Is The Sims 3 Actually Better Than The Sims 4?

i am not lying when i say as soon as i started the sims 3 my computer went one thing i do hate about the sims 3 is the capitalism so we are turning off shop mode i mean we may as well look at all the settings whilst we're here firstly you'll notice the lifespan thing is very very cool you can make it so a baby has like a two-day lifespan a 64-day lifespan you can literally make it anything that you like you can change any kind of lifespan for sims it's really really cool also we have different levels of free will low free will and high free will low is basically just to preserve their life and fulfill their needs highs to do other things in the sims 4 we don't really have that mix which i miss and we have story progression in sims 3. i think sims 3 story progression was quite good to be fair anyway we have our random townie are we making sims 3 shanice or are we making a new character let's make a new character or shall we bring in shannon maylie jones from the sims word there we go obviously in the sims 4 we have skin sliders which is literally so useful you can choose any skin tone even crazy ones and you can make it light or dark it is extremely useful oh my god yes shannon is having a gorgeous orange fake tan body sliders i actually prefer the body sliders in the sims 3 than in the sims 4. i'll tell you for white maybe this is getting a little bit deep but i do think the sims 3 body sliders can promote unrealistic body images because you can make them like too thin i feel like whereas in the sims 3 it's like hard locked the thinness you can't make it too thin and which i kind of like we also have differences in muscle size and muscle definition in the sims 4 as far as i'm aware they're basically the exact same thing oh and we can give up big boobs in our breast slider so that's right shannon millie jones has had a boob job i will say oh my god there aren't that many hair options in the bass game are there bloody hell oh my god why does she look like molly mae one of the best things about the sims 3 is the color swatch system for hair so you can literally change the base of the hair if i want to go bleach blonde which is what i want to do we can also change the highlights of the hair and change the highlights to any color that you like if you want to make them a bit more bleachy you can i mean even then this hair looks like it needs a bit of purple shampoo we can change the tips of the hair you can't really see it in this hairstyle let me make a proper green and change the style so you can see here you can change the tips really easily as well and then we have the roots of the hair which also changes the eyebrows that you can change so if you want to make it like her natural color you can and it just looks more i don't know realistic i guess it's just a lot better i mean oh my gosh look at those roots coming through girl you need to re-dye your hair but you can change also the eyebrow color you can also change eyelashes in the sims 3 we know how about seems what eyelashes are look at this literally incredible changing the face in this sims 4 is actually similar to the sims 4. it's just in the sims 4 you can click on the face and drag it whereas in the sims 3 you have the sliders that you have to use but it's basically the exact same thing there's literally just as much customization you just have to go a bit of a workaround way to deal with it but it's not like annoying if you know what i mean like it's not the worst thing in the world in some ways we actually have a little bit more detail so we have something called i don't know what it's called nasolabial crease so if you look on the sim it's where you change the side bits around the nose as far as i'm aware you can't do that in the sims 4 you can change cheek fullness but you can also change the cheekbone shape as you can see and you can change the cheekbone height too and you can change the cheek gels let me move to the side just so you can see it maybe a little bit better in fact i probably say we probably have a lot more detail in the sims 3 in terms of cast which i'm quite surprised about but i would say in terms of like making sims i would say the sims 4 is no better than the sims 3 and in some ways although it's a little bit annoying in the sims 3 because you have the sliders you can't just click on things there actually seems to be slightly more customization options which i'm really surprised about actually clothing this is where the sims 3 is not so good i mean it matches the aesthetic of back then to be fair although no it doesn't actually who am i kidding sims 3 clothing was not fashionable back in the day and it's not fashionable anymore it was very unfashionable of course we had the creative style tool in the sims 3 you can apply any kind of style do we want a metal vest yes we do we want a bright metal vest with a metal pattern you can choose any color you can really change it in the finest of details but there wasn't really that much stuff and the stuff that was there was pretty awful i'm not gonna lie the sims 3 did not do good in terms of create a sim clothing we also only had one outfit choice in the sims 4. you know you can have up to five different choices but in the sims 3 you can't so that is also something to consider in terms of personality we have five traits in the sims 3 and there are loads just a base game alone has loads but every single pack also comes with honestly so many traces unbelievable so yeah oh my god look like going crazy but yeah there is so much in terms of lifetime wishes as well we have so many even just in the base game alone but the packs also come with loads as well your sim has favorites they have oh my god my favorite dessert in real life is key lime pie and shannon maybe jones has already selected it by default so that's cool but yeah you can have your own favorite foods you can have also your favorite kind of music now in the sims 4 they have finally integrated likes and dislikes as far as i'm aware you can't like your favorite food but you can like random things like colors it's just in the sims 3 it came in the base game to start with in the sims 4 it has taken them a while to implement likes and dislikes they still haven't implemented it in full some random things are locked behind packs and but i guess the sims 4 likes and dislike system is more in depth and the voice system as well is a bit more in depth but it doesn't matter that much astrological signs oh my god i'm actually sagittarius and it was default on sag isn't that funny one other thing i love about the sims 3. now let me just create another random sim completely random sim just for the sake of doing it so in the sims 3 base game you can edit relationships have them sibling spouse fiance or girlfriend in the sims 4 for adult sims when the game was first released all we had was sibling spouse or like roommates i know in the sims 4 they updated it for my wedding stories you could add fiancee but you couldn't add boyfriend or girlfriend and i believe you still cannot do so but in the sims 3 this was all there to start with so it's really really easy just to make like an instant connection between your sims like boyfriend or girlfriend i still find it crazy how on the sims 4 you just can't do that and they've never given us the ability like they just haven't bothered so yeah in general even though the fashion the sims 3 was bad almost everything else in the sims 3 was better for cass so cass is a win for the sims 3 lose for the sims 4. one thing that i do love about the sims 3 1 2 and 3 is that when you start a brand new save file you start on the world in the sims 4 when you click on like new game you have to create a sim first and then move that sim into a lot it just doesn't make much sense to me i feel like it makes it much more sense to start from a big open map and then you can choose do you play with a pre-made household do you make your own sim blah blah blah blah blah one thing you can't do by the way in the sims 3's visit of the world so even though it does come with a couple of base game worlds you can add custom worlds they cannot actually leave the world that they're living in which is rather annoying it's one thing that i do really like about the sims 4 is that you can just go to any world at any point even though there is a loading screen you can actually go anywhere and although i do love the sims 3 open world system i think it's important to remember that i'm playing on a gaming pc but most people are playing on laptops and their laptops could not ever do something like this so in that sense if i look a lit from the perspective of playing from a laptop the open world system's not very good i shall not lie to you because it is very very laggy for me it's not laggy because i'm playing on a nice pc but for most people who are on laptops it was very laggy and it was very annoying and sims would often not load in the lots in this sims 4 every lot is always like busy with other people which i like now before we choose for somewhere for shannon maylie jones to live let's go to the world we also have the world editor where you can create custom lots which is where the sims 4 fails so i could literally create a lot anywhere it doesn't even have to be on the roadside the biggest size is 64 by 64. i could place it on this can i place it on this hill there we go we've got a lot on the hill now i can click on this lot and i can go into build by mo's and now i can just build on this like random piece of land i can just like build a house granted it looks horrendous because i just did it on a hill but like if i wanted to i can that's the point i can do anything that i want to do basically another thing about the world editor is that you can really customize it i can place trees anywhere that i like do i want to place some haunted trees next to this house yes i do let's put bloody haunted forest why not you can literally create anything that you like literally anything and if you go to the house you can actually see the trees next to it so it is like livable there is also something called the sims 3 create a world tool on the sims 3 website you can download it and you can still download it to this day where you can literally create your own world unlike the sims 4 in the sims 3 you can actually download worlds as custom content like you can literally see there are so many vice city there we go we can have a little gta world advice that you do what i mean somebody who's just taking the time to create it and you can download that rate in your sims game boom look at how amazing that looks like that's so cool and there's honestly hundreds probably thousands actually and you can make your own and of course the world is in open world we haven't even mentioned but yeah it's an open world and it's bloody huge so i believe when it comes to world the sims 3 gets another point that's right so build mode now build mode in the sims 3 i wouldn't say it's that different to the sims 4. the sims 4 is just a lot more intuitive and it to be fair the sims 4 does actually have a lot more going for it with build mode i'm not going to lie to you guys it's i just find the sims 3 build tools very clunky not clunky as such just a little bit annoying at times it is very difficult to build houses i'm not going to build a masterpiece for you all today but just to do so although we do have auto roofs in the sims 3 sims 4k nether so i could just create auto roofs like that if i wanted to you can do custom roofs in the sims 4 it is a little bit annoying i'm not going to lie but you can still do it one way in which the sims 3 does get a point is you can change the stair width to any width which you can in the sims 4 but the difference is you can have auto railings on or off so i can donate these railings here i can place custom railings anywhere along here i can use different kinds of railings if i want to it's entirely customizable which you cannot do in the sims 4. another thing about stairs in the sims 3 you actually get spiral staircases including ones in the base game i just have the base game installed today by the way um just because i wanted to make it unbiased and fair and but there are different ones and lots of different spiral staircases in different packs pools i think they were really annoying to make in the sims 3 i'm not going to like but as you can see we have curved pulls in the sims 3 and we could not have curve pulls in the sims 4. so yeah that is a win for the sims 3 in terms of pulls and you could create the most bizarre shapes with the curve pulls i literally love it also a very random feature i don't know how you feel about this but in this sims 3 you always get an automatic chimney when you place a fireplace so now place that here you can see there's a chimney here i know some people like that because it's more realistic others don't i personally don't like it i find it annoying going inside we don't have as many objects but what we do have is the creator room tools which do make it a lot easier well i say easier it actually makes it a bit harder so we have the creative style tool if i click on this little refrigerator right now it's a custom metal swatch i can change the color to literally any color i like i can change the undertones i can change all of the intricate little details it is very very cool i can also change it so if i don't want it to be metal i can go on abstract what have we got over here wavy kitchen tiles we've got bloody bacteria nucleuses cells something a little bit pretentious that you can go all the way now if you did not have a high-end pc this would take a very long time to load like an extremely long time i remember i used to play the sims 3 on my old laptop and honestly it was a nightmare the lag with the create a style tool so yeah that's something to consider i personally think i'd prefer the build buy options in the sims 4. we have a lot more in the same way that they were in the sims 3. i actually prefer the sims 4 swatch system just because it's a bit less overwhelming because although in the sims 3 we have a lot more options it's just so overwhelming and just change just such one little thing is very annoying so in that sense i do give credit to the sims 4 although look at this little crib we have nothing like this in the sims 4. it seems never but in general i will say the sims 4 is better so that is our first win to the sims 4 built by so obviously gameplay is incredibly important seeing that the sims is literally a game shannon maylie jones is ready to go oh my gosh that's so angry the interface is obviously very similar to the sims 4 it's not really that different i'd say they're the same in that respect although we do have these once it's not like the sims 2 wants and fears but we have random things like she wants to join the criminal career that's probably because she is evil to be fair yeah to join a career in the sims 3 you actually have to wait for the postman to come and deliver posts there he comes and we actually have to find a job in the newspaper like they did in the 90s there we go first up criminal corrupt got criminal political business military according to sims.fandom.com we got business criminal culinary journalism law enforcement medical military music political professional sports and science and then of course all the different packs came with a lot more in the sims 3 the mood system was very important so when you're going to work you need to be in a good mood mood is determined it's kind of like in a similar way to emotions work so she's comfy because she's sat down she's having a blast because she's having so much fun it's almost criminal when she is a criminal in terms of the wants they're pretty annoying she wants to see it go she wants to learn guitar skill now she wants to buy a guitar she wants to reach level five criminal career like they are a little bit random in the sims 3. obviously the great thing about this is that it's open world so i can go anywhere if i like although assuming that we do have cars in the sims 3. i feel like we should drive somewhere by the way a lot of people say cars in the sims 4 would never work because you couldn't have driveways by the way in the sims 3 to show you how driveways work you can actually place a driveway anywhere i could even put it right at the back of the lot i can get this little crappy car here although we are yassifying it up because this is not vibe should we get a themed one should we do flames oh my gosh we literally a flame car well there we go we got a flame car and we are having cute bunny rabbit doors i've decided so let's go out into the main world let's say we want to go to the beach you can click and visit old pier beach as you can see she doesn't like drive to the car it just kind of like teleports on the road and then she gets in the car i feel like this system could have been implemented in the sims 4 it still can be implemented in that way i wouldn't mind them honestly just like teleporting off into their car into different lots and yet here we are at the beach oh look at picnic basket in the sims 3 base game seems never should we grab a plate of this person's picnic morgana woolf i'm very sorry but i'm seeing your picnic she said oh my god what are you doing here she's like get off my food why are they staring at each other eating they're like having a competition who can eat it the best they actually look rather creepy i shall not lie this woman oh my god she looks literally so angry but she's just chilling we can go fishing we can go swimming in the sea in terms of socialization and just chatting to this random guy there is a lot to do now i do personally in every sims game i find it overwhelming how many chat options there are i know this is really controversial i would have rather honestly just have none of these options exist but it's socializing in the sims 3 to be honest is very similar to the sims 4 like you can do things like you can form groups and stuff and go up together in groups you can gain a relationship by different means like it's basically the exact same thing i came to the graveyard for a specific reason by the way because yes in the sims 3 we have random graveyards which we don't have in the sims for which is annoying we have mausoleums we can explore the catacombs very randomly but i'm not gonna lie it's honestly amazing i can just be like okay i want to go here let's go teleport with cheeks boom i'm here before i even arrive there are already sims sat here playing chess like there's already you know something going on so i will admit it's pretty good oh look swings in the sims 3 bass game seems never the thing about the sims 3 by the way we have a lot of rabbit hole experiences so this is the elementary school right now i can't really do anything on it because it's literally midnight and i don't have kids in my household but we have a lot of rabbit hole things so like restaurants for example i can click on this restaurant and i can eat here alone i can join the culinary career we have a spa where you can go get a facial you can go get a package you can go get a salon we have the hospital you can join the medical career we'll give birth there we have a theater rather we have a bookshop we have a supermarket i know a lot of people beg for the sims 4 to have groceries in the sims 3 we actually had groceries which was cool and you could choose anything you like in the sims 4 if you want groceries you have to have the country living pack in the sims 3 it's just in the base game we have another little bistro restaurant here we have a book shop where you can shop for books granted you can't go in it's i feel like it's a lot nicer than the sims 4 it feels just a lot more immersive because in this room before you just buy everything from the household inventory do you know what i mean but you know what in terms of general gameplay i would say the sims 3 and the sims 4 and not that dissimilar the actual just basis of playing like the general day-to-day gameplay is honestly so similar there's honestly not that many differences obviously the thing about any sims game is the packs and i feel like we do need to talk about the packs i don't have any install today but we can still talk about them the sims 3 only had stuff packs and expansion packs we didn't have game packs although we did have the sims 3 store which was a capitalistic i hated the sims 3 store worse than kits to tell you now and you know what the sims 3 is an expensive game so sims 3 expansion packs right now it's on sale for 15 quid but usually sims 3 expansions are 30 pounds i don't know what that is in us dollars you're gonna have to work out maybe like 40 or something in terms of stuff packs they are 14.99 which is a lot more than sims 4 stuff packs and in general in terms of value for money i'd say sims 3 stuff packs were pretty bad but the expansion packs were much better as we know with the sims 4 they often spread out a lot of things across multiple packs whereas in the sims 3 it was all kind of combined into one pack if we take a look at the sims 3 ambitions it came with a new town which was a huge town it comes with brand new skills sculpting inventing and tattooing comes with careers architectural designer firefighter ghost hunter investigators stylist a new education career track new features to the existing medicine career track new skill careers being fishing gardening painting writing nectar making photography inventing and sculpting eight lifetime wishes nine lifetime rewards came with earthquakes randomly it came with laundry it came with kids being able to do a bake sale it came with a new real estate system so you could actually own real estate and make money off it it came with motorcycles it came with a consignment sort of junkyard hangout spot a laundromat and a fire station and it came with six new traits as well as so many other things so the sims 3 ambitions had five active careers but the sims 4 get to work has only three active careers sims 3 ambitions came with some extra rabbit hole jobs whereas the sims 4 1 didn't but the sims 3 has loads of new traits and aspirations the sims 4 get to work had none it's just the sims 3 was much more in depth if we look at the sims 3 late night one of my favorite sims 3 packs this pack is basically like the sims 4 get famous plus the sims 4 city living plus the sims 4 vampires plus the sims 4 vintage glamour stuff plus the sims 4 get together all rolled into one we're taking a look at the sim 3 pets in the sims 4 pets pack we just got cats dogs in the sims 4 you've got cats dogs horses and unicorns you can also have lizards turtle snakes and birds in the sims 3. they're are new npc animals being deers raccoons and wild horses four new traits seven lifetime wishes came with the ability to cook gourmet food for your pets can you do that in the sims 4 i don't think you can so here's the deal guys i'm splitting this into two things firstly packs in terms of what packs we have and the variety so in terms of packs and value for money the thing is seems three packs came with a lot more content although the content was a bit more generalized and spread apart unlike the sims 4 which is a lot more niche and detailed i like that the sims 3 was very ambitious and all of the packs had a lot going for them like the island paradise pack having this incredible hotel resort system seems never i find that the sims 4 has really good intentions but they never go far enough in their packs and one of the biggest differences for me between sims 3 and sims 4 is that the sims 3 was very ambitious whereas the sims 4 is a total opposite and yes technically the sims 4 has a lot more bill buying cash with every pack but at the end of the day it's a game you play the game you don't play with clothes you don't play with build buy you play the actual game play so from the perspective of gameplay i will say the sims 3 had significantly better packs in terms of value for money obviously the sims 3 packs were more expensive but they contained a lot more stuff in them but they were not as in-depth and we had the sims 3 store but the sims 4 is a much bigger capitalist so for that it's a split one point to both sims 3 and the sims 4. in terms of occults the sims 3 had the supernatural pack which came with ghost fairies whales which is vampires and genies a lot more than the sims 4. now the sims 4 we have significantly less cuts but i will admit the occults in this sims 4 are a lot more in depth they have their own special worlds what most of them do anyway they have a lot more different kinds of interactions to do they have skill tree systems i would say that the sims for occults are significantly better so yeah the sims 4 gets that point obviously the most important thing in general is the gameplay and gameplay i'm splitting into two categories which is just general gameplay but also playability what i mean by that is bugs glitches performance issues in terms of the gameplay itself although the sims 3 does have its flaws and the sims 4 is a lot better in many ways i just feel like the sims 3 has a lot more to do especially with the open world system i do believe it enhances gameplay especially if you have a lot of the packs but at the same time the sims 4 also has some pretty good gameplay in the sum of the packs it's just that they also have some very bad packs when it comes to gameplay the sims 4 is very hit or miss whereas the sims 3 is very consistent and it's a consistency that i do appreciate about the sims 3 gameplay we've got a lot more things we've got bloody cars for christ's sake like there's just so much going on in the sims 3. all of the time and the amount of customization options just makes it your own world the fact that you can bloody literally build your own world is incredible the sims 3 is much more modable than the sims 4 is for sure that has much better mods do you know what in general i am going to give the gameplay point to the sims 3. now playability i would say both games are pretty shocking the funny thing is though the sims 3 was an ambitious game and that is why it was laggy it was way too ambitious creator's style was way too ambitious the open world system was way too ambitious everything the bloody house folks it was all just so ambitious which was great but unless you had a really powerful pc couldn't even work and even i have a pretty good pc now even my pc is literally sounding like it's about to explode like a rocket ship you can't hear because i have noise suppression on my microphone but it honestly sounds like it's about to explode so yeah the sims 3 was very very laggy and playable although it was not glitchy the sims 4 on the other hand is incredibly glitchy i cannot play the sims 4 very well at all without major bugs and glitches happening the worst thing is like they designed the sims 4 with playability in mind they heard feedback from players that the sim string was unplayable because it was too laggy and that's why the sims 4 doesn't have an open world system that's why the sims 4 has swatches instead of colour wheels but the thing is it's still just as laggy they designed it to be less laggy yet somehow it's literally the same and with glitches it's honestly even worse i think lag and glitches is a really bad thing that's happening every single sims game i would say that the sims 3 and the sims 4 or worse but in terms of like the worst worst i would say it's a sims forum that's because there are packs for the sims 4 that literally do not work like in the slightest like my wedding stories it's a terrible pack that literally doesn't work at all like you can't even have a wedding with it so what's the point in existing dying now is the pack that's very intermittent sometimes it works and sometimes it completely breaks and you fail even though the sims 3 was a lot less playable than the sims 4 is one thing i will say is the sims 3 didn't have like general random laggy issues happening and the thing about the sims 4 is any everybody gets lags and everybody gets playability issues even if you have the best pc in the world whereas in the sims 3 the playability issues only occurred if you had a lower end laptop that didn't have very many kind of good capabilities whereas in the sims 4 the issues happen to everybody across the board so for that i will give playability points to the sims 3. so if my mathematics is correct the sims 3 gets 6 points overall and the sims 4 gets three points so the sims 3 is better than the sims 4. is it though i personally if i had to choose to play the sims 3 forever all the sims one forever i would play the sims 4 forever i think the reason why is these days i prefer build buy mode and that's basically what the sims 4 thrives in although it doesn't thrive in gameplay guys give me your honest opinion what do you think of course make sure you check out the next crazy video here which is me playing the sims 3 properly see you in the next one

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Published: Tue Aug 23 2022