Carl's review of Dream Home Decorator pack is out

"simfriend1968;c-17898824" wrote:

"Calico45;c-17898760" wrote:
He mentioned BB focused players would probably not play this way and could get more out of it, by the way. A lot of stuff I am seeing about the career now that the pack is out points to the gig assessment system being rather poor. Perhaps that allows for creativity, but there is not a lot of nuance to play with and I think that is an important takeaway when you decide if it is worth the money. (Even more so since the price increased in some places apparently.) How is that adolescent?

Deliberately putting dog poop in a Sim's room after deleting all the furniture is not adolescent? Sure seems that way to me. Look, I don't need reviews to be positive, just informative. Plenty of gamechangers have mixed feelings about this pack and have pointed out the problems with it, including Plumbella and the English Simmer (who has never been that thrilled with the pack from the announcement), but they played through the career, pointed out how it worked, what the problems were and what they liked. Iron Seagull is another one who has offered honest opinions and assessments of the current bugs. English Simmer was pointing out today that the upper level gigs had some bugs, such as trying to add a new level to a house for instance, because of problems with placing walls and doors. That was useful information. She also said what she liked and what she thought worked.

Even LGR, while he could be negatively hilarious (such as when he so amusingly set his Katy Perry's Sweet Treats house afire at the end of a Sims 3 review) genuinely tried to be balanced and to look at the good and the bad. I remember in his Island Living review, where he was quite blunt in critiquing the lack of content and the emptiness of the pack, contained a few nice moments where he praised the beauty of the world, waxed nostalgic about his own time living on an island, praised the off-the-grid system, as imperfectly implemented as it was then, and so on. (Sigh, I miss him). Carl was just completely negative, barely admitting that there was anything good about the career or pack at all, when, in contrast, in my one day of a game play I see lots of similarities with the Ambition career, and even some improvements on it. That blanket negativity (along with the silly business about the dog poop) is what seems trollish to me.

I'll be honest, I am kind of disappointed hygiene doesn't count. You see it as "trollish", and in game I kind of agree with you (but what about the toilet shrine in the advertising doesn't seem like officially sanctioned trollishness in that perspective), but there is a myriad of cleaning systems in the Sims 4.

The base game cleaning and the base game room sensory (cannot remember if the latter was gutted or not); then the dust level system which came with hygiene aspirations and a matching dust level sensory. Dust level and cleaning have a close but not 1 to 1 relationship from what I understand. Couldn't even the most basic sensory have been added for the one career which is the main new gameplay of the pack? Maybe even that same one that detects messes to be cleaned up by scrubaroo and each one knocks off score, etc.? But even then, to see how bare minimum the requirements for a good reveal are is kind of disappointing.

I have already said some people play in a way that would want to ruin the homes. To be "trollish." There is not a lot of nuance to play with here for that. Pointing that out is not "adolescent" just because you do not play that way or do not agree with it.

I suppose I understand not liking negativity, but you went a step further saying a review was neither "helpful" nor "legitimate" and was even "pointless" and "adolescent" just because you did not like it. I simply do not watch the reviews I do not care for. I do not demean them and their creators.