Coop?

[xNironx]

Hi, me and my partner spent a good while playing sims 2 coop together, is there any coop in this game or is that a big no ? Thanks

[asabizarre]

This is the PC version, so no. Some of the console games allow for multiplayer though :)

[Sasha Mason]

Originally posted by asabizarre:

This is the PC version, so no. Some of the console games allow for multiplayer though :)

It's so silly how coop is so often excluded from the PC release, it makes no sense.
It's not like you can't plug in multiple controllers or something.

[May]

Originally posted by Sasha Mason:

Originally posted by asabizarre:

This is the PC version, so no. Some of the console games allow for multiplayer though :)

It's so silly how coop is so often excluded from the PC release, it makes no sense.
It's not like you can't plug in multiple controllers or something.

the pc versions (the og ones) never had coop implemented or even planned as far as i know. the only one that was multiplayer was the sims online but that doesnt exist anymore.

[Sasha Mason]

Originally posted by May:

Originally posted by Sasha Mason:

It's so silly how coop is so often excluded from the PC release, it makes no sense.
It's not like you can't plug in multiple controllers or something.

the pc versions (the og ones) never had coop implemented or even planned as far as i know. the only one that was multiplayer was the sims online but that doesnt exist anymore.

Yeah but the console versions had it, right?
If yes, then my point still stands.
Of course nothing that can really be done about it now, but doesn't change how I feel like its a silly thing to be excluding.

[May]

Originally posted by Sasha Mason:

Originally posted by May:

the pc versions (the og ones) never had coop implemented or even planned as far as i know. the only one that was multiplayer was the sims online but that doesnt exist anymore.

Yeah but the console versions had it, right?
If yes, then my point still stands.
Of course nothing that can really be done about it now, but doesn't change how I feel like its a silly thing to be excluding.

the console version is a completely different game from the pc version, why would they include something that was never meant to be there in the first place?

edit: a lot of people confuse the console games and the pc games, the pc versions are the original games with the original gameplay style where you pretty much play god, the console editions are completely different for each console.
the ps2 sims 2 isnt the same as the psp or ds sims 2, these games are more story based...

these editions are pretty much the same old pc versions with only a little patch (that doesnt even work properly) for newer systems, nothing new was added and they never announced new stuff either, they claimed since the start that this is pretty much a re-release, not a remaster or a remake.

[Sasha Mason]

Originally posted by May:

Originally posted by Sasha Mason:

Yeah but the console versions had it, right?
If yes, then my point still stands.
Of course nothing that can really be done about it now, but doesn't change how I feel like its a silly thing to be excluding.

the console version is a completely different game from the pc version, why would they include something that was never meant to be there in the first place?

Because I had assumed that the PC and console versions were basically the same game....
Now that makes me wonder why they made two completely different games, instead of one game and porting it to different platforms with all the same features included across all platforms. That's, kinda what I expect from a game.

[May]

Originally posted by Sasha Mason:

Originally posted by May:

the console version is a completely different game from the pc version, why would they include something that was never meant to be there in the first place?

Because I had assumed that the PC and console versions were basically the same game....
Now that makes me wonder why they made two completely different games, instead of one game and porting it to different platforms with all the same features included across all platforms. That's, kinda what I expect from a game.

idk to be honest, there are various versions of the sims 2 for plenty of consoles and each one is different from the other.
why ea did this? i guess it was made like that to make it easier to play with a joystick or the psp/ds buttons.
i think theres also a gba version around

[Sasha Mason]

Yeah I know about the GBA releases, those are obviously very different because of hardware limitations. I think there was also a Nintendo DS Version of Sims 2.

Now I have to go and look what's different about console and PC version of Sims 2, since I only know the console version from way back.

[Rubyko]

Originally posted by Sasha Mason:

Because I had assumed that the PC and console versions were basically the same game....
Now that makes me wonder why they made two completely different games, instead of one game and porting it to different platforms with all the same features included across all platforms.

Because porting video games wasn't as simple back then as it is now that consoles all share similar architectures, hardware manufacturers, and functionalities. Porting back then imposed limitations that had to be circumvented to the point where "ports" were outright new games in some cases, with functionalities exclusive to them.

The clearest example of that is PS2's Sims 2 Pets, which is a standalone expansion because the PS2 had no proper hard drive support (like the XBOX and PC) so there was no real way to implement a content expansion pack system like the one Sims 2 on PC had.

[Sasha Mason]

Mhm, I guess I'm just too used to newer games where ports of those games really are the same game, to the point where crossplay is a thing.

[hectormanuel27]

Originally posted by Sasha Mason:

Mhm, I guess I'm just too used to newer games where ports of those games really are the same game, to the point where crossplay is a thing.

there are multiplayer modes

[Hellbeholder]

There has to be a way to mod multiplayer into Sims 1 or 2. The spin-off games, like Bustin Out, were able to do it with splitscreen, Sims 4 has a fitting mod, so why not these games?