ugly", okay, and?????? I can make it prettier but y'all can't make sims 4 more fun with all those mods, I would know, I tried lol
facts lmao
Honestly i like how sims 3 sims look, but some blush on them or whatever its called and it makes them look good just like that, thats all i ever do
Sims 3 sims require more experimentation in CAS to have good looking faces. But I don't Think 3 looked ugly. Now 4 on the other Hand looks like a mobile game (esp. The grass/water textures and the extremely xartoonish looking sims)
i like sims 3 for gameplay but i really do wish it had teen gameplay like 4 has. 4's all about the teens which sucks because unless you turn off aging they never have time to enjoy all their fun mechanics.
sims 3 has tons of teen content@@hippo440
sims 3 is SO ahead of its time!
It honestly wasn’t even, Sims 4 is just behind the times (because EA is greedy and stoled the soul and passion out of the game)
@@jaydock1then mocked any and everyone who called the company out the CEO quite literally saying "Devs who don't like microtransactions are the biggest fucking dumbass's" so you know... There's that lil bit of info.
But still so behind The Sims 2 😅
@@ErgoDog HA, say it, agreed!
I feel it like the gta 4 of the sims
Pro tip - put the burglar alarm on the OUTSIDE of the house. It goes off as soon as the burglar enters the lot, instead of when they enter the home, giving you much more time to catch them!
Wow thaaanks 🎉 I never knew 👍🏼
I wish I would have known this 15 years ago lol
@@queenkarma2490 It's also helpful for when the robber is stealing your outside stuff. If the alarm is inside the house, it never even goes off, and they can steal your grill or your bike or whatever and not get caught.
@@piperbird7193 I always place my alarm outside but recent saves I took it in because it looks more sense. Until the burglar got my 45k simoleons car parked outside. I will move it out again. Thanks.
I put it once outside the house, but the burglar stole the alarm. Since then, i put it inside of the house
Sims 5 should be a remaster of the Sims 3 with elements from the Sims 2.
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Exactly. Sims 3 world and traits and occults with Sims 2 details and immersion.
LMFAO
3+2=5
I've played Sims 3 since it came out and there is still SO much content in it that Ive never experienced or played with yet. It's truly such an underrated masterpiece❤🔥
Tawni 😱 how‘re you holding up?
And yes, I‘m still playing Sims 3 since early 2022🎉 I loved it back in 2009 and now with all the creative mods out there it‘s better then ever before!
I’ve got a Sim that’s doing all the World Adventures exploration, and it’s literally hours upon hours of gameplay, and I still haven’t even touched Egypt.
exactly! I have well over 1000 hours played and I STILL find new content in this game
Literally the only thing holding it back is that it wasn't optimized as well performance wise compared to both 2 and 4. I miss it so much and kinda resent that TS4 actually runs better on my computer.
@@thevoidcritter NRAAS mods completely fix that in Sims 3.
I only play Sims 3 now. With mods it's even more amazing
Quinn is a simmer omg
@@drey--omg
If you’re reading this, Sims 3 and all of the expansions are currently on sale for $8 each on the EA store! Take advantage while you can
I believe it's that price on Steam but if you wish to pinch on those pennies a bit more then check out EA's launcher. It's like 5 bucks on there
They're also on sale for the same price on Steam if you don't want to use EAs launcher.
I got mine hahahaha man the nostalgia I felt when I loaded it up
I"m really tempted. I miss sims 3 so much.
Iv gone back to sims 2 😂 never touched sims 3 as it didn't seem worth the money.
And I never liked the cartoon puffy faces from sims 3 😅
The Sims 3 Packs sometimes go on sale for 75% off all packs on Steam.
wow! idk if im just blind but i feel like i haven’t seen them on sale in over a year since the current sale
yea just purchased all the expansion packs on steam, because it's ridiculous paying the full amount on EA app
You can purchase them on key sites (like G2A), like sims 3 base game is like $1...
@@ryanwahlstrom Or you can just buy the expansion packs on disc second hand assuming you still have a DVD drive somewhere.
I bought the base game and all expansions and stuff packs for 60 dollars on Steam!
There is actually a 7th trait too. 5 starting traits, you get one for either completing a degree at University or getting the honorary degree through the aspiration points, then you get another trait from gaining popularity in your social group.
i didn't know that! my last sim dropped out of university lmao
@@jakobeyplays 🤣🤣 yeah I feel you, that going to class routine gets old QUICK!!!
You get +3 if you get to level 6 of each social group, +1 for degree so thats a total of 9 traits IF I remember correctly, and the UL LTW is also tied to leveling all 3 social groups,
Also rebel social group is the best if you want to make money through painting once you max our the rebel social group you can get to do the art appraisal opportunity chain (which is learned in a crime rabbithole BTW) you can paint any type of painting of any skill level on demand its silly but holy is it handy
@@lesslighter no unfortunately if you choose one for increasing another social group it will override the previous one. I wish you could have that many tho.
@@ALabInBridgeport damn sigh.... I guess they want to "balance"
It’s honestly so nice to hear someone so hype about this game. I remember when they announced sims 4 initially I didn’t even bother buying it for a few years bc it was such a blatant step backward. Hope you get to play with Island Paradise! That world is super fun.
Same here, it took me FOREVER to buy the Sims 4 and I bought it on sale. I had to immediately install mods to make the game fun cuz it was lackluster. I think I bought it when they brought pools and toddlers back...
Same. I downloaded sims 4 because it was free. Base game felt so empty. Packs went on sale, bought some and they feel so empty.
imagine how we felt in 2014 when sims 4 came out.... I stopped playing immediately and went back to sims 3....
7:22 and the crazy thing you left out is that the Sims 3 is way more flexible when it comes to your options as a player. Calling the police yourself is also an option if you don't have an alarm. If your sim has the brave trait and a high enough athletic skill, they can even try to apprehend the burglar themselves!
The Sims 3 was the last sims game Will Wright worked on, since then the quality of the sims has dropped massively
Actually, no...
He last worked on The Sims2...
will wright left when the sims 2 last expansion packs were releasing, but if i'm not mistaken the sims 3 was developed with a few OG maxis members, that's why it's so full of details lol
Sims Medieval was pretty decent still
@@dingickso4098Sims medieval was a FEVER DREAM hold crap
Will Wright left Maxis and EA after developing an animal life cycle simulator called Spore. He is not involved with Sims 2 and 3.
The sims 4 being your first sims game took the soul out of my body that’s insane
It's not a bad game by any means but 2 and 3 definitely were better in different respects.
@@thevoidcritterHonestly it is a bad game by many means
I'm an avid TS3 player since its launch and all these years later I am STILL discovering gameplay features I had absolutely no clue about!
It's crazy how loaded with content this game is. And I don't even have all the expansions, just a few of my favourite ones.
One thing I've found out recently: if you go to the cemetery and launch fireworks, the ghosts will come out of their graves, thank your sim for the show and give them tips. It's hilarious! And it's such a minor detail most of players won't even discover! But they still went ahead and added it to the game. The sheer dedication!
Not to mention all sorts of crazy stuff you can get up to in TS3. In one of my favourite saves the family I played with had the philosopher's stone. I used to invite townies to move in and make them use the stone until it turned them into gold statues. I then used them to decorate the family's garden. And in the same playthrough I locked one of the children in the basement, where he grew up without ever going outside. It was so fun!
Anyways, love the review! I'm so happy you've discovered the joy of playing TS3. Truly one of the best sims games
TS4 is not egregiously bad, but... it's so sanitized. It has virtually no flavor. The sims there have no character and are basically a blank slate. I prefer my sims games with a little (or not so little) craziness and unpredictability in them.
Bruh, I'm so glad to see this video! OG simmers that have played Sims 2 and 3 kept telling the new simmers coming to Sims 4 that they were getting scammed! Lot of the new players ignored us, said we were haters, we should be more positive and we'll never be happy with anything and we're just complaining to complain. Now that Sims 4 is imploding like we warned, folks are trying older Sims games and FINALLY seeing the light! I'm happy but pissed off too, because had others listened earlier and stop throwing money at EA for a subpar game, maybe the game would be in a different state, or at the very least we'd get a bigger bang for our buck instead of being nickled and dimed for gameplay and features that should already be in the game, or having to buy a dlc for a dlc!
💯💯 Exactly!!
Sims 2 in my opinion was the best generation
@@jynxbot352 And sims 3 is the worst!
@@jynxbot352 sims 3 is my favorite but sims 2 is a close contender for me.
Haven't watched it yet because I know the answer is a resounding yes. Been playing since 2000 and TS3 was a staple on weekends in high school.
ive been playing sims3 since 2012 - its been 12 years and nothing compares! its so fun, so many possibilities, really "play with life"! i love it so much and ive tried sims4 a bunch of times - not even close to what sims3 or even 2 are able to offer. glad to see more people joining the club!
When i've logged almost three thousand hours on the Sims 3 since 2009
Omg, I love that ! That is goals. 🥰 I wonder what my total play time would be. It's hard to know cuz I played the Sims 3 on 3-4 different computers (mostly laptops) since I've owned the game. I lost so many amazing save files cuz I didn't back them up 🥺 then my laptops would die....
For as long as you can install it and play it, The Sims 3 is always worth it, unlike its so-called "successor".
Many people complain about the graphics quality in TS3, but I say f**k the graphics quality: I own each and every dlc, except for that Katy Perry thing, but the graphics were the last thing I worried about. There are so many little things, as well as not-so-little things, the sims can do that it will always amaze me! TS3 truly is one of the best life simulators ever created! 😀👍👍
I just remembered two of my most favorite activities in TS3: the "hold your breath" challenge and "peek through the window", which is always fun to do because someone who lives there would run outside to shoo my sim away, but my sim would apologize and become friends with that angry person, which is absolutely not how it works in real life... 😥😥😥
I play sims 3 for the first time in my life for 3 days and i like the graphics, because they feel more realistic, only the faces are not that good but i dont care that much for this!
@@Caelumization Personally I prefer the more cartoony graphics from TS4 and TS2. Ideal game would be something similar to Sims 3 but with Sims 4 type graphics.
The problem is, The Sims 4 is titled incorrectly. It should've been called "The Sims Freeplay: PC Version"
Sims Mobile. Freeplay is at least fun
It shouldve been called Garbage: the game.
It's so nice to see people start playing The Sims 3 and actually liking it!
how could one not enjoy this absolute banger
With new computers now it runs way better than it did back when it was launched. The more powerful the computer the better the sims 3 experience. I’ve had multiple computers since I first got the sims 3 in 2010 and with each newer one it runs better and better
@@ChristmasMorning1995 I dont have a good pc, i play sims 3 base game atm only for the first time in my life and with some mods i got for performance its smooth ! ( without was not that laggy too)
Im gonna take seasons for sure first this exp is a must. I like this game so much i played 8-9 hours in a row yesterday xD
@@Caelumization honestly when I first played it back in 2010 I had a 2009 model hp laptop at the time and it was perfectly playable. However I also had a 2006 gateway computer and lord it struggled if I tried to play sims 3 on there. Most modern computers will give a playable experience. Either way it’s my favorite game ever. Have fun.
It's still really funny how The Sims 4 is basically a game where you come back like once or twice then get bored and play a different game like The Sims 2 or 3. I honestly don't know how other people are enjoying it, even with the DLC's and EA still acts like it's the best Sims game. It's just crazy.
Crazy to think TS3 came out in 2009! I've been playing the franchise since 2001 on the original game, and the jump from TS1 to TS2 in 2004 was INSANE. Some aspects in TS3 were nice (open world, which was a bit buggy on most 2009 machines), the color wheel, etc, but my personal favorite was TS2 with even more abilitiy for neighborhood customizations and more realistic genetics.
It blows my mind how much that came in TS4 base game that had to either be patched in (toddlers) or added in numerous packs just to match was in the base games of TS2 and TS3. I feel like EA took a MASSIVE step back with TS4, and it felt like a half-finished TS1 base game with better graphics.
It's so cool to see young people loving TS3 since it's considered an old game and got so much hate back then
im 15 and just started playing a few weeks ago can u tell me why it was hated
@@ImpurplieMostly complaining it crashed a lot and the sims were "ugly."
But now you have mods to make your game crash far less to not at all and you can use cc to improve your sims look.
I went back to TS3 weeks ago and I have no regrets. If you want to build stuff, play TS4, if you want a game then play TS3. You'll never run short of things to do, there is a TONNE of good content on the store, mods are safe to use as the game code will never again be updated by EA AND finally, TS3 actually runs. TS4 has been broken for years but since Crystal Creations it's impossible to play. I havent opened my game for fear of my save corrupting and being lost forever which has happened to many others since this SP released.
Go back to TS3 people.
The Shit 4 as a total is still bare bones compared to the previous installments. It may have the looks but it's shallow. Island Paradise made my PC blow up back in the day but you know what? IT WAS SO LIT!
Island paradise (Isla paradiso) has so many routing issues. 😂 but it's genuinely a fun world to play in. Before it turns to lagfest due to sims getting stuck wverywhere
The Shit 4 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂
The Save Error was horrible but even after losing hours i would just replay it as it was so much fun 😂
@@keit99 I finally fixed my issues by going into every house and boat and rearranging things to prevent that. Usually, the bathrooms are the problem. Then I saved the game, and I only play in versions of that saved world. It took awhile to do it, but I've only had to do it once, and I've been playing for years without any problems ever since.
@@firstinthedance ooh interesting
Regarding the lighting: dude, get yourself some mods for that as well ;) There is one that increases the lights coming from Maxis windows, it's game changer.
And get the Core Game Fixes mod!
Reshade too helps as well
My absolutely most beloved expansion is Adventures - and I can't stress enough how disappointed I was with Sims 4 attempt to do the destination worlds, which in comparison feel just empty and pitiful. Sims 3 gives you three open worlds with LOADS of exploration, logical puzzles, secrets, labirynths and TOTALLY stunning sceneries! I like to connect it with other gameplay elements, like photography. I don't know if you already discovered that, but there is something like a photo-album diary for players that like more "completionist"/"achievers" approach, which just kinda guides you to take your Sim into certain locations and certain situations to take photos of different objects, places, buildings, actions, social behaviours etc. etc. So what I usually end up doing (in pretty much every gameplay bcuz I'm addicted haha) is to take my Sims around the world, explore these open worlds and take stunning in-game pictures, which you can later hang on the wall and make a gallery :) In Sims 4 you also have photography, but come on, let's be honest: if a playable area of one neighbourhood consists of like 5 lots and you just cannot move outside these boundaries, then the sceneries are incredibly limited. Photography in Sims 3 is a way to go!
I'm really happy you liked the game (as a massive S3 fanatic I take that personally 🤣lol joke joke), I hope you'll feel that urge to keep exploring and have fun with it :) Also good luck with expanding your channel 💗 Best wishes!
i havent played adventures much i’ll have to get into it! thank you
the difference between the sims 4 and the sims 3 is that in the sims 3 you don’t need hundreds of mods to make the game fun. Its already packed with so much content that it never gets boring. The only mod i need for the sims 3 is the mod that adds more sims to lots because open world causes most lots to be dead or empty.
would u mind linking the mod ? ^^
@@sonalidutta762Lazy Duchess lot populations
You don't NEED mods to make Sims 3 fun, but I LOVE my mods. There are a million of them out there to fix just about anything you don't like about the game, and they are free. Sick of only 1 lifetime wish (my pet peeve) - there is a mod that allows you to choose a new one after you complete the first. Hate the way your sim looks? There are tons of hair, clothes, eyes, make-up options. Looking for new animations? Yep - you can find them too. Want new neighborhoods? There are hundreds of user-created custom worlds. Want more jobs to choose from? Want your kids to be able to do more things? Almost anything you want to change can be changed to customize your game EXACTLY the way you want it. Once you get used to having your mods, you'll never want to go back to playing without them. LOL.
This is a very good first video! It's so interesting to hear the perspective from a player whose starting game was Sims 4! I'm also very glad you enjoyed the game, and that you actually were able to get it running well :> That is definitely the downside of trying to get people to actually enjoy the game, because not everyone has the ability to get it running properly!
Also, just a few tips:
While I know it may not matter since the video is already made; you can get an application called Borderless Gaming which will allow you to run your Sims 3 in borderless mode, this way when you screen record, it won't have that filter over it that makes the video look so dark. Just in case you're ever up for making more vids in the future!
Next, you may have already done this, but I always urge people to make sure that they limit their FPS to their monitor's refresh rate (typically it's around 60 if not more.) This is because Sims 3, unfortunately, can be really harsh on your graphics card no matter how good your system is, due to the framerate being unlimited. The unlimited framerate can end up causing your card to burn out, but as long as you limit it, it's all good!
I just can't help but get worried when I see people possibly playing without limiting their fps. (Also, doing this just makes your game typically play even better anyway lol)
Also, as someone already said in your comments, getting a lighting mod you vibe with is a gamechanger!
Thanks alot! Def gonna look into Borderless Gaming. I swear new games always come on ultra settings with unlimited fps so I got used to switching that off immediately haha. Gonna go look at some lighting mods now, I appreciate all the suggestions!
I could spend years going into World Adventures in Sims 3 🥰🥰
I used to play Sims 4 because it was free, but I had to mod the crap out of it to make it interesting. Finally, I just bit the bullet and bought Sims 3. Best decision ever. I'm only playing the base right now, but it is so much fun.
the dlc is on sale for $8 each, might be worth it to pick some up!
Same as you and runs even better with 3 mods i got ! 9 hours in day for 3 days in a row i played, what an amazing game, i play it for the first time. Cant w8 to get seasons and play an alien with my ufo xD
Base game alone > Sims 4 and many packs
ive been playing sims 3 for 11 years and im so glad you gave it a try and enjoy it so much. hope more people get to appreciate sims 3. :D
I went back to sims 3 and no regrets. I don't have all the packs but I don't feel like i even need them, sims 3 is a complete game on its own, the expansions just do that, expand.
You will be in for a shock, I believe, when you play The Sims 3 World Adventure, because it has 3 famous destinations to travel to. There's a lot of content to have fun and so many adventures to explore in each destination, it's a very huge expansion with lots of beautiful scenery to admire.
Only thing I didn’t like about sims 3 is that the worlds were low key empty. Like it wasn’t live with bustling sims. But I own every expansion and shop item from this game lol. I purchased everything during its initial release when I had a potato computer. Now with my monster rig it runs so smooth and I still love it and prefer it. Just wish it had better population mechanics and BUILDING mechanics. I won’t lie sims 4 has such easy tools to use but it felt more rewarding being a house on sims 3 and it was looking good lol.
I still play Sims 3 too. Sims 4 was boring from jump I could never get into it. It's like going backward in time to a waaay less interesting Sims 2. I have played Sims 3 for years and still don't know everything it can do.
If only you could access Sims 2... it's incredible. Not open world but the small details add so much to the immersion and the stories are top tier.
i have sims 2 on mac! i play it from time to time
I would not have spent the past year or so happily replaying TS3 if it wasn't worth it. Nraas is a lifesaver for playability
My current expansions are Supernatural, Ambitions, Late Night, University Life, World Adventures and High End Loft Stuff
Today I actually noticed that for some reason I can’t use my world adventures☹️ can I ask what device you use? Personally I play it on a mac laptop and everything else works fine (I also have a few more packs and they work)
Keep up the good work :) The sims 4 is a rough game, especially with the game breaking bugs. I gave up on TS4 2 years ago, and haven’t looked back since. Ts3 is addictive. I have a household of 11 sims, with 3 generations. The games are worlds apart.
11 sims is crazyy
@@jakobeyplaystry getting two or more sims to marry people into a family in The Sims 1, it's almost impossible 😂 11 Sims in TS3 is like a cake walk
I went back to Sims 3 after watching the Life By You trailer, remembering how much I liked the open world. It runs like butter on my laptop with AMD Ryzen 7, but if you have an Intel processor you need a fan-made patch. Lazyduchess is awesome, she also made mods for Sims 2. Highly recommended. Oh, and make sure to set refresh rate to 60 to not melt the video card. (Or run in windowed mode, that works too.)
Yes, i love to see new players switch over to TS3! The gameplay is literally top tier and the drama is straight up perfect! I can also vouch for the replayability as someone with over 2000 hours in this game 😂 You earned a new subscriber homie!
I have been playing the sims 3 since 2009 when it came out and have never dropped it And yet, i am still discovering small details and additional gameplay.
I went back to the Sims 3 literally two days ago- and I find myself actively going out of my sims house and going to lots. In the sims 4, I find that I typically hole up at home.
i bought all of sims 3 expansions as they came out way back. i played vanilla the whole time and was never bored, i've clocked something close to 14k hours and swapped over to sims 4 in 2021, i was so sad that create a style was gone, i loved that you could customize to such a specific degree in sims 3, the fairies also not coming back and plant sims not being a full occult life state were big things that bugged me.
the cartoonish maxis style took a minute to grow on me but the cas for sims is great in sims 4, and some of the build buy options are things i wished i had in sims 3.
but the commitment to having dedicated sims populate a world and not have a whole lot of over lap helps with immersion. the careers were a blast, being an interior designers was fun. owning like half the town was fun if you wanted to explore all the side hobbies.
the last full expansion was into the future which added an entire new neighborhood that was in the (you guessed it) the future. but how you played in the present affected how that world looked. you could have descendants, and based on your household income they could be rich or poor, it could be one or 2 sims if you had a small family or it could be a full house if you have a bunch of kids. the future could be neutral-starting state, good-an eco paradise literally sunshine and rainbows or bad-dystopian with trash everywhere and sad beige and brown over tones and filters in the world. all of that doesn't even cover the new robots they added, with their own life states, skills, create a sim styles and build buy features that added life in new and fun ways.
all the big expansions felt like they had something huge to offer with new worlds and sims, even seasons which didn't come with new map brought the seasons festivals (and aliens).
sims 3 is a massive game with so much to offer and so many things to do even if you don't want to mod it, but there's still more out there if you do! i can't recommend it enough.
I dont understand why people don’t like sims 3 graphics, sims 4 looks so boring
Well, some of the original hair and whatnot is a bit rough in Sims 3, but there is so much great user-created free content available, that it isn't really a problem for me. My sims look great with their new hair, eyes, make-up, nails, clothes, jewelry, shoes, etc.
One thing I completely forgot about until I went back to playing TS3 - You can add additional empty lots into the worlds there. There are multiple sizes to pick from.
one of my favorite features! not only can we make our own worlds, but we can edit existing ones too! Wish we had something like this in sims 4 besides newport lmao
I agree on the build buy fromt, the ability to move your entire house and choose wall heights in sims 4 is really good and I wish we had that in sims 3
I looooooove the sims 3 so much! My only cons are how much you gotta tweak the game for it to run well and the rabbit holes. But there are mods that help you create actual dine in restaurants and all.
There's the "Business as Usual Bistro" from the Store, which can somewhat help...
I love the Sims 3 it has a special place in my heart, I always go back to it. Never ever understood the hate for the graphics I love it so much it feels cozy like staying inside on a raining day.
Played Sims 1 when I was in highschool. Then Sims2,3 and 4. But spent the longest playing sims 3. It’s the best!
I recommend using a mod called smooth patch by a modder known lazyduchess. It makes the game run so much smoother.
Also a bunch of the nraas mods (master controller, story progression, error trap and overwatch being the main ones) just make sure that you either don't use mc integration with smooth patch. The two mods do not like each other.
The base game of The Sims 3 is AMAZING simply because of all the patches they dropped throughout its lifespan to add base game compatibility with each of the expansion packs.
Ooh just wait until you get a taste of TS2 animations and lore. Now that game can be so silly! 😅
I bought the Sims 3 way back in 2009 or 10 I've spent a decades playing this game off / on. Even with owning the Sims 4.
must be nice 😭 i dont think it would’ve ran too good on my ps3 anyways
@@jakobeyplays the console port is actually pretty decent just no mods
@@ThiskidKnowledgewait console port for what?
@@cryingwatercolours Sims 3
@@ThiskidKnowledge yeah i had to go on a google after that. i had no idea it came to console. ps5 has this thing where you can play older games on it and i thought maybe sims 3… but nope supposedly ea wouldn’t bother.
You should try Sims 2 also. I really love the Tex Avery mood in this game ^^
sims 3 is one of the greatest games to ever exist^^
when you still have trouble with the lighting indoors, check out the debug menu. In there they have great lights, which are invisible in live mode
I'm so old that I was there from The Sims 1 back in 2000. But The Sims 3 is my favourite for sure. It's so good. Greetings from Sweden. 🇸🇪
RE: Playing the Island Paradise map - Don't. It's broken. Like game-brakingly broken. The only way to possibly unbreak it is to delete the correct lot.
Also, there's a mod which allows you to choose another Lifetime Wish once you've completed the one you start with. Useful if you want to turn off aging, or play as a vampire or plumbot, as they don't have a lifespan. There's also an Immortal Lifetime Reward. But if you have Supernatural, you can make potions which make you effectively immortal, and fairies, while mortal, have a lifespan at young adult and older much longer than human sims.
I had to delete like 80% of the house boats to get it to work without issues lol
@@Playloi That is the easy way to do it - but I just fixed the obvious problems in the houses/boats. Most of the time, it was the bathrooms causing routing errors. Simply moving a toilet was enough to fix the problem in some houses.
Honestly, I don't know how that expansion got released with all the stupid mistakes made in decor that cause all those routing problems. All I can think is some disgruntled employee must have deliberately screwed up the game as a parting FU to the company.
Anyway, after going into each house/boat and correcting potential problems, I've played the game for years without any issues.
@@firstinthedance Hmm, i’ll give that a try. I replaced a few of the houseboats a couple of days ago because there weren’t enough uninhabited houses in the neighborhood for my sims to live in, and I haven’t ran into any lag YET, but I will definitely keep this in mind if it starts up again. Thank you!
I still have content to discover in Sims 3 stil despite owing it for over 10 years xD
I wanna add that Instant Gaming sells Sims 3 stuff for way cheap. Expansions go for $8-$10. Stuff packs are like $2.
Hey so I'm back to playing Sims 3 again. It came out when I was in college and I couldn't afford any of the packs. My computer doesn't have a disc drive anymore so I bought one for $8 on ebay. I also bought ALL of the expansions on Ebay and spent around $100 total. Maybe slightly more but I tried to buy packs in cheap bundles. I recommend installing these games and saving the money. It's so worth it. It's even worth it to buy a USB dvd/cd drive for it honestly because those are also dirt cheap. Compared to the sims 4, I enjoy this game so much more. It provides hours of detailed gameplay. When you level up on guitar it sounds so good and all the stuff was recorded in studio with professional musicians. Nothing went to waste on this game. The sims 4 is a money grab. And also! The graphics really aren't THAT bad. I hate how close up everything is in TS4! It takes forever to load anything once you have the packs installed and it's honestly just not as funny.
oh yeah! as for glitches - I hardly ever experience them and have a theory that they're mostly present when you download the games. also if you do BUY the packs on ebay, don't register online with EA.. it gets weird.
So glad to see some love for the sims 3 this gen of the sims definitely deserves praise for its gameplay and innovation!!! I wish EA wouldn’t abandon it tho😭😭
I play the sims 3 to this day, it was my first sims game too, I love it so much it’s unreal
One of the biggest strengths in sims 3 having an open world is that you can have sims doing a bunch of different things at once. You can have a sim at home, while another is at a party or a community lot, and while another is shopping for the family, compared to sims 4 where you have to follow your sim into the loading screen.
Got about 800+ hours in The Sims 3. A masterpiece even if it stutters and has too much content fluff, at least there's a good amount of things to do.
Wait until you try Sims 2 😂
Sims 2 doesn't have an open world
@@nunyabusiness3516 so? Its even better than sims 3 way more fun
@Luavyy I mean it depends honestly, both games are great in their own way (ts2 has some huge advantages though and it's an amazing game, but so is ts3).
@@Luavyy it depends on the person, i played sims 2 recently and it doesn't have that much in replay factor, but for sure it has many great things
I loved Sims 1 and Sims 2, and I played them both a lot in their day - but Sims 3 is by far my favorite. I paid like $70 for Sims 4 when it was first released, but I hated it so much that I returned it the same day for a refund and went back to playing Sims 3. A few years later, I picked up Sims 4 on sale really cheap with an expansion pack because I heard it had improved - but it still sucked, so again I went back to Sims 3.
Sims 4 shows that EA no longer cares about their customers gameplay experience. They are just a soulless, money grubbing corporation. It started in Sims 3 with the online store, but then they took it to ridiculous levels with Sims 4. They doubled the price for a quarter of the content in the base game, then they sold pathetically bare "expansion" packs to add in content that should have been included in the base game to begin with.
Sims 5 is going to have to be incredible, offer something different, and have great reviews by long time players of the Sims franchise for me to bite the bullet and give EA another chance.
Create a style > Sims 4 building improvements.
I think I would call the Sims 2 the best in the series, sure it is dated but if you compare them on what year they were made then it is no contest, Sims 4 was dated when it came out.
just uninstalled the sims 4 + expansion packs + deleted all my cc, boutta crack the whole sims 3 game because i suddenly realised, when you get down to it, it's SO fucking boring. and so, so buggy. i just was not having fun at all, it felt like a chore. then i remembered how wacky and fun the sims 3 was and knew i wasn't sitting thru that shit anymore. the problem with the sims 4 is that you have to imagine that things are happening that just aren't, in the sims 3, choices feel like they actually matter and effect the game.
the sims 4 is pretty, yes. but it's all so surface-level. in the sims 3.,i dont even need mods or cc because im so excited for the gameplay itself. ofc i love making my sims look cute but it doesn't really impact my game all too much, i dont spend hours in CAS.
Another thing I love about TS3 is the skills challenges! Even if you max out a skill, you can focus on the skills challenges instead of just learning a new skill. I reallyyyy miss that in the sims 4. My sim shouldn’t have to master a bunch of skills, why can’t my sim be a true master of one?
Great video, this made me want to play TS3 immediately.
I'm 40 sims 3 is by far the best one and once you mod it it's a really good experience you can even mod most of the benefit of 4 into the game. sims 4 a useless broken mess and sims 3 is the best.
It's literally my favourite Sims. The open world!!! I love it so much.
I’ve played 3 and 4. And I always go back to 3. With mods it looks amazing and runs very smooth.
I used to love sending my kids to a friends house to do their homework and watching them for a bit and bringing them home for dinner eventually 😭
When people ask why Im so critical of Sims 4, I say its because I played Sims 3 before.
Sims 4 players are in such a toxic relationship with EA that they dont even realize how good they can have it in Sims 3 base game
8:32 also there is the TS3 WORLD EDITOR which is still usable today if you want to just create your OWN world. And by that I mean you place and build everything. From the elevation and landscape to the roads and street lights.
the world editor is undefeated!!
ive tried it a couple times, but i find it difficult to get past the tutorial phase because its so confusing to me and there’s so many buttons.
the sims 2, however…i downloaded the sims 2 and i play it more than sims 4 at this point. its so fleshed out and alive! build mode is garbage, but ive never been a builder. im sure ill give ts3 another shot when i get a computer that can handle it lol
I wouldn't say the sims 3 is that different from the sims 2... Probably in CAS only. The Sims 4 is totally in another world and "alternative universe".
This is exactly sims 3 players are talking about. How did an OPEN WORLD possible back in the last decade and a half using only 3 gigs of RAM now with sims 4 i have a pc with 64gb of ram to give and it still CHOKES. that technological feat alone blows the technical genius of the sims 3 creators way above the sims 4 ones.
Of course I'm a lil biased you can tell by my channel🤣🤣 but The Sims 3 is by far my favorite and I am a The Sims OG since the very first.
Here's the performance issue: The game engine doesn't recognize your graphics card so it thinks you don't have one and runs on the lowest possible performance settings. There's a few lines you can change in one of the ini files that fixes that (probably what the duchess patch does). Acottonsock has a very detailed guide on how to get the game running well, and another explaining the whole NRAAS mod suite (which is pretty much mandatory as well - think SkyUI for Skyrim).
this is so stupid for the devs to do this, other old games don't have this problem they allow the game to try to run the best it can,
but EA always did this in the sims, the sims 2 have the same performance issue but it manifest differnet, it fails to recognize the cpu you have, in the file called graphicalrules.crg it has a lot of code to check if you cpu is amd or intel and the core performance blablabla and the code check that to limit the sims on the lot, guess what? if you install the sims 2 nowdays with a modern cpu you can't make a party with more than 2 sims its so stupid...... need to manually fix the file to get the correct amount of sims, (the normal amount is max 8)
this is so stupid to code the game this way so stupid, because it limit the gmae on modern hardware,
its much SMARTER to od the inverse,
make a list of all know cpus/gpu that have issues running some setting, and disable it for those, any unkow hardware should be able to go max settings, lmao because newer stuff is likely to be better than old stuff.
The biggest issue with Sims 3 is how awful it plays on modern (and even period accurate hardware). That and the eventual saving issues caused by engine limitations.
That and the insanely long loading screens.
I've been playing the sims 3 on and off since 2011 and there is still base game stuff I haven't tried yet
Great video. I must say congratulations on getting The Sims 3 to run well on your modern computer because it usually does not run well on modern hardware for majority of people. But I will say if it wasn't for performance issues I agree with all of these statements, especially for the fact that there is more content in The Sims 3 than 4. One thing though is that the fashion and furniture in The Sims 3 is a little dated but Create a Style (that will make your PC C H U G lmfao) or mods could possibly fix this. But the open world feel makes those feel not so bad anyways.
Again, really good video and keep up the great work
thank you! it’s a shame we have to put in so much work to make the game run half-decent. The create a sim screen slows me down criminally 😭 i always think im gonna crash
sims 3 will forever hold a special place in my heart because it was the first installment in the franchise that had my native language as an option.
when it comes to lightning in ts3, there are some lights with huge range, and some with lower range, so the best way to light your house is to just put that one square light all around the house, or you can use "buydebug" mode and use lights from here
I didn't realize that the opportunites are such a small but important detail. It constantly gave you something to aim for together with the whims and career goals. Something they tried to fix with scenarions in TS4 which... well, it didn't work out really, did it?
I'm proudly a still active and proficient Create-A-World user too! I've been playing my very own worlds since 2014
I got Sims 3 when I was a kid but was never able to really play it a lot and I had 2 expansions. Started playing Sims 4 when I became an adult and fully immerged myself into it but you could really sense how lackluster and empty the game actually was compared to its predecessors. I tried to make it more fun with mods and cc but it was honestly just a placebo effect since no mods or packs could fix the game at it's core. I started playing Sims 3 again a year ago with all the expansions and packs and I've been having the most fun I've had with a Sims game, could never go back anymore.
I remember playing Sims 3 for the first time it released. The features are already cool as a base game. Interracting with ghost is always my favorite. And seeing colorful ghosts to silently tell their cause of deaths, and the glowing eye added the creepy. Even in the early version, you can have ghost baby by woohoo with the ghost (which in later version, that feature erased).
Meanwhile in Sims 4 early version od base game, once you died... well, only tombstone. No ghost yet. And when ghost applied in later version, all are in same colour since it based on emotions, and they don't look scary at all except being transparent.
I play sims 3 a lot of years (since 2014). Sims 4 runs smoother (with a lot of cc as well) , but I LOVE the open world and the colorwheel in sims 3 and so I miss it in 4. So I started a project a few month ago to put the most of the sims 4 worlds in one sims3 world. You can see the progress on my channel. I am very exited how it will be, when everything is done...
but in 4 the build mode and the CAS are much better , things I miss in 3 😀
A mix of both would be nice... But I think it it stil possible , to make an open world in 4 , it would be a big update 😀 It must not be like my project - it can be parted like now. just an open world in - for e.g. Willow creek - would be nice. The map would not be as bigger as the Battle Royal Map in Fortnite....
Have you played The Sims 3 World Adventures DLC yet? They literally added three new worlds in one expansion pack and gameplay that makes it feel like a different genre game. You should also try out the town Twinbrook from the Ambitions DLC.
i have’t played through world adventures yet but i have it installed! I’ve tried twinbrook but i think i prefer the player-created worlds
@@jakobeyplays Definitely make a video about it next. It's fun making your own vineyard and also exploring the tombs for treasure. It's one of the best ways to make money in the game and also gives you some cool stuff to display in your house.
7:22 another thing you didn't point out: if your sim is in the criminal career they can get in jail for a couple of hours and lose some job performance bc they got caught. with ambitions you can invent a drill, and if you use it in the police office you may get a bunch of criminals who are escaping the prison through the hole you made in the ground!!! there's a lot of things i can't possible share, it's so much funnnn
Really thorough and thoughtfully done video!
I think The Sims 3 is a great experience in retrogaming for people who have never really done that with PC games. There's tons of documentation for any problem you might have. Definitely go slow installing expansions though, some of them are notorious for bugs.
thank you! i have all the expansions at the moment and my game runs pretty good. thanks to the modding community mostly lol
@@jakobeyplays The modding community is truly doing god's work
It's so fantastic to watch people play the Sims 3 for the first time after playing the Sims 4. I've been bingeing this game myself the last couple of weeks. FYI: if your sim doesn't have a burglar alarm, they can use the phone to call the police when getting robbed. Same goes for the fire alarm.
i never knew that, thanks!
Bent waffles lighting mods fix the darkness. It makes the worlds look absolutely amazing.
LD patch is a MUST if you decide to play the sims 3! I'm so happy that more and more players are trying ts3 lately😊
This game us just beyond magical i still feel comforted whenever i see other people play it