LGR - The Sims 4: Two Years of Meh
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Rambling about the current state of The Sims 4, after having just passed the two year anniversary of the game's release.
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Music used is from The Sims 1,2,3,4 OSTs
The Sims 4: Never Ending Years of Meh.
The sims 4: Infinite years of meh
At this rate I don't want to know what The Sims 5 has in store for us
@@Black_Ghost98 You'll get A sim. family slots are $15 "kit" packs
@@Black_Ghost98 "you'll have nothing and you'll be happy" :P
@@reasonablyserious and how right you ended up being too... sims 5 is now cancelled entirely!
I miss the sims 3 newspaper. The announcements of births and deaths and local sports games. It was awesome.
I miss the school dances, graduation, curfews, and burglars. They might seem like little things to some people but it made the game interesting and more enjoyable.
It gave the game personality. It felt like your normal life. It made me so happy.
+Lady Lamorna Yeah, exactly.
Yeah but there was so many rabbit holes. You couldn't even see what was going on. That was one of the few things i hated about TS3...that and lag.
+Lady Lamorna it made it a life simulator. Which is the whole point of the sims.
I'm so disappointed with the sims 4 and if I could load the sims 3 decently with all my mods, I'd be playing it daily
I remember one time in the Sims 3, I walked my character over to the neighbour's house to try and ask her out on a date. When I got there, I found an empty bowl of "Brain Freeze a la Mode" on the table, and she had turned into a zombie. So my character then had to book a taxi and go all the way across town to the elixir store and buy an anti-zombification potion, before taking that back and trying to give it to her, without getting bitten himself. After that happened, they entered a relationship.
Now that was a fucking adventure. Granted it was an adventure fueled by expansion packs, but I don't feel like any amount of expansion will help The Sims 4. The fact that every lot is separated by a loading screen makes the world feel so sterile and lifeless. In the Sims 3, you could take your dog for a walk at nighttime and witness a break in, or buy a tent and sleep in a field before befriending a fucking unicorn, because the world was one big, living, breathing world where things happened.
THESE are the sorts of adventures that you remember, that stick in your mind and make the game memorable, that really gives you an emotional bond with the characters you create. The Sims 4 doesn't offer that to me.
Yes
YES YES YES
Don't forget the occasional meteor shower (Ambitions). Just walking mah dog and suddenly "The Sky's growing dark.."
Naruku2121 I actually haven't had that happen yet, and I play this game enough! I dread the day... :D
But still, it's been a good few years and I still haven't done everything there is to do! That's a sign of a good game!
*****
Yeah I'm still having fun with 3 mostly because I got a better PC than what I started, and I'm learning how to improve it so a lot of log issues is going away if I keep making it better.
man i hate the traits system in sims 4, for example in sims 3 if your sim had the neat trait they would clean everything, you even had the option to clean up the whole house if you click on the ground, they would be more likely to clean up their dishes and make their bed, in the sims 4 having the neat trait just makes them upset or tense if something is dirty lmfaoo
Sims 3 vs Sims 4 perfectly summed up in one paragraph. Are you thinking of getting Paralives??
YES EXACTLY. that’s why most of the time i just give my sims the same “music lover, bookworm, art lover” traits cuz i’m tired of giving them traits that just make them tense
In sims 4 you can easily g set bored because,
1. About 60% of a world like city living, you can’t explore.
2. The “personalities” that the sims have are not realistic and only make the sims even more tense.
3. Tbh the sims 4 seasons is the best pack because there is *a lot* of depth and it really looks like they spent time on this pack.
4. The jobs, you can’t even go to where the jobs are. There are only a few that you can actually play live.
5. Same with school
Basically, once EA realizes that these problems that the game has are relevant then the game will be much better but I don’t see that happening unless they open their eyes.
•_Moon Mango_• how do you get bored from point number 3?
Basically they just made it so your sim can have anxiety, instead of a personality trait.
Sims 4 always felt like a downgrade to Sims 3, if sims 3 had better "moods" and multitasking both with shores and socializing it would be a superior game.
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+Une pomme de terre mignon I like your username, cool dead language
SpikyKitten merde
a Robbaz post in an LGR video? Goodness gracious!
i love your videos 😍
I so agree with you! The Sims 4 seems so cool at first, but then you start feeling this sense of emptiness. Nothing you do really matters, or has any real impact on the game world.
All my families seem the same and it is really hard to loose yourself in the game for more than an hour.
Martin Gulbrandsen yea. At first I was angry with the graphics because ts3 looked literally human. In ts4 your sims look like cartoons. However I do like how the lighting effects the furniture and makes it look 3D and modern in a way. I just wish that they would make it an open world like ts3 cuz it was fun watching my sims roll out into town in their little cars and I have to admit ts3 could have been better in ways too like better clothing furniture and hair styles and that when you had toddlers and babies and only had one adult in the car to drive but couldn't cuz they had to hold the babies so they had to take a taxi also you could also hold one baby in the taxi. I wish there were car seats and that you could hold 2 babies at once. I also hate how the game would lag and run suuuuuppppper slow. It's annoying cuz there's so much to do in s3 but the game just doesn't work well enough for that. I wish toddlers were added to s4 they would be so adorable and I love how the babies look in the sims 4 instead of looking like a burrito.i like how children can interact with the babies in s4 and how they can get jealous of the new baby, I like that feature cuz I think every older sibling can relate to that. And I like how when you give them bottles and change their diapers you can actually see the object in the hand but I just hate how the baby is bed bound it can't be taken around the house it's only taken out of the crib just for a 5 sec interaction.
Sounds just like real life.
DemBagels toddlers are in the game now
Martin Gulbrandsen no open world,no driveable car,and etc
Totally agree, when my sim's husband was cheating on her, she just stood there feeling sad and did nothing
If that happened in The Sims, The Sims 2 or The Sims 3, there would have been a big fight!
Oh that drives me mad. A) They don’t cheat unless I direct them to. In previous games, Sims would flirt autonomously and I would be surprised by their actions. B) When they do cheat, their partner just stands there with a ‘Sad’ moodlet and a very slight decrease in relationship. No anger? No fight? No heartbreak? Really? In previous games there would have been a massive bust up! It’s ridiculous.
and a memory
@@melodyseverything6999 and a break up, and sims neverending gossiping about the cheater
@@felmargego2534 and your reputation would be tanked so folks could even heckle you on the street
2020: Still 6 years of meh
Yeah, unless you wanna buy three new games worth of DLC's
@@minedantaken1684 even with the dlc, it's still pretty meh
September 2020: 6 years of meh and a literal rebellion with Journey to Batuu, which I'm still waiting for Clint to evicerate. When a pack makes Into The Future look good, you've really messed up.
@@nolan1915 I agree. I'm not defending Journey to Batuu, just bringing up the fact that I haven't seen a backlash this bad since Katy Perry Sweet Treats.
@@guguy00 he said he wouldn't review it because he would just be repeating himself😅
The 4 stages for me:
The sims 1: Wow! I like this game. I hope they release another one.
The sims 2: OMG! This is great! Can't wait for the next one!
The sims 3: Hands down my favourite game. Take my money EA.
The sims 4: Give me my money back EA.
sims 3 rules with an SSD and running NRaaS.
Sims 1 = Great
Sims 2 = also Great
Sims 3 = glitchy, ive never got this one to work right on any of my pcs over the years
Sims 4 = i haven't played it and don't really want to to be honest, ill stick with 1 and 2
@@majamystic256 Just make sure you run the Sims 3 NraaS mods: www.nraas.net/community/Mods-List
@@rixxy9204 A game that requires fucking mods just to run is broken. Sims 2 was and still is the best.
@@petervenkman9838 It doesn't require it but it is great to use.
They claimed in the beginning the Sims 4 would be silly and full of life and that's exactly what it's lacking. There's no exciting and or random events, burglaries, or strange things like previous.
L Arcturus true
the npc's have personality now. it shows in their outfits.
+Harvey I hope you are just being sarcastic.
DoomDesire666 my first neighbor was a single lady. she was freaking off at least every other day. my other neighbor got evicted and lived in the hallway. he would sneek in while I was at work. id come home have a fist fight with him and kick him out, before I learned how to lock the doors
one day the girl asked could she use my shower , because hers was broke. I tried to seduce her, and only got a kiss before she left, about 3 hours later she was back at her house having sex again.
the guy who got evicted, wound up dying in the hallway, and for some reason they gave me his urn. of course he haunted me after that.
this was in my first apartment..
Harvey In the flesh lol I’m lost
The Sims 4 only runs well because there's barely anything in it.
Lmao best comment ever
The Atomic Cherry true
Lmao, theres a lot of shit in it. Also, ever heard of mods?
Noodle, The Sims 3 still has a lot more shit in it base game vs. base game, expansions vs. expansions. Sims 3 had mod support too, this isn't something you should judge a game with because this comes from its player base and not from EA.
Kostas123GR2 jesus, I mean I already prefer sims 3 over sims 4, but I play sims 4 on an HP notebook and with alot of the settings on low, before you go say "YEAH BUT ALL THE SETTINGS ARE ON LOW!" well, the only packs that I don't own are toddlers, fitness pack, and jungle adventure and yet I even have the Sim quality on medium :/ and it still runs smoothly.
Sims 4 is more like a dollhouse and less like a life simulation.
Having played both, you're right! For me both are fun.
It's actually funny that "Dollhouse" was a codename for The Sims
that’s not how I played dollhouse. It was less S4 and more Wicked Whims but okay
Yeah, the game's too easy to manipulate. I always hated how it's a "life" simulator but it's easy as hell.
@@lilybraden3957 current year trashing out don't care add to other
okay, I'm just going to throw this out here: sims with an open world like gta
that is literally my dream. I don't care if it only happens when I become an 80-year-old grandma, i promise you, im going to lose my shit
I have requested that as well :)
this would be amazing... Like just knowing that ANYONE you see on the street you could start a relationship with...sick man. A game like that will totally happen in the future though, games will just get better and better aaaand better :)
have you not played sims 3??
Agreed!
I honestly agree with this, this is something I want. that and maybe a first person sims game.
I honestly don't know how EA managed to fuck up such a successful franchise. I mean, I play The Sims since the first one, when I was only about 8 years old, and loved it ever since.. Up until The Sims 4. Taking out the open world? No pools or cars within the game release? No freaking cars TWO YEARS after the release? And that build mode? It was so advertised, but just COME ON... No terraforming?? No lakes, no constrain floor elevation, no mountains? And where the hell is all of that fun I had matching textures from items from different sets, just to get the room looking as I wanted it to be? I mean, I still play The Sims 3, even though I've got all of Sims 4 packs downloded and installed, just because it's way more fun to build and play all by itself. I feel like absolutely ALL of The Sims previous games were in a much, MUCH more advanced level than this one on their two-year anniversary. That is just a shame. Here's for hoping The Sims 5 comes soon and as a better, or if I may say, a GOOD game. And RIP The Sims 4.
Wait, there's no building cheats? No constrainfloorelevation? No terraforming? Are you kidding me?! That's ridiculous...we already lost CAS.
No man, there's none of that. I love building in The Sims, I do that even more than I play the simulation at all, and without terraforming, constrainfloorelevation, texture editing and all of the great features they had since The Sims 2, or even The Sims 1 (even that had the terraforming tool) all of the builds in TS4 look really similar, there is currently no way of making a truly unique build, it's just ridiculous. And the tools that they introduced are messy and glitchy as fuck. I still enjoy Sims 3 way more than Sims 4, and I don't see that changing in the future.. I can only hope that Sims 5 will fix all of that and bring back that magic and fun of the series, from simulation to building!
Bruno G. Lopes
That's insane! I'm the same way, I'll spend hours a day making houses I've seen in real life or in my head. Love all the customization. I'll actually play the life simulation part for maybe an hour in the house I worked so hard on. I've just now started using the constrainfloor cheat and currently screw it up everytime, but I'm learning and I like that such powerful cheats are available, even if it takes practice. What a disappointment, I guess I'll cross my fingers for TS5.
Yes man! Fingers crossed here too! My advice is for you to stick to Sims 3, I regret every single cent I've spent with TS4!
Bruno G. Lopes
I'm downloading the free 48 hour trial, I almost bought it but looked on here and decided to try it first. Wish you could get your money back though!
It pains me to agree with this. I am really, really disappointed with how the Sims 4 turned out, especially after how amazing it was made to look. Like most people, I'm super mad they still haven't included toddlers.
The Sims 3 will always be the best in my opinion.
Yeah... TS4 is definitely NOT a TS2 remake.
What! There's still no toddlers?! i haven't been interested in sims4 ( loved the other ones ) at all so i didn't know. wow iv'e lost hope... The fact that they said that if sims4 wasn't a success there wouldn't be a sims 5 seems to mean that this is as good as it gets
+Charlotte I think that whole "won't be a sims 5" thing was an empty threat. They wanted fans to buy and support their product...it was a lousy move on their part because now nobody likes the pos sims 4 game and subsequently cares whether sims 5 will get made or not..
+Mercilex TS2 remake with enhancements will be overwhelmingly successful... Unlike TS4's state.
+Alethia Haryanti Yup, my suggestion to a possible Sims 5: make it basicaly like Sims 2 and add the best of the others.
LGR, 2016: "Death is too hard in this game"
EA, 2020: MURPHY BEDS
Murphy beds are from TS2 but it was rare to die using them
EA, 2020: we are tired of doing the Sims, knowing they have started hating,let's make eco living, the one they will hate the most and let's release it in the same time as paralives trailer
Hexy Ko they were in sims 3 as well
@@supernova-o3i Eco Living? Nah. Batuu.
@@supernova-o3i batuu just passed eco living
I'd be happy if they took Sims 3, upgraded it with features from Sims 2. Having the graphics of sims 4.
Done. Perfect game. Without rabbitholes ofc.
I know this is too much to ask, but still...
omg u are on to something!!
that's what sims 5 should be like!!
I'm sure there are some mods that can add in certain things from the sims 2 into 3, and the graphics are barely any better in the sims 4, other than having a smoother aesthetic and looking a bit cartoonier, so I'm sure there are texture mods that can help you there.....
I want rabbit holes, so long as you also have the option to go into the majority of them. Actually having to follow your sim to work all the time would make the game too linear, and I also want to be able to have professions like in Sims 3 that mostly take place outside in the town rather than in one static location.
No one Nowhere I mean you'd be able to see them but work would be automated, so you could follow them if you wanted to, but it wouldn't be necessary, sorta.
Tbh it sounds like youre breaking up with sims 4
Haha, that's not far off
I might try and ask EA to cease sales of TS4.
Yeah right? "Maybe it's not you, It's me. I think I have changed..No, you have changed and I don't like you as much as I did."
Am i the only who prefers the graphics in sims 3? Sims 4 looks way childish and cartoonish.
Oo K I'm still with the Sims 3 😊
I THINK THE BIGGEST PROBLEM WITH THE SIMS 4 is that the game is predictable. That was not the case with past sims. The sims is supposed to be a simulation of every day life, and in life shit happens just random. You have a lot of control in the sims 4 and that's why is not interesting.
Predictability's the mother of boredom.
Exactly, too much control is just bleh
Wouldn't say it's a simulation of real life, but more whacky and sitcomy. But yes unpredictability is the source of tension and drama. But i guess EA sees the franchise as a wish fulfillment game these days, on account of the economy and shits
I felt like the game play was slower. Too much time micromanaging and watching mundane tasks compared to sims 2.
@Sky Dome I find Sims 3 the best balance. If the needs are critical the sim just deals with it, but the game isn't as bland as Sims 4... just walk around town and things happen, like a neighbor having a party. If you have Late Night EP you can just go to dance club and rock all night until the sun comes up.
The game fking rules.
Pretty disappointing how at 5.5 years 90% of things said in this video still hold up. So little improvement has been made 😔
Okay but can we talk about the damn prices of these expansions that seem like they should have already been in the base game?
Thats more a problem with the entire series though, the expansions have always been expensive.
its just expansive
@@ryan-wn1qu Eh, not quite. Go back to Sims 2 and 3 and you'll see some things were part of the base game. Sims 4 just chops up each pack from sims 2 and 3 and sells each part and content it into several different expansions. So technically we're paying more with the sims 4 than the previous series just to get the same content from previous games
They keep saying that if the sales for sims 4 don't improve,we won't get a sims 5. but the sales for ts4 are awful because EA hasn't given us anything we want or anything useful. How are sales supposed to improve enough for another game if the fans aren't getting any of the content we've been asking for and aren't getting any hints as to if we're ever going to get it?
Not to mention some content that we enjoyed was taken away
Exactly! I played Sims 2 & Sims 3 for years. But I won't spend my money on Sims 4. It's not worth the amount of money! You spend hundreds of dollar for all packs & dlcs & get nothing special for it..
Exactly! They're making us feel guilty so that we buy their garbage, but maybe if they listened to us and produced something that isn't complete and utter shit we WOULD!
UnknownPenguin no it isn't. since you eat for hours with your sim, when you're multitasking.
Holding our beloved series hostage. This may be the end for sims, but have hope. There is another simmer out there who is ready to make a clone. A sims clone with all we ever dreamed of.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this
i think this as well
Same👍🏻
seriously your not the only one. there are tons of people who think sims 4 should have been better.
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Same here
no wonder why all sims players have either become builders or CAS. we don’t really have a choice when the live mode simulation runs so lackluster. live mode feels so forced
I literally just spent 4 hours on Sims building and creating the family, I didn't even play it 😭
I enjoy CAS and building too, the gameplay bores me too fast
There is a simmer (forgot her name) that play with story/plot she made, like Cinderella who struggle living her life while dealing with her younger brother and her evil sister and so on.. but the way she played the plot it's like she need to micromanaging every step/every interaction so it could reach the goal of the story, and not letting the Sims itself working by their traits, the story is fun but she need to micromanaging everything that is very noticeable and kinda meh, just like a doll house xDD.. I'm watching from her short video btw there is a few part of em
It's 2018 and this video is still relevant to how I feel about TS4.
Yeah. 2019, re-bought sims 3 recently, after messing about with the sims 4, and honestly sims 3 is the better game. I kept getting bored in 4, but not in 3.
Cute Dark Arts I begged my parents for it so I got a laptop for sims 3 and got all the expansions and the cc
Cute Dark Arts Sims 3 is on sales now, and I’m wondering if it crashes a lot while using it?
@@Isabel-dm1gy I got it a few days ago and have put about 40 hours into it with no crashing.
@@XLynnsanityX I ended up buying it. It runs perfect! Thank you
It feels like it's a watered down or washed down version of The Sims 3.
I %100 agree.
+CherryPie 100%*
More like a pale, watered down imitation of The Sims 2 by people who didn't understand the game. It wouldn't surprise me if there was a lot of executive meddling from EA (as a result SC 2013 bellyflopping, partly because of executive meddling) and too much reliance on focus groups
Sims 2,3 are the best of the series
Its more like a modern Sims 1 without some of the fun stuff of the Sims 1.
It has elements of both sims 2 and 3 but I think its more like Sims 1.
not gonna lie, you're straight up adorable and i love you and your videos a lot. i'm a simmer, (strictly, i don't have the time or money for any other games, or interest for that matter), so naturally i've watched all of your sims videos, a dozen times over. i just really appreciate your snark and sarcasm, it's incredibly refreshing to see honest reviews. especially on the Sims 4 topic, i agree with everything you said. Truly, the last two years really have been just meh. Keep rocking. ❤︎
Thank you!
Turquoise Cheetah why does she need an excuse to not play games that she just doesn’t want to play??
apenguinnamedabraham she has a dick?🤤
Top Hat Cat Wow... You just exploded to a whole new dimension
Five years later.... the game is largely buggy and shallow.
Are you thinking of getting Paralives whenever it’s released?
ID FK mmmmm idk. I need more info on the gameplay
Ivana Taylor Ok Yh fair enough
Update: seven years later... the same is true
The Wedding DLC got released a while ago and oh boy oh boy.
Sounds like you're having a sim-life crisis
Sorry for the bad pun lol
Bad puns are good puns
and now I am imagining a Simlish version of the Faith No More song because of that.
Katy Perry's best lyrics yet....
I've been a simmer since the first Sims 1 came out when I was 10. Loved every single game and was so excited for 4. Didn't want to admit how disappointed I was until the latest expansion came out, and I realized how empty everything felt. It looks pretty and clean and well thought out (kinda), but it was pretty saddening. I have concluded that maybe aside from Seasons or Pets (and probably not even then), there's no real hope for Sims 4 to get to the level of Sims 3 or any previous game. I finally went back to Sims 3 after 2 years of trying Sims 4. Hopefully a Sims 5 will still be possible... and will bring back what we loved about the Sims.
Same same same ..im so disapointed with the sims 4 . I NEVER bored this game and now with sims 4 i dont find something interesting about it 😥 so sad cz im addicted to sims and i dont want to give up...
Hopefully if they make a Sims 5, it will be an open-world game, because I can't stand not having that.
hatsuharu333 I got the 24 hours playing reward 2 years after they launched the game, dissapointing
hatsuharu333 I love the sims 3 but it's so laggy on my laptop I can't play it anymore. :(
Going from open world to dinky limited areas was like going from a water park to a puddle. Picking the puddle only makes sense if you're the most easily amused toddler on the planet.
I think I've worked out why I love LGR's videos so much. He never trails to railroad anyone into his way of thinking, he simply expresses very sincerely his thoughts about a particular subject in a way that endears to almost anyone regardless of their own opinion. I feel that even if I was a major _Sims 4_ fanboy I would still have the utmost respect and validation for Clint's perspective. He is an awesome non-hateful dude, and wish more gaming youtubers and gamers in general had a little bit of his civility.
He's pretty much the only simmer on youtube I'm subscribed to, and trust enough to always go back to. He's always gonna be honest, he doesn't exaggerate his thoughts or gameplay for show, what you see is what you get.
Having not touched this franchise since The Sims 2 Deluxe Edition on PC was new until The Sims 4 PS4 during the COVID-19 era, and now going through the rest of his DLC videos to determine which packs are worth getting piecemeal when they go on sale, I have to appreciate his resigned attitude towards this iteration. His opinions towards what I am NOW sensing is the most feature-dry numbered entry is nuanced, forgoing "journalistic balanced" in favor of just a simple, honest and strictly personal assessment and personal assertiveness.
I can't appreciate the near-obligatory dick measuring attitude that seems to go with people saying The Sims 2/3 was better, which seems to plague EVERYTHING with an opinion online in the 21st century. I'm very sympathetic to their gripes (because EA can't be trusted, and franchise rot is definitely a thing), but not to the attitude with which they express them.
I'm loving my PS4 experience so far, but it's not like I don't think whatever gripes he has with The Sims 4 isn't valid because I'm having a good time. I want to think of myself as a person of nuance, so I deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeefinitely see where and why everyone has little to no respect for this entry into the franchise, as there are definitely moments where my brain has picked up on the bullshit as well. I'm with everyone in hoping that, if The Sims 5 becomes a definitive thing with the next generation of video game tech rolling around, EA allows Maxis to be Maxis, and not just another EA studio. But until then...
It's fine.
It's just fine.
Not great.
Not terrible.
Just... ehh.
really sad to come back to this video and realise it's now been 6 years of meh. I have way more fun playing ts2 these days... there's no excuse for a 6 year old sims game to be so soulless
Are you thinking of getting Paralives whenever it’s released??
@@GG-xcx9z I am...sims isn't the same for me 😢 all the great stuff they took out feels so empty now. Even if they added new things and the expansions are so expensive even though alot of the expansions should be included in the base game like parenthood or seasons or the get together 🥲. If there's a nother expense with the new sims 5 with the changes EA is making, I'm most likely not purchasing sims 5. The entire game is already costly as it is and not even worth the cost because of bugs, lacking soul, and again should have been in the base game 🙄. I'm looking forward to seeing what paralives brings. Love sims since the very beginning it's just been disappointing fr for the last several years 😕
@@mavietresbelle1310 soooo true I feel you so much that’s why I only play TS3 now
@@mavietresbelle1310 and Yh I’d rather wait for Paralives than sims 5
One thing that I've noticed in the sims 4, houses never get burgled anymore or repo people don't come and take your stuff :-/
That's because Sims 4 was turned into a Fantasy Land where almost nothing bad happens. Everything is just stagnant and boring.
Also, firefighters don't exist. You have to buy sprinkler systems instead and put the fires out yourself.
Mhmm.
So true!! I remember playing the sims 3 and always getting robbed!! Sigh the good ole days
+Cameron Johnson Yes and even death is made out to be funny, dying of laughter for example, but you cannot for of grief. There is nothing realistic about the Sims 4 whatsoever.
Bernhardina Hörnstein wow!! That's such a good point u made. I never even thought of that. Maxis has really lost their touch when it comes to what the players want for the sims. It's like they don't care. They just give us the same random shit, overcharge for it and then just expect us to be happy with it and to keep buying or, as they put it, "If we don't make x-amount of money, there WONT be a sims 5". Like what company basically threatens their player base like that. Smh
My problems with the sims series is all the expansions and packs. The game is ridiculously expensive if you want everything. It's like the game is all split up and you don't get a full game without emptying your pockets.
i dont know if this is an option for you, but i got the whole sims 3 set on ebay. idk if what they do is even legal, but i buy the origin codes off ebay for like, not even a 3rd of the price. the highest rated ones are usually more expensive, but i got the base game and pets together for less than £20, and i recall buying showtime for £3. its soooo much cheaper than spending £200+ on the full set, and it doesnt really matter now since sims 4 is out so not many people actually go out and buy sims 3 anymore :)
TheNellehFox I bought all but one expansion pack from g2a.com There were some that only cost a little over a dollar and the most expensive one I bought was six dollars. Not sure what the prices are now because they change depending on who's selling them but they were all EXTREMELY cheap on there.
There is a way to get the lot stupid cheap. There a website called G2A you can get the packs for really low prices, most packs range from £3 to £5.
Takehaya Susanoo You're about two months too late with that info m8.
Cracks can save your lifeee~~
I play the game with crack because dollar is so expensive here.I-I don't even want to talk about euro..Oh god.
But I bought Generations,Seasons and University Life soooo...
I did a very kind thing to EA since they suck.
"feels like i'm looking at an unfinished theme park" this hits different years later with the star wars game pack
What suprises me most is that those sims 4 youtubers treat the game as godlike, and seem to never mention its flaws.
*glares at Andrew Arcade*
Because their getting paid and they get early access to the new stuff packs and expansion packs.
They are paid for it now it's even harder yo get in on than when this video is up simmers who have said blank is a bit lacking who aren't veterans of the kiss up to ea game. They loose all opportunities if even one complaint
Asuna Gumdrop because some people might actually enjoy the game.
RT gaming doesn't like it he made 1 video complaining and only plays Sims 3
I'm going to go and reinstall sims 3 again because you just made me realise how much i dislike sims 4 hahahhaha ty
+Just Me lol same
3 is the best game by far but it crashes and corrupts so often I can hardly play it :C
VIØŁΛ I hear about people having Sims 3 crash a lot yet in my 80 hours of playing it I've had no crashes at all
***** Do you have many mods/cc? That's probably why my game started crashing so often (even on my high end gaming pc) but I can't play the game without it :s
And what is this ''high end''
Hey, guess what?
It's over a year later and we're in almost exactly the same position.
This is the most horrifically accurate Sims review ever.
It's 2019 now, so now it's been "three more years of meh".
c0rrupti0ns I finally just bought it because it was on sale on origin for $5.13. Totally worth the $5. No way in the world was it worth $60 for the base game considering it didn’t have pools or toddlers when it launched.
Anon Ymous I got it for free on Origin last week ...
@@missliss2581able - I got it for free at Origin too. EA just got desperate!
(1 year later)
*WE HAVE L SHAPED, U SHAPED AND CONFIGURABLE STAIRS NOW*
Almost 2024 I would still rather wait 10min for Sims 3 to load then even think about touching sims 4 again
I know I'm coming in late, but I just want to say, you hit the nail on the head when you said it's like eternal god mode rather than a life simulator.
I enjoyed and employed a frankly obscene amount of cheats and mods in TS3, but part of that enjoyment was that even if I cheated, I HAD to do something extra to make things ridiculously easy. Sims could die, they could go broke, *accidents happened* even when you paid close attention. The game wasn't hard, but it also wasn't something where you could just leave it (unmodded) to run for five hours and expect to come back to anything but a major crisis. TS4, I leave it running all the time. I have to because it takes forever, but even then, after leaving my sims unattended--there are no fires, there were no fights, there were no accidents; they didn't go to work but also NOTHING UNEXPECTED HAPPENED.
Nothing!
There is no sense of the random in 4. There is no wonder, there is no watching sims live their lives with a little nudge. The traits don't seem to close any roads, only make some (already easy) paths easier. The emotions COULD pose major obstacles or provide major benefits, but as you said, it's absurdly easy to manipulate them. Even after the DEATH of a CHILD, a sim is no sadder, really, than you want them to be.
And as you said, it can take FIVE HOURS for them to get through a meal. Parties with goals are nigh impossible because it takes them SO LONG to DO anything.
It's all just very frustrating. I wanted to adore this game, but every time I drag myself back, telling myself to give it another chance, it just feels like so many animations and as you said, window dressing without depth. The world doesn't change. Your sims don't matter. Their relationships and businesses and jobs don't matter. What they do doesn't matter.
It all looks very clean, it looks polished. But if I wanted a dollhouse I'd get one.
Ellie B. Well said
I like the risk in TS2. You go to work, a chance card appears and then BAM, you're fired.
"if I wanted a dollhouse I'd get one." So much TRUTH!!
You guys are likely waaay too young to recall but it is like The Sims was "Times Square'd." .. Back in my youth, Times Square in NYC was a hell hole of nasty .. these days it is clean, safe and boring as hell. Disney-fied, if you will. Well Sims 4 "disney-fied" the Sims franchise and I hate it. It is the old sims games for me or nothing. But .. as I explained previously, I will buy it on the off chance EA pulls its head out of its butt in the next version. (*insert "Dreamer" by Supertramp here*) Ya .. I know .. I am an idiot. ; )
Wil Moore Too young and also in a completely different country, but yes, I get you entirely. Personally, these days I only boot up ts4 if I want to play around in build mode for a little while.
I love the sims 3 way more than sims 4, but I got into sims 3 right after into the future was released. Sims 4 released, and by then, I had a lot of hours in sims 3. I picked up sims 4 and it was just... boring. Nothing happened, my attention kept waning and waning until it was just gone. I kept telling myself that "the next expansion will make it better", but it never did. I'm done with sims 4 until right before 5 is released, at which time, I will go on a shopping spree for all the expansions and game packs, and if it still sucks, I will not expect any better from sims 5.
To me Sims 4 feels like im caught in the purgatory doing the same every single day
Lia Valencia does feel that way
In my opinion the sims 3 is the best 👍🏻💖
Yes!!! I still play it, I was playing it yesterday 😊
It's definitely my favourite, but the lagginess when you have too much stuff installed just kills it for me sometimes.
Yeah, Sims 3 is wonderful until it chokes to death and stops working.
The console versions are entirely different beasts from the PC versions (that LGR's reviews generally cover), since the amount of expansions you can have installed over the base game make the whole thing absurdly huge and compound bugs upon bugs.
Sims2 was absolutely the best!
2019 update: 5 years of meh!
2020 updates: 6 years of meh!
Testify brother!
- Andy
the only improvement sims 4 made to the series is the camera, after playing the sims 4 its hard to go back to using the sims 3 camera
2021 update: 7 years of meh!
I feel that Sims 4 died the death of a thousand cuts. Nothing is really terrible about it, but every aspect of the game is just a bit lacking in one way or another, which all added up together make for a disappointing game.
"Nothing is really terrible about it"
I think there's one thing that's absolutely terrible about The Sims 4: the way it handles worlds/neighborhoods. Not only you can't create your own, but you also can't customize the existing ones in any way. You can't add or remove lots, you can't add/change deco and trees, nothing. It's literally how TS1, a game released almost 20 years ago, handled neighborhoods. Probably the biggest and most offensive downgrade.
Nahuel yeah, you had so much more customization for the neighborhoods in sims 2...
That is a really good way to put it. And why this video's title is so accurate. Its just... meh. It's not *bad* but it's not good and its certainly not as good as past Sims. Its just disappointing all over, regardless of the fact that there's like a million expansion and game packs since this... yeah. just sad lol
The tasteless game
@@veertjebeertje13 modder disappoint don't care about the sims 2 adding into the future done
It's a shame Sims 3 is a constantly crashing, buggy unplayable mess because it's by far my favourite game in the series. Unfortunately I had to migrate to Sims 4 because it's the only game that wouldn't be guaranteed to corrupt after 4 or 5 generations :/
dowload a pirated version of the a
sims 2 ultimate colletion its alot better
Courtney White Yeah, considering I was boycotting Sims 4 for such a long time because of the removal of open world and create-a-style, the game itself is actually pretty damn good
VIØŁΛ soooo true. I love sims 3 to death but the lagging is unbearable
100% agreed... I love sims 3 but it wasn't much fun to play because of all the lagging and it crashing after an hour or so. That's why I ended up playing sims 4, even though sims 3 is generally better
Hannah Fabian I can't agree more. And it sucks cuz sims 3 was my life but now I've grown apart from it and it hurts to see other UA-camrs play with no issue cuz I wanna play sims 3 but I can't without it crashing after a few minutes of gameplay not to mention every second it's lagging
I'm thinking about going back to Sims 3
Same
i went back to sim 3 and it runs amazing on my new laptop
TaroTea I'm going back to 2... remember I had a modern and a medieval game in there... my sims 2 game was the bomb
I went back a long time ago, and I haven't really missed TS4 :P
I never went to sims 4
I've had Sims 3 since it released. I didn't buy that many expansion packs as they released over the years because I was still a kid and they were expensive. I got the Sims 4 about two years ago. I'd like to mention I don't have any additional packs for that game whatsoever. I created my family, bought a house, and let them work their way up from poverty into wealth. I played this game for 100 hours. I loved it at first. It ran so much better, the furniture finally looked modern, I loved the character creation and Sims could finally multitask. But then over time, my female Sim got more kids and she got older. A son of hers reached adulthood and kept the family afloat. He got married. And I just realized the exact same thing that was said in the video, everything feels like it's the same. The Sims might look wildly different from each other, but they're all the same. Everything was the same neat and grey mush where you could do no wrong but nothing truly exciting ever happened.
Now, very recently, I upgraded my gaming rig and a few days ago I bought the majority of Sims 3 expansion packs (they're so cheap now man, they're all like 5 bucks each). I moved my Sims into the town you get with University life and so far I'm in love. Yeah, Sims cant multitask and it kinda sucks, but they can actually do things. Whenever I try and expand my house I get overwhelmed with all the possibilities laid out before me. Sims 3 has so much more personality, and I say this as someone who couldn't stand the game when it first came out. I'm a sucker for good graphics (I have a PS4 as well, and when I first got my PC I started up witcher 3 on both of them, got really close to my 4k TV, and spent a good 5 minutes switching back and forth marveling at the differences (I could literally count every single hair on Geralt's head)), but unfortunately, there only so much good graphics can do when the rest is just meh all around.
What kinds of possibilities were there that were different from Sims 4? When I watch playthroughs of Sims 3 it looks like the same game.
@@willp.484 For one, sims 3 has more life to it. With story progression, sims you're not even controlling can get married, have kids, move to a new house or a new neighborhood. Sims 3 traits give your sims *actual* personality. In sims 4, traits are kind of pointless. A non-committal sim in sims 4 can still get married. Meanwhile, in sims 3, it takes actual work to get a non-committal sim to fall in love with you. Earning money in sims 3 is actual work. Relationships decay in sims 3, so keeping with relationships also takes work. When a sim cheats on their spouse in sims 3 (and sims 2 for that matter) sims actually react. Cheating felt like it had actual consequences in past sim games. In sims 4, a sim is upset about cheating for 24hrs, and then they're over it.
Cheating in sims 3 gave your sim a cheating reputation, which made it hard for your sims to get into a new relationship. Sims 3 sims started actual rumors of things that actually happened (you'll get a pop up like "did you hear Don cheated and got another woman pregnant?") these rumors had an actual impact on your sims reputation. It also made everything in the world feel more alive.
Breaking up a family in Sims 3 was actually hard. It took me *days* to get a married sim to leave their spouse. Sims 4 sims flirt with everyone, no problem, even if they're married. I want hooking up with a married sim or a sim in a relationship to be a challenge.
Expansion packs actually expanded the game, rather than add superficial things you'll get bored with in a day. Sims 3 Generations alone added so much into the game: prom for teens, the daycare career, treehouses. I couldn't even list them all if I tried because there's so much. It makes Parenthood feel so empty in comparison.
Hell, base game sims 3 had over 60+ traits. By the time sims 3 ended, it had over 90 traits. Sims 4 only has over 30. In 6 years.
Sims 3 sims felt alive. Sims 4 sims feel like robots. Nothing bad ever happens to you in sims 4. No burglars, no meteors that fall from the sky and kill your sims. In sims 3, a sim in the criminal career could actually get arrested. That was funny as hell. Spontaneous events never happen in the sims 4 unless you *make* it happen, which gets so boring after a while. Fires don't even feel as deadly anymore. It's all too easy.
Exactly, the Sims 3 felt alive and organic in a way the Sims 4 never did.
It was rewarding to pursue most of the skills, careers, relationships in the game. Traveling felt like an actual break from the everyday, exploring also had a sort of magic to it. Collecting things felt like something to properly take pride in, and there were so many fun ways to mix it up when one play style started to feel dull. Live mode was actually fun, build mode and CAS were laggy as hell but they had some of the best customization of any game in the genre. So much freedom to be had with the textures and color wheel.
The sims themselves never suffered from the same-y-ness I found when I tried the Sims 4. They all felt like individuals and I liked watching their lives play out.
I admittedly never much messed with the stuff packs after seeing in the Sims 2 that they only added style things, because there was already an abundance of custom content I could add that was (im my opinion) more satisfying.
But the Sims 3 expansion packs almost always made the game feel layers on layers richer. I remember being so excited each time a new one came out and nothing to this day has managed to replicate that feeling.
I grew up with the franchise, and I've played darn near every title they released under the Sims branding (including console titles). Loved the Sims 2, played both that and the original Sims as a kid. Really these games have been like family to me.
That's why it's kinda hard to look at now. Nothing has disappointed me more than the Sims 4. Unfortunately with the way it stands even in 2021, it looks unlikely they'll surpass their peak with the Sims 3 anytime soon.
Also if you read all that I'm gonna drop (what I believe to be) an unpopular opinion: The Sims Medieval wasn't the game most of us wanted but it was a pretty decent game in it's own right.
(Edited for a couple of typos)
Honestly I knew right from the start when they said they were removing all the best features of the third one and the only thing they replaced it with were "emotions"
Games fucking lame sims 3 is still better
The thing EA regretted to see in the game is that there already were emotions in the Sims 3. It may not have given them stupid walking animations or made their lip quiver while they ate their burnt burgers, but it was still there. They got embarrassed after peeing themselves. They felt happy after getting married. They felt uncomfortable when they were stressed from work. I'm surprised they pushed "wacky emotions" when they should have been marketing it based on the conversation system, the CAS capabilities, the lighting system, and the new graphics.
The sims 4 is great for someone who hasn't played sims. However, since started with the sims 3 and own most of the expansion packs already, the sims 4 is a major downgrade. Maybe I'll get the expansions if they go on sale but currently it's just too much of an investment for not much content
Indeed. Been playing the series since 2000.
I started on Sims 4 because it was new. I wanted to play Sims for the longest time. But it was too cartoony to me. So it was just a thought. I do like Sims 4, but after watching videos of Sims 3 open world I was looking forward to that. So that's the most disappointing thing to me.
Truth! You put my thoughts into words well.
It's the perfect introduction. Not as overwhelming in content size, runs much better, is much easier on the eyes, and is so much more "alive" with the new animations and emotions. Although, the lack of depth obviously also really hurts it in the long run.
i started with the sims 3 for the xbox 360 and i think that the sims 4 would be a major downgrade because it cut out a ton of features, made party's into a chore, and got rid of open world when they could obviously do it
I’m revisiting this review again and honestly the most fun I’ve had with the sims 4 is CAS. I could make sims for hours but then spend ten actual minutes in the game playing it. Yes, like LGR said, there were some good things about sims 4 that sims 3 missed, but at what price? There’s no real story behind the townies, everyone operates the same. I go back to the sims 3 all the time and always found myself wishing that sims 4 had this and that. Most of my hours of gameplay for this game has just been CAS, which I wish sims 3’s CAS was like that. But that’s about it. Watching this again made me sad because poor baby :( it hurt me to see him so disappointed w the game.
Reignited Light exactly my problem. I create so many Sims but then don't even play them, and when I do, I almost force myself to
It hurts so much to see all of these great improvements in The Sims 4 but have it still ultimately be a lackluster experience compared to The Sims 3. The moodlets, multi-tasking, create a Sim, and building are so good, but the fact that The Sims 4 takes steps back in almost every other aspect just ruins it.
@@sharoosh8723 exactly how i feel, livemode feels so boring that playing it feels forced
this comment right here
Sharon Wuttke exactly
I think the Sims 4 is great.
Not because I've actually downloaded it or played it or cared about it at all. I haven't done any of those things.
I just think it's pretty neat that all the Sims 3 expansions are all $20 now.
My original problem w/ the Sims 4 still stands today. It feels like a more polished version of the Sims 2. The Sims 2.5 if you will. Because the Sims 3 added so many game changing features such as Create-a-Style and the open game world. Those were two landmark features that were great improvements to the series. And without those things, the Sims 4 felt like a HUGE step backwards.
And the Sims 4 has yet to offer a decent tradeoff for those features. We lost the open world and CASt, but what did we get instead? Talking to other sims while watching TV? Sims' moods being affected by the type of lamp in their office? A tiny, segmented and ugly game world? None of the "features" of the Sims 4 are worth sneezing at, at least in my opinion.
And sure it might be a bit fun at first, but when all the shine quickly wears off, what's left?
Sims 2 base game was better then sims 4 base game
More like Sims 0 because it has fucking nothing in the base game compared to any other base games, let alone with the expansions added to it. Idk about the first Sims (because I haven't played it), but the Sims 2 and 3 definitely crush the Sims 4 by a landslide.
Sims 2 had WAY more content then Sims 4. And honestly, I like that they got ride of the open world, while it was nice at first, the open world was very unstable and was kinda buggy even on high end machines, still, I would rather play sims 3 than this
As an avid Sims 2 player, who has tried all the games extensively, Sims 2 is definitely more meaningful, fleshed out and overall better than Sims 4
FACTS its like slightly better than TS2 and WAY worse than TS3
I don’t like the sims 4 too bland boring :( I rather play 2/3
@Evelyn does stufff It has less content than the other games and it's already 4 years after it's release. And just look at the stuff packs. Hamsters, movies, ice-cream, laundry...
@@radwooah I mean, who the hell wants to PAY for a sim to do laundry? LAUNDRY??
I have a question where do you get Sims 2 for a computer?
Sims 4 is very boring! i prefer sims 1,2 and 3
Id rather play 1 and 2 personally
Can you please design Sims 5?
Just go in there, kick them all up the butt and tell them what's what.
We didn't need sims 4, we needed performance issues being fixed in sims 3 and those rabbit holes removing.
Yes! I would like Sims 5 to be a redo of Sims 3, debugged. They should have just built on it. It had potential, 3 was just super glitchy and laggy.
I hope Sims 5 or other upcoming brands would shift back to life simulation again like in the previous games especially the Sims 2 and 3. Sims 4 just feels like a Facebook game to me.
Lily He just giving the sims 3 a new skin, new graphics would be rlly lame. Every sims game is unique. For example ts3 didnt have parenting skills or any depth into parenting whil ts4 had exactly that
Honestly what the sims series needs is a competitor. If there was another game within the specific genre that directly went head to head with the sims, the EA overlords would be forced to improve their games and put quality into the experience.
And here comes Paralives 🤣
@@mochijennie2590 They need a big studio or bigger indi studio to give them real competition. A lot of people care about graphics. Lot's of people would play the sims 3 instead of 4 if it had 4's graphics, but stay with that even though it's a worse game. And Paralives loses in that regard. By the way I hate this trend were they make everything cartoonish and bright in recent years.
Paralives is coming! I am excited for it. It's looking promising and there is communication with the devs. which makes me like it even more.
I totally agree. I think Ea should have maybe taken a new approach to the whole thing or something? Sims 4 is just basically a sightseeing game now xD it's like: and here we can see a forest... in ts3 you would be able to interact with the surroundings and stuff but nope not in this game... but you know just be happy cause it runs smoothly! -.- multitasking in Sims 3 would be nice but I agree with the fact that it takes a million hours to sit on a fricking chair.
don't know if my comment made sense but whatever xD
+Artsy Cat lol it did i feel ya
Yes, this made absolutely perfect sense! Thank you for taking the thoughts right out of my head. One of the most often given reasons I read from others who prefer TS4 is that it runs better than 3! That, and how gorgeous the sims are and how pretty the art style is. Thing is, the entire point of The Sims games wasn't ever so much about aesthetics and beautiful sims, as much as it is about the actual game play and simulation of life, the good and the bad side of it, not only the good! I don't play this game to play dress up dolls then "sit still & look pretty". If I wanted that I'd just go to the store, buy some barbie dolls and make them a cardboard box house just like I did when I was 8 years old!
I just wrote a very similar comment before I read yours. Doh!
BloodDiamondQueen This is why I don't know if I want to invest in the game now. All these stuff packs that aren't really worth it. TS4 has a better build and CAS and I actually like having more options in how I have them interact with each other, but I do agree most things don't matter. And missing toddlers and pets and cars are felt! I especially miss pets.
Sims 2 was my favorite for gameplay, I used to play that game for almost whole days. Sims 3 was great too but I seriously cannot play Sims 4 for more than 30 minutes without finding myself super bored
Shall we even mention the relationship culling and sim culling they added in? Sorry but worst idea ever. Sims 4 will delete your whole family, your significant other, their family and your employees without your consent. How about Sims 4 Beloved reward trait that is "suppose" to stop the decay of relationships but that's after completing an aspiration. Oh, but that's also the same reward trait that's been broken for a few patches now.
ARE YOU JOKING?!! That's insane!! That to me makes the game untouchable...
Hadn't heard of this. I'd be curious to read some specifics of what's going on here, because I really haven't played it enough in recent months to have come across it myself.
Just get the MC Command Center and disable the culling effect.
I still cant download content in my mods folder or My Sims wont move a round. Wow that has never happened to me..I have 2 ghost living in my town now..
Lazy Game Reviews
Oh, yea. That was a HUGE issue way before Dine Out was released. Imagine owning a restaurant where you hired employees and spent countless days and hours getting their skills up for your restaurant. Then the next shift, your employee doesn't show up for work bcus they were erased from the game. It has to do with the 180 sim limit that is allowed before the game starts removing sims. Every patch removes ghosts which means any dead sim in your game and in your family tree are now too de"ceased to exist haha. I find myself having to reintroduce my sim to their family members/friends bcus of relationship culling.
2020: this is going to be six years of meh. How are they going to butcher the 20th anniversary of the Sims?
Well.....
Here you get a hottub you could already make! Oh you wanted us to fix the sims 3? Give sims 2 better graphics? Nope, sorry hottub it is.
Again, meh... a hottub...
Oh honey.... have you seen eco lifestyle yet? Cute island living re-skin EA!!!
@@xXkatiegoesRaWrXx Island living gives you solar panels?
so, can we expect a "three years of meh" video these days? :P
I wish :(
Now 4 years of meh
atur chomicz it's not September so still 3 years of meh.
its been 4 years and they still havent released seasons
iare eeeh it'll probably be the last one they release
this is why I still play the sims 2 to me it is by far the best based on game play.. I love the smoothness of ts4 and graphics but it's soo boring. You keep going through the motions.
+Sam Gates It runs fine on Windows Vista x86 under compatibility mode for XP SP2.
I've never played the sims 2 I was late on that train 😂
There are things I love in The Sims 3 that makes it hard to go back to 2. I just like open worlds and the level of customisability 3 gives.
+Emma Ramsay Give it a try it's never too late :D
Its hard in some ways to go back to Sims 2 sure. But if youre out looking for making a town from scratch. Sims 2 is the way to go. Making a new flat city, thats so fucking awesome. You cant do that in Sims 3. All the fucking hills that are in the way and the curvy roads making lot placement a fucking hassle. If Im in a build mode Ill go Sims 2. If I wanna make a career\family Ill do Sims 3.
imagine if they remastered sims 3 to make it run better. dude that would be amazing. like the graphics improved and it ran better
We. all should write them about that.. Please just remaster the Sims 3 and we'll be happy
Hell if they gave it the release price of the sims plus a bit more for expansions or maybe more easily done a “graphics expansion” that covered the general cost of redoing all the graphics to be more modern it would be so much more successful than the sims 4
Combine some aspects of sims 3 with some aspects of sims 4 (graphics, vampires, supernatural stuff in general) and you’ve got an amazing game
@Kieran W wait I thought they werent making a sims 5
They're updating the Mac version of Sims 3 which should make it more stable with extra expansions so I think that'll be the ultimate game to play
I cannot accept when they remove basic things like toddlers and pools from the base game. I don't care if they add them later, the fact that they feel the need to exclude those things and make us pay for them later is unacceptable. It shows the complete lack of good will. And like you said, the devs might want to talk about it but can't.
waiting for the sims 5 and hoping EA gets their crap together
that sucks, it's their fault it isn't doing as well
+DjGodaryD86 they funded Titanfall with Sims 3 revenue -_-
We've been hoping they get their crap together since mass effect 3s release, or at least I have lol. Still to be determined if they have tbh.
EA is just a dumb, they have soo much money but looks like they don't know how to spend it or even more how to do a fucking game cof cof Sims 4.
+ONDA VITAL EN UNA JUNGLA DE CRISTAL A TODO GAS POR LAS SUPERNENAS CAZADAS POR LOBEZNO ft. SONGOHANDA I don't think they care. they KNOW what people want, but they don't work towards it and don't talk about it. That's why so many have left the game or feel extremely dissatisfied with the series now
The Sims need competition. Right now would be the best time for that competition to come in. I know there has to be some developer's willing to do this. I mean look at second life, its highly realistic looking and I don't have the best computer but it still runs fine and it has more to offer. I want a Sims game like that in a way. Its just like the technology exists but they're worried about not everyone being able to play because they're computer might not be able to handle it. I look at is as If people are paying all this money for expansion and stuff packs. I'm sure they can save up money to get a computer that will run the game. I really hope they cut the Sims 4 short, because so many people are so upset with it.
You are right about the need for more competition. I do not see many realistic simulation games like the sims on the market. The market would be better if there were more simulation and tycoon games. EA stock over the past two years has grown by 115% even though their company has a lack of stability.
GimpGirl1 Well I want to be a developer. Perhaps I could meet your request once I am skilled enough.
Be sure to add toddlers and you'll have one guaranteed buyer (me).
What's stopping you XD
I actually am one, I can work on it with you...
Programming and anything to do with technology really is a growing field. I'm positive there's programmers and graphic designers that will be able to pull something off. Games are getting more complex and realistic looking each year.
I just hope someone sees the opportunity to give the sims a run for their money because there are people willing to dish out a good amount of money for a game like the sims. I mean hell look at imvu and second life. Those creators are making a shit load of money and its the fans that do most of the creations (Clothes, animations, etc.
Just think of a game that could be both offline and online play that had a mixture of ideas from online worlds such a second life and ideas from the sims. Id buy it in a heart beat because i'm sick of EA bullshitting us with sims 4.
What bothers me the most is that they still haven't added SO MANY CRUCIAL THINGS, an example: toddlers.
A lot of fans won't let this one go.
Yep. No toddlers? What? I love the growing family part/watching someone age completely. But no Create-A-Style?! That's unforgivable. I'll be damned if I can't make a bed with a giant picture of Rosie O Donald on it.
Brittany Young I think simmers are just so hung up on toddlers due to the fact that your children go straight from 8-18. Your kids start of in the crib and within three sim days they're full grown children walking about and attending school. In the sims 3 I enjoyed having my sims take family leave and being able to stroll through the park with their little toddlers, teaching their little ones how to walk and so on. It all comes down to the gameplay.
Megan T I miss create a style...all the customization and options. The sims 4 in all honesty, in my opinion, is a step back in what it could have/should have been.
I can't say I miss toddlers since it essentially forced your sims to spend like 8 hours a day teaching them to walk/talk or they'd grow up with bad traits..
HOWEVER I really don't know why they thought removing Create a Style would be a good idea :c
I hate it that there's no story progression :(
Let alone story progression. There aren't even relationships between pre-made households. :(
@@ilhambudi95 yeah,basically no one knows each other other than the ones in the household,like,even the ones who are said to be fimiliar with each other through that useless family describtion,it's just there
sims 4 is the most stale and forgettable sim game. Im seriously just waiting for sims 5, this is just pointless
God i wanna see your face when they announce that theyll discontinue the sims series 🤗 im enjoying and supporting ts4 (not in everything) but i like every sims game .
God am i a good person?
Sims 5 might not actually exist because of how sucky Sims 4 is
@@rosie6716 they actually work on sims 5
Abusus75 no i read in an interview that they aren’t even thinking of moving towards sims 5, they’re trying to milk the sims 4 as much as possible
They've lost so many players, its hilarious.
yeah I regret getting the Sims 4. Sims 3 in way better!
Hopefully all of the hate they're getting means they will put a ton of work into the sims 5 and make it top the sims 3
I'm trying to hope for that too but sadly Ea likes to dissapoint D: ,maybe we could riot?
I wouldnt say 50-60 hours worth of enjoyable gameplay is bad compared to what you get in today's games
Nastja Klemenc Mods aren't gone
It's missing fun activities in general. In the sims 3 you could ride horses, mix cauldrons, create robots, ride motorbikes, play football, go rollerskating, grow herbs, mushrooms and almost every fruit and vegetable, own nurseries, shops etc. Most of this unique content is missing in Ts4
I agree
but most of those are contents from expansion packs lol
A lot of those things come from about 5 different expansion packs... Not really fair to compare that to a game with only 2 expansion packs
+Kodi exactly
growing herbs mushrooms, fruit ,vegetables, and having recipes and all that was in the base game for sims 4. My first sim was a gardener, I enjoyed that.
I’m happily married with the sims 3. No regrets… 11 years playing it and I’m still in love with it.
The most scathing indictment of Sims 4 is how my friends' daughter went back to playing Sims 3 on LAUNCH day of the Sims 4. I walked in the room to ask her how the game was and my jaw dropped. "You're playing Sims 3!?"
She said, "M'eh. This is more fun."
comparing apples (S3 with many expansion packs) to oranges (S4 base game)
+xfusee 1.) both are fruits and fruits are inherently comparable 2.) the sims are both apples as they are trying to achieve the same gameplay, so you very much can compare and contrast.
+TheHolyFox123 No, the correct way back then would be comparing the sims 3 base game (No expansions) with the sims 4 base game.
if she was playing base game that wouldn't give others the excuse of saying expansions so let me say I reinstalled my copy of base sims 3 after trying sims 4 (2 generations of two different families) and I felt like I got more out of 3 with exploring, parties, making friends, stealing stuff, creating and playing the sims. Really all that sims 4 has to offer is a better house building.
Basic Sims 3 with no expansions was still more fun than Sims 4. I know. I played it with no expansions for years, and to this day I still only use Late Night and Ambitions.
You're not the only one who feels like this Clint, I don't play TS4 anymore and I've switched back to TS3.
Some features I like, but it's nothing compared to TS3, I missed the customisation, toddlers and about a million other things that TS4 lacks.
Edit: I watched until the end (maybe I should have done anyway before commenting) and I couldn't agree with you more. It pains me slightly because Sims has been a huge part of my life growing up.
name 2 more things ts4 lacks.
open world, vehicles...
TheFodFairy I dont see how the open world or vehicles have much of an impact on the game besides cosmetics, im talking about substance, like pools, which are in the game now, camping, which is in the game now, ghosts, which are in the game now. And all those other things that are new, like the lack of rabbit holes, you can go in any building nothing is a rabbit hole anymore, even a good amount of the jobs are no longer rabbit holes with the expansion., But that is just my opinion.
Well we'll agree to disagree then because TS4 just doesn't cut it for me in terms of what I want in a Sims game.
+TheProgrammer.
Burglars, butlers, boarders, zombies. Paparazzi, the daily newspaper and mail delivery. Spiral staircases. The Fair and the eating contest and all the booths. More traits and Sim interactions. The way you sometimes had to put your butler in his place when he often started taking over care of the baby. There's a lot more.
Sigh.....I had I hopes for the Sims 4.....
We all did, Chrissy. We all did. 😢
I'm still playing the Sims 3, About to right now. Miss you much Chris.
+Daethaqt3000 I miss you too. I'm neglecting my channel. I lost my court case so I need to find a second job. I hope you are well
Chrissy Robbins The antecedent? Sorry Chris. I'm getting better.
+Daethaqt3000 yeah. my car accident. now I have medical bills to pay back. smh. I'm glad you're getting better.
For me, what the Sims 4 really lacks is the quirks that made the other games. It's like the Stepford Wives of the Sims world, everything is too perfect, nothing goes wrong. It was so hard to keep your Sims alive in the other series, or to keep relationships up etc. In Sims 4 promotions are too easy, every character seems like the same character despite having different traits, skills are too easy to gain, and there's no character and no challenge. Your house feels so isolated in the Sims 4, there's no random events good or bad. The game is just bland. Thank god for the Seasons and Dine Out packs otherwise this game would be unplayable for me.
Also, Thank you for keeping your integrity and posting honest Sims reviews.
I agree. Little things like being a technophobe or never nude goes a long way on making Sims more unique. Bring back Hydrophobia. Bring back Absent-mindedness. Or clumsiness. Or cowardness. Or basically the whole Trait system of Sims 3. Because most of Sims 4 "traits" are just emotion-changers and moodlet poppers 🙄.
@@kiillabytez It also feels less like a life simulation because it's easy as balls and it feels like nothing has consequences.
The Sims 4 should be The Sims 3 and The Sims 3 should be The Sims 4.
Red Quarter agreed
my sentiments exactly :'(
Yep
The sims 3 was the best game and should stay the way it is. Sims 4 should get better cause sims 4 sucks
The PhoenixXtreme I don’t think that what he meant....
I don't care about The Sims...
I care about LGR tho baby
Hey you're that guy
me neither, that's why that look on it was especially interesting to me ^^
+David Homan dark man guy person... maybe he reviews stuff
Heyyy, its Indiemaus! the Dark Souls guy!
oh boy, didn't think to see you here. I think LGR needs a panflute intro ;)
Its a shame Sims 4 became meh. I actually liked the new style that was given to the people. They actually react properly and those algorithms are beautifully programmed. It looks so much better than 3 yet it became so dry.
It truly had potential. But Sims 3 was expanded so much there was almost not much left for 4. There is no way 4 could ever live up tp 3 because 3 became this melting pot that has massive shields around it.
+mipmipmipmipmip Yeah. 4 was almost a lost cause. There is just no way you can truly expand without it just being Sims 3 all over again. (And people beginning to complain about that)
+Jason Mayala-Eale Honestly, the way I see it, Sims 3 is like this Climax and everything goes kind of down afterwards. I honestly dont know what EA should or will do.
But if they do give up, I honestly saw it coming.
It's EA, so I have a good guess as to what they're going to do.
I feel like Sims 4 could have been better than sims 3 if they had kept the features from the sims 3
the lack of an open world was the real killer for me
+filmfreak yea it just felt like a step back without the open world
November 2018: TS4 STILL is a lackluster experience. They've added a lot of content, but the game itself is just lacking in depth on a fundamental level. No amount of content can fix such a broken foundation. I've tried really, really hard to get into TS4, but I just can't. I kinda hate it. The Sims as a franchise has so much potential, and I believe they're not working hard enough to give us the best experience. I've no hope TS5 will be any better, so I guess I have to settle for the older games, which are still very enjoyable, though sadly we won't get any more content.
Honestly the sims 2 is still the best In The series.
why?
I was playing it not so long ago and I spent hours on it and I only loaded the base game. 2 is still an amazing game. The details were thought out. It's very obvious that they didn't cut corners for it like they did with 4.
I disagree I still think the sims 3 basically did everything 2 did but better (and more). But it was amazing when it came out.
+James Brandon exactly!
RoastedCatGames I gotta disagree. Sims 3 showed us the beginning of the problems facing the series. Each expansion was just a tiny fragment of what it should have been. The open world was a great concept, but very poorly executed. The color wheel and textures were great, and there was no excuse for it not to be in 4, but there was just something intangible that was missing from it.
I would've been happy if they just took the Sims 3, give it new graphics/models then sell it as Sims 4. The only things that I like in S4 is CAS and building mode...
same here :/
Let's be honest, if they did that then everybody would be let down because they wanted something new.
Why they have to make a new game every time? just improve the last one that worked fine. I would have been fine with the first sims. skipped to sims 4 and got that "meh" feeling just after few hours playing it.. :( I would probably bought sims 3 if it was the latest release, now I have feeling I'm missing it because of this crappy sims 4.
+Kodi what killed it for me was the lack of open world, especially when i learned not even on a district level. I tried a trial and it just felt so redtrictive
Same here!
I first looked at Sims 4 and I was like "Wow the graphics are awesome! The architecture seems to have improved! I'm ready for this!"
And the game is a step backwards, reminiscent of like Sims 2. And not that I don't like Sims 2, but Sims 3 open world gameplay was just too epic. You could go anywhere and it all felt so connected. I just don't get that from the fourth game. It's so closed off again.
The sims 3 was way better let’s get that cleared. The sims 4 doesn’t give as much liberty and fluidity when it comes to gameplay. The graphic are good but the actual mechanics of the games have gone down since the 3.
Sims 3 is like the favorite child and sims 4 is the sibling that always fucks up and tries to be better than everyone
The Sims 3 is the best
+Sam Gates 😂
sims 4 doesnt try at all
+goldenbambi Well that is true
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People are saying wait for Sims 5, but honestly at this point I don't think there WILL be a Sims 5. Sims 4 barely scrapped by on profits, they have lost a lot of fans, and just the fact that nobody is really excited about the game anymore. If they DO make a Sims 5, then there's more than just adding stuff that was missing from previous games. They need to change their whole mindset. The Sims is a sandbox LIFE SIMULATION game, peppered with bits of quirky humour that keeps the game from being too heavy WITHOUT overwhelming players. And I feel like they have changed their course over the years, starting with Sims 3's World Adventures, with the linear quests that's reminiscent of RPG-style games. They are no longer listening to their fans, they are no longer adding content that are relevant to expanding the game's core gameplay - instead they're relying heavily on novelty factors, for example Katy Perry's Sweet Treats and Into the Future.
And then came the Sims 4. Its emphasis on quirkiness and humour almost seems like it is deliberately making itself a laughingstock. We never asked for rockets in our backyard, or sims who go prancing around just because they saw a colourful painting. Quirkiness is awesome in certain doses - in previous games, it was refreshing, a distraction that keeps the seems from being too serious. It's subtle and often hidden, leaving players to discover them. But now it has taken centre stage and I find it hard to take Sims 4 seriously at any level.
Unless EA changes this mindset - dumbing down the game so it would appeal to a more general target audience, and relying on novelty factors in hopes that it will keep the audience seated (and it doesn't, not after the initial curiosity has been sated), then I don't see how they can handle another sims game without completely destroying the series. I'd rather not see them do it.
Not with the direction they're going.
raras889 You express exactly how I feel!
They just need to get their shit together and fire whoever did the market evaluation and hire somebody that knows how to see what the fans want!
And we want basically The Sims 2 with the very best stuff from 3 and 4!
I get that argument but if they just went back to what we had before... they make crap tons. I don't know who took over but bring back the other people.
Also I would go sit with them for free and tell them what fans want... as I've been playing for 17 years at this point and I feel like they miss the simplest shit.
L S Same, dude!
EA has it so easy with the sims franchise. Simmers know what they want, EA knows what they want, and everyone knows what to expect after 3 of what are basically the same exact games, just with a new angle. But we're getting content that literally NO ONE is asking for. What do simmers want? Toddlers, customization, pets. What are we getting? Romantic gardens? Camping?? After 3 games to get their shit right, they've really screwed it up. Sims 4 is really just Sims 2 1/2. If better optimized, they could release Sims 3 as the next sims game. They act like making an expansion pack with core gameplay changed; seasons, pets, etc. is just too hard. Like they just don't know how to do it. We all know this game was rushed, and was just pushed out. So I have to wonder if they really CAN'T add these things. Because I don't understand why they would've have done it? They've had 2 years, and the closest expansions we've gotten that we've wanted, is adding restaurants.
What I worry is that if EA and Maxis flop on the Sims 5, it'll be the death of the franchise. In the world of gaming, two strikes and you're out. One if you're really unlucky.
They should also recognize that it's not that players don't WANT the Sims, it's that players want a better Sims, and they completely under-delivered and continue to under-deliver on the Sims 4. Don't be sorry, be better.
When EA took out the ability to create a soccer team from scratch from FIFA 10, back in 2009 (for PS3); that was literally the last time I wasted my hard earned money on a FIFA game.
+Andy the Cat actually they kept it in, but to get the players you wanted you needed to spend your hard earned dollars (and only for a small chance for them)
Bull_ Gaming
Really? That's messed up!
EA is the worst game publisher. I knew someone who used to work there and they said it was a toxic work environment. They basically destroy every IP they get their hands on. I wouldn't hold your breath for a Sims 5 being good either. The best thing that could happen is for another developer to make a Sims clone, only actually good. Then we can all stop making excuses for the shit EA gives us because we're all so desperate to play a sims game.
The Sims 4 is like, if you were to order a Hamburger and got two buns and a slice of cheese instead. But you can buy all kinds of extras to your meal like a glas half full of coke, half done fries, or a salad lacking seasoning. Sadly that doen't change the burger you got.
This is exactly what I have been thinking! I just can't stay invested into Sims 4 and it kinda bums me out I miss getting just lost in a simulated world. But lately I have have have just been going back to Sims 3 until something changes
it's also sad when Sims free play has more potential and content than Sims 4 😑
Yeah, I kind of get tired of momentarily getting excited when sims 4 DLC go on sale, and then I actually look at what I would spend my money on.... and it doesn't feel justified. I bought the restaurant DLC for full price and still got bored in a few days... I finally got City Skylines on sale this weekend even though I was never super into Sim City. I feel way more obsessed with City Skylines... and I can't even put my finger on why? Or what makes it so different than Sim City? I dunno, but it was worth way more than the $7.50 I paid for it... and I ended up getting the After Dark and Snow DLC on sale on top of it because they're cheap to begin with :p
+Nickolah Lyn yeah I have played every price of doc for Sims 4 and it's really fun for 1 or 2 days but then I just can't get into it which is compared to Sims 2 or 3 when I would get a new expansion and play it as much as I could for weeks! I just want the Sims team to be able to recapture the fun that I had with there three previous games but it is just not present in Sims 4, it has great graphics but no depth 😔
Me to I watched this and redownloaded it
I hope The Sims 5 will be a game similiar to The Sims 3 but with The Sims 4 graphics
Cities Skylines is the new SimCity, Planet Coaster is the new RCT, and it's only a matter of time before someone comes along and takes over the life simulator. I'm not even sure if we'll even see that, considering the amount of resources and money it takes to develop, but here's hoping. I'm ready for something new.
*life simulator genre
I really wish the producers of CS would venture into Life Simulation - they make a great game! EA needs some serious competitors 😡
The resources for a game like this aren't extreme, well within many small to medium dev budgets, as long as it's open to modding the community will fill in the gaps
I was love to see someone new come around and just do that, but EA would probably take those people to court, they take so many game developers to court over every thing.
I have this vague memory of someone (possibly me) asking Paradox about publishing some kind of "The Sims" like game since they'd managed to cash in on EA's fumbling of Sim City so successfully, and the response was vaguely positive. Of course they'd have to actually have a developer to make a game like that... It's not exactly in their wheel house...
I remember my twins in Sims 3 had a birthday, they were gonna be teens it was all fun and games to the cakes spontaneously combusted and the dad and one of the twins died. Tragic, but interesting. The next day we got robbed. Tragic, but interesting. Just in the base game of TS3 there is so much to do. In TS4 sure there the CAS and build mode are so much easier but TS4 actual gameplay is boring, half of the time spent playing TS4 is loading screens and it gets real annoying and you just wanna be a lazy couch potato and stay in your house. just to visit a neighbours house you have to go through a loading screen...W H A T?
I've tried now 4 times to try and get back into The Sims 4 (one of those being just last week) and every time I get bored within the first 2 hours. In my community/friend group they all boast about how much they love TS4, but mostly because of how great CAS and the build mode is. I feel that's where EA focused all their time into that and I'm more of a CAS & Legacy kind of person and taking out toddlers really ruined it for me. The loading screens are terrible and I wish there was some way to turn on/off some kind of open world option. The Sims 3 will remain my go to Sims game and I can only hope that in the next 2 years The Sims 4 might get better. This is also coming from someone who started out on The Sims, one of the first games I played. :(
Agreed. Really want TS4 to be good but it just isn't. Might even go as far to say i'd prefer to play Sims 1, really loved the vacation expansion pack.
Lucy I just thought I'd mention they brought toddlers back. they're pretty cute. I don't think it totally fixes things, but if you've still got the game you might like it for a bit :)
in sims 3 you paid 60$ for supernatural got 6 life states, a town , a career, tons of clothes, tons of decór, plants, and intricate magical abilities
In Sims 4 you pay 20$ for 1 life state (vampires), a few clothes, a little decor, and nearly the same gameplay abilities that you had in 3.
I feel like they purposely make these expansion packs empty so that you thirst for the next one.
and in the sims 3 you get *chaaiiirrrrrssss*
Mak@5 Supernatural was 20$
Knowing EA, I wouldn’t be surprised
That's why they make Vampires a game pack and NOT an expansion pack. It was never intended to be like supernatural or they would have called it supernatural. They made it a game pack because you are paying for less content.
@@morganbauer5238
That's the problem. A lot of these game packs that were previously entire expansions are now watered down and simplified versions of their Sims 3 counterparts. Although they are cheaper, it does mean we miss out on a lot of content over time. Even expansions themselves lack the depth that Sims 3 ones had. Look at the Pets expansion vs Cats and Dogs, for example. Even the title shows the dumbing down and oversimplification of the Sims 4 iteration.
I hate to say it, but I completely agree with you and it's something that's been nagging at the back of my mind for a while now. The whole Sims 4 series just feels so lackluster compared to previous iterations.
Sims 2 has always been my favorite. I was even playing it yesterday and thinking, "Gosh, this game has aged pretty darn well and it's still a lot of fun to play!" It's especially apparent when I go back to play Sims 4 and I think, "Huh. Sims 2 did this better. And yet the devs had 10 years to improve upon it." Heck there are even some things that I feel that the Sims 1 has done better than the Sims 4.
Sims 3 was fantastic as well and improved on many things that the Sims 2 didn't have, but Sims 4 didn't improve anything. In fact, I'd even argue it's a step back not just from Sims 3, but from Sims 2 only because it's a DECADE newer and had TONS of time to improve on many things from The Sims 2. But it really didn't.
The only thing even keeping me remotely interested in the Sims 4 anymore is playing challenges. I really don't know what will happen once I finish those up.
The reality here is that EA has a much bigger hand in the Sims franchise after it became a cash cow for them. Sims 2 didn't have nearly as much EA involvement. Sims 3 did, but it didn't feel as heavy handed. It's like you said, you can really feel how much the devs' hands are tied and it's so, SO sad. Sims has had such a huge impact on my life (I met my husband through the Sims 2) and I am genuinely saddened by the direction the game has gone over the last couple of years.
It's like ever since Will Wright left Sims went downhill.
wow you met your husband in the sims? :) that's so cool and cute 😁
I agree. what I miss most in Sims 4 is spontaneity, as much as LGR says it. It's very predictable. What made me silly addicted to Sims 2 was....just when I thought I figured everything out, something surprising would happen. In sims 4 everything is handed to you, and it makes it, while for extreme controlfreaks lovely, but to me...boring. I do think the developers did some things in the right direction. I like the addition of neighbours calling your sim to invite them to parties, and additions like 'Bear Night'...however they would have been lovelier if they weren't as repetitive, and despite of birthday parties (half assed ones though) having sims age, have some more consequences. Like bear night leaving your sim with a mystery bear stalker or something, or unlocking Unconventional characters with their own lives, life changing events... and not just having random sims propped up in suits anyone could meet in any situation. Also the lack of lifestages bothers the heck out of me. I realize once a child sim (who looks like any other in facial feature! BOO) turns into a mini-adult...I mean teen....I feel alienated. my sim isn't growing up, but is replaced by a completely different person in one lazy sims 2 swoop, not only by design, but by animation and character traits. If anything in the sims 4 I would have loved seeing the developers build on ways your sims could grow up, MORE life stages, more fluid life stages, more things like first dates, pimple poppings and awkward school dances. Not only toddlers, but pre- and after toddlers. mini children, prepubescent things. Balding. There's nothing worse than missing the feeling you are raising characters within the context of a life-simulation.
EVERYTHING the game is missing. I want this game, the one you're talking about. I'd be addicted.
I like how it’s three years later and this review is still accurate
I bout the game for £8, 75% off and I still regret it😭
Even moreso
I feel like the Sims creators should look at the Sims 2 and look to see what it did right. I played that game for like years and I loved it....But I only played the Sims 4 for 6 months? I felt like things actually happened in the Sims 2 and there was a lot of added mystery in the game and the expansion packs were actual things to affect the game (i.e. vacations, college, ect...) The Sims 4 is just boring after the "create a sim" part, the actual gameplay is bland. Also, I strongly feel they needed more careers. I maxed out every one, including the new ones added, so?? The Sims 4 was really cool at first, but just needed more work. (And toddlers!!)
The Dee Contact Origin, tell them you missed it but had the original. I did and Customer Service was really nice and sent it to me to download. The lady was was really nice and helpful. I'm grateful because after a few months this year, I couldn't play it with my discs.
I agree with everything you said, and I'll add this - TS4 wants you to play in a very specific way. The backdrops that you can't remove, the public spaces you can't edit, the constant, CONSTANT messages from randos demanding that your sim go out and have fun; iit's a very This Is What Millenials Like, Right? game, and it lacks the flexibility that made me love this series so much.
I can't play a Build a City Challenge; I can't build a town from scratch; the emotions the devs boasted so much about make every sim have the same personality. I've been playing TS2 since it first came out, and I've only recently started getting tired of it, because it allowed to me try challenges, design towns, plan town stories. I got bored of TS4 within two weeks.
It prioritizes useless shiny stuff that the PR department demanded because Millenials Love Selfies over substantial gameplay. That's what I was worried about back before the game came out, heavily marketing the Bro trait and making all the trailers as Lulzy and Meme-y as they could, and it saddens me to say that that's exactly the game we got. Lackluster gameplay, a bunch of marketing gimmicks.
This game isn't designed to be played as long as TS2 and TS3. It's primary targets aren't the people who have played the previous installments, but people who will see a funny trailer, buy the game and play it for two days setting everything on fire and making everyone make out, and then forget about it. There's nothing wrong with playing like that, and there's nothing wrong with wanting the investment to pay off, but do players like that return to buy more expansions and stuff packs? Will they keep the fanbase alive by creating custom content (and thus improving the overall experience without any work on the devs' part), sharing their enthusiasm, and writing stories? It's a short-sighted policy, laser-guided by PR specialists who haven't talked to their kids directly in three years, and it's detrimental to the game, the devs, and the players. I honestly hope this installment is done with soon, I'm ready to give TS5 the benefit of doubt.
Or, hell, just remake TS2 with nicer graphics. I'd buy the hell out of that.
I dislike the Sims 4 so much because all the packs are things that should've been there in the first place. Also dislike the fact that they are going for the more realistic gameplay. I loved the way Sims 3 added super-reality like Supernatural and Into The Future.
Those were the worst expansions.
+Viktor Rucký they were cool if you are into that. I don't like the unrealistic stuff but my daughter loves it.
+Viktor Rucký well it comes down to preference. I agree with you but I believe that they should still have unrealistic things for people who like it so that it's more sandbox.
I still play the sims 3
+kongo is a Doll Sims 2 will always be my favourite
Eight (!!!) years of meh. No matter how promising some packs sound at first, it's just like you described, a bunch of layers upon a bland, broken foundation. They should just move on already.
Eight years of lifetime for a game that is literally unplayable without mods is ridiculous.
And it's shocking to me how they still seem to take this game for more years to come. Just even more shitty ass content on top of a shitty ass game. Truly a dead franchise. Paralives will hopely bury this game for good.
"They're trying their hardest. You should be greatful. The game js not buggy for me. Maybe it's just not for you." ...... Try posted your thoughts on the official subreddits and this will be what you get. People even claim that sims 4 is a virtual doll house therefore it don't need gameplay improvement. The current community is the reason of why sims 4 suck and why they're still making more kit.
I only play this game because of my attachment to my sims and their stories, but yeah, as someone who loved sims 3 a lot, I really hated how blah sims 4 turned out. The only thing I prefer to sims 4 over 3 is that at least there's a little more distinction in sims. Looking back on my sims3 toons, they all pretty much looked the same to some degree.
Tbh all the developers need to do to make people like their game again, is add toddlers. I've been waiting 2 years for toddlers.
One thing I really dislike about sims 4 is babies. They're so useless, I hate that I can't carry them around. One of my families moved into a bigger house when they had a baby and upon arrival I freaked out because the baby wasn't there. I found him later in the family inventory!!! wtf.
h3ll0gudbye lmao yeah I always just age up my babies like u can't do anything with them they r useless and I really hate that they just feel like objects and not sims
h3ll0gudbye you're right. since they added toddlers I have started to love the game and see it in a new light. maybe there is still hope for this game seeing how much effort they put into the toddler update.
h3ll0gudbye you're right. since they added toddlers I have started to love the game and see it in a new light. maybe there is still hope for this game seeing how much effort they put into the toddler update.
Agreed, I'm pleasantly surprised with how well it turned out and would probably say that the wait was worth it. I just love my toddlers! :D lol.
"Tbh all the developers need to do to make people like their game again, is add toddlers. I've been waiting 2 years for toddlers." Not at all. Sims 4 is very lifeless, there's a lot missing and most new features are just...kind of there. Fluff, that's it.