Do you think The Sims 4 = Failure?

No game can ever be perfect, there are things I love about it and things I hate. I'm still playing and having fun with it after a year, and that says something.

A failure no, but the game was designed to be an online game. EA kept that base and put the "4" on it, only that explains why it isn't an open world. Maybe it should have been called "The Sims emotions" or something like that, and also in that the game lacks a little bit, for example when the sim is angry and you select "Take an angry poop" I expected my Sim to do funny faces while on the toilet, not just a moodlet or however it is called.
But I believe that it's a decent game and that it's gonna get better through free updates and DLC.For now just a few times I went back to play TS3 or TS2.

Do I think the game itself is a failure?: Nope. I think it's a nice game for what it is and it does provide plenty of entertainment for those who play in the way that the game is set up to be played in. I think that for those who choose to continue to have faith and take the improvements on board as they come it will end up being a lovely game.

Do I think the game is a failure of a Sims game?: Absolutely. It's not the open sandbox game meant for players of all different interests to enjoy that the Sims franchise has been built upon. It's not up to par with its predecessors and doesn't light a candle to the Sims 2 or the Sims 3. The way I see it it's the product of the TS1 and 15 years of technological improvement. Not the product of TS3 and the 5 years of technological improvement that it should have been.

"Colton147147;14224774" wrote:
The Sims 4 has already outsold both the Sims 2 and the Sims 3, as well as being #3 most played on Origin. o:)

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Far from a failure. I just miss open world and high res textures, but other than that, I'll patiently wait for expansion packs to improve the game. :D

It's a complete and utter failure, and I see no point in posting about a game I will never play nor like anymore. I have found better things to do.

The very fact Rachel and Lucy called it a time management, soap opera game and not a life Simulation game tells me when even the heads of the studio can't see it as a life Simulation game, then it has no business being called Sims 4 and being passed off to us as Sims 4. Sims 1,2, and 3 were Life Simulation games - there was no question about it. On top of that they were entertaining just as a base game to a very broad audience - just in the base game - each had a WOW factor - but they each at least included something for all types of players in the game - whats more not one of THEM were about what was missing in the base game.

Shoot they thought so little of the Life Simulation side of the game in Sims 4, they felt the focus on other things were more important then the life stages - they said so. There were no ghost stage, no individuality spent on the various life stage (but ya and child) - never mind removing the toddlers we had in the game for the last 10 years - they did not even have ghosts - still do not have cemeteries or anyway to manage the dead. No memories system - no we get a scrape book for memories - and even the Devs seemed surprised we were upset over no family tree - as one even admitted they did not even think of it. HELLO!!!!! This is a life Simulation Games last I looks you type in Simulation games and we get the Sims series games - so yes - as a part of the Sims series, as a life simulation game - major PHAIL!!!! They should have Headlined it and kept it at what it seems best at - at being what the department heads called it - a Time Management Soap Opera - and like all the side games for pc they all ran good on low end pcs. In this day and age - most companies move their top level games to better graphics, newer technology - I don't see EA making the new Star Trek or Battlefield or any of their newest top games on this same low level of technology. You want to play those games - you best invest in your computer if you plan to fully enjoy them. They are in our same price range - so why do we not get the same quality.

Other EA series - they don't go and completely wipe out the whole format and turn the games from one kind of game and make it something unlike it was previously - no they take that format and make it into a higher technical savvy version fitting of the next step up in that series. Most games in series are done like that. I have played many series and I know it. From the introduction of Sims 4 the first thing many of us said - is this is not a Sims series game.

So as a life simulation, part of the Sims series - it is a big failure. As a side game - The Sims Soap Opera - must be pretty good and appeals to people who like that kind of thing - I just know Sims series does not ever have ghosts culled, incest with family members and even children, the added after the fact family trees wiped out due to culling - maybe a soap opera does - I don't know I don't watch them - so for that probably isn't a fail - but it will never be the 4th rendition of our beloved Sims series. That much I can assure you.

Not a failure, but not what I hoped it would be. I have more fun doing challenges than just playing...where with Sims 3 I didn't have to try so hard to make it fun. I will still play, but play Sims 3 more. Hoping expansion such as Seasons/Pets will make it more enjoyable.

"Pary;14224907" wrote:
It hasn't as far as anyone really knows. Colton just likes to believe in his own fairy tales.

I think they're just a troll and serve a kind of goofy-fun role here on the forums. :smiley:

And for me TS4 has failed. But that's just my personal opinion.

This isn't a failure. This is unique game with unique gameplay. There's many new things, that weren't before.
Let's face it, there are lot worse games in world, but I don't even think, that The Sims 4 is a fail.
Edit. If all games are same, the gaming world is so boring.