Sims 2 or Sims 3?

[SparkleSim]

I couldn't seem to find a poll on which was more popular.  I like Sims 2 better than sims 3.  But I need to know if there are still some Sims 2 fans out there so I know to keeping making more Sims 2 creations!  i LOVE Sims 2!!  Sims 3 is alright, but that didn't stray me away from sims 2, NOT A CHANCE will I give up Sims 2! NEVER!

[Paden]

There are still plenty of die-hard fans for Sims 2 and they/we are always on the look out for well-made items. So yeah, keep on making stuff! God knows that I do.

[DaSpecial1]

*Raises hand* Sims 2 now and 4 eva  .

I have sims 3 but it's more of an occasional novelty for me--even my kids don't care to play it.  I think we've been too spoiled by skins, eyes (heck everything TS2) to get lost in puddingland for long.

[Theraven]

Sims 2!

I do play a little Sims 3 too, but I (so far) only make CC for Sims 2, and only use Sims 2 for photoshoots.
Much more freedom... or so I think, anyway.

[XPTL297]

When first created, The Sims (1) had a charm that trapped you instantly. It became obsolete for obvious graphic reasons. Even today I still launch TS1 for nostalgy.
TS (2) was a nightmare to follow and became really good after EA moved "forward" to TS3. If anyone remember the Base Game was much more than just frustration, it was pure irritation. The game changed along the road and became what we like right now.
TS3 is a just a quilt and is absolutely empty for charm. If no one noticed yet, everything in the game is fake and based on the socalled Rabbit Holes that are nothing else than a door. EA is specialist on creating invisible objects that acts like a tray to hold something or someonesim. Before, Sims disappeared when entering in a car or walking thru a portal. Now they walk or drive a long way to disappear into a fake building. Sims now can walk everywhere but are automatically called back to the original point (owned house). You cannot control more than one family, otherwise you use more space than your computer has available. Programs to change TS3 are still in baby age. You have only two choices, you follow EA's rule or Pescado's. If this is a meaning for freedom, I still think that it is much better to wait until EA moves "forward" to TS4. Oh, yes, there's scripting. TS2 had also scripting and this was what caused Dustin Broke to bring Angela Pleasant from school. I had played the Pleasants for very long and Angela was a middle aged lady by then. It was just script.

[bollyknickers]

Sims 2. The custom content has changed a seemingly ugly game with good potential into a masterpiece...and it will take a lot to do the same for sims 3. The graphics have been made too cartoony - and of course pudding-like - and the game has become less functional, although more features were introduced.

[Tigeress Kitten]

I been playing sims 3 but mostly its a go to while my sims 2 game is being redone. Im redownloading a lot of stuff and starting from scratch so I get things organized. Its taking a while so inbetween doing that Im playing 3. I like 3 but its nothing in compairison to sims 2. I miss being able to actually go IN the restraunts and stuff plus the pudding uglyness is hard to beat out of them. I had my self sim go into the stylist job just to make everone in the hood over LOL. I dont ever think I will use sims 3 as anything other than a "Im bored and I want something thoughtless to do but I already read all my new books and I already been playing 2 for a while, oh theirs 3... lets do that for now till Im ready to go back in 2" kinda thing.

[kaoz666]

If I went into the many, many, MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNY reasons why TS2 is plain and simply a more superior creative experience then it's follow up, I'd be sitting here until midnight typing. Instead, I'll truncate things by saying that from a creative standpoint, TS2 offers more then TS3 will ever have. Even now to this day, people are still bangin' out awesome CC for TS2, at a higher regularity then they do for TS3. There are more tools available for creators and more freedom to use those tools. Sims are more then just virtual avatars, they are expressions of the creator's inner being. You can gather a lot about a person in how they create their sims, because it shows what said person perceives the world around them as. The Sims Community at large exists because of TS2. The game itself is a piece of Video Gaming history. You have console, mainstream games that have borrowed from the formula of TS2 in you being able to turn the world the game exists in into whatever you wish it to be. On that alone, let alone the many other reasons I'm not bringing up, TS2 is the one and only Sims game I'll ever play. Unless TS4 is a groundbreaking work of technical genius that is. (And I'm not exactly holding my breath on that one...)

[Aquarius]

I'm a sims 2 fan all da way! And always will be. The only reason I'm still playing sims 3 is cuz my laptop needs to be repaired and I lost most of my sims 2 discs so there's no way for me to play it on the family desktop

[MaryH]

I'll admit that I abandoned Sims 1 rather precipitously when I was able to buy Sims 2-even though at the time, I swore it would never be bettered. I was proven very, very wrong in my assessment-but now that I've played Sims 2 for nearly 4 years I can say that Sims 3 holds very little if any appeal for me.
Myriad reasons, but the most compelling one is the sheer incompetence that EA has demonstrated in bringing Sims 3 out, in making it playable and their level of customer service (absolutely as little as possible.)
They dropped the ball on this one big time, and after reading all the complaints and reviews that other players have given, I will not abandon Sims 2.
They had a glorious chance to blow the series right out of the ball park, and blew it. That will not be forgotten by the more senior of players. They kiddified it to death and made it as hollow as possible while making as much money as possible.
We won't even go into the issue of the EADM and EA's cute idea of "logging" players while on-line.
Now, excuse me while I go hug my simmies and tell them they have a safe home on my computer. They're not going to be evicted for some shallow wannabe of a game. Never.
Also-if I look very closely at my game with it's graphics, the game is almost the equal if not better in graphical quality than Sims 3. No joke-sometimes I can't even tell I'm really playing the older of the two, and I don't even have to deal with the puddings!

[SparkleSim]

I'm so glad everybody still Likes Sims 2!!  And XPTL297, you are so right on about the "disappearing into a fake building!".  That's bull, I like being able to have my sims sit down and eat, plus, sims build relationships that way, and I needed an "eating scene" for my story.  While we are on the subject of eating the food has much better looking quality in sims 2! Especially with the food that http://exnemsims.com/ created.  Have you seen the cheese and crackers in the Sims 3?  They pick up the whole set of cheese and crackers while eating it!  What the heck!?

[Imma]

I never did play the original Sims much, but I remember watching my brother play it. I still remember when he bought The Sims 2, and he wanted me to try it. I did, and I fell in love (or in major addiction). The expansion packs just made it more fun, and then I heard about The Sims 3. I thought it would be amazing, and I really had my hopes up.

Well I felt like I really liked it, until I entered create a sim. I kinda felt like someone put me in a small metal cage and I couldn't reach the things I wanted.

I did enjoy the simple recoloring anything you want with just a click, but I just couldn't get used to the huge differences between the games.

I can't say anything about the expansion packs for that game because I really don't want to buy them.

Anyway, <3 TS2 forever.

[HappyThoughts]

  my why for choosing sims2 would be a repeat of everything mentioned here already.  Not that I'm unoriginal in my thoughts lol.  Sims2 gives me that warm fuzzy feeling because I know how much time and effort I put into my creations.  I look at my town and say this is MY town!  and wonder what my little princesses are going to do today.  A little bit of the whole 'frankenstein' affair.
  And not to be a broken record but I'll say it again, I don't see anything in S3 that they couldn't have added to S2 using a fraction of the space.

[minkey]

I love how people complain about the "ugly puddings"in the sims 3,Sims 2 sims only look good coated in CC

[AlexDanger]

I'm really new to the Sims world, I just started playing Sims 2 in November! What led me to buy it was the pretty little hair, and clothes and sims that people were creating. So when I heard that there was a Sims 3 I checked into it, I have never played Sims 3 but just by looking at the screenshots and the little trial I got with my Sims 2 game I knew it was a bust. The Sims look HORRIBBLE! They look too cartoony, and ugly. And the graphics didn't look too different from the Sims 2 just more, bulgy. ?? I am Sims 2 all the way! And if there is going to be a TS4 then they better make it right!