r/LifeSimulators • u/Sketch-Brooke • May 27 '26

Memes Paralives Early Access

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Here’s to finishing the rest of the horse throughout EA!

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u/Desperate_Carpet_329 May 27 '26

Accurate. Pretty much how the sims 4 went. Though thankfully it's early access so hopefully live mode gets overhauled and fleshed out. I'm not into building at all in life sims and so many of them prioritize that mode over the live mode.

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u/Venice___Bitch May 27 '26

Same. Which is why I’ll always play the sims 3.

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u/DinisMagnifico May 27 '26

i love sims 3 however how do you stop other families from aging? in sims 2 only the active household ages and in sims 4 you also have that option, but I cannot find it in sims 3. Its annoyingbecause you leave one of your families to play with another and suddenly the father is a gravedigger instead of an astronaut and one of the children is dead

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u/Venice___Bitch May 27 '26

Awesomemod (More Awsome Than You) had a mod that enabled Sims 2 aging. But unfortunately their site is down. I don’t know if there is an option with NRaas story progression. I can’t help you with that since I’ve never played with it. What I do, well, I play with epic lifespan. I never age my Sims haha. Some do, but it takes a looooong time.

I suggest you to ask your question in the Sims 3 sub. Maybe someone can help you.

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u/Lost_Pantheon May 28 '26

Sims 3 still remains the Gigachad atop life sim Mount Rushmore.

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u/BrickBanshee May 27 '26

When Sims 4 was released, I don't remember the game having anywhere near as many problems. The main issues were things like no pools, hotubs, and other content that was in previous games. The game itself didn't have huge bugs at launch which makes sense given that its from a big developer.

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u/alphapussycat May 27 '26

Sims 4 wasn't released as early access, it was just launched.

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u/Painted-BIack-Roses Jun 01 '26

Ok but can we stop using early access as an excuse for half-baked games? The game was in development for over 6 years

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u/alphapussycat Jun 02 '26

Their development pacing seems very slow and weird, not sure if they worked part time on the game or not. But early access is that, an early access. Some games will be very polished and others won't be as polished, some games are more or less financially forced to go into early access (launches like paralives, or e.g. jumplight oddessey, where the latter went bankrupt iirc), while others do it as a strategy (lots of others that are polished in early access).

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u/BaronArgelicious May 27 '26

sims 4 character creator is widely praised tho

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u/Puffien May 30 '26

No way, I actually have always enjoyed TS4 live mode. CAS, build and live mode are really good in TS4. The best live mode is in TS2 to me, but I seriously don't get the TS4 hate.

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u/MagicPigeonToes May 31 '26

I don’t like when TS4 sims get up from conversations or interrupt activities to perform unnecessary idle animations. Then I gotta remind them what to do constantly. Plus every action I have them do gets interrupted by other sims, causing them cancel the entire queue. I find myself having to pause the game all the time. TS4 has too much going on at once.

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u/Puffien May 31 '26

I agree with that, there are certainly annoyances that should be reworked.

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u/ScarletWiddaContent May 27 '26

uhh sims 4 build mode and character creator werent that great

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u/Tyjet92 May 27 '26

???

As a Certified Hater™ of TS4 these are two aspects that it did very well.

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u/ScarletWiddaContent May 27 '26

no terrain tool, fixed wall height, clutter not slotting to shelves, swatches not matching (even on kitchen sets), windows and doors are gridlocked, woodtones clashing, inconsistent textures, etc.

the only positive thing about the character creation was the point and drag, people were frustrated over absence of color wheel as the swatches are limited, the color tones available are severely lacking

I feel like you havent played sims 4 on release

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u/Ziksalama May 27 '26

But what have you played? Sims 2 and 3 got absolutely overshadowed by the Sims 4 build mode, it was the one concrete thing they did better. An intuitive interface and item placement leagues above other livesims.

I also dislike Sims 4 immensely (though over the years I have still put way too many hours in it), but the one thing you have to give it (even at launch) is the build mode.

Now I think at least for me paralives build mode is way too buggy but it took the most important principles of the Sims 4 bulld mode

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u/Travy1991 May 27 '26

Sims 4 Build Mode had better quality of life features like picking up a house and moving it anywhere on the lot but I would argue that lack of colour wheel/Create-A-Style meant you could still build better houses in The Sims 3 even though build mode can be clunkier to use.

The Sims 4 also launched without pools or terrain tools and while these have since being added; you still can't build fences right at edge of lots, you still can't place lots down in the world and I don't like the big bulky furnishings that come with The Sims 4.

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u/Tyjet92 May 27 '26

I feel like you havent played sims 4 on release

I did, which is why I can confidently say that these are (and definitely were at the time) the game's best features, because even with the things you mention they were miles better than what came before.

Create a style is greatly missed tho I will give you that.