About 3 and a half years into Sims 4, how would you rate it?

I guess we are each entitled to our own opinion. Because of the facts - well I will just have to agree to disagree.

Since I am not into writing books, I will keep Mine short, I will give the Sims 4 a 4\10 , because of the fact that Being a Gothic type Player is no fun when you do not have the items you need to play the game you want to play, I have been wanting More Gothic items and clothes and LONGER HAIR EA & Maxis !! , Not short hair or Up - do's like we been getting , I been wanting Bunk Beds as well since day 1, and still no where in sight, Been wanting Long & Medium Length Painted Fingernails, I can not use any CC, so I have to rely on EA or Maxis to add this stuff into the game, so far I have gotten every single pack, just to see what items I could use for My type of game play, and I have to say not much can be used for Gothic spooky type , only a few items from what 2 packs out of how many so far? , to Me it is just lame that I have to try and hunt down items just to try and make My Sims homes unique and Gothic the way I want them, in the Previous games before Sims 4, I had no trouble at all finding what I needed to use for My game play, Maybe that is why I still play those , and not The Sims 4 as much anymore, Until they add in more Gothic type stuff like Witches, or Werewolves, or even Zombies again, I won't be playing this game much, I want Hooded Robes, and Gothic Long Sleeve long dresses and Brooms for My witches to ride on as well, There has been some interesting items and such already added to the game, but most of it has nothing to do with being a Gothic Player like Myself, so Please add more Gothic type stuff, and then I just might want to bother to play My game more, that is how I feel bout it.

"Sigzy05;c-16289566" wrote:
I feel like TS4 has been a failed experiment. This game...was an mmo first, than it had a story mode, than it became a weak main sims game. It wasn't meant to be a main game and it shows.

The biggest "innovations" of this game are it's biggest flaws. Emotions clearly didn't work out the way they probably planned, I don't even think moodlets were supposed to be a thing since they weren't on the first TS4 gameplay video but they are here and they are a major problem. Multitasking makes sim AI lag, a lot, and it's a wall in development.

The EP's are for the most part decals and decoration objects, with so little features or even none. I still don't understand how a Cats and Dogs only pack doesn't even make dogs and cats more detailed than in previous games a aprt for some "quirky" hidden traits, doesn't make pets roam around every world, doesn't have pet trainer NPC's or actual contests with an NPC and other sim's that can win. And only two pet beds. It's all so.....low end. They have also been recycling the EP and GP content as of late which....just shows how much development they are putting into these packs.

Build mode is a mess. Only basements, pools (I don't even know how a sims game came out without pools) roof types that somehow didn't make it to the base game in time and half walls were added in 3 years. Foundations are a problem, every lot is flat, ponds are objects, only one type of stairs, elevators aren't real, there's a huge lack in wallpapers and floor tiles, no sliding doors, etc. We only got new wall trim types in the vampires GP I believe, so this iteration isn't even expanding on the new features it has.

Sims have no personality in TS4, and they only tried to expand upon them in Parenthood, but you can't set character values in CAS.

They even removed the memory timelines from the game in a patch and added the more simple screenshot viewer because they didn't want to work on a better system, removing the option to manually dictate a memory's emotion. Now it's automatic.

Whims in this game are a joke to behold, they might as well not be there. The aspiration rewards aren't that amazing and the devided aspiration goals instead of just the major one doesn't work. The concept of aspirations and the reason for them to not be changeable in TS2 is because aspirations in TS2 work like a trait (romance aspiration would make your sims keen on cheating and not really care too much if the partner cheated on them, they did not like to get married). They would dictated how your sim reacts to certain events and what he/she wants or fears. On TS4 it's just a boring way to somehow reward the player for completing a bunch of goals.

I still to this day don't understand why you can change a sim's body type and whatever suits you in CAS through the wardrobe. It's way too op and it feels like a feature an RPG would have when you make a mistake on your character. In TS3 you have to pay to get plastic surgery and in TS2 you have to go through an entire career. I don't know why this game is praising on the cheaters. I always feel like I'm going to the Black Emporium into the magic mirror to change my inquisitor when I see the change sim option on a mirror and not even there I 100% agree with the feature.

All the complaining made a T rated game an SJW political delight. No slapping, no shoving, no bumping, no showing off a fist, but we can have all the potty humor we want. No robbers, no meteors, no spontaneous combustion, no death by flies, no death by elevator, and death by emotions has been nerfed to hell.

Overall TS4 feels very much like a children game, it's easy and simple as simple can be, the artstyle looks like a cartoon network show (I guess some people like it, but I'm not living for the plastic hair, playdoh skin and over saturated tonality), animations are too much and unrelatable especially when sims talk, those smiles and arm movement is crazy, and the clipping bothers me a lot, that and sims talking through walls.

However I give it a 4 because it does have some good concepts regarding certain features and it can keep me entertained for some time though it's not as fun as previous games as it tends to get really repetitive really fast.

A lot of what you write in this post is pretty factual. And pretty sad. One can rate this game with a 10 all they like (which means flawless), the facts in this post simply stand.

Sims 4 is a game that was sold on it’s potential to do whatever “we” want, but has struggled to do anything since release. What they have made is a glorified children’s game that’s being sold to adults on the premise that it’s going to get better.

They should drop Sims 4 and come out with a Sims game that can actually do something. Getting a million choices of food, some unique clothing, and a few low-level gameplay objects just does not cut it for DLC, which is primarily what makes up Sims 4 Packs. I have no issue paying for good packs, but I haven’t paid full price for any Sims 4 Expansion pack aside from GTW because they have progressively gotten worse.

The only reason why I gave it a 2 instead of a 1 is because I do like the few new building tools that were introduced with this version of the Sims. Other than that, TS4 is a big fail for builders that have supported the franchise through the years. So many tools from the past were left out of this version, I am still shaking my head in disgust.

I only enjoy playing with my family, all the rest is boring so 5/10.

In my opinion it's a well done game, with a stable system, but it's a boring game, they are focusing much in SP that only give us some items and maybe a new objects with some gameplay, but not really changes the game. It's like playing dolls house but worst, because with real dolls we can actually dress the dolls, brush their hair, the rest it's the same, it's all in our imagination, because the game don't have nothing to surprise us, something that change the course of the game (sims life). Death it's almost impossible in this game, we don't have burglars, for example in apartments when pipes are leaking we shouldn't be able to have water...... It's those little things that could make this game less boring. Maybe now they are starting to understand what simmers really want, content is starting to become better, but not good enough.

I edited just to say one more thing, the time play that my account could possible have, most of the hours counted it's because i fall asslepp with the game open, really i'm not joking, i really fall asslepp playing this game.

Interesting how based on the replies you would think the majority dislike this game, but based on the poll results, most actually do like it. I guess it's about the vocal minority.

"Pegasys;c-16291413" wrote:
Interesting how based on the replies you would think the majority dislike this game, but based on the poll results, most actually do like it. I guess it's about the vocal minority.

5-: 52 (10 explained why)
6+: 56 (10 explained why)

"Pegasys;c-16291413" wrote:
Interesting how based on the replies you would think the majority dislike this game, but based on the poll results, most actually do like it. I guess it's about the vocal minority.

I play the sims since the first sims game, i love this type of game, i don't really like the sims 4, but we don't have nothing similar, so from times to times i give a chance on the sims 4, but it's useless, i think, perhaps they lost the formula to this franshise be sucessfull. EA, started to become a little paranoid about do more money with less content, and that it's killing the sims, a game that i used to love.