I do have a few, although I like the sims 3 I don't love it. Everything that I thought I didn't like from the sims 2 I ended up missing from the sims 3. I came to realize that for me the stuff that I thought was annoying in the sims 2, was actually what made the game so much fun.



Needs - after hearing that there was no needs I thought that it would be awesome. After recently reinstalling the sims 2 and playing the old sims style (focusing on needs), I realized how much I actually missed playing the game with having to check the sims needs.



Humor - after going back to the sims 2, and seeing all the humor in the game, looking back on it, I don't think that there is as much humor in the sims 3.



Wants/Fears/Wishs/Promises - When I first heard of the wishes/promises for the sims 3 I thught that it would be a lot of fun since I didn't have to worry about the sims mood decreasing just from a fear. To my surprise I actually found myself really enjoying the wants/fears system after playing the sims 2 again. I didn't realize how much fun the wants/fears for the sims 3 actually made the game (until I tried something else). The wishs/promises seem to just be there just because, and after a while I didn't see a point in completing them



Only 1 lifetime wish - for the sims 3 one of the things that I found really diappointing as that there was only one lifetime wish then after you completed that one wish that was it. Also they seemed really easy to complete. For me it takes me a while in the sims 2 to get my sims to have a platinum mood. For the sims 3 there isn't much of a challenege



No real challenge - for me one of the things that I love about the sims 1 + 2 is there is a challenge. After playing the sims 3, I found the game to be very easy. Promoting for work didn't take a lot of time, getting money was easy, and getting larger houses and becoming wealthy was easy. Also in the sims 3 there's too many ways to make money. I know that there's a lot of ways to make money in the sims 2 but it seems like it's a lot more challenging.



All in all after playing the sims 3 for a while I've come to the conclusion that the sims 3 seems to be very dumbed down. A lot of the charm that transfered over from the sims 1 to the sims 2 seemed to of disappeared in the sims 3.