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** ... which is nothing you can't say about the previous two games thanks to the wonders of custom content, but making fat Sims and leather everything is easier with the expanded CAS and Create-A-Style.
** The ''Late Night'' expansion pack includes a slider to adjust the breast size of female Sims.
*** That's not all, ''Late Night'' includes Fetishist Clothing (as seen [http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/2813/screenshot182j.jpg here]), walking around in a towel (after your clothes get stolen when you skinny dip), the sensual-like dances you can do on a table, and a rather... [http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/1782/screenshot202.jpg suggestive] way Sims approach others when you WooHoo in an elevator.
** ''The Sims 3'' recently added shower sex, more hot tubs to WooHoo in, and male body hair. And there's no shortage of corsets.
** Someone has made a top and bottom in ''The Sims 3'' that renders female Sims naked. Now combined with the more realistic skins . . .
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** An in-game example. When Toddlers and Children play with an evil clown-in-a-box, they get scared to the point that it's recorded as a bad memory.
** This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4djJULQHnR0 piece of music], especially when you hear it for the first time.
*** Especially annoying if it's a raccoon - it does nothing but make a mess, but the Burglar ''steals your stuff''.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Il5aZhYy8E&feature=related The alert music].
** This Troper once made the mistake of zooming in on a Sim a bit too much. [http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f203/neopet_digimon/snapshot_3c96f83d_1c977170.jpg She really wishes she hadn't.]
* [[Scapegoat Creator]]: The disproportionate scorn heaped upon Rod Humble, at one point executive producer of the Sims division, because of his past experience working with SOE and some offhand comment that he "didn't get ''The Sims'' at first". [[Fan Dumb]] feared he was going to "turn ''[[The Sims]]'' into [[
* [[Scenery Porn]]: The destination spots in World Adventures. The maps make Sunset Valley look amateur by comparison.
** The designers love to put lots of detail into things that aren't necessarily important.
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** Also the Romantic Reputation system in ''The Sims 3'', which causes spouses to declare Sims a cheater simply for ''interacting with another Sim''.
*** It gets quite juvenile in some situations. For example, did a Flirty Sim decide to bat an eye to your Sim? Your Sim's spouse will then call you a cheater and proceed to reject all social interactions with you and even [[Disproportionate Retribution|break up with you]] afterwards.
** Then there are celebrities and vampires in the Sims 3, which quickly becomes an uncontrollable plague.
** The "room" meter. Almost always keeps the sims away from obtaining a perfect mood, and even in a very well-designed house, they still have it half-red.
* [[Sequel Difficulty Drop]]: Truth be told; this was one of the more merciful examples. It was easier to make friends, but they would pretty much degrade rapidly if you didn't talk to them every single day. The later ones make it easier to ''keep'' friends, but it's harder to make friends. It's worth noting that unless you spent a bunch of hours into the game in the first one, you pretty much ''had'' to cheat.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: In ''The Sims 3'', Agnes Crumplebottom, the woman who grows old and into the Mrs. Crumplebottom in ''The Sims: Hot Date'' that we hate so much. Her husband died on their honeymoon, leaving her alone and mourning in their mansion built for three, too grief stricken by his memory to try looking for a new suitor. In the upstairs of her house she still has a nursery room that was half finished.
** Heck, any time a Sim dies, especially if you're one to get attached to them. In ''The Sims 3'', for example,a troper had a Sim die at work. All the other Sims that lived with him mourned, and were depressed for a while. And he never left a Tombstone, whether because of a glitch or otherwise. ''And they never said goodbye to him.''
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: Despite having accumulated many, many characters over the years with ''The Sims'' and ''The Sims 2'', EA insists on creating boring, unmemorable Sims for ''The Sims 3'''s neighborhoods instead of reusing the older ones.
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: many of the custom mods (specially the ones to simulate celebrities) give more detailed skins, eyes, hair, etc... it can be a little disturbing.
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* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Presumably to avoid this, female Sims do not return pregnant after being abducted by aliens; [[Mister Seahorse|only male Sims do]]. However, this, coupled with the fact that it's [[Played for Laughs]], brings about a [[Double Standard Rape (Male on Male)|whole other set of unfortunate implications]].
** In TS3, if a female sim with the "Dislikes Children" trait becomes pregnant, she will still receive the positive "Pregnant" moodlet, despite that the description for the trait says, "Sims that dislike children do not want to have anything to do with children. No talking, no playing and ''certainly no reproduction''." [[Mandatory Motherhood|Think about that for a second...]]
* [[The Woobie]]: Basically every Sim that has the loser and/or unlucky trait. Even ''Death'' takes pity on the poor sap; both provide immunity to death by anything other than old age. The drawbacks for both are pretty light, so it's really a case of [[Cursed with Awesome]]...
** [[Fate Worse Than Death|unless you've devoted yourself to causing the Sim in question as much suffering as possible]].
** Death doesn't actually take pity on Unlucky Sims when he revives them. Instead, he laughs at their constant mishaps and doesn't want to take away such hilarious entertainment too early.
** Also Bella Goth, to an extent.
** Lilith Pleasant and Ripp Grunt, the famous [[The Unfavorite|unfavorites]].
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** The Newsons from ''Apartment Life''. They're a family of adopted children whose parents have died, and the two teens have to juggle school, caring for the younger ones and providing a steady income. Unless you move them in with an adult Sim of course.
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