Carl's review of Dream Home Decorator pack is out

Look, sims 4 sims are... A.I. challenged. My foodie sim keeps drinking water, even though that makes him uncomfortable. He's unaware of either being a foodie, or that water isn't a 'Sunset Valley', maybe both. That's a basegame issue-There's no 'absurdity' in that. That's just another day at the office; one we all occupy for almost seven years.

So yeah, he's bound to like a poop on the floor, because he's a TS4 sim.

I love what Carl does 99.9% of the time, but as influent as he is, I wish he showed proper builds and the connection system before diving into poop head first. He has an audience, with some players waiting for his reviews to make up their minds.

The real issue being that indeed, you don't change other's sims pixelated lives because, two years ago, they removed the beautifuly decorated moodlet. Some would say poor timing...

Question is 'do you want to be a T.V. show decor mogul?' Because that's what it feels like, animation-wise.

The second is 'do you want to pay 20$ to renovate lots?' Here's what you can do, and here's how low you can go.

"Dijktafone;c-17899090" wrote:
Look, sims 4 sims are... A.I. challenged. My foodie sim keeps drinking water, even though that makes him uncomfortable. He's unaware of either being a foodie, or that water isn't a 'Sunset Valley', maybe both. That's a basegame issue-There's no 'absurdity' in that. That's just another day at the office; one we all occupy for almost seven years.

So yeah, he's bound to like a poop on the floor, because he's a TS4 sim.

I love what Carl does 99.9% of the time, but as influent as he is, I wish he showed proper builds and the connection system before diving into poop head first. He has an audience, with some players waiting for his reviews to make up their minds.

The real issue being that indeed, you don't change other's sims pixelated lives because, two years ago, they removed the beautifuly decorated moodlet. Some would say poor timing...

Question is 'do you want to be a T.V. show decor mogul?' Because that's what it feels like, animation-wise.

The second is 'do you want to pay 20$ to renovate lots?' Here's what you can do, and here's how low you can go.

It was quite easy to make sim's 4 sims acknowledge the environment. A checklist with the minimum required items for a kitchen to be a kitchen, like the one that already exists in the game to build venues. That looks like an oversight to me but it can be a design decision, which is a shame...

I like that Carl has made us know about this before buying. I don't want him or any other game changer to follow the same safe route all the time... to me, it was informative. I don't care about the dog's shit. That's just funny. But i do care about what got exopsed in his review.

I like the truth, even if it's hard to deal with the disapointment.

I think they can patch in a reaction to the dog poo. I wouldn't play that way but I see his point. With enough outcry, they might patch more into the game but frankly adding reactions to dog poo wouldn't add anything to my gameplay since I have no intention of doing that.

The pack is definitely part-Barbie dream house simulator, part-tv design show fantasy. The latter is a very popular genre in a lot of countries; seriously, you can find these shows just about anywhere.

I used to like his reviews a lot but he has gone off the rails a bit. I mean, JtB was not exactly for me but it was sci fi play for those really wanting it. If you wanted to play a Star Wars fantasy world, it had you covered more or less. Paranormal brought in new ways to play with ghosts and to potentially play out your own haunted house film. This one is to combine builders and gameplayers to design houses.

If they decide to patch more features or content into this pack obviously that would be great. I just don't think it's quite fair to rip the whole thing apart. Ok, the gameplay seems a little easy but it's an interior design pack. They probably figured that most people would want to make the spaces look nice and to add new content or utilize what is already in the game. For those who don't play rotationally, it's also a way that they can play with the other houses and residents of the game. It's an easy way to learn more building.

I think it's fair to criticize that you would like more content but as somebody else said, anyone can make fun of a game. I also don't think it is fair to criticize the addition of an interior designer career. Criticizing why this was a game pack instead of a stuff pack? Yes, I think that's a fair question. It seems like they patched one of the major components, the likes and dislikes, as a free feature.

all I can say is I'm glad I didn't listen to the bad reviews I enjoyed way more then I thought I would

"texxx78;c-17899109" wrote:

"Dijktafone;c-17899090" wrote:
Look, sims 4 sims are... A.I. challenged. My foodie sim keeps drinking water, even though that makes him uncomfortable. He's unaware of either being a foodie, or that water isn't a 'Sunset Valley', maybe both. That's a basegame issue-There's no 'absurdity' in that. That's just another day at the office; one we all occupy for almost seven years.

So yeah, he's bound to like a poop on the floor, because he's a TS4 sim.

I love what Carl does 99.9% of the time, but as influent as he is, I wish he showed proper builds and the connection system before diving into poop head first. He has an audience, with some players waiting for his reviews to make up their minds.

The real issue being that indeed, you don't change other's sims pixelated lives because, two years ago, they removed the beautifuly decorated moodlet. Some would say poor timing...

Question is 'do you want to be a T.V. show decor mogul?' Because that's what it feels like, animation-wise.

The second is 'do you want to pay 20$ to renovate lots?' Here's what you can do, and here's how low you can go.

It was quite easy to make sim's 4 sims acknowledge the environment. A checklist with the minimum required items for a kitchen to be a kitchen, like the one that already exists in the game to build venues. That looks like an oversight to me but it can be a design decision, which is a shame...

I like that Carl has made us know about this before buying. I don't want him or any other game changer to follow the same safe route all the time... to me, it was informative. I don't care about the dog's ❤️❤️❤️❤️. That's just funny. But i do care about what got exopsed in his review.

I like the truth, even if it's hard to deal with the disapointment.

I think it's Ok without the compulsory list of items in the room. This is the game randomly asking you to give those sims a home makeover. maybe the sims themselves don't have that much money yet to buy a stove or a fridge, or a couch and TV in their livingroom. I think it's up to the player to create something nice and not to make a mess of things.

"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.

I thought Carl delivered valuable information in an entertaining way. When my sims are gifted dog poop on Winterfest, they know it’s bad. How come they don’t know it’s bad when their interior decorator shows it off in their house?

"babajayne;c-17899179" wrote:
I thought Carl delivered valuable information in an entertaining way. When my sims are gifted dog poop on Winterfest, they know it’s bad. How come they don’t know it’s bad when their interior decorator shows it off in their house?

I assume they don't know it's bad because it's not got whatever internal coding label is necessary to know what type of décor it is so when the interaction to review décor runs, they are actually reacting to the things in the room that are actually coded to be things they like, so if the programing says they like the room overall, they will react positively to everything in the room.

"babajayne;c-17899179" wrote:
I thought Carl delivered valuable information in an entertaining way. When my sims are gifted dog poop on Winterfest, they know it’s bad. How come they don’t know it’s bad when their interior decorator shows it off in their house?

Who needs ennemies with friends like yours? :D

For the rest it's a matter of deduction. I presume what Carl did show us is that sims prefer 'stinking outside of the box'... not inside.

Isn’t it sad that a game changer who tells the truth gets accused of being a troll when another who cries tears and screams like a teenage girl is held up as the gold standard?

I have no problem with Carl’s reviews, I’m glad SOMEONE is talking about the game play. He saved me £20 as I don’t want to buy a pack where once again consequences and choices don’t matter.