EA should put more lore to the Sims 4

I would love more lore in the Sims 4, but I think at this point it's a lost cause for the base game. There's just been too many years gone by. The newer packs have better lore but AFAIK none of it is story progression.

I don't think they can do it well without individual bios. Those told us a lot about an individual sim's personality and lore, and hinted at how we could develop their stories. Right now, entire households have to share a single bio, which limits storytelling.

I'm okay with the game suggesting a backstory and potential plot hooks to me in the household bios. Anything more, like the enforced vampire/werewolf relationship hit, or a specific family getting set up to be enemies with a specific other family, and it becomes annoying to work into my own worldbuilding.

I disagree with this. I think that it's my neighbourhood, my collection of motley idiots, my stories. The whole point of a sandbox game like the Sims is that you have such flexibility in how your game evolves. Even on this forum you'll see gargantuan posts by simmers telling the stories from their own imagination, played out in their individual Sims world. It's a great framework for emergent gameplay.

I mean, sure, add a bit of fluff relating to the Goths or the Flapjacks, but give the players the tools to make their own stories with just as much depth.

Honestly idk
I feel like at this point it would just interfere with my own interpretations of the households especially when its premades from sims 1-2 that you've played ages already

don't mind with new households though like sims they add with new upcoming packs or such sure could have some more interesting stories

they seem stuck on creating young adult entrepreneurs and painters apparently :sweat_smile:

would love to see more households with less than conventional stories too

like take me to strangetown vibes

Well, the latest pre-mades do get a little lore in form of sentiments and pre-set relationships. I do agree that there should be more. Bios, secrets etc.

I paid very little attention to the premades' lore in the past, and will care even less in the future. I like a good general story plot for a pack like StrangerVille, but on the individual level I prefer making up my own stories, and with so many years baked into my ts4 universe I have lots of lore and stories already, as I know the detailed story going 230 years back. Check my Historybook if you are as nerdy as I, LOL.

I also totally ignore the correctness of genders and GLBT+. I never felt any desire to have my game reflect my real life or my real surroundings. I couldn't care less if I can't recreate the correct spot of my biggest beautyspot, and my sims could not care less either. To me this game is a fantastic sandbox where I decide most things, unfortunately EA has started to direct my game over to something that it was not previously, and I am not a big fan of this. I think the game is not in need of lore or RL aspects, but more options for the simmer to turn on/off certain features to please us all.

That said - in TS5 I hope they will focus a lot more on the new lore. A lore needs to be there from the start. Not being added after we all have created our own.