Even the argument 'most players are female' makes no sense to me (from EA) because even though I am female, I play males often. I start games with males, or my females marry, or have male children. I still want them to have a nice CAS selection. So the fact that EA so constantly overlooks male clothes and hair is so strange to me.
I think making male Sims is made harder by the wild patterns put on the clothing. The males basically have one type of fashion and it's something I have NEVER seen any male in real life actually wear. If anything, I see the plain t-shirt and long sleeve, those button down shirts with little patterns on them, and a business casual look on most every day American males. They wear jeans or shorts to their knees. Shoes vary. Only time I see something different is clothing worn by people that were not born in America. I have seen many people from other countries wearing traditional clothing of their respective countries or their pop culture style they would wear to a nightclub or party. IF the shirt has a pattern on it, it's not so wild that it's not even tasteful. There's enough athletic menswear in the game that is passable. They need more night clothing or more colors to the existing ones because I'm so sick of HEART underthings. I have not met a single American male that would actually go for those. They choose plain, plaid, stripes, and if it's a pattern it's related to something they enjoy like sports, motorcycles, their dog, etc. The styles of most male clothing is fine, but the patterns kill them.
It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Generally when I start a new game, the random Sim it gives me is female. Plus most of the clothes are feminine. So more or less by default, I play more female than male, at least when creating adults. My kids and toddlers tend to be more balanced.🤷🏼♀️
Male clothing is the game is lacking, but I never really found it to be a problem since most of my male sims are based off of people I know irl, and those people have only ever worn basic men's clothing from stores like Walmart lol. But I understand why people are unhappy with the current clothing options for males in the game.
As a software developer, most of the sims 4 packs feel like the core mechanics that you do just to make sure it works before adding on top of it... literally a first draft
That's how I feel since all my friends and boyfriend are software engineers. I know by the way Sims 4 plays they did the very barebones "enough to make it work" coding and some stuff like adding colors should actually be easy, yet they give us a constant string of excuse as to why it isn't done.
so they're selling us the barebone 1st draft at such a high price, every time? Or are most of the pays actually for the artists instead of the software developers? But this is a game pack so.. for the price yeah it does feel kinda lazy.. or am i just ignorant of how hard the work is..? Or most of the profits actually go to the higher ups instead? Or are the lack of features caused by the need to make sure it's runnable in most computers and even laptop? Then i appreciate it, because the game is runnable on my non-gaming laptop. Is it hard to make a game like this runnable on most non-gaming laptops? Genuinely just curious.
when i played as an interior designer i felt like this guy from extreme makeover: home edition. "oh so you say that you like the colour orange? say no more". everythings gonna be orange: walls orange, floor orange, bed orange, desk orange, toys orange etc
Something I felt that would have made this pack way better is some sort of real estate system. Like buying property and renting it out. And for some cross pack compatibility maybe if you reached a high enough level in a "real estate" career you could sell homes to famous sims.
I would love to be able to flip houses. Buy the property, remodel it, sell it for more… but the way Sims values property I don’t think you’d ever actually make money that way. 🤔
@@bookcat123 they would have to implement an old vs. new and well-tended vs. run down value mechanic or something like that. Would have also made sense with the dreamhome decorator career, people hireing someone to update there aging homes. With such gameplay elements it really would have been a Gamepack, not just an overpriced Stuffpack.
Speaking of renting out, I actually sort of enjoy Discover University's roommate feature, which isn't limited to Brightchester's lots either. You can ask any sim to be a paid roommate as long as you have a bed for them, you don't have 8 sims already living in your household, and the sim that you're asking to be your roommate doesn't have any sims who "rely" on them, which probably means that they have to be "homeless" and having no one else in their household. You can place an ad that will guarantee willing roommates though. People have said that this game mechanic is buggy, but I haven't noticed anything game-breaking yet and the free food roommates produce is nice (if repetitive lol). I've even sold it in a yard sale. lol
I HATE how strong the likes/dislikes of the decore are. Like, all my sims would just randomly cancel the current interaction, walk away a whole block just to clap/be disgusted by some light :\ It's honestly really annoying when you are trying to do more realistic/immersive gameplay and your sims are just running around clapping at random tables-_- Also, a lot of simmers experience other bugs with this pack: work not being paid even if the sims liked/were neutral to the work done, apparently higher lvl gigs (for a whole lvl of the house) not working as well and constantly bugging out, not able to delete/place walls and some others. This pack is not only has very shallow game play, but is also infested with bugs that are still not fixed. And I'm saying all of this as someone who actually likes this pack. I like cas and b&b, but gameplay is very lackluster, wouldn't recommend buying this pack for full price, better wait for the sale.
The apartment doors of a gig you have will straight turn into invisible glitchy messes in the wall if you happen to travel to the neighborhood with the gig in it on off hours and this cannot be fixed by players. (Occurs with and without mods)
Your first point is the exact reason I've been avoiding getting this pack. Anything that makes sims drop the interactions I told them to do is just irritating to me. This pack and Batuu are the only game packs I don't have, and I'm probably getting a bundle during the holiday sale so I'd probably get Batuu over this.
Yeah, as a female, I want more clothes for my male sims cus i want to make more buff and more masculine sims, but no, I cant do that in the sims so I have to waste my storage on male CC items cus the ones in CAS suck :/
The fact that EA won’t let you be a game changer makes it loud and clear that they’re self aware of the games issues, they should WANT someone like you to tell them how to improve the game, kinda gross of them tbh
I'm a woman and I love having male characters, and any Sims who I use the masculine build for. I need variety, I have a family where there are 3 sons and 2 male parents, and I accidentally repeat outfits between them because there's only so many nice ones.
I absolutely can see how you arrived at the scores you did. While I don't think I'd rate everything the same, we're mostly in the same ball park as each other. Thank you for the review.
i only love this pack because of the amount of tomfoolery and goofyness your sim can cause. Have the violence mod? Congrats you can pose as a 'dream home decorator' but you're actually a serial killer. Wanna just Absolutely destroy someones home, maybe use the worst buildbuy items in the game? you can do that too. Perhaps you wanna destroy some families? Flirt with the wife or husband of the sim your supposed to redecorate for. Perfect pack for klepto sims as well. But this is just how i feel on the pack. Satch totally hit the nail with the, once again, lack of male clothing and other issues that riddle this pack tbh
I just wanted to add some tips for playing at the Interior Designer. Yes, only 3 Likes and Dislikes show up in the panel but you have a whole host of options for finding out about the Sims in the interaction menu. Ask their fave colours, decor styles, hobbies and skills, and other likes. All info will appear in your NOTIFICATIONS. Not just the three in the job panel. When revealing the space, show off items specifically that match the Likes and Dislikes. If you want to make sure that the Clients' randomised Likes and Dislikes make logical sense, go in and edit the family in Manage World before you start the job. This way you don't have Bella Goth hating red or something.
@@moustik31 by British I mean like either London or even a Welsh one with smth yk ? Or idk I just wish they were similar to home not just the countryside ygm?
When in build mode, you can just put their household items in your inventory, go back to your own lot, and sell the items. You're right - it's completely shallow and lacks any sort of robustness.
I'd love a game pack that focuses around make-overs. More CAS, including better makeup. It would be a lot of fun to make a salon where customers come to you to change something like hair or full make over.
I love your honest review! EA & developers should take note. On another note, when playing this job, i appreciate that the EA builds are usually not that pretty. When a build or building's interior decoration is too nice or beautiful, i feel reluctant to change or redecorate it, because i want the nice build to stay as it is. I felt sad that I butchered the Japanese aesthetic in the Snowy Escape houses (but how couldnt I, when Nishidake family has 7 children/toddlers but no beds or space for them). Maybe I should learn more on how to match the Japanese aesthetic. I learnt a lot from your video on how to actually use those BB items, had no idea before this about those BB combinations. Thank you!
So many players love building/decorating homes. The decorator career could have been an incredible addition that could have encouraged build-mode players to play in live-mode, breaking up the monotony of taking care of Sims needs with transforming homes in the neighborhood. I was extremely disappointed by the shallowness of the gameplay here. My only posts ever on the forums were to encourage Maxis to develop a house-flipper career. It would compliment so many other things in the game. Their general neglect of substantive gameplay and unwillingness to integrate different packs made a satisfying builder/decorator career impossible.
I LOOVED "flipping" houses in the sims 3, where they literally gave many of the cheap homes crappy old worn walls, floors, and furniture and bad floor plans. The styling career was super fun too
Even being a female I agree with you about the game needing better male selection in cas. I play more family gameplay, but just because I like dad type things doesn't mean my son has to be
i just realised that i never commented on one of your videos but i am lurking on them for a long time now and just also saw that i never even subbed 😭 i am so excited to see your channel evolve. your content just gets better and better 😍 i love your current editing since it's a bit calmer but still super entertaining to me! i personally love playing with the career from time to time but i totally agree with lots of the gameplay features. i recently had a mom with 3 children in an apartment where it made a lot of sense that i had to decorate the kids room and ask the children what they'd prefer. but of course this feature would be sooo much nicer if it was better thought through. the biggest annoyance for me honestly is the photo taking part at the beginning and end of the gig. i absolutely hate that haha
Im female but I really hate the imbalance in CAS between the 2 genders, because it is impossible to make a male sim without him looking like a 'fun dad' so I usually just either only make 'fun dad' male sims or none at all. Luckily CC does help and I'm very thankful for that but at the same time a lot of CC is directed towards female sims. EA needs to try harder because their isn't 'less male styles' its just they need to explore more styles of clothing. Sorry this was very long.
As a male I feel the same way but have to say that I do feel like in real life there are less styles for men than for women most stores only carry t-shirts, long sleeves, polo, plaid button up, jacket and a few jeans and shorts where the womens section will have t shirts, long sleeve, crop tops, tube tops, strapless, spaghetti strap, blazer, some with a semi transparent and flowy midriff, jackets but with more variety of styles and designs aswell as jeans, shorts, skirts of many different styles, leggings, casual dresses, pantsuits, jumpsuits, suspenders/overalls and don't get me started on lengere.women have literal stores dedicated to fun underwear but men just get boxer briefs and boxers at Hudsons bay. The mall I work at literally has 4 women's underwear shops and I've never seen a men's one. And even when you do consider other men's styles that exist, they're not easily accessible. Most good male fashion is designer and sold only online and costs an arm and a leg to buy and even then it's still usually just a jacket or a t shirt with a logo on it. There is no male equivalent to fast fashion. And while that may be good when looking at the negatives that come with fast fashion, it severely limits the kind of styles that men can try On top of this men get made fun of when they wear things like a fishnet or mesh top. For some reason it's ok of women to wear stuff like that but not men. The way things are right now women's clothes are designed to be fun and exciting and sexy, with many styles made to hilight women's bodies and put them out there. While men's fashion is made to look seriouse and nothing else it comes from the outdated idea that men shouldn't need to put themselves out there with looks but instead be wealthy and in a successful career. And it's true that fashion isn't just meant to attract others but even when it comes to just having fun with your wardrobe, men's fashion is just to focused on being sophisticated to allow men to have fun with their clothes More example of this is with formal wear. Every red carpet event or prom or wedding, the women are always dressed in beautiful dresses that are all unique and of different trims, while most men are in the same identical suit Going back to the sims though I agree with you that this problem is even worse in the sims and that's even more frustrating
@@Moss_piglet13 Its sad that its all true, In my opinion clothing styles shouldn't be as limited for men than women same thing with hairs, if you see all TS4 male hairs some of them are practically the same, meanwhile the woman hairstyles feel more diverse. Overall EA needs to try harder because while there may be less styles for men there are still a bunch of styles they haven't put in the game yet because they go for more American/Fun dad vibes since TS4 is a American game. (Im not even gonna get started on how to have to pay for different cultures **cough** City Living **cough** )
@@Basil_omor12 omg yeah the hairs are so bad I think it says something that when creating a male sim I don't even look at official sims 4 hairs and go straight to my cc. And yeah idk I feel like the sims and lifestyle games in general are a great place to experiment with male fashion. Just because male styles are limited irl doesn't mean they can't try to create new styles in the sims 4. Like just be creative and give male sims more flowy tops or more interesting suits just something to add more while also adding in more existing styles to the game. I think we need more cozy clothes for men in bot IRL and the sims and also other styles that don't make all my male sims look the same and also more male hairstyles with hilights please. Like more frosted tips but also hairs that are half one colour and half another like we have for a lot of female hairstyles but sgort would be cool, or where the front is dyed a brighter or darker colour than the rest. I know it's hard since men tend to have short hair but there are ways to make each hairstyle more unique. Even with small details like stray hairs
@@Basil_omor12dude and they have the audacity to make selvadorada a vacation only world when the culture there is unlike anything the sims has made before 😭
I got sucked in by game changers hype and bought this, I regret it so much. The build buy is pretty good but it's not really my style so I rarely use the pack 😭
Worse is that this pack actually breaks apartments if you so much as travel to the neighborhood your gig will be in by making the doors go invisible so nobody can enter. (It's not mods causing it. The pack is.)
There's a huge bug with the cabinets/ shelves too. I often make my own cupboards/ wardrobes with the shelves as advertised, but when I leave the lot or focus on another part of the house for too long, random shelves/ decorations on the shelves just disappear and go into my house inventory.
I have been going through your pack videos and I love how you point out the failures to male CAS. As a little girl I always wanted more boy dolls as a word full of just girls (common with Barbie) just didn't represent the real world and there seem to be the assumption girls wouldn't play with boy dolls, unless there was a family set with dads or brothers, boy dolls were hard to find. And as a kid even I liked having my dolls live in neighborhoods. I would have a bunch of mini boxes set up for the neighborhood and wanted men/boys to balance out in my play worlds. And they were hard to come by. Bratz boys was the most decent intergration of boy/girl balance I experienced as dolls and it came at the end of my childhood. So I love that my digital dollhouse can have as many boys/girls I desire not designated by toy makers.
I always have my sim eat breakfast at the job site after the family leaves... what they don't know can't hurt you. Same goes for showering, etc. Wait till the family leaves - Have breakfast, shower, take a nap, then get to work.
Honestly being an interior designer in the sims is one of the only fun careers in the game and that’s saying a lot being that it does barely the bare minimum
I wish the wall shelves didn't dissapear when your walls are down. It's so annoying esp with this pack, you can fill a whole wall with the cube shelving and never see it! Same with the sort of floor length upper kitchen cabinets, they're a huge park of how your kitchen looks like overall but in actual gameplay you never see it!
Really enjoy your reviews Satch! It's great you can give your honest opinion on the Sims 4, and not just based on personal preferences, but more on theobjective side of things. Also I think it would've been cool if your sim could also be an event space designer/organizer, like you could design the look of other sims' weddings, bday parties, festivals etc. And then on the actual event day, there would be times where sims or weather conditions coud ruin your the decorations, and you'd have to repair them on the spot lol. I think that can at least tie in with Wedding Stories or City Living. (because some of the festivals are kinda bland)
MORE MALE CLOTHES PLEASE!!! As a female it is VERY DIFFICULT TO MAKE MALE SIMS WITH THE BASE GAME CLOTHING I HAVE! It is a NEED for more male clothing, if otherwise i have to transfer the male clothing into feminine and give them some sort of feminine clothes
I think the tent for the kids because you might have a gig that’s for kids room. There’s a lot of single beds which are perfect for kids rooms along with those bunkbeds that they provided. So I think that it was designed to help compliment kid room designs. My only gripe with this and I wish you had some plain swatches.
Yeah, I agree with most of what you said but not the rating, I have this idea, especially about the fact that you can send your sim alone and nothing changes in the house. I feel like this is a good way to not change houses that you already built in a way you like. this way you can get money from the job but won't have to change a thing if you don't want to, I definitely going to do that too. 🖖🏽
I myself enjoy dressing my sims in a way, that it fits their character. Male clothes in CAS dont really give me lot of possibilities though.. We NEED more and better clothing for male sims!!
im afab and non-binary so i use male clothes a lot anyways. i agree the guys clothes need to get more work. The biggest tragedy is male hairstyles though! i use CC because I'm poor/hj and even there- there's so few good hairs. btw, I rely on your reviews to help me decide what add ons to eventually buy for my game- so thank you for your reviews!
My personal opinion, I don't often use the dream home decorator items very often and only ever tried to play the career twice, and didn't get very far, partly because of the buggy likes and dislikes system. But also, the shelves glitch out where if you leave the lot and come back, they'll have gone into your household inventory, even though I didn't use the move objects cheat or anything. It gets pretty aggravating to have to keep fixing it, so I just don't really use it anymore, but I enjoyed them when they worked.
I would like to buy this mostly for the decoration items and all that, I'm honestly not interested on the job carrier that this pack offers, I'm more into decoration and that's it. That being said if you only use the decoration does the rest of the game works properly or everything else gets glitchy? like other jobs, or building mode?. Thank you for helping
@@eclinor there are shelves that return to your home inventory when you leave and come back and it seems no matter what you do it keeps happening, and it's a pain in the butt to fix especially when you get it perfect... BUT I will say those same shelves are perfect for using the moveobjects cheat, you can move those shelves wherever and a LOT of stuff fit in them. So there's always drawbacks and upsides. One drawback, most of the time, if you have a type of decoration style set as a favorite for likes and dislikes, your sim will go over to an item they like or dislike and react, and it'll be out of nowhere, they'll sometimes stop what they're doing to do it, but I think it's also a base game problem?
@@twilightwillowglade7214 wow I appreciate a lot your answer, I just didn't wanted to buy something that make the game unplayable anymore. Sounds good thank you for taking your time explaining all that
@@eclinor of course! If there's any other pack you wanna know about, let me know. I'll give as much of an unbiased opinion as possible. The game is still very much playable with Dreamhome decorator, just don't expect the shelves to stay, and don't set any liked or disliked style preferences
@@twilightwillowglade7214 thanks again, if it doesn't bother you the other DLC I would like to buy is Laundry day, but it has a lot of bad reviews where even some people say they regret buying that DLC, I would like to have the effect of the Laundry and dryer working, but I don't know if that will make it unplayable, glitch wise and also having to micromanagement your sims a lot with to clean really frequently their clothes. So if you have any suggestions or advices about that DLC it would be nice to hear your experience. Thanks a lot friend. By the way I bought the dream home, is really cute. Thanks for sharing your experience about that one
As you skill up in the career you can renovate community lots and you get more than the 3 likes and dislikes. I’m a builder and I love this pack because it gives me challenges when renovating lots.
i usually play this game after a few generations. at that point, idc about the townies and feel fine ruining their homes. my fav is when they just tell me a color they like, and i just make evertthing green or whatever color. theres also the bug where you can steal all their furniture and sell it all in your household inventory.
0:56 i totally agree.. even though im female, i like to play as guys as well and theres seriously nothing! i always complain about how ugly the clothes and hair are for males
I have a household with 6 male sims. Trying to get them all unique and nice outfits is way harder than it should be. Don’t even get me started on the male children’s category!
I was so excited for this pack when they announced it and was seriously considering buying it as soon as it came out… but then came the demo stream… and the early access let’s plays…. And I have not bought it and have no plans to. Though I really, really wish it was different.
If only they'd make it a little more masculine, and not just cas. But in gameplay as well. It would make a HUGE difference. I crave some real fun and adrenaline from this game! We need more action. More risky decisions and consequences.
I prefer playing with female sims but i do agree that male sims need more CAS and better CAS. Whenever I do generational play, I have issues making nice male sims (outfit wise). Heck, I can't even make my husband simself properly since none of the clothes match his style.
I want better men's clothing even though I am not a man. Another slightly related thing is that I want feminine clothes to fit masc bodies and masc clothes that fit fem bodies. I know they technically go oth the bodies, but they look strange most if the time
I myself am a female simmer and I always struggle making male sims because I can never find clothes/outfits that are equally as nice as the clothes I use for my female sims so I either end up making same sex female couples so they can look cohesive as a couple or I’ll have a male sim that doesn’t look like he’s cohesive enough to fit with the look/color scheme of the rest of my sim family I’ve made.
The "most players is female" ""argument"" actually kinda irritated me. Yeah, a majority of the players are probably female, that.....that doesnt mean we don't want to.......play with male sims. I wanna build family with a good looking male sim that doesn't require me downloading live ten different presets for male eyes, chins, lips, and jawline on top of searching for cc clothes. Rip console players with the same issues. I've never heard another female players say they don't care about the female sim bias or that there is no bias or they don't care about male sim clothes. Never have I ever. It irritates me that EA is content with male sims looking like murderhobos from someone's DnD campaign or a reject that didn't make the cut in Dream Daddy With all of that being said, I do agree with this review. I got the pack basically as soon as it came out since I thought the concept was cool and it would make me want to actually learn how to build since I'm definitely not a builder lol But I would barely work. Back then, it would glitch out so bad, the clients wouldn't even tour the lot. The gig would just end when you were finished and you might get paid or your reputation might tank. There's not a whole lot to do outside of maybe adding in another room and it's just shallow......like most of the Sims 4
Dream home decorator diy [for people who don't have it, but have Realm of magic] 1.Befriend a sim you want to help with redecoration 2.Train your sim's magic skill 3.Visit your sim's dearest friend 4.BURN EVERYTHING And with this four easy steps you redecorated your friends home~
I couldn't decorate before this pack. Now I just decide on a color and style based on what the residents like, and sort buy mode and wham, everything matches. So for me it was a good buy to get the pack on sale, but some people are talented enough without it!
What I have done in the past is before your sim goes to work, go yourself into the clients home and through CAS create custom likes and dislikes. Sometimes it works but, no all the time.
This is a pack I was so hype for and bought immediately, played a couple times and forgot about it. Basically build mode. So disappointing and agree with every point you had.
I'm sad about missing out on the items, but if the gameplay isn't there I cannot justify buying it. If it was 50% off I would perhaps reconsider, but that will probably never happen. PS. I think a lot of people want more balance between male and female sims. I know I do!
@@SatchOnSims i delted everything part from like the stuff that came with my laptop but its fine when i move out ill get a good computer and sign into my account hi thought 😂💕
I agree that most of my characters are female in the Sims 4 but when I first owned the game I used to find a few pieces of men's wear that wanted to my female sims to wear and the look was tragic. So ... I would go as far to say it's a perpetual cycle: I don't play male Sims because there's no variety in looks. It's an issue even CC doesn't fix (though the attempt was made). Can't honestly consider this pack as more than a stuff pack. And if you're a CC user, some of the items in it you might already own.
No hate towards you from me !!! I don't know why I love this pack so much because you are 100% correct , the pack is obejectivly shockingly bad... although I do use bits and pieces of the build buy in almost every single pack, and I use the female cas alot. My friend just got the sims after Base Game became free and was looking to treat herself to a pack or two ok sale... I just couldn't bring myself to recommend this one... I felt like I was robbing her of her hard earned cash , wish ea felt that way when they take the p*ss with such flat packs (heheh the flatpack/ikea/decorating pun was not inteded) Also, as a female player I am sick of my male sims looking crap and all looking like clones because I only have like 3 decent tops and 2 okay bottoms to choose from despite having nearly almost everypack !!!
As a person who just finished their 4 year bachelor's for interior architecture/design, the pack an extremely underwhelming representation of the profession even as something less structurally demanding like decorating. There's so much they could've done, even from a more rabbit hole experience with less animation or doing rabbit hole and for the first few levels of the career then giving the option to stay rabbit hole or get your own company essentially and do the build/live thing. Moving from a more student/learning posititon to like an intern to assisstant designer then architect. Having to do more case study research, having multiple. meetings (even over the phone) with the client like with the freelancer career. They really dropped the ball on a very broad and interesting topic.
On the contrary, I 100% agree with you. I play just as many male sims as I do female sims. And the lack of choice for those characters is not acceptable. If men are going to be playable, they should be able to be played well.
i'll be honest and admit i bought this on a whim, even after a very long dry spell of not giving into EA's capitalistic shenanigans, because the idea was the PERFECT concept to me. and i've NEVER been so disappointed. the game was literally unplayable because of bugs. i had my decorator PAINSTAKINGLY follow the likes/dislikes of the client, to the point i thought 'there's NO WAY' they would dislike this. but EVERY time they ended up hating what i did and i didnt get paid. it was immediately so disheartening because you get so invested in the way you're gonna change this sims living space only for the game to spit in your face. never buying any pack/EP from EA again
The male sims are always hot dads. They are never hot young men, steaming exotic men, or anything other than hot dads. I agree that the CAS needs a lot more for males.
I try very hard to enjoy this pack since interior design... is a slight passion of mine... lol The thing is that I've had clients hate my renovations despite following the rules set up in the preference "bubbles" in the gig UI... which prompts me to go into the dialogue tree to find the Dream Home Decorator dialogue that is not part of the regular Interior Designer category of dialogue so that I can learn everyone's likes and dislikes... and I swear that sometimes it hasn't even told me everything even then, and won't reveal more likes and dislikes upon repeating the dialogue, so it's very easy to become frustrated, especially when the gigs often break completely. It's a lot of work to gather all this information. That's not all though. Whether or not you get paid and have your reputation bar go up depends on satisfying all the clients and this can get extremely difficult and stressful the more sims there are in the household, which can leave you unpaid and your reputation lowered, and sometimes for seemingly no reason at all if you didn't think to gather up all the likes and dislikes outside of the normal gig dialogue category that's used to fill up the preference bubbles. Clients will even yell at your sim and/or send them hate mail if they dislike a renovation enough and that doesn't happen in other careers that I know of. lol Before anyone says anything about going into CAS to learn likes and dislikes, I find that technique too time consuming and that it breaks up gameplay flow too much... plus I had a bad experience where a sim didn't generate any likes or dislikes and then they generated some after leaving CAS without my knowledge, ruining my gig.
Seems like EA wanted to attract House Flipper players with this pack. House Flipper 1 had many of the same features/requirements as well as the before after images.
Did anyone notice that in the trailer for the pack there are actually FOUR preferences instead of three? Is that an oversight or do you get another preference slot as you progress in the career? I don't have this pack, so I don't know.
@@jodieb6969 Thank you! I couldn't decide if they would be that obvious about missing features that were advertised. Maybe if their trailers didn't always lie I wouldn't have to question it lol
Played as interior decorator for first time recently and only once did the showing go well without a glitch. Multiple times I wasn’t able to show room correctly and had to leave the house without an end result
I'm gonna say it thousand times - dream home decor is not a GAMEPLAY pack since there is NONE gameplay added. EA just made buildbuy with stupid requirements a new """gameplay""". DHD is a stuff pack for gameplay pack price 🙄
Objectively I agree with everything you said, but at the same time I like this pack because I have fun playing the career. There's no rational reason for it-I just enjoy it and can spend several hours playing it. However in order to enjoy the career I have to do a lot of pretending (like pretending you can't cheat the likes/dislikes system), which shows the pack gameplay is incredibly low quality. I guess it goes to show something can be a bad pack but still fun for some people.
Even the argument 'most players are female' makes no sense to me (from EA) because even though I am female, I play males often. I start games with males, or my females marry, or have male children. I still want them to have a nice CAS selection. So the fact that EA so constantly overlooks male clothes and hair is so strange to me.
I think making male Sims is made harder by the wild patterns put on the clothing. The males basically have one type of fashion and it's something I have NEVER seen any male in real life actually wear.
If anything, I see the plain t-shirt and long sleeve, those button down shirts with little patterns on them, and a business casual look on most every day American males. They wear jeans or shorts to their knees. Shoes vary.
Only time I see something different is clothing worn by people that were not born in America.
I have seen many people from other countries wearing traditional clothing of their respective countries or their pop culture style they would wear to a nightclub or party. IF the shirt has a pattern on it, it's not so wild that it's not even tasteful.
There's enough athletic menswear in the game that is passable. They need more night clothing or more colors to the existing ones because I'm so sick of HEART underthings. I have not met a single American male that would actually go for those. They choose plain, plaid, stripes, and if it's a pattern it's related to something they enjoy like sports, motorcycles, their dog, etc.
The styles of most male clothing is fine, but the patterns kill them.
Same!! I’m female but play with mostly only males
it’s pure laziness lol
It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Generally when I start a new game, the random Sim it gives me is female. Plus most of the clothes are feminine. So more or less by default, I play more female than male, at least when creating adults. My kids and toddlers tend to be more balanced.🤷🏼♀️
EA have INSANE analytics teams. They will know what everyone does in game - they definitely play into that when making packs etc
as a female, i really want more clothing options for male sims. i barely play with male sims because they always look so bad 😭
Literally. I prefer playing with men but the cas is so bad. I also play on console so no cc for me😞
also their torso is weirdly bent
Male clothing is the game is lacking, but I never really found it to be a problem since most of my male sims are based off of people I know irl, and those people have only ever worn basic men's clothing from stores like Walmart lol. But I understand why people are unhappy with the current clothing options for males in the game.
As a software developer, most of the sims 4 packs feel like the core mechanics that you do just to make sure it works before adding on top of it... literally a first draft
That's how I feel since all my friends and boyfriend are software engineers. I know by the way Sims 4 plays they did the very barebones "enough to make it work" coding and some stuff like adding colors should actually be easy, yet they give us a constant string of excuse as to why it isn't done.
so they're selling us the barebone 1st draft at such a high price, every time?
Or are most of the pays actually for the artists instead of the software developers? But this is a game pack so.. for the price yeah it does feel kinda lazy.. or am i just ignorant of how hard the work is..?
Or most of the profits actually go to the higher ups instead?
Or are the lack of features caused by the need to make sure it's runnable in most computers and even laptop? Then i appreciate it, because the game is runnable on my non-gaming laptop. Is it hard to make a game like this runnable on most non-gaming laptops? Genuinely just curious.
EXACTLY
Also a software engineer and I agree!!!!
when i played as an interior designer i felt like this guy from extreme makeover: home edition. "oh so you say that you like the colour orange? say no more". everythings gonna be orange: walls orange, floor orange, bed orange, desk orange, toys orange etc
this tent is honestly op when it comes to toddlers, they build the imagination skill super fast by playing in it
They can also sleep on the tent. Thats great because I dont need to buy two new beds for my todlers just a tent haha.
Just like the slide with toddler stuff xd
Also communication skill can be done super quick if you buy a large stuffed animal. Just spam interactions with it and get level 5 in one day.
Something I felt that would have made this pack way better is some sort of real estate system. Like buying property and renting it out. And for some cross pack compatibility maybe if you reached a high enough level in a "real estate" career you could sell homes to famous sims.
That is a great idea. I would love some kind of real estate gameplay. It could be a great way to make money: buy cheap, renovate, sell with a profit.
I would love to be able to flip houses. Buy the property, remodel it, sell it for more… but the way Sims values property I don’t think you’d ever actually make money that way. 🤔
@@bookcat123 they would have to implement an old vs. new and well-tended vs. run down value mechanic or something like that. Would have also made sense with the dreamhome decorator career, people hireing someone to update there aging homes. With such gameplay elements it really would have been a Gamepack, not just an overpriced Stuffpack.
Speaking of renting out, I actually sort of enjoy Discover University's roommate feature, which isn't limited to Brightchester's lots either. You can ask any sim to be a paid roommate as long as you have a bed for them, you don't have 8 sims already living in your household, and the sim that you're asking to be your roommate doesn't have any sims who "rely" on them, which probably means that they have to be "homeless" and having no one else in their household. You can place an ad that will guarantee willing roommates though. People have said that this game mechanic is buggy, but I haven't noticed anything game-breaking yet and the free food roommates produce is nice (if repetitive lol). I've even sold it in a yard sale. lol
@@pathogenofdecay whats it like compared to the rent pack?
I HATE how strong the likes/dislikes of the decore are. Like, all my sims would just randomly cancel the current interaction, walk away a whole block just to clap/be disgusted by some light :\ It's honestly really annoying when you are trying to do more realistic/immersive gameplay and your sims are just running around clapping at random tables-_-
Also, a lot of simmers experience other bugs with this pack: work not being paid even if the sims liked/were neutral to the work done, apparently higher lvl gigs (for a whole lvl of the house) not working as well and constantly bugging out, not able to delete/place walls and some others.
This pack is not only has very shallow game play, but is also infested with bugs that are still not fixed. And I'm saying all of this as someone who actually likes this pack. I like cas and b&b, but gameplay is very lackluster, wouldn't recommend buying this pack for full price, better wait for the sale.
The apartment doors of a gig you have will straight turn into invisible glitchy messes in the wall if you happen to travel to the neighborhood with the gig in it on off hours and this cannot be fixed by players. (Occurs with and without mods)
Your first point is the exact reason I've been avoiding getting this pack. Anything that makes sims drop the interactions I told them to do is just irritating to me. This pack and Batuu are the only game packs I don't have, and I'm probably getting a bundle during the holiday sale so I'd probably get Batuu over this.
Thank you for the honest review. I was looking for this. If gameplay is annoying it really makes me not want to play, although the idea was great
Yeah, as a female, I want more clothes for my male sims cus i want to make more buff and more masculine sims, but no, I cant do that in the sims so I have to waste my storage on male CC items cus the ones in CAS suck :/
the incheon kit has AMAZING male cas. it’s the only pack that has really nice male clothing tbh
There’s so many kits that I literally had no idea this existed
@@erina2600 understandable! well now you know, i highly recommend that kit if you’re looking for CAS it’s one of the few that’s worth the money
The incheon kit has better male clothes than the modern male kit 😂
The fact that EA won’t let you be a game changer makes it loud and clear that they’re self aware of the games issues, they should WANT someone like you to tell them how to improve the game, kinda gross of them tbh
I'm a woman and I love having male characters, and any Sims who I use the masculine build for. I need variety, I have a family where there are 3 sons and 2 male parents, and I accidentally repeat outfits between them because there's only so many nice ones.
I also play on xbox, so no mod stuff available. Having a few packs has expanded my options a lot
I like the werewolf pack for cas tbh, I end up using it so often for my male sims
I absolutely can see how you arrived at the scores you did. While I don't think I'd rate everything the same, we're mostly in the same ball park as each other. Thank you for the review.
I love making good looking male sims but honestly feel like it's impossible without CC these days because EAs selection sucks.
This should’ve been a stuff pack because there is literally no gameplay!
i only love this pack because of the amount of tomfoolery and goofyness your sim can cause. Have the violence mod? Congrats you can pose as a 'dream home decorator' but you're actually a serial killer. Wanna just Absolutely destroy someones home, maybe use the worst buildbuy items in the game? you can do that too. Perhaps you wanna destroy some families? Flirt with the wife or husband of the sim your supposed to redecorate for. Perfect pack for klepto sims as well. But this is just how i feel on the pack. Satch totally hit the nail with the, once again, lack of male clothing and other issues that riddle this pack tbh
We all see what you did there with the sofas 😂 #Work
I was just about to comment this exact sentence as well!!! LOL yeah we see you!
I just wanted to add some tips for playing at the Interior Designer. Yes, only 3 Likes and Dislikes show up in the panel but you have a whole host of options for finding out about the Sims in the interaction menu. Ask their fave colours, decor styles, hobbies and skills, and other likes. All info will appear in your NOTIFICATIONS. Not just the three in the job panel. When revealing the space, show off items specifically that match the Likes and Dislikes. If you want to make sure that the Clients' randomised Likes and Dislikes make logical sense, go in and edit the family in Manage World before you start the job. This way you don't have Bella Goth hating red or something.
I feel like this game pack represents all the hatred of kits. No gameplay only cas and build buy✅
I wish the sims gave us more cities like Paris, London, Florence, Venise, Singapour or Dubai. I wish we could either live there or vacation there.
I’m mad because tartosa looks stunning but I do NOTTTT want to buy wedding stories
I’m begging for a British themed world 😔🙏
@@celery4777 That's what the cottage one is for!
@@moustik31 by British I mean like either London or even a Welsh one with smth yk ? Or idk I just wish they were similar to home not just the countryside ygm?
I really appreciate your honest unbiased review. Thank you for the constructive criticisms. It really helps me decide what is worth adding to my game!
When in build mode, you can just put their household items in your inventory, go back to your own lot, and sell the items. You're right - it's completely shallow and lacks any sort of robustness.
I'd love a game pack that focuses around make-overs. More CAS, including better makeup. It would be a lot of fun to make a salon where customers come to you to change something like hair or full make over.
I thought the style influencer was like this. I didnt reach the peak of carrear yet but the other sims doesnt pay for the makeover?
This is the best series
Also I agree WE NEED MORE MALE CLOTHING
Pls do get together next
I love your honest review! EA & developers should take note.
On another note, when playing this job, i appreciate that the EA builds are usually not that pretty. When a build or building's interior decoration is too nice or beautiful, i feel reluctant to change or redecorate it, because i want the nice build to stay as it is.
I felt sad that I butchered the Japanese aesthetic in the Snowy Escape houses (but how couldnt I, when Nishidake family has 7 children/toddlers but no beds or space for them).
Maybe I should learn more on how to match the Japanese aesthetic. I learnt a lot from your video on how to actually use those BB items, had no idea before this about those BB combinations. Thank you!
So many players love building/decorating homes. The decorator career could have been an incredible addition that could have encouraged build-mode players to play in live-mode, breaking up the monotony of taking care of Sims needs with transforming homes in the neighborhood. I was extremely disappointed by the shallowness of the gameplay here. My only posts ever on the forums were to encourage Maxis to develop a house-flipper career. It would compliment so many other things in the game. Their general neglect of substantive gameplay and unwillingness to integrate different packs made a satisfying builder/decorator career impossible.
I LOOVED "flipping" houses in the sims 3, where they literally gave many of the cheap homes crappy old worn walls, floors, and furniture and bad floor plans. The styling career was super fun too
Even being a female I agree with you about the game needing better male selection in cas. I play more family gameplay, but just because I like dad type things doesn't mean my son has to be
i just realised that i never commented on one of your videos but i am lurking on them for a long time now and just also saw that i never even subbed 😭 i am so excited to see your channel evolve. your content just gets better and better 😍 i love your current editing since it's a bit calmer but still super entertaining to me!
i personally love playing with the career from time to time but i totally agree with lots of the gameplay features. i recently had a mom with 3 children in an apartment where it made a lot of sense that i had to decorate the kids room and ask the children what they'd prefer. but of course this feature would be sooo much nicer if it was better thought through. the biggest annoyance for me honestly is the photo taking part at the beginning and end of the gig. i absolutely hate that haha
Im female but I really hate the imbalance in CAS between the 2 genders, because it is impossible to make a male sim without him looking like a 'fun dad' so I usually just either only make 'fun dad' male sims or none at all. Luckily CC does help and I'm very thankful for that but at the same time a lot of CC is directed towards female sims. EA needs to try harder because their isn't 'less male styles' its just they need to explore more styles of clothing. Sorry this was very long.
As a male I feel the same way but have to say that I do feel like in real life there are less styles for men than for women most stores only carry t-shirts, long sleeves, polo, plaid button up, jacket and a few jeans and shorts where the womens section will have t shirts, long sleeve, crop tops, tube tops, strapless, spaghetti strap, blazer, some with a semi transparent and flowy midriff, jackets but with more variety of styles and designs aswell as jeans, shorts, skirts of many different styles, leggings, casual dresses, pantsuits, jumpsuits, suspenders/overalls and don't get me started on lengere.women have literal stores dedicated to fun underwear but men just get boxer briefs and boxers at Hudsons bay. The mall I work at literally has 4 women's underwear shops and I've never seen a men's one. And even when you do consider other men's styles that exist, they're not easily accessible. Most good male fashion is designer and sold only online and costs an arm and a leg to buy and even then it's still usually just a jacket or a t shirt with a logo on it.
There is no male equivalent to fast fashion. And while that may be good when looking at the negatives that come with fast fashion, it severely limits the kind of styles that men can try
On top of this men get made fun of when they wear things like a fishnet or mesh top. For some reason it's ok of women to wear stuff like that but not men.
The way things are right now women's clothes are designed to be fun and exciting and sexy, with many styles made to hilight women's bodies and put them out there. While men's fashion is made to look seriouse and nothing else it comes from the outdated idea that men shouldn't need to put themselves out there with looks but instead be wealthy and in a successful career. And it's true that fashion isn't just meant to attract others but even when it comes to just having fun with your wardrobe, men's fashion is just to focused on being sophisticated to allow men to have fun with their clothes
More example of this is with formal wear. Every red carpet event or prom or wedding, the women are always dressed in beautiful dresses that are all unique and of different trims, while most men are in the same identical suit
Going back to the sims though I agree with you that this problem is even worse in the sims and that's even more frustrating
@@Moss_piglet13 Its sad that its all true, In my opinion clothing styles shouldn't be as limited for men than women same thing with hairs, if you see all TS4 male hairs some of them are practically the same, meanwhile the woman hairstyles feel more diverse. Overall EA needs to try harder because while there may be less styles for men there are still a bunch of styles they haven't put in the game yet because they go for more American/Fun dad vibes since TS4 is a American game. (Im not even gonna get started on how to have to pay for different cultures **cough** City Living **cough** )
@@Basil_omor12 omg yeah the hairs are so bad I think it says something that when creating a male sim I don't even look at official sims 4 hairs and go straight to my cc. And yeah idk I feel like the sims and lifestyle games in general are a great place to experiment with male fashion. Just because male styles are limited irl doesn't mean they can't try to create new styles in the sims 4. Like just be creative and give male sims more flowy tops or more interesting suits just something to add more while also adding in more existing styles to the game.
I think we need more cozy clothes for men in bot IRL and the sims and also other styles that don't make all my male sims look the same and also more male hairstyles with hilights please. Like more frosted tips but also hairs that are half one colour and half another like we have for a lot of female hairstyles but sgort would be cool, or where the front is dyed a brighter or darker colour than the rest. I know it's hard since men tend to have short hair but there are ways to make each hairstyle more unique. Even with small details like stray hairs
@@Basil_omor12dude and they have the audacity to make selvadorada a vacation only world when the culture there is unlike anything the sims has made before 😭
@@erina2600 FR, I understand its a 'American Game' but like, other people play TS4.
I got sucked in by game changers hype and bought this, I regret it so much. The build buy is pretty good but it's not really my style so I rarely use the pack 😭
Worse is that this pack actually breaks apartments if you so much as travel to the neighborhood your gig will be in by making the doors go invisible so nobody can enter. (It's not mods causing it. The pack is.)
There's a huge bug with the cabinets/ shelves too. I often make my own cupboards/ wardrobes with the shelves as advertised, but when I leave the lot or focus on another part of the house for too long, random shelves/ decorations on the shelves just disappear and go into my house inventory.
omg me too i thought i was the only one
I have been going through your pack videos and I love how you point out the failures to male CAS. As a little girl I always wanted more boy dolls as a word full of just girls (common with Barbie) just didn't represent the real world and there seem to be the assumption girls wouldn't play with boy dolls, unless there was a family set with dads or brothers, boy dolls were hard to find. And as a kid even I liked having my dolls live in neighborhoods. I would have a bunch of mini boxes set up for the neighborhood and wanted men/boys to balance out in my play worlds. And they were hard to come by. Bratz boys was the most decent intergration of boy/girl balance I experienced as dolls and it came at the end of my childhood. So I love that my digital dollhouse can have as many boys/girls I desire not designated by toy makers.
New kink unlocked: watching you chat shit about The Sims 4
I always have my sim eat breakfast at the job site after the family leaves... what they don't know can't hurt you. Same goes for showering, etc. Wait till the family leaves - Have breakfast, shower, take a nap, then get to work.
Honestly being an interior designer in the sims is one of the only fun careers in the game and that’s saying a lot being that it does barely the bare minimum
I wish the wall shelves didn't dissapear when your walls are down. It's so annoying esp with this pack, you can fill a whole wall with the cube shelving and never see it! Same with the sort of floor length upper kitchen cabinets, they're a huge park of how your kitchen looks like overall but in actual gameplay you never see it!
I was so excited for interior designer and then it worked for a week before it never let me finish a gig again.
Really enjoy your reviews Satch! It's great you can give your honest opinion on the Sims 4, and not just based on personal preferences, but more on theobjective side of things. Also I think it would've been cool if your sim could also be an event space designer/organizer, like you could design the look of other sims' weddings, bday parties, festivals etc. And then on the actual event day, there would be times where sims or weather conditions coud ruin your the decorations, and you'd have to repair them on the spot lol. I think that can at least tie in with Wedding Stories or City Living. (because some of the festivals are kinda bland)
MORE MALE CLOTHES PLEASE!!! As a female it is VERY DIFFICULT TO MAKE MALE SIMS WITH THE BASE GAME CLOTHING I HAVE! It is a NEED for more male clothing, if otherwise i have to transfer the male clothing into feminine and give them some sort of feminine clothes
I think the tent for the kids because you might have a gig that’s for kids room. There’s a lot of single beds which are perfect for kids rooms along with those bunkbeds that they provided. So I think that it was designed to help compliment kid room designs. My only gripe with this and I wish you had some plain swatches.
Yeah, I agree with most of what you said but not the rating, I have this idea, especially about the fact that you can send your sim alone and nothing changes in the house. I feel like this is a good way to not change houses that you already built in a way you like. this way you can get money from the job but won't have to change a thing if you don't want to, I definitely going to do that too. 🖖🏽
I havnt finished the video and dream home decoatore is already a need because the build buy looks really modern and bueatifull
Tangent here, but I do appreciate the simple audio cue for text correcting the voiceover error. (e.g. 4:12)
I myself enjoy dressing my sims in a way, that it fits their character.
Male clothes in CAS dont really give me lot of possibilities though..
We NEED more and better clothing for male sims!!
im afab and non-binary so i use male clothes a lot anyways. i agree the guys clothes need to get more work. The biggest tragedy is male hairstyles though! i use CC because I'm poor/hj and even there- there's so few good hairs.
btw, I rely on your reviews to help me decide what add ons to eventually buy for my game- so thank you for your reviews!
What's Afab?
Decorating, weddings, high school...they fumbled all the themes I wanted
My personal opinion, I don't often use the dream home decorator items very often and only ever tried to play the career twice, and didn't get very far, partly because of the buggy likes and dislikes system. But also, the shelves glitch out where if you leave the lot and come back, they'll have gone into your household inventory, even though I didn't use the move objects cheat or anything. It gets pretty aggravating to have to keep fixing it, so I just don't really use it anymore, but I enjoyed them when they worked.
I would like to buy this mostly for the decoration items and all that, I'm honestly not interested on the job carrier that this pack offers, I'm more into decoration and that's it. That being said if you only use the decoration does the rest of the game works properly or everything else gets glitchy? like other jobs, or building mode?. Thank you for helping
@@eclinor there are shelves that return to your home inventory when you leave and come back and it seems no matter what you do it keeps happening, and it's a pain in the butt to fix especially when you get it perfect... BUT I will say those same shelves are perfect for using the moveobjects cheat, you can move those shelves wherever and a LOT of stuff fit in them. So there's always drawbacks and upsides. One drawback, most of the time, if you have a type of decoration style set as a favorite for likes and dislikes, your sim will go over to an item they like or dislike and react, and it'll be out of nowhere, they'll sometimes stop what they're doing to do it, but I think it's also a base game problem?
@@twilightwillowglade7214 wow I appreciate a lot your answer, I just didn't wanted to buy something that make the game unplayable anymore. Sounds good thank you for taking your time explaining all that
@@eclinor of course! If there's any other pack you wanna know about, let me know. I'll give as much of an unbiased opinion as possible. The game is still very much playable with Dreamhome decorator, just don't expect the shelves to stay, and don't set any liked or disliked style preferences
@@twilightwillowglade7214 thanks again, if it doesn't bother you the other DLC I would like to buy is Laundry day, but it has a lot of bad reviews where even some people say they regret buying that DLC, I would like to have the effect of the Laundry and dryer working, but I don't know if that will make it unplayable, glitch wise and also having to micromanagement your sims a lot with to clean really frequently their clothes. So if you have any suggestions or advices about that DLC it would be nice to hear your experience. Thanks a lot friend.
By the way I bought the dream home, is really cute. Thanks for sharing your experience about that one
I love the idea of the pack, which is the usual for ts4 content. It is a let down and I’ve only “played” it once.
As you skill up in the career you can renovate community lots and you get more than the 3 likes and dislikes. I’m a builder and I love this pack because it gives me challenges when renovating lots.
This pack has the BEST buy objects so far
i usually play this game after a few generations. at that point, idc about the townies and feel fine ruining their homes. my fav is when they just tell me a color they like, and i just make evertthing green or whatever color. theres also the bug where you can steal all their furniture and sell it all in your household inventory.
0:56 i totally agree.. even though im female, i like to play as guys as well and theres seriously nothing! i always complain about how ugly the clothes and hair are for males
The decorator, Patina, is the best thing out of this pack, but then she is free in the gallery.
I have a household with 6 male sims. Trying to get them all unique and nice outfits is way harder than it should be.
Don’t even get me started on the male children’s category!
As a masc lesbian, even tho I did like the flannels, it would’ve been nice if they incorporated some more masculine clothing options
Yay with this pick I could recreate my Norwegian friend's new apartment (if i played the sims lol)
I was so excited for this pack when they announced it and was seriously considering buying it as soon as it came out… but then came the demo stream… and the early access let’s plays…. And I have not bought it and have no plans to. Though I really, really wish it was different.
If only they'd make it a little more masculine, and not just cas. But in gameplay as well. It would make a HUGE difference. I crave some real fun and adrenaline from this game! We need more action. More risky decisions and consequences.
I love your sofa design 🤣🤣🤣 Made me bust out laughing
I prefer playing with female sims but i do agree that male sims need more CAS and better CAS. Whenever I do generational play, I have issues making nice male sims (outfit wise). Heck, I can't even make my husband simself properly since none of the clothes match his style.
I want better men's clothing even though I am not a man. Another slightly related thing is that I want feminine clothes to fit masc bodies and masc clothes that fit fem bodies. I know they technically go oth the bodies, but they look strange most if the time
I myself am a female simmer and I always struggle making male sims because I can never find clothes/outfits that are equally as nice as the clothes I use for my female sims so I either end up making same sex female couples so they can look cohesive as a couple or I’ll have a male sim that doesn’t look like he’s cohesive enough to fit with the look/color scheme of the rest of my sim family I’ve made.
The "most players is female" ""argument"" actually kinda irritated me. Yeah, a majority of the players are probably female, that.....that doesnt mean we don't want to.......play with male sims. I wanna build family with a good looking male sim that doesn't require me downloading live ten different presets for male eyes, chins, lips, and jawline on top of searching for cc clothes. Rip console players with the same issues. I've never heard another female players say they don't care about the female sim bias or that there is no bias or they don't care about male sim clothes. Never have I ever. It irritates me that EA is content with male sims looking like murderhobos from someone's DnD campaign or a reject that didn't make the cut in Dream Daddy
With all of that being said, I do agree with this review. I got the pack basically as soon as it came out since I thought the concept was cool and it would make me want to actually learn how to build since I'm definitely not a builder lol But I would barely work. Back then, it would glitch out so bad, the clients wouldn't even tour the lot. The gig would just end when you were finished and you might get paid or your reputation might tank. There's not a whole lot to do outside of maybe adding in another room and it's just shallow......like most of the Sims 4
Dream home decorator diy [for people who don't have it, but have Realm of magic]
1.Befriend a sim you want to help with redecoration
2.Train your sim's magic skill
3.Visit your sim's dearest friend
4.BURN EVERYTHING
And with this four easy steps you redecorated your friends home~
This should have been a Sims 4 Design Pack and have architecture, videogaming, fashion, garden, interior,product, furniture,…It could work so cool
Okay hot take: I love the before/after slideshow.
I'm working on getting to the max level in every career in my current save. I'm dreading having to do this one. It'll probably be the last one I do. 😂
I couldn't decorate before this pack. Now I just decide on a color and style based on what the residents like, and sort buy mode and wham, everything matches. So for me it was a good buy to get the pack on sale, but some people are talented enough without it!
Also half the sims born in my game are male, so I need clothing options of the non clown variety for them. Thanks.
I don’t know why we can’t open and close curtains/blinds. It almost makes me think whats the point of having them if we can’t do that..
What I have done in the past is before your sim goes to work, go yourself into the clients home and through CAS create custom likes and dislikes. Sometimes it works but, no all the time.
This is a pack I was so hype for and bought immediately, played a couple times and forgot about it. Basically build mode. So disappointing and agree with every point you had.
I simply love the CAS for this one
this feels more like a stuff pack while paranomal feels like a game pack... make it make sense
Cutting to you wearing the same shirt while saying it is bad was an interesting choice
I don't know why but that hallway reminds me of The Shining movie... creeper! We going to now go watch The Shining though!
I'm sad about missing out on the items, but if the gameplay isn't there I cannot justify buying it. If it was 50% off I would perhaps reconsider, but that will probably never happen.
PS. I think a lot of people want more balance between male and female sims. I know I do!
i absolutely despise almost every item and cas things in this pack i mostly bought it for the job because i absolutely love decorating houses
Hi satch i love this review i cant play sims anymore though because of the ea app and now i dont even have enough storage for the base game
Try to clear any junk (old photos, videos, software) that you no longer use on your laptop and see if that helps x
@@SatchOnSims i delted everything part from like the stuff that came with my laptop but its fine when i move out ill get a good computer and sign into my account hi thought 😂💕
I agree that most of my characters are female in the Sims 4 but when I first owned the game I used to find a few pieces of men's wear that wanted to my female sims to wear and the look was tragic. So ... I would go as far to say it's a perpetual cycle: I don't play male Sims because there's no variety in looks.
It's an issue even CC doesn't fix (though the attempt was made). Can't honestly consider this pack as more than a stuff pack. And if you're a CC user, some of the items in it you might already own.
No hate towards you from me !!! I don't know why I love this pack so much because you are 100% correct , the pack is obejectivly shockingly bad... although I do use bits and pieces of the build buy in almost every single pack, and I use the female cas alot. My friend just got the sims after Base Game became free and was looking to treat herself to a pack or two ok sale... I just couldn't bring myself to recommend this one... I felt like I was robbing her of her hard earned cash , wish ea felt that way when they take the p*ss with such flat packs (heheh the flatpack/ikea/decorating pun was not inteded)
Also, as a female player I am sick of my male sims looking crap and all looking like clones because I only have like 3 decent tops and 2 okay bottoms to choose from despite having nearly almost everypack !!!
As a person who just finished their 4 year bachelor's for interior architecture/design, the pack an extremely underwhelming representation of the profession even as something less structurally demanding like decorating. There's so much they could've done, even from a more rabbit hole experience with less animation or doing rabbit hole and for the first few levels of the career then giving the option to stay rabbit hole or get your own company essentially and do the build/live thing. Moving from a more student/learning posititon to like an intern to assisstant designer then architect. Having to do more case study research, having multiple. meetings (even over the phone) with the client like with the freelancer career. They really dropped the ball on a very broad and interesting topic.
I do agree that male sims are always neglected
fun fact : you can actually renovate vet clinic
On the contrary, I 100% agree with you. I play just as many male sims as I do female sims. And the lack of choice for those characters is not acceptable. If men are going to be playable, they should be able to be played well.
If this could’ve been an IKEA Stuff pack then maybe, but as it is, I will never get it
you have the most beautiful sims i've ever seen 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
i'll be honest and admit i bought this on a whim, even after a very long dry spell of not giving into EA's capitalistic shenanigans, because the idea was the PERFECT concept to me. and i've NEVER been so disappointed. the game was literally unplayable because of bugs. i had my decorator PAINSTAKINGLY follow the likes/dislikes of the client, to the point i thought 'there's NO WAY' they would dislike this. but EVERY time they ended up hating what i did and i didnt get paid. it was immediately so disheartening because you get so invested in the way you're gonna change this sims living space only for the game to spit in your face. never buying any pack/EP from EA again
The male sims are always hot dads. They are never hot young men, steaming exotic men, or anything other than hot dads. I agree that the CAS needs a lot more for males.
I try very hard to enjoy this pack since interior design... is a slight passion of mine... lol
The thing is that I've had clients hate my renovations despite following the rules set up in the preference "bubbles" in the gig UI... which prompts me to go into the dialogue tree to find the Dream Home Decorator dialogue that is not part of the regular Interior Designer category of dialogue so that I can learn everyone's likes and dislikes... and I swear that sometimes it hasn't even told me everything even then, and won't reveal more likes and dislikes upon repeating the dialogue, so it's very easy to become frustrated, especially when the gigs often break completely. It's a lot of work to gather all this information. That's not all though. Whether or not you get paid and have your reputation bar go up depends on satisfying all the clients and this can get extremely difficult and stressful the more sims there are in the household, which can leave you unpaid and your reputation lowered, and sometimes for seemingly no reason at all if you didn't think to gather up all the likes and dislikes outside of the normal gig dialogue category that's used to fill up the preference bubbles. Clients will even yell at your sim and/or send them hate mail if they dislike a renovation enough and that doesn't happen in other careers that I know of. lol
Before anyone says anything about going into CAS to learn likes and dislikes, I find that technique too time consuming and that it breaks up gameplay flow too much... plus I had a bad experience where a sim didn't generate any likes or dislikes and then they generated some after leaving CAS without my knowledge, ruining my gig.
Seems like EA wanted to attract House Flipper players with this pack. House Flipper 1 had many of the same features/requirements as well as the before after images.
WHY HAS ANYONE NOT MENTIONED THE MODULAR SOFA GLIZZY
Did anyone notice that in the trailer for the pack there are actually FOUR preferences instead of three? Is that an oversight or do you get another preference slot as you progress in the career? I don't have this pack, so I don't know.
you get another slot as you progress :)
@@jodieb6969 Thank you! I couldn't decide if they would be that obvious about missing features that were advertised. Maybe if their trailers didn't always lie I wouldn't have to question it lol
Played as interior decorator for first time recently and only once did the showing go well without a glitch. Multiple times I wasn’t able to show room correctly and had to leave the house without an end result
I'm gonna say it thousand times - dream home decor is not a GAMEPLAY pack since there is NONE gameplay added. EA just made buildbuy with stupid requirements a new """gameplay""". DHD is a stuff pack for gameplay pack price 🙄
Objectively I agree with everything you said, but at the same time I like this pack because I have fun playing the career. There's no rational reason for it-I just enjoy it and can spend several hours playing it. However in order to enjoy the career I have to do a lot of pretending (like pretending you can't cheat the likes/dislikes system), which shows the pack gameplay is incredibly low quality. I guess it goes to show something can be a bad pack but still fun for some people.
I agree about balance needed in the game I’m a girl that making sims as guys so there not a lot of outfits for him
Got it, played it once and realised how glitched and how much of a ball ache it wad and never used it again aside from build items elsewhere.
Yeah, not a fan of this pack. Haven't purchased it and I don't plan to. Thanks for another awesome video!
Its so funny how they managed to sell build mode to ppl lmao. U can just go to a lot and do this "career" whenever u want
I agree with you on EVERYTHING, The Sims Team need to do better..
I love this pack for the build buy