Sims 4 still lacks four basic game mechanics to be enjoyable
Well Sims 4 is still suffering from beeing a multiplayer corpse and despite EA wants it to be a forever sims game they doesn't seems to be interested to put money in giving the game the necessary mechanics for that...
1. Problem: No create a world tool. Well Sandbox tools in a suppossed to be sandbox game are a **bleep** basic feature. We are stucking for years now with the same boring worlds and no option to customize anything. And an other related problem is, that Sims 4 still does not get the concept of crosspack compatibility. Lots of game features are still locked behind certain worlds, making all worlds boring and empty as a consequence. It's years and i still need a mod to have walk by animals in all worlds. It's shamefull for a Sims game not to get somethig banal like this done.
2. Problem: No personality. Yes sims are still just puppets. And we have currently no mods available which can fix this. The ones we have are just tweaking the mood buffs or the traits a litte, but not the core issue. So what is the core issue? The non existent social autonomy AI. You can put two sims who hate each other to in one room and they wont do anything but happy chit chatting. You can tweak the traits, but it wont help much, because there is no autonomy that allows them to act like their personality. They are not able to start any drama on their own. The autonomy AI is also not proplerly tied to the relationship bar and as it seems also not able to recognize more extended family dynamics. If modders are supposes to fix this issue, we would probalby need a whole team of talents which is able to break in to the python core of the game and rework it from the base. But that's more a job for EA who wants this corpse to be a forever game.
3. Problem: A lack of animations. Well simulation games are depending on visuals. We wan't to have a life simulation and not want to play pretend. But we need to be able to watch our sims living their lifes and not get a text information about how they are doing. They can't open drawers. They can't grab objects, they can't lie on a couch or sit on a chair like acutual people. We have the same overexagerated three talking animations. Well...not much so see here. And not even water physics.
4. Problem: Autdated and ugly mobilephone graphics. You know Veilguard has comic graphic, but they don't look like a mobile game. Completely unfitting for a Dragon Age game but perfect for a game like Sims. But in Sims...well...currently still clay hair without hair physics, trees that look like their trunks are made from chocolate. Sims with ugly potatoe bodys without any definition and painted pretend muscles. I suppose we have to be thankfull that their fingers are at least seperated their toes are not that lucky.
Oh and can we have water physics? It's uncanny that sims are basically jumping on a glass plate everytime they jump into "wannabe water".
