Welcome to the forum, DeLouche. I hope you stick around it's the best place to discuss Sims 3.
As for Seasons and University, I found University boring, and I will only go back for the lovely Cow Plant (that was my favorite), and I miss seasons terribly. I never fully abandoned Sims 2, and still play, but I was disappointed that you couldn't make aliens, when I went back to playing Sims 2, when my GPU was starting to say "ENOUGH!" on Sims 3. I got a new graphics card, (Hello, Nvidia), and my problems virtually went away. I'm still on Windows Vista by the way.
Nothing wrong with going back to play Sims 2, right? I could never fully abandon Sims 2. Sims has been there for me through good times and bad.
I think I'll share my addiction story from the beginning.
My first experience with Sims wasn't very good. It was SimTown, and it was for a school project in the computer class for Elementary school. It was for a grade, so it sucked the fun out of the disasters and such. I could go back to SimCity, but would I want to? Sims, I remember playing with friends at their places, but I don't know if it was that great, compared to Sims 2, as TS1 is very hazy. The biggest memory I have is Sims 2. It was with my cousins, and their neighbors. My peer cousin, (she's actually my step-cousin), and my younger cousins (their twins, now 14, and the older cousin's half-brothers), and I played the game on the console, with their neighbors (who are brothers), across the street, and would play all kinds of video games together. The older one, is my cousins boyfriend of nearly 7 years, and his younger brother, is autistic (he's not severe, but he's at the higher end of the lower spectrum), so naturally he's hooked, and would bring his TS2 game over. We all made our Simselves, and my twin cousins, used to make Aliens. I never thought to get it for myself just yet, since that game was there. On my 21st birthday, in 2010, (late), my Sister's friend, brought the game over. (Sims 3). That was my first real PC experience with the Sims series. I've been playing on his game so long, and purchased my own (digital) copy around the same time Generations came out. That's where I discovered the magic of digital downloads. As much as I loved Sims 3, I got super sick of the game crashing on me, and realized how much I missed Sims 2. To this day, people have their collection of Sims disks over the years physically stored on their bookshelves, I kept mine on the Origin download manager.
Sims was a huge gateway for me. With Sims, not only did I learn how to play the game, and all the EP's ahead of time, I also did a little self discovery along the way. It brought back computer knowledge, stored in my brain, for years, a great online community of Sims addicts, and a special go to guide and a brand new, but still legal way, to expand my collections of Sims games over the years.
Oh and all you newbies out there, my name is Jeana, (pronounced Gee-Nuh), and I'm addicted to Sims. Here is my "bookshelf" of my Sims collection:
Currently, I only have one SP, (Master Suite), and the only one not "physically" present is Ambitions, which was digitally purchased off of Amazon, and manually downloaded. Pets is the only physical copy I own, and will ever own, as I got it as a gift for my birthday. As you can tell, I will go back and play Sims 2 every now and then. Yup I'm addicted on a whole-another level.
That collection is slowly expanding.
