The Sims 5 can't repeat the same disaster of The Sims 4...
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2023
- The upcoming new Sims game - The Sims 5 - and how I think it should be different to the previous titles!
This is a Sims 4 speculation video discuss The Sims 5 gameplay based on Sims 5 leaks and other Sims 5 news and information we know.
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I really hate that the solution to open worlds in Sims 4 was to just have random neighbors show up to your house at all hours of the day.
At least with no doorbells they’re easy to ignore! (Truthfully, it drives me crazy that I will be focusing on something else, shift to the front door and realize some sim has been standing there for who knows how long.)
@@Ikwigsjoyful for real, it's so unnatural that they'll stand outside your door for hours, and with the addition of sunburns to the game it only gets more bizarre that it doesn't trigger a sunburn lmao
Or just walk straight into your house to judge your decor, smell your bathroom or ask to be best friends 😑 lol
Honestly, sometimes I wish Simmer would go on "strike" and not buy and review any more new packs until EA get their sh*t together and fix all the bugs and glitches in the base game and all the packs. It gets so frustrating that there have been bugs since the beginning that were never looked at again.
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Nah they’re sims junkies at this point
Ea got the fan base wrapped around their pinky
@@ember9361 Maybe just the Sims UA-camrs they should have enough influence.
I think it's too late for TS4 to be save. Don't forget it's nearly 9 years running. It's bloated, buggy and glitches beyond the repair. Simmers should boycotted the game is noble idea but not in the reality. EA is very good at showing a new shiny thing and Simmers will fall for it.
@@lawrencekling8598 I know it´s too late for the Sims 4, it´s just soo frustrating because the Sims 1 and 2 were such great games. ( I actually never played the TS3, but I´m sure it was awesome.) They really dropped the ball with TS4 in all respects but especially with the lore.
I hope the sims 5 would give us the ability to ACTUALLY have mean interactions or at least actual high school drama, when one person can ruin your whole life, just because you got into their way. I want some real badass mean people, and sims to have different personalities. I want sims to be different, and not just some npc's who just have different outfits and traits.
Yeah because my sims forget about people who are rude to them and dont remember anything about it and its kinda lame IMO also the fact there isnt any cyberbullying factor in there if you chat online on the pc all it does is make your social need up no funny/upset/angry feelings just boring
the only drama you can start is just make enemies but thats really it other than that there is nothing else
They just want it to not get controversial lol
But these types of things would make the game more realistic too. Like, my sims are always friendly people on default. And they never do mean interactions autonomously ever since that weird bug where they did it autonomously too much. (Basically EA “fixed” it by getting rid of the feature entirely) 😑
@@donut1550lol i know! everyone was complaining about that bug but i actually loved it because my sims were FINALLY being mean as they should be 😂
The Sims 5 base game needs to start off meaty. Weather, all life stages, cars, open neighborhoods, small animals, apartments instead of houses, shops for basic needs. THEN expand on all of that with DLC for better/fancy shops, organic food markets, farming packs with all types of farm/ranch animals including pigs, goats and horses. If they want to expand on weather, perhaps do big storms like tornados, earthquakes that actually make sense, floods, etc. Those are things that get expanded plus people who can run it on their PC can buy them without feeling like they are missing out on anything since they at least have the juicy stuff.
So am I the only one who misses the make bed interaction I know it's a mundane task but I miss having my sim do it? I would love that to come back in sims 5
so many little tasks from the previous sims games made the world feel more immersive compared to sims 4.
I was so annoyed when I found out that was removed when the sims 4 came out :
Yes I was just thinking about that yesterday! Just a small detail that felt so realistic.
omg yes i was thinking about this yesterday
Yes and the maximalist sims would automatically do it
I think in the Sims 3 or maybe Sims 2? (if my memory is right), when you pass by a house, you can look through their window. If someone is inside, they'd go out and get angry at you. Same thing will happen if you use telescopes to watch your neighbors. It would be cool if they bring this back, adding "natural drama" to the game.
that was probably sims 3, you cant visit other houses in sims 2.
@@augusto7681 Most likely, considering TS3 is open world and has story progression.
Sims 2 telescope slapping was the best! I let my kid play in my world, and my legacy founder was the telescope peeper, and her founder was the telescope victim. I laughed so hard every time they ran over and got into a slap fest. I think you could peep in windows in Sims 3.
It was also possible in sims 2. And you could visit other houses and if you were peeping on garden after while your neighbor would come to slap you
@@dianaselnekovicova948 You cant visit other houses in sims 2. Did you have the apartament pack ? maybe a mod ?
"The Sims 5 can't repeat the same disaster of The Sims 4" but it will. EA saw that it can pump out any trash and some will eat it up, youtubers will praise it to hell and back and nothing will change. I mean, at this point anyone still having hope for TS5 is just under a lot of copium. But I'm here wishing to be proven incorrect, I'd truly hate to be right.
For Sims 5 I want
-more styles for furniture and clothing
- the zodiac personality system back, with more personality traits and have the personality of the sim actually effect how they interact with other sims.
- A pre-teen life stage
- A make your own world/neighborhood tool
- a different take on the lore (as much as I adore Bella, I think it's time for us to move on to the next generation of pre-made Sims)
- mysteries to discover in the world/ neighborhood
- randomness. Good and bad.
- house phones! Children should not have their own smartphones!
- Worlds/ neighborhoods not based off the PNW. I'm sick of it. Give me the plains, the great lakes region, France, Australia's gold coast, Dubai, Morocco...
Lol yeah whenever children have smartphones in real life, they usually end up being rlly bratty. Like, children in the sims 4 are at least 5 years old. That’s basically still really little kids! And compared to 12 year olds, which is basically the max age for child sims, there’s a big difference. Like, when I was 12, there were kids dating in my school and on social media. (Then again, kids can be a little strange, for example, my little sister was dating someone when she was only in 1st grade 😅)
For lifestates I don’t really want them like how they are in the sims 4 I want it like the base lifestates and as you play the sim like grows like how some teens still look like children and younger and then once you play through more they gradually start to look older. Another cool think I was think was like whenever they add seasons sims will only age up during the season they were born and which ever season their in would correlate to their zodiac sign like middle/late fall they would be a Virgo.
Yes, i also wish we can layer the clothings. e.g., maybe we can put a jacket on top of a separate dress. or putting hairbands regardless of the hair styles.
EA will take note of this idea and make an expansion for you at the cost of $40
Your content is so refreshing bc it’s real & honest. It’s frustrating seeing simmers shoot sparkles & BS out of their mouths all the time.
Sims 5 is such a scary thought, i really have no hope. BUT if it is good, i think something new that'd i'd like to see is Townies pursuing relationships (friendship or romantic) with our Sims. I feel like as the player, we always have to start the interactions and start the romance. It'd be nice to see them do it automatically without me interacting. Things like going on dates, asking to be BF or GF, proposals, etc.
This was a thing with pre-made families in the Sims 3. Granted, you had to flirt with them first, but afterwards they were able to call your sim and ask them to chat, go on a date, etc.
@@andrew-song Yeah exactly...I wish they would initiate it on their own! Sim2 & 3 have these elementals, but theyre not really fleshed out. I guess overall I'd just like for townies to be smarter and purposeful like satch was saying in the video. I would love to see my Sims choose their own lover or be properly pursued and see their own relationship grow without my input. It would be so fun. When I play the game I always feel like I have to do "maintenance" with their friendships/romances because If i dont remind them to interact, those townies will be forgetten (especially in Sims4).
@Kayo Splash if you're somoene who plays with mod, I would Highley recommend getting kutto random text mod and mccc. Kutto random text let npc invite your sims to parties, dates and more and with mccc you can acc turn on autonomous proposal so npcs can ask you to be their bf/gf and they'll autonomously visit you more as well
@@nash3689 i will have to check out the kutto mod! I have mccc and i have the npc interactions turned on but they NEVER happen lol!
Sims 3 had that you'd get asked on dates or even get love letters
I’d love for the sims lips to actually touch when they kiss / for the sims to decided whether they wanna sit or stand while having a conversation / to be able to see our pets needs rather than guessing based on picture bubbles / better base lots / hire testers & dev teams who actually look into bugs & fix them or provide workarounds.
Building on what you're saying, I'd love for Sims in the Sims 5 to have different animations on HOW they kiss, hug, etc based on their personalities. Instead of always the surprised first kiss, with no reciprocation.
i hate not being able to see my pets needs so much
@@amarashaelyn IKR why do we have to just guess like arent we the god here?
So wild we have to request things that would be standard and tested in any other game lmao
I never even bothered buying Sims 4 Cats and Dogs. I think I tried playing it on a friend's game and just wasn't impressed. And the Pets expansion packs were my must-haves in Sims 2 and 3, but it just seemed like such a huge step backwards to not be able to play as the pets. I thought I wouldn't waste my time and money... honestly I can't really be bothered with Sims 4 as a whole - I love the gender customisation options but for me that's the only plus. I just wish they could have come to the Sims 3, it's just such a better game, and the gender options are the only meaningful improvement of the Sims 4 to me.
I want the sims not to run but to walk when they want to go somewhere nearby, to use a car for long distances, as well as to use a ship for trips to the island. Using your cell phone to travel to the restaurant that is right next to your house is just crazy.
Not to mention, if your game doesn’t load quickly enough, on the “travel through phone” loading screen, in game time STILL PASSES! Like, if you’re going to make there be loading screens, don’t make the time still pass during them! 😑
Some time ago I returned to the sims 3 and what immediately struck me during the game was that I got used to doing everything from home in the sims 4, e.g. buying books through the shelf, buying seeds through the seedbed. whereas in the sims 3 I had to go to the bookstore, the grocery store, go looking for seeds. this showed me how sim in the sims 4 is locked in four walls and there are no difficulties in normal functioning. while in the sims 3 my sim gets a moodlet that he has been at home too long (about 3 days). you may also notice that the developers have stopped placing plants/digging/frog locations in the newer worlds. like it used to be a staple and when my sim moved to one of the newer worlds I had to move her because there was literally nothing around to collect that equals zero income (if you want to play no tricks). 😕
-more police action like teens getting arrested, kleptomaniac sims getting arrested.
-overhaul skills i would like separate skills for different sports, new activities we’ve never seen like making pottery, jewellery making, hairdressing or beauty skills.
- skateboards, rollerskates, electric scooters.
-into to the future is one of my favourite packs of all time i’d love to see something like that added again as DLC
-better nightlife aspect, i’d love for them to take inspo from late night or the urbz and make a downtown area with different clubs, cliques with unique interactions, groups you can join, different activities on different days, food trucks, and most importantly LORE. sims 4 lacks the same vibe as it’s predecessors because it feels so cookie cutter.
-festivals and concerts, i’d love there to be famous musician sims who can perform and have sims attend with the ability for sims to do that too. could expand to comedians or magicians and been the get famous pack we deserved.
I miss the mood meter in sims 2-3. You could tell how a sims life was going over a period of time. in sims 4 their emotions change too much.
Frrrr, they be having multiple moodlets at once and sometimes they don’t even make sense for the context or how long it last
I loved the sims 3. I felt it had everything I wanted in the game. I loved collecting gems, having vampires and witches. I felt like my sims had connections with other sims. I loved I could write a bio for them and they had memories. It made it feel like they were real. My favorite career was the sculpture. My sims could make their own furniture for their house. I loved the interactions between sims, like the cuddling on the bed. I can’t stand that when sims go to woohoo in sims 4 they high five.. they should be kissing and growling. Or have a few different animations. Not the same one every time. Sims 4 just feels like it’s going through the motions. I miss the open world. The fun animations. I’m hoping sims 5 gives us some of that back. Even just the simple money counter a sim had on their career telling them how much money they have made since they started. Those little things are what made the game. I could careless honestly if the graphics are better. I know sims 3 lags hardcore, but at least it works. Every time I download a new pack or DLC it glitches, eventually it doesn’t work. I was so excited for the laundry day pack. It doesn’t work. Most of them don’t. I hate that. I can’t tell you how many fires my one family has had in a 7 day period. Takes the fun out the game. My rant is over.. thank you 😂
right! good example is the laundry. in sims 3 you clicked "do laundry", the sims goes through collecting, loads then autonomously turns on the washer later they even autonomously load dryer then collect clean clothes.
in sims 4 you have to collect, load, turn on then wash and if you forget you have to go through all those animations again and most times it glitches throughout.
Lol I love rants on the sims 4, so dw 😅
wow so accurate! youre absolutely right :( in my whole simmer life i only had ONE fire and that was so fun to me so i really get what youre saying
I think the needing groceries and clothes should be something you can turn on and off in settings so it's fun and good for everyone's playing style :) And I agree with the semi-open world for TS5. Since 3's open world made is really laggy. TS4 missed an opportunity on making a semi-open world to help with the lag. I also hate those stupid fake buildings in the game.
Also, I hate the cash grabby-ness it's so slezy and I really think TS5 needs to be more inclusive and customizable in terms of gameplay STYLE. I hate how I can't turn off certain features in TS4 without mods and adjust lifestage spans individually in options. For example being forced to hear about festivals and fairs, those are SO annoying. I really hate how full my calendar is for them when I don't even care to attend them!
Hey, why don’t you come to Trendi every day at 7 am to get new clothes? They just restocked!!! 😀
That and the small towns and lots. Thats what grinds my gears the most.
Honestly there was steady improvement from sims 1 - sims 3 but sims 4 just went backwards in terms of gameplay
Sims 4 feels like it should've been between 1 and 2, that's how backwards it is.
@@jalapeno1119 agree
Agreed. Also not having an open world was such a retrograde step.
THIS! You nailed it.
I enjoy Sims 4.
But, it's beginning was a major drawback from other Sims games of the past.
And because of that drawback of missing features. Sims 4 has gone from trying improve the game. To just trying catch up to the Sims 3 .
And all because EA want a multiplayer feature. No one ask for.
In the sims5, I want consequences more than anything! I want other sims to judge my sim, find out if I cheat, reject my friendship if I’m doing bad things, have consequences if I commit a crime etc
Like through gossiping about memories!
@@jalapeno1119 yes, or when in the sims 2 my spouse would find out that I cheated and broke up with me I miss that! Or when I had a bad reputation in the sims 3
Lollll I really really don’t want that at all, really. Stick with your mods please
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@@Spikey100000The Sims is a life simulation.
Paradox may be a smaller team but rest assured, they'll provide where EA won't. EA simply don't want a big expensive game, it's far easier to have something like TS4 where most of the game is just set dressing than it is to actually work hard and create the worlds and game we want to play in.
When I say expensive, I mean from EA's perspective, ie, development costs
And DLC is normally cheaper too. Cities Skylines DLC is in the $15 dollar range. Although Paradoxes DLC will be worth the price I'm sure. Regardless of what it costs.
One of the worst things EA did for Sims was dissolving Maxis. Maxis was probably the greatest simulation game company of their time. Their AI models were incredible, no matter the game they released. The only other game company I can think of who created creature/human-like AI on their level back then was Lionhead studios in their game "Black and White".
When Maxis got dissolved, we got Sims 4. Sims 4 is a decent dollhouse game for those who prefer controlling the entire story, but lacks decent AI for those who don't. The sims are shallow and their autonomy sucks. The quality of the game dropped a whole lot too. Sims was Maxis' passion project, whereas EA just treats Sims like a cash cow.
I don't think EA will ever be able to create a life sim on par with Maxis' Sims games. Here's hoping another, smaller game company can.
*So* much of a YES to the open neighbourhoods concept. I don't mind loading screens when I'm hopping between worlds, but it's seriously so annoying to have them when I'm just nipping round to visit the neighbours for a couple of minutes. End up just inviting people to the home lot when I need to socialise.
I would also like a way to easily locate graves of friends and family members who pass away.
I think the disaster of the sims 4 was due to the intention/desire to make it "cross-platform compatible with mobile phones" (meaning they couldn't put in anything or it wouldn't run well on phones), then the same announcement about sims5 just means I have no intention of buying what I believe is going to be dumbed down junk :p
Exactly if I want dumb shi I’ll just stick with the sims 4 and continue to mod the game 😒
yeah, that's really disappointing news. it seems so short-sighted of them. like yes there will be kids playing on their phones probably, but their direct competition, Life By You and Paralives, are focusing on high-power graphical components (the latter less so, but still on par with Sims 4 with room for growth later). i can imagine 3 years from now a bunch of videos like "Life By You So Much Better and Visually Impressive Than Sims 5"
You make some great points, and I agree with just about all of them. The one thing that I would love to see is advanced NPC autonomy and a complete overhaul of how NPCs exist in the Sims world. I want to have more options for how I interact with NPCs. For example, I would like NPC sims to live in my household without taking control of them. There's something very immersive about watching your sim interact with an NPC sim while you have no idea what the NPC sim is thinking or what their intentions or needs are. I have used mods to accomplish something similar (although it is never quite what I hope to accomplish) and it could add some incredible immersive depth to the game. In addition, NPCs should have skills, friends, and relationships that are developed while off the playable lot. NPC lives are basically static, which just kills the immersion.
To add, I think it's immersion breaking when you load into a Sims 4 community lot and a group of townies spawn at the entrance. The Sims 5 should work on this!
@@SatchOnSims Fr tho like atleast spawn on the sidewalk or outside a shop or smthn like its a life simulation game
there is no way in hell a group of people normally just stand in front of an entrance for like 10 seconds then get moving in one specific building IRL
like this just annoys me everytime I go on a date with my sims and just looking at how unrealistic it looks as everyone spawns in next to us
they really should work on that agreed and pray that it wont mess up otherwise I would lose even more hope with what TS5 has to offer
As long as Sims is made by the soulles company named EA it will stay a soulless product without any efforts. Sims 5 will have the same fate as Sim City 5.
1. what i would like is a relationship overhaul.
-- like my sims should develop crushes that can get deeper over time and last for an entire life stage (I know they kind of did this with high school years but I want more). also if other sims found out about the crush and could tell them your sim has a crush on them and it would give you a positive or negative moodlet or teased my sim about it or vice versa. EA has a habit of not fully developing an idea so it seems really shallow in the gameplay.
-- another thing i would like is another relationship bar. this would expand on crushes so let me explain: both summer and liberty in the sims 4 are supposed to both have feelings for travis, yet he doesn't know either of them likes him, in fact, all 3 of them don't have a romantic relationship bar at all. what I would want is if there are two sims, sim A and B who likes sim C, A and B's romantic relationship bars fill up, but C's stays empty. there currently isn't a thing in the game that makes it so your sim can't like someone without the other sim's romantic bar also filling up. so i'd like a separate bar for it.
2. semi open world with some restrictions.
-- I like the complete open world concept of the sims 3, but I also like that i can travel to different worlds in the sims 4. what i'd like is the ability to go to any world i want to like in the sims 4, but be able to just click on any community lot and be able to go straight there without a loading screen.
-- this one might be kind of nitpicky though, but in the new game if there are new worlds that i can visit, i would appreciate if sims stayed in their own worlds. for example, i went to say, sulani, I'm not seeing judith ward at the bar or going to mt komorebi and seeing a vampire or something. sometimes it's jarring to see certain sims in places where they would realistically not be in. every sim could have a specific world where they live at and if they are in a different world, it could say "on a trip" or something like that.
I would like to have a one sided love bar or something like this, that one sim doesn’t know that another one has a crush on him/her
I miss being able to control pets SO MUCH! I used to go on giant ghost catching adventures with my cat whenever my sim family was sleeping because I constantly wanted action. The option to just be able to control your dog on where to dig or how it interacts with other dogs, and how cats had a ton off different toys and skills. I was so disappointed when I got the sims 4 cats and dogs and it completely removed the action to control them.
Oof the early days of Sims 4 was rough! I couldn’t even play it for a day without getting bored and wanting expansions and mods, versus the other games where I was able to play for years without extra content enhancing it. Unfortunately given EA’s track record, I don’t have high hopes for sims 5
I don't have high hope for TS5 either
yeah I got TS4 in 2018 and then I got a 🏴☠ version but then switched back because my mods and CC didnt work well and I couldnt see the gallery
and I dont even have most of the packs lol
I couldnt resist having other things in my game to improve it because basegame was just dull
like basegame should atleast be fun for a month or longer
I'm certain sims 5 will be the most beautiful turd ever (unreal engine fine is going to be beautiful, but the only option for your sims will be go here or run here). You sim will look lifelike but there will be no build mode, and you can interact with nothing in the house.
It's literally unplayable for me without mods.
YES!!!! I WANT MORE LIFESTAGES!!! WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT LIFE STAGES!!! MORE LIFE STAGES IS WHAT MADE THE SIMS 2 REVOLUTIONARY
I’m hoping maybe them doing infants is a sign that they’re going to include it in the Sims 5 as well.
Yes. Pre teen, menopause, mid life crises, etc
Not having the open world is a huge neighbourhood, although not being able to create one from zero with placeable multi-size lots it's even worst in my opinion. I didn't play Sims 3 but Sims 2, and that was simply my favourite feauture.
Definitely agree with the points you make, like EA given the community crumbs and when some people are so grateful it's like...for what? I honestly was so shocked when the anniversary gift was a singular hot tub. Like it was clear how EA felt about the community when they did that
I really hope they'll make sims different from one another again. In the s4 they are all the same and their traits don't really impact the game, so I hope for a fix. And also more gameplay and active careers would be great. I do agree with the shopping thing, although I love creating sims and I treat this game more like a dress-up game, so I wouldn't like that very much.
I would to see the return of stories (that go beyond like career changes, babies, etc) that impact gameplay for premade families/townies and new lore
the only thing I can think of that actually impacts the game positively is multitasking. Thats it.
And building lot is much improved from previous franchises.
For me is have more than one lot type in a single lot. Like live in a apartment and have a caffe at street level.
I want a more mature approach to celebrities and the occult rather than that point system where you could basically treat powers/privileges like a shop, I'd love to see if they made it more mysterious like you have to do something to get a certain power/privilege and before that you gotta find out what that is you need to do in a more putting the pieces together way. It would make it a lot more realistic like irl you don't just buy having your fans send you gifts or no fantasy movie was ever like "okay you did enough magic shit now you can pick whatever random power you want" like they could make each perk more of a rabbit hole, maybe not even show the empty place for it, just leave the discovery completely up to the player, making us feel like we're really finding something new. They could also take a more realistic/mature approach to emotions, NOT MAKE THE GRAPHICS SO CARTOONEY, and give us a rather simple memory system like the sims 2, maybe integrate the different emotions the sims 2 didn't have. I also want more distinct sims where the traits actually influence their every day character. THE AMOUNT OF TIMES i wanted to make a more reserved, introverted sim and the huge cartooney expressions completely ruined it. This is not a game for kids, it's always been for the teen or older audience, EA seems to have forgotten that.
and about DLCs, I agree on how the sims 5 should be a game not a base game 100%, and on top of the already complete game I'd love to see more mature DLCs coming out like if they had a psychology DLC where you're able to costumize your characters to THAT extent, giving them core motives, values, also implemented in families. It just makes sense because that's what makes it a DLC, not everyone wants it but those who do get to add it to the ALREADY PLAYABLE AND REALISTIC GAME.
Sims 3 was real THE BEST. I hope they add the option to walk on the streets again or like go shopping, buy food, go to school or whatever n u would be available to interacting with actions, people, etc. I need more reality n drama in the sims😭
Hey Satch I recently came across your channel and I just wanted to tell you how much I love your content. I absolutely adore how brutally honest you always are and it’s just so refreshing. I think by now I’ve watched most of your videos and you always put a smile on my face or made me nod vigourously in agreement. thank you for giving us such great content, you are amazing!
Honestly, the mobile stuff demoralizes me to no end. Mobile gaming is the worst and we're probably all getting the mobile experience regardless of our hardware
what honestly bothers me the most about ts4 is the implication that the player is dumb. they focused so much on that emotion system when sims in ts2 and ts3 NEVER felt like they didnt have emotions. i’d even argue that those sims felt like they have more emotions than ts4 sims. emotions irl are shown, not written out. emotions are complex. emotions are influenced so much by the character of a person, aka traits. yet the traits in ts4 are again, only spelt out and not shown. i miss that in ts3 i could know some of the traits of a random sim based purely on how they acted. in ts4 i sometimes find out i dont even know all my “best friend”’s traits bc it doesnt even matter since sims all act the same (apart from
vampires hissing randlomly). i miss ts2 and ts3. they didnt act like we were dumb. they didnt water everything down. they didnt act like we cant handle drama, consequences, emotional damage.
I'm actually in contrast to your opinion on the mundane. I like some mundane stuff, but I like a healthy balance of vibrance as well. Werewolves, Bowling Alleys, et cetera. When they said they were thinking about certain themes in Life By You (medieval, supernatural, and others) I got excited.
It obvious that you put such an effort into this channel. I hope this community of yours will keep growing even faster! ❤
I started playing ts4 only recently and honestly it just baffles me how they add fundamental things like infants after 8 years!
I agree with you occults and adventure type game play should be their own pack. Seasons, Growing Together, Parenthood, and Laundry day should be base game. I think they could do themes for DLC/microtransactions, like time periods, specific locations, trends/styles. That way builders and CAS players could pick and choose which ones they want. Also they would have a few game play features specific to the time, location, and objects.
You wanna make a Bet ? ... I'm gonna Bet bottom Dollar. --- I watch a lot of other channels that review games, and every time EA games (other than the Sims titles) get mentioned, they all say the same thing: "Game is lazily half-assed and can be completed in 2 hours".
Best to stick with TS4 for the rest of your life to be able to use the best mods. - Leave TS5 on the shelves, and look into diversing your life into other simulation games.
Let's show EA we will not pay $1000+ for another game from them EVER again !!! ... TAKE CONTROL IN YOUR ACTIONS
Honestly, the only good thing about the Sims 4 is that is visually looked better. That's the only thing
Well, even that's debatable. I'd argue some aspects of the Sims 4 are pretty low poly and with worse textures than we've seen in earlier games, not just 3 but even 2. It just looks appealing to the eye because 4 is very bright and colorful, whereas earlier games had a more realistic based art style and color palette
@@Simself Sometimes I zoom in on items just to laugh at how horrible they look LOL. Flat oranges in a box always amuse me. It's like this spiteful laugh of "I wish this looked better but it doesn't so I'm just going to laugh at the lack of quality you can tell they don't bother putting into the game".
That's not a good thing, EA.
I already didn't want to get the Bathroom Clutter kit, but then I saw the reviews and the quality of the items and just laughed at how they bad they looked. And frankly, I don't spend enough time in the bathroom to buy a whole clutter kit for it.
I think TS2 graphic looked good as it aged well
The Sims 2 and 3 was the most pleasure I have experienced overall. I never played Sims 4; it never appealed to me.
I feel the same
CAS in the sims 4 was a major overhaul from it’s predecessors. I would spend hours customising my sims, only to leave 5 minutes later after trying to play in live mode.
I really want more references to the older sims games like the cake dancer thing. I AM BEGGING FOR THE CAKE DANCER
The thing you mentioned about the gallery is something i really want them ro fix in ts4. Whats the point in selecting "show owned packs" if the results are builds with 400 packs and you just happen to have 2 of them?
omg exactly this!!! when i click “show owned packs” i expect to see build with only the packs i own, not build with all of the packs including the ones i have
I want more interactive actions. It is similar to choose-your-own-adventure books. If I make a decision, I want to be lead down a path of events with other sims. The sims are predictable and static.
I really wanted them to elaborate the sim properly and their personality and independency, in sims 4 while playing I miss the personality and the interaction that sims have in the sims 2, like the dreams that they have and how they feel about relationships. In sims 4 I lack interest in the sims that I create and I often give up playing with one family because, I don't know why, they always feel empty. So it would be very good to have that type of evolution and care about the interaction between sims in the game and add some sort of independency to them
Honestly, it would be greatly disappointing if TS5 didn't have open world. It was possible in 2009, on a 32-bit processing system. TS5 shouldn't need a compromise like open neighborhood, it should just be open world given that it's 2023 and they have time.
the build mode in s4 is vastly inferior to 3. when i place a door in s3, the game doesn't throw a hissy fit if I try to move it or if the house isn't on ground level or if i started placing doors and then add more rooms on the opposite side of the house
S4's build mode just has more items and whatnot. It's not actually as amazing as people laud it to be. Every single time I try to build I end up getting frustrated and give up and use the gallery for a new house because it gets so finnicky. I do think it's the best Sims game for furnishing, but actual building I find to be a pain. It has more options/features, but they weren't implemented well. Might I remind you about how rounded walls came out and were completely forgotten by the entire player base almost immediately because they sucked. Could've been great to have, but they didn't work well at all.
The build mode is just unfortunately a product of the rest of the game. Most things got implemented poorly and things break easily. The build mode is still part of a very glitchy game and so has problems like the rest of the features of the game. If it actually worked right, I would agree that S4 has the best build mode as far as options/tools/etc, but so much of it doesn't work well.
It's sad because S4 could be so much better and I do love it, but EA doesn't care enough to put enough money into it to actually make it work right. Like Satch always says, they do the bare minimum and barely even do that much, make as much money off it as possible, then they don't bother trying to improve what they already made money on (which is a dumb idea imo, because more people would buy the products i.e. packs if they kept improving them...). They don't care about customer satisfaction - they just care about filling their pockets and moving on to the next thing. That's why the amount of quality testers has gone down drastically and why they outsource their quality assurance now. They do the absolute bare minimum expense wise and it /shows/ in the final product. Build mode is unfortunately one of the things where we get new features that get left to rot, because EA doesn't want to actually spend the money on fixing it.
Honestly I agree with all your suggestions you made really good ones. I think a proper sickness/illness system would be good. With a base game hospital. Life isn’t ladida. People get ill and sometimes die! They did in the sims 2. They could make it so you can tick a box whether your sims can die from sickness or not. Simple. But I don’t think illness should be DLC 🥴
exactly and the proper sicknesses and stuff like what cancer can do and other harmful sicknesses would fit well for a life sim game because what we got is just swirls on our body or that laughing one etc. which is just nonsense with what we have IRL
I would also love for sickness to be a part of the game, like if a kid falls hard of the jungle gym they actually break a leg or whatever and you have to take them to the hospital, and they get a cast to wear for a certain amount of time. But until that happens try Adeepindigos healthcare redux mod, it adds at least some of those things :)
@@v1ku390 exactly. The swirls and silly marks on the body are just so goofy. What kind of sickness is that? Then you just magically order a cure-all medicine from the computer and it’s all gone. So silly lol. I’d rather they had nothing.
@@signebach3948 exactly!! Those are great ideas. It all boils down to consequences doesn’t it? You just want consequences for your life simulator. Things (like broken limbs) happen! It’s about time we see the reflected in life simulation games! Thank you so much for the mod suggestion! I’ll have a look into it. Modders are superheroes!
I will be going into the Sims 5 with extremely low expectations. The number one thing I love about the Sims 4 is the stylistic choice they went with--cartoony with realistic touches, which we can tell Paralives is more inspired by, rather than the true realism look like Life by You. And the leaks for Sims 5 show that less-cartoony vibe, looking similar to like all the copy-and-paste survival crafting games on Steam, y'know? I just already hate the choice and pray they change that of anything. I can only imagine what other strips they'll make to the game to make it even more lifeless as if the Sims 4 wasn't slowly spiraling to lifelessness as it is. Agreed that they should move backwards and follow their Sims 3 footsteps.
I agree. I love the style of Sims 2 and 4.
Me too! I love the cartoony style of Sims 2 and Sims 4!
Just don't preorder it! Wait until it goes out first
The whole thing is i actually WANT to leave my lot and not do the get a house, job, and family but its so boring and a pain to go around town and every interaction takes so long its like 1am by the time they get home and whatever was out there wasn't really worth the time. I know for a fact if i didnt have mods i wouldn't play because when i played without mods i played the game about 3 weeks a year i was so bored and frustrated. I have dating mods only because it takes forever to meet sims because of the limitations of how many sims per lot, every sim feeling the same cuz of the weird trait system so most of the time i go by looks, gt added compatibility but tbh none of that really matters.
I always think of some gameplay ideas (below there are some) that would be really cool in the base and I also think that the best way for the base of the sims 5, is to revitalize the gameplay world of everyday life. It would be so cool if basic things were reinforced and deepened. Things like washing clothes, accumulating clutter around the house, watering the plants so they don't die, cleaning, changing the furniture in the house or the clothes in the closet because they are worn out, checking groceries, HAVING TO LEAVE THE HOUSE TO BUY PRODUCTS AND TOOLS to carry out all these tasks... it would be something so rewarding, and they are small gameplays but that deepen the gameplay.
It would be cool if they brought with it, small gameplay systems that interfere in the game, such as:
* system of buying and wearing clothes, where the most used ones wear out over time and force the player to discard them or sell or donate the clothes to a thrift store, or even... buy clothes in thrift stores used by others neighborhood sims, that if they were going to buy new ones they would be too expensive.
* wear and tear system also for furniture, where the most used ones would be discarded or sold at a local flea market, also with the possibility to buy furniture from other sims and save some money. If they were not sold there, they would be discarded in a dump, where other furniture used by sims could also be found there. A dump would bring with it another gameplay...
* ecological system, where you could reuse and recycle furniture and clothes that are already too worn out to use their materials and produce some handicrafts or upcycling clothes.
*a wind and natural lighting system, where you need to open the windows at home (or have more windows at home) so as not to accumulate dust and prevent sims from getting sicker.
*a decent ingredient system for recipes (finally), not just cooking, but carpentry and more. Country life improved this a bit, but it would be more interesting to come to the base to enjoy the new recipes to be released over time in future mods or expansions. It doesn't have to be complicated, something simple like Zelda BOW did, where it is also possible to experiment with ingredients and discover recipes (discovered recipes are saved, as they are learned)
systems that are already in the game would also be much deeper, like the skill system:
*skill system would be different and would not deliver everything at once, it would just unlock new learning opportunities, example: I start studying painting and learn the basics of painting (level 1), in the next level I unlock the possibility of learning to paint with the watercolor painting technique, so it's like I had to delve into watercolor to learn this (a sub skill), level 2 acrylic painting, level 3 oil paint, etc... Level 1 cooking I release basic recipes, but I would still have to learn them, level 2 or more I release oven recipes, level 3 confectionery recipes, and so on... but I would still need to go further to learn each recipe individually and improve it .
and so on, there would be several ways to deepen the game, and those who don't like these systems could turn it off in the configuration, as they already have in 4.
I thought it strange that they included medical devices such as hearing aids but it doesn’t have a Sim’s version of Sign Language. But I might just be thinking too much
That's because everything is about aesthetics with no real gameplay substance.
I think having a proper airport system even if it's a rabbit hole. Using a system similar to the "add to group" but have it "add to trip" then leave your house to buy tickets, or buy them online. Select how many tickets you want, and then assign them for Sims who are going on the trip. Having a time to be at the airport and if your late there a chance you'll miss your flight and have to rebook. Then for DLC they can have hotels, or theme parks, or destination travel spots.. just an idea!
I think the only thing the sims 4 really added to the series was a better build mode system. Going back and playing the sims 2 and 3, the only time I'm really thinking "wow sims 4 improved on this so much" is when I'm trying to build and remember i can't just pick up and move a room to a different spot or seamlessly rotate the whole house on a lot. Otherwise I'm enjoying the older titles so much more and sims 4 has me worried for the 5th one.
Super interesting video and reviews Satch,thank you!I'm personally a bit concerned and not that optimistimc for Sims 5!
Idk why but your videos seem to feel more high quality recently! I'm not gonna be surprised if you end the year on at least 250k
Every single time I load up TS4 again, I do the same thing... Make a family usually with a moody teen and I get this whole storyline idea in my head of them having a crush, the crush not liking them back, their crush liking someone else, etc. But it always feels pretty dumb when I realize so much of it is fabricated in my own head, because TS4 has no "crush" or "drama" system. I desperately want something similar to TS2 short-term and long-term relationships to come back. I want my sims to suffer heartbreak lol
If the sims 5 isnt an upgrade from the sims 3 i dont want it
We need a travel aspect like going to airport or bus station like we need more than cars, we need real transportation. In the city pack imagine a subway/tube through the city. Ofc these would need an open map ish concept or else I fear they would turn into the abyss that your sims enter but u can’t really do anything about
I would settle for open neighborhoods, in that I can change the structure of the environment, like even if they are only building shells, let me rearrange where they sit and how the lots fit into the neighborhood. Also, no loading screens between lots within a neighborhood. Just go inside the buildings that are availability in the area. Loading screens between neighborhoods, I don't like it but I would deal with it for the openness of each neighborhood. Then I could set up a neighborhood with everything the played household needs to function for the most part and it won't break immersion as you interact with the environment .
Built in get to work and school with your sims( where you do have to have positive actions to graduate or get promoted) ( maybe have variation on work place relationships vs reals friend ships) (have an actual hierarchy at work that impacts how your sims interact with their coworkers and bosses)( for instance maybe your sim gets nervous or has confident moodlet because they are meeting with the big boss)(have your different relationship have a realistic impact on other relationships )
I’d like hoovers added to Sims 5 but with brooms, yard brushes, dustpan and brush. The state of the house and garden influences mood. No weird dust bunnies though!
We just got horses… I think. It used to be horses as a pet with the Sims 3. I was telling my husband we just got horses for sims 4 and he was like didn’t you had a horse as a pet years ago lol. They want you to pay for everything!
I've been playing Sims since 2003. S4 has been the only version where I've bought most of the DLCs in an effort to get the gameplay I've gotten in previous versions. The only reason i moved to S4 was because S3 didnt work with Windows 10. I was so sad because I loved 3 for the build and S2 for the game play.
I am new to the game, just started this year. I am trying to play legacy challenge, but it is hard to do with just the base game. I have been watching other Simmers to see how it's done an realize I need all the packs......
Something New that sims haven't thought of at all is introducing a zoo, career as a zooligist, a petting zoo... Also anentire shopping mall on alot where every shop and restuarant can be used for what they are instead of just making the lot a "bar". New sports, add water polo, jockey racing, gholf courses, a country club, a tennis court, lifeguard career/search and rescue. Different worlds that are not US inspired, why not Africa, New Zealand, Mauritius, Iceland, Sweden, Australia, South Africa... Another few things would be: Safari tours, lodges/hotels and motels and being able to run the, for instance buying a rundown hotel and reviving it, wine countries. making wine and selling it to restaurants/shops, wine tasting... Better and more realistic CAS and Build/Buy items, following what is in trend at the time. Fashion Design career, Architecture career, MORE REALISTIC HIGH SCHOOL, Principal as a career: see how it will be to run a school, teacher meetings, teaher meaating parents and telling them your child is failing, creating a 7 period school day system where your child needs to go to 7 classes and see 7 different teachers, overall a more realistic school life... Being an Au Pair and traveling to a different foreign world to do so, study through a University in that world. Put all occults back into 1 expansion pack, bring back zombies, add angels, dragons, a school where witches and warlocks learn their magic, an 1890's victorian inspired world and gameplay, realistic animal heights for differnt animal breeds like dogs for example, Make parenthood, pets and high school part of the basegame, add a country club with a hotel, swimming pool, playground, horse stables and racing track, a gholf course and a casino.Better Basegame houses and households. Uptown, downtown and suburbs sections, close to 24+ lots in a worlds, biggest lots being 120x150 or 180x200. Definitely careers that haven't been introduced yet. Under the sea world where mermaids actually live, sea life (Animals), animal shelters and a creer in volenteering, old age homes, Jurassic World where you can have a lot of different types of careers, and many many more ideas where this comes from...
I want random things happening to come back. TS3 was so unpredictable and the weirdest things would happen.
Open world is debatable for me because it can be done. They did it in TS2 and that was fine but for whatever reason in TS4 it feels so locked in and bland.
I want better community lots that I don’t have to place myself. Have actual things to do etc. it shamefully took me so long to realize in dine out you had to place them yourself as if there’s really any space to do so… I forgot I even purchased that.
Lastly a game I don’t have to fill with mods to get that realism. I played TS3 for years without mods and enjoyed it before breaking down and putting them in my game.
Honestly, I want the chaos back. Burglars, raccoons, all kinds of neighborhood drama. Babies that could be taken away very easily. Military school for bad grades. Negative traits from growing up badly. All that kind of jazz. I mainly build in the Sims 4. But the randomness in the gameplay the former titles provided is just not there.
They should also add clothes where you can take the jacket off and just have the shirt and add the jacket back if you want too or take hairbands off and putting your hair in a ponytail when you do athletics make an animation for that please I need it
I agree with you and I hope you read the comments because it would be helpful but there is a button to filter out only the packs you own. If you go gallery and click the show all drop down there should be 2 other options for (Basegame) and another for only the ones you own but i don't remember the exactly what it's called.
ure so real for putting tw in my weeding nightmares
The Sims Team needs to follow what Paralives and Life By You are doing for the Sims 5 for example you can switch to any unplayable sim in LBY and play them,you can place a lot anywhere,there is an open world and cars and other vehicles are available and plentiful from the start.
I hope we have an open world and better gameplay
I think if Sims 5 had sth similar to open neighbourhoods (like every world has multiple neighboruhoods and travelling between neighbourhoods will bring a loading screen but travelling inside that one neighbourhood no loading screen) it will be more likely called "create a neighbourhood" and you create all the neihbourhoods you want and then merge them together for one world
Hi ❤ I don't think I've ever been first before and I don't yet know what this video will bring but I agree
I would love to see a truly MASSIVE world and being able to choose the time period
There are literally thousands of people asking for the things we all want in the sims 5, and most of the requests/suggestions are definitely doable. Literally all they need to do at EA is to listen.
We NEED the prices to go down on sims 4 produce. Like one singular egg cost 60 simoleons. We also need more options to buy food, I feel like wanting to buy groceries shouldn’t have to be an expansion pack. On the topic of expansion packs, They’re so expensive!!! Yes I know that there’s discounts but there’s no way we have to spend $40 for a little fun in our game. The base game itself is not exactly interesting.
It was my 9th Birthday when my dad got me the Sims 1 for my birthday. I always was big in Computer Games but this just changed my world and I immediately became obsessed with the possibilities of the game. When sims 2 came out, I exactly remember how I saved up the money, excitedly took my bike to the store to buy it, and how overwhelmed I was by the leap the game took. Same thing with sims 3 which opened a whole new world (no Ariel pun intended).
But when i was able to afford (!) sims 4 after it came out I was so disappointed. So many features from the third part where missing and made the game and sims feel lifeless.. and almost ten years later they actually did not manage to bring back this excitement I had in every other stage of development… and the whole milking the cash cow with a new pack every 5 seconds thing just makes me sad for new/ young simmers who feel the need to keep up. So I have a lot of expectations for sims 5 but actually I already say goodbyes emotionally and am looking forward to competitors who actually care for the community.
Anyways, thanks for your honest and entertaining videos and reviews. Lots of love.
You’re a breath of fresh air - keep on speaking that true true
The open neighbourhood is a must. And I mean, a MUST. I skipped the whole Sims 4 because I simply couldn't stand the loading screens and the impression of everything being disconnected - and frankly, if I wanted to play a game in which I spend most of my time in the same lot (home), I I would load up the vastly superior game which is Sims 2.
Also, total open world would be possible, if EA hired more competent programmers. There used to be mods and unofficial patches which made the Sims 3 run like a charm on most computers (unfortunately, most have not been updated in a long time), mine included, with all packs and store content installed, which is the proof that the performance issues were mostly due to EA's very poor optimization skills and the spaghetti code they created.
the main things for me is that drama and personalities need to make a come back. the sims in the sims 4 are so bland and traits don’t mean anything. i try to create drama and it always falls flat because they just don’t care like your husband just cheated on you with your best friend why don’t you care?
I think one problem I have with The Sims 4 is that there is *too* much freedom in defining who your Sim is and how they interact with other Sims. I think implementing a system similar to the mod that naturally determines your Sim's proficiency or lack of in certain skills would be a great imrovement to the Sims 5. I feel that it's too easy to create a ~perfect~ Sim, which quickly becomes monotonous. The Sims 4 is too easy overall.
I would also like to see a more in-depth relationship system. For instance, if your Sim has a negative interaction with another Sim, they would develop a dislike towards each other until they "make up" for it. Alternatively, your Sim might simply dislike another Sim without any particular reason. I think incorporating these aspects would make the game much more interesting and could really improve on the Sims 4.
I actually like the emotions system, but they should have done more with it. For TS5 I want more traits, maybe a zodiac birthday system, and waaayyy better story progression. TS4 is a complete mess and I wouldn't give EA a dime until they fix this buggy garage
We need to be able to make any residential lot a functional apartment!
In my opinion, the Sims 5 really needs an open world. Let me have my sim walk, bike, or even drive anywhere in the world. With the world's feeling alive. Sims start dating, get married, have kids, move into empty houses etc
I want to see a controllable first-person mode. Let me go into first person and walk around the world. Interact with objects, sims etc.
I want to see online being a big part of the sims. Loading into a friend's world with my selected sim and exploring their world. How fun would it be if we could have connected worlds. Make online lobbies where you could meet and chat with other players.
I also wish we had more control over time. Make the days longer/shorter. For example if I want to set my in-game world so that a 24 hour span was 1 hour real time, I should be able to do this. Throwing parties, taking your sim to the gym, etc, can feel rushed.
I want to see a better photo mode. Especially for us console players. Let me take screenshots, or in game photos and use them as pictures for walls and whatnot. Gives us the ability to take family/couples photos using real poses. Let us control things like shutter speed, aperture, iso, depth of field etc.
And most important thing they have to do is have a full game. They need to take a lot of things from the sims 4 and put them into the sims 5. High School, university for example. Have these in the sims 5. And if they want to expand of them later with DLC, go for it. But it's an important part of life. So for a life sim.. they should be base game things.
you can sort by houses with the packs you own, you have to unclick the ones you don’t own on the left hand side. you have them all checked off.
It still shows builds with packs I don't own, filters just don't work as they should.
Excellent observation and feedbacks. Satch! Better if Sims team listen your comments to be able to have a future for Sims series, otherwise I think they will lose the lead to one of newly coming simulation games
I need Sims 5 to add different sizes for Sims like let some things be taller than others and I need the sliders back
I wonder if there could be an option for how much open world you want? Like none, small, neighborhoods, and completely open world. It would allow people with different types of gaming hardware to play
i agree with everything you said !!!! i'm so scared for sims 5 right now, mostly cause of the smartphone compatibility
Once again you are respectful and correct xx I rly wish EA would take your videos into consideration. Speaking for the people 🙌
I’m still mad that I can’t design my wallpaper and furniture like I could in Sims 3. Still mad! It’s so limited now
I miss being able to crash parties, have jobs that let you visit lots like the fire fighters, or even visiting the bookstore to purchase books. like you mentioned, the open world and the small mundane things was what made the previous sims games so immersive - which is what's sorely lacking in Sims 4 where everything is so easily accessible and lifeless.
A small thing i had wanted in Sims 4 was the ability to get invited to and attend npc sims' weddings/events. sure it's fun to have your sims get married and host the weddings, or any events/parties but for once i'd love to attend these as a guest, and not be host, ya know? it's these little things not controlled by us that makes the game come to life.
100% agree about having to go to the shop and buy clothes or groceries and more integrated neighborhood stories