Does The Sims 4 require a trait overhaul?

"Bluelle;c-17434965" wrote:
Traits mean nothing in TS4. All sims are the same. All sims act the same when they're tense, angry, happy, bored, embarrassed, etc. An evil sim will not act differently than a good sim when they're both angry. THERE ARE NO PERSONALITIES in TS4. NONE.

Again, that's because they have none. They removed personalities and replaced them with emotions. Which was a horribly bad decision. Emotions cannot substitute personalities, but they would have greatly enriched an already existing personality system. If you combine the personalities from Sims 2 with the emotions of Sims 4? That would have been great.

Emotions as the only motivator only works for high scale simulations, like say simulating 20.000 people in Sim City. Giving each one a personality is undoable. But adding a number of triggers, "emotions" to say make them go to the restaurant, or go demonstrating outside City Hall? That works well. When you focus on a single individual? They get less personality than a goldfish unless you role play it yourself.