Does anyone get bored playing TS4

Not so much bored, as incredibly angry. Usually when I get bored of Sims 4, I'm also bored by Sims 2 and better off playing a different genre.

Sims 4, for me, offers almost too many options what to do and how to do it, but then again it can make the stupidest design choices.
For example at the moment I'm very involved in my spellcasters' lives. Everyone has a familiar, most have chosen a wand and they are slowly warming up to the ideas of brooms. Those items have lore behind them, there's a reason why a particular sim would use a specific wand. However, the game insists on assigning the currently inactive (yet marked played) sims random wands for dueling or even none at all, and it gives broomless sims brooms. There's only so much writing around this. The first time of "Hey, Emma displaced her wand, but still defeated her opponent, you rule, girl!" and "Ui, Connor rented a broom, bet he wishes he had also taken flying classes, lolololol" is funny, but the more often it happens, the more character-breaking it gets.

So on the one hand the game appears to be geared towards the create your own drama crowd (that I'm firmly in), but on the other hand it makes things needlessly difficult for us.

Then there is my vampire that always reverts to "Always use batform" whenever I rotate to a different household, resulting in him to become extremely grating when I meet him at community lots.

Or the whole oversight with the no-privacy showers that lose their no-privacy status on off grid lots. When you use the off grid shower function (lukewarm with bad moodlet), they are non-privacy, only when you save up energy and use the on-grid function do they become no-privacy again. This isn't story/customisation related, it's not even a real bug, but just an example of so many annoyances.

In some areas it's great and in some areas underwhelming. My problem is if I don't watch sims at all times or don't play them for long, nothing really happens to them. I remember before if you left them alone or didn't play that household for too long, something bad or hilarious would happen. Another complaint I have is interactions, they're too much recycled. There needs to be more animations, big and small, like sims 2. I like cooking animation in sims 4, it's really detailed based on skill or mood.

Yes, I get very bored with the game now.

But... I have also played it since 2014, I don't think there is anything wrong with being bored with a game, instead of asking yourself if you are doing something wrong...think back on how much fun you had with it instead and play it casually instead or play other games.

That's what has happened with all my other older games, I don't see why The Sims 4 should be any different just because it's a sandbox game.

There are ways that you can make a sandbox game fun, like all the things listed here in this thread: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/959581/1000-fun-things-to-do-in-sims-4/p1 but I don't think you should force yourself to play it, especially not if you are looking for variety and gameplay. Give other games a chance instead.

"Nikkih;c-18061035" wrote:
My game is like this massive soap opera always drama vampires, aliens, witches, cheating spouses, a woman poisoning her husbands with pufferfish negimi etc this is just one family all this has happened lol, there always something going on, the sims 4 unlike the other game you do have to create the drama yourself mostly

YESSSS This is how you have to play it or you will be bored. I have craziness in my game as well. Mods help bring it to another level too LOL

Every single thing that @LiELF wrote mimics my thoughts to the T!!

I want to love TS4, I really do .... but I just can't handle the whole "imagine it in your head" story telling and directing your sim to play out this story you had in your head. It literally is like playing with barbies or a doll house to me.

I have always preferred to let my sims "live their life" without much input from me, and to just watch and laugh at their antics unless they're doing something ridiculous. I assign traits for a reason ..... to make each sim unique and individual, but traits in TS4 DO NOT MATTER!

With TS4, I have an idea, open the game, start a new save and then just sit there because I am bored with what to do next.

I never, ever had that in TS2, which I played a lot more than TS3.

I loved TS3 because of the open world and watching the sims around my sims house go about their lives. I loved that sims would autonomously just go out and about in the world and visit community lots without me directing them to, such as the community pool. TS3 also had soooooo many different activities and lots.

But ultimately TS2 was the game that I played most because I loved so much about it .... running a business was the best to me, loved having a business lot on my home lot, building apartments were the best, etc., Loved the mundane things of shopping in a store, doing yard work, etc.

With TS4, I can't even get into building because there's so many restrictions in the world. Can't delete this, can't add that, have to conform to the style of the world only. It is super immersion breaking to want to have, let's say an ultra modern world, but all of the fake buildings and backdrop around the world are in a totally different style and just looks D.U.M.B

So yeah, I get bored .... a LOT, even though I try my hardest not to.

I personally don't get bored. There is still so much I want to do in the game. I guess I am just easily entertained even with the simple mundane things like cooking, gardening, leveling up careers and skills, completing aspirations, taking care of toddlers, kids, and playing the different occult packs and world packs.

I do really wish I could play the Sims 2 games again once in a while.

Actually, there is one thing in the game that bores me. Babies. It's not for too long that I can keep giving the crying objects a bottle or diaper change. They last only like 2 bottle feedings in my game and then become toddlers, which can never bore me because they are too cute.

Yes, as there is less to do compared with TS2. However, I've got some remedies:
Have found a way to make a TS2 style album out of game, so focus on screenshots and storytelling via lengthy captions to said shots.
Take a break as suggested above. For me that means: classes as I've gone back to college, reading (other than for classes), model ship building, playing a different game - sometimes one that isn't on a computer. (Remember those?)

I go through cycles - sometimes all I want to do is make sims in CAS, then other times I only want to spend hours building intricate houses... and then sometimes I really just want to play a family through 8 generations and use zero cheats to make it more challenging. And then I literally won't play again for 6 months or until a new pack comes out. Balance!

I find TS4 has a much better interface than any previous game, my game never crashes like TS3 did, the sims look better and you can customise them a lot more than TS1 & 2, building is a real treat and the tools are great... BUT

I do think there is less autonomy/variation in outcomes than previous versions of the game which can make it feel boring if you don't vary your play style from time to time.

One of my absolute favourite things to do is to build a haunted house with a spellcaster sim and turn him/her into a voodoo master. The paranormal stuff pack keeps you busy fighting ghosties while you train up your spellcasting skills and become a master of mischief. You can create some pretty fun situations and make other sims do your bidding.

I'm also trying to make my farmer sims into millionaires through pumpkin sales but it's not going so well :lol: I tend to mostly play in Brindleton Bay or Henford on Bagley because I love the village/small town atmosphere and you can get to know everyone which also adds depth to your game. I'm looking forward to the new world actually for the same reason.

The other fun thing is starting your own business like a restaurant or bakery. That will keep you busy/ frustrated for days :wink:

I personally never get bored with TS4 but I second that there's a severe problem with reusing animations, esp. for social interactions. They should invest time to create 2-3 alternate versions for the most used social animations (like there are different animations for the suave kiss, Soc_Romance_T_KissHand_Suave_Succeed_Basic) and add them with a Base Game update or even a kit/pack. I believe this would do a lot for everyday gameplay experience, as Sims are talking all the time and these animations are used for new interactions in every single pack. Could this possibly be a thing, @EA_Cade?
I was thinking about the following animations to get more variety:
Soc_Friendly_NT_Compliment_Success_Basic
Soc_Friendly_NT_DiscussTopic_Success_Basic
Soc_Friendly_NT_EnthuseAbout_Success_Basic
Soc_Friendly_NT_Debate_success_Basic
Soc_Generic_NT_Complain_Succeed_basic

I'd happily spend 5 bucks on a kit offering just this and nothing on the side (honestly even more if it needed more budget than 1 kit).

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On a totally unrelated note, could we please get the two rock climbing walls that aren't snow covered in debug mode. They so allow for some great venues (e.g. on the Windenburgh Island) that could be shared via the Gallery If they we're in debug. I freed them by a mod so I know for sure. It's Just a few clicks so pretty pretty please.
Climbing ist such an awesome feature, it should not be restricted to the Snowy Escape world. If you don't want to free them, maybe just add some to future worlds as a little extra for future worlds. They could be purely decorative for those who don't own Snowy Escape.

Feeling bored is such a personalized experience. Something that bores one person can be the very thing that excites someone else. I tend to get bored watching action movies. During fight scenes, I have been known to fall asleep. :lol: But clearly, that's not how everyone feels.

Sims 4 is about the only computer game that I don't tend to get bored with. I've tried a lot of other games, and some I've liked, but none have held my interest for as long or as intensely as Sims 4. I am very much a "make up stories in my head" player. And Sims 4 is the computer game that comes the closest to letting me play the way I like.

But I do use mods. So take that as you will. Most of my mods either block something that annoys me, or give me control over something the game doesn't let me control. And without them, I do find the game somewhat boring, because it's hard to carry out my own creative vision. So I can't play in the way that is fun for me.

I don't really have any mods that add additional gameplay, though. I just genuinely want more of a "creative studio" or "box of toys" experience, rather than a game. And since game making companies in general don't tend to cater to players like me, mods are how I get what I want.