I think Alfred hires other services because butlers were traditionally the head of staff in a household. It makes sense for them to manage other employees.
It is ever so slightly annoying though when he rips into your money in a blink of an eye, but since you'd only really hire a butler when you have oodles of cash, it makes sense
I remember once in the Sims 4, my Sim ordered my butler to cook dinner. After cooking dinner, the butler fed it my Sim's dog. Let's just say someone got laid off...
Damn, I feel so bad for the Sims 1 butler, his idle animations seem so depressed and his reaction to being fired is so sad. Why does Alfred seem like someone who never wanted this life but ended up stuck with this job for many, many long decades until he's reached an age where he considers it's too late to try anything new? 😔
In SIMS 2 game that I played yesterday, the butler took care of the baby. And he was so serious about it... that he actually left the lot WITH THE BABY! And the baby disappered from the family. And he never brought it back.
I didn't know butlers could quit if they were mistreated which is weird since i always use them as food for my vampire sims, you'd think they'd quit at that point but no
one time my Sim asked her butler for advice and he basically told her that her outfit was tired out and she should change it. i obsessively plan new outfits for my sims now 😭 this was also after he hadn’t been sleeping for days and kept passing out in random places, and after this he finally went to bed. i imagine this was weighing on him heavily lol
Honestly I didn’t know butlers existed in the sims since the maids are definitely more popular. Either way the butlers are equally as cool and fun haha
How people view the Sims games in general: Sims 2: the one no one hates Sims 3: the one everyone loves (but those with bad computers hate) Sims 4: the one everyone loves to hate
Sims 3 is poorly optimized, you can have the best computer and get it to recognize your hardware and it will still pack up. Not to mention the potato faces and the fact that story progression no longer happens. It's great with mods but so are all the others.
I personally don't enjoy the Sims 3 and know of plenty of people who don't either so wouldn't say everyone loves it lol but it is true that mostly everyone loves to hate the Sims 4
i wish you mentioned how they’ll drink up all your liquor in the sims 3 😭 i have to put my juice kegs away during the week because Bertram’s an alcoholic
@@ladyhella7560 Yeap, same with me too as well!. It would have been totally cool, tbh. But asides from that, i think they're way more a like real butler would have been acted in IRL and better in my opinion
I still think TS2 managed all sort of things and game mechanics better than the others. I mean, in that game the butler simply says "oh well" and leaves once you fire him, is a very gentleman attitude from him AND from your own sim, to fire him like a civil person does, instead of yelling at him like some kind of rude fella.
The butler will call the police and fire fighters in Sims 2 as well if needed. I remember in a playthrough where the person was trying to drown someone in their pool and the butler called the cops on them! Although the cops didn't realise what was happening so they got a fine for calling without needing them lol
Sounds like a typical emergency in the sims lol. I don't know what's up with my butler but he never called anyone for fire nor for the burglar, didn't even react so I guess it was a bug
I like the butler in the Sims 2 because he does everything. He cooks, he cleans and even takes care of the babies and toddlers automatically. 🙂 While in the sims 4 I always need to tell the butler to cook for example which is a bit annoying.
They will die lol. Plantsims are only good as household members. They won't out of their own seek out sunlight or greenhouse kamps. But you and I had the same idea. On another note, for some reason, several people have independently tried to make Crumplebottom into a vampire. Only to find out it instantly breaks all your game files and you have to uninstall and reinstall lol.
@@demo2823 It's due to the type of NPC that she is, a universal NPC-within the game files, Mrs. Crumplebottom is considered an object, not a Sim, so doing things like adding her to your household or basically doing any interaction outside of her normal ones (i.e., building any sort of relationship with her) can and likely will cause corruption. However, butlers are known safe playables. So maybe I'll make them into a PlantSim and move them in ASAP? Lol.
My Sims family in Sims 4 has this bug where the butlers swap everytime I load into the home lot. Butler 1 is young, Butler 2 is elderly. It gets annoying after a while. Also, I wish Sims 4 butlers took care of themselves. Like, we don't need to tell them to sleep. Do that yourself!
That's an interesting bug... in my case it didn't matter how many times my Sims would move homes, halt butler services & take it again, I always had the same butler coming.
@@ember9361 I don't know. I'll try and test it later. I got fed up with the butlers after a while I sacked them. But butlers is a cool feature, so I'd want to see if it works again. But on a differernt save file probably.
I haven't played The Sims 2 for years, but I remember the butlers taking care of babies, even better than nannies. So I usually hired a butler instead of a nanny....
The only downside is they can’t stay at night. So you are force to hire a nanny if your adult sims going out. Kinda bummer because they were so close the perfect.
There isn’t a single Sim in the Sims 4 that isn’t a computer addict. Even random ones walking down the street will come in and just play on a computer in a strangers house for hours.
Back in sims 1, i used to hire the maid and gardener because i didnt want the outdoor plant to die.. didnt get to try hiring for sims 2 (forgot abt them), and then I hired the butler in sims 3 and loved it!
Of all the Sims 4 game mechanics I haven't tried yet, I have not tried the Butler mechanic yet! Watching this literally made me think of what I haven't tried yet!
Once when I was playing with a family I created that I made famous and I noticed their female butler had a pregnant belly, so I used the MCC and found out she was pregnant with a girl. I didn't know if she would have the baby since she was a NPC, so I added her to my family and let her have her baby. The weirdest part is that the butler's daughter shows who the birth father is, but the butler doesn't even have him in her relationships.
Yea I’m still confused on why people think TS4 graphics are good. I have to use a reshader and skins on sims to make them look good. Then you look at the outside environment and it looks like the graphics of Spyro.. the grass doesn’t even look like grass, you can tell the harsh lines between the “ground” and pasted on long grass in the background. I get they can’t have taxing graphics because of people with horrible old computers but they brought back loading screens for what exactly? Because this game does not exceed the older games in any way imo.
We’ve heard this story a thousand times now.. It might not even happen considering EA’s mismanagement, and not everyone likes the Sims 4 graphics, myself included.
The butler can do anything, cook, attend your garden, clean your house, fix your manor after a fire, get rid of intruders, gather information, partake in your evil plan of vengeance behind the people that killed your parents and ruined your family, but beware take he'll take your soul ರ_ರ
Sims 1: Butler immediately hires maid and gardener cause he can't do sh** (what a loser) Sims 2: Butler immediately dismisses both of them cause he'll handle everything himself (MY MAN!) 😂
Totally random and has nothing to do with the video but when I saw the Butler playing piano I just remembered in Sims 1 when you placed a piano on a community lot there would be an NPC playing the Piano when you visit that place and in restaurants you could have a guy with a guitar or violin serenading during your meals. I miss that. I was very dissapointed when playing the Sims 2 the first time and there was no music in my restaurants (except from speakers, but that is not the same)
Also, something I noticed with Sims 3 butlers is that if you add them to your household, they have maxed cooking and handiness skill I think? Could be wrong, but that's what I remember. With that being said, if you want to play a sim with one of those skills maxed but don't feel like waiting-
In Sims 4 they are always Evil. I don't know why. :D In Sims 1 a family had a butler and children, but the parents died. And the children could live with the butler alone, making them food and taking care of the household.
In Sims 1, kids can live without an adult, no social worker comes to fetch them unless their grades or hunger goes down. I wanted to have a kid magician living on their own in Magic Town only to find out they couldn't use A Hole in the Ground or call the balloon cab. Had to suffice on a magic box glitch for my toadstools and toadswear.
1:44 tutorial how to wash dishes in sims 2 1 turn on water with bubbles 2 put the dish with food 3 delete dish of food with flies in the sink and turn off the water
In Sims 3 when it's fall season my butler spends all day raking leaves! My lot is small but he takes so long doing just that, even losing sleep and badly needing a shower. When I send my sims to university though I always hire a butler to keep the dorm clean.
Sims 1 is Alfred from Batman. Hahahahahaha! Lol! The one I like is Sims 4, I like The Sims 4 butler the best. Plus I can create my own butler in the game.
I've read somewhere that in Sims 1 the butler will activate Bonehilda if her coffin is on the lot. Not sure if that's true, though. I never played Makin' Magic. But considering Sims 1 was actually pretty good in mixing the packs, I can believe it. Anyway, I didn't use butlers that much, becaus they annoyed me. Ins Sims 1 and 2 they were the best for me. Sims 4 their options are good too, but they are quite bugged. In Sims 3 they are the most annoying and their efficiency depends on their traits. Once i've got lazy butler who did close to nothing. Other time I've got one that hated children, so not only she didn't care of them, but she showed her annoyance quite visibly. Of course that didn't work for family with two children and a toddler, so, she must go. That's why in Sims 3 whenever I play rich family, I started to prefer to create my own live-in controlable butlers with traits I want them and cheated skills. That worked best for me.
I had many butlers in Sims 3, but they're hard to keep in your house, one day they'll disappear for no reason. Sometimes you'll find out they quit as you can call services and hire another one, sometimes they vanish, but they keep earning their salary (in that case you have to reset sim, otherwise you'd have to look for them around the city... and good luck with that!). They do very random stuff, and they're high maintenance: if your entire household doesn't have a good relationship with the butler, he'll vanish!
i hired one once for the sorority house when my sim was going to University. they had a raging juice kegger party and the butler was gone the next day 😂 can’t say i blame her
i remember playing sims 1 back in 2011 and i always thought i was playing sims 3 cuz the logo for the games has a 3 on it. and i also only played the base game, but that was more entertaining than sims 4 today, like i had a lot to do even at night when burglars came, in sims 4 i just had to fast forward the night.
I had no idea butlers quit if mistreated. I always used maids (except at University in Sims 2), gardeners, and babysitters, so I had no need for a butler. Sims 2 is so much fun. I need to get back into playing again.
Ooh, you forgot something. Butlers in The Sims 4 can misbehave if you let them too many time in your house without supervision. For example, they can drink from the bar or even use your tub.
Well they technically become members of your household once you hire them (minus them being unplayable characters) so I’d hope they’d use the tub from time to time lol.
6:20 Only make individual meals? I have a MinusOne Kelvin fridge in one sim home full of the Butlers family meals... enough to feed all the towns and homeless townies in them for a week and not a single meal made by my Sim who stopped cooking at home once he got level 10 cooking at level 7 of the career. No leftovers left once the MinusOne Kelvin fridge was awarded and it was a couple weeks later before the butler was hired when his wife hit level 10 on her career... butler was there for 3 generations of children, them and their spouses career and lifetime wish completion... like 3 years in the game. Every 2 days the butler would cook a family meal for just 1 sime but 8 of them and their hunger was all over the place so sometimes 2 meals a day one day and 3 the next.
In TS2, the butler would ask before dismissing the rest of the staff and mine took care of the babies. It seems like some butlers are better than others. One burns meals or forgets to make one while another is an excellent cook.
Wow for once, Butlers in sims 4 are actually not that bad and are I think the best ones out of them all, they have all the options of the other butlers combined plus you can control Thier routine
In Sims 2 I had Cyd Roseland marry one of the burglars in Pleasantview Russ Bear & the Butler kept calling the police on him even if he was at work! Lol I had to fire the butler & hire the maid instead.
My celeb Sims have a butler atm and I love her, except she keeps catching on fire! My Sim has saved her so many times. She has her own guest house with that like $12,000 tub. We love Miwa
In The Sims 2, I couldn't leave the house if children were there with a buttler, but in the Sims 3, I can leave them with a buttler. But, on the other hand, in the Sims 3 Buttler has to live in my house, which I find strange, it's better when he just comes and goes as in the Sims 2.
Sims 3 butlers, if in Bridgeport, will under Ask Advice potentially mention rumours about Fish Boy living in the sewers, who in Island Paradise is revealed to now be Triton (his biography says he was formerly known as Fish Boy). Previously, fan theory was that Fish Boy was from Twinbrook, because all the ghosts there had a 'fishy' pallor, and that it had somethung to do with pollution of the local waters. Another thing I find funny is that the butler, under ask for advice, can say they find people's interest in the size of the female bust barbaric. This may have been a developer reaction because they introduced the bust slider in Late Night after popular demand. But since the randomly generated butlers usually have middle fat levels, and these add on dramatically to the bust slider, my female butlers who complain about the commentary on female bust size, always have... well... the biggest kahunas.
I'm between the Sims 3 butler and Sims 1 for the winner, i think all games added different things that makes their version of the butler unique, all of them are good in their own way
I remember feeling super rich when I could finally afford to hire Alfred in the Sims. Loved that in Sims 2, I could finally interact with the butler, but saddened he had to leave 3 hours earlier than Alfred did. I was most excited with Sims 3's butlers, because they realistically are live in service. Sims 3 would have easily won the prize, but they lose points for not tending to gardens, taking days off (without temporary replacements), and if you have a beehive, you better have mods to stop them from being anywhere near them...I won't spoil for anyone who has yet to experience the usual outcome. While I do not own the Sims 4 pack that has butlers, they seem okay, and hopefully work better than the maids. Sims 2 butlers do try to care for the babies/toddlers, but the code is broken, but there are mods to fix or just rid those interactions entirely. Despite Sims 2 not having the longest shifts for the butlers, I still find them to be the most elegant and charming, like my inner head cannon thinks they should be.
@@TheRedPlumbob If you ever decide to do a beehive comparison, make sure you have a butler hired to compare that as well, not certain how the other Sims games will pan out (I will likely test The Sims, but due to how service workers are coded, if Alfred does interact with the beehive, it will likely not have Sims 3 results). 🙃
@@dundee6402 I totally forgot about that, but Bonehilda was somehow good at training pets (who irl would be gnawing at her bones). 🤭☠ I do know that in TS2, there is just one nanny that has enough competence to at least not starve the babies and toddlers, but that is just the bare minimum. I often have had to cheat needs, so kids won't be taken away by social services, even after hiring a nanny. Oddly enough, when you ask a neighbor to babysit or pet sit in TS2:AL, all needs are met, without issue, and they are not being paid, go figure. 🤷♀️
I miss how in The Sims 1, 2, and 3, the butlers had class, looked elegant, and were polite, unlike Sims 4 where they are random and some are quite unattractive. A similar situation occurs in restaurants with chefs, metres, and waiters. In The Sims 4, the butlers aren't as bad; the problem is the same as always - they have many bugs where they stop doing things....
The butler is OBSESSED with babies and toddler in my game (TS2) and won't leave them alone. I had to download a mod because he wouldn't let them sleep 😢
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I think Alfred hires other services because butlers were traditionally the head of staff in a household. It makes sense for them to manage other employees.
It is ever so slightly annoying though when he rips into your money in a blink of an eye, but since you'd only really hire a butler when you have oodles of cash, it makes sense
In sims 2 I make my own butler, in that way i can make him like Alfred lol
If you have Servo in Sims 1, he turns him on right away... since Servo does most of jobs, butler is a bit useless
I remember once in the Sims 4, my Sim ordered my butler to cook dinner. After cooking dinner, the butler fed it my Sim's dog. Let's just say someone got laid off...
That just has to be the most Sim thing to ever exist
You know what they say. Animals before mammals.
@@sydneyrobinson92 But animals can be mammals 🤔
@@TheEtherny I know, I just couldn't think of a word that rhymed
Perfect story, lol 😂
Damn, I feel so bad for the Sims 1 butler, his idle animations seem so depressed and his reaction to being fired is so sad. Why does Alfred seem like someone who never wanted this life but ended up stuck with this job for many, many long decades until he's reached an age where he considers it's too late to try anything new? 😔
Stop making me feel the feels for a sims npc 😢
And he's an alcoholic :/
not me crying over a sim 😭
damn...
It’s the most realistic tho
In SIMS 2 game that I played yesterday, the butler took care of the baby. And he was so serious about it... that he actually left the lot WITH THE BABY! And the baby disappered from the family. And he never brought it back.
Worse than social service, since those will at least warn you before they'll took your kids 😁
@@petrnovak7235 so true!
Damn, sounds like the worst kind of bug!
Kidnapper butler
That baby will be known as batman one day 😭
Honestly, my favorite thing about these videos is how we see the home evolve over the games.
Or devolve
@@milesrn2312 * evolve 😊
@@keanuk6171 sims 4 is devolved
@@_STORMZI_ they are talking about the players house not the game itself
@@_STORMZI_
The building tool is way better in the sims 4, it’s gameplay that lacks
Alfred calls the maid and the gardener because he's a fair man and understands that everybody needs to get paid. *Alfred: The Superior Butler*
Fun Fact:
The butlers name is actually the name of Batman's butler Alfred Pennyworth.
First thing that came to mind when I read his was Alfred was him lol
@@zelda_06
Same here! LOL
@@zelda_06 Same here, what a good reference!
As someone who mostly grew up with Batman, I knew that but it’s a great reference lmao
Agreed
I forget they existed in Sims 3. There's too much content/features in the game and DLCs to keep track of.
ikr it’s great lol
Especially when you dont buy it cause 🏴☠️ is the way. So you dont know the content youre in for
Something else to note in The Sims 1 is that, if Servo is on the lot, the butler will activate him rather than hiring the maid and gardener.
I didn't know butlers could quit if they were mistreated which is weird since i always use them as food for my vampire sims, you'd think they'd quit at that point but no
They know if their masters dies then they won't get money, it's like a blood bank if you think about it lol
😭😭
Sims are not so trustworthy as time goes by
Well, one of their tasks is to provide food, right?
Spoken like a VtM player (Vampire: The Masquerade)
Sims 3 shines with the inclusion of that "Give advice" option, just wow...
one time my Sim asked her butler for advice and he basically told her that her outfit was tired out and she should change it. i obsessively plan new outfits for my sims now 😭 this was also after he hadn’t been sleeping for days and kept passing out in random places, and after this he finally went to bed. i imagine this was weighing on him heavily lol
The book your butler is reading in Sims 4 is apparently called "How to serve and not be served", you can hover the cursor over it to check.
Pretty sure it's written by Alfred
Honestly I didn’t know butlers existed in the sims since the maids are definitely more popular. Either way the butlers are equally as cool and fun haha
How people view the Sims games in general:
Sims 2: the one no one hates
Sims 3: the one everyone loves (but those with bad computers hate)
Sims 4: the one everyone loves to hate
And Sims 1: the one everyone forgets about
Sims 3 is poorly optimized, you can have the best computer and get it to recognize your hardware and it will still pack up. Not to mention the potato faces and the fact that story progression no longer happens. It's great with mods but so are all the others.
I like Sims 4 and 3
@@TheRedPlumbob sims 1 is the best
I personally don't enjoy the Sims 3 and know of plenty of people who don't either so wouldn't say everyone loves it lol but it is true that mostly everyone loves to hate the Sims 4
i wish you mentioned how they’ll drink up all your liquor in the sims 3 😭 i have to put my juice kegs away during the week because Bertram’s an alcoholic
I wish they still did that in S4, more entertaining than just doing nothing
Butlers in 2 and 3 are definitely my most favourite! ❤️❤️
I just wish they could help with the garden, I have big gardens in some families and its hard to take care of them everyday
@@ladyhella7560 Yeap, same with me too as well!. It would have been totally cool, tbh. But asides from that, i think they're way more a like real butler would have been acted in IRL and better in my opinion
Sim: doesn’t have money
Butler: Hippity Hoppity your stuff is my property
I still think TS2 managed all sort of things and game mechanics better than the others.
I mean, in that game the butler simply says "oh well" and leaves once you fire him, is a very gentleman attitude from him AND from your own sim, to fire him like a civil person does, instead of yelling at him like some kind of rude fella.
$500 per day?!!! Alfred was trying to get PAID! 🤣
He's nearing 80, my man needs to retire
Back when I had sims 2, my butler straight up stole my baby…
Sounds like a bad bug.
The butler will call the police and fire fighters in Sims 2 as well if needed. I remember in a playthrough where the person was trying to drown someone in their pool and the butler called the cops on them! Although the cops didn't realise what was happening so they got a fine for calling without needing them lol
Sounds like a typical emergency in the sims lol. I don't know what's up with my butler but he never called anyone for fire nor for the burglar, didn't even react so I guess it was a bug
1:44 ARE WE GONNA IGNORE THE FACT HE PUT THE PANCAKES IN THE SINK??
The monster! Who puts pancakes in the sink?!?
@@UnknownWhispers401 Fr- Now the pancakes are uneatable!
@@AlienFriend Only with that attitude
@@TheEtherny Wait what 😶
@@AlienFriend they meant that people only with an attitude like the butler would put pancakes in the sink!
sims 2 butler: children? heck no!
Also that stealing animation/sound in sims 3 always gets me lmaoo
The butler my Sims have in Sims 3 is named Cheyenne and she's become part of the family at this point 🥰 My Sims get on brilliantly with her
I like the butler in the Sims 2 because he does everything. He cooks, he cleans and even takes care of the babies and toddlers automatically. 🙂 While in the sims 4 I always need to tell the butler to cook for example which is a bit annoying.
He can't do his job right, so sad 😔
Note to Self: Strategize to make a Plantsim butler in TS2 someday.
They will die lol. Plantsims are only good as household members. They won't out of their own seek out sunlight or greenhouse kamps.
But you and I had the same idea. On another note, for some reason, several people have independently tried to make Crumplebottom into a vampire. Only to find out it instantly breaks all your game files and you have to uninstall and reinstall lol.
@@demo2823 It's due to the type of NPC that she is, a universal NPC-within the game files, Mrs. Crumplebottom is considered an object, not a Sim, so doing things like adding her to your household or basically doing any interaction outside of her normal ones (i.e., building any sort of relationship with her) can and likely will cause corruption. However, butlers are known safe playables. So maybe I'll make them into a PlantSim and move them in ASAP? Lol.
Sorry for the infodump, The Sims 2 is a big special interest of mine and I know a little too much about it lol
My Sims family in Sims 4 has this bug where the butlers swap everytime I load into the home lot. Butler 1 is young, Butler 2 is elderly. It gets annoying after a while. Also, I wish Sims 4 butlers took care of themselves. Like, we don't need to tell them to sleep. Do that yourself!
Mine never asked for permission to sleep, weird.
that bug _still_ exists?
That's an interesting bug... in my case it didn't matter how many times my Sims would move homes, halt butler services & take it again, I always had the same butler coming.
@@ember9361 I don't know. I'll try and test it later. I got fed up with the butlers after a while I sacked them. But butlers is a cool feature, so I'd want to see if it works again. But on a differernt save file probably.
This happened to me, I thought it was normal, like they had days off something, so another one would come for replacement lol
I haven't played The Sims 2 for years, but I remember the butlers taking care of babies, even better than nannies. So I usually hired a butler instead of a nanny....
Yes, I'm Still playing sims 2, and it is exactly like you say. The butler is very good at taking care of the babys, way better than the nanny
The only downside is they can’t stay at night. So you are force to hire a nanny if your adult sims going out. Kinda bummer because they were so close the perfect.
Sims 1 for me
I didn't need to hire a butler in 2 and 3 but after I watched this video it made me interested in hiring them
I love how they get their whole ass sleeves and gloves in there while washing the dishes
Sim 3 is the only normal one lol
I like the response of the butler in sims 2 when the sim don't have enough money to pay him-
There isn’t a single Sim in the Sims 4 that isn’t a computer addict. Even random ones walking down the street will come in and just play on a computer in a strangers house for hours.
Yep, I guess they set too much priority to the fun need
Anne is really pretty with the outfits you picked for her rich self !
Back in sims 1, i used to hire the maid and gardener because i didnt want the outdoor plant to die.. didnt get to try hiring for sims 2 (forgot abt them), and then I hired the butler in sims 3 and loved it!
god i missed butlers! they were such a fun gimmick
Of all the Sims 4 game mechanics I haven't tried yet, I have not tried the Butler mechanic yet! Watching this literally made me think of what I haven't tried yet!
Once when I was playing with a family I created that I made famous and I noticed their female butler had a pregnant belly, so I used the MCC and found out she was pregnant with a girl. I didn't know if she would have the baby since she was a NPC, so I added her to my family and let her have her baby. The weirdest part is that the butler's daughter shows who the birth father is, but the butler doesn't even have him in her relationships.
Hmm, sounds like the game may randomize babies on NPCs
@@TheRedPlumbob maybe. Or maybe NPC might be getting up to certain things when they're not our lots... 😉🤣
imagine a sims game with the interactions of sims 2, the gameplay and the story progression of sims 3 and the graphics of sims 4
Sims 4 have bad graphics
Impossible. That would be too good to be true.
TS4 has a garbage graphics, just no.
Yea I’m still confused on why people think TS4 graphics are good. I have to use a reshader and skins on sims to make them look good. Then you look at the outside environment and it looks like the graphics of Spyro.. the grass doesn’t even look like grass, you can tell the harsh lines between the “ground” and pasted on long grass in the background.
I get they can’t have taxing graphics because of people with horrible old computers but they brought back loading screens for what exactly? Because this game does not exceed the older games in any way imo.
We’ve heard this story a thousand times now.. It might not even happen considering EA’s mismanagement, and not everyone likes the Sims 4 graphics, myself included.
I prefer the Sims 1 butlers since they do what they have to do, they don't get distracted.
Excellent video! Although I do have to say that you missed a cool detail that butlers in Oasis Landing will be Plumbots with special outfits to match.
The butler can do anything, cook, attend your garden, clean your house, fix your manor after a fire, get rid of intruders, gather information, partake in your evil plan of vengeance behind the people that killed your parents and ruined your family, but beware take he'll take your soul ರ_ರ
Sims 1: Butler immediately hires maid and gardener cause he can't do sh** (what a loser)
Sims 2: Butler immediately dismisses both of them cause he'll handle everything himself (MY MAN!)
😂
It's because a butler is head of staff traditionally
A few times in The Sims 3, I'd stick a Bonehilda in the game even if I already had a butler and the butler would quit and run SCARED out of the house.
Hmm, then mine probably had a bug cause he just kept working lol
@@TheRedPlumbob or he's just that one fearless butler lmao
Its even funnier when the maid is on the lot and you summon Bonehilda.
Totally random and has nothing to do with the video but when I saw the Butler playing piano I just remembered in Sims 1 when you placed a piano on a community lot there would be an NPC playing the Piano when you visit that place and in restaurants you could have a guy with a guitar or violin serenading during your meals. I miss that. I was very dissapointed when playing the Sims 2 the first time and there was no music in my restaurants (except from speakers, but that is not the same)
Also, something I noticed with Sims 3 butlers is that if you add them to your household, they have maxed cooking and handiness skill I think? Could be wrong, but that's what I remember.
With that being said, if you want to play a sim with one of those skills maxed but don't feel like waiting-
In Sims 4 they are always Evil. I don't know why. :D
In Sims 1 a family had a butler and children, but the parents died. And the children could live with the butler alone, making them food and taking care of the household.
Only as long as they had money to pay him, though.
@@petrnovak7235 Well, they had. With cheats 🙃
@@lylavati They didn't need parents just the motherlode.
@@jessica33313 That is what I wrote in the comment above. 🙃
I thought it was a bit sad, that this did not work in the other games.
In Sims 1, kids can live without an adult, no social worker comes to fetch them unless their grades or hunger goes down. I wanted to have a kid magician living on their own in Magic Town only to find out they couldn't use A Hole in the Ground or call the balloon cab. Had to suffice on a magic box glitch for my toadstools and toadswear.
1:44 tutorial how to wash dishes in sims 2
1 turn on water with bubbles
2 put the dish with food
3 delete dish of food with flies in the sink and turn off the water
In Sims 3 when it's fall season my butler spends all day raking leaves! My lot is small but he takes so long doing just that, even losing sleep and badly needing a shower. When I send my sims to university though I always hire a butler to keep the dorm clean.
Sims 1 is Alfred from Batman. Hahahahahaha! Lol! The one I like is Sims 4, I like The Sims 4 butler the best. Plus I can create my own butler in the game.
It's inspired by him for sure lol
Sind 1 Butlers were waaaay to expensive.
It’s realistic, it’s a very high end service
8:33 "Sorry this didn't work out. Just pay my fee of §171 and I'll be on my way." - dumbledore said calmly
I've read somewhere that in Sims 1 the butler will activate Bonehilda if her coffin is on the lot. Not sure if that's true, though. I never played Makin' Magic. But considering Sims 1 was actually pretty good in mixing the packs, I can believe it.
Anyway, I didn't use butlers that much, becaus they annoyed me. Ins Sims 1 and 2 they were the best for me. Sims 4 their options are good too, but they are quite bugged. In Sims 3 they are the most annoying and their efficiency depends on their traits. Once i've got lazy butler who did close to nothing. Other time I've got one that hated children, so not only she didn't care of them, but she showed her annoyance quite visibly. Of course that didn't work for family with two children and a toddler, so, she must go. That's why in Sims 3 whenever I play rich family, I started to prefer to create my own live-in controlable butlers with traits I want them and cheated skills. That worked best for me.
That didn't happen in my game but nowing how much Alfred likes help, I wouldn't be surprised lol.
The controlable butlers idea is interesting, I never thought of that before
I had many butlers in Sims 3, but they're hard to keep in your house, one day they'll disappear for no reason. Sometimes you'll find out they quit as you can call services and hire another one, sometimes they vanish, but they keep earning their salary (in that case you have to reset sim, otherwise you'd have to look for them around the city... and good luck with that!).
They do very random stuff, and they're high maintenance: if your entire household doesn't have a good relationship with the butler, he'll vanish!
i hired one once for the sorority house when my sim was going to University. they had a raging juice kegger party and the butler was gone the next day 😂 can’t say i blame her
Good to see I’m not the only one with this problem 😅
Wish our lives were as easy as in the sims hahaha
i remember playing sims 1 back in 2011 and i always thought i was playing sims 3 cuz the logo for the games has a 3 on it. and i also only played the base game, but that was more entertaining than sims 4 today, like i had a lot to do even at night when burglars came, in sims 4 i just had to fast forward the night.
Sims 2 baby: [screaming on the floor]
Alfred: Nope. I don't get paid enough to deal with you
Sims 4 won this time for me! I can't believe I'm saying this but I love their detail 😂
I had no idea butlers quit if mistreated. I always used maids (except at University in Sims 2), gardeners, and babysitters, so I had no need for a butler. Sims 2 is so much fun. I need to get back into playing again.
Ooh, you forgot something. Butlers in The Sims 4 can misbehave if you let them too many time in your house without supervision.
For example, they can drink from the bar or even use your tub.
Well they technically become members of your household once you hire them (minus them being unplayable characters) so I’d hope they’d use the tub from time to time lol.
@@tictheintrovertedcancer7917 well, but they are not expected to drink from your bar for example, something they do and you can call them out
I always get so happy when I see you have uploaded
Hearing that makes me happy, thank you :D
6:20 Only make individual meals? I have a MinusOne Kelvin fridge in one sim home full of the Butlers family meals... enough to feed all the towns and homeless townies in them for a week and not a single meal made by my Sim who stopped cooking at home once he got level 10 cooking at level 7 of the career. No leftovers left once the MinusOne Kelvin fridge was awarded and it was a couple weeks later before the butler was hired when his wife hit level 10 on her career... butler was there for 3 generations of children, them and their spouses career and lifetime wish completion... like 3 years in the game. Every 2 days the butler would cook a family meal for just 1 sime but 8 of them and their hunger was all over the place so sometimes 2 meals a day one day and 3 the next.
Also like the butler grabbing your item on his way out when you don’t pay. Gives the game more character lol.
Man, the ''NoT a BuG, iTs a FeAtURe'' thing is strong in the S4 Lol!
In TS2, the butler would ask before dismissing the rest of the staff and mine took care of the babies. It seems like some butlers are better than others. One burns meals or forgets to make one while another is an excellent cook.
notice how in the other games, he came with an EXPANSION pack. another loss on the endless list of flaws for sims 4
Wow for once, Butlers in sims 4 are actually not that bad and are I think the best ones out of them all, they have all the options of the other butlers combined plus you can control Thier routine
it's interesting to see how the butlers have evolved since the sims 1.
In Sims 2 I had Cyd Roseland marry one of the burglars in Pleasantview Russ Bear & the Butler kept calling the police on him even if he was at work! Lol I had to fire the butler & hire the maid instead.
♦ Pizza Delivery ♦ Sims 1 vs Sims 2 vs Sims 3 vs Sims 4
More like food delivery, since some games have more than just pizza to be delivered home.
Sounds fun! I'll just need to catch up to other videos before working on this one
The sims 2 dialog is hilarious and I miss it 😭
My celeb Sims have a butler atm and I love her, except she keeps catching on fire! My Sim has saved her so many times. She has her own guest house with that like $12,000 tub. We love Miwa
In The Sims 2, I couldn't leave the house if children were there with a buttler, but in the Sims 3, I can leave them with a buttler. But, on the other hand, in the Sims 3 Buttler has to live in my house, which I find strange, it's better when he just comes and goes as in the Sims 2.
I like the butler’s ability to serve food and not just cook it lol. 🥰
I lol'd at the butler playing on the pc in Sims 4!! 😆
Sims 3 butlers, if in Bridgeport, will under Ask Advice potentially mention rumours about Fish Boy living in the sewers, who in Island Paradise is revealed to now be Triton (his biography says he was formerly known as Fish Boy). Previously, fan theory was that Fish Boy was from Twinbrook, because all the ghosts there had a 'fishy' pallor, and that it had somethung to do with pollution of the local waters.
Another thing I find funny is that the butler, under ask for advice, can say they find people's interest in the size of the female bust barbaric. This may have been a developer reaction because they introduced the bust slider in Late Night after popular demand. But since the randomly generated butlers usually have middle fat levels, and these add on dramatically to the bust slider, my female butlers who complain about the commentary on female bust size, always have... well... the biggest kahunas.
Lol, I didn't know any of these! Thank you for sharing your knowledge
I'm between the Sims 3 butler and Sims 1 for the winner, i think all games added different things that makes their version of the butler unique, all of them are good in their own way
The Sims 3 it's the first sim game that includes female butlers
0:21 Sims 1 Buttler’s name you know they've seen Batman
I use butler all the time, but for marriage purposes. Excellent character with several skills already.
Damn, never thought of that!
@@TheRedPlumbob then let him/her go for work, thus you have passive income :), free labor
@@TheRedPlumbob and then you divorce, re-marriage another butler, you will have an army of free labor for you, happy ending
Sims 1 butlers are way to expensive right?
I would never pay that much irl
I love the ending service (fired with pay) in The Sims 2!
I’m glad Sims 1 butler helps himself at the bar lol
I remember feeling super rich when I could finally afford to hire Alfred in the Sims. Loved that in Sims 2, I could finally interact with the butler, but saddened he had to leave 3 hours earlier than Alfred did. I was most excited with Sims 3's butlers, because they realistically are live in service. Sims 3 would have easily won the prize, but they lose points for not tending to gardens, taking days off (without temporary replacements), and if you have a beehive, you better have mods to stop them from being anywhere near them...I won't spoil for anyone who has yet to experience the usual outcome.
While I do not own the Sims 4 pack that has butlers, they seem okay, and hopefully work better than the maids.
Sims 2 butlers do try to care for the babies/toddlers, but the code is broken, but there are mods to fix or just rid those interactions entirely. Despite Sims 2 not having the longest shifts for the butlers, I still find them to be the most elegant and charming, like my inner head cannon thinks they should be.
I didn't check the beehive but I can imagine what happens by your comment lol
@@TheRedPlumbob If you ever decide to do a beehive comparison, make sure you have a butler hired to compare that as well, not certain how the other Sims games will pan out (I will likely test The Sims, but due to how service workers are coded, if Alfred does interact with the beehive, it will likely not have Sims 3 results). 🙃
This reminds me that they also broke Bonehilda's code to tend babies' needs in the Sims 3! Maxis seems to hate service taking care of kids 😂
@@dundee6402 I totally forgot about that, but Bonehilda was somehow good at training pets (who irl would be gnawing at her bones). 🤭☠
I do know that in TS2, there is just one nanny that has enough competence to at least not starve the babies and toddlers, but that is just the bare minimum. I often have had to cheat needs, so kids won't be taken away by social services, even after hiring a nanny. Oddly enough, when you ask a neighbor to babysit or pet sit in TS2:AL, all needs are met, without issue, and they are not being paid, go figure. 🤷♀️
im crying at him spraying the roaches
I swear Sims 4 sims smiling all the freakin time is just so creepy...
I miss how in The Sims 1, 2, and 3, the butlers had class, looked elegant, and were polite, unlike Sims 4 where they are random and some are quite unattractive. A similar situation occurs in restaurants with chefs, metres, and waiters. In The Sims 4, the butlers aren't as bad; the problem is the same as always - they have many bugs where they stop doing things....
5:06 this sound clip plays in one of the GBA spin-offs. Can't remember which, but it's the voice of an NPC.
It's awesome to see your still uploading! I got worried that after the werewolf update there might not be any videos for a while 😔
Nah, I still have plenty of things on my list, life just gets busy and sometimes I get too lazy 😅
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The butler is OBSESSED with babies and toddler in my game (TS2) and won't leave them alone. I had to download a mod because he wouldn't let them sleep 😢
In Sims 1, if you have Servo machine, he turns him on right away... since Servo does most of jobs, butler is a bit useless
My Butler in Sims 1 really helpful, even he shoo the obsessed fans and shoo the party crasher. I love you Alfred 😘
I was surprised to find that Sims 4 had the most in depth Butler.
i loved the butlers on all games great video
Poor Alfred…he only gets 500 simoleons for all that work in the sims 1 😭😭
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Dog: RAWR *in a weird tone* 💀
I like 4's butlers the best, but I do like how the butlers in 3 stop the burglars.
OMG I didnt know this! Imma call Alfred right away!!
In ending services when a butler steals something from the house, they were similar to burglars