I talk about Memories all the time. I REALLY REALLY want to see them improved.
Here's how I'd do it:
- Keep the screenshot-based Memory system already in the game, but make it accessible from the Simology panel (seriously, who even knows where Memories ARE in TS4? They're not easy to find)
- The current system lets you assign an Emotion, and only comes into effect when you activate them. Let's expand that.
- In addition to an Emotion, you can associate one or more Sims involved in that Memory, and/or a lot that it occurred at.
- When you interact with that Sim, or go to that lot, the Memory is triggered, and your Sim feels the Emotion tied to the Memory.
- Proposed to your wife at the Brindleton Bay lighthouse? When your Sim goes to the museum near the lighthouse, they remember.
- Got into a particularly vicious fight with your sibling as children? Whenever your Sim interacts with that sibling, they remember.
- Left at the altar? When your Sim sees their ex, they remember.
The screenshots allow you to choose what is memorable to YOUR Sim, and also prevents the game being clogged up with pointless Memories. But what good is a Memory if your Sim never REMEMBERS them?
