The re-releases of The Sims parts one and two are not in the best shape…In a blog post, Electronic Arts said that they are looking into the problems, and there are a lot of them.

On Steam, The Sims and The Sims 2 Legacy Collection are in the Mixed rating category.Many are complaining about crashes, bugs, and lack of quality improvements. EA’s response has been dry to say the least (they are investigating and will hopefully release more information soon).You can get a summary of the problems from the Steam reviews.

UI scaling is non-existent at 1080p or higher. Anyone playing at 1440p or 4K should be prepared for small, almost unrecognizable text or icons.The pre-rendered Neighborhood view makes things even worse.This is displayed in a small, low-resolution window in the center of the screen. Both The Sims and The Sims 2 are prone to crashing when starting or playing games.There is no modernization, no quality-of-life features, and basic functionality is missing.

For example, there’s no option to save to the Steam cloud, and there’s no MacOS support. The bugs from the original release of The Sims 2 have not been fixed either, so it is questionable how much work Maxis and Electronic Arts have put into their Legacy Collections…

The pricing is also interesting, as in terms of modern remasters, for example The Thing: Remastered (the work of Nightdive) is similarly priced ($30): but its gameplay, graphics and quality of life features have all improved from the original. The Beamdog-related Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition (which costs $20) offered a similarly hefty expansion for both the first and second games.

More recently, Konami made a similarly incomplete reissue of The Sims Legacy Collection with Metal Gear Master Collection Vol. 1, and while patches and updates have improved it, it requires mods to play on Steam Deck…

Source: PCGamer