SleepyD2k Guides - The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection Basics

Because i played enough of it to consider it a trash in gameplay compared to Thesims2. Graphics dont make a game, never did, and i played almost all TS3 EPs in order to try to like it an ended hating it. Most EPs are rip-off and watered down versions of TS2 or TS1 EPs, the sims are robotic and lifeless, the game lacks several good features from Thesims2 because the guy who made it knew 0 about what a thesims is suposed to be and the game is full of bad implementations of content, the game in my point of view is not "amazing" and far for beign anything like that in any way, to me it ended up beign boring anoying and awfull. TS3 is like a paiting, it is beutifull but it serves nothing if compared to other Sim Games.

I also had to use several Mods only to make it playable since EA never fixed the problems caused by a basegame created in a faulty platform that was powered by each new EP that came out and had to be permanently paying atention in order to not let any bug corrupt my savegame.

I received the Sims 2 Ultimate Edition today. I am downloading it now. It is 12.57GB. The box art is the same as the box art for Original The Sims 2 game. I am going to run it on my laptop for a test but after that I am going to uninstall it from my desktop and install the Ultimate edition on my desktop.

Also, when I opened it after installing, the main screen said 'Fun with Pets'. :S But it does have all the EP's and SP's in it.

The splash screen says Fun With Pets because it was the last EP released. The task manager says Mansion & Garden stuff, and the error message says EP 9. This doesn't matter though because it is actually the Ultimate Collection (a merged file with all the games). Also, don't install the older patches. they may screw your game up.

Ah, I see. ^^ Sounds good.

Also, they are planning to release this game for retail. Origin is trying to expand their games library and include older released games. They are slowing updating and adding games that are older and working with other publishers. They are sort of going into the direction of Steam but they want to add different services to make them stand out.

Good thing we got it for free then right?

So if they didn't include pets, seasons and University there would be as much uproar as no Open for Business, and they have much better features then TS2 (Except maybe seasons, although it's a very good EP) the others had much better features. Also TS3 had much better EPs then TS2 had, Into the future, Island Paradise, Supernatural, what did TS2 have? Fixing a car.......... I agree the sims are robotic. I cannot play TS2 due to the closed neighborhood and no story progression and "the guy who made it" yeah because one guy made a whole game... TS3 also had CASt which was a great feature, another reason I can't play TS2, not enough options.

I just wanted to add that there were two surveys issued by EA with OFB on them. Island Paradise and University won the first one and Into the Future won the second one. OFB was pretty much an afterthought most of the series. The most wanted EPs mentioned on the forums were Seasons, Pets, and Late Night.

TS3 Eps ? Latenight had less actual features than Nightlife and the vampires were awfull,The nightclubs ? Empty, celebrities? anoying, period, end of content and no more. Showtime was an awfull remake of TS1 Superstar, with way less things to do and the jobs got boring quickly, and SIMPORT is the worst crap they ever did.

Island paradise should have been in the Travel EP but it was not because they wasted the Travel theme with an awfull Goal-oriented linear system of errands based on tomb exploration that loses the charm to never beign played again and certainly one of the most awfull EPs of all times. And oh yeah, just an example of theme that has been striped in several overpriced parts to fill up the store.

Most of content on ambitions is surrounded around giving a job for hobbie activities wich is not great thing,Detective is repetitive and Medic has no real upgrade apart from one or two oportunity types. In the category "see sim in job" it fails miserably near OFB when it comes to Fun and replay value.

Supernatural, loads and loads of occults that were not implemented in the right EPs now are being ported in an awfull implementation since none of then as a real atention it needed and the EP is full of bugs and lacks regular content apart from the occults. Generations ? TS2 basegame alone has a better family gameplay than TS3+Generations. Pets would be ok if the pets were not as much as robotic as the sims thenselves, Seasons make the game quite laggy and University is horribly buggy but they are the only 2 halfway-decent EPs in TS3 franchise.

And why?? Because of bad decisions of producers who clearly had not clue of what thesims is suposed to be, too much MMO-Like features and too much focus on visual instead of gameplay ,but Most of all, The EPs were not good because the basegame was not good, and more, they were not good because of STORE, store is probably the worst thing that ever hapened to the franchise, not because of hair or clothing, but because of premium content, every time an EP was released, a paid store-set with a similar theme was released shortly after, look at the surf boards. Most of TS3 Store Premium content is about hobbies and sports, loads and loads of sets contain objects that were once part of a single Thesims2 EP - Thesims2 Freetime.

Thesims2 has a real apartment system wich is unexistent in TS3. Thesims2 has open venues for grocery stores, clothing stores, restaurants with Nightlife EP, Pet shops with TS2 Pets, and your own bazar with OFB, thesims2 has hotels with bon-voyage with all it gets,it has nightclubs that i once got more than 30 sims in the same lot dancing and duing diferent things by thenselves when in TS3 they are likely to keep standing still. And for those lots, what is there in TS3 ? Oh right, Rabitholes,Rabitholes,Rabitholes,Rabitholes AND Rabitholes. Everything was cut-out and replaced by an unplayable version of itself. I Tried to like TS3, i really did, but the truth is that should not have bought it in first place. I used CAST ? Yes, but i realise this is more of a resource hog other than anything, it is unecessary. The Open World ? would be cool IF the town was not desertic and there was no-one anywhere, and most people would go to....Dance Club? The Park ? NO they would go to the HORSE PARK and keep there, standing still and doing nothing. I am currently playing TS2 only and the only thing i miss is the diagonal placement of objects, nothing more.

Well, that is what i think of it.

Please stay on topic and don't turn this into an argument as to which game is the best in the series.

Thanks.

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id love to reply to you but once again I can barely understand your broken English, I have an opinion, if you don't agree with it, that's fine but you moaning about the game won't make me not like it, as much as you seem to think it will. I merely mentioned I like a game and you have some how turned it I to a war of the games, can you not please? I really can't be bothered. Also stop spouting your opinions as facts, love how you stated that things WERE this and WERE that then said "well that's what I think of it".

Oh really ? I made an statement, somebody made a question, a gave the awenser, you replied to me, i replied back. Do not want an awenser ? Do not quote me, If you want me to let you be. You quoted me saying that features from a game that i hate are better than a game i like, did you surely Expect me to simply leave it like that or simply agree with you or just click on a virtual button ?

And i dont take my opnion as a fact, i take my opnion on the facts and one fact is that these things really hapenned in my game and i have all reasons to hate this game in the way i do. I would make an even bigger comment but since the OP is asking for stop i will stop, unless someone quote me of course. You may like it no matter what, but keep in mind that i myself will not like it no matter what.

You may want to delete the code from your post. Someone browsing the web may end up stealing your game.

Regarding the Ultimate Collection, I've now downloaded it and it's on my computer, but when I try to play it, it asks for a registration code for Fun With Pets. There is a code pre set in the notification box but it isn't working, can anyone help?

You will need to contact an EA Game Advisor because this looks like it is an account issue with your codes. To contact use this link: http://eahelp.ea.com/en/. Here is the latest update. You are not the only person having this issue:

The Sims 2 Code Activation issues

We are currently investigating the code activation issues that some players are experiencing when they attempt to load The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection for the first time. Please be aware that support lines are currently at maximum capacity, so you will experience longer than average wait times.

Thank you for your patience.