Objects I miss
Kyna:
Quote from: JediMaster on 2009 June 11, 01:42:34
Quote from: Kyna on 2009 June 11, 00:32:14
Stick the guitar in the sim's inventory then only that sim can use it, and they will be able to use it under free will. This is how you can avoid TS2-style flypaper-instruments.
Agreed, that is what I have to do as well.
"Have to do"? You make it sound like a chore or hardship.
I think it's one of the plusses of TS3, that I can click on the sim's inventory and have them start playing guitar wherever they are, whether at home, at a comm lot, or visiting a friend. Not to mention that I know the guitar isn't being used by some random sim when I want a particular sim to use it.
Not sure if it was worth giving up pianos (and 6's music skilling) for, but I love the feature.
GayJohnScarritt:
Quote from: McCrea on 2009 June 10, 22:56:35
Quote from: Marq on 2009 June 10, 19:32:49
Optional Cell phones! One thing that drives me crazy is when my sims out on the town and they keep getting harassed by callers.
Turn off ringer? I don't know if that stops the sound wave tho.
If you only turn off the cell-phone ringer, the sim still gets the sound waves. If you turn off the Main phone in the house, then no more sound waves. And my sims still get those random opportunity pop's, without having to stop what they're doing to answer the phone.
Larva and Toddlers are no longer interesting to me. I totally enjoyed having spawn and sproglets in TS2, but for TS3, it's a chore in order to get to the interesting stages.
I also miss genetics that actually produced something interesting to look forward too. Now each generation is the same as the last generation, because they all look the same. I've got one line of males that spans 6 generations and they all look exactly the same. EAxis went and gave the "First-Born" effect a whole new meaning.
Czezechael:
Quote from: idtaminger on 2009 June 10, 23:50:17
It's not an object, but I miss the old romance animations. The TS3 "kiss" animation is essentially a tiny peck, and the "make out" animation is just a series of pecks that lasts for about 15 seconds. The TS2 animations were over the top but at least they conveyed emotion. And there were some really sweet animations like the slow dance, etc. Romance in the TS3 is so dry and boring. I used to love pairing sims up in TS2 but that's lost its appeal in TS3.
This and the complaint about genetics, also the new WooHoo icon, which honestly looks like an irradiated mutant cartoon heart, melting and crying from the pain of it all. Also the new baby model. I have never seen a larvoid baby in my entire life, save for maybe in a hospital. You do not take them home and continue to enlarvanate them.
Fie on the "scale up" system of social interactions, maybe I'm tactless or something, but I don't have to make stupid faces before I can tell jokes, my partner and I don't have to flirt before we kiss, it's just another stupid time-eating aspect of the game. I miss not having this stupid system.
Ezura:
Quote from: idtaminger on 2009 June 10, 23:50:17
It's not an object, but I miss the old romance animations. The TS3 "kiss" animation is essentially a tiny peck, and the "make out" animation is just a series of pecks that lasts for about 15 seconds. The TS2 animations were over the top but at least they conveyed emotion. And there were some really sweet animations like the slow dance, etc. Romance in the TS3 is so dry and boring. I used to love pairing sims up in TS2 but that's lost its appeal in TS3.
I also miss the cuteness of toddlers in TS2. The TS3 ones are dead eyed and creepy, and although it used to annoy the hell out of me when TS2 toddlers wandered everywhere I find it unsettling how TS3 toddlers can stay in one spot for hours and not go anywhere.
Also, not having a piano, or at least a violin, is stupid since classical musicians are highly unlikely to have gotten their start playing on a guitar. And the lack of any classical instruments is doubly stupid given that the game actually has a classical music career branch.
I agree with everything you said here.
The "First kiss" looked like something very special in Sims 2, they made a very big deal out of it, the Sims 3 "First kiss" looks like 8 year old kids giving each other a kiss for the first time...
I loved in Sims 2 where they looked nervous to give their first kiss, puckering their lips and closing their eye... then realize they actually liked it!
That emotion isn't present in Sims 3.
Romance has also become so tedious when you have to get other Sims "in the mood", then they suddenly are in a bad mood and push you away like you are some kind of pervert.
Even though toddlers have 90% of their original animations, I think there's just something very wrong with their sounds.
When they play with a toy, they sometimes scream at the top of their lungs, which doesn't sounds like they are playing.
First time I heard it I would drop everything I did, because I thought the babysitter was abusing the kid.
I liked it better in Sims 2 where they were giggling, even if they giggled "loud", but it didn't sound like child abuse.
The same thing happens with adult interactions too, it sounds like you offended a person badly and they scream at you, yet they get plus points on their friendship bar.
McCrea:
Quote from: Ezura on 2009 June 11, 07:46:23
... I thought the babysitter was abusing the kid.
I knew something fundamental was missing from the game. And the parents could stand around and cheer.
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