It took 4 years for the developers to have Sims use one counter to cook. Bare in mind some of these Sim Gurus say they actually play the game. 4 Years for the developers to give us a Coworkers tab. Bare in mind City Living came with Tasks that required you to interact with your coworkers. 4 years to register yourself as self employed. Get To Work patch would have been the perfect time no? 4 years of object babies. 4 years without bunk-beds (Kids Room Stuff? Parenthood? No?), lounge chairs or spiral stairs. 4 years and in-lawes aren't registered in the game. 4 years & Sims still play musical chairs during conversations. 4 years & Sims still prefer to not sit at dinning tables or islands, but get near to other Sims/Cats/Dogs. 4 years & Sims still talk with their backs to one another. 4 years no shower Woohoo. 4 years no attraction system. 4 years no body hair. 4 years no colour wheel. The fact that this kinda feature is present in Cats & Dogs is a bit of a piss take in my opinion. 4 years & no slow dance interaction. 4 years & no Story Progression. I've mentioned only minor issues in this post I have with this game. I look at TS2 & all it accomplished in 4 years & it eclipses TS4, easily. Quality & quantity for your money. Not like the DLC we get offered theses days. Packed with recoloured meshes & same animations with different names. (E.g. romantic interactions for Unflirty Sims) Watch the City Living trailer & how the Spice Challenge is portrayed, lies. Then you've got the bugs. Bugs that developers say have been addressed and haven't. I still get Vampires breaking into community lots. Them free skintones still have an infection on them. My Sims still don't use the nearest sink to wash their dishes. I'm tired.4 years and this game is still playing catch up to the previous titles & I don't see it ever doing it. This is easily my least favourite Sims title when compared with TS1, TS2 & TS3.

All of which and more is why TS2 dominates such simming time as I have. Studying Greek is more fun.

Don't forget, we still don't have laptops, trash compactors, no firefighter NPC, no burglar NPC, no graveyards, no solar panels, no sim biographies, no memory timeline, no playing catch, no small pets, and there are many many details this game misses, even graphics wise. Season's rain was kind of a disappointment, and why no hailing? Also only three and a half lifestates in 4 years....I'm still hoping and waiting for Maxis to add shopping bags animation to sims in retail.I don't dislike TS4's gameplay entirely but there's still so much missing. And the AI isn't as good as in TS2 either, my sims still go to the bathroom counters sometimes to prepare food or wash the dishes, pets still fill up my queue to infinity and there's all kinds of trouble with sims not doing what they are suppose to do in certain venues, they prioritise things they shouldn't. And personalities are still at a miss. In 4 years only character values were added to try and expand the sim's personalities but it still uses the same trait system, they haven't added any other thing like turn ons or offs, interests, hobbies, etc. They also haven't done much to expand already existing traits, or to improve them or the interactions themselves. Remember when asking a sim about their day would actually tell you if it was going well or not? Remember when gossiping would actually let your sim now about hidden things of other sim's lives? If they were rich, if they were cheating, if they were evil etc.

Failure to keep promises is a major peeve. For example, a certain EP that shall not be named promised us two types of animals and that a certain locale would have plenty of them for sims to adopt. Well, said locale has only two types of free roaming animals, and one of them is seagulls. No critters other than occasional birds are in any other neighborhoods. The TS2 version of said EP is light years better than the TS4 one, and TS2 is older in both years and computer tech. For shame, EA/Maxis!

Let Sims 4 end in 2019,and then we can move on to Sims 5. I'm hoping Sims 5 will be a combo of Sims 1 and Sims 2-both of those games had GREAT gameplay. As for Sims 4..well,I find it more enjoyable to go on to Minecraft Hardcore mode and fight giant spiders with no armor and nothing bt my bare fists. Sad,really…..

I agree with this. Four years later and we are missing so many basics.No firefighters (Why? It made no sense in 2014 and makes no sense now)No burglarsNo carpools or school buses. Disappearing into thin air is still the form of transport going into 2019.No carsNo Npc policeNo playing tagNo pillow fightsNo couple dancing togetherNo cuddling in bed or even lying on the bed.We do have:Sims obsessed with certain objects (the pc for instance, researching gardening is another) In the middle of a meal sims getting up to hugEmotions that change like a light switch. One minute sim is sad as has just witnessed a complete stranger popping their clogs in public but they walk into a nice decorated room or change lots and hey! They are now feeling energised. Trauma over.

CeeJayChalla

7 years ago

4 Years...

It took 4 years for the developers to have Sims use one counter to cook. Bare in mind some of these Sim Gurus say they actually play the game. 4 Years for the developers to give us a Coworkers tab. Bare in mind City Living came with Tasks that required you to interact with your coworkers. 4 years to register yourself as self employed. Get To Work patch would have been the perfect time no? 4 years of object babies. 4 years without bunk-beds (Kids Room Stuff? Parenthood? No?), lounge chairs or spiral stairs. 4 years and in-lawes aren't registered in the game. 4 years & Sims still play musical chairs during conversations. 4 years & Sims still prefer to not sit at dinning tables or islands, but get near to other Sims/Cats/Dogs. 4 years & Sims still talk with their backs to one another. 4 years no shower Woohoo. 4 years no attraction system. 4 years no body hair. 4 years no colour wheel. The fact that this kinda feature is present in Cats & Dogs is a bit of a piss take in my opinion. 4 years & no slow dance interaction. 4 years & no Story Progression.

I've mentioned only minor issues in this post I have with this game. I look at TS2 & all it accomplished in 4 years & it eclipses TS4, easily. Quality & quantity for your money. Not like the DLC we get offered theses days. Packed with recoloured meshes & same animations with different names. (E.g. romantic interactions for Unflirty Sims) Watch the City Living trailer & how the Spice Challenge is portrayed, lies.
Then you've got the bugs. Bugs that developers say have been addressed and haven't. I still get Vampires breaking into community lots. Them free skintones still have an infection on them. My Sims still don't use the nearest sink to wash their dishes. I'm tired.

4 years and this game is still playing catch up to the previous titles & I don't see it ever doing it. This is easily my least favourite Sims title when compared with TS1, TS2 & TS3.

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