Do you find the Sims 4 challenging?

"Stormkeep;c-16931245" wrote:
Entertaining and fun...absolutely, but challenging...not even remotely.

TS2 could be quite challenging, but in TS4 it is actually difficult to not be filthy rich before the end of even generation 1and everything that can kill your sims gives you the opportunity to avoid or counter it relatively easily (particularly in comparison to past sims games). Random "bad stuff" is also nearly non-existent in TS4 and where it does exist is, again, relatively easy to either avoid or counter.

I honestly cannot recall the last time there was any occurrence in my TS4 game that felt even a tiny bit challenging, which is why I voted never. The closest would probably be when my household had 3 toddlers and a baby at the same time...but that wasn't really challenging...just sometimes frantic. lol
The lack of built-in challenge is just a compelling reason to play following any of the many challenge rule-sets though. Choosing to follow a challenge rule set adds challenge to the game that doesn't exist by default.

I think perhaps, this is a good thing though. Sims players play for a variety of reasons and there's a whole cross-section of the community that doesn't particularly want the game to be challenging. They want to tell their own stories, not have the game block their attempts by inserting challenge that doesn't fit the stories they are trying to tell. For players who do want inherent challenge, challenge-rulesets can be used to provide what they want.

This so much - I don't want someone else's rules imposed on my game. I have certain 'rules' that I stick to that make it as challenging as I want. I'm not a social person, so I never liked having to do social things in the game (I used mods to get around that), and I'm not interested in juggling household finances (been there, done that in my younger days). I'm more interested in parenting and completing aspirations, collecting stuff and gardening. (Right now, I'm obsessed with getting a potato. I had to wait a whole year for winter to roll around again, but we're going to get that potato.)