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Questions about The Sims (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

My wife asked about the sims. She has an m1 MacBook Air and I see there are 98 dlc options.

Do I need certain one or can she do free to play. Or is an older version better?

What do I need to know?

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[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 8 points 1 month ago

Sims 3 is generally agreed to be the best by the people talk to, but my favourite is sims 2.. (probably cause nostalgia :3)

Anyhow 4 is free and runs on mac from what I can see, so.. just go with that x3.. I personally wouldn't pay for the DLC and just mod it, but I dunno how macs are in terms of mods

[-] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Thanks! When I saw free to play I worried that it was bad.

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago

The sims 4 launched at full price, mind you, and later got made free for.. some anniversary I believe :3.. as a full price game it definitely got a fair bit of slack cause overall it had less content than the previous games, and people didn't like needing DLC for what they considered base features, but.. free is free ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fwiw I still found 4 a lot of fun, it has enough unique features and the loading screens were much shorter than previous games. But I also didn’t play with dlc, so that probably helped.

2 is my favorite but I do agree with others that 3 is better. It has so much customization built in and the more open world is more fun to play in

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

Oh definitely :3.. nothing wrong with 4 as a stand-alone, just series wise at launch it was a bit lackluster :3.. there's definitely still fun to be had with it ^^

[-] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Base game is free now. Beyond that, unless she mentions any dlc by name, this is the situation for a steam gift card. The game itself promotes other dlc on launch. The content varies a lot in terms of price and amount of included content. The bigger ones (non-sale) are about $40 USD. Down to about $5 for the small ones. Pretty sure a decent sale is going right now too.

[-] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks! I’ll pick it up today to surprise her with.

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