"SimmerGeorge;d-990313" wrote:
So hey guys,
After the recent update I have to say I was very tempted to go and play the Sims 4 after around 6 months of not playing. I was very excited for Likes and Dislikes because of how much potential they have to make the gameplay more fun for me.
But,
Problems began soon after I opened up my game (Problems I have if I'm playing vanilla or not, in this case I updated every single one of my mods). I just want to guide you through around the first 2 hours of gameplay I had after not playing this game for such a long time.
1. First thing that directly happened is the "fps bug". This bug appears when I enter build mode or go back to live mode. The game basically starts lagging like crazy and the fps drops down to like 5-10. This is now a very well-known, common bug that exists for months yet no fix in sight. Only solution is to open up the notifications or options panel and it instantly fixes it.
Well anyway so I'm thinking, that's fine I'll just ignore the bug and move on... Until...
2. I decide to send my sim to her retail store. She sells clothing. This is where the second issue appears. The retail system in this game is buggy. Having mannequins is almost unplayable for me for several years now. Every time I place them down, after a few sim days this will happen:
https://i.imgur.com/zh05cHt.png
And this is not just a visual bug. This impacts the sales. My customers will not buy clothes from mannequins that are bugged unless there is nothing more to buy in the store. If they do end up trying to buy these clothes, once their sale bar is full, they will just leave. They don't allow you to ring them up and just leave the lot. So I spend hours filling these Sims' bars only for them to not purchase anything. This will happen with at least 4-8 of my customers every time I open the store.
3. While working in the retail store I noticed another thing. My sim will gain Sentintments with almost everyone. If I spent several minutes talking a sim into purchasing one of my items the sim will get a sentiment often the "Closer from happy memories" one even if my sim and the customer just met and even if I was just trying to make them make a purchase. I have sentiments with the whole town now.
https://i.imgur.com/zOknDRz.jpg
4. After a long day of work my sim goes home. At night the kids wake up scared because there is a monster under the bed. I don't think much of it and once they are calm they go back to bed. One day passes and then at nighttime on the next day same thing happens again. The kids see a monster they wake up the parents, same routine.
https://i.imgur.com/V4wLVui.png
Once they are calm, I sent them back to bed. Literally an hour later, just about when the sun is about to rise another monster thing happens... again!. Three times in two nights, I only screenshoted the last 2 times.
https://i.imgur.com/GShUo0v.png
5. While this was happening I had my sim Betty Newbie go meet the neighbors. So I go to the Pancakes, knock on the door, get in and there is Bob watching TV. So I chat him up and choose "rude introduction" because Betty Newbie is kind of mean and is friends with Eliza so I want her to dislike Bob. So I use the interaction and this is what happens. Their friendship bar is green. I don't know about you but if a person I don't know is rude to me the first time I meet them I would dislike them. But their relationship bar is not slightly green, it's visibly green. I feel like in order to make a sim dislike me I have to actually fight with them or curse them out. Being rude isn't enough anymore.
https://i.imgur.com/vxszqn1.jpg
6. And last but not least after playing with the likes and dislikes for some time, even if I kind of like them, I was still dissapointed by the oversights and also the lack of sims outside your families having their own likes and dislikes.
This video explains it best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK5ORf_o1L4
Sometimes I really try to be less negative and especially when I see something that has potential to make this game more playable for me being implemented. I have found myself jump back into the Sims 4 a lot of times when a pack I think I want to purchase is about to come out, or when a big update happens like the likes and dislikes or the sentiments happens.
But every single time I am dissapointed. And often it is not the new pack or update that dissapoints me. It's the amount of issues, bugs, oversights that really turn me off.
I wanted to give this game yet another chance and frankly I think I am going to continue giving it a chance for now, but because of how the things I mentioned my excitement for the new update and new pack dropped from an 8.5 to barely a 4.5.
I know how you feel. I’ve tried many times (usually after updates) to like this game, but there’s always something else that ends up bothering me. It would be fine if there were only a few problems that I had, but there’s to many now for me to enjoy playing.
