"LiELF;c-17451342" wrote:
I agree that Sims 4 definitely needs more base game work regarding Sim depth. It still feels incomplete to me. I feel that same frustration with trying to create Sims with individual behaviors, only to have them all feel too samey. Between that and the missing Fear emotion, the game will always feel unfinished to me. I just hope there are some changes on the agenda for the future in these areas.
(Emphasis mine.) This! Oh, this! Fear is one of the emotions they took away. They want Sims 4 to be so "happy" all the time; Sims smile all the time, even when you know it should be inappropriate. It's why I keep my Sims Focused most of the time; it doesn't automatically put them in the Happy Smiling state every single second. (I would prefer Inspired, but then they still smile way too much.)
They made Sims 4 too "nice". I guess they're trying to appease some parents' groups or something. Although leaving WooHoo in the game is going to make those parents' groups still denounce them, so I don't know what they think they've accomplished. Seriously, they take away the things that give the game oomph, but they add in emotional deaths? Say what? I hated those from the get-go; the first time I had a Sim die from being Hysterical (seriously, who but a 13 year old thinks someone can actually die from laughter or from embarrassment? Really?), I immediately went out and found a mod that eliminated that. Because no. Just no.
Don't think this means I'm all down on Sims 4, because I'm not. But I really don't understand some of their decisions. They want to make Sims 4 so charming and nice that a three year old can play it without worry, but then they add stuff in that's going to make that same three year old cry, anyway. I use a lot of mods, because they also add in annoyances in some of their patches, like suddenly making it so every Sim runs to the sink to drink water, constantly. Like, really. Sure, we need to hydrate in real life, but this is the SIMS! This is fantasy; they shouldn't need to drink ALL THE TIME, especially since that's a hidden motive that we're not even allowed to see! Stuff like that irritates the heck out of me, so mods. Lots of them. Can't play without them.
Unfortunately, no mods are going to help with the lack of personality in the sims themselves. That's a core game programming problem, and would take so much work to be changed that they're not going to do it. Particularly since changing it would probably break pretty much everything else in the game, particularly in expansion packs. So I have to agree with @SadBlueRaincoat that I really hope that they learn from this when they work on Sims 5. (Which I'm guessing they've already been working on it for a while, so I hope they READ this kind of feedback while such things can still be implemented!)
