Carl's take of ways for improvement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O41yW6qlOIM Still watching before finishing. Hopefully it touches and goes over the popular things players find frustrating or boring about gameplay. Other big Game Ch...
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In the Sims 4, I started the music career. I lived at subsistence wages. Playing for tips was not worth my time. I made extra money painting, which made me filthy rich, while my music career stagnated into an unfulfilling drag that would never go anywhere. The sweet piano was uncomfortable. Grims Goulish Guitar really had no outlet for the rocker life. The loading screens were long, repetitive, and nauseating. So I attempted to made a raging pad where I'd invite the townies to party and show off my musical prowess. To no avail. Patrons merely stood around, sad down, rarely interacted, nobody hooked up, nobody really did anything at all, and sims lit on fire. A lot. Over and over. And went home.
To contrast, in the Sims 3 I could take multiple career tracks in the music career, play multiple instruments, start a band, articulate any of these with many traits, and interact with many interesting sims. For instance, I moved to Aurora Skies for a career in music. After spending a ridiculous amount of time designing the perfect button up plaid shirt and knit beanie (which cannot be done in the Sims 4 because you cannot customize a thing,) and fuming that I could not sleep in my toque and had to pick a different hair style (I never take my toque off), I had to pick up some cash. I would never get my band off the ground at home alone. I had to get out there. So, I joined the music career. Probably doing dumb stuff like hang posters. I started to party. I bought my first guitar. I sucked at first, then started to shred. But, I found the music career was not for me. Too limiting. I was my own sim. I met people at work and at parties, played on the road, and eventually started a band. I poached the talent from the music agency and had a guitar player and drummer. One last band member to go, so I recruited the girlfriend of a local artist who showed at least some primitive musical ability to play the keys. That's when things started to slide. We were pretty good. I started to date the guitar player (not a good idea, dating within the band.) I never thought to invite band members girlfriends and boyfriends to practice, seeing as I had kind of a shallow, one track mind with no goals in life besides the next gig and dumping every penny into my Rock Town 3000, and you know how girlfriends and boyfriends are at practice. But, one day the drummer cheated with the keyboard player, who betrayed their artist boyfriend who was stuck at home in the basement toiling at the easel with his glorious long blond hair, right at practice (is he available now? Hmmm...) Drummers. Feelings were hurt. Things were never the same. The guitar player evidently had greater feelings for me than I did for him, because he asked me to move in with him. I declined. No way was I going to give up my great pad with a studio I toiled long and hard to pay for. No way was I going to be looking after another sim with my focus on my band. No way was I going to have someone eating my food, leaving dirty dishes all over the place, and filthing up my washroom. We had a huge falling out. The band broke up. I started sculpting and talking to unicorns.
In the Sims 4, people literally do nothing. Just rinse, repeat, nowhere to go, and not enough interaction to make it interesting. Due to the lack of depth in action and reaction, and variety in the traits and environment those funny situations that happened all the time in the Sims 3 that kept me playing are totally absent.
Everything lights on fire in the Sims 4. It is literally stupid. You cannot feasibly, to my knowledge, be smart about fire and practice any kind of fire safety other than being in a good mood, and to some extent not leaving things unattended. I wanted to burn that incense stick. I really did. I removed the carpeting. I put the stick in the middle of the room on a table by itself. Everything still lit on fire. I placed a non combustible surface around my fire place (some fine tile), but, to no avail. In the Sims 3, I could practice some reasonable fire safety, be smart about fire, and come out relatively unscathed unless a guest got into some mischief. I could design, place objects, upgrade objects, or use my lifetime happiness points to make my home fireproof. In the Sims 4, stuff and people lights on fire. All the time. A lot of fire. Not really funny or interesting in any way. Just repetitive and annoying.
For instance, in the Sims 3 I started the singer profession. I got the call to do a sing-a-gram while in the middle of cooking some bad quality mac and cheese. Out the door I went. Left the mac and cheese on the stove. Stove started on fire. Came home to find my kitchen ruined. Couldn't afford a new stove for ages on my pay and lived on yogurt and orange juice. It was hilarious. It had some context. In the Sims 4, fire has little to no context, and happens repetitively, all the time, stupidly so, to little or no effect except annoyance. I don't know if the atmospheric composition is different in the Sims 4 than the Sims 3, but geez, do things ever light on fire a lot.
To contrast, in the Sims 3 I could take multiple career tracks in the music career, play multiple instruments, start a band, articulate any of these with many traits, and interact with many interesting sims. For instance, I moved to Aurora Skies for a career in music. After spending a ridiculous amount of time designing the perfect button up plaid shirt and knit beanie (which cannot be done in the Sims 4 because you cannot customize a thing,) and fuming that I could not sleep in my toque and had to pick a different hair style (I never take my toque off), I had to pick up some cash. I would never get my band off the ground at home alone. I had to get out there. So, I joined the music career. Probably doing dumb stuff like hang posters. I started to party. I bought my first guitar. I sucked at first, then started to shred. But, I found the music career was not for me. Too limiting. I was my own sim. I met people at work and at parties, played on the road, and eventually started a band. I poached the talent from the music agency and had a guitar player and drummer. One last band member to go, so I recruited the girlfriend of a local artist who showed at least some primitive musical ability to play the keys. That's when things started to slide. We were pretty good. I started to date the guitar player (not a good idea, dating within the band.) I never thought to invite band members girlfriends and boyfriends to practice, seeing as I had kind of a shallow, one track mind with no goals in life besides the next gig and dumping every penny into my Rock Town 3000, and you know how girlfriends and boyfriends are at practice. But, one day the drummer cheated with the keyboard player, who betrayed their artist boyfriend who was stuck at home in the basement toiling at the easel with his glorious long blond hair, right at practice (is he available now? Hmmm...) Drummers. Feelings were hurt. Things were never the same. The guitar player evidently had greater feelings for me than I did for him, because he asked me to move in with him. I declined. No way was I going to give up my great pad with a studio I toiled long and hard to pay for. No way was I going to be looking after another sim with my focus on my band. No way was I going to have someone eating my food, leaving dirty dishes all over the place, and filthing up my washroom. We had a huge falling out. The band broke up. I started sculpting and talking to unicorns.
In the Sims 4, people literally do nothing. Just rinse, repeat, nowhere to go, and not enough interaction to make it interesting. Due to the lack of depth in action and reaction, and variety in the traits and environment those funny situations that happened all the time in the Sims 3 that kept me playing are totally absent.
Everything lights on fire in the Sims 4. It is literally stupid. You cannot feasibly, to my knowledge, be smart about fire and practice any kind of fire safety other than being in a good mood, and to some extent not leaving things unattended. I wanted to burn that incense stick. I really did. I removed the carpeting. I put the stick in the middle of the room on a table by itself. Everything still lit on fire. I placed a non combustible surface around my fire place (some fine tile), but, to no avail. In the Sims 3, I could practice some reasonable fire safety, be smart about fire, and come out relatively unscathed unless a guest got into some mischief. I could design, place objects, upgrade objects, or use my lifetime happiness points to make my home fireproof. In the Sims 4, stuff and people lights on fire. All the time. A lot of fire. Not really funny or interesting in any way. Just repetitive and annoying.
For instance, in the Sims 3 I started the singer profession. I got the call to do a sing-a-gram while in the middle of cooking some bad quality mac and cheese. Out the door I went. Left the mac and cheese on the stove. Stove started on fire. Came home to find my kitchen ruined. Couldn't afford a new stove for ages on my pay and lived on yogurt and orange juice. It was hilarious. It had some context. In the Sims 4, fire has little to no context, and happens repetitively, all the time, stupidly so, to little or no effect except annoyance. I don't know if the atmospheric composition is different in the Sims 4 than the Sims 3, but geez, do things ever light on fire a lot.
