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. ?

I love that sort of gameplay it's great it still happens in TS4 sometimes. Sometimes nothing happens. I have that gameplay in TS2 and TS3 so, I actually feel very close to those Sims, too. Though no moodlet is needed in older games. It's obvivous for days. It bothers me Graham one time said we didn't actually have emotions in TS2.....I think you and I both know yes, we did, but he said they were good at selling that fiction, was his exact words. We had never had emotioins like these (in TS4) I have to beg to differ with him. He must have not spent very much time playing the games. Working and viewing a game from a work view (like when you edit a video to see if you got something captured on screen) is totally different than experiencing it, I guess. I've never questioned why anyone likes TS4 so much, it can be fun for awhile. The problem for me is, that Sim can be deleted and the sad Sim will never notice. To me that breaks the immersion since I could just go ahead and delete and replace eveyrone with a clone and it wouldn't matter. And a few times I did, and it didn't matter to the Sim at all.