At the beginning of 2025, re-releases of The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 Legacy Collection were released. After so many years, some players have already forgotten that the first installments of the life simulation franchise were not very easy games.
symtherin shared his impressions: he spent more than 2 hours furnishing a house in the first The Sims, only to have his work burn down in a couple of minutes — fires, Sims’ depressed states, the somewhat sluggish reactions of characters, and many other features of the older installments are now “hitting” players who either never knew about them or managed to forget.
Those who played the re-releases of The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 Legacy Collection also complain about technical issues — there are bugs as well as crashes, and sometimes it even comes down to “screens of death.”
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Cover art author: Electronic Arts Maxis. Image source: steamcommunity.com
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Screenshot author: Electronic Arts Maxis. Image source: twitter.com