Feedback on Island Living

"simgirl1010;c-17187982" wrote:
I've been playing since Sims 1. I currently have 2 and 3 installed with all packs and all store content. So I'm not some newbie Sims 4 player who doesn't know any better. This according to players who find it difficult to believe some simmers prefer 4.

For me it's not about the features. It's not about riding horses, and driving cars, and firefighters putting out fires. For me it's all about the Sims. This is the first version where I've actually felt a kinship for my Sims. It's not about looks, I care about them and this makes everything infinitely more satisfying and personal.

In one of my previous saves my Sim's husband flirted with his mother in law. She got the sad moodlet and I almost felt like crying. I immediately banished him from the household.

It doesn't matter that I can't zoom out to map view. It doesn't matter that my home isn't perfectly coordinated with a color wheel. What matters is that I'm perfectly content to just participate in my Sim's lives as they go about their normal day to day routines.

And now I'm missing my little pixel people so I'm going to load my game. ?

The game is about sims. Also when you want them to ride horses or drive a car or have them put out fires, at the end of the day it’s all about them. It’s things like that that will give them depth. It’s good that the wife reacted in this particular case, but quite often they don’t (and tbh, this is not unique for Sims 4, sims in all the versions will become sad and angry when their husband cheats). A colour wheel doesn’t mean a house is perfectly coordinated, it actually can also be nót perfectly coordinated. It’s personal, that’s the point (though I appreciate this feature will be more important to one than it is for the other). What I don’t really understand is why, when people explain why they love Sims 4, there’s always some counterposing in there. “I don’t need them to”, “it doesn’t matter that”, “I can live without”. What exactly is it that Sims 4 brings to the table that really sets it apart? Being able to live with its limitations can’t be all there is to it. What’s the charm.