How are you feeling about the sims 4 and its current state ?

I'm currently undecided. For me it's usually easy to get interested in my sims and figure out things for them to do. I loved werewolves and played a lot after it, but then took a sort of break, have only played a little. I expect to get back into it at some point though. I play without mods, other than map replacements that I got recently. So overall I've been quite happy with it, but the wants and fears left me wanting for more. I would like them to at least have wants for pack traits, that's a minimum requirement. When it comes to new packs, I'm forever hoping for horses.

I do enjoy my game very much. However, I've noticed that recent updates seem to turn it into a game that decides things for us, instead of letting us decide for ourselves. I don't need the game to surprise me. I'm more into a sandbox game where *I* decide personalities and events, without the game trying to throw in too many "challenges".
Examples might be "NPC (who you actually never met) is doing push ups in your hood while being in a bad mood, should she dislike exercising?". Wants/fears seem to put too many sims into the same formula, I've not patched yet but I'll hate to see all my sims wanting to listen to the stereo as I actually chose playing with music *off* years ago. Result will be that none of my sims will like any music style at all. Neighborhood stories can mostly be turned off, but it is utterly annoying whenever a sim calls to ask whether they should try for a baby or not = too stupid for words. Some of those new features can be toggled off, but not all. It's basically those that can not be toggled off that makes me worry that I won't enjoy my game as much.

"Simmerville;c-18164902" wrote:

Examples might be "NPC (who you actually never met) is doing push ups in your hood while being in a bad mood, should she dislike exercising?".

This one was a bug that was fixed a couple of months after it started happening @Simmerville
You can fix it by updating your game unless there is something else going on.

Since I refuse to update my game until they fix all the bugs they just shipped out, the state of the Sims 4 for me is great! I just got the Lunar Phase update and am very pleased playing with my occult save~

However, the state of the Sims 4's most recent update should never have happened. Only teens should be obsessed with phones, not everyone, siblings shouldn't be attracted to each other, the age glitch should not have been released, that should have been fixed in testing b4 the pack dropped, etc. :|

My Wedding Stories was a disaster, but at least all of that pack's mess is confined to the pack itself. This should never have happened to an Expansion Pack. And for me it sucks because the stuff in High School Years and the base game update that came with it is all stuff I want, but I'm not willing to break my legacy to get it.

For the future I'd really love to see an expansion focused on Children, Toddlers, and Babies (with a free base game baby overhaul). We finally got an EP with only teen content, so I'd really love to see an EP for just the younger lifestages and absolutely nothing for YA and older in it. Nothing but toys, treehouses, activities, etc. NEW stuff instead of just reskinning the base game activity tables. Parenthood is nice but it's mostly just content for the parents and how they raise their children. There's only 2 or 3 new toys for the kids themselves. We need content that's just for the small beans only. And the CAS in that pack should be only for children and younger as well, I don't want a single adult CAS item in a pack like that. :#

I'm also still waiting on all the occults we've had in previous Sims games to be released. We're still missing Fairies, Genies, Zombies, Mummies, Imaginary Friends, REAL PlantSims (the temporary buff is not enough, I need the whole occult life state), Baby Dragons, and Unicorns (and horses). We also still need a revamp for mermaids (they don't even have their own urn/tomb and bassinet when all other occults do) and aliens could use a revamp too, they have such small content.

IDK.

Has the latest patch update:

finally fixed the aging and incest bugs?

now letting my TS4 sim toddlers safely change their clothes in CAS without existing as an elder?

now permitting the ability to play a 2 sim week semester at Uni? Or change the seasonal length to whatever number sim weeks you were able to?

now safely allow adjustment of the sim lifespan global menu setting --- without the game turning all my hoods into sim ghost town families?

allowing Neighborhood stories to work normally once again?

stopped sim obsession with their phones--especially if they're werewolves in berserker mode, or some other occult sim life state??


Basically has the game been restored to its semi working state of glory aka before the Jul 28 HSY base game patch -- which serial killed joy my entire desire to play this game?

No on 1? #DealBreakerConfirmed. Forget the rest of the list. And especially buying that eye gouging HSY EP off Steam

IMO NO utility mods will ever properly fix anything in the game until the chronic issues in #1 are resolved.

Right now I find it very annoying. Every time one of my sims strike up a conversation with another sim, that sim gets up and leaves the lot.
When they go to order a drink at a bar, it's all of the sudden time for a shift change and the bartender leaves so my sim has to wait for another bartender to arrive before they can order a drink.
During a dinner date, they eat so fast that they can't fulfill the "talk about food 3 times" task in the time allotted, and I always have to reset the chef when entering a restaurant, or the chef will just stand outside the venue and not prepare any meals.
I am not crazy about the color palette used in the latest packs and yearn for a color wheel so I can color stuff myself without having to leave the game, start up another program, and spend hours fiddling with that instead of playing my game.

I feel the sims 4 is world's away from how it was at launch, they have added tons, call this an unpopular opinion but I like the packs have calmed down and we're getting an base game update every month

Not enjoying very much now because I can't play any of my saves except the ones that I've started after the aging bug. :/

Also I don't like that the sexual orientation choices don't work on Social Bunny. I spent a lot of time adjusting the orientations for Sims, but everyone just seem to flirt with everyone regardless of the orientation, married Sims cheating on Social Bunny and everyone having romance bars with everyone.
It's just a full on chaos and I normally love chaos on Sims 4, but not all the time, it can get boring if there's no balance at all.

I don't need anything more on Sims 4, just bug fixes. I just want to play my favorite saves again.

I don't feel great. Like Sheepiling, I haven't updated my game yet. I have two computers that I can use and I thought I would update on my secondary computer to test things out, but the initial bugs were so bad I didn't even do that. :|

Anyway, my game is fine (partly because it hasn't been updated) and I enjoy it. I'm optimistic that a lot of the remaining bugs will be sorted. Right now, I'm concerned about the Wants & Fears as I think they will disrupt my gameplay the most. I would like to see them expanded.

I still enjoy it. In order to enjoy it I admit I've had to mod a little and add in cc cas and bb to just get a change in look or scenery but it isn't heavily modded, i believe i have 3 that effect gameplay and 2 that tweak annoyances.. I don't think the game can expand much further beyond what it is without more update and patch issues, glitches and bugs so I'm a little skeptical about its stability

I would love to see music/ bands be a thing and I'm not sure why get famous didn't include this but I would love to see more for musical sims and this career branch which... it's lacking. It's like more personality traits. I feel like I'm constantly making the same sims and those would be nice.