Hi Pleasant Simmers! Please keep in mind this video is a reaction to the new gameplay trailer ONLY - not every single feature coming in the pack. That's another video coming soon! As always, you can count on me to tell you my real, honest opinion without any outside influence. Thank you for watching!
I enjoy your content and your unfiltered opinion with you being a veteran player. I find myself always laughing 😂 they way you disassemble everything for what it really is.
can you make a video reaction to Japanese reacted to Snowy Escape? They're My Game News Flash and Hachima Kikou, two of Japan’s most popular game blogs blog.esuteru.com/archives/9598969.html jin115.com/archives/52303870.html
I see the Gameplay in the Trailer but it doesn’t really show anything that we haven’t seen in the Reveal Trailer, i liked the older Gameplay Trailers better, they actually explained how the Game worked instead of it just being a “Sim” telling how the world is
It feels like they are shifting the focus of the game and afterall they do show the real gameplay value of the sims 4 which is storytelling, creating builds and sims, they never say play with life because we can´t they say create your stories.
That's because there's nothing to show, just another pretty world with no deep. I wish I'm wrong but I remember the Sulani fiasco and my expectations are reaaaaally low
"If it's only pretty to look at and not fun to play, what good is it?" - The Sims 4 summed up in one sentence. I got bored of the Sims 4 and have no intention of buying this new expansion pack. I do, however, have every intention to watch every single review you publish. Love your humour, your fair and balanced reviewing, your zero tolerance for BS and your accent.
Thanks so much Patrick! I am buying this pack so I can review it fairly, but I don't blame you at all for passing on it. I always want to have hope, but I am always disappointed by this game.
@@PleasantSims Do you think the personality system felt more like you could make different types of sims than the trait system? I feel sims 2 have more personality than the sims 3 or 4.
I stopped getting excited for anything sims 4 related. It's a shame, because I really like the way the game looks, how well it runs, the convenience of the gallery etc. But the gameplay is so boring and shallow I just got fed up with it. Recently I went back to sims 3 (it's the game in the series I played the least because of the lag) and decided to fully embrace it, pudding faces and all. It feels so much more alive, sims 4 doesn't even compare.
My thoughts exactly. Tech lover, technophobe were definitely on there. It's like they're just giving us an opportunity to add more traits (traits we had in sims 3 basegame lol) in a really convoluted way :(
Woah I actually forgot the we got outdoor traits and active traits. I don't think the lifestyle will live up to our expectation tho, but well better than none.
You brought up POINTS with this one. Especially about how it's not a "personality overhaul," how EA keeps on burning us, and how the game is truly deeply unplayable without mods. That last one is what gets me the most. If i didn't despise the aesthetic of the sims 3 and if it actually ran on my crappy PC i would live for the sims 3
I know what you mean! I have a hard time with Sims 3 because I hate how the Sims look - but the gameplay is so good if you can get it to run. I just really, really wanted Sims 4 to turn into an enjoyable game and I have been disappointed at every turn.
Sims 3 is a really great game though. The more time you spend with it, you get used to the art style and start to find it endearing. Your Sims aren't supermodels but they're adorable little potato people with personality for days. If you can coax it to run, that is. But there is a wonderful guide on the Steam community to help you optimize it for your PC.
it will take lots and LOTS of work, but you can get sims 3 running pretty smoothly as well as very beautiful with mods, sliders, & cc. a good example of pretty sims would be by @wooldawn on tumblr. for cc and getting the game running perfectly you’ll have to find a masterlist & follow the guide written here: simmister.tumblr.com/post/627936073261219840/this-is-a-comprehensive-guide-on-how-to-get-the
@Jammy Jim well my personal opinion is that I like the Sims 4 a lot and play it every day. My critiques are that the sims are a bit bland, there isnt a lot of challenge/danger, and the packs are very empty. If you played Sims 2 or Sims 3 you would understand why it is a very marked disappointment. To go from having all of those things in the franchise to then EA taking over and basically cutting down the core elements of the game that had always been there + putting a new team on development.... Yeah it's kind of upsetting. Every one of us who criticize the Sims 4 do so for it to improve and also because we know what we as consumers deserve because it's what we've been given in the past. We see right through pretty much every excuse and aren't satisfied with them bc it's like, "so the Sims 2 devs could do all this in 2000 but you can't do one simple thing twenty years later?" If you interpret us as attacking core elements of TS4 maybe that's even further proof that there is something deeply wrong. As far as lifestyles and what they're adding, I'm glad that they're expanding but also please keep in mind sentiments are not the same as memories. Lifestyles are something I am looking forward to. Again, I play this game every day and have my own save file + legacy families. I do love this game. I also have valid critiques for its improvements that I as a paying consumer have a right to have. I paid over 400 dollars for every pack because I'm a completionist. I had BETTER be allowed to give my opinion and see it being IMPLEMENTED for over 400 DOLLARS. I am absolutely entitled to that.
2:27 also 99% of the world will most likely be townies from the other neighborhood's walking around and you'll find all the "traditional" Sims outside your house just going fishing because why not
The lifestyles look like the scouting badges you earn from completing a certain number of tasks under a scout badge. It wouldn't surprise me if it were a reskin of it
Its like they took the traits and put diffrent pictures...sedintary=lazy, we have outdoors already, foodie, glutton, vegitarian....its just all re-named traits.
I've said this before but it still applies: I'd say that the biggest problem with this EP is that it doesn't expand shit. The best EPs have a central feature; Seasons had seasons and the calendar system, weather, and other features tied into it; cats and dogs had cats and dogs, City Living had apartments and was built around the sense of community, Get Together was about getting together and social interactions, you know what you're paying for. But just like Island Living, there isn't a central feature that you get the pack for. If you think about what you got Island Living you would struggle to think of a feature because the biggest feature (conservation) probably isn't why you wanted it and all the other features were underdeveloped because they weren't the selling point, for most people the world was. It's the same here: what's the main feature? Skiing? Snowboarding? A spa object? Kitchen counters? There's nothing there that expands the game. People want it for the world and odd features like they did with Island Living but there's no central feature and it'll get boring real fast, like Island Living. Hotels should obviously be that feature.
Totally agree. I was shocked I barely saw anyone else talking about this. Sure the build/buy and the world look great but there is not a single feature in this pack that **expands** gameplay like it’s supposed to! I’d be paying $40 for a glorified stuff pack
It's a good con because when players of the previous games bring this up to the newer players who have only played Sims 4, they assume you are just an old whiney fogie with nostalgia glasses. EA takes advantage of this, for sure, and the new players have no idea how much they're getting screwed.
@@tonichan89 I only started playing the older games after JTB and even I've been seeing through this for years, I was just building my TS2 & TS3 collection and biding my time.
Yesss! You've hit the nail on the head. She sounds like she'd be right at home narrating a UA-cam toy unboxing when the majority of Simmers are older teens and adults.
I think they feel they're talking to kids instead of the adults that also play the game. With some points of gameplay, it seems they're gearing it down more towards younger players. It just seems that way to me. Anyway, Sims 4 seems like it's a great game if you like building and decorating houses, but not so much if you like to actually play with your sims.
True, but this time I think its the least matronising one... this year, she is not all full excited and annoying as usual and also, sounds a bit more tone down... but yeah for most its very matronising kind of naration.
Except Sims 4 really is a children’s game. Sims 1 had the edgiest humor, and Sims 2 got pretty raunchy, even pushing the T rating. Some people even demanded Sims 2 get an M rating because there was a cheat code to disable the mosaic blur. It was slightly toned down in 3, but in 4 it’s worse. They flat out got rid of freaking burglars because they were too “scary.”
Lol. 'Energetic' makes me yikes, we have enough eliza friggin pancakes's randomly doing pushups everywhere, including on my sims dead body and while the dog is taking a dump. Meanwhile all 'sedentary' sims go to your computer even more while visiting and sit there days before leaving....woooow. Basically we already have these dumbass lifestyles. Loner, lazy, active...and they add hardly to the game.. . To me it REALLY seems a desperate way for EA to seem they actually put their team to overhaul, but they are keeping everything the same, just recategorising to trick people thinking they get change.
It's telling that they couldn't think of many things they haven't already basically included already. Unless they have a more robust spreadsheet system of personality traits being affected by lifestyle and various skills etc it's just another layer of shit to scroll through when looking at your sims personality profile
@@brownsugar15068 I second your statement. also, I've started locking the computer under the settings for household members only smh. get off my computer!!! I invited you over for a party, not to surf the web LOL
Cindy, I don’t watch your videos because I want to watch people gush. I could go watch lilsimsie or James Turner for that. People like you and Plumbella are skeptics, and you aren’t afraid to call out the bullshit. Both in hilariously charming ways. I remember when Sims 4 dropped, the lady at the E3 conference was all about the new concept of ‘Player First’ and after six years, it turns out that ‘Player First’ was just the answer to the question of ‘Who is in line to be screwed by bad marketing decisions?’
A while ago when the first trailer reactions came out, I watched James Turner's reaction and he said that he was afraid the new lifestyles were going to operate like the fame quirks from Get Famous in that they'd be randomly assigned and we'd have no control over them. I was immediately worried because I hadn't considered that as a possibility. I gotta say, from what we've seen here, I'm not less worried.
“Energetic Sims , what are they gonna do? Be more likely to do push-ups on the sidewalks?” LMAOO I LOST IT I remember when I was first figuring out how voting works in eco lifestyles and I was on an athletic sim so of course I voted for the athletic thing on the voting boards and literally the next day everybody came to my store doing jumping jacks and push-ups, customers couldn’t get around them, and it was so hard to get anything done and broke my immersion so much that I immediately cheate and revoked the vote the next day
I feel like the reaction to this has been positive because of what happened with Star Wars. It’s like people want to throw EA a bone for making a “good” expansion pack... when the previous pack was the most ridiculous thing we’ve had! Like, of course this will seem better by comparison! 🙄 The CORE issues of the game are still broken. But maybe we’ll all be pleasantly surprised, idk anymore
Thank you finally someone not being away by the pretty aesthetic, this game is so bland at this point it’s pointless with so many years out and this pack it’s literally going to be like every other one a one time trip
Yea like everyone seems so enchanted by the pretty stuff like imma be honest i love pretty stuff and will buy a game if its just pretty but.. The sims 4 is unplayable. Also the lifestyles are gonna be behind a paywall probs
The only things that excite me are the winter activities and new build tools. The Lifestyles will probably be VERY disappointing. I predict something similar to the aspiration reward traits. It's like putting lipstick on a pig.
I think that this is going to be a good pack, but there’s a fine line between “good” and “revolutionary” and a lot of players have their expectations set on revolutionary.
Well the life styles dont work like that. Lifestyles can change like people change. And they arent like aspirations were you get rewards. Just please watch the stream if you havent cause looks like you havent
@@dartarancane7115 Just in case you aren't aware, this video was made before the stream. After the stream, I made a new video with updated information. Thanks though!
Honestly as someone who is very familiar with Japanese customs and traditions, I'm very nervous how they'll be handling certain elements in gameplay, mainly with the kotatsu and onsen. I think, based on the gameplay trailers we've seen, that it will literally just be an object with a single function for having a hot pot on it, and nothing else, when in reality a kotatsu serves a huge variety of purposes, most of all being to keep your feet and legs warm in the winter. The onsen thing is also a little worrisome because as you said, just because the trailer mentions "Follow the rules!" doesn't mean there'll be an actual way to enforce that, which is very sad. Onsen culture is a HUGE thing in Japan, and if I had to guess 99% of simmers will just ignore the "rules" because all they see is a hot spring, when in reality the main reason the "rules" are in place is for hygiene and safety. If there aren't actually rules in place for something they're trying to portray accurately, then just don't call it onsen. Call it a hot spring. Make up your own name. But don't try to pretend you're representing a very important cultural practice by just slapping it in your game without following through on teaching people to respect/learn about it.
I agree! I am hoping that onsens will havethe ff rules 1) Naked only, towels should not be soaked in the water. I have yet to see an onsen where swimsuits are allowed. I believe they exist but the onsens I've been to are nude only. I don't live in Japan so I'm not really sure. Been there only for vacation. 2) No tattoo. Those sims with tattoo should have a designated onsen for them . 3) Separate classifications of onsen: men only, women only, mixed onsens 4) No food or drinks
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t really understand the excitement over this pack. I don’t see enough gameplay, yes there are some new winter activities but that’s not enough to keep the game interesting. This pack doesn’t offer anything big and exciting and it’s just lacking in my opinion. On the other note the Japanese build and buy mode objects are the only thing really carrying the pack
@@renaee_qt exactly, I feel like activities like snowboarding and skiing could have been added to seasons, snowboarding was an included feature in the sims 3 seasons
Yea the hype is really bad like did we just forget the past 6 years of dissapointment? Why is everyone buying it so quickly i am not gonna buy it till ea listens to us so im not ever gonna buy it probs
It's funny that people were saying ”don't buy any more EA products until they give us what we want” ”better babies, cars, personality”. Now this pack comes out everyone excited to buy it. Does this pack give you what you've been asking for years?
@@potatochipsandwich5382 and festivales again probabaly the same as in City Living just a few changes. Only new animations will probably be the winter sports that are included and that’s it.
Still not convinced this is a good purchase. Just knowing how The Sims 4 is, I looked at what's in this trailer & immediately started to think about how much you won't be able to see. Gonna wait for reviews before making a final decision.
This may be the cynic in me, but "Once Bitten, Twice Shy..." I'll hold off my judgement and opinions until the pack launches and we get a hands on play with it. As for the "lifestyles", I can see them being a "do this thing enough times and you'll unlock a perk/trait" deal.
I am going to buy this pack and try it, but I don't have confidence it will be an improvement or add anything meaningful to the game mechanics. But I hope I'm wrong and I will give it a fair chance when it releases.
This seems pretty rushed to me. I feel like this just scraped together because of the loss of the Star Wars gp. Lots of reused animation and the new animation (ex: bowing animation) look really bad.
They say they worked on it for a year, but at the same time, I sat here and thought, "This took a whole year and still doesn't look as full as an expansion pack from previous games."
I'm excited about this, however...I really wish they would fix the broken emotion system and add more trait slots + add more traits/add more depth to the current ones. The lack of trait slots and traits has always been a big problem for me.
It's a huge issue. And the traits and aspirations they do add are usually tied to a location or specific activity instead of something you can use for all Sims across the worlds.
@@PleasantSims I completely agree, any new traits or aspirations that get added to the game lack depth or personality to the sims or the gameplay. I really wish they functioned the same way the sims 3 traits and lifetime wishes worked.
The "Lifestyles" are so disappointing. It is nothing more than a glorified trait system. All of these "lifestyles" should exist as traits and some of them are already exist as traits! This system seems like it will do absolutely nothing to give sims any sort of personality.
I also really hate the voice-overs. They seem very un-simsy. And I agree with you with regard to the lifestyles looking shallow, as usual for TS4. The world looks good for a TS4 world but that’s a low bar since they’re all tiny and buggy. Unsurprisingly, not looking like it’s worth the money as an EP. I’ll keep playing TS2 and TS3, thanks.
When it comes to the personality update with Lifestyles, I really wish they showed more about the sentiments. Just from what I read about it, it seems super interesting. It almost sounds a bit like memories, since both sims will have a different outlook on an event (like a date for example) based on their traits. Plus, your sims can bond over things like that. But yet... nothing about it in the gameplay trailer? As for the skiing and snowboarding I read an article where it mentioned that there isn't "set" paths and your sims will actually choose their own way down the hill. I am hoping that will keep that type of gameplay fresh and make you want to contiue it more than once.
I'm also interested in the Sentiments. If they work as described, it could add something really meaningful. I hope we can see more of this in the gameplay stream coming on Friday. And that's very interesting about the skiing paths. That makes it sound more fun for sure!
So it seems like lifestyles are just bonus traits? 🤷♀️ well..considering how bland traits are already and how they do basically nothing to gameplay.. I can't see this doing.... anything? Well.. yay for mods I guess 😅 because Sims 4 gameplay is always bland no matter how the trailers look, no matter how much hope we have or how they dress it up in each expansion and that is the sad reality imo.. at this point I physically sigh whenever they release anything even when it 'looks' great, and that is sooo tragic for a lover of the Sims for 20 years 🙃 the sims 4 lost it and has never gained it back for me when it comes to gameplay 😭 this is a building game to me now so atleast this pack looks beautiful 📸 OR maybe they will surprise me?...(which I hope for everytime and they don't..😅)
I feel exactly the same. I hope for improvement with each new pack and we NEVER get it. It's all just the same old shallow crap dressed up in a pretty package.
Honestly it seems that the modding community is able to actually provide us with the personality fixes we want/need in the game. It sucks that the game is so shallow when played in vanilla. The world they've built for this pack is really pretty though. And it's nice they've added more interesting things for sims to do (snowboarding and such).
Wow. I was expecting some interesting lifestyle traits, but... this? Srsly? Aint we already have lazy and active character traits? Why would we need them as a lifestyle trait???
@@PleasantSims its very shallow and pointless, it will give like zero difference. Ah, and i wonder if it will break a sim if he'll have an active trait but gets sedentary lifestyle (could happen if sim is a workaholic, for example).
Ah finally someone says it! yeah the voice over is just weird cause the sims don't speak English... it's just the wrong place for such trailer with voice over... .-. I can't really say something to the ep cause travel itself and that stuff aren't things that I like in sims (I don't hate it but I wouldnt need it) I stoped playing sims 4 anyway but still it's faaaar better then star wars XD
I also like how they showed the lifestyles for a second, the most interesting in the pack. And sentiments are nowhere to be found. I agree 100% with you, we all know by now its just gonna be shallow and barely make a difference overall to our games. I really dont have high hopes (in general) for gameplay to ever really get better, it is the sims 4.
Finally a Sims YTer that keeps it all the way real. I love the game but as a long time Sims player that trailer dampened the small amount of enthusiasm I managed to create. *sigh* EA strikes again.
I was also disappointed when I saw the lifestyles to. I really REALLY wanna like this pack especially after Star Wars but I’m in the middle of being disappointed and excited and plus with some of the drama has made not even wanna think about playing sims 4 at least not now or if this pack really does update the gameplay.
I know how you feel. I am going to give this pack a fair chance and give Sims 4 yet another chance to redeem itself. But I am highly suspicious that this is all going to be shallow and not add anything meaningful.
I'm still highly skeptical about lifestyles and sentiments as well, but there's still so much we don't know about it that I'm still holding out hope. I know it's not going to do what I want, but I'm hoping it could be a step in the right direction. I just don't trust them to make it as impactful as it should be. They're good at making things look and sound good, but in reality it's just shallow. I still need to learn more!
Personally, I do like the idea of conflict in these lifestyles. What we’re missing in existing traits is that they’re almost all positive with no negative version (like how in the Sims 3 they had likes/dislikes supernaturals, love/hate the outdoors, and many other examples of this) so I like that we seem to be getting that here. Also SimGuru Graham confirmed that you can lose lifestyle if you don’t keep up practicing them, which reminded me of the hobby enthusiasm system in Free Time. However, I do worry that these will only be in name and not impact gameplay, or that it will simply affect the buffs you get and not much else. The same with sentiments; I want to see conflict in lifestyle or sentiment have long term impacts on relationship rather than decreasing your relationship a little bit and nothing else happens. I want to see fury, wants, fears, chemistry, memory and true impactful traits and what I see with this pack is a foundation for these, but it won’t do much if they treat as if they gave it to us here and choose not to elaborate in further packs/updates, especially when you consider that they will not expand lifestyles because they’re exclusive to this pack.
I'm glad that you're not sugar coating what ea is doing like what game changers are doing. I was really skeptical about the "personality overhaul". And when the game play trailer came out I immediately got uninterested and got annoyed of how the game changers over exaggerated it and made it seem like ea actually fixed the issue. The only way I would get excited for this lifestyle part is if they made a base game update to actually do the overhaul which I doubt will ever happen.
I'm sorry for my english at first.. If i made a sim with the sporty treat i dont need a Lifestyle to "manifest" it again. I don't know if y'all understand what i Was trying to say 😅
One good thing about this is that It's been revealed that you will be able to place rentals outside of vacation worlds, so for example you can have a rental at willow creek etc. About the personality stuff, stuff hasn't been fully revealed yet, it's just a video and we might not know what the personalities actually add, It might be ok, it might be terrible, I saw this quote some minutes ago on a website "This new update comes with improved depth to Sims in the form of Lifestyles and Sentiments. Lifestyles are based on a Sim's experiences and behaviors and influence what a Sim will do when fully autonomous and how they will feel in certain situations. Lifestyles include things like Workaholic, Frequent Traveler, and Adrenaline Seeker. Sims can have up to three at a time, and as their habits change, their Lifestyles will also shift. Sims can also change their Lifestyle using a reward potion or by calling a lifestyle coach. This feature is currently exclusive to the Snowy Escape pack. All players will get the opportunity to experience Sentiments, though there will be expanded options if players opt for the DLC. Sentiments are feelings different Sims will have about shared experiences. While one Sim might reminisce on a moment with fondness, another may become sad. Now, when Sims share time together, the moments can mean more and affect their moods later on."
I'm glad they're adding Sentiments to the basegame, but I suspect the Lifestyles will be very shallow and just add some useless emotional buffs. I hope I'm wrong.
The part that does look promising though is sentiments, this is directly affecting emotions such as sims will be sad by missing other sims and happy when spending time with certain sims, maybe this will fix the broken emotions ??
I hope so, but like with everything in Sims 4 - it probably sounds better than it actually is. I hope they do add meaningful gameplay, but we'll have to wait and see I guess.
"SKEPTICAL of SNOWY ESCAPE ~ Lifestyles are NOT what you think. " ---- THANK YOUUUUUU i think the sameeeee...... the lifestyle here seems to be similar to the feature we get in the pack Get Famous " Earned Quirks" which is SUPER ANNOYING......
They have to do english voice overs. Because without them the game can't even sell itself. Sims, Sims2 and Sims3 were able to have no voice over and sell the new contents perfectly.
I cringe every time they say Komorebi. I'm not going to pretend like I'm fluent by any definition, but it doesn't sound right at all. The build stuff will look cute in speedbuilds, I guess, but I'm not swayed beyond that.
3:28 ya exactly. And here’s the thing, I don’t play Sims 4 anymore but I have seen many CC for it, and there are many amazing CC one can get for FREE. Trying to bait in players by the Buy Mode, or Build modes and even CAS is so bad because anything we want for the aforementioned modes we can easily get from CC creators for free, so that makes this pack even more useless. But of course, the SimTubers will try to sweeten this pack and make it look good and that “it’s not as bad as I thought it would be” because none of them are being authentic anymore. :/
I honestly wish they would "show" instead of "tell." They're really pushing the "storytelling" aspect of Sims 4. I'm not paying $40 to fill in glaring gameplay gaps with storytelling! It gets old after a while, especially when the game gets so repetitive and bland without mods.
3:12 i personally interpreted this as TS4’s version of memories! 3:40 yeah i’m excited for the hot pot as well, but my sims NEVER can eat together bc they never wanna sit down, so i don’t know how much use i’m going to get out of this...
I like how you don’t sugarcoat everything, I really don’t like that the people with bigger platforms just ignore the bad parts and act like it’s a great game. But you still give credit where it’s due. Honestly your like the only sims UA-camr I can trust lol
For Life style traits you pretty much took the words right out of my mouth. First thing that came to mind when I saw them is that they are quirks from Get Famous. I will be pleasantly surprised if they don't function the same. But I think people calling this game changing are setting themselves up for disappointment.
I believe that the gameplay trailers tell us a lot about the game and its focus. THE SIMS 4 IS NOT A LIFE SIMULATION GAME IT IS A STORY CREATION Game. That's why all their videos challenges and stuff revolve around us creating stories
I'm literally done with packs. We've got what we need (in my opinion) and cc can do the rest. And I can live vicariously through other simmers. My Mum asked if I was intrested in the pack (the pack comes out the day after my birthday I believe) and I promptly did no. Don't hold me to my word, I might cave and buy stuff when Black Friday comes around, but believe me I won't ask for it immediately like I usually do. Also I noticed you have 30k! That's awesome 😃 I remember when you had 5k or 10k, it's great to watch you grow more this year
Thank you! And yes, I know exactly what you mean. I am buying this so I can review and play it on the channel, but if I wasn't a UA-camr I would probably pass too. I've been burned too many times.
I’m over the sims 4. I’ve found your channel and I’m happy that people still make content for the sims 2. I’m 18 so I only played the sims 3 and now 4, but I just started playing the sims 2 and the gameplay is over the roof just like the sims 3 and even more immersive. With all the mods that you mention it makes it so much fun and better than the sims 4 because the sims feel alive. EA continues to disappoint and I’m over it lol. Keep up the great work!
I like voiceovers when they are not sooo cringy in a bad way. The voiceover for Sims 3 university was so good and the voiceover for Sims 3 romantic loft stuff (or how it was called) still sounds to me like porn commercial... XD It mirrored the same things the Sims was famous for. Quirky, Crazy and a slight touch of forbidden charm. (Idk how else to describe them). The Sims 4 trailers sound like a forced child friendly explanation on what is in the pack with try hard cool kid speech.
Yeah, I'm 100% done with this game. I was holding out a little bit of hope that this new "personality system" would bring some life to the game, but honestly I should've known better. No matter how many packs they add or how many cheap "fixes" they slap on, the gameplay itself never improves. The last time I tried to play Sims 4 I spent an hour updating mods, sat at the login screen trying to think of something fun I could actually do in-game, then shut it down without playing at all. And after finally being able to play Sims 3 again, I don't think I'll ever go back to 4. I'll keep watching these vids of yours though because it's nice to see someone that will actually be truthful about the problems the game has and isn't just in ea's pocket 😑
Just hope the new lifestyle system won’t mess the game the same way NAPs did! I don’t want people fighting or playing the guitar in from of my house 24/7 😂
I always wait at least three weeks to decide whether to purchase a new pack or not. I watch it release and then pay close attention to actual reviews like yours and the feedback from players. I was burned too much at the beginning and almost always let down in some way by the actual game expansions.
EA: “Are you tired of your sims doing push-ups randomly only once in a conversation? Well now with the energetic lifestyle perk they’ll do it five times! Now that will be thirty dollars.”
I describe the emotions in sims 4 like this: Your beloved father just died right in front of you, you're devastated. Oh, there's a new pretty painting in my house! Now I'm happy, everything is fine. My dad is dead? Look at this painting!
I'm ready for Snowy Escape to be dragged over the Lifestyle feature thing... I think it won't be a big thing/change and that's why they didn't show much in the "gameplay" trailer. But yeah let's see what the live stream is like.
I agree about the cringy voice-overs. It's very childish and feels like they're trying to appeal to a much a younger audience than the actual appropriate age group the game was attended for.
For the lifestyles: I think the hidden ones are dislikes/likes electrical devices and family person/lover (flirty type). (I feel like I'm stating the obvious here xDD) But yeah...until now it looks as shallow as I've feared. :/ A pass for me. At least until it gets a huge discount.
That's what I was thinking. Like, at one point the voice over said something about "put away the camera and no selfies", so if you take a lot of pictures, you'll get 'likes electronics' or whatever, if you don't, you won't like them... each will make you more likely or less likely to pull out your phone. And the family one might make you more or less likely to interact with your family members. While that does sound interesting, it's still not enough to make a real impact.
We already have those lifestyle traits in The Sims 4. They are already there in CAS. A sim with the CAS Energetic trait will, of course, unlock the energetic lifestyle trait. But the question is: how is it going to change my sim? Will he be even more energetic? Will he not sleep for 2 days straight? WOW! Will a lazy sim unlock the lazy lifestyle and not get out of bed for the rest of his life? WOW!
I speculate that these hidden ones are about smart phones and solitary vs. couples. They seem like recycled personality traits from the sims3 like technophobe. They absolutely are cobbling another system onto a flawed game that is some mix of personality traits and aspirations. Although it could be worse, i was kind of worried that they'd declare sexual orientations are lifestyles.
it’s so sad that over and over again with these packs we can’t expect any more gameplay than listed in the descriptions. in previous games with expansions we’d get loads more to do we didn’t see listed in the pack’s description. my expectations are pretty low, i’d love nothing more than to be proved wrong. :/
Yes! I remember previous games you would see the trailers and know the basic new stuff, but once you started playing, you'd find all kinds of extra stuff to do and you'd run to the forums to ask if anyone else had noticed it or seen it or how to get it to happen (I remember using spoiler tags because stuff would be so hidden in the packs and you didn't want to ruin it for others who hadn't played or discovered it yet)... that just doesn't happen, anymore, because we see pretty much everything in the trailers because there's never really that much put into the packs.
What I hope this lifestyle will bring: If I create a Sim that is for example a little thick and I create this story of her wanting to lose weight and do more exercise, because I play her like that, she becomes Energetic and a Health Food Nut, because I send her to do exercises and to eat a lot of salads, then I don't have to tell her to cook salads or to do some sport, she will do this on her own, when I'm not controlling her and controlling for example her sibling. It is her new lifestyle, she adopted. And I think she will feel more happy when she does things like that, but if she does the opposite like eating Junk Food or not exercising enough, she will get a bad moodlet and will try to do again what her Lifestyle is. At least that's how I imagine that it would play out to be.
I’m actually kinda excited. I just hope we learn more about lifestyles because that’s the main selling point of the pack. I read the blog post and it seemed cool. I think you can have workaholic sims. And before the gameplay trailer I wasn’t really interested in winter sports. But after seeing it I’m super interested in playing with those things. I feel like they are going to hide lifestyles like they did with the apartments in eco lifestyle and show us how cool and in depth they are. One can only hope they won’t screw up again 🤞🏿
I'm a little hopeful but definitely skeptical. As someone who loves building, the one thing that sticks out to me is that it looks like we'll be able to have elevations inside the house. I do hope this is a feature that'll be added to the base game, like they did with ladders last spring. I still remember the first time I tried to build a nightclub. Back then I wanted to add an elevated VIP-area only to discover that I can't do that. So fingers crossed on that front. On the other hand I was a little hopeful that we would be able to finally create our own ponds. But it looks like the springs are just going to be an object that you can place. And even the houses in the trailer only used fountains. Gameplay-wise I'm definitely more on the skeptical side. The lifestyle looks pretty shallow and I fear it's just going to affect emotions rather than sims actions. And I fear climbing the mountain is going to be one of those things you'll only do once and then never again.
I'm afraid that these Lifestyles will be just like quests and check-lists you'll have to follow to have some kind of goal or motivation to keep playing the game lmao
i think if activities were interactive it would make a world of a difference. for example if you actually had to control the sim as the ski or board down the slope would be so fun. its not fun when its just kind of a click and watch them do it type thing
Thanks for saying as it is Cindy... I thought the same and seeing others sim-youtubers being so naive about this pack, pissed me off. You bring me to my zen! "Nothing has consequences to the sims 4" I HEAR YOUUUU
I agree with you on the English voiceover thing. I think they do these voiceovers simply to make up for the lack of sufficient gameplay animation. There's not enough content for them to follow the "show, don't tell" rule because other than lovely graphics, there's not enough variety in social interactions to tell a story without narration. As you’ve said, these gameplay trailers have very little gameplay shown…which is why they have to just tell you everything. Also, I'm a lesbian and admittedly went "aww" near the end, but then realized that the representation was just a façade. Watch the video without the audio and you wouldn’t know there’s a lesbian couple. They had the opportunity at the “romance” part to show them kissing and it actually would’ve contributed to the story and would’ve made narrative sense. At best, it’s just them revealing that they have no idea how to tell a story anymore. At worst, they didn’t want to show that for the sake of optics. I really hope it’s the former, but the latter wouldn’t surprise me since it’s a pattern for most mainstream media. Because it’s okay to talk about LGBTQ+ people or show brief images of them in the background, but making them the focus point of a trailer AND having them kiss would be WAY too much. LGBTQ+ representation told through a voiceover is like putting a pretty coat of paint on to trick people into thinking something isn't totally bland. Sorry for the rant, I just have a lot of conflicting emotions. I want this game to succeed and I recognize that they’ve evolved as a game when it comes to LGBTQ+ representation, but it’s a stretch to call them pioneers. On the other hand, they’ve DEvolved as a game when it comes to storytelling. Now more than ever. EDIT: Also, on a less important note, it shows how little respect they have for the game's legacy. Simlish is a trademark of The Sims. Even when they sold out with that Katy Perry Sweet Treats pack, they still had her record a song in Simlish.
One of the big problem of the Sims 4 is that they consider emotions and personalities as the same thing. Which in the real world are not. Personality can influence emotions yes, but the Sims4 put all the personality of the sims on the frequency they feel certain emotions. A system that could work, but is flawed by the fact that sims get buffs/debuffs from the world around them, and those are the same for every sims, no matter their personality traits. It erases all individuality and they all feel the same because of this. EA was really proud of their emotions system at the release of the game, but it is too centered around it. Almost all personality traits just influence the emotions (hot-blooded = angry more often Creative = inspired more often etc), which again, COULD work, but the rest of the game is just a bunch of activities influencing those moodlets, so all sims feel the same. The personality system needs an overhaul that would detach the traits from emotions, and give the sims actual behaviors. They need to bring back favorite foods, colors, music too, and here sims emotions could be influenced by the world around them, but each in different ways since their liking would be different. There's so much that could be done and make this game amazing, but EA needs to take it from scratch, and they are definitely not ready for it. They prefer to put a band aid on it and hope it works.
The lifestyle stuff reminds me of the celebrity traits, I even recognize the one where your sim is addicted to their telephone in one of the hidden lifestyle symbols, which is referred to in this trailer as well (when she's talking about the zen stuff). And I got the word you're looking for when describing those voice-overs: patronizing. It's like they are specifically targeting kids now (probably because kids have no experience of Sims 2 or Sims 3 to reference to when evaluating how good (=bad) of a game the Sims 4 is)
I totally agree with what you said. I can’t play the Sims 4 without mods. I also agree with the personality system having a band aid slapped on it, like you said. An overhaul was overdue and I’m sure this new addition will be so buggy and annoying at first.
This franchise went from "make your own story" to "we will make your story for you, and you will never touch it ever again". I hate that all of the newer packs have this "strangerville" kinda formula. It's always like: go to a new world, do things that are only self contained, bring the cheesy storyline to an end, never play with this world ever again
1) **Agreed** with the voiceovers on the "gameplay" trailers. No, no you're not the only one. :) It sounds like Disney voiceovers, fully intended for young girls. Remember the Sims 1 TV ads? (I don't know if you're old enough.) They were all _gameplay_ in _Simlish!_ I've been wanting Simlish since the beginning. Either _that,_ or the devs actually explaining the new gameplay! 2) **Agreed** on the "lifestyle" update. Those are quite limited AND simple. Yes, it looks shallow. You take the words straight out of my brain! 3) **"The Rules"** and **No Consequences.** OK, so I've been playing The Sims 3 in the last month or so. It's crazy how common hidden consequences happen! (Not saying that didn't happen in previous games. I'm just saying consequences ended in The Sims 4.) I miss the complexities and details so much. Graphics aren't everything!
I jsut realized your comment about fixing the emotion system rather than add to it..anyone remember an old old Simpsons episode...."Hmm..the babies seem uphappy in the ball pit." ..."ADD MORE BALLS!!"
Dude totally agree. Thank Will Wright for these brilliant modders, but it shouldn't be there job to save this game. I'm glad someone else is seeing the really of it.
Hi Pleasant Simmers! Please keep in mind this video is a reaction to the new gameplay trailer ONLY - not every single feature coming in the pack. That's another video coming soon! As always, you can count on me to tell you my real, honest opinion without any outside influence. Thank you for watching!
I enjoy your content and your unfiltered opinion with you being a veteran player. I find myself always laughing 😂 they way you disassemble everything for what it really is.
Are you going to watch the live stream on the 31st ?
can you make a video reaction to Japanese reacted to Snowy Escape? They're My Game News Flash and Hachima Kikou, two of Japan’s most popular game blogs
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Oh my goshh, yess I agree with you completely on the voiceovers!!!
Then your title should specify that.
I see the Gameplay in the Trailer but it doesn’t really show anything that we haven’t seen in the Reveal Trailer, i liked the older Gameplay Trailers better, they actually explained how the Game worked instead of it just being a “Sim” telling how the world is
Completely agree! These "gameplay" trailers don't show very much gameplay at all.
It feels like they are shifting the focus of the game and afterall they do show the real gameplay value of the sims 4 which is storytelling, creating builds and sims, they never say play with life because we can´t they say create your stories.
@@mdsims9229 so true and as an avid in-game storyteller, it gets frustrating and boring after awhile especially with mod breaking updates
I think the distinction now is that in the gameplay trailer all of the footage was captured during gameplay
That's because there's nothing to show, just another pretty world with no deep. I wish I'm wrong but I remember the Sulani fiasco and my expectations are reaaaaally low
"If it's only pretty to look at and not fun to play, what good is it?" - The Sims 4 summed up in one sentence.
I got bored of the Sims 4 and have no intention of buying this new expansion pack. I do, however, have every intention to watch every single review you publish. Love your humour, your fair and balanced reviewing, your zero tolerance for BS and your accent.
Thanks so much Patrick! I am buying this pack so I can review it fairly, but I don't blame you at all for passing on it. I always want to have hope, but I am always disappointed by this game.
@@PleasantSims Do you think the personality system felt more like you could make different types of sims than the trait system?
I feel sims 2 have more personality than the sims 3 or 4.
I stopped getting excited for anything sims 4 related. It's a shame, because I really like the way the game looks, how well it runs, the convenience of the gallery etc. But the gameplay is so boring and shallow I just got fed up with it. Recently I went back to sims 3 (it's the game in the series I played the least because of the lag) and decided to fully embrace it, pudding faces and all. It feels so much more alive, sims 4 doesn't even compare.
That summarizes most Triple-A Games nowadays.
Basically. It's always sooo pretty in the trailers, but when it cmes to gameplay, it's just... Meh.
The lifestyles literally look like CAS traits, what is even the difference between Active and Energetic? Loves Outdoors and Outdoorsy?
I suspect nothing at all.
Tru tru tru, and would it break a sim if he'll get active trait yet gets sedentary lifestyle?
My thoughts exactly. Tech lover, technophobe were definitely on there. It's like they're just giving us an opportunity to add more traits (traits we had in sims 3 basegame lol) in a really convoluted way :(
@@Lepa2793 i wish it was at least some new traits, not the ones we have already:(
Woah I actually forgot the we got outdoor traits and active traits. I don't think the lifestyle will live up to our expectation tho, but well better than none.
I'm also skeptical but I have full confidence that modders will do great things with the lifestyles and the sentiments
I really hope so!!
LMAO YEE please EA add new stuff so we can actually make it good please lol
It's sad that we need to count on modders to improve what EA does...
@@elodiereineditreinette8763 it is! That's why I prefer to donate to modders than give EA my money
Plus fix all bugs. I mean I hope we'll be okay this update, but...
My problem with EA right now:
-Recycled animations and objects also CAS items.
-Way overpriced for what it actually is.
Also there's glitches, skins, makeup, babies, personality. All this stuff EA hasn't fixed and it's been 6 years?
I hate that I spent so much money on this game that I barely play
You brought up POINTS with this one. Especially about how it's not a "personality overhaul," how EA keeps on burning us, and how the game is truly deeply unplayable without mods. That last one is what gets me the most. If i didn't despise the aesthetic of the sims 3 and if it actually ran on my crappy PC i would live for the sims 3
I know what you mean! I have a hard time with Sims 3 because I hate how the Sims look - but the gameplay is so good if you can get it to run. I just really, really wanted Sims 4 to turn into an enjoyable game and I have been disappointed at every turn.
Sims 3 is a really great game though. The more time you spend with it, you get used to the art style and start to find it endearing. Your Sims aren't supermodels but they're adorable little potato people with personality for days. If you can coax it to run, that is. But there is a wonderful guide on the Steam community to help you optimize it for your PC.
@@PleasantSims same 😭 [tyra banks voice] sims 4, we were rooting for you! We were all rooting for you!
it will take lots and LOTS of work, but you can get sims 3 running pretty smoothly as well as very beautiful with mods, sliders, & cc. a good example of pretty sims would be by @wooldawn on tumblr. for cc and getting the game running perfectly you’ll have to find a masterlist & follow the guide written here: simmister.tumblr.com/post/627936073261219840/this-is-a-comprehensive-guide-on-how-to-get-the
@Jammy Jim well my personal opinion is that I like the Sims 4 a lot and play it every day. My critiques are that the sims are a bit bland, there isnt a lot of challenge/danger, and the packs are very empty. If you played Sims 2 or Sims 3 you would understand why it is a very marked disappointment. To go from having all of those things in the franchise to then EA taking over and basically cutting down the core elements of the game that had always been there + putting a new team on development.... Yeah it's kind of upsetting. Every one of us who criticize the Sims 4 do so for it to improve and also because we know what we as consumers deserve because it's what we've been given in the past. We see right through pretty much every excuse and aren't satisfied with them bc it's like, "so the Sims 2 devs could do all this in 2000 but you can't do one simple thing twenty years later?" If you interpret us as attacking core elements of TS4 maybe that's even further proof that there is something deeply wrong. As far as lifestyles and what they're adding, I'm glad that they're expanding but also please keep in mind sentiments are not the same as memories. Lifestyles are something I am looking forward to. Again, I play this game every day and have my own save file + legacy families. I do love this game. I also have valid critiques for its improvements that I as a paying consumer have a right to have. I paid over 400 dollars for every pack because I'm a completionist. I had BETTER be allowed to give my opinion and see it being IMPLEMENTED for over 400 DOLLARS. I am absolutely entitled to that.
2:27 also 99% of the world will most likely be townies from the other neighborhood's walking around and you'll find all the "traditional" Sims outside your house just going fishing because why not
That drives me INSANE! I have to use a mod to stop it because I can't stand that!
@@PleasantSims Can you tell us which mod you are using for that?
@@Nessa19892 It's called Walkby Overhaul by Zero.
@@PleasantSims Thank you! Guess I need this in my game, too. 😄
Omg I can see it now...
My Sim: “Look at me, I just climbed the mountain!”
Vlad: *teleports to the top* “Hello, you have a nice neck.”
The lifestyles look like the scouting badges you earn from completing a certain number of tasks under a scout badge. It wouldn't surprise me if it were a reskin of it
Oh God. You just know it's going to be superficial and shallow no matter what. Such a shame.
Its like they took the traits and put diffrent pictures...sedintary=lazy, we have outdoors already, foodie, glutton, vegitarian....its just all re-named traits.
I've said this before but it still applies: I'd say that the biggest problem with this EP is that it doesn't expand shit. The best EPs have a central feature; Seasons had seasons and the calendar system, weather, and other features tied into it; cats and dogs had cats and dogs, City Living had apartments and was built around the sense of community, Get Together was about getting together and social interactions, you know what you're paying for. But just like Island Living, there isn't a central feature that you get the pack for. If you think about what you got Island Living you would struggle to think of a feature because the biggest feature (conservation) probably isn't why you wanted it and all the other features were underdeveloped because they weren't the selling point, for most people the world was. It's the same here: what's the main feature? Skiing? Snowboarding? A spa object? Kitchen counters? There's nothing there that expands the game. People want it for the world and odd features like they did with Island Living but there's no central feature and it'll get boring real fast, like Island Living. Hotels should obviously be that feature.
Totally agree. I was shocked I barely saw anyone else talking about this. Sure the build/buy and the world look great but there is not a single feature in this pack that **expands** gameplay like it’s supposed to! I’d be paying $40 for a glorified stuff pack
It's a good con because when players of the previous games bring this up to the newer players who have only played Sims 4, they assume you are just an old whiney fogie with nostalgia glasses. EA takes advantage of this, for sure, and the new players have no idea how much they're getting screwed.
@@tonichan89 I only started playing the older games after JTB and even I've been seeing through this for years, I was just building my TS2 & TS3 collection and biding my time.
i dont have anything to add but i just gotta say this is an amazing critique
@@tonichan89 new players are just so frustratingly naive
The voiceover lady sounds super patronising, like she's talking to kids.
They always do that in these voiceovers. I really hate it. This isn't a children's game! (Or maybe they're trying to make it one.)
Yesss! You've hit the nail on the head. She sounds like she'd be right at home narrating a UA-cam toy unboxing when the majority of Simmers are older teens and adults.
I think they feel they're talking to kids instead of the adults that also play the game. With some points of gameplay, it seems they're gearing it down more towards younger players. It just seems that way to me. Anyway, Sims 4 seems like it's a great game if you like building and decorating houses, but not so much if you like to actually play with your sims.
True, but this time I think its the least matronising one... this year, she is not all full excited and annoying as usual and also, sounds a bit more tone down... but yeah for most its very matronising kind of naration.
Except Sims 4 really is a children’s game. Sims 1 had the edgiest humor, and Sims 2 got pretty raunchy, even pushing the T rating. Some people even demanded Sims 2 get an M rating because there was a cheat code to disable the mosaic blur. It was slightly toned down in 3, but in 4 it’s worse. They flat out got rid of freaking burglars because they were too “scary.”
Lol. 'Energetic' makes me yikes, we have enough eliza friggin pancakes's randomly doing pushups everywhere, including on my sims dead body and while the dog is taking a dump. Meanwhile all 'sedentary' sims go to your computer even more while visiting and sit there days before leaving....woooow. Basically we already have these dumbass lifestyles. Loner, lazy, active...and they add hardly to the game.. . To me it REALLY seems a desperate way for EA to seem they actually put their team to overhaul, but they are keeping everything the same, just recategorising to trick people thinking they get change.
Very good way of putting it!
Just wanted to say that I'd love to see a screen shot of Eliza doing pushups over a dead Sim while their dog is taking a dump nearby. 😂😂😂
It's telling that they couldn't think of many things they haven't already basically included already.
Unless they have a more robust spreadsheet system of personality traits being affected by lifestyle and various skills etc it's just another layer of shit to scroll through when looking at your sims personality profile
No lies detected once the nanny stayed for a while sim week until I finally had to tell them to leave
@@brownsugar15068 I second your statement. also, I've started locking the computer under the settings for household members only smh. get off my computer!!! I invited you over for a party, not to surf the web LOL
Cindy, I don’t watch your videos because I want to watch people gush. I could go watch lilsimsie or James Turner for that. People like you and Plumbella are skeptics, and you aren’t afraid to call out the bullshit. Both in hilariously charming ways.
I remember when Sims 4 dropped, the lady at the E3 conference was all about the new concept of ‘Player First’ and after six years, it turns out that ‘Player First’ was just the answer to the question of ‘Who is in line to be screwed by bad marketing decisions?’
LOL! I love that!!
Why I love Sim 3! Maybe not the best looking, but way better player experience, open world etc.
"That's not a personality overhaul" THANK YOU 🙏🙏
I saw this term floating around, and I was like, "No." Haha
A while ago when the first trailer reactions came out, I watched James Turner's reaction and he said that he was afraid the new lifestyles were going to operate like the fame quirks from Get Famous in that they'd be randomly assigned and we'd have no control over them. I was immediately worried because I hadn't considered that as a possibility. I gotta say, from what we've seen here, I'm not less worried.
“Energetic Sims , what are they gonna do? Be more likely to do push-ups on the sidewalks?” LMAOO I LOST IT
I remember when I was first figuring out how voting works in eco lifestyles and I was on an athletic sim so of course I voted for the athletic thing on the voting boards and literally the next day everybody came to my store doing jumping jacks and push-ups, customers couldn’t get around them, and it was so hard to get anything done and broke my immersion so much that I immediately cheate and revoked the vote the next day
I feel like the reaction to this has been positive because of what happened with Star Wars. It’s like people want to throw EA a bone for making a “good” expansion pack... when the previous pack was the most ridiculous thing we’ve had! Like, of course this will seem better by comparison! 🙄 The CORE issues of the game are still broken. But maybe we’ll all be pleasantly surprised, idk anymore
Thank you finally someone not being away by the pretty aesthetic, this game is so bland at this point it’s pointless with so many years out and this pack it’s literally going to be like every other one a one time trip
I am afraid you're right, and that's very disappointing. I wanted so much more from this game.
@@PleasantSims yeah same
Yea like everyone seems so enchanted by the pretty stuff like imma be honest i love pretty stuff and will buy a game if its just pretty but.. The sims 4 is unplayable. Also the lifestyles are gonna be behind a paywall probs
The only things that excite me are the winter activities and new build tools. The Lifestyles will probably be VERY disappointing. I predict something similar to the aspiration reward traits. It's like putting lipstick on a pig.
I think you're exactly right about that!
I think that this is going to be a good pack, but there’s a fine line between “good” and “revolutionary” and a lot of players have their expectations set on revolutionary.
Well the life styles dont work like that. Lifestyles can change like people change. And they arent like aspirations were you get rewards. Just please watch the stream if you havent cause looks like you havent
@@dartarancane7115 Just in case you aren't aware, this video was made before the stream. After the stream, I made a new video with updated information. Thanks though!
Darta Rancane dude the stream didn’t even happen til after this conversation. just please pay attention cause it looks like you dont.
Honestly as someone who is very familiar with Japanese customs and traditions, I'm very nervous how they'll be handling certain elements in gameplay, mainly with the kotatsu and onsen. I think, based on the gameplay trailers we've seen, that it will literally just be an object with a single function for having a hot pot on it, and nothing else, when in reality a kotatsu serves a huge variety of purposes, most of all being to keep your feet and legs warm in the winter. The onsen thing is also a little worrisome because as you said, just because the trailer mentions "Follow the rules!" doesn't mean there'll be an actual way to enforce that, which is very sad. Onsen culture is a HUGE thing in Japan, and if I had to guess 99% of simmers will just ignore the "rules" because all they see is a hot spring, when in reality the main reason the "rules" are in place is for hygiene and safety. If there aren't actually rules in place for something they're trying to portray accurately, then just don't call it onsen. Call it a hot spring. Make up your own name. But don't try to pretend you're representing a very important cultural practice by just slapping it in your game without following through on teaching people to respect/learn about it.
I completely agree with you, Max. You bring up some very good points about this pack.
I agree!
I am hoping that onsens will havethe ff rules
1) Naked only, towels should not be soaked in the water. I have yet to see an onsen where swimsuits are allowed. I believe they exist but the onsens I've been to are nude only. I don't live in Japan so I'm not really sure. Been there only for vacation.
2) No tattoo. Those sims with tattoo should have a designated onsen for them .
3) Separate classifications of onsen: men only, women only, mixed onsens
4) No food or drinks
I’m super nervous about it as well. Having to make sensitivity patches before the game even dropped doesn’t bode well...
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t really understand the excitement over this pack. I don’t see enough gameplay, yes there are some new winter activities but that’s not enough to keep the game interesting. This pack doesn’t offer anything big and exciting and it’s just lacking in my opinion. On the other note the Japanese build and buy mode objects are the only thing really carrying the pack
I got attacked because I don’t think this should be a whole expansion... it suits being a Seasons add on. We should be free to call it what it is :)
@@renaee_qt exactly, I feel like activities like snowboarding and skiing could have been added to seasons, snowboarding was an included feature in the sims 3 seasons
Yea the hype is really bad like did we just forget the past 6 years of dissapointment? Why is everyone buying it so quickly i am not gonna buy it till ea listens to us so im not ever gonna buy it probs
@@renaee_qt yea my excitement went down after the gameplay trailer
It's funny that people were saying ”don't buy any more EA products until they give us what we want” ”better babies, cars, personality”. Now this pack comes out everyone excited to buy it. Does this pack give you what you've been asking for years?
^^^ right, I’m not buying this. /:
These peeps are all bark no bite, it's pathetic honestly
I see a lot of reused objects and animations in this trailer...
Same. That's pretty much expected with this game at this point. It's a shame.
@@PleasantSims I see a lot of spa day animations and items from hiking in outdoor retreat
@@potatochipsandwich5382 and festivales again probabaly the same as in City Living just a few changes. Only new animations will probably be the winter sports that are included and that’s it.
Still not convinced this is a good purchase. Just knowing how The Sims 4 is, I looked at what's in this trailer & immediately started to think about how much you won't be able to see. Gonna wait for reviews before making a final decision.
Agreed. It's like we can already tell how shallow this is all going to be.
It's funny that person said don't but EA packs until this hive us what we want. This pack comes out and everyone forgets what they were protesting for
My final decision was made after the Star Wars Pack
This may be the cynic in me, but "Once Bitten, Twice Shy..." I'll hold off my judgement and opinions until the pack launches and we get a hands on play with it. As for the "lifestyles", I can see them being a "do this thing enough times and you'll unlock a perk/trait" deal.
I am going to buy this pack and try it, but I don't have confidence it will be an improvement or add anything meaningful to the game mechanics. But I hope I'm wrong and I will give it a fair chance when it releases.
Damn. You have both the paul brothers names. Rip
@@PleasantSims please do give us your honest opinion, and thank you for your awesome content
This seems pretty rushed to me. I feel like this just scraped together because of the loss of the Star Wars gp. Lots of reused animation and the new animation (ex: bowing animation) look really bad.
I feel like every single pack they've released has felt rushed and unfinished. I doubt this will be an exception.
All the ski animations arent that smooth
They say they worked on it for a year, but at the same time, I sat here and thought, "This took a whole year and still doesn't look as full as an expansion pack from previous games."
Agreed I wish the sims wasn’t owned by ea 🙄
They also took out the bowing animation apparently :(
I'm excited about this, however...I really wish they would fix the broken emotion system and add more trait slots + add more traits/add more depth to the current ones. The lack of trait slots and traits has always been a big problem for me.
It's a huge issue. And the traits and aspirations they do add are usually tied to a location or specific activity instead of something you can use for all Sims across the worlds.
@@PleasantSims I completely agree, any new traits or aspirations that get added to the game lack depth or personality to the sims or the gameplay. I really wish they functioned the same way the sims 3 traits and lifetime wishes worked.
The "Lifestyles" are so disappointing. It is nothing more than a glorified trait system. All of these "lifestyles" should exist as traits and some of them are already exist as traits! This system seems like it will do absolutely nothing to give sims any sort of personality.
I also really hate the voice-overs. They seem very un-simsy.
And I agree with you with regard to the lifestyles looking shallow, as usual for TS4. The world looks good for a TS4 world but that’s a low bar since they’re all tiny and buggy. Unsurprisingly, not looking like it’s worth the money as an EP. I’ll keep playing TS2 and TS3, thanks.
Gameplay wise sims 2 is far better. Just a shame the graphics are a bit poo lol
When it comes to the personality update with Lifestyles, I really wish they showed more about the sentiments. Just from what I read about it, it seems super interesting. It almost sounds a bit like memories, since both sims will have a different outlook on an event (like a date for example) based on their traits. Plus, your sims can bond over things like that. But yet... nothing about it in the gameplay trailer?
As for the skiing and snowboarding I read an article where it mentioned that there isn't "set" paths and your sims will actually choose their own way down the hill. I am hoping that will keep that type of gameplay fresh and make you want to contiue it more than once.
I'm also interested in the Sentiments. If they work as described, it could add something really meaningful. I hope we can see more of this in the gameplay stream coming on Friday.
And that's very interesting about the skiing paths. That makes it sound more fun for sure!
Lifestyles kinda just look like celebrity quirks...
So it seems like lifestyles are just bonus traits? 🤷♀️ well..considering how bland traits are already and how they do basically nothing to gameplay.. I can't see this doing.... anything? Well.. yay for mods I guess 😅 because Sims 4 gameplay is always bland no matter how the trailers look, no matter how much hope we have or how they dress it up in each expansion and that is the sad reality imo.. at this point I physically sigh whenever they release anything even when it 'looks' great, and that is sooo tragic for a lover of the Sims for 20 years 🙃 the sims 4 lost it and has never gained it back for me when it comes to gameplay 😭 this is a building game to me now so atleast this pack looks beautiful 📸 OR maybe they will surprise me?...(which I hope for everytime and they don't..😅)
I feel exactly the same. I hope for improvement with each new pack and we NEVER get it. It's all just the same old shallow crap dressed up in a pretty package.
@@PleasantSims yepp! looks beautiful but has absolutely no substance..
Honestly it seems that the modding community is able to actually provide us with the personality fixes we want/need in the game. It sucks that the game is so shallow when played in vanilla. The world they've built for this pack is really pretty though. And it's nice they've added more interesting things for sims to do (snowboarding and such).
Wow.
I was expecting some interesting lifestyle traits, but... this?
Srsly? Aint we already have lazy and active character traits? Why would we need them as a lifestyle trait???
I wish I knew. Looks like more shallow BS to me.
@@PleasantSims its very shallow and pointless, it will give like zero difference. Ah, and i wonder if it will break a sim if he'll have an active trait but gets sedentary lifestyle (could happen if sim is a workaholic, for example).
Ah finally someone says it! yeah the voice over is just weird cause the sims don't speak English... it's just the wrong place for such trailer with voice over... .-. I can't really say something to the ep cause travel itself and that stuff aren't things that I like in sims (I don't hate it but I wouldnt need it) I stoped playing sims 4 anyway but still it's faaaar better then star wars XD
Star wars was rock bottom. I don't think they'll ever sink lower than that. God, I hope not.
i would really hope everything they make going forward is better than star wars cause the bar is on the floor if that’s what we’re measuring against.
I also like how they showed the lifestyles for a second, the most interesting in the pack. And sentiments are nowhere to be found. I agree 100% with you, we all know by now its just gonna be shallow and barely make a difference overall to our games. I really dont have high hopes (in general) for gameplay to ever really get better, it is the sims 4.
Finally a Sims YTer that keeps it all the way real. I love the game but as a long time Sims player that trailer dampened the small amount of enthusiasm I managed to create. *sigh* EA strikes again.
I was also disappointed when I saw the lifestyles to. I really REALLY wanna like this pack especially after Star Wars but I’m in the middle of being disappointed and excited and plus with some of the drama has made not even wanna think about playing sims 4 at least not now or if this pack really does update the gameplay.
I know how you feel. I am going to give this pack a fair chance and give Sims 4 yet another chance to redeem itself. But I am highly suspicious that this is all going to be shallow and not add anything meaningful.
I'm still highly skeptical about lifestyles and sentiments as well, but there's still so much we don't know about it that I'm still holding out hope. I know it's not going to do what I want, but I'm hoping it could be a step in the right direction. I just don't trust them to make it as impactful as it should be. They're good at making things look and sound good, but in reality it's just shallow. I still need to learn more!
Agree completely! I hope we get to see more of this in Friday's Livestream.
Personally, I do like the idea of conflict in these lifestyles. What we’re missing in existing traits is that they’re almost all positive with no negative version (like how in the Sims 3 they had likes/dislikes supernaturals, love/hate the outdoors, and many other examples of this) so I like that we seem to be getting that here. Also SimGuru Graham confirmed that you can lose lifestyle if you don’t keep up practicing them, which reminded me of the hobby enthusiasm system in Free Time. However, I do worry that these will only be in name and not impact gameplay, or that it will simply affect the buffs you get and not much else. The same with sentiments; I want to see conflict in lifestyle or sentiment have long term impacts on relationship rather than decreasing your relationship a little bit and nothing else happens. I want to see fury, wants, fears, chemistry, memory and true impactful traits and what I see with this pack is a foundation for these, but it won’t do much if they treat as if they gave it to us here and choose not to elaborate in further packs/updates, especially when you consider that they will not expand lifestyles because they’re exclusive to this pack.
Stopped watching another video when I saw the notification! No regrets
Thank you so much for watching StagePrincess! 💙
I'm glad that you're not sugar coating what ea is doing like what game changers are doing. I was really skeptical about the "personality overhaul". And when the game play trailer came out I immediately got uninterested and got annoyed of how the game changers over exaggerated it and made it seem like ea actually fixed the issue. The only way I would get excited for this lifestyle part is if they made a base game update to actually do the overhaul which I doubt will ever happen.
I'm sorry for my english at first..
If i made a sim with the sporty treat i dont need a Lifestyle to "manifest" it again. I don't know if y'all understand what i Was trying to say 😅
Yes, I understand. The lifestyles seem redundant and useless.
I really hope there are actually some interesting lifestyles since there is a scrollbar.
One good thing about this is that It's been revealed that you will be able to place rentals outside of vacation worlds, so for example you can have a rental at willow creek etc. About the personality stuff, stuff hasn't been fully revealed yet, it's just a video and we might not know what the personalities actually add, It might be ok, it might be terrible, I saw this quote some minutes ago on a website "This new update comes with improved depth to Sims in the form of Lifestyles and Sentiments. Lifestyles are based on a Sim's experiences and behaviors and influence what a Sim will do when fully autonomous and how they will feel in certain situations. Lifestyles include things like Workaholic, Frequent Traveler, and Adrenaline Seeker. Sims can have up to three at a time, and as their habits change, their Lifestyles will also shift. Sims can also change their Lifestyle using a reward potion or by calling a lifestyle coach. This feature is currently exclusive to the Snowy Escape pack. All players will get the opportunity to experience Sentiments, though there will be expanded options if players opt for the DLC. Sentiments are feelings different Sims will have about shared experiences. While one Sim might reminisce on a moment with fondness, another may become sad. Now, when Sims share time together, the moments can mean more and affect their moods later on."
I'm glad they're adding Sentiments to the basegame, but I suspect the Lifestyles will be very shallow and just add some useless emotional buffs. I hope I'm wrong.
@@PleasantSims Let's hope, I hope this won't be another flop
The part that does look promising though is sentiments, this is directly affecting emotions such as sims will be sad by missing other sims and happy when spending time with certain sims, maybe this will fix the broken emotions ??
I hope so, but like with everything in Sims 4 - it probably sounds better than it actually is. I hope they do add meaningful gameplay, but we'll have to wait and see I guess.
Cindy has such a way with words.. loving the Sims 4 reaction videos 😂 totally agree re the voiceovers, they just don't sit right with me
"SKEPTICAL of SNOWY ESCAPE ~ Lifestyles are NOT what you think. " ---- THANK YOUUUUUU i think the sameeeee...... the lifestyle here seems to be similar to the feature we get in the pack Get Famous " Earned Quirks" which is SUPER ANNOYING......
They have to do english voice overs. Because without them the game can't even sell itself.
Sims, Sims2 and Sims3 were able to have no voice over and sell the new contents perfectly.
Is nobody going to mention the recoloured dino from Oasis Springs
Love your content and your Sims 3 rotation-style play tutorials! Thank you!!
Thanks Jeremy!
The only rule related to showers and onsens will probably be that you'll need a minimum number of showers to make an onsen-type lot
I cringe every time they say Komorebi. I'm not going to pretend like I'm fluent by any definition, but it doesn't sound right at all. The build stuff will look cute in speedbuilds, I guess, but I'm not swayed beyond that.
3:28 ya exactly. And here’s the thing, I don’t play Sims 4 anymore but I have seen many CC for it, and there are many amazing CC one can get for FREE. Trying to bait in players by the Buy Mode, or Build modes and even CAS is so bad because anything we want for the aforementioned modes we can easily get from CC creators for free, so that makes this pack even more useless. But of course, the SimTubers will try to sweeten this pack and make it look good and that “it’s not as bad as I thought it would be” because none of them are being authentic anymore. :/
They should add back fears and memories
I honestly wish they would "show" instead of "tell." They're really pushing the "storytelling" aspect of Sims 4. I'm not paying $40 to fill in glaring gameplay gaps with storytelling! It gets old after a while, especially when the game gets so repetitive and bland without mods.
3:12 i personally interpreted this as TS4’s version of memories!
3:40 yeah i’m excited for the hot pot as well, but my sims NEVER can eat together bc they never wanna sit down, so i don’t know how much use i’m going to get out of this...
"Pretty to look at but not fun to play" describes the sims 4 perfectly
I like how you don’t sugarcoat everything, I really don’t like that the people with bigger platforms just ignore the bad parts and act like it’s a great game. But you still give credit where it’s due. Honestly your like the only sims UA-camr I can trust lol
Thank you so much! That really means a lot to me!
This trailer: oversimplification of Japanese culture lol
For Life style traits you pretty much took the words right out of my mouth. First thing that came to mind when I saw them is that they are quirks from Get Famous. I will be pleasantly surprised if they don't function the same. But I think people calling this game changing are setting themselves up for disappointment.
I believe that the gameplay trailers tell us a lot about the game and its focus. THE SIMS 4 IS NOT A LIFE SIMULATION GAME IT IS A STORY CREATION Game. That's why all their videos challenges and stuff revolve around us creating stories
I'm literally done with packs. We've got what we need (in my opinion) and cc can do the rest. And I can live vicariously through other simmers. My Mum asked if I was intrested in the pack (the pack comes out the day after my birthday I believe) and I promptly did no. Don't hold me to my word, I might cave and buy stuff when Black Friday comes around, but believe me I won't ask for it immediately like I usually do.
Also I noticed you have 30k! That's awesome 😃 I remember when you had 5k or 10k, it's great to watch you grow more this year
Thank you! And yes, I know exactly what you mean. I am buying this so I can review and play it on the channel, but if I wasn't a UA-camr I would probably pass too. I've been burned too many times.
I’m over the sims 4. I’ve found your channel and I’m happy that people still make content for the sims 2. I’m 18 so I only played the sims 3 and now 4, but I just started playing the sims 2 and the gameplay is over the roof just like the sims 3 and even more immersive. With all the mods that you mention it makes it so much fun and better than the sims 4 because the sims feel alive. EA continues to disappoint and I’m over it lol. Keep up the great work!
I like voiceovers when they are not sooo cringy in a bad way. The voiceover for Sims 3 university was so good and the voiceover for Sims 3 romantic loft stuff (or how it was called) still sounds to me like porn commercial... XD It mirrored the same things the Sims was famous for. Quirky, Crazy and a slight touch of forbidden charm. (Idk how else to describe them). The Sims 4 trailers sound like a forced child friendly explanation on what is in the pack with try hard cool kid speech.
Yeah, I'm 100% done with this game. I was holding out a little bit of hope that this new "personality system" would bring some life to the game, but honestly I should've known better. No matter how many packs they add or how many cheap "fixes" they slap on, the gameplay itself never improves. The last time I tried to play Sims 4 I spent an hour updating mods, sat at the login screen trying to think of something fun I could actually do in-game, then shut it down without playing at all. And after finally being able to play Sims 3 again, I don't think I'll ever go back to 4. I'll keep watching these vids of yours though because it's nice to see someone that will actually be truthful about the problems the game has and isn't just in ea's pocket 😑
Just hope the new lifestyle system won’t mess the game the same way NAPs did! I don’t want people fighting or playing the guitar in from of my house 24/7 😂
Still seems just like a game pack, not an expansion pack
I always wait at least three weeks to decide whether to purchase a new pack or not. I watch it release and then pay close attention to actual reviews like yours and the feedback from players. I was burned too much at the beginning and almost always let down in some way by the actual game expansions.
I know exactly what you mean. I am buying this pack to give it a fair review, but I honestly don't know yet if I would recommend it.
@@PleasantSims can't wait for your review!
EA: “Are you tired of your sims doing push-ups randomly only once in a conversation? Well now with the energetic lifestyle perk they’ll do it five times! Now that will be thirty dollars.”
I describe the emotions in sims 4 like this:
Your beloved father just died right in front of you, you're devastated. Oh, there's a new pretty painting in my house! Now I'm happy, everything is fine. My dad is dead? Look at this painting!
I'm ready for Snowy Escape to be dragged over the Lifestyle feature thing... I think it won't be a big thing/change and that's why they didn't show much in the "gameplay" trailer. But yeah let's see what the live stream is like.
I agree about the cringy voice-overs. It's very childish and feels like they're trying to appeal to a much a younger audience than the actual appropriate age group the game was attended for.
Its sad for Sim 4 players that my first reaction was "what are the modders gonna do with this?" Sims 4 will never get one more penny from me.
For the lifestyles: I think the hidden ones are dislikes/likes electrical devices and family person/lover (flirty type). (I feel like I'm stating the obvious here xDD) But yeah...until now it looks as shallow as I've feared. :/ A pass for me. At least until it gets a huge discount.
That's what I was thinking. Like, at one point the voice over said something about "put away the camera and no selfies", so if you take a lot of pictures, you'll get 'likes electronics' or whatever, if you don't, you won't like them... each will make you more likely or less likely to pull out your phone. And the family one might make you more or less likely to interact with your family members. While that does sound interesting, it's still not enough to make a real impact.
We already have those lifestyle traits in The Sims 4. They are already there in CAS. A sim with the CAS Energetic trait will, of course, unlock the energetic lifestyle trait. But the question is: how is it going to change my sim? Will he be even more energetic? Will he not sleep for 2 days straight? WOW!
Will a lazy sim unlock the lazy lifestyle and not get out of bed for the rest of his life? WOW!
I speculate that these hidden ones are about smart phones and solitary vs. couples. They seem like recycled personality traits from the sims3 like technophobe. They absolutely are cobbling another system onto a flawed game that is some mix of personality traits and aspirations. Although it could be worse, i was kind of worried that they'd declare sexual orientations are lifestyles.
it’s so sad that over and over again with these packs we can’t expect any more gameplay than listed in the descriptions. in previous games with expansions we’d get loads more to do we didn’t see listed in the pack’s description. my expectations are pretty low, i’d love nothing more than to be proved wrong. :/
Yes! I remember previous games you would see the trailers and know the basic new stuff, but once you started playing, you'd find all kinds of extra stuff to do and you'd run to the forums to ask if anyone else had noticed it or seen it or how to get it to happen (I remember using spoiler tags because stuff would be so hidden in the packs and you didn't want to ruin it for others who hadn't played or discovered it yet)... that just doesn't happen, anymore, because we see pretty much everything in the trailers because there's never really that much put into the packs.
What I hope this lifestyle will bring: If I create a Sim that is for example a little thick and I create this story of her wanting to lose weight and do more exercise, because I play her like that, she becomes Energetic and a Health Food Nut, because I send her to do exercises and to eat a lot of salads, then I don't have to tell her to cook salads or to do some sport, she will do this on her own, when I'm not controlling her and controlling for example her sibling. It is her new lifestyle, she adopted. And I think she will feel more happy when she does things like that, but if she does the opposite like eating Junk Food or not exercising enough, she will get a bad moodlet and will try to do again what her Lifestyle is. At least that's how I imagine that it would play out to be.
I’m actually kinda excited. I just hope we learn more about lifestyles because that’s the main selling point of the pack. I read the blog post and it seemed cool. I think you can have workaholic sims. And before the gameplay trailer I wasn’t really interested in winter sports. But after seeing it I’m super interested in playing with those things. I feel like they are going to hide lifestyles like they did with the apartments in eco lifestyle and show us how cool and in depth they are. One can only hope they won’t screw up again 🤞🏿
I'm a little hopeful but definitely skeptical. As someone who loves building, the one thing that sticks out to me is that it looks like we'll be able to have elevations inside the house. I do hope this is a feature that'll be added to the base game, like they did with ladders last spring. I still remember the first time I tried to build a nightclub. Back then I wanted to add an elevated VIP-area only to discover that I can't do that. So fingers crossed on that front. On the other hand I was a little hopeful that we would be able to finally create our own ponds. But it looks like the springs are just going to be an object that you can place. And even the houses in the trailer only used fountains. Gameplay-wise I'm definitely more on the skeptical side. The lifestyle looks pretty shallow and I fear it's just going to affect emotions rather than sims actions. And I fear climbing the mountain is going to be one of those things you'll only do once and then never again.
I'm afraid that these Lifestyles will be just like quests and check-lists you'll have to follow to have some kind of goal or motivation to keep playing the game lmao
... They KNOW this isn't what they said they were gonna give these look like fucking restaurant perks
i think if activities were interactive it would make a world of a difference. for example if you actually had to control the sim as the ski or board down the slope would be so fun. its not fun when its just kind of a click and watch them do it type thing
Every video I see you in makes you look more and more done with all of this
are we not gonna talk about how the climbing walls are similar to the walls from the fitness stuff pack?
I wait for your vids.omg your channel is growing so fast in the last few months! Congrats!
Thank you so much!!
Thanks for saying as it is Cindy... I thought the same and seeing others sim-youtubers being so naive about this pack, pissed me off. You bring me to my zen!
"Nothing has consequences to the sims 4" I HEAR YOUUUU
I agree with you on the English voiceover thing. I think they do these voiceovers simply to make up for the lack of sufficient gameplay animation. There's not enough content for them to follow the "show, don't tell" rule because other than lovely graphics, there's not enough variety in social interactions to tell a story without narration. As you’ve said, these gameplay trailers have very little gameplay shown…which is why they have to just tell you everything.
Also, I'm a lesbian and admittedly went "aww" near the end, but then realized that the representation was just a façade. Watch the video without the audio and you wouldn’t know there’s a lesbian couple. They had the opportunity at the “romance” part to show them kissing and it actually would’ve contributed to the story and would’ve made narrative sense. At best, it’s just them revealing that they have no idea how to tell a story anymore.
At worst, they didn’t want to show that for the sake of optics. I really hope it’s the former, but the latter wouldn’t surprise me since it’s a pattern for most mainstream media. Because it’s okay to talk about LGBTQ+ people or show brief images of them in the background, but making them the focus point of a trailer AND having them kiss would be WAY too much. LGBTQ+ representation told through a voiceover is like putting a pretty coat of paint on to trick people into thinking something isn't totally bland.
Sorry for the rant, I just have a lot of conflicting emotions. I want this game to succeed and I recognize that they’ve evolved as a game when it comes to LGBTQ+ representation, but it’s a stretch to call them pioneers.
On the other hand, they’ve DEvolved as a game when it comes to storytelling. Now more than ever.
EDIT: Also, on a less important note, it shows how little respect they have for the game's legacy. Simlish is a trademark of The Sims. Even when they sold out with that Katy Perry Sweet Treats pack, they still had her record a song in Simlish.
One of the big problem of the Sims 4 is that they consider emotions and personalities as the same thing. Which in the real world are not. Personality can influence emotions yes, but the Sims4 put all the personality of the sims on the frequency they feel certain emotions.
A system that could work, but is flawed by the fact that sims get buffs/debuffs from the world around them, and those are the same for every sims, no matter their personality traits. It erases all individuality and they all feel the same because of this.
EA was really proud of their emotions system at the release of the game, but it is too centered around it. Almost all personality traits just influence the emotions (hot-blooded = angry more often
Creative = inspired more often etc), which again, COULD work, but the rest of the game is just a bunch of activities influencing those moodlets, so all sims feel the same.
The personality system needs an overhaul that would detach the traits from emotions, and give the sims actual behaviors.
They need to bring back favorite foods, colors, music too, and here sims emotions could be influenced by the world around them, but each in different ways since their liking would be different.
There's so much that could be done and make this game amazing, but EA needs to take it from scratch, and they are definitely not ready for it. They prefer to put a band aid on it and hope it works.
The lifestyle stuff reminds me of the celebrity traits, I even recognize the one where your sim is addicted to their telephone in one of the hidden lifestyle symbols, which is referred to in this trailer as well (when she's talking about the zen stuff).
And I got the word you're looking for when describing those voice-overs: patronizing. It's like they are specifically targeting kids now (probably because kids have no experience of Sims 2 or Sims 3 to reference to when evaluating how good (=bad) of a game the Sims 4 is)
what do lifestyles actually add to the game? what is the motive to work toward it? How important is it to gameplay?
ThE MoUnTaIn Is SOooOooO DaNgErOUs - how much yall wanna bet its more dangerous to pull down a murphy bed than climb that damn mountain.
Thanks for another amazing video! Are you planning on reviewing / give your opinion on the pack when it comes out?
5:46 "Energetic Sims what are there gonna do? Be more likely to get active and want to do push-up on the side walk" 😂😂😂
It actually looks like the scouting career reward system, like, if you do certain actions enough times you’ll get a badge
I totally agree with what you said. I can’t play the Sims 4 without mods. I also agree with the personality system having a band aid slapped on it, like you said. An overhaul was overdue and I’m sure this new addition will be so buggy and annoying at first.
This franchise went from "make your own story" to "we will make your story for you, and you will never touch it ever again". I hate that all of the newer packs have this "strangerville" kinda formula. It's always like: go to a new world, do things that are only self contained, bring the cheesy storyline to an end, never play with this world ever again
1) **Agreed** with the voiceovers on the "gameplay" trailers. No, no you're not the only one. :) It sounds like Disney voiceovers, fully intended for young girls. Remember the Sims 1 TV ads? (I don't know if you're old enough.) They were all _gameplay_ in _Simlish!_ I've been wanting Simlish since the beginning. Either _that,_ or the devs actually explaining the new gameplay!
2) **Agreed** on the "lifestyle" update. Those are quite limited AND simple. Yes, it looks shallow. You take the words straight out of my brain!
3) **"The Rules"** and **No Consequences.** OK, so I've been playing The Sims 3 in the last month or so. It's crazy how common hidden consequences happen! (Not saying that didn't happen in previous games. I'm just saying consequences ended in The Sims 4.) I miss the complexities and details so much.
Graphics aren't everything!
I jsut realized your comment about fixing the emotion system rather than add to it..anyone remember an old old Simpsons episode...."Hmm..the babies seem uphappy in the ball pit." ..."ADD MORE BALLS!!"
Dude totally agree. Thank Will Wright for these brilliant modders, but it shouldn't be there job to save this game. I'm glad someone else is seeing the really of it.
The personality thing I dont see it as a good thing and just see it as something many simmers wanted but made lazily