Why does the Sims 4 suck so much?
Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC I want to talk about something you don't mention above: How accessible is the current experience? It's useless to me Summarize what in the product is difficult to...
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Right, 2022 and the Sims 4 still sucks. Not everyone has the money to buy all the packs, and honestly, the base game is so boring that I wouldn't want to. I own about 2 packs and 3 or 4 kits. But that's it. The AI stinks so bad that ,seriously, what's the point? Console players don't have it fair because we cannot mod the game to make it more fun. But if you really have to mod a video game just to make it fun, then it's not a real game to begin with. And no one is insulting EA. We have given EA a lot of time and money. I have played all the console Sims except Sims 3 ( because I didn't own a ps3), and I have to say that my two favs are Sims 2, and The Urbz. How on Earth can you downgrade your own game that actually has a loyal fan base? Pay for this, pay for that. The packs cost more than the actual game itself! By the time you're done paying for all the packs, you might as well have bought a bunch of other games that are more fun than this one.
P.S. My daughter's grandparents bought her all the packs at their house...and she is still bored of the game. And please fix the AI like I've requested. I'm so sick of the sims not doing what I tell them to do, or not making an actual connection with other sims because once they are away from their paramour, they don't even really think about them unless they come to visit. Out of sight, out of mind huh?
@3b92278050b2eabe6b24e7be12921809 Geez are you my twin? Because so much of what you said sounds like my own views of the game lol.
When it comes to the packs some people (like me) not only can't afford to spend hundreds of dollars on them, but wouldn't want to spend THAT much money on a single game. I keep playing simply because I love these types of games but I can't get the ones I actually enjoy (Sims 2 or Sims 3) to run well enough on my PC, so I'm stuck with this mess if I want to play one of these games. Totally agree with the AI, it's awful and just doesn't seem to know what it's doing at times. I keep the autonomy on because I prefer letting the sims do their own thing, but most times I wish I'd just turn autonomy off. When you talked about the sims not doing what you tell them, I feel it's because of the autonomy. You could manually fill their queue with actions, but then your sim could decide that they want yet another glass of water which kills your entire queue. Don't even get me started on the AI for infant/toddler care... that's just terrible.
Personally I feel this game is a downgrade as well. In terms of content it may have the potential to offer more than any other in the series, but how much are you spending for that potential and just because there's more content that doesn't make it better. Plus the execution on everything I've seen is very poor. I may not have all the packs, I have one pack which was free, but one of my favorite YouTubers buys them and plays them on his channel so I've seen a lot of the problems without ever playing them. Then when the game is so full of problems and they just continue to release pack after pack, I'm sorry but that's just wrong. I understand that as a company it's EA's goal to make money, but have some respect for your product and most of all your customers. They need to stop with the packs for a moment and actually fix the existing content, because I'm seeing WAY too many problems that have been around for years yet go ignored in favor of paid content. In fact I reported one earlier in the bug section since I didn't see a recent topic about it, but when I went back to check I saw it had been merged in with a 2 year old topic... 2 years and it's not fixed!
The Urbz was my jam by the way. I have the console version on Gamecube, and I also have the handheld version on the DS and played the crap out of them. I also loved Sims 2 so much that I unintentionally fried the motherboard on one of my old computers from playing it so much.
Yes nelly! we must be two peas in a pod, lol. The Urbz was so great, man it was fantastic. And the Sims 2 had so many interesting things happening in it, that it was like a soap opera drama or something but with aliens and what not. I miss the haunted ghost town in the Urbz, and I miss the fashion too. I honestly forgot about turning off the auto for the sims, but I feel like that isn't a good representation of the game's AI. So when you let the sims do their own thing and guide them, the AI should be responsive to what you choose for them to do. It stinks. Also, they take way too long to complete a task, so the game gets boring while they are reading a book or something. Also, my sim will play the violin until she is ready to pee herself and starve to death. I'm like come on EA, and this is your main Sims game? LOL.
@3b92278050b2eabe6b24e7be12921809 Honestly it feels odd having someone on here that actually has similar feelings as me with this game. I always feel like a complete outcast here since I'm not in the big majority of people that just put up with so much of this.
The Urbz, especially the console version, just had a really nice and interesting vibe to it overall. I loved how they had the different areas you could explore, with each having their own little groups of characters. In a way it reminds me of Bully and how that game has groups like the jocks, nerds, preps, and the others. It made the game feel alive.
The autonomy certainly needs to be better, or at the very least... smarter. It just seems too... moronic I guess is a good word (I had another word in mind, though gotta remember this site is family friendly lol). Watching the autonomy is honestly like my life, it's just the same crap over and over and I play these games to escape my reality not be reminded of it. I guess EA figures people will want full control and will disable autonomy, but yeah I feel that the characters should be at least somewhat competent with autonomy on instead of constantly going for drinks and sitting at the computer all day.
You talk about tasks taking too long, I was just watching my sim trying to cook something when a family member started talking to them. Things like that take what are already long interactions and just drag them out even more, especially because sims seem to focus too much on the conversation instead of what they were doing. Then you have things like writing books or writing songs... good lord wake me up when that task is done.
I've noticed that when it comes to violins, sims will not autonomously quit if they've autonomously started. In most cases a sim will autonomously quit an action they started on their own, especially if their needs are low, but yeah for whatever reason they just won't stop with the violin. Things like the violin and the coffee and tea makers are items I simply won't put in my homes anymore because they're too annoying. Seriously, try putting the coffee or tea makers in your sims' homes and watch them turn into an addict suffering from withdrawal. They pretty much turn into Tyrone Biggums from Chappelle's Show, but with coffee and tea instead of.... other things that I doubt I can mention here.
