Better sim reactions

"NovaBelladonna;c-16532874" wrote:
Sorry if this is slightly off-topic but I can't start a new thread as a new member. But do sims eventually start reacting to their grandchildren once they've aged up? One of my sims has had a baby and when her dads come round they don't even notice the baby... Is that normal? Will it change? Or will they not acknowledge the baby until I'm playing from the dads' point of view rather than their daughter's.

What used to annoy me (about older games) is when Sim3 knew they were flirting with a sim (Sim1) who was in a relationship with Sim2, but would get angry when Sim1 would go back to Sim2 and flirt. Like you knew you were having an affair, they have a significant other, like what were you expecting!?

In my experience no. Sims are vaguely aware there is a short person in the house. They don’t really care that it’s related to them or acknowledge it.

OP I agree with you whole heartedly, I myself have made a topic or two on this topic in the past. This is probably the sole reason I can’t immerse myself in the game. So much of the fun of the sims is playing out a scenario and watching the consequences and how that impacts on your game. I had a sim cheat on his bride on their wedding day with his sister in law, the bride did nothing, I had a different sim decide to hit on his father in law in front of his pregnant wife and mother in law- again nothing happened. That one I didn’t initiate but was disappointing to see none of the sims cared.

In my sims 2 game, a child caught her Mum kissing another man. The child burst into tears and ran from the room, her relationship with her Mum went south and she rolled a want to “drink” Alan. I.e she wanted him dead.

By contrast my child in the sims 4 watched her Dad kissing another woman and doing all kinds of romantic interactions in front of her; she didn’t care. She just kept eating her ice cream and smiling.

I made a couple get divorced, because they were camping and had a ton of happy moodlets, neither sim had an appropriate reaction as the sad and angry moodlets never came to the surface. Even though the man had caught his fiancée with another woman he was still very happy. I had to imagine a reaction and make him be mean to the man he has just caught his partner cheating on him with. But as soon as the mean interaction has finished? Let’s tell a joke! Let’s hug, let’s ask about day. (None of which were initiated by me)

Come on EA! I shouldn’t have to imagine that he is angry that he has just caught the mother of his children with another man and make him have a reaction, I shouldn’t have to fight the game to give him an appropriate reaction for the circumstances. It’s 2018 and the AI is so poor I have to pretend sims have emotions for certain circumstances? I have to pretend that beneath all the happy moodlets my sim is devastated by a family break up or a death? Even my ten year old niece noticed the fact that sims don’t care unless you tell them too. Will Wright recognised that players like to explore failure states. A mantra that has been forgotten. Now it’s all about making pretty sims with nice houses with lots of tat. Sims and their emotions are a definite second.

The sims 1,2 and 3 managed it. No excuses.


This to me is a basic problem with the game that I don’t see changing. It doesn’t matter What dlc we get as long as that problem exists (and it’s been four years now) it will always spoil the game. I don’t care for weather. Who cares when the sims will be having the same poor reactions just with a different back ground outside.