I never played Sims 3 because I simply carried on with Sims 2. Then between 20010ish-2014 I had a massive gap where I barely played sims at all due to school etc. Now I've downloaded Sims 4.....Idk I feel underwhelmed! It seems to me to be like Sims 2 but updated, but on the face of it, with nothing new to add. Also I don't like that I cannot make my own town, or customise the neighbourhood at all! This really annoys me!
Another thing is the lack of the Tombstone of Life and Death and less wacky alien abduction/werewolf stories. The Sims in the TS4 are less unpreditacble and crazy and sometimes I miss that.
And of course no open world, vehicles, or ways to change the terrain like I could is TS2 is frustrating. How is it that a game made 10 years ago had those features that this one does not?
TS4 does indeed feel deliberately unfinished......maybe it is because I never played TS3 but I feel like TS4 is bit disappointing for a new game. It seems like TS2 with glitches fixed and less features......