The Sims 3 review: It Sucks 65

I like a lot of the new features with Sims 3, including the way you can travel downtown or anywhere in real time. I also like the design features which enable you to use different patterns, colors, ect. on objects and clothing, and the subtle movement of the plants and bushes. Nice touch. The views of the neighborhood are awesome, and the wider range of personality traits are definitely a plus. I HATE the fact that every patch they come out with SCREWS the game up. It's also lame that EA wants to charge players for all the custom content, like the game isn't expensive enough. EA just couldn't stand it that creators from the community were making custom content for free. They had to cut in on that market and make sure players pay handsomely for their custom content. It used to be they would just come out with Stuff Packs and you could go buy the latest from the store. The prices for the objects at The Store online are way too expensive compared to buying a stuff pack at your local store. EA knows that we players HATE not having the objects from the EA store because custom content that is rendered by other players cannot be downloaded or installed unless you have the original object from the store online. The latest patch has a feature to prevent people from downloading or installing Store items they haven't purchased, but it also prevents you from installing Store items you DID buy because it's so glitchy. Patterns from the Sims Resource won't install, so if you have a subscription to TSR, you are unable to install content you paid for into the game. World Adventures is a mess. The patches from that game causes crashes and families to disappear. EA is always "working on " solving the problems THEY create with each patch. It just gets worse and worse with each new patch or EP. One more thing, since they went so far as to have travel in real time, with the ability to meet and talk to other Sims along the way, WHY did they create rabbit holes for the businesses and workplaces? WHY?
The Sims2 had much better ambient lighting, and is more aesthetically pleasing to the eye in many ways than the Sims3.
I loved the Sims 2 and I am seriously considering reinstalling it so I can finally have fun with the Sims again.

ARE YOU LISTENING EA?

Omg! I Totally Agree I Went And Bought The Sims 3 On My Birthdaii This Year Im Ah Big Fan Of The Sims I Have Every Single Expansion Pack And Add On I Waisted £35 On Ah Load Of Sh**! ImSo Dissapointed In The Sims3 It Dose Nothing Buht Lag! Its Like The Sim1 Is Ouht Agen I Feel Real Bad For Askin For Something That Expensive When Its Pooh! Refund Please!

It has to be computer thats stuffing up the game because I play the sims 3 all the time and none of this happens.

WOW... cant believe i bought this damn game! Graphics Horrible, The people still look fat after u bring the meter all the way down. I just bought the game yesterday and after the first ten minutes had to take it out. Havnt even gotten a feel for the game and u know what i dont want to.I thought that creaters are supposed to make games bettter. What the hell happend?Game is going back to the store if i cant take it back then off to game stop... Sim 2 is way better folk stick with it. I love my sims 2...SOOO ANGRY!

I am a simfanatic and I will say that they truly ruined the gameplay. Part of the allure of the sims is that you can have several families in a neighborhood and you can individually control all of them. I was super stoked about the Sims 3 until I realized that the entire neighborhood ages with gameplay and it's a feature that you CANNOT turn off. If you like the sims 1 &2 for the gameplay...this is NOT the game for you.

I have to agree. The idea behind the sims 3 is great. But with all the bugs, glitches, the "sensitivity" of the game.. It's more of a headache then a good time. I meet all of the requirements actually go beyond and my graphics is a nvidia geforce gtx 260- so I'm ok in those departments. But I've had inivisible towns people, sims freezing, game shutting itself off, error code 16, blurry toxic looking grass, can't excavate in foreign lands, saving that just won't stop, sold stuff in a store and then no longer had any options with it.. And the list goes on and on. I literally have a migraine after a weekend of playing this game! I have to save constantly so I don't lose hours of work, and sometimes a regular save isn't successful. I mean it's been over a year I believe and 2 major exp's into the game and STILL ALL THESE PROBLEMS AND plus new ones with the new exp's!? Come on EA! GET IT TOGETHER ALREADY! I've called and chatted with EA customer service and mostly just a waste of my time!

I totally agree: I have 4gigs of ram, a nvidia gt 240 1gb videocard, an AMD athlon II x64 620 processor but the game is f***ing slow and the terrain textures didn't load.

I have been playing for a few months, and i admit for awhile i was addicted and looked forward to playing everyday. Now i just hate it. after twomonths of playing my babies wont turn to toddlers my toddlers wont turn to children my children wont turn to teenagers and my teenagers wont turn to young adults. This is very irratating because the kids take way tooooooooooooooooooooo long to age on their own. I was creating family generations this way, now its just to long and drawn out. Never want to play again. I also dont like how my sims cant meet the other sims i created since the family's are in their own town. Well everybody else in my family will get a chance to use the computer now im'a start back painting for entertainment.

Finaly, someone else who feel the same way about this mess. I was so looking forward for the Sims 3. So I bought it. The town looked ok at first glanse, so I went on to make a sim, I got so angry... even if the sims2 sim looked a bit like a barbiedoll, this sim looked like a boblehead figure, the proportions were all wrong, there was no balance in the body compared with the head. I tried making the sim very skinny, wich only made it look worse, so I tried making her bigger, only when she was realy fat, the head fit the body.
So the hair... I HATE the hair in sims 3, not just few options, but the ones who are there looks terrible, and the hair had no movement or animation like in Sims 2, I loved that effect, made it look more real.
I made a smal family, moved them into a small home and sent them to town. I wanted to see how the stores worked now, only to find out that ''wait a minute... you can't go in, but look at this beautiful wall''

Still I wanted to give the game a chanse, the gameplay was not so bad, so been playing for a while, and for my birthday I got the sims 3 adventures. And because of a bug, my intire family tree was F***t, only showing one parent or something.

And the store, seriously, it had to be the idea of some drug sniffing a** hole. What was so wrong about people making their own clothes and hairstyles?! The stuff in the store are crap too.
The stuff I downloaded for sims 2 was amazing. Now you can't do that without alot of reprograming and file downloades. I tried to do it, but failed bigtime:P

I can't say how much I miss Sims 2, so I will start playing that again. And hopefully EA will do something about this mess they made.

I HATE the game completely. I hope the EA producers of this game die. They got us waiting for all this time, and THIS CRAP?!? Oh, yeah lets stare at a building for two minutes while my sims are inside. Booooringgg... EA ripped us off, and the design of sims suck. Looks like cartoons. I reinstalled sims 2 and sims 2 EP's to my computer, and now sims 3 sits on my junk shelf. Never playing it again.

I love the game sims 3 but the only problem is that there are too many glitches and crashes. Is there a way that when my sims 3 stops working for some strange reason i can get it back to normal without restaring the whole game? I have restarted the game for about 4 times now because of glitches and freezing. The game is great but I just am tired of restarting it over and over again! If you know a solution to this problem please help.

You took the words out of my mouth. If I'm not screaming, pulling my hair out, about to throw my laptop out the window, then I'm waiting for the thing to f****** load. Where do I BEGIN with all the problems!?!?!?

Ok, well, lets just say you go to the Sim's store and spend $100 (Thank goodness I only spent $10!) on Sim (Never mind- It doesn't even deserve a capital letter!) Points. So, blah blah blah you buy your stuff. Hit the download button. OH NO! It's not in the launcher! Wait 10 minutes of being pissed. There it is! Wait- theres an error. You can't put it in your game. What a shame! We'll just give you costumor support in maybe 4 hours if you want 'Live Chat' or 24 hours for an e-mail that doesn't help you with your prblems.

Ah... So, you FINALLY got some stuff from the exchange! Free cool things! Wait... why is there nakedness in my options! Why is there a naked sim walking down the street! The d*** excange downloaded pervert ugly items on my computer. Yay!

Finally, (I'm only saying three things) I'm playing on my laptop. Next thing i know, my computer makes a fart noise (Yes, really) and the screen turns pink! Thanks, sims. I love the background! Wait. Oh, i have to shut it off to get any use out of my computer- if it doesn't give me a virus first.

You can see why so many people LOVE sims. >:(

I'm sorry to contradict anyone but i've had Sims3 for a while now and i think it's pretty fun...
The reason i think it loads so slow is because it's so detailed.
I've noticed most people are dwelling on the negatives but the things you talking about isn't really important to me. You said you deleted everything on you computer? Well no affiance but that was a stupid idea. The problem could still be your computer. Maybe you've bought crappy a brad or something because it worked fine on my computer...
You computer might have gotten a virus by some of the modifications but other wise i think you being a bit ridiculous.

Sims 3 still sucks ###. I tried to give it some time and bought expansion packs, but alas, it just sucks. It's boring, the sims are creepy, there's no real community feeling in the town because of all the freaking rabbit holes and the game won't let play more than one sim at a time without losing everything when switching households. It sucks.

My machine is fine and the game runs well enough, I'm computer literate enough to deal with bugs without letting it ruin my game play, so none of the usual arguements apply. I'm talking pure gameplay. Sucks. Hard.

If you haven't bought it, don't - play sims 2 (or anything else, for that matter). Save your money. Tic Tac Toe with a pencil and paper is more fun than this load of crap game. Unless you're 10 years old and like playing games that spoon feed lame scenarios for your pretend, adult life... in which case, this may be the game for you.

I agree with all you guys. I f***ing hate this piece of ###. i was so excited when i bought this game, since i loved playing the sims 2. i thought it would be worth buying the sims 3 for £40. I started playing it and the speed was as slow as f*** even though my pc is only two years old, apparently i had to buy this hi-tech video card which i didn't think was right to pay for because i've spent enough on the game! I downloaded a speed patch for the game which made it a little faster but only to the pace of a snail. Oh yeah, by the way, i actually prefer the sims 2 graphics than this. And when it finally loads up on create a sim there are LESS hairstyles than the default sims 2 ones and most of them are stupid. Why the hell do they still look obese when you can't make the sims any skinnier? The skin texture is too flat so they look like wax candles. In fact, create a sim is probably the only part i like in the game because it loads the fastest. OH GOD THIS IS THE WORST PART when i started playing it with my new sims, the game stopped every movement for 1 minute (I'm not kidding) and i just wasn't even worth playing! AND WHY THE F*** CAN'T I BUILD MY OWN NEIGHBORHOOD like in the sims 2? Instead we have to buy them? We also can only just seem to play one family, ridiculous. I don't know if this has happened to anyone else but when i applied my sim for a job, the game would freeze 100% all the F****** TIME!

WHAT A F****** LET DOWN EA. A WASTE OF MONEY. i just play my sims 2 instead!

Anyone who can appreciate this game has clearly never played the previous two titles otherwise they would know what they are missing out on. I mean custom content was the main thing in the Sims 2 and now you have to buy it and it's illegal to make it! Sims in the Sims 3 look terrible, ok they look better than they ever did in CAS but once you get them out of studio lighting into world lighting they look like a badly composited architechtural rendering and are about as exciting as a date with a corpse.
Even Simlish sounds alot worse and basically everything seems rushed particularly in-game patterns and textures, which are by the way revolting :(
To finish off: the whole idea of a Sims game is control. In the Sims 2 you can use SimCity4 to make your own neighbourhood, populate it with any type of lots you want, make great looking sims, build restaurants, bars, nightclubs and have your sims hang out in them, create your own skintones and textures for walls and floors and control nearly every aspect of the game. Flip the coin and you have the Sims3 where the only good idea was to have a seamless neighbourhood with no loading times, what good is that if the rest of the game sucks ###.
EA you have ruined the franchise because to you money is more important than the fanbase.

I'm surprised I haven't seen EA games on watchdog or a similar programme. THE GAME SUCKS, don't waste your money. The concept is great, more interactive, sims not constrained to the house etc. etc., but there are so many bugs that should have been ironed out before it went on sale. EA games must be aware of them so why aren't they doing anything about it? Because they're still selling and still making money. Children turning into aliens, (too long to go into here) slow loading, freezing, crashing, losing all saved games and having to restart. When you first start playing you think WOW this is such an imprivement on Sims 2, but don't be lulled into a false sense of security. The more you play the more buggy the game gets, until it either crashes and loses all your advancement, or you are forced to reinstall because the game has become unplayable. it's a great idea so please sort it out EA games, you've made enough money from us.

I've only seen a few videos of Sims 3 on YouTube. It didn't look that fun or interesting to me so I wasn't going to buy it anyway. I decided to see what other people who played the game thought about it, and I'm not surprised. What really sucks is I let my friend borrow all my Sims 2 games, and guess what? She lost them all. I can't even play Sims at all anymore, so I'm pretty sad lol.

I agree with all the crashing, I put my game in and it just pops out over and over and I just have to keep pressing it back in. Buy the sims 2 its way better. I dont have it but I can already tell.

I was so disappointed when I got the game for my PS3. It's so, so slow and has barely any clothing choices or hair choices. All the people looked fat, and there was no changing the nose or eyes or mouth to the perfect thing. There weren't many choices of homes that didn't cost more than five times your money... I got it and was so happy to play it, now I don't even touch the disk. I would recommend Sims 4, as I haven't played it, but it has so many clothing choices, face choices, color choices, house choices, and it makes your sims exactly how you want them to look! I watch lots of Youtube on my time, so I'd know. Thank you for saying this. I hope The Sims Company steps up their game. Goodbye, and thanks!
- Loki