"TheGoodOldGamer;c-16410605" wrote:
"JoAnne65;c-16409967" wrote:
"mctsimmer;c-16409892" wrote:
I feel your pain.
The Sims 4 is not a bad game, but it's very expensive to play this game over other versions. I had to figure out what I wanted to play and what packs to avoid. I thought about the Supernaturals being split apart and I knew that a witch and werewolf GP would be ones I would be willing to pay extra to get. I love mermaids, but I can't see paying another $20 for them.
We are being forced to pick and choose what we buy and that makes each players experience unique. The idea becomes a problem when we are shaping the game based on money, instead of personal taste.
Funny because for me there in fact lies the problem: playing Sims 4 isn’t a unique experience for each player. Sure, if you don’t buy everything you won’t be able to go bowling for instance like another simmer can (but the same goes when I don’t buy University for Sims 3 and that pack adds even more unique experiences), but other than that the problem with the way they have designed those packs is that everyone’s game is identical. So I don’t even see an advantage there. “My sim has a rodent” - “Oh, mine doesn’t because I didn’t buy that pack” doesn’t qualify as unique experience for me.
I doubt you play the way I do. But maybe you do. Let's see... did your first Sim go around seducing every female townie they came across, including any service people? Mine did. She even married a townie the game spawned to be a DJ at the part in the bluffs. And divorced her the next morning after finding out she had the hot-headed trait, lol.
Do you have a vampire you're playing for the sole purpose of torturing in every conceivable way you can think of (without mods)? Because I do. He's starting out in the TLC apartment. He's going to be the worst vampire I can make him (worst in terms of just not being able to bite or turn others, someone 'weak' in Vlad's eyes who hopefully Vlad will hate, lol). He's going to be a scientist, purely in the hopes he gets abducted/pregnant with an alien baby. And ultimately, I want him to die by being bite by his voidcritter, and end up in the afterlife stuck in that hamster suit.
Oh, and he has a teen alien buddy (mainly so when he dies, it's not game over, lol) who I'm going to try and make so her alien powers basically control him, instead of the other way around. And they have a pet cat named Grimm Creeper. (No reason, other than I made the vampire also a cat lover, lol, because 'cute' is not something a good vampire wants to be seen as.) Grimm wears a top hat and cape.
Do you have Dr. Sam Beckett and his buddy Al from Quantum Leap? I do.
Do you have a diner that looks like a spaceship and has staff dressed in Star Wars outfits? I do.
But yeah... we're all identical, lol.
I indeed meant it the way @BeJaWa said. You’re referring to storylines (the first one in fact indeed sounds familiar by the way, though in my case it was a man and he ended up having 17 kids around town, including an alien one after an abduction, funny coincidental link to another storyline), I can list you 21 very different storylines, be it from my TS3 game. What I meant however is that there are hardly any tools to adjust the game. No terrain tools, world editing, no CASt (so everyone wears the exact same clothes and lives in houses that are identical), the gameplay seems more scripted than before (checklist based, clubs that behave in preset ways, pets behave in ways the devs came up with and implemented it, apartments are scripted). I mean, sure it’s Sims and sandbox and the player can use their imagination (I played a crazy inventor in Sims 4 who blew up everything to enormous proportions, including a baby)(I became bored with that story by the way because collecting pictures and writing the story ended up to be more fun than playing), but it will all be in the exact same setting as every other player out there. And there also seems to be less variety where it comes to worlds. And that’s EA worlds. A lot of Sims 3 players are playing in completely unique custom worlds, I believe in Sims 2 you could also create your own world.
